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'Hotel Rwanda hero' Paul Rusesabagina convicted of terror charges


South China Morning Post
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 08:09 UTC
Rusesabagina
© AFPPaul Rusesabagina
Paul Rusesabagina, the "Hotel Rwanda" hero who became a fierce government critic, was found guilty on Monday on terror charges after what his supporters say was a politically motivated show trial.

He was convicted of backing a rebel group blamed for deadly gun, grenade and arson attacks in Rwanda in 2018 and 2019.

"He founded a terrorist organisation that attacked Rwanda, he financially contributed to terrorist activities," Justice Beatrice Mukamurenzi said at the end of a seven-month trial.

Rwandan prosecutors have sought a life sentence for Rusesabagina, the 67-year-old former hotelier credited with saving hundreds of lives during the 1994 genocide, and whose actions inspired the Hollywood film.

Neither he nor his lawyers were in court for the verdict, although the 20 other defendants in the case attended.

Rusesabagina, who used his fame to denounce Rwandan leader Paul Kagame as a dictator, was arrested in August 2020 when a plane he believed was bound for Burundi landed instead in the Rwandan capital Kigali.

His family say Rusesabagina was kidnapped and had rejected the nine charges against him as payback by a vengeful government for his outspoken views.

Comment: Hero to Zero: No good deed goes unpunished. It is an upside-down world.

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US Space Force Commander claims Russia has armed satellite in orbit capable of destroying US military assets


Sputnik
Tue, 21 Sep 2021 19:09 UTC
satellite
© CC BY-SA 4.0 / José Furtado
Russia already has deployed in low-earth orbit a "nesting doll" satellite armed with a weapon that can destroy US satellites vital for communications, command and control and precision targeting, Space Force Commander General John Raymond said on Tuesday.

"Russia has a nesting doll satellite [in orbit] to destroy US satellites, armed with a weapon to destroy US satellites," Raymond told the Air Force Association (AFA) Air Space Cyber Conference at National Harbor in the US state of Maryland. "It denies our ability to leverage space as a force multiplier."

Raymond claimed the satellite is designed like a Russian "nesting doll," with an outer casing that opens up to reveal an inner satellite shell and that shell also opens to reveal a weapon that can fire at and destroy US orbiting satellites from a safe distance

Comment: That the announcement has been made means that it's likely that a group, if not a number of groups, including the US, and Russia, have a satellite in orbit with these capabilities. The suggestion that Russia would use a weapon like this to neutralize aggressive maneuvers seems to be congruent with Russian defense policy and capabilities, but it's the US that has the track record of endless crimes of aggression.

This announcement has more credence because in January 2019 the Russian ministry announced that the US had returned to its 'Star Wars' missile defense plans, and then in April it warned that the US might 'preemptively' strike Russia and China with its space weapons; then in November 2019 there was a rather suspect blast at a Russian facility that killed at least seven people. Putin had this to say at the time about the top secret project working on a weapon 'unequaled in the world':
"We're talking about the most advanced and cutting-edge technical ideas and solutions, unequaled anywhere in the world; the weapon that is entitled to ensure sovereignty, security of Russia for decades to come."
The possession of such technology by Russia is "the most important, reliable guarantee of peace on the planet. And, no matter what, we'll certainly keep improving this weaponry," the president promised.
Days later Russia announced it had launched an "inspection" satellite into orbit, and by July 2020 the US was accusing Russia of testing an anti-satellite weapon in space: Watch Russian military put another top secret "inspection" satellite into orbit

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Bad Guys

What did he know and when? Biden's National Security advisor implicated in Alfa Bank Russiagate scam

Kit Klarenberg
RT
Tue, 21 Sep 2021 18:28 UTC
alfa bank michael sussmann trump scandal
© AFP / Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV; (R) Jake Sullivan. AFP / Drew Angerer(L) Alfa Bank; (R) Michael Sussmann
The indictment of lawyer Michael Sussmann promises to shed more light on what really went on during Russiagate. And it also raises questions about the possible involvement of Jake Sullivan - now National Security Advisor.

On September 16, Special Counsel John Durham charged Sussmann, a partner at Perkins Coie, the law firm which represented the Democrats and Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, with making false statements to the FBI over the course of its Trump-Russia probe.

Sussmann met with counsel James Baker in September 2016, and claimed the Trump Organization had used a secret server of Russia's Alfa Bank as a communications channel with the Kremlin. What he didn't mention, according to the indictment, was that he was conducting "opposition research" on Trump, and "coordinating" with the Clinton campaign to present that information to the FBI and mainstream media. In fact, the indictment suggests Sussmann lied, stating he said outright he wasn't conducting work "for any client."

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Best of the Web: If Australia's brutal response to lockdown protests was happening anywhere else, hypocritical Canberra would be demanding sanctions

Damian Wilson
RT
Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:49 UTC
melbourne protest lockdown forced vaccine police
© AFP / William WESTPolice tackle protesters in Melbourne during an anti-lockdown rally.
The world is watching in horror as Covid chaos unfolds on the streets Down Under, with heavy-handed elite police piling in on lockdown protestors using an arsenal of weapons that would be the envy of any authoritarian regime.

The online images are all too familiar: helmeted and masked police in body armour with batons held high, clubbing protestors lying on the ground as incapacitating pepper smoke burns their eyes and chokes their breath.

Meanwhile, mobs of rowdy protestors take over city streets, blocking traffic and disrupting the working week as they throw projectiles at 'whoop-whooping' police cars. Mayhem reigns.

Comment: Canberra has awakened a sleeping giant.







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Havana Syndrome, Directed Energy Weapons, and the New Cold War

Alan Macleod
MintPress News
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
US Navy personnel operate a Directed Energy Weapon
© DVIDSUS Navy personnel operate a Directed Energy Weapon aboard the USS Ponce during an operational demonstration in the Persian Gulf in 2014.
While the jury is still out on who committed the attacks against U.S. officials, or even whether there were any attacks at all, directed energy weapons certainly do exist. Havana Syndrome might be science fiction, but directed energy weapons are very much science fact.

It started in 2016. U.S. officials in Havana, Cuba, began complaining en masse about hearing strange noises, suffering recurring headaches, nausea, hearing and memory loss. From there it spread around the world, with hundreds of U.S. spies and diplomats in the United Kingdom, Colombia, China, Uzbekistan, Germany, Austria, and in Washington itself reporting similar symptoms. Very little about the cases — even the identities of those involved — can be verified. Nevertheless, the story has become a media sensation, appearing on front pages the world over, with journalists speculating that futuristic microwave weapons are the culprit, likely wielded by devious Russian spies. While the scientific and medical community have cautioned not to jump to conclusions, underlining a number of key flaws in the narrative, the existence of directed energy weapons (DEWs), as they are known, is beyond doubt.

Our men in Havana

Tensions with Cuba are high, the island being the home to many cloak-and-dagger plots both by and against the Cuban government, ever since the revolution of 1959, which marked the Caribbean nation as an enemy of Washington. Officials affected typically report hearing a grating sound coming from a particular direction and experiencing pressure in their heads. Those nearby were not affected. The Cuban government's vehement denials, as well as their openness in helping the U.S. with their investigations, shifted suspicion away from them in Washington's eyes, the chief culprit assumed by many to be Vladimir Putin's Russia, although little public evidence of this exists.
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The Fed's liquidity problem and when the levee breaks...

Harris Kupperman
Adventures In Capitalism
Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
Powell
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break
When the levee breaks, I'll have no place to stay.

Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan, Lord
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan
It's got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home
Oh well, oh well, oh well

Don't it make you feel bad
When you're tryin' to find your way home
You don't know which way to go?
If you're goin' down south
They got no work to do
If you're going down to Chicago.

A-ah, a-ah, a-ah.

Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good
No, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move, ooh.

Led Zeppelin
To a man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. To the Federal Reserve, every problem is met with more liquidity. Unfortunately, the Fed has very little control of where this liquidity goes. First, it went into equity markets, fueling an outright equity bubble. Then it overflowed into PE and VC, creating bubblicious demons there as well. Then it overflowed into meme stonks and shit-coins. Not content with the damage they wrought on the financial economy, the liquidity began overflowing into the real economy. There's currently an epic housing bubble, leading to increasing wealth inequality and polarization.

Now, this liquidity is overflowing into the everyday economy — assuming you can even find the item you seek. In the past, only hard money weirdos complained about the gradual creep of inflation — now everyone feels it and has their own story. Everyone is painfully aware that inflation is present and is likely to stay.
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Eye 1

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: The Global Rationing Plan 2022


Adapt 2030
Tue, 21 Sep 2021 11:08 UTC
ration

The DoConomy Card issued by Mastercard teaming with the U.N will monitor and cut off spending when you hit your carbon max allotment. You can of course buy more carbon credits on the international carbon trading market. This is happening as food nearing 60 year highs and the supply chain from the farmgate to supermarkets is shattered. Meat and poultry price soar as the blame game continues to keep you distracted as the carbon cut off is implemented.


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UN warns artificial intelligence may pose 'negative, even catastrophic' threat to human rights

Katabella Roberts
The Epoch Times
Fri, 17 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
iPal smart AI for robots for children's education
© Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty ImagesiPal smart AI for robots for children's education are displayed at the AvatarMind booth at the CES 2019 consumer electronics show at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Jan. 8, 2019.



Comment: Some common sense is actually on display from a UN representative. We're floored.


The United Nations has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) systems may pose a "negative, even catastrophic" threat to human rights and called for AI applications that are not used in compliance with human rights to be banned.

U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Sept. 15 urged members states to put a temporary ban on the sale and use of AI until the potential risks it poses have been addressed and adequate safeguards put in place to ensure the technology will not be abused.

"We cannot afford to continue playing catch-up regarding AI — allowing its use with limited or no boundaries or oversight and dealing with the almost inevitable human rights consequences after the fact," Bachelet said in a statement.

"The power of AI to serve people is undeniable, but so is AI's ability to feed human rights violations at an enormous scale with virtually no visibility. Action is needed now to put human rights guardrails on the use of AI, for the good of all of us," the human rights chief added.

Her remarks come shortly after her office published a report that analyzes how AI affects people's right to privacy, as well as a string of other rights regarding health, education, freedom of movement, and freedom of expression, among others.
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The strange China feud of Soros and BlackRock amidst developing economic crisis

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 17 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
George Soros
A bizarre war of words has erupted in recent days in the pages of financial media between billionaire hedge fund and color revolution specialist, George Soros, and the gigantic BlackRock investment group. The issue is a decision by BlackRock CEO Larry Fink to open the first foreign-owned mutual fund in China presumably to attract the savings of China's new (and fast disappearing) middle income population. In a recent newspaper interview Soros called the BlackRock decision a threat to BlackRock investors and to US national security.

This seemingly absurd clash of views between two financial predator giants of Wall Street hides a far larger story — the looming systemic collapse inside China of a financial debt pyramid that is possibly the largest in the world. It could have a domino effect on the entire world economy far greater than the September 2008 Lehman Crisis.

"Global economic terrorist..:"

On September 6 Soros wrote a guest Editorial in the Wall Street Journal sharply criticizing BlackRock for investing in China: "It is a sad mistake to pour billions of dollars into China now. This is likely to lose money for BlackRock customers and, more importantly, harm the national security interests of the US and other democracies." Not like Soros to cite US national security... He went on to say, "The BlackRock Initiative threatens the national security interests of the US and other democracies because money invested in China will help advance President Xi's regime, which is repressive at home and aggressive abroad." BlackRock issued a response stating, "The US and China have a large and complex economic relationship...Through our investment activity, US-based asset managers and other financial institutions contribute to the economic interconnection of the world's two largest economies."

Comment: The West's vulture capitalists are circling the dragon to the East. Will they lend a toxic band-aid to China's ailing economy - or will they be blown out of the sky as Beijing tends to its wounds? And an even bigger question: just how contagious is China's systemic financial meltdown?

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America's woke generals and the Military Industrial Complex must be purged to save the nation

Josiah Lippincott
The American Mind
Wed, 15 Sep 2021 00:00 UTC
Austin Milley
© Getty ImagesDefense Secretary Lloyd Austin • Chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley
Revelations from a new book, Peril, by Bob Woodward and Rob Costa, reveal just how deep the spiritual rot in the military goes. In the days after the January 6 protest, General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, promised, in the event of a war, to give aid and comfort to China. According to the Washington Post, after the Capitol protest, Milley sent secret communiques to the head of the People's Liberation Army, promising that "If we're going to attack, I'm going to call you ahead of time. It's not going to be a surprise."

In a decent country such a brazen act of collusion with a foreign power by one of the most prominent leaders of the armed forces would be met with immediate and unrelenting backlash. Instead, this betrayer of the Constitution and the principle of civilian leadership of the military is a liberal darling. At the inauguration, Joe Biden thanked Milley for undermining President Trump in the final weeks of his presidency.

Milley, before reaching out to China, sat down with the service's top officers and demanded from them what amounted to an oath — none of them would launch a nuclear weapon without his approval. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff went behind the President's back to secure control over the nation's most important weapons.

Comment: Tell it like it is. If reality must split...we should make one version better!

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