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Complete list of Clinton associates who allegedly (and conveniently) died mysteriously or committed suicide before testimony - including Jeffrey Epstein

Clinton Epstein
On Saturday multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein, the highest profile prisoner in US custody, was found dead in his prison cell in Manhattan.

This occurred the day after two thousand previously sealed court documents involving the Jeffrey Epstein child sex abuse case were released to the public.

The documents described how Bill Clinton held a private party on Jeffrey Epstein's pedophile island.

Clinton made at least 27 times trips on Jeffrey Epstein's private plane. Most of those flights were with underage girls.

Despite a previous attempt on his life just three weeks ago the prison guards skipped the 30 minute required checks on Epstein's cell last night.

Early this morning they found him dead.

Jeffrey Epstein is the latest in a long list of Clinton family associates and acquaintances who died mysteriously or committed suicide before their public testimony.

In 2016 CBS Las Vegas posted a list of Bill and Hillary Clinton associates alleged to have died under mysterious circumstances.

Here is that list.

Comment: That's obviously quite the list - and quite probably the reason why the Clintons have been able to evade justice after so many decades of documented high-level crime. Imagine the looks on the faces of their clueless supporters who still think that Hillary was deserving of the presidency if they understood the ramifications of the above list.

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Pistol

Heavily-armed man attempts to shoot up Norwegian mosque with same name as target in Christchurch massacre

Al-Noor Mosque Oslo
Al-Noor Mosque in Oslo, Norway (not to be confused with the Al-Noor Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand)
The shooting at a mosque near Oslo is being treated as an "attempted act of terror", Norwegian police said Sunday, with the suspect appearing to harbour far-right, anti-immigrant views.

"We are looking at an attempted act of terror," acting chief of the police operation Rune Skjold told a press conference.

Skjold said the investigation had shown that the man appeared to hold "far-right" and "anti-immigrant" views.

The suspect entered the al-Noor Islamic Centre on Saturday afternoon armed with multiple weapons and opened fire before being overpowered by a man who suffered "minor injuries" in the process.

Only three people were inside the mosque at the time of the attack, and police said they recovered two firearms from the scene but did not specify which type.

Norway was the scene of one of the worst-ever attacks by a right-wing extremist in July 2011, when 77 people were killed by Anders Behring Breivik.

Comment: About 150,000 of them have arrived in Norway since 9/11.


Arrow Up

Big signals from gold and silver as political chaos ramps up around the world

gold and silver
After nearly eight years of torment, gold and silver are back. The global political picture is spinning out of control quickly. And the precious metals are here to tell us just how quickly.

Before I get to the charts, however, I think it's important we review everything that happened this week just to get some context.

Last weekend two gruesome murder sprees were committed in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. Both shooters apparently radicalized by the current political climate. The usual suspects used these events to call for gun control, pre-crime prevention straight out of a Philip K. Dick novel while blaming them on the tyranny of white people and Donald Trump's racism.

Then on Monday morning to the news India revoked Article 370 of their constitution, reorganizing Kashmir & Jammu and putting the entire area on a lockdown so complete many there don't know what happened.


Protests in Hong Kong continued into their third week as the U.S. is caught openly working with protest organizers and castigates by China.

Later that same day Donald Trump finally fulfills a Republican dream of labeling China a 'currency manipulator' because investors properly responded to his installing tariffs on the rest of China's imports to the U.S.

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Unsealed Jeffrey Epstein documents list new allegations against powerful men

Jeffrey Epstein
© Corbis via Getty ImagesJeffrey Epstein.
A court unsealed documents from a lawsuit filed by an accuser of Jeffrey Epstein that claim a number of powerful men were involved in Epstein's alleged ring of abuse — and that President Trump and former president Clinton took previously unreported trips with the former financier.
  • Virginia Guiffre filed this lawsuit against close Epstein associate Ghislane Maxwell, alleging Maxwell exploited her as part of a sex-trafficking network of underage girls to Epstein and a number of his famous friends. Maxwell denies the allegation.
  • The documents were ordered unsealed in July, a portion of which were finally made public Friday.
  • More documents are under review by the judge and may be unsealed in the coming days.

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Pumpkin 2

Pakistan's Khan plays the Hitler card, sez India ruled by Aryans who seek lebensraum via ethnic genocide

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Khan
© ReutersYou know you're royally screwed when all you have left is the Nazi card
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan asked Sunday if the international community would stand by as Indian Hindu nationalism spread into Muslim-majority Kashmir, saying it was the same as appeasing Hitler.

His outrage on Twitter came as tensions simmered between the two countries over Kashmir after New Delhi last week rescinded constitutional autonomy enjoyed by the state and gave full control to the central government. Article 370 was the constitutional provision that allowed Jammu and Kashmir semi-autonomy over laws - a feature not enjoyed by other Indian states. Indian citizens, other than Kashmiris, could not buy land in Kashmir according to Article 370.

Kashmir has been under virtual lockdown since shortly before the move, with a curfew across the region, and phone and internet lines cut - ostensibly to prevent unrest.

Comment: Oy vey!

Pakistan really has no answer to Modi's power-play.

When you're reduced to invoking Munich '38, you're done.

There is only one long-term solution for Pakistan: some kind of fundamental rapprochement with 'big brother' India, much like Ukraine vis a vis Russia. If not that, then explicit constitutional confederation or reunification.

Pakistan was a terrible idea in the first place.

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NPC

Creepy Joe Biden misdates 2018 Parkland Shooting in latest blunder

Joe Biden
© Alex Wroblewski/BloombergJoe Biden pauses during the Everytown for Gun Safety Presidential Gun Sense Forum.
Joe Biden said he was vice president when the deadly high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, took place. Except, it happened in 2018, more than a year after he left office -- the latest gaffe by the Democratic presidential front-runner.

Biden told reporters in Iowa on Saturday that "those kids in Parkland came up to see me when I was vice president." But when they visited Capitol Hill to talk with members of Congress, lawmakers were "basically cowering, not wanting to see them. They did not want to face it on camera."

The former vice president was making a point about the changing conversation around gun violence in this country, and how as more and more ordinary people are touched by mass shootings, they are more likely to call for action.

Comment: Also see: Biden & AOC are leading Democrats to the magical land where facts don't matter and truth is make-believe


Bullseye

Best of the Web: Alastair Crooke: Germany stalls and Europe craters

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© Flickr/europeancentralbank/Strategic Culture
The influential economic commentator on Europe, Ambrose Pritchard Evans, writes:
"German industry is in the deepest slump since the global financial crisis, and threatens to push Europe's powerhouse economy into full-blown recession. The darkening outlook is forcing the European Central Bank to contemplate ever more perilous measures.

"The influential Ifo Institute in Munich said its business climate indicator for manufacturing went into "free fall" in July, as the delayed damage from global trade conflict takes its toll and confidence wilts. It goes far beyond the woes of the car industry. More than 80pc of Germany's factories are in outright contraction."
Why? What is going on here? It seems that, though other European member-states used to be Germany's largest market, Germany's first and third largest export destinations are now the US and China, respectively. Together, they account for more than 15% of all outbound German trade activity. More than 18% of Germany's export goods ended up somewhere in Asia. Therefore, Germany's industrial struggles in 2019 point the finger in the direction of its external focus, which means the US, China, and Asia - i.e. its largest marginal trade partners. And the principal assailants in today's trade and tech wars.

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Dollar

SOTT Focus: The Misanthropic Bankers Behind The Green New Deal

Charles Greta AOC green new deal
© Matthew Ehret
A vast sweeping change towards a "green economy" is now being pushed by forces that may make an educated citizen rather uncomfortable.

Of course, news reports flash daily showcasing the brave young movement of "eco-warriors" led by Sweden's 16-year-old Greta Thunberg or America's 17-year-old Jamie Margolin, who have become a force across Europe and America leading such movements as the 'Extinction Rebellion', 'This is Zero Hour', the 'Sunrise Movement' and the 'Children's Climate Crusade'. The young face of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez daily sells the idea that the only way for outdated capitalist forces that have plagued the world for decades to be replaced is by imposing a sweeping Green New Deal that priorities de-carbonization as a goal for humanity rather than continuing to allow the mindless forces of the markets to determine our destiny.

EU President Ursula von der Leyen has even attacked China's Belt and Road Initiative (which is ironically representing a true 21st century New Deal) by saying "some are buying their influence by investing in dependence from ports and roads"... but "we go the European way". What is the "European way"? Not the development plans of Charles De Gaulle or Konrad Adenauer who envisioned industrial growth and increasing population as positives, but rather a Green New Deal. Von der Leyen said on July 17 that "I want Europe to become the first CO2 neutral continent in the world by 2050! I will put forward a Green New Deal for Europe in my first 100 days in office..."

Arrow Up

Pepe Escobar: How Tehran fits into Russia-China strategy

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© AFP / HO / IRIBAn image grab taken from a broadcast by Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting on July 22 shows Iranian Revolutionary Guards in speedboats patrolling the tanker Stena Impero as it's anchored off the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas.
Complex doesn't even begin to describe the positioning of Iran-Russia in the geopolitical chessboard. What's clear in our current, volatile moment is that they're partners, as I previously reported. Although not strategic partners, as in the Russia-China tie-up, Russia-China-Iran remain the crucial triad in the ongoing, multi-layered, long-term Eurasia integration process.

A few days after our Asia Times report, an article - based on "senior sources close to the Iranian regime" and crammed with fear-mongering, baseless accusations of corruption and outright ignorance about key military issues - claimed that Russia would turn the Iranian ports of Bandar Abbas and Chabahar into forward military bases complete with submarines, Spetsnaz special forces and Su-57 fighter jets, thus applying a "stranglehold" to the Persian Gulf.

For starters, "senior sources close to the Iranian regime" would never reveal such sensitive national-security details, much less to Anglo-American foreign media. In my own case, even though I have made several visits to Iran while consistently reporting on Iran for Asia Times, and even though authorities at myriad levels know where I'm coming from, I have not managed to get answers from Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps generals to 16 detailed questions I sent nearly a month ago. According to my interlocutors, these are deemed "too sensitive" and, yes, a matter of national security.

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Dollar

US debt to China: How much, why does China buy it, and what happens if China sells?

china dollar debt
The U.S. debt to China is $1.11 trillion as of May 2019. That's 27% of the $4.1 trillion in Treasury bills, notes, and bonds held by foreign countries. The rest of the $22 trillion national debt is owned by either the American people or by the U.S. government itself.

China has the greatest amount of U.S. debt held by a foreign country. Japan comes second at $1.10 trillion. It's followed the United Kingdom at $332 billion, Brazil at $306 and Ireland at $271 billion.


Comment: Yes, Ireland; the country that is itself $250 BILLION 'in debt' to banksters! What a farcical racket...


The map below shows a breakdown of the top five countries owning U.S. debt. Combined, they hold 75% of U.S. debt held by foreign countries.
us debt treasuries

Comment: ...until one day it isn't.