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Netanyahu could evade trial by becoming president and Israeli law has no power to stop him

Elizabeth Blade
Sputnik
Mon, 30 Nov 2020 04:52 UTC
Netanyahu
© Ronen Zvulun/ReutersIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
The prospect of Netanyahu becoming Israel's president is regarded as problematic by the country's media, primarily because that position should be filled by a person with a stainless reputation, not by somebody who has been indicted in a series of graft probes.

In July, Israel's President Reuven Rivlin will vacate his post and the members of the Israeli parliament will need to elect a new head of state, who will man the position for the next seven years.

According to Israeli law, anyone who is a citizen and resident of Israel can become the country's president and now reports suggest that one of the people eyeing that position is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself.

In Israel, where the presidency is merely symbolic and where the President serves as a role model, allegations that Netanyahu might end up taking the top post have stirred criticism and harsh reactions from the general public.

The reason for this is Netanyahu's ongoing legal battles.
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Ukrainian lobbyists pitted US against EU over new Russia-Germany Nord Stream 2 pipeline


RT
Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:52 UTC
Nord Stream 2 sign
© AFP/Odd Anderson
Ukrainian energy executives and Kiev's national security officials launched a coordinated lobbying campaign in Washington that put the US on a collision course with EU countries over a new gas pipeline.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday how spin doctors working for Kiev-based Naftogaz and at least one representative of Ukraine's National Security Council pressed for four years to influence White House officials to oppose the Nord Stream 2 project.

According to the newspaper, they relied on close relations with so-called "Russia-skeptics" in Congress, such as Texas Senator Ted Cruz, to propose a package of sanctions on European companies involved in laying the Baltic Sea pipeline.

After Washington warned it would target construction and shipping firms involved in the project, which are mainly based in Germany and Denmark, Naftogaz's Vadim Glamazdin is said to have claimed that it would be "the final nail in the coffin." "When these sanctions are finally voted and become law, there will be no practical way to build this pipeline."

On Saturday it was reported that construction would resume on Nord Stream 2 this week, after a number of companies pulled out of the project last year in response to US threats of legal action. The 764-mile (1,229km) underwater pipeline will be among the longest in the world, linking Siberia's natural gas fields to the German port of Greifswald and more than 150 companies involved in its construction have been earmarked for punitive measures.

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Attention

Trump says DoJ, FBI may have been in on large-scale voter fraud

Ilya Tsukanov
Sputnik
Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:41 UTC
Trump
© Reuters/Hannah McKayPresident Donald Trump
The Trump campaign has accused Democrat Party officials in half a dozen battleground states of widespread election fraud, mostly involving mail-in ballots. Democrats, most legacy media, and even some Republicans have dismissed the allegations and urged the President to concede defeat.

President Donald Trump has accused the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation of possibly being 'in on' the alleged plot to steal the election from him.

"This is total fraud and how the FBI and the Department of Justice, I don't know, maybe they're involved, but how people are allowed to get away with this stuff is unbelievable. This election was rigged. This election was a total fraud," Trump alleged, speaking to Fox News in a telephone interview Sunday morning.

Comment: It's not an unreasonable statement considering the FBI and DoJ have been remarkable complacent about getting involved with investigating the suspicious actions and events of the 2020 presidential election, although data analyst Matt Braynard says the FBI (finally) got in touch with him yesterday. It has fallen to private citizens and groups to sound the alarm.

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Attention

On Rep. Ilhan Omar's ignorant defense of John Brennan and the dangerous, unconstitutional Logan Act

Glenn Greenwald
greenwald.substack.com
Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:40 UTC
john brennan hearing
© Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesFormer CIA Director John Brennan testifies before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill, May 23, 2017.
Foreign policy dissidents have the greatest interest in repealing the Logan Act, not wielding it as a weapon to shield ex-CIA Directors while heralding it as a clearly defined criminal statute.

The right to dissent from, and to work against, the official foreign policy of the U.S. Government is vital: foundational to Constitutional liberties. There is very little such dissent in the U.S. Congress, where many of the core tenets of the Foreign Policy Community (from CIA drone warfare and clandestine coups to steadfast support for Gulf State and Middle East tyrannies as well as Israel) enjoy overwhelming, at times virtually unanimous, bipartisan support.

That is one of the reasons that — as I've said repeatedly — I am glad that there are now members of Congress such as Congresswomen Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan who so vocally and unflinchingly dissent from this general foreign policy orientation and especially from those policies which most members of Congress either cannot or do not want to denounce.

Comment: Greenwald sums it up:



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Blackbox

Georgia govt lawyers defended Dominion's 'trade secrets' to stop forensic analysis of machines/software


The National Pulse
Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:21 UTC
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A buried lede in Judge Timothy C. Batten's order released late last night from an Atlantic District Court describes Georgia state lawyers - ostensibly acting on behalf of the public via the local government - defending Dominion Voting Systems' "trade secrets".

The court ordered that voting software and information contained therein should not be destroyed, or erased or altered in Cobb, Gwinnett, and Cherokee Counties.

But the order also revealed:

"Defendants' counsel also argued that allowing such forensic inspections would pose substantial security and proprietary/trade secret risks to Defendants."

READ:

Ga Court Order by Raheem Kassam


The bizarre nature of government lawyers defending a private, foreign company's "trade secrets" instead of attempting to secure the vote of the American public will raise further questions about the company's involvement in U.S. voting systems.

The term "trade secret" is used no fewer than NINE times in the contract between Georgia and Dominion Voting Systems.

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Yellow Vest

French parliament drops ominous draft 'global security' law following massive protests


France 24
Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:07 UTC
France parliament mask
© Anne-Christine Poujoulat, AFPThe President of the LREM Parliamentary Group, Christophe Castaner, on November 30, 2020 in Paris, France.
The French parliament has dropped a controversial bill that would have curbed the right to film police officers in action, the speaker of parliament and leader of President Emmanuel Macron's ruling party announced on Monday.

"The bill will be completely rewritten and a new version will be submitted," Christophe Castaner, head of Macron's LREM (La République en marche) party told a news conference.


Comment: One wonders just what will be in this 'rewrite'.


The draft bill had prompted protests across the country called by press freedom advocates and civil rights campaigners. Tens of thousands of people marched Saturday in Paris calling for the government to drop the measure, including families and friends of people killed by police.

Comment: This victory, that follows on the heels of the success in Denmark, proves that the totalitarian tip toe that governments around the world are attempting can be stopped if the public act en masse, however with the same ponerized puppets in power we can expect that this is just the beginning of their insidious attempts to destroy society as we know it: And check out SOTT radio's:

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NPC

Democrats planned to 'ram all this policy down their throats' - until GOP House victories

Joel B. Pollak
Breitbart
Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:08 UTC
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© J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press
Democrats planned to "ram all this [left-wing] policy down their throats" until Republicans won unexpected House victories in the November election, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.

The Times quoted Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA):
"People were talking in a really cocky way before that Democrats were going to take the trifecta [White House, Senate and House], and we were not ever going to talk to Republicans about anything. We were going to ram all this policy down their throats," said Rep. Scott Peters (D-San Diego), a moderate.

Ambitious liberal policies like Medicare for all and the Green New Deal are likely to be pushed to a back burner, though Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and other progressives have signaled they will continue to advocate for their movement.

Pelosi (D-San Francisco) had said before the election that Democrats would expand the Affordable Care Act by using a special procedure in the Senate that required only 50 votes, but it's unclear now she will have even that.
According to Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), one of the House impeachment managers who tried to have President Donald Trump removed from office earlier this year, Democrats were told "Republicans had only a 25% chance of keeping the Senate and that Democrats would pick up seats" in the House.

Comment: At least there's a little justice in the world.

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Attention

Virtual False Flags

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:56 UTC
Virtual False Flags
© Corbett Report
Imagine this: you wake up to the blaring of your alarm clock and immediately reach for your smartphone to scroll your Insta feed before getting out of bed. But instead of the usual delightful and informative Instagram posts, today you're greeted by a "server not found" error.

Deciding that it's too early in the morning to deal with this, you hop in the shower . . . but for some reason Alexa won't play your Spotify playlist through your bathroom smart speakers. You have to shower in silence like a luddite.

Getting frustrated, you head downstairs for breakfast. You prop your iPad up next to you and go to check your email while stuffing your face with your morning bowl of Cheeri-GMOs (now with extra HFCS!) but you're not getting any new messages. You turn on your smart TV and navigate to YouTube so you can catch up on all the latest news from MSNBC, but all you get is the never ending spiral of the spinning "loading" wheel.

Twitter? Down.

Facebook? No luck.

Reddit? Forget it!

Increasingly desperate, you try in vain to remember how to turn on your regular terrestrial TV. Then you recall you have something collecting dust in a closet somewhere: a radio. You turn it on, fumble with the dial, and find a station just in time to hear the announcement:

". . . is claiming responsibility for the outage. Once again, widespread outages across a range of internet services is sweeping the globe this morning, as a shadowy new terror group emerges to take responsibility . . ."

Suddenly, your phone starts making a strange sound. You don't know what it's doing at first, until you realize it's ringing. One of your friends is calling you. On the phone. Not texting, tweeting, messaging or snapchatting. Actually calling you.
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Attention

Pennsylvania bombshell: Election hearing reveals single 'dump' of votes in Philadelphia yielded 99.4% for Biden, 0.6% for Trump

Paul Kengor
Spectator
Sat, 28 Nov 2020 12:41 UTC
Waldren
© Screenshot via Pennsylvania State SenateRet. Col. Phil Waldren testifies at Penn State Senate hearing November 25, 2020.
There are landslides and then there are landslides. There are lopsided votes and then there are lopsided votes. There are egregious examples of vote manipulation and then there are really egregious examples of vote manipulation. What surfaced during hearings in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 25, 2020 may set the standard for electoral outrageousness. An expert testifying to the Pennsylvania Senate flagged a batch of ballots that recorded some 570,000 votes for Joe Biden and only 3,200 for Donald Trump.

Yes, you read that correctly. That would equate to Joe Biden bagging 99.4% of that enormous chunk of votes. That one batch alone would have flipped the state to Biden.

This bombshell was dropped last Wednesday at the Wyndham Hotel in Gettysburg. The November 25 hearings, which began at 12:30 p.m. and ran for nearly four hours, were convened at the request of Senator Doug Mastriano (R-Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, and York counties). It was sponsored by the Senate Majority Policy Committee, chaired by Sen. David Argall (R-Berks/Schuylkill). Mastriano has called what happened "unacceptable," and has called for the resignation of Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar.

This particular gem was provided by Ret. Col. Phil Waldren, a former combat officer with a background in Army information and electronic warfare. Waldren, who testified along with Rudy Giuliani's team, brought to the hearing his considerable expertise in analysis of election-data fraud.

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Bad Guys

'Serious indications' Israel involved in assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist - Iranian FM Zarif UPDATES


Yahoo
Fri, 27 Nov 2020 15:10 UTC
Fakhrizadeh
© IRIB NEWS AGENCY / AFPA handout photo made available by Iran state TV (IRIB) on November 27, 2020, shows the scene after an attack on the car of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh near Tehran.
A high-profile nuclear scientist was reportedly assassinated in Iran on Friday. According to reports, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi, a professor of physics at the Imam Hussein University in Tehran, was killed in Damavand County. He was a senior scientist at the Iranian Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics, Iran Front Page reported.

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was widely seen as the father of Iran's nuclear bomb programme. No individual or organisation has yet claimed responsibility for the reported assassination. Social media users in Iran shared pictures and videos from the alleged scene of the assassination. They said an explosion and firing were reported in the area.

Comment: RT reports:
Israel has played a "role" in the attack on prominent Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was killed on Friday near Tehran, the Islamic Republic's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has said.

Zarif said in a tweet that an "eminent" Iranian scientist had been killed by unnamed "terrorists".

He also said Tehran had "serious indications" to believe that Tel Aviv had had some role in the incident, but did not provide any specific evidence to substantiate his accusation.


The foreign minister also called on the international community, and particularly the EU, to condemn the fatal attack, while accusing the European Union of what he called "shameful double standards."

His statement came after Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahavadi was attacked during an armed standoff between his bodyguards and unidentified assailants in the city of Absard, just east of the Iranian capital Tehran.

The scientist and his security staff were reportedly targeted in a suicide bombing and gun attack.

Back in 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed the researcher was the head of Iran's alleged nuclear weapons development project dubbed the 'Amad' ('Hope').

Tehran repeatedly stated that its nuclear program was purely peaceful. The International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring Iran's nuclear sites also said that the 'Amad' program had ended in early 2000s.

The Israeli authorities have not commented on the latest incident.
It's certainly possible: UPDATE 28/11/2020: Where and when:
According to Tasnim news agency, the attack took place at 2:30 p.m., local time, in the town of Absard to the east of Tehran. The media quoted eyewitnesses who said that they heard an explosion, followed by a barrage of gunfire.
Fakhrizadeh
© Reuters/Wana News AgencyNuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
Fakhrizadeh was travelling in a car together with his bodyguards. A parked Nissan truck laden with explosives hidden under a load of wood reportedly blew up at the moment when Fakhrizadeh's car approached the area. The explosion forced Fakhrizadeh's sedan to stop on the avenue, which is when five or six gunmen emerged from a nearby vehicle and opened fire on his car, the agency added.

His relatives were with him at the time of the attack, however, it was not immediately clear if any of them were in the same vehicle, according to Tasnim. This information has not been so far officially confirmed.

UPDATE 28/11/2020: Officials claim Israel is behind the assassination and what did the US know?
The report does not specify how much information the United States might have possessed in advance about the operation. There has not been any official comment on the report from the White House or the CIA.

​Iran's Ambassador to the UN Majid Takht Ravanchi also suggested that there were "serious indications of Israeli responsibility" in the assassination of the nuclear scientist, according to a letter to the United Nations published on Saturday.
UPDATE 28/11/2020 Hezbollah offers condemnation for the act:
"Hezbollah strongly condemns the terrorist attack that resulted in the death of prominent scholar and teacher Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. We are convinced that the Islamic Republic [of Iran] is capable of resisting all these threats, detecting criminals and stopping those who threaten the lives of Iranian scientists and representatives of the country's leadership, whoever they are."
UPDATE 28/11/2020 NYT accuses the Trump administration:
A report in The New York Times earlier cited three US officials as claiming that Israel was behind the assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in an attack near Iran's capital Tehran on Friday.

The attack on the high-profile physicist may be perceived as part an effort by the Donald Trump administration and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu government to use the time left until projected President-elect Democrat Joe Biden assumes office to exert more pressure on Iran.

Iranian army commander Mohammed Bagheri admitted that the assassination of the leading nuclear expert in the country was a blow to the Iranian defense establishment.

Accordingly, Israeli officials reportedly briefed a spate of media outlets in Israel that without Fakhrizade it will be hard for Iran to continue its nuclear program.

Feeding into the speculations that the current developments might seek to ramp up pressure on Iran while sending a message to the Biden team was the recent trilateral meeting between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, writes the outlet.
UPDATE 27/11/2020 Twitter explodes with speculation:

UPDATE 27/11/2020: Iran avows revenge; UN advocates restraint:
"The terrorist groups and the perpetrators of this hideous act should know that they will face severe revenge," said General Mohammad Bagheri, Iran's chief of staff and a Revolutionary Guards Corps commander.

"We have noted the reports that an Iranian nuclear scientist has been assassinated near Tehran today. We urge restraint and the need to avoid any actions that could lead to an escalation of tensions in the region," said Farhan Haq, a spokesman for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
UPDATE 27/11/2020: On scene video:

UPDATE 28/11/2020: Rouhani points finger straight at Israel:
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has blamed 'mercenaries of the usurping Zionist regime'. "Once again, the evil hands of global arrogance were stained with the blood ... of the mercenary usurper Zionist regime," Rouhani added that the assassination shows "the inability of the sworn enemies of the Iranian nation" to stop its scientific progress and "the depth of their malice and resentment". He added that younger Iranian scientists will step up and take Fakhrizadeh's place.

UPDATE: 28/11/2020 Germany appeals to Iran to have restraint:
Berlin has urged "all parties" to avoid escalating tensions. A few weeks before the new US administration takes office, it is important to preserve the scope for talks with Iran so that the dispute over Iran's nuclear programme can be resolved through negotiations, We therefore urge all parties to refrain from any steps that could lead to a further escalation of the situation."
UPDATE: 28/11/2020 Issues over the US Navy in the Persian Gulf:
A US aircraft carrier and other warships are headed to the Persian Gulf to bolster troop withdrawals in the region, a defense source told CNN, insisting the deployment is unrelated to the recent murder of a top Iranian scientist. The ships will provide "combat support and air cover as US troops withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan" by mid-January under orders from President Donald Trump, moving a sizable arsenal into the region just months before he is set to leave office.

UPDATE 28/11/20: Khameni threatens retribution:

UPDATE: 29/11/2020 New details on the attack offer a different scenario, contradicting previous reports:
Iran's top scientist was assassinated with a remote-controlled machine gun from 150 meters away, semi-official news agency Fars said, contradicting previous detailed reports of a 12-person commando team doing the killing.

Citing "new details" obtained by its journalists from unidentified sources, Fars said on Sunday that the lead security vehicle in scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh's three-vehicle convoy of bulletproof cars left its escort position to prepare the arrival location in Absard, east of Tehran.

Just then, the car carrying Fakhrizadeh and his wife was hit by bullets. He got out of the vehicle, thinking the sound was caused by an accident, engine trouble or an obstacle. A remote-controlled machine gun mounted on a Nissan car 150 meters away then fired at the scientist, hitting him twice in the side and once in the back, severing his spinal cord.

A bodyguard who tried to protect Fakhrizadeh was subsequently shot several times. The Nissan then blew up. Fars said the assassins deployed no live agents at the scene of Friday's attack, which lasted about three minutes. The unidentified owner of the Nissan left the country, Fars said, without identifying the destination.
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