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US govt admits it keeps almost a billion firearms sales records


RT
Tue, 01 Feb 2022 12:22 UTC
guns display
© Eva Hambach/AFPGuns on display
Gun rights groups have accused the Biden administration of trying to create a national database of firearms owners, in violation of the law. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has confirmed it was in possession of nearly one billion records of gun purchases made by US citizens.

Responding to a request by Republican Congressman Michael Cloud, the ATF said that it kept 920,664,765 such records as of November 2021. More than 855 million of these have already been digitalized, making them easier to search.

Firearm transaction records are reflected in the so-called ATF Form 4473, which includes various personal details on the buyer, including name, address and, in some cases, even social security number. According to US federal law, gun stores can destroy these forms after 20 years. However, if a firearms dealer goes out of business during that period its files become property of the ATF. And that's how the agency was able to accumulate so many records.

"A federal firearm registry is explicitly banned by law," Texas rep. Cloud told the Washington Free Beacon. However, the Biden administration has been "circumventing Congress" and using loopholes in the legislation to still work towards creating such database, he insisted. "Under the president's watch, the ATF has increased surveillance on American gun owners at an abhorrent level," the congressman added.

Comment: When freedom is on the path to 'no choice' and rights and guarantees are on the chopping block, who does this serve?

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Israeli PM announces deployment of laser air defenses 'within year'

Tim Korso
Sputnik
Tue, 01 Feb 2022 19:31 UTC
Attack Israel
© AFP/Mahmud HamsFire in the sky
The primary reasoning behind the introduction of a new, fourth layer of defence is to make repealing attacks by Hamas and others less expensive. Tel Aviv spent a significant portion of its Iron Dome budget last year while fighting Hamas and was forced to quickly purchase additional weapons from Washington.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced that the timeline on deploying its first laser-based air defences in Israel has been moved up from 2025. According to Bennett, the system will be put to use "experimentally within a year" and after that - deployed "operationally". He said:
"And this will enable us, as the years advance, to surround Israel with a wall of lasers which will protect us from missiles, rockets, UAVs and other threats."
The prime minister elaborated that the country's south, which more often sees rocket launches from Gaza, will take priority in receiving new interceptors that will complement existing layers of missile defence, among them the much-touted Iron Dome and the David's Sling and Arrow. Bennett praised the new laser-based technology and said it will give Tel Aviv an edge over enemies that seek its destruction, including Iran, according to the prime minister.
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Now we know who was behind the botched 'retirement' announcement of Supreme Court Justice Breyer

Kyle Becker
Becker News
Tue, 01 Feb 2022 00:00 UTC
Biden Breyer
© ScreenshotSupreme Court Justice Breyer and US President Joe Biden
It is one of the mysteries of the Justice Breyer 'retirement' fiasco: Who leaked the info before he was ready to announce it himself?

That mystery has been effectively solved, and it turns out the leak comes from a familiar culprit: White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain.

The Washington Examiner reported:
"President Joe Biden's chief of staff leaked Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's plan to retire to 'a limited group' on Wednesday, a top Democrat told reporters.

"Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Durbin told reporters he received a 'surprise' call on Wednesday morning from White House chief of staff Ron Klain, who 'said that President Biden wanted [Durbin] to know that Stephen Breyer was about to announce his retirement from the court'."
Klain told Durbin to keep the news a 'secret' that Breyer planned to make an official announcement, but obviously the word somehow got out. Breyer was reportedly dismayed by the news. Shannon Bream initially reported that he was "upset," but then modified that to say he was "surprised."
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Putin: West failed to satisfy Russia's three key demands on security guarantees

Tim Korso
Sputnik
Tue, 01 Feb 2022 21:01 UTC
putin
© Sputnik / Ramil Sitdikov
Moscow earlier received the West's written response to its proposals on regional security, which it forwarded in December 2021. These proposals contained Moscow's view on ending the existing tensions with NATO. They namely suggested that the alliance should drop the idea of accepting Ukraine in its ranks.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has commented on the US' written response to Moscow's demands on security guarantees, stating that the West has basically ignored the Kremlin's proposals. The president elaborated that the US failed to satisfy three key proposals by Russia in the field of security.

"We did not see our three key demands adequately considered: stopping NATO's expansion, refusing to use strike weapons systems near Russian borders, and returning the bloc's military infrastructure in Europe to how it was in 1997," Putin said.
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President of El Salvador: Is the destruction of American cities a 'deliberate plan'?

Ian Miles Cheong
The Post Millennial
Tue, 01 Feb 2022 19:26 UTC
Nayib Bukele President of El Salvador
© El Diario de HoyNayib Bukele, President of El Salvador.
El Salvador president Nayib Bukele says that the destruction of American cities may well be part of a "deliberate plan."

His remarks are reminiscent of observations made by other international observers who look upon America's embrace of woke platitudes amid the country's crumbling infrastructure and rule of law.

"Is there a deliberate plan to destroy the United States from within?" Bukele tweeted on Monday. "Why are the authorities and some of the media not even commenting on this things? Why are they letting their beautiful cities rot?"

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Flashback The Jeffrey Epstein cover-up: Pedophilia, lies, and Ghislaine Maxwell

Nick Bryant
ScheerPost
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 20:26 UTC
Jeffrey Epstein court hearing
© Palm Beach Post/TNS/Sipa USA/PAJuly 30, 2008 photo of Jeffrey Epstein (center) in court in West Palm Beach. He would plead guilty to a single charge of soliciting prostitution.
Numerous procurers and perpetrators integral to Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell's crimes against children have not been indicted, and current officials are finding new ways to obfuscate the sordid truth.

"The worst form of injustice is pretended justice," Plato wrote over two millennia ago. The preceding two decades have witnessed Lady Justice repeatedly eschewing her blindfold to dispense pretend justice to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell and also to their cohorts. Numerous procurers and perpetrators who were integral to Epstein and Maxwell's crimes against children over the course of 25 years have not been indicted, and the charges against Maxwell, which include only one count of child trafficking, are woefully inadequate and a further miscarriage of justice against her victims.

More recently, a report released by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) on May 10, 2021 superimposed an additional miscarriage of justice on the myriad of injustices that have already been inflicted on the victims of Epstein, et al. The FDLE report concluded that a Florida grand jury that didn't indict Epstein on a single count of child abuse was not guilty of malfeasance.

Comment: Nick Bryant doesn'tseem to know the half of it. Whitney Webb has done yeoman work excavating Epstein's sordid world:

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The Neocons' primary war tactic: Branding opponents of US intervention as traitors

Glenn Greenwald
greenwald.substack.com
Tue, 25 Jan 2022 00:00 UTC
David Frum
Former Bush White House speechwriter David Frum speaks to MSNBC's Joe Scarborough about Russia, Nov. 30, 2021
By rehabilitating neocons and elevating them as thought leaders, liberals live in their framework. Thus are opponents of U.S. involvement in Ukraine deemed treasonous.

One of the most bizarre but important dynamics of Trump-era U.S. politics is that the most fanatical war-hungry neocons, who shaped Bush/Cheney militarism, have become the most popular pundits and thought leaders in American liberalism. They have not changed in the slightest — they are employing the same tactics they have always invoked, and for the same causes — but they have correctly perceived that their agenda is better served by migrating back to the Democratic Party which originally spawned their bloodthirsty ideology.

The excuse offered by Democrats for their embrace of neocons — we did it only as a temporary coalition of convenience to oppose Trump — is false for many reasons. This unholy alliance pre-dated Trump. In 2014 — long before anyone envisioned Trump descending down an escalator on his path to the White House — the journalist Jacob Heilbrunn wrote a New York Times op-ed entitled "The Next Act of the Neocons." He predicted, correctly as it turned out, that "the neocons may be preparing a more brazen feat: aligning themselves with Hillary Rodham Clinton and her nascent presidential campaign, in a bid to return to the driver's seat of American foreign policy."
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"This goes way beyond wag-the-dog 2.0" as Ukraine pushes back against American hawks

David Stockman
Anti-war.com
Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:00 UTC
Zelensky Biden
It looks like we have plunged so deeply into the theater of the absurd that we now have a case of "Albania don't want the ball!".

Our reference, of course, is to the apocryphal football story about a coach repeatedly signaling a play from the sidelines, only to have the quarterback keep breaking huddle while frantically waving his arms and shouting,

"But Leroy don't want the ball!"

That is to say, Ukrainian president Zelensky, a former television comic, apparently knew all about the 60- year old American story, at least according to the geniuses at CNN who reported it below. That the White House quickly disavowed the "Ukraine" story is undoubtedly your authentication:

A call between US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday "did not go well," a senior Ukrainian official told CNN...... Biden warned Zelensky an imminent invasion is a "distinct possibility"

On the "long and frank call, Biden warned his Ukrainian counterpart......that an invasion was now virtually certain, once the ground had frozen later in February.....

Zelensky, however, restated his position that the threat from Russia remains "dangerous but ambiguous," and it is not certain that an attack will take place, the official said.

Zelensky urged his American counterpart to "calm down the messaging," warning of the economic impact of panic, according to to the official.

Comment: Enjoy this montage from Barry Levinson's film 'Wag The Dog':



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US DoD whistleblowers claim huge spikes in miscarriages, cancer, and myocarditis since Covid vaccine roll out at Senate panel debate


Great Game India
Fri, 28 Jan 2022 12:12 UTC
Ron Johnson
Senator Ron Johnson
According to three U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) whistleblowers, there have been disturbing spikes in incidences of cancer, myocarditis, and miscarriages after the distribution of experimental COVID-19 vaccinations, based on hidden government statistics.

On Monday, medical freedom rights attorney Thomas Renz revealed the news during a brief presentation at a U.S. Senate panel debate organized by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI). Drs. Peter McCullough, Harvey Risch, Pierre Kory, and Robert Malone were among the dozen health specialists who attended the session, which was headlined "COVID-19: A Second Opinion."

The Ohio-based lawyer, who is still engaged in numerous big lawsuits involving fraud and infringement of medical freedom rights taken against federal agencies, commenced by stating that he has obtained written declarations under penalty of perjury from all three whistleblowers.

Watch the video below:

Comment: Dr Robert Malone at the debate:



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Australia PM labeled 'complete psycho' by govt colleague - leaked texts


RT
Tue, 01 Feb 2022 22:12 UTC
Australian PM Scott Morrison
© AFPFILE PHOTO: Australian PM Scott Morrison. Incumbent prime minister says he 'cannot conceive of the mindset' that enabled Scott Morrison to appoint himself to additional positions while PM.
Australian premier Scott Morrison came in for what appears to be very bad criticism from colleagues on Tuesday, when an allegedly explosive exchange of texts between former premier of New South Wales (NSW) Gladys Berejiklian and an unnamed cabinet minister was voiced to him by a famous reporter.

In the leaked dialogue, Morrison is referred-to as a "horrible, horrible person" who places politics above the people, and as a "complete psycho."

Aired live on television, the alleged quotes were put to the prime minister at the National Press Club by political editor of Network Ten and The Australian columnist Peter van Onselen.

"I've got them right here. In one [Berejiklian] describes you as 'a horrible, horrible person,' going on to say she did not trust you and you're more concerned with politics than people," van Onselen said. "The [serving Liberal cabinet] minister is even more scathing, describing you as a 'fraud' and 'a complete psycho'," he added, asking Morrison to comment.
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