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New Jeffrey Epstein accuser goes public, defamation lawsuit filed against Dershowitz

Julie K Brown
Miami Herald
Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:12 UTC
Jeffrey Epstein
© Uma Sanghvi / The Palm Beach Post
A new victim has gone public in the Jeffrey Epstein case, filing a sworn affidavit in federal court in New York Tuesday, saying that she was sexually assaulted and her then-15-year-old sister molested by Epstein and his companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, in 1996.

Maria Farmer, then 26, claims that she was employed by Epstein, a multimillionaire financier who lived in a vast mansion on New York's Upper East Side, and that she frequently saw "school-age girls'' wearing uniforms come into the mansion and go upstairs. She was told that the girls were auditioning for modeling work, according to her affidavit.

Then an art student in New York, Farmer said she reported her assault to New York police and the FBI in 1996. FBI documents released April 1 make a reference to Farmer having been interviewed in 2006 or 2007. However, Farmer, now 49, said the FBI did not take any action against Epstein and Maxwell.

Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein is a free man, despite sexually abusing dozens of underage girls according to police and prosecutors. His victims have never had a voice, until now. BY EMILY MICHOT | JULIE K. BROWN
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Ecuador judge orders Assange-connected ex-minister to be detained


Reuters
Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:57 UTC
Ricardo Patino
© REUTERS/Guillermo GranjaEcuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino addresses a news conference about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Quito, Feb. 5, 2016.
A judge in Ecuador has ordered former foreign minister Ricardo Patino be held in pre-trial detention on a so-called instigation charge, the attorney general's office said on Thursday, but the ex-official's whereabouts are unknown.

The administration of President Lenin Moreno has said that Patino, who served as foreign minister under the previous government of President Rafael Correa, is connected to WikiLeaks.

Moreno stripped WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of his diplomatic asylum last week. Assange was given refuge in the London embassy in 2012 by Correa, but Moreno has accused WikiLeaks and Assange of violating his privacy by publishing private family photographs.

WikiLeaks has denied those allegations, arguing that Moreno was attempting to deflect attention from corruption allegations against him.

Patino, an economist who called on supporters to carry out "combative resistance" against Moreno in October 2018, fled the country by road on Wednesday, the attorney general's office said in a statement.
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Danger: US Intelligence is institutionally politicized in favor of the Democrats

Bill Gertz
Washington Free Beacon
Thu, 18 Apr 2019 15:40 UTC
John Brennan CIA
© Jim Watson/Agence France-Press/Getty ImagesDirector of Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan takes questions from reporters during a press conference at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, December 11, 2014.
The CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies have become bastions of political liberals and the pro-Democratic Party views of intelligence personnel have increased under President Donald Trump, according to a journal article by a former CIA analyst.

John Gentry, who spent 12 years as a CIA analyst, criticized former senior intelligence leaders, including CIA Director John Brenan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former deputy CIA director Michael Morell, along with former analyst Paul Pillar, for breaking decades-long prohibitions of publicly airing their liberal political views in attacking Trump.

The institutional bias outlined in a lengthy article in the quarterly International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence risks undermining the role of intelligence in support of government leaders charged with making policy decisions.

Comment: The liberal rot runs deep. It will take a generation to clear it out.

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Media desperate for one last hit from the collusion crack pipe: With no evidence 'journalists' accuse AG Barr of 'protecting the president'


RT
Fri, 19 Apr 2019 14:01 UTC
Barr Mueller report press conference
© Reuters/Jonathan ErnstAttorney General William Barr takes questions from the press
With Attorney General WIlliam Barr once again emphasizing the Mueller report's "no collusion" conclusion, some journalists are accusing Barr of protecting the president, without a leg to stand on.

Barr's press conference - held ahead of the publication of a redacted version of Mueller's 'Russiagate' report - contained a number of bombshells that drove a final stake into the 'Russian collusion' conspiracy theory. No American colluded with Russia, President Trump cooperated fully with the investigation, and the White House did not ask for any redactions in the final report.

Nevertheless, some Russiagaters in attendance couldn't accept defeat. One reporter accused Barr of protecting Trump, after the attorney general commented on the "unprecedented" cloud of investigation and media speculation hanging over the first two years of his presidency.

Comment: Mainstream media is in full-meltdown. The Mueller Report was supposed to deliver the death blow to a presidency they despised from the beginning. The few Trump supporters in the media, like Fox News' Laura Ingram enjoyed the moment by asking the Russiagaters and collusion trumpeters what they were going to do for news now?
Fox News host Laura Ingraham has ridiculed the mainstream media for its refusal to give up on the 'Russian collusion' conspiracy theory, and called CNN's coverage of the report "absurd and desperate."

Ingraham posted a shot of a pair of CNN anchors looking puzzled, wondering "What do we do now?? What the HELL do we do now?? AAAAAAARGH!!!!!"


CNN, of course, savaged Barr for presenting the report's findings as he did, accusing the attorney general of making "a political speech endorsing the president's behavior," an accusation Ingraham called "beyond absurd and desperate."

CNN wasn't the only outlet clutching at straws, however. Throughout his press conference, Barr was repeatedly accused by reporters of "spinning" the Muller report to protect Trump, being "generous" to the president, and redacting the report too heavily.

Ingraham slammed these reporters as "Non lawyers with ZERO understanding of the underlying legal requirements, spouting IDIOCY."

"Mueller works for the DOJ, goofballs, not the other way around," she snapped.


William Chamberlain's excellent analysis Weissman's collusion theory the charges were predicated. The institution of the presidency as a branch of government, dodged a lethal bullet through AG Barr's legal brilliancy.



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At 58th anniversary speech in honor of failed CIA coup in Cuba, Bolton threatens Venezuela, Cuba & Nicaragua with idiotic verbiage


RT
Fri, 19 Apr 2019 13:34 UTC
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© Wilfredo Lee/APBolton speaking to Cuban fascists in Miami, 17 April 2019
In a speech full of colorful phrases, from 'three stooges of socialism' to 'troika of tyranny,' US national security adviser John Bolton threatened Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua with regime change and announced more sanctions.

"The United States looks forward to watching each corner of this sordid triangle of terror fall: in Havana, in Caracas and in Managua," the regime-change enthusiast said in Miami, Florida on Wednesday, the 58th anniversary of the failed CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.


Comment: Your occasional reminder that the people who murdered JFK still run the asylum...


That effort by Washington to stop the Cuban revolution in its "backyard" - a term it often uses in reference to countries south of its border - failed spectacularly. The latest regime change efforts in Venezuela aren't exactly going to plan, either.

Comment: The increasing bluster of neocon windbags like Bolton and Pompeo is inversely proportional to the USA's decreasing stature in the world.

And the slippery slope is getting steeper.

Still, US sanctions and covert attacks on its opponents can inflict a lot of real human misery on the way down...

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Snakes in Suits

Breaking: Nadler will subpoena for full unredacted Mueller report today

Sara Carter
SaraACarter.com
Fri, 19 Apr 2019 13:31 UTC
Jerry Nadler
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Democratic Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jerrold Nadler says a subpoena for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's un-redacted report will be issued Friday and that he believes Barr misled the country, according to an interview with ABC news.

Nadler made the announcement in an interview with George Stephanopoulos, saying he believed President Donald Trump committed obstruction of justice, even though DOJ Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said he did not.

"I believe he committed obstruction of justice," said Nadler. Later saying, "we need the entire report, unreacted and the underlying document and we will subpoena that entire report today." He added that it was coming "within the next couple of hours."
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No Benjamins for you! Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proposes cutting Israel aid


Middle East Monitor
Thu, 18 Apr 2019 13:46 UTC
AOC Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
© Rothman's/FacebookAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez won the Democratic primary in New York's 14th congressional district.
US Congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has proposed the US cut military and economic aid worth $3 billion a year from Israel in response to the re-election of Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister.

"I think these are part of conversations we are having in our caucus, but I think what we are really seeing is an ascent of authoritarianism across the world. I think that Netanyahu is a Trump-like figure," she said during an interview with Yahoo News' "Skullduggery" podcast.

"I think it is certainly on the table. I think it's something that can be discussed," she added referring to cutting the aid.

Comment: Love her or hate her, AOC's position on Israel is right on the money. However, it's hard not to come away from this thinking how naive she is. The Israel Lobby is supremely powerful in Washington and thinking it would be possible to simply yank funding without repercussions is a rather rosy view of the state of the world. It seems rather obvious that she has no idea what she's dealing with.

See also:

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Good idea! Ukrainian presidential front-runner Zelenskiy pledges to hold referendum on NATO membership


REF/RL
Thu, 18 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
Volodymyr Zelenskiy
Volodymyr Zelenskiy said it was critical to build a nationwide consensus on joining the alliance.
Ukrainian presidential front-runner Volodymyr Zelenskiy has pledged to hold a referendum on whether or not Kyiv should join NATO if he is elected president.

Zelenskiy, a comic actor who is far ahead in the polls ahead of the April 21 election pitting him against incumbent Petro Poroshenko, said on April 18 that "we have clearly chosen our path to Europe."

But he said it was critical to build a nationwide consensus on joining the alliance.

"It's obvious that NATO means security and a high level of [our] military, but I want to unite the country," he told RBK Ukraine.

Zelenskiy added that he would work to convince people in the mostly Russian-speaking eastern parts of Ukraine to overcome their negative view of NATO.


Comment: That's a tall order and would seem to undercut his desire to unite the country in light of NATO's history of carnage and belligerence. But it may be that Zelenskiy wants to appear friendly to NATO so as not to incur its wrath; hence, his plan to speak nice about the monstrous Western fighting force.

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Light Sabers

Russia envisions a multipolar 'New World Order' as sun sets on America's intoxicated unipolar moment


RT
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:33 UTC
statue liberty
© REUTERS / Gary Hershorn
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that new centers of global power are working to build a multipolar system to replace US-led Western hegemony. All things considered, Washington should be very relieved.

In comments that were widely ignored in the Western mainstream media, Russia's veteran diplomat dropped a bombshell last week, declaring the demise of "the Western liberal model of development," which he said is "losing its attractiveness and is no more viewed as a perfect model for all."

The diminishing enthusiasm over Washington's plan for a 'new world order', a blueprint for global domination that was mentioned by former US President George H.W. Bush in 1991, is not just confined to non-Western countries. Citizens of the Western hemisphere are also increasingly skeptical about Washington's unilateral ambitions, Lavrov noted.

Comment: As noted in The Saker interviews Dmitry Orlov:
I think that the American empire is very much over already, but it hasn't been put to any sort of serious stress test yet, and so nobody realizes that this is the case.
See also: Lament for Babylon

And check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Babylon, Ancient Rome and the American Empire

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All roads lead to China: 17 Arab countries join Beijing's new Silk Road


RT
Fri, 19 Apr 2019 10:05 UTC
camel desert
© FILE PHOTO AFP / Karim Sahib
Beijing has inked cooperation deals on its multi-trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with 17 Arab countries, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported, citing the results of a joint Sino-Arab forum.

The second China-Arab Forum on Reform and Development, which was held in Shanghai on Tuesday, attracted more than a hundred businessmen, politicians, and academics from China and Arab states, including Egypt, Lebanon, Djibouti, and Oman. This year's meeting, dubbed 'Build the Belt and Road, Share Development and Prosperity', was dedicated to boosting the project.

Arab countries have shown great interest in cooperation with Beijing. Apart from joining the Belt and Road Initiative, 12 Arab states established strategic partnerships, including comprehensive ones, with China.

Comment: The dark players in the West have their work cut out for them if they think they can stop the momentum of the BRI project:

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