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World's top legal expert on torture identifies U.S., UK, & Canadian, Govs., as the world's top torturers

Eric Zuesse
The Saker
Wed, 20 May 2020 00:00 UTC
Nilz Melzer
The U.N.'s Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, has declared that Julian Assange is being tortured in Britain's super-max Belmarsh Prison, by applying "torture that will not leave physical traces, that will erase the personality of the victim," and that these methods of torture were first applied by the Nazis at the Dachau concentration camp and subsequently refined through experiments on untold numbers of victims so as to establish mind-control over them. (The Nazis used this in order to convert anti-Nazis into their own agents.)

The chief person who oversaw these experiments for the U.S., Canadian, and UK Governments, was Dr. Ewen Cameron, President of the American Psychiatric Association (1952-1953), Canadian Psychiatric Association (1958-1959),[2] American Psychopathological Association (1963),[3] Society of Biological Psychiatry (1965) and World Psychiatric Association (1961-1966). (The 114 page "1973 Amnesty International Report on Torture" didn't mention Dr. Cameron even once. Neither did their 50-page "Torture in 2014: 30 Years of Broken Promises". Neither did anything else from Amnesty InternationaI. Nor from Human Rights Watch. Both organizations are allied with — funded by billionaires of — the U.S. regime. It's down the memory-hole, for Cameron.)

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Snakes in Suits

Mexico demands the U.S. finally explain Obama's 'Fast and Furious' fiasco

Steve Pomper
LifeZette
Thu, 21 May 2020 13:44 UTC
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Who can blame them for wanting to know more about a program that intentionally sent illegal guns to Mexico that killed Mexicans?

In the movie "Cliff Hanger," John Lithgow's character, Qualen, utters a line that reminds me of how unscrupulous Democrat muckety-mucks like the Clintons and Obama operate. Qualen says, "Kill a few people, they call you a murderer. Kill a million and you're a conqueror." Similarly, with the Clintons and Obama, commit a few crimes, they call you a petty criminal. Commit a million and you're untouchable. Well, maybe not a million — then again. You get the point.

We're now seeing a cascade of unearthed evidence of what seems to be an apparent three-plus-year coup attempt by the Obama administration and media allies against the Trump administration, most notably, against the president himself. We can especially thank the brilliant and courageous job being done by Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Rick Grenell.

And aside from this current and perhaps most treacherous of the Obama administration's sinister machinations, Mexico now wants to know what the hell the U.S. was doing during the 2009-2011 Fast and Furious "not a smidgeon of corruption" corruption. Not sure what took them so long. It sure was something to ask when President Obama was still running things.

Katie Pavlich, at Townhall.com, wrote, "The Mexican government is still waiting for an apology for Operation Fast and Furious, an illegal and secret gun running schemeimplemented during the Obama administration."

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6 Ways the Obama Administration railroaded the rule of law to destroy Michael Flynn

Krystina Skurk
The Federalist
Wed, 20 May 2020 00:00 UTC
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The fact that the Obama administration targeted Flynn isn't just a crime against him, but a crime against our constitutional system.

In prosecuting Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Obama administration holdovers used the appointment of a special counsel to weaponize the legal system. After finding no evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia to influence the 2016 election, Robert Mueller's team had to justify continuing their investigation by going after Flynn for a crime even James Comey's FBI didn't believe he committed.

1. Unmasking and Leaking

The decision to prosecute Flynn was not the first nor the last affront to due process or the rule of law Flynn suffered at the hands of the Obama administration. Recently released documents from Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell reveal there were 49 requests to unmask Flynn's name in just two months, meaning attempts to reveal his identity in intercepted communications, particularly those between Flynn and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

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Iranian Supreme Leader: Iran will support any nation that fights Israel


Sputnik
Wed, 20 May 2020 19:14 UTC
Iranian Supreme Leader
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Iran's Supreme Leader announced on Wednesday his country would "support and assist any nation or any group anywhere" in its struggles against Israel. His comments follow a Palestinian withdrawal from agreements with Israel over its proposed annexation of the West Bank.

"The Zionist regime has proven it won't abide by any treaty & understands no logic except force," Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei wrote in a Wednesday statement posted on Twitter as a series of tweets. "The nature of the Zionist regime is incompatible with peace, because the Zionists seek to expand their territories & will certainly not be limited to what they have already occupied."

"Eliminating the Zionist regime doesn't mean eliminating Jews. We aren't against Jews. It means abolishing the imposed regime & Muslim, Christian & Jewish Palestinians choose their own govt & expel thugs like Netanyahu. This is 'Eliminating Israel' & it will happen," the Shiite religious leader explained. "A proposal for a referendum to choose the type of govt for the historical country of #Palestine was registered with the UN as offered by Iran. We say the true Palestinians with Palestinian roots of at least 100 years, and Palestinians living abroad, choose the govt of Palestine."
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DOJ: Democrats paid Pennsylvania election officials to stuff ballot box

John Binder
Breitbart
Thu, 21 May 2020 16:22 UTC
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© Reuters
A former Judge of Elections in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been charged and pleaded guilty to illegally adding votes for Democrat candidates in judicial races in 2014, 2015, and 2016.

On Thursday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced charges against former Judge of Elections Domenick DeMuro, 73, for stuffing the ballot box for Democrats in exchange for payment by a paid political consultant.

The charges, and guilty plea, include conspiracy to deprive Philadelphia voters of their civil rights by fraudulently stuffing the ballot boxes for specific Democrat candidates in the 2014, 2015, and 2016 primary elections and a violation of the Travel Act.

"The Trump administration's prosecution of election fraud stands in stark contrast to the total failure of the Obama Justice Department to enforce these laws," Public Interest Legal Foundation President Christian Adams said in a statement. "Right now, other federal prosecutors are aware of cases of double voting in federal elections as well as noncitizen voting. Attorney General William Barr should prompt those other offices to do their duty and prosecute known election crimes."

As Judge of Elections, DeMuro was paid to oversee the election process in the 39th Ward, which encompasses Philadelphia.
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Snakes in Suits

Ukraine judge orders Joe Biden be listed as alleged perpetrator of crime in prosecutor's firing

John Solomon
Just the News
Fri, 22 May 2020 01:09 UTC
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Joe Biden lays out coronavirus plan.
Latest twist in Ukraine impeachment drama could stretch into Biden's fall campaign as fired prosecutor seeks legal remedy in courts.

The infamous story of Joe Biden's effort to force the firing of Ukraine's chief prosecutor in 2016 has taken a new legal twist in Kiev, just as the former vice president is sewing up the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination in America.

In Kiev late last month, District Court Judge S. V. Vovk ordered the country's law enforcement services to formally list the fired prosecutor, Victor Shokin, as the victim of an alleged crime by the former U.S. vice president, according to an official English translation of the ruling obtained by Just the News.
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COVID naturally leads to corruption

Tim Kirby
Strategic Culture Foundation
Tue, 19 May 2020 20:21 UTC
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© REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Anyone who has paid attention to history knows that political change requires some sort of catalyst to happen. So one could logically expect that the Covid-19 Pandemic would be the perfect excuse for politicians to take action. However, it takes time for the chemical reaction to start working its magic and only now are we starting to see some major actions being taken by Congress for our "benefit".

Patriot Act 2: the Revenge of Unconstitutionality

Interestingly enough, the Patriot Act is on its way to being reauthorized and naturally expanded while the nation is conveniently on lockdown. Very often the American Right will scream to the YouTube hills that the Constitution is being ripped in half by every move the other side makes. This over exaggeration has a "boy who cried wolf" effect making it seem cliché every time journalists/pundits rage over something being "unconstitutional". But this time dear friends, Congress is actually defecating on constitutional principles and Right Wing pundits are not over inflating this issue.
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Canada, Trudeau and the coup attempt against Venezuela

Arnold August
Canadian Dimension
Wed, 13 May 2020 00:00 UTC
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A protestor wrapped in a Venezuelan flag participates in a Hands Off Venezuela protest in London, January 29, 2019.
In the early hours of May 3, and then again on May 4, heavily armed mercenaries on speedboats attempted to enter Venezuela from Colombia. They were confronted by the Venezuelan armed forces, militia, police and local fisherman. Eight were killed in an ensuing shootout, while the others were arrested. Among those detained were two former United States Army Green Berets. Isolated pockets of the nearly 300 army deserters are still being rounded up at the time of writing.

One of the leaders of the failed coup attempt is Canadian-born Jordan Goudreau, a former US Marine who heads up a private Florida-based security firm called Silvercorps USA. While he did not participate directly in the raid, he did leave behind a video recorded in Colombia in which he and his Venezuelan military partner, ex-Venezuelan National Guard officer Javier Nieto, take credit for the attempted coup. The other two Americans captured also testified to their involvement. The confessions lead us through a labyrinth of corruption and shady deals, from Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó all the way up to Donald Trump.

The goal of the coup plotters was the capture and arrest of President Nicolás Maduro. A contract signed by Goudreau, Guaidó and his advisors including exiled lawmaker Sergio Vergara and Juan José Rendon confirm in black and white the plan to overthrow the Venezuelan government. Maduro has blamed Trump and the Colombian government for the chaos, but the US has so far denied any involvement.

Comment: Despite being the north border lackey to the US, what does Canada gain from advocating the removal of Maduro, the ongoing sanctions and support of war crimes? It belies its proclaimed penchant for peace, political respect and upholding the rights of a sovereign country. Given that, it wouldn't be the first Western country to fool its constituency by masking true intentions and actions via perception management.

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Subpoena issued by US Senate committee in probe of Hunter Biden-Ukraine ties


RFE/RL
Thu, 21 May 2020 05:56 UTC
Joe/Hunter
© Andy Wong/EPA-EFE
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden
A Republican-led U.S. Senate committee has voted to subpoena documents for an investigation into Hunter Biden, son of former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted on May 20 along party lines to subpoena information from Blue Star Strategies, a lobby firm that worked with Burisma, a gas company in Ukraine that paid Hunter Biden to serve as a board member.

President Donald Trump was impeached on abuse-of-power and obstruction charges in the Democratic-led House of Representatives for improperly pressuring Ukraine to investigate the Bidens. The president was acquitted by the Republican-controlled Senate.

Democrats accuse the Republicans of seeking the investigation in a bid to help Trump's reelection campaign.

Senator Ron Johnson (Republican-Wisconsin), chairman of the panel, has said the investigation is not designed to influence the presidential election. His colleague, Senator Rick Scott (Republican-Florida) said, "We need to get to the truth about the Bidens' relationship with Burisma. These hearings will provide the Senate with the full picture."
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Venezuelan military to provide escort for Iranian tankers delivering fuel


Sputnik
Wed, 20 May 2020 21:17 UTC
oil tanker
© AFP/Atta Kenare
Oil tanker • Port of Bandar Abbas, Southern Iran
Venezuela's military will escort Iranian tankers delivering fuel to the country when they enter Venezuela's exclusive economic zone, the country's Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino revealed Wednesday.

In a state television interview, Padrino said the escort would "welcome them in and thank the Iranian people for their solidarity and cooperation," Reuters reported. Padrino also said that the Venezuelan government had been in contact with Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami.

US sanctions on Venezuela have strangled the South American country's economy. In January, the country was forced to shut down its last oil refinery. Despite the fact that the primary export is petroleum, Venezuela is currently experiencing a fuel shortage.

Last Thursday, a US official said that the country believes with a "high degree of certainty" that Venezuela is paying Iran tons of gold in exchange for fuel. "It is not only unwelcome by the United States but it's unwelcome by the region, and we're looking at measures that can be taken," the official said, Reuters reported.

The official did not outline what measures are being considered but said that all options would be presented to US President Donald Trump.
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