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Vovan and Lexus strike again: American 'regime change' specialists NED claim credit for Belarus protests & boast of funding Russian opposition during prank call

NED prank call
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Prank with the NED leadership.
A pair of notorious Russian pranksters posing as leading Belarusian opposition figures have duped the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) into revealing the extent of US involvement in Eastern European political movements.

In a video call posted on the online channel of pranksters Vovan and Lexus, senior representatives of the American agency disclosed that they have actively financed and supported anti-government campaigns in the region. The officials from the NED, which is funded by Congress and describes its role as "supporting freedom around the world," also revealed that they are coordinating efforts with prominent political activists in a range of countries, including Russia.

The officials believed they were talking to Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the figurehead of Belarus' opposition movement, and one of her advisors.

Comment: There's no better way of exposing an individual or group's nefarious dealings than getting them to admit it themselves. In contradiction to the myth of Russian 'kompromat', the reality of such is both humane and hilarious!

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UFO

Sen. Marco Rubio calls on US to take UFO reports 'seriously'

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Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) raised concerns about UFOs in an interview.
Sen. Marco Rubio said the US should take the "threat" of UFOs "seriously" in an interview aired Sunday.

The Florida Republican's comments on CBS' "60 Minutes" came ahead of a government report on UFO sightings that is set to be released before the end of June.

"Anything that enters an airspace that's not supposed to be there is a threat," he told the program.

Comment: More from RT:
In a new '60 Minutes' report, former Navy pilot Lieutenant. Ryan Graves said that UAP sightings were part of his daily routine. Graves told the outlet that pilots training off the Atlantic Coast came in contact with unidentified objects "every day for at least a couple of years."

Graves confirmed that sightings were a daily occurrence after his interviewer, CBS' Bill Whitaker, expressed astonishment over the sensational claim.

The former military pilot said he wasn't sure what the objects were, but that they should be considered a security threat. One encounter, captured on a targeting camera by members of Graves' squadron, shows a sphere-shaped vehicle rotating and moving at high speeds, seemingly without releasing an exhaust plume.

According to Graves, pilots believe that the puzzling objects are either secret US technology, high-tech surveillance vehicles operated by US adversaries, or something not from Earth. He said, however, that he thought the most likely explanation was that the unidentified objects were from a "threat observation program."

The testimony comes as the US government prepares to release next month the findings of an investigation into UAP sightings.

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The Pentagon previously claimed that its UFO-tracking project, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, was no longer operational, but a Senate report last year revealed that the work had continued under a different outfit, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force. The group is expected to present its findings to the Senate in June.
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Bizarro Earth

Craig Murray: What is left for Palestine?

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Western media and politicians are now firmly coalesced around the Israeli government narrative. Israel is unwillingly fighting a war of self-defence in Gaza after hostilities were commenced by aggressive Hamas military attack. The storming of Al Aqsa mosque, the shooting at people in prayer, the right wing mobs attacking East Jerusalem, the Krystallnacht style destruction of Palestinian businesses and lynching of Arab Israelis, none of that ever happened at all. What happened was that Hamas launched a missile war and Israel was obliged, ever so reluctantly, to exercise its right of self defence, with enormous care not to hit civilians, except that, entirely accidentally, the IDF has killed a couple of hundred civilians including scores of children.

Palestinians die in the passive tense in western media. The media always says they "have died"; they were never "killed", and there is virtually never any attribution of the death. By contrast, Israelis are active tense "killed by Hamas" or "killed by missile strikes". Look out for this journalistic sophistry - once you see it, you can't unsee it.

Comment: Since Israel's genocidal intent is clear for all to see, why are some of the world's most powerful nations that (sometimes) claim to care so much about civilians, such as the US and UK, not only unable to stop them, but why are they also actively complicit? Meanwhile, Russia and China, as diplomatically as is possible, have condemned Israel's crimes against humanity: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal #29: What Israeli Lobby? Anti-Semitism Hysteria Hits US, UK, France


Quenelle - Golden

Czech politics in crisis as President Zeman is NOT convinced by intel reports blaming Russia for 2014 explosion, suggests cover up

Zeman
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Czech President Milos Zeman arrives at Buckingham Palace for a reception to mark 70 years of the NATO Alliance, hosted by Britain's Queen Elizabeth, in London, Britain, December 3, 2019.
The Czech Republic's internal spat over the 2014 ammunition depot explosions shows no signs of calming down, with President Milos Zeman refusing to accept Prague's security service's conclusions that Russia is to blame.

The dispute has now become so intense that both the country's Prime Minister Andrej Babis and Minister of Justice Marie Benesova have gone on the attack against Zeman.

In October and December 2014, explosions took place at arms depots in Vrbetice, killing two people. Last month, Czech First Deputy Prime Minister Jan Hamacek revealed that the country's authorities believe they know the identities of two men supposedly responsible for the explosions, and both allegedly work for Russian military intelligence.

Comment: Zeman has previously been quoted as saying that there was "neither proof nor evidence", and he doesn't appear to have changed his mind. If the evidence was so solid, why would the sentators feel the need to threaten Zeman with the possibility of being tried for high treason?

This rather dubious accusation occurs amidst a number of others, where the intent seems to be to create situations that will rupture Russia's relations with various countries, including the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, Germany, and the Czech Republic - to name just a few.


Dollar

Joe Biden diverts healthcare funds for illegal migrants, benefitting his business donors

Biden and dropoff/pickup kids
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US President Joe Biden • Dropping off children for pick up
President Joe Biden has taken $2 billion from Americans' healthcare programs to help deliver migrant youths and children to their illegal-migrant parents throughout the United States, press reports say.

Politico, reported May 15:
"The Department of Health and Human Services [HHS] has diverted more than $2 billion meant for other health initiatives toward covering the cost of caring for unaccompanied immigrant children. The redirected funds include $850 million that Congress originally allocated to rebuild the nation's Strategic National Stockpile, the emergency medical reserve strained by the Covid-19 response. Another $850 million is being taken from a pot intended to help expand coronavirus testing, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
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"In addition to transferring money from the Strategic National Stockpile and Covid-19 testing, HHS also has pulled roughly $436 million from a range of existing health initiatives across the department."
The program costs are expected to reach almost $9 billion by October according to a leaked report in the New York Times.

Attention

Fauci says pandemic exposed 'undeniable effects of racism' as he accepts an award

Fauci
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
The immunologist who leads the COVID-19 response in the United States said Sunday that "the undeniable effects of racism" have led to unacceptable health disparities that especially hurt African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans during the pandemic.

"COVID-19 has shone a bright light on our own society's failings," Dr. Anthony Fauci said during a graduation ceremony for Emory University.

Speaking by webcast from Washington, Fauci told the graduates in Atlanta that many members of minority groups work in essential jobs where they might be exposed to the coronavirus. He also said they are more likely to become infected if exposed because of medical conditions such as hypertension, chronic lung disease, diabetes or obesity. Fauci said:
"Now, very few of these comorbidities have racial determinants. Almost all relate to the social determinants of health dating back to disadvantageous conditions that some people of color find themselves in from birth regarding the availability of an adequate diet, access to health care and the undeniable effects of racism in our society."
Fauci said correcting societal wrongs will take a commitment of decades, and he urged the graduates to be part of the solution. Fauci said that once society returns to "some form of normality," people should not forget that infectious disease has disproportionally hospitalized and killed people of color.

Comment: Aspects of truth versus fiction are difficult to distinguish for some folks...


Snakes in Suits

Supreme Court to weigh rollback of abortion rights

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The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider a major rollback of abortion rights, saying it will decide whether states can ban abortions before a fetus can survive outside the womb. The court's order sets up a showdown over abortion, probably in the fall, with a more conservative court seemingly ready to dramatically alter nearly 50 years of rulings on abortion rights.

The court first announced a woman's constitutional right to an abortion in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and reaffirmed it 19 years later.

The case involves a Mississippi law that would prohibit abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. The state's ban had been blocked by lower courts as inconsistent with Supreme Court precedent that protects a woman's right to obtain an abortion before the fetus can survive outside her womb.

The justices had put off action on the case for several months. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an abortion-rights proponent, died just before the court's new term began in October. Her replacement, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, is the most open opponent of abortion rights to join the court in decades.

Arrow Up

60 percent of police and military say they will support Le Pen in French presidential election

Marine Le Pen
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Marine Le Pen
60 per cent of police and military say they will support populist Marine Le Pen in next year's French presidential election, with the number even higher among active duty police.

A survey published by the Centre for Political Research of Sciences Po (Cevipof) found that a plurality of 44 per cent of police and military would vote for Le Pen in the first round of the election.

In a hypothetical second round run off against President Emmanuel Macron, this number rises to 60 per cent, a three per cent increase on the 57 per cent figure she achieved in 2017.

Among active duty police officers, support for the National Rally leader rises to a massive 74 per cent.

Around 48 per cent of police say Le Pen "understands the problems of people like us" compared to just 13 per cent who say the same of Macron.


Attention

Second Stage Terror Wars

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."

William Casey, CIA Director, Feb. 1981
Psychopaths!
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It is well known that the endless US war on terror was overtly launched following the mass murders of September 11, 2001 and the linked anthrax attacks.

The invasion of Afghanistan and the Patriot Act were immediately justified by those insider murders, and subsequently the wars against Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc. So too the terrorizing of the American people with constant fear-mongering about imminent Islamic terrorist attacks from abroad that never came.

It is less well known that the executive director of the U.S. cover story - the fictional 9/11 Commission Report - was Philip Zelikow, who controlled and shaped the report from start to finish.

It is even less well known that Zelikow, a professor at the University of Virginia, was closely associated with Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush, Dickey Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Brent Scowcroft, et al. and had served in various key intelligence positions in both the George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush administrations. In 2011 President Obama named him to his President's Intelligence Advisory Board as befits bi-partisan elite rule and coverup compensation across political parties.

Perhaps it's unknown or just forgotten that The Family Steering Committee for the 9/11 Commission repeatedly called for Zelikow's removal, claiming that his appointment made a farce of the claim that the Commission was independent.

Zelikow said that for the Commission to consider alternative theories to the government's claims about Osama bin Laden was akin to whacking moles. This is the man, who at the request of his colleague Condoleezza Rice, became the primary author of (NSS 2002) The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, that declared that the U.S. would no longer abide by international law but was adopting a policy of preemptive war, as declared by George W. Bush at West Point in June 2002. This was used as justification for the attack on Iraq in 2003 and was a rejection of the charter of the United Nations.

Chess

EU, US will team up against China over its alleged 'trade-distorting policies'

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U.S. and European Union flags are pictured in Brussels, Belgium February 20, 2017.
The United States and the European Union issued a joint statement on Monday saying that they can partner to "hold countries like China that support trade-distorting policies to account".

The statement was issued by the United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, and European Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis.

The statement announced the start of discussions to address global steel and aluminum excess capacity.

Comment: When the US and EU can't legitimately compete with a country, they have a tendency to team up and slap them with sanctions or work on schemes such as these: