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Top German court rules intelligence agency's monitoring of foreigners abroad is unconstitutional


RT
Tue, 19 May 2020 15:55 UTC
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© Reuters / Michaela RehleFile photo: Germany's intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) headquarters in Pullach near Munich, Germany
It has been proclaimed unconstitutional for the German intelligence agency BND to spy on foreign nationals abroad, the Federal Constitutional Court has ruled after outcry from journalists.

The court hearing was lobbied by journalists and civil rights groups, including the NGO Reporters Without Borders. The concerns raised centred around the vagueness and broadness of the legislation, which allowed BND agents to engage in the strategic surveillance of foreigners abroad - which had the potential to impede press freedoms, according to the plaintiffs.

A law introduced in early 2017 expanded the powers of the BND and essentially made it legal for it to spy on foreign nationals, without the need to prove sufficient reasons for suspicion or provide legal justification for doing so.
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Engdahl: The warp speed push for coronavirus vaccines

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 18 May 2020 12:00 UTC
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The US White House has appointed a coronavirus "Vaccine Czar" from Big Pharma to oversee something dubbed Operation Warp Speed. The goal is to create and produce 300 million doses of a new vaccine to supposedly immunize the entire US population by year-end against COVID-19. To be sure that Big Pharma companies give their all to the medical Manhattan Project, they have been fully indemnified by the US government against liabilities should vaccine recipients die or develop serious disease as a result of the rushed vaccine. The FDA and NIH have waived standard pre-testing on animals in the situation. The US military, according to recent remarks by the US President, is being trained to administer the yet-to-be unveiled vaccine in record time. Surely nothing could go wrong here?

Warp speed is a term out of the sci-fi Star Trek media, defined as a speed faster than the speed of light. In recent weeks billions of dollars have been pledged from governments, from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others to fast-track a vaccine as well as test medical treatments to combat the COVID19 illness said to originate from a novel coronavirus first discovered late 2019 in Wuhan China. This rush to create a "miracle" vaccine is ominous and suggests some hidden agenda.

The Conflicted Czar
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NYT 'refused' to publish comparison of countries Covid-19 death statistics - Russian Embassy


RT
Tue, 19 May 2020 09:38 UTC
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© Ilya Pitalev / SputnikDoctors at a clinic in Moscow. May 18, 2020.
Russia's Embassy in the US has accused the NYT of refusing to publish a comparison of the Covid-19 death rates in Moscow, London, and New York. The paper earlier accused Russia of "underreporting" the death rate from the disease.

On May 11, the New York Times ran a story which claimed to have solved the "mystery" of Russia's relatively lower death rate from Covid-19, which is below the world average. Citing official statistics, the paper noted that Moscow's number of overall deaths in April exceeded its five-year average for the same period by more than 1,700. Together with the city's official death toll from Covid-19 - just 642 at the time - this indicated "significant underreporting" by the authorities, the NYT said.

On Monday, the paper published a letter by Moscow's top health official, Alexey Khripun, who said the figures alone "do not disclose the cause of death and vary widely in any event," adding that the Russian capital saw 11,846 more deaths in April, an increase of 1,841 over April 2019 - but of only 985 for the same month in 2018. Also, only 639 of the April 2020 deaths were "attributable to Covid-19," Khripun wrote.

Comment: The NYT refused to publish the data because while some countries, like Russia, have only assigned the coronavirus as the cause of death following a thorough examination, eliminating other more probable causes, most Western nations have been attributing any and all deaths to the virus, without proof, and thus massively inflating the mortality rate. To acknowledge that this is what the West has been doing would be to admit that the draconian lockdown and damage to the economy was all for nothing.

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DOJ Corruption? A fork in the road few noticed and what Bill Barr needs to explain

sundance
The Conservative Treehouse
Sun, 16 Feb 2020 00:00 UTC
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© unknownUS AG Bill Barr
Foolishness and betrayal of our country have served to reveal dangers within our present condition. Misplaced corrective action, regardless of intent, is neither safe nor wise. The intelligence apparatus was weaponized against our candidate by those who controlled the levers of government. This is what AG Bill Barr needs to explain to the nation.

The position of Bill Barr today is a direct result of decisions made by the DOJ in the Fall of 2017 & Summer of 2018. The events surrounding the leaking of the FISA warrant used against U.S. person Carter Page, and the 2018 DOJ decision not to prosecute SSCI Security Director James Wolfe for those leaks, was the fork in the road moment for the DOJ.

Attorney General Jeff Session was recused, Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein was in charge and the Mueller investigation was ongoing. That was when the DOJ made a decision not to prosecute Wolfe for leaking classified information. DC U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu signed-off on a plea deal where Wolfe plead guilty to only a single count of lying to the FBI.

If the DOJ had pursued the case against Wolfe for leaking the FISA application, everything would have been different. The American electorate would have seen evidence of what was taking place in the background effort to remove President Trump. We would be in an entirely different place today if that prosecution or trial had taken place.
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Documents show 'Commander in Chief' of the failed mercenary operation against Venezuela was Guaido

Patricio Zamorano
venezuelanalysis.com
Wed, 13 May 2020 12:54 UTC
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© Rafael Hernandez/picture alliance via Getty ImagesJuan Guaido
Documents show Guaido's role in the recent mercenary operation aimed at kidnapping President Nicolas Maduro.

New information divulged this week reveals that Juan Guaidó was designated as "commander and chief" of the mercenary operation that completely unraveled on the shores of Venezuela. The 41 page contract that formed the basis of the already known eight page General Services Agreement was published by the Washington Post this week.

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This more complete document confirms what the mercenary and head of SilverCorp, Inc., Jordan Goudreau, had already revealed to the media: the agreement was aimed at "planning and executing an operation to capture/detain/remove Nicolas Maduro (heretoafter "Primary Objective") remove the current Regime and install the recognized Venezuelan President Juan Guaido."

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Top Ukrainian journalist reveals he is an INTEL agent, drawing protests after interviews with 'enemies of the state'


RT
Tue, 19 May 2020 15:50 UTC
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© Screenshot YouTuve/Дмитрий ГордонDmitry Gordon • Igor Girkin
A prominent Ukrainian media person has stirred public anger by interviewing controversial Russian figures who are also fugitives from Ukrainian law. His explanation? It was actually a sting operation.

It wouldn't be unprecedented for a popular reporter or editor to moonlight as an intelligence officer. But a story of what seems to be treason that turns out to be a major win in the game of spies (at least according to the protagonist) would certainly stand out.

At the center of the scandal is Dmitry Gordon, an influential Ukrainian journalist and video blogger. His program recently featured figures that are rather controversial in his country, to put it mildly.

First, he sat down with Russian MP Natalia Poklonskaya, who is perceived by many Ukrainian nationalists as a traitor. In 2014, she was a prosecutor in then-Ukrainian Crimea. As the region revolted against the political forces that came to power in Kiev after an armed coup, she became one of the public faces of Crimea's re-unification with Russia. Her appearance and badass attitude won her an international following and the nickname 'prosecutie', but it's safe to say that whatever fans she may have in Ukraine today don't advertise their fondness, for obvious reasons.
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Israeli operatives conducted a sophisticated and 'highly accurate' cyberattack on Iran's port facility, claiming payback


Sputnik
Tue, 19 May 2020 01:38 UTC
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© Twitter/FintribuneIranian port of Shahid Rajaee, in Bandar Abbas, Iran
On 10 May, the managing director of Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization, Mohammad Rastad, confirmed in a televised statement that the county's port of Shahid Rajaee, in the coastal city of Bandar Abbas, was the victim of a cyberattack by an unknown foreign hacker on 9 May, bringing to a halt all shipping traffic in the facility.

US and foreign officials suspect Israel to be behind the 9 May cyberattack on Iran's port of Shahid Rajaee. The cyberattack obstructed shipping traffic at the facility for days, according to The Washington Post, citing unnamed sources.

Tel Aviv operatives are said to have conducted the attack in retaliation for an alleged attempt by Iranian hackers on 24 April to take down networks operating rural water distribution in Israel, according to the outlet, citing unnamed intelligence and cybersecurity officials said to be familiar with the matter. Iran has repeatedly denied responsibility for the attacks.
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Best of the Web: RFK, Jr: How Bill Gates controls global messaging and censorship

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Children's Health Defense
Sun, 17 May 2020 00:00 UTC
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© dailybs.comLord of the Vaccines Bill Gates • Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Bill Gates is the world's largest vaccine producer and the single largest donor to WHO and the CDC Foundation. Those agencies are now marketing arms for his vaccine empire. In January 2019, Gates had WHO declare "vaccine hesitancy" the top "global health threat" (with Ebola, cancer, war, and drug-resistant pathogens), signaling a worldwide Pharma Gold Rush to mandate vaccines to all people.

Gates maxed-out in donations to Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff's political action committee (PAC). In February 2019, Schiff wrote to Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Pinterest, demanding they censor "vaccine misinformation," a term meaning all skepticism toward government and industry pronouncements about vaccine safety or efficacy - whether true or not. Schiff wrote:
"Vaccines are both effective and safe. There is no evidence to suggest that vaccines cause life-threatening or disabling disease."
This was misinformation. A year earlier, Schiff pushed a bill to hike the Vaccine Court admin budget to $11,200,000 to reduce vaccine injury backlogs. The court had already paid out $4 billion for vaccine deaths and disabilities.

Comment: No matter his ideas, wealth, clout and publicity, there is no doubt as to the outcome of Bill Gates' intentions regarding vaccines: it won't be to save humanity.

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The Atlantic feeds Covid-19 mania: Putin might invade and China will dominate say 'experts'

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Mon, 18 May 2020 23:21 UTC
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© Reuters/Sergey PivovarovOrdinary day in Russia, as per Western press
Amid growing pressure to end the coronavirus lockdowns, British authorities are being advised by foreign policy 'experts' to brace for Chinese hegemony or a Russian invasion, with the only cure being more American Empire.

That is the crux of an article that appeared in The Atlantic on Monday, worrying about the "geopolitical second wave," as it dubs the political fallout of the pandemic.

Among the biggest fears of experts advising 10 Downing Street? That Russian President Vladimir Putin may lash out and invade someone in order to compensate for the economic fallout of the pandemic and the oil price war.

At least that's what author Tom McTague claims is the position of Robert Kaplan, the American foreign policy expert who was recently called in to give Boris Johnson a piece of his mind about geopolitics. The Atlantic doesn't actually quote Kaplan on this issue, however - merely about how he thinks Covid-19 will "come to be seen as a chapter break" in history books.

Kaplan's supposed point is left to someone who did not actually advise 10 Downing Street: Michael Clarke, a professor at King's College London described as a former government adviser who remains 'plugged into' the foreign policy establishment. "Putin's aggressive opportunism will probably get worse," the article quotes Clarke. "The nature of Putin's leadership is that he can't stand still; he has to keep pushing forward. This makes him more volatile.

Comment: Projection of 'the inane' signals the devolvement of human logic and reasoning. It is getting worse, not better!

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'The American friends': New court files expose Sheldon Adelson's security team involved in US spy operation against Julian Assange

Max Blumenthal
The Grayzone
Thu, 14 May 2020 17:55 UTC
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(L-R) Mike Pompeo, Julian Assange, Sheldon Adelson
An exclusive investigation by The Grayzone reveals new details on the critical role Sheldon Adelson's Las Vegas Sands played in an apparent CIA spying operation targeting Julian Assange, and exposes the Sands security staff who helped coordinate the malicious campaign.
"I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole."
— Mike Pompeo, College Station, TX, April 15, 2019
As the co-founder of a small security consulting firm called UC Global, David Morales spent years slogging through the minor leagues of the private mercenary world. A former Spanish special forces officer, Morales yearned to be the next Erik Prince, the Blackwater founder who leveraged his army-for-hire into high-level political connections across the globe. But by 2016, he had secured just one significant contract, to guard the children of Ecuador's then-President Rafael Correa and his country's embassy in the UK.

The London embassy contract proved especially valuable to Morales, however. Inside the diplomatic compound, his men guarded Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, a top target of the US government who had been living in the building since Correa granted him asylum in 2012. It was not long before Morales realized he had a big league opportunity on his hands.
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