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Handcuffs

Morales: US would send him to GITMO

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© Reuters/Edgard GarridoFormer Bolivian President Evo Morales attends an interview with Reuters, in Mexico City, November 15, 2019.
Ousted Bolivian President Evo Morales says he will not take part in the next presidential vote if the people are truly against it. He also revealed that the US ominously offered him 'help' fleeing Bolivia.

Morales, who resigned under pressure from top military officials after weeks of opposition protests, said that he does not mind if the fresh presidential elections are held without him on the ballot. Morales told Reuters in an interview:
"For the sake of democracy, if they don't want me to take part, I have no problem not taking part in new elections. I just wonder why there is so much fear of Evo."
However, the veteran leftist said that he did not know another person who could represent the left-wing forces in a potential presidential poll.

Opposition senator Jeanine Anez, who declared herself "interim president" this week, has said that she would like to mend relations with Morales's Movement for Socialism (MAS) majority party, but would not welcome him as a presidential candidate again.

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Target

Envoy Yovanovitch's 'feelings' that Trump 'threatened' her on Twitter are impeachable, says Democrats

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© Reuters/Jonathan ErnstEx-Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch
Ex-ambassador Marie Yovanovitch feeling "threatened" by President Donald Trump and his tweet criticizing her "in real-time" during her testimony amount to new grounds for impeachment, Democrats and their media proxies claimed.

During Friday's impeachment hearing, Yovanovitch complained that she's been the victim of a "smear campaign" by the Trump administration, carried out particularly by the president's personal counsel Rudy Giuliani - and Trump himself.

The former ambassador recalled her reaction to the transcript of the phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a testimony that the New York Times called "powerful and personal."

Quoting a third-person account for some reason, Yovanovitch said that "a person who saw me actually reading the transcript said that the color drained from my face. I think I even had a physical reaction. I think, you know, even now, words kind of fail me," she went on.

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Bullseye

Roger Stone convicted! Trump lambastes double-standards, 'WikiLeaks insider lies' back in the media


Comment: The wicked walk free while the patriots get sent down. Welcome to the Land of the Free in the 21st-century...


Roger Stone
© Reuters/Kevin FogartyStone leaves court after guilty verdict.
Former Donald Trump campaign strategist Roger Stone has been found guilty of all felony charges over his false claim of having an inside contact at WikiLeaks (he didn't). Trump said those who lied under oath against him walk free.

Stone was convicted of lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstruction, all charges centered around misrepresenting the nature of his contacts with WikiLeaks during intelligence committee hearings related to the special counsel's 'Russian collusion' inquiry. Not only did Stone falsely claim comedian and former friend Randy Credico was the "intermediary" discussed in emails with Trump campaign officials, but he repeatedly begged Credico to lie as well, prosecutors claimed - and threatened him if he wouldn't.

The actual "intermediary," prosecutors asserted, was conservative author Jerome Corsi, who was also questioned in the course of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation but did not testify in Stone's trial. Corsi sued Mueller and several federal agencies last year for allegedly attempting to coerce him into confirming he was in fact a go-between for the Trump team and WikiLeaks, and while that case was dismissed, it was brought before an appeals court earlier this week.

Comment: Roger Stone's verdict is just the preamble to prosecuting WikiLeaks and Assange. His bogus conviction serves as a 'step stone of verification' to this end.


X

Ukraine: Prosecutor who led probes into Burisma Holdings to be fired

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© Reuters/Vlacheslav RatynskiyUkrainian prosecutor Kostyantyn Kulyk
Ukraine's Prosecutor-General Ruslan Ryaboshapka says the prosecutor who led investigations into a local natural-gas company where Joe Biden's son served on the board will be fired. Former U.S. Vice President Biden and his son Hunter have been central figures in the impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump.

Ryaboshapka told Current Time on November 13 that Kostyantyn Kulyk will be fired because he had failed to take a professional exam that the Prosecutor-General's Office has required as part of an effort to remake the law enforcement body.

"According to the current law, we have no other choice but to say goodbye" to Kulyk, the deputy head of the office's Department of International Legal Cooperation, Ryaboshapka said.

Kulyk had sought to recover billions of dollars' worth of assets that former President Viktor Yanukovych and his inner circle, including Mykola Zlochevskiy, allegedly stole from the state. Zlochevskiy is the owner of the Burisma Group, the nation's largest privately-owned natural gas producer. Burisma received many of its gas exploration and production licenses when Zlochevskiy headed the Ministry of Ecology in Yanukovych's government.


Comment: See also:
Trump: Clinton/Obama administration's links with Ukraine need to be investigated


Arrow Down

Israel silencing the last voices trying to stop abuses against Palestinians

Israeli violence against Palestine
© Redress Information & Analysis
It has been a week of appalling abuses committed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank - little different from the other 2,670 weeks endured by Palestinians since the occupation began in 1967.

The difference this past week was that several entirely unexceptional human rights violations that had been caught on film went viral on social media.

One shows a Palestinian father in the West Bank city of Hebron leading his son by the hand to kindergarten. The pair are stopped by two heavily armed soldiers, there to help enforce the rule of a few hundred illegal Jewish settlers over the city's Palestinian population.

The soldiers scream at the father, repeatedly and violently push him and then grab his throat as they accuse his small son of throwing stones. As the father tries to shield his son from the frightening confrontation, one soldier pulls out his rifle and sticks it in the father's face.

Oil Well

Iran's FM Zarif calls on New Delhi to resist US pressure - says India should not be 'bullied' on world stage

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© Rupak De Chowdhuri / ReutersAn oil terminal in Kolkata, India in November 2013.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif urged India to be tougher when faced with US pressure, at the same time applauding New Delhi's general stance against sanctions.

Zarif shared his thoughts during a meeting with a group of visiting journalists from New Delhi earlier this week, the Hindu Business Line reported. "India has certainly taken a stance against the sanctions... so that's been encouraging, [but] of course, we expected our friends to be more resilient vis-a-vis US pressure," Zarif said.

India stopped buying Iranian oil in May, after the US refused to renew waivers it had previously granted the country. The Iranian diplomat noted that he understood why India "did not want to agitate" the US, but warned that, by bowing down to Washington's pressure, New Delhi placed itself "at the receiving end."

Comment: Zarif has backup from other world leaders. What would happen if ALL the countries the US threatened with sanctions simply ignored them, and continued to trade with Iran? Even the US doesn't have enough resources to start color revolutions in every single one.


Bad Guys

Turkey announces detention of 25 relatives of dead Daesh leader Al-Baghdadi

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© CC BY 2.0 / thierry ehrmannAbu Bakr al Baghdadi, painted portrait
Turkish authorities have detained 25 relatives of the slain leader of the Daesh* terrorist group Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, general prosecutor's office of Turkey said on Saturday.
"Al-Baghdadi's relatives were detained in four provinces as part of an investigation into the IS' activities. A total of 25 people were detained: 11 in the province of Kirsehir, five in Samsun, three in the Ordu and six in Sanliurfa. Four of the detainees were arrested by the court accused of participating in an armed terrorist organization", the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
The report comes nearly two weeks after Turkish-backed militia in Syria announced they had caught Al-Baghdadi's sister, Rasmiya Awad, and handed her over to Turkey. 21 members of the family, including children, were sent to repatriation centres where Turkish authorities prepare refugees to be returned to their country of origin.

Comment: Maybe this time for sure? The US needed a win while its influence in Syria continues to wane. No matter. Another bogeyman to scare the populous with will be raised up soon.


Bad Guys

Globalists openly admit to population control agenda - and that's a bad sign

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Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,

Eugenics and population control are long time hobbies of the financial elites. In the early 1900's, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Institute were deeply involved in promoting Eugenics laws in the US. These laws led to the forced sterilization of over 60,000 American citizens in states like California and thousands of rejected marriage licenses. The Eugenics programs in the US were only a beta test though, as the Rockefellers then transferred their programs over to Germany under Hitler and the Third Reich in the 1930's, where a true widespread eugenics-based population control program was introduced.

The targets of population reduction were based on ethnic background, but also "mental intelligence" and economic status. The Carnegie Institute even established a "Eugenics Records Office" called Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory in 1904, which collected genetic data on millions of Americans and their families with the intent of controlling their numbers and erasing certain traits from the US population. The Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory still exists today and presents itself as a kind of philanthropic endeavor to help humanity.

Light Sabers

White House transcript reveals Trump agreed to meet Ukraine's Zelensky without preconditions

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© Jonathan Ernst/ReutersUkraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy listens during a bilateral meeting with President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, September 25, 2019.
President Trump in April agreed to meet with Ukraine's president-elect - without preconditions - in the first official phone call between the two leaders, according to a White House transcript released Friday morning, moments before the second public hearing as part of the House's formal impeachment inquiry into the president.

Trump took the April 21 call with Volodymyr Zelensky while aboard Air Force One. The conversation predated the highly controversial conversation between the two presidents on July 25, which prompted the House's impeachment inquiry.

Democrats, relying on a whistleblower complaint that first exposed that call, have claimed the previous call shows evidence of a "quid pro quo" — namely an investigation of a Trump political opponent in exchange for a public meeting between the presidents, and a release of critical U.S. military aid to Ukraine.

Comment: The Twitterati pro and con have their say:
Twitter was abuzz with speculation about the transcript - surely some parts were missing?


The fact that the White House had mentioned a discussion of "rooting out corruption," yet the word "corruption" did not appear in the transcript, was held up as proof of a conspiracy to suppress the "truth."


Trump's defenders pointed out that the transcript shows Trump eager to meet with Zelensky - far from the version depicted in the impeachment narrative, where he refuses to do so until Ukraine opens an investigation into the company that hired Biden's son.


Stuck with a relatively lackluster transcript, House intel committee chair Adam Schiff demanded Trump release the "thousands" of documents the impeachment committee has requested as well. Others demanded transcripts of Trump's calls with...other world leaders.


Which is exactly the precedent Trump had said he was afraid of setting by releasing the original Zelensky call.



Jet3

Ceasefire fails: Israel launches fresh airstrikes on Gaza after rocket fire

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© AP Photo / Dan Balilty
The clashes between the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and Palestinian militants started earlier this week after a rocket strike from Gaza resulted in a series of airstrikes by the IDF.

Israel has stated that it is carrying out new strikes against Gaza following the intercept by the IDF of several rockets fired from the enclave.

"We are currently striking Hamas terror targets in Gaza", the military tweeted.


Comment: It's election time in Israel. That means it's time for the ritual slaughter of a bunch of Gazans. It's an Israeli tradition.