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The Empire strikes: US government SEIZES website of Iran's Press TV, two other media outlets


RT
Tue, 22 Jun 2021 18:33 UTC
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The Press TV website has been disappeared.
US authorities have seized the web domains of Iran's international media outlets Press TV and Al-Alam, along with the Yemeni TV channel Al Masirah, run by the Houthi faction.

Visitors to the three domains were greeted on Tuesday with a notice that they were seized under US laws that allow civil and criminal forfeiture of property involved in "trafficking in nuclear, chemical, biological, or radiological weapons technology or material, or the manufacture, importation, sale, or distribution of a controlled substance."

The seizure notice by the US Department of Justice also invokes a law governing presidential authority in dealing with "unusual and extraordinary threat; declaration of national emergency," which includes the Iran Nonproliferation Amendments Act of 2005 and the ironically named Iran Freedom Support Act of 2006.
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FBI monitoring of social media posts pre-Jan 6 raises even more questions of what it REALLY knew prior to Capitol Hill riot

Kit Klarenberg
RT
Tue, 22 Jun 2021 18:07 UTC
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© AFP / Saul Loeb
Supporters of US President Donald Trump walk around in the Rotunda after breaching the US Capitol in Washington, DC.
Publicly, US authorities have rigidly stuck to the story that no one saw the January 6 Capitol ruckus coming. But the publication of internal documents is casting further doubt on the established version of events.

On June 21, NBC News reported on a recent court filing that raises further questions about whether the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) foresaw what happened in Washington DC on January 6 and, if so, why the agency failed to sound the alarm in good time.

The document in question is an FBI investigative report on social media activity prior to that fateful day, produced in February, showing that enraged Donald Trump supporters were openly talking about bringing firearms to the Capitol in order to instigate a "revolution." The offending posts were used as justification to launch a probe into protest attendee Thomas Webster, a former New York Police Department officer, who was indicted the following month for attacking a Capitol Police officer.

Comment: More and more information is coming out that not only did the FBI have plants in the different groups attending the Jan 6 protests, they were the ones egging on the violence. Couple that with the various "light-touch" and confusing stand-down orders and you have the perfect dragnet for unsuspecting patriots who are now cast as enemies of the state. Tucker nails it:



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Professor Giordano Joins Tucker Carlson on Fox News

Nicholas Giordano
The P.A.S. Report
Sat, 19 Jun 2021 17:50 UTC
Domestic terrorism conspiracy theory
Nicholas Giordano joins Tucker Carlson on Fox News to discuss how the Biden Manual on Fighting Domestic Terrorism can easily be abused. This is an extremely important segment that exposes the vagueness of the document, and how it can be manipulated and used against political opponents. The Department of Justice's National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism should concern every American regardless of political affiliation, and the text of the document proves that even the most casual critic of the government could be ensnared, and therefore be labeled as a domestic terrorist.

This four-minute clip just scratches the surface. On June 23, Professor Giordano will break down the document, going page-by-page, showing just how dangerous it is, how it can easily be manipulated and exploited, what will happen if it is fully implemented, and why it shouldn't matter what your political affiliation is.

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80 years after Nazi invasion of USSR, Ukraine's main opposition party asks Kiev to finally clamp down on neo-Nazi organizations


RT
Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:46 UTC
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Participants of the "March of embroidery" in Kiev. The action is carried out by nationalists and is timed to the anniversary of the creation of the SS division "Galicia" during the Second World War, Ukraine.
On the 80th anniversary of the start of Operation Barbarossa, the German-led WW2 military invasion of the Soviet Union, Ukraine's leading opposition party has demanded that authorities in Kiev finally ban neo-Nazi organizations.

In a statement published on its website on Tuesday, the Opposition Platform - For Life party also asked the Ukrainian government to stop "rewriting history."

Back in April, Ukrainian nationalists held a march in the center of Kiev to mark the anniversary of the creation of the SS Galicia during World War II. The SS division was made up predominantly of Ukrainian volunteers who took up arms for Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union, and who mainly fought against local partisans. The unit was almost wiped out in the 1944 Battle of Lvov-Sandomierz, and later saw action in Slovakia and Austria. In 1945, it rebranded as the Ukrainian National Army and lasted until the end of the war in May that year.

The march in Kiev was condemned by officials from Russia, Germany, and Israel, amongst others.

At the time, Opposition Platform asked the government for a "tough reaction," noting that the traditional WWII Victory Day parade was banned, due to Covid-19 restrictions, but the SS Galicia parade wasn't.

"On this Day of Mourning and Remembrance of Victims of War, we do not expect fake lamentations from the authorities," the Opposition Platform statement explains. "We demand prohibition and persecution for all neo-Nazi organizations, an end to the glorification of Nazi collaborators and an end to the rewriting of history. An end to the policy of ethnic and cultural discrimination."
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Duterte still going full Duterte: 'You choose, Covid vaccine or I will have you jailed'


The Guardian
Mon, 21 Jun 2021 17:41 UTC
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© AFP/Presidential Photo Division (PPD) King Rodrigues
President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to jail people who refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus as the Philippines battles one of Asia's worst outbreaks, with a cumulative total of more than 1.3 million cases and 23,000 deaths.

"You choose, vaccine or I will have you jailed," Duterte said in a televised address on Monday following reports of low turnouts at several vaccination sites in the capital Manila.

Duterte's remarks contradict those of his health officials, who have said that while people are being urged to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, it was voluntary.

"Don't get me wrong, there is a crisis in this country," Duterte said. "I'm just exasperated by Filipinos not heeding the government."

As of Sunday, Philippine authorities had fully vaccinated 2.1 million people, making slow progress towards the government's target of up to 70 million of the country's 110 million people.

Duterte, who has been criticised for his tough approach to containing the virus, also stood by his decision not to let schools reopen.

Comment: He didn't leave it there. He made it personal:
"If you don't want to get vaccinated, leave the Philippines," he said, as quoted by the PNA news agency. "Go to India if you want, or somewhere to America. But for as long as you are here and you are a human being and can carry the virus, you should get vaccinated."
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Duterte, who is known for using straightforward and crass language in public, was quoted by the Rappler news website as saying, "If you don't want to get vaccinated, I'll have you arrested [and] then I'll inject a vaccine into your buttocks."


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Maxine Waters: 'I'm told' Jan. 6 riot organizing took place in Trump campaign

Jeff Poor
Breitbart
Sat, 19 Jun 2021 17:36 UTC
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© Reuters / Jonathan Ernst; Reuters / Joshua Roberts
Joe Biden (L) Maxine Waters (R)
Saturday, during an appearance on CNN, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) suggested the Trump campaign played a role in the January 6 Capitol Hill riot.

Waters made those remarks when asked by CNN's Jim Acosta to react to what he called Republicans blaming the FBI.

"They can say whatever they want to say," Waters declared. "One of the things we know is we need a commission, and they are opposing a commission to find out who all was involved. Where did the money come from to send busloads of people in? Who supported them in all of this? Where was the organizing taking place? I'm told there was organizing taking place right in the Trump campaign. And so, if they are really concerned about why our Capitol was invaded and why there was an insurrection, they would support a commission to find out. But they don't want to know because too many of them side with them and support what they have done, and they are not going to call them to task for it."

"It is outrageous what happened to us, that the Capitol of the United States was invaded by domestic terrorists," she continued. "And they don't want to live up to it and admit what took place. They call themselves patriots, but that speech that you heard me give on the floor, I challenge their patriotism. And I told them that they were not really patriots. And they're the ones who claim to be more patriotic than anybody else. But I'm going to keep challenging them because they have joined in supporting literally the fact that not only were we invaded, there was a noose that was hanging at opening of the Capitol grounds, threatening to hang even the vice president at that time of the United States."

Comment: Projection. Reversive blockade. To understand, just reverse all her statements and you'll come pretty close to the truth. The evidence for the less savory elements of Jan. 6 being an FBI operation is much better than "being told" it came directly from the Trump campaign.

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Being Open, Despite the Past - Putin

Vladimir Putin
Kremlin, Russia
Tue, 22 Jun 2021 10:30 UTC
An article by the President of Russia has been published in the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit and is timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic war.
Putin
© Twitter
On June 22, 1941, exactly 80 years ago, the Nazis, having conquered practically the whole of Europe, attacked the USSR. For the Soviet people the Great Patriotic War - the bloodiest one in the history of our country - began. Tens of millions of people lost their lives, the economic potential of the country and its cultural property were severely damaged.

We are proud of the courage and steadfastness of the heroes of the Red Army and home front workers who not only defended the independence and dignity of our homeland, but also saved Europe and the world from enslavement. Despite attempts to rewrite the pages of the past that are being made today, the truth is that Soviet soldiers came to Germany not to take revenge on the Germans, but with a noble and great mission of liberation. We hold sacred the memory of the heroes who fought against Nazism. We remember with gratitude our allies in the anti-Hitler coalition, participants in the Resistance movement, and German anti-fascists who brought our common victory closer.

Having lived through the horrors of the world war, the peoples of Europe were nevertheless able to overcome alienation and restore mutual trust and respect. They set a course for integration in order to draw a final line under the European tragedies of the first half of the last century. And I would like to emphasize that the historical reconciliation of our people with the Germans living both in the east and the west of modern united Germany played a huge role in the formation of such Europe.
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China must allow another international probe into Covid-19 origin or face ISOLATION, Biden's security adviser says


RT
Mon, 21 Jun 2021 08:35 UTC
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan
© REUTERS/Leah Millis
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan takes questions during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 7, 2021.
China has a choice of either giving in to the Western powers' demand and allowing another WHO-led probe into Covid-19's origin or being ostracized by the international community, Joe Biden's security adviser Jake Sullivan warned.

The US president's national security adviser issued the stern warning to China during an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. Asked whether Biden intends to insist that a potential second probe into the origins of the virus must be an "independent" investigation, Sullivan said that the president had convinced Washington's allies in the G7 to pile pressure on Beijing.
"It is that diplomatic spadework - rallying the nations of the world, imposing political and diplomatic pressure on China, that is a core part of the effort we are undertaking to ultimately face China with a stark choice," Sullivan said.

Comment: It looks like the Chinese authorities know much more about the virus' origin than they publicly admit.

Whether or not they make public the information they have and reveal the true origin of the virus remains to be seen.

The US accusing the Wuhan lab of creating the virus is probably just a cover story.

The US government and the PTB will never allow real and independent investigations of their Maryland-based bio lab, Fort Detrick.

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Saudi Arabia agrees to restart Pakistan oil deal to curb Iranian influence - officials


Middle East Eye
Mon, 21 Jun 2021 18:38 UTC
Khan saudi salman
© AFP
Tensions between the two countries appeared to ease after Prime Minister Imran Khan visited Saudi Arabia in May.
Saudi Arabia has agreed to restart oil aid to Pakistan in an effort to steer Islamabad away from Iranian influence, Pakistani officials told the Financial Times.

A senior Pakistani official told the newspaper that the deal, worth at least $1.5bn annually, would restart in July after the previous oil credit of $3.4bn was put on hold last year when ties frayed.

"Our relations with Saudi Arabia have recovered from [a downturn] earlier," the senior Pakistani official said.

Comment: See also:

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Unindicted Co-Conspirators in 1/6 Cases Raise Disturbing Questions of Federal Foreknowledge


revolver
Tue, 15 Jun 2021 18:37 UTC
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Of all the questions asked, words spoken, and ink spilled on the so-called "Capitol Siege" of January 6, 2021, none hold the key to the entire event quite like the question Sen. Amy Klobuchar asked of Christopher Wray.

The Democrat from Minnesota asked the Trump-appointed FBI Director: Did the federal government infiltrate any of the so-called "militia" organizations claimed to be responsible for planning and executing the Capitol Siege?

The full segment is available on YouTube.


Christopher Wray is able to uncomfortably weasel his way out of answering the question directly, partially because Klobuchar does him the courtesy of not asking him the question directly. Klobuchar instead asks the FBI director if he wishes he had infiltrated the militia organizations allegedly involved in 1/6 — assuming from the outset that there was in fact no infiltration, thereby providing the FBI director an easy way to avoid addressing the question one way or another.
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