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Judge rules Bolton book can be released, but his conduct 'raises grave national security concerns'

Alexander Mallin and Katherine Faulders
ABC News
Sun, 21 Jun 2020 17:26 UTC

A federal judge ruled Saturday that former national security adviser John Bolton may move forward in publishing his memoir The Room Where It Happened, while at the same time arguing Bolton's conduct in releasing the book "raises grave national security concerns."

"For reasons that hardly need to be stated, the Court will not order a nationwide seizure and destruction of a political memoir.," D.C. district judge Royce Lamberth said in his ruling Friday. "In taking it upon himself to publish his book without securing final approval from national intelligence authorities, Bolton may indeed have caused the country irreparable harm. But in the Internet age, even a handful of copies in circulation could irrevocably destroy confidentiality."

The ruling is only a temporary victory for Bolton, in that the civil case brought by the government against him over his alleged breach of his non-disclosure agreement remains ongoing. In his ruling, Lamberth strongly indicates Bolton's hopes of keeping profits from the book are not only endangered, but he could potentially face criminal prosecution for disclosure of classified information.

Comment: Bolton's new screed has been described elsewhere as not a memoir, but 'one big leak'.

Over two dozen soldiers dead as Indian and Chinese troops engage in unarmed hand-to-hand combat at Himalayan border - UPDATES

Reuters
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 19:14 UTC

Comment: They were literally unarmed, so they began brawling in an attempt to push each other off the steep mountainside...

India's army said on Tuesday 20 of its soldiers had been killed in clashes with Chinese troops at a disputed border site, in a major escalation of a weeks-long standoff between the two Asian giants in the western Himalayas.

China's foreign ministry confirmed there had been a "violent physical confrontation" on Monday in the border area. It made no mention of casualties but India's foreign ministry said there had been casualties on both sides.

An Indian government source said the troops had fought with iron rods and stones, and that no shots had been fired.

The deaths were the first since the last major border clash in 1967 between the nuclear-armed neighbours - also the world's two most populous countries - which have been unable to settle the dispute along their lengthy frontier.

Comment: While Indian sources say it was China who crossed the border and started the skirmish, Beijing has accused India of crossing the border and attacking Chinese personnel. Beijing has not released any information on the number of their soldiers who may have been injured/killed, apparently to make sure that cooler heads prevail. The editor of Global Times explained:

While tragic, it's at least clear - by the fact both sets of troops were unarmed - how seriously these two nuclear powers take the threat of armed conflict.

Update (6/21): China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian has denied capturing Indian soldiers during the recent border clash, contradicting claims by Indian media outlets that Beijing had released a group 10 servicemen, including officers. However, Zhao's choice of words could be explained by an agreement between both governments not to discuss the issue in public, an unnamed Indian diplomat told News18.

An Indian Congress leader was arrested after "berating" the country's army and making up "fake news" about deadly military clashes between India and China.

While Beijing has not released any information on the number of troops that were either killed or injured, an Indian minister claims China lost more than 40 soldiers during the deadly high-altitude melee.

The British govt is STILL encouraging doctors to NOT RESUSCITATE anyone they 'suspect might have the Covid'

OffGuardian
Sun, 21 Jun 2020 17:04 UTC

The video below was sent to us on twitter. Dr Vernon Coleman, author and former general practitioner for the NHS, is reading the NICE care guidelines for critical care admissions during the Covid19 "pandemic".

NICE - or the National Institute of Care and Excellence - is the official advisory board for the NHS. They prepare guidelines for care in all situations, for all conditions. They also have graded scale of "frailty", ranging from 1 "perfectly healthy" to 9 "terminally ill".

DoJ disarray: NY prosecutor Berman resigns after standoff with AG Barr as Trump tries to distance from row

RT
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 17:11 UTC

NY prosecutor Geoffrey Berman has agreed to resign after his confrontation with Attorney General Bill Barr shook the Department of Justice. President Donald Trump said he was not involved after Barr claimed he had his backing.

Berman said he would step down Saturday afternoon after Barr promised to appoint his deputy to take over the job until a permanent replacement can be installed.

"In light of Attorney General Barr's decision to respect the normal operation of law and have Deputy U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss become Acting U.S. Attorney, I will be leaving the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, effective immediately," Berman said in a statement that put an end to almost 24 hours long roller-coaster.

The end of the US Empire?

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 17:04 UTC

An extraordinary thing happened this week: Taro Kono, Japan's Defense Minister, got up and announced that the Japanese government would be halting its plan to deploy a new, multi-billion dollar missile defense system. Tokyo had committed itself to buy the Aegis Ashore system from the fine folks at Lockheed Martin back in 2017, a.k.a. the height of the hysteria over North Korea's missile provocations. But Kono has put the plans "on hold" indefinitely, citing budget and schedule overruns.

What makes this announcement so unusual is that it took everyone by surprise. Not just the governors of the prefectures where the system was to be sited — who, according to Kyodo News were only informed about the change in plans in a last-minute phone call — but even the US government, which Nikkei Asian Review reports was not informed of the decision ahead of time.

What? Japan scrapping a multi-billion dollar defense deal with a key US contractor without warning? What's going on here?

To those who don't follow geopolitics and military matters in the Asia-Pacific, this may not sound like the most extraordinary thing to happen in 2020 — and, to be fair, given the year we're living through perhaps it isn't. But the Japan-US military alliance has been the backbone of the security order in the Asia-Pacific since the end of the Second World War, and the idea of Japan making such a monumental decision unilaterally without even informing their American counterparts beforehand would have been unthinkable even a few years ago. Yet here we are.

In fact, it's not just the Asia-Pacific. From Europe to the Middle East to South America, there is an extraordinary change that is taking place, one that is seeing US power and influence waning around the world. So is the post-WWII era of "Pax Americana" truly over? And, if so, what does that mean for the future of global geopolitics?

RCMP Whistleblowers Leak Evidence That Nova Scotia Shooter Was Undercover POLICE AGENT

Paul Palango, Stephen Maher, Shannon Gormley
Maclean's
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 12:00 UTC

Comment: This is a first. The organizers of mass shooting false-flags usually keep a tight leash on subsequent investigations. But late last week RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) sources in Canada essentially exposed as fact what seemed apparent to us at the time: the shooter(s) were driving around Nova Scotia terrorizing and killing random citizens using 'pretend' cop cars, 'pretend' cop guns and 'pretend' cop uniforms because they were either themselves cops or because they had successfully infiltrated the system with help from 'on high'.

Police sources say the killer's withdrawal of $475,000 was highly irregular, and how an RCMP 'agent' would get money

A still from a video showing Gabriel Wortman in the Brink's yard on March 30, 2020.

The withdrawal of $475,000 in cash by the man who killed 22 Nova Scotians in April matches the method the RCMP uses to send money to confidential informants and agents, sources say.

Gabriel Wortman, who is responsible for the largest mass killing in Canadian history, withdrew the money from a Brink's depot in Dartmouth, N.S., on March 30, stashing a carryall filled with hundred-dollar bills in the trunk of his car.

According to a source close to the police investigation the money came from CIBC Intria, a subsidiary of the chartered bank that handles currency transactions.

Sources in both banking and the RCMP say the transaction is consistent with how the RCMP funnels money to its confidential informants and agents, and is not an option available to private banking customers.

The RCMP has repeatedly said that it had no "special relationship" with Wortman.

Comment: He was doing Mountie things... because he was a Mountie. A messed up one certainly, but one paid good money by RCMP HQ for devious ends.

Fair play to these Mountie whistleblowers for speaking out and releasing video footage proving Wortman was an agent. They must know - or at least sense - that they're 'poking a hornet's nest' by blowing a cover story that likely masks the fact that the Canadian govt took advantage of the Covid-19 lockdown to sneak in a massacre of its own people in April to justify a crackdown on gun ownership.

Dan Dicks of Press For Truth has more on this bombshell development:

Australia subject to increased cyber attacks by 'foreign entity' - PM

Colin Brinsden
LakesMail.au
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 04:04 UTC

China is likely behind the cyber attacks on Australia's private and public organisations.

China is likely behind the sophisticated cyber attacks on Australia's private and public organisations, experts say, but political leaders in Canberra are refusing to point the finger.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed Australia has been the target of increased cyber attacks by a foreign entity.

"We know it is a sophisticated, state-based cyber actor because of the scale and nature of the targeting, and the tradecraft used," Mr Morrison said on Friday.

But he declined to say which country was behind the attacks.

Asked if it was China, Mr Morrison said: "The Australian government is not making any public attribution about these matters.

US and Russia to hold New START talks next week, China declines invite

RFE/RL
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 04:26 UTC

FILE PHOTO: U.S. envoy Marshall Billingslea, who will travel to Austria next week for arms control talks

The United States says disarmament talks between its top arms control negotiator and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov will take place next week in Austria.

U.S. envoy Marshall Billingslea will travel to Austria on June 22-23 to meet with Ryabkov "on mutually agreed topics related to the future of arms control," the State Department said in a statement on June 19.

The statement also said the United States has extended an invitation to China to join the discussions, "and has made clear the need for all three countries to pursue arms control negotiations in good faith."

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for China to join the United States and Russia in talks on a nuclear arms control agreement to replace the 2010 New START accord (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty).

Comment: See also:

John Kerry warns of revolution if Trump re-elected

Kristinn Taylor
Gateway Pundit
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC

Former Obama Secretary of State John Kerry warned of revolution if President Trump is reelected and voters believe the election was not fair. Kerry made the remarks Friday morning in a virtual Copenhagen Democracy Summit appearance with former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen who was also the former prime minister of Denmark and Australian reporter Ryan Heath with Politico.

In response to a follow-up question by an observer after Heath asked Kerry about his experience losing the 2004 presidential election and whether he thinks Trump would leave office "in the manner we've been accustomed" should he lose in November, Kerry likened the potential unrest in reaction to a Trump victory to the 1770s American Revolution where British colonists waged a war for independence from Great Britain. Kerry also compared the unrest in 2020 to 1968 where the U.S. saw assassinations, riots and the burning of cities across the county.

Comment: Sounds like Kerry is projecting some of his own party's intentions and making some veiled threats here - especially when one considers that it is the Dems who have been trying to steal the election with various new mail-in policies (among other things). And Dem-aligned celebrities who have been spouting hateful life-threatening images and rhetoric against Trump over the last three years.

The Muslim Brotherhood, auxiliaries of the Pentagon

Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet.org
Fri, 19 Jun 2020 04:20 UTC

This article is an extract from the book Fake wars and big lies.

The Islamists controlled by the Pentagon

At the beginning of the 1990's, the Pentagon decided to work with the Islamists, who had hitherto depended only on the CIA. This was operation Gladio B, by reference to the secret services of NATO in Europe (Gladio A [1]). For a decade, all the Islamist chiefs - including Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri - travelled on aircraft of the US Air Force. The United Kingdom, Turkey, and Azerbaidjan participated in the operation [2]. As a direct result, the Islamists - who had so far been secret combatants - were publicly integrated into the NATO forces.

Saudi Arabia - which is both a state and the private property of the Saud family - officially became the company charged with the management of world Islamism. In 1992, the King proclaimed a Fundamental Law, which stated

"The state protects Islamic Law and applies the Sharia. It imposes Good and fights Evil. It obeys the duties of Islam (...) The defence of Islamism, of society and of the Muslim homeland is the duty of every subject of the King".

In 1993, Charles, the Prince of Wales, placed the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies under his patronage, while the head of the Saudi secret services, Prince Turki, took over its direction.

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Judge rules Bolton book can be released, but his conduct 'raises grave national security concerns'

Over two dozen soldiers dead as Indian and Chinese troops engage in unarmed hand-to-hand combat at Himalayan border - UPDATES

The British govt is STILL encouraging doctors to NOT RESUSCITATE anyone they 'suspect might have the Covid'

DoJ disarray: NY prosecutor Berman resigns after standoff with AG Barr as Trump tries to distance from row

The end of the US Empire?

RCMP Whistleblowers Leak Evidence That Nova Scotia Shooter Was Undercover POLICE AGENT

Australia subject to increased cyber attacks by 'foreign entity' - PM

US and Russia to hold New START talks next week, China declines invite

John Kerry warns of revolution if Trump re-elected

The Muslim Brotherhood, auxiliaries of the Pentagon

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