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NATO's new mission - Saving the world from 'climate change'

James Delingpole
Breitbart
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC
Stoltenberg
NATO has a new mission. Defending the West from the Russians is so last century: now it wants to save the world from 'Climate Change.'

According to an op-ed, written by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg:
Climate change is making the world more dangerous. NATO's task is to preserve peace and keep us safe. So to fulfil our main responsibility, NATO must help to curb climate change for our security today and for the security of future generations.
There are lot of heroic assumptions in that paragraph. Perhaps it was written in the hope that Joe Biden will be America's next President. Certainly, there's no chance that President Trump would be swayed by such a flimsy argument nor approve of such mission creep. As far as Trump is concerned, NATO is a military defensive alliance, not another tentacle of the polar-bear-hugging, virtue-signalling green blob.

Almost none of the global warming 'facts' cited by Stoltenberg in his op-ed is accurate. Stoltenberg begins with some hokey autobiography by trying to claim that recent temperatures in Svalbard in his native Norway are a dread harbinger of climate change.

Comment: As part of a power structure that is imperialist and 'globalist' by nature, it makes perfect sense that NATO would now come out to support the lies propagated around "climate change" that are consistent with the UN's green agenda, and the WEF's 'Great Reset'.

Not too long ago NATO also added to its "progressive" bogus branding by touting itself as concerned about the lives of women in war-torn areas.

As if!

See: Feminist Angelina Jolie teams up with NATO to 'make the world safe for women'

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Brick Wall

Senators blast CIA Director Gina Haspel for stonewalling Congress on Russiagate oversight

Tristan Justice
The Federalist
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC
Gina Haspel
Two top Republican senators are demanding CIA Director Gina Haspel hand over documents requested more than two months ago following Federalist reporting that the intelligence chief is blocking their declassification until after the November election to save her job.

In July, Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin sent Haspel a letter asking the CIA director to comply with a series of oversight requests pertaining to their review of Crossfire Hurricane, the undercover FBI operation that sought to execute a deep-state coup on President Donald Trump. After months of no response, Grassley and Johnson are following up.

"The American people have a right to know the full extent of official action taken by federal officials during the 2016 campaign, the presidential transition, and into the Trump administration," Grassley and Johnson wrote in a Wednesday letter. "The information that has already been made public reveals what might be the most outrageous abuse of power in U.S. history against a presidential candidate and sitting president. Unfortunately, many of the puzzle pieces remain hidden, and some of that information rests within your agency."

Comment: What did Trump expect from career spook and torturer Gina Haspel when he hired her? Her allegiance is to the pathological power elite and their policies, and certainly not to truth and justice.

But the plot does thicken further when one considers how neck deep she is in Russiagate herself:
[...] For the sake of brevity, I am not discussing Halper's role in targeting former Defense Intelligence Agency Director, Lieutenant General Mike Flynn. That is another column for another day -- and certainly Haspel knows a great deal about that, as well.

The timeframe (2014-2017) matters, because Haspel, as London Station Chief would have been briefed on the FBI's counterintelligence plan before any actions were approved to go forward. The CIA Station Chief is the top intelligence official in any given country. The FBI must inform the Station Chief of what they planned to do and get Station Chief approval. The FBI hates that, but those are the rules. Because the various intelligence agencies are sensitive, they do not use the word "approved." Instead, they use the word "coordinated." Jargon aside, nothing would have happened without Haspel's okay.

Think about this for a while: The current CIA director was an active, knowledgeable party to the efforts to target candidate Trump with a contrived foreign counterintelligence investigation. That carried forward to a more sophisticated and aggressive plan to carry out a soft coup against President Trump. People around President Trump were prosecuted and/or had their lives destroyed based on a scheme of U.S. government lies. Who appears to have been "in on it" from day one? Gina Haspel.

So, when we read in an article by Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist, that Haspel is personally resisting the declassification and release of records on "Russiagate," we are not surprised. In fact, we are relieved, because a few of us have been shouting from the mountaintops about Haspel for years, to no avail. The smarmy James Comey is easier to identify and loathe than the elusive Haspel.

For those seeking more information on Haspel, Shane Harris of the Washington Post wrote a nauseating hagiography of Haspel in July 2019. Consistent with WaPo's standards there are several factual errors and loads of opinion masquerading as "tough reporting." Harris (and one assumes Haspel) makes sure readers know that Haspel and company "boils down" presidential intelligence briefings to "a few key points that they think Trump absolutely needs to know." We are supposed to also believe that "Trump favors pictures and graphics over text." Of course, the CIA director's office did not cooperate with Harris. No, not at all.

The FBI is not allowed to penetrate and subvert a presidential campaign. Executive Order 12333, Section 2.9, "Undisclosed Participation in Organizations in the United States," prohibits it in plain language. Historically, the prohibition is a consequence of U.S. Army Counterintelligence penetrating Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at the behest of the FBI during the 1960s -- among other abuses of power and authority. That legal prohibition is the reason the FBI felt the need to manufacture a "foreign counterintelligence threat" in the UK and then "import" the investigation back into the United States.

The FBI plotters needed to establish a foreign counterintelligence "event" to run their operation. The UK was the easiest and operationally safest/friendliest place to pull it off, especially with Stefan Halper's connections to Cambridge. Haspel was clearly fully informed and had "coordinated" the operation. She also enjoyed cordial relationships with MI6 and GCHQ. Now we (largely, but imperfectly) know what transpired. Halper under oath, in public, would fill in a lot of blanks. Gina Haspel, under the same circumstances and conditions, might just complete the puzzle. Should President Trump be reelected, it might just happen. A President Biden guarantees we will never hear another syllable of the rest of the story.


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Russian Flag

'I am Russia': Navalny story collapses in self-contradiction

John Helmer
johnhelmer.net
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:26 UTC
navalny
Alexei Navalny has given an interview to the BBC Russian Service contradicting the crucial evidence and allegations which he and his associates have made earlier about the alleged poisoning attempt against him in Tomsk on August 20.

Navalny's new admissions expose fabrication of evidence by the German Government and by the German Army's chemical warfare laboratory in Munich. Navalny has now implicated Chancellor Angela Merkel more deeply in the Novichok plot than has been revealed before.

Navalny now claims that none of his treating doctors at the Charité clinic of Berlin, headed by Kai-Uwe Eckardt, has told him that he was poisoned by an organophosphate chemical or nerve agent. "All I know about the kind of substance, I learned from the press - I have no additional information. I have not seen people who are investigating or conducting the analysis. We handed over all the items for examination to the doctors in Germany. And from the press, I know that this is some kind of, perhaps, a new modification of this organophosphate compound, which belongs to the Novichok group."

Read the full interview in Russian here.

Navalny records for the first time that the only evidence he knows to have been tested by French and Swedish military laboratories selected by Chancellor Merkel was taken by biomedical sampling at his hospital bedside. "The only interaction with people in black glasses and plugs in the ear is when experts from the Swedish and French laboratories came. They have such a special thing - the chain of [evidence] custody. They came, got permission from Yulia [Navalnaya] to take my blood and other tests. These special people witnessed that the nurse was taking blood from me. Some were responsible for the fact that it was this blood that would go to the French independent laboratory, others - to the Swedish. Maybe there were others, but I don't remember it - I was in a coma."
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Pumpkin 2

'Deep State' much? Pelosi and Raskin's 25th Amendment body would let unelected bureaucrats override the will of American people

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 23:00 UTC
Nancy Pelosi
© Reuters/Carlos Barria
Mask's off: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces plan to create a 25th Amendment commission, October 9, 2020.
In addition to paving the way for a Harris administration, the proposed commission to govern the usurpation of presidential powers would create a 'Deep State'-like cabal, including former officials, to gate-keep the White House.

The pompously named Commission on Presidential Capacity to Discharge the Powers and Duties of Office, unveiled on Friday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) is technically based on the provision in the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution, allowing for "such other body as Congress may by law provide" to govern the process of succession should a president become "incapacitated."

With just weeks left till the November 3 election, and zero chance of the Republican-majority Senate or President Donald Trump endorsing the proposal, it's unclear at first why the Democrats would unveil it now.
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Eye 1

Spanish government enforces state of emergency on Madrid after court rejects lockdown

Sam Jones
The Guardian
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 14:52 UTC
Madrid
© Manu Fernández/AP
A customer sits inside a bar in Madrid on Friday.
The Spanish government has declared a state of emergency to keep Madrid in partial lockdown as countries across Europe struggle to deal with the continuing surge in new coronavirus cases.

The move came as Italy logged more than 5,000 new daily coronavirus cases for the first time in six months, and Germany recorded more than 4,000 new infections for the second day in a row. Following a meeting with mayors, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, announced that some areas would be given 10 days to improve the situation or face tougher action.

Spain's Socialist-led cabinet on Friday finally lost patience with the Madrid regional government's refusal to obey its calls for greater action in and around the capital, where infection rates are more than twice the national average.

Comment: See also: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Bizarro Earth

Kyrgyzstani ex-president survives 'assassination attempt', President dissolves government, state of emergency declared


RT
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 13:22 UTC
Atambayev
© REUTERS/Vladimir Pirogov
Former President of Kyrgyzstan, Almazbek Atambayev greets his supporters during a rally in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, October 9, 2020.
Former Kyrgyzstani President Almazbek Atambayev has reportedly survived an assassination attempt, which injured one person. It came as his successor, Sooronbay Jeenbekov, ordered a state of emergency in Bishkek over mass protests.

Atambayev's car came under fire, his aide, Kunduz Zholdubaeva, said in a Facebook post, on Friday, adding that the politician escaped unharmed. She also posted a video, in which Atambayev accuses some security officials and members of rival "clans" of trying to assassinate him while saying he got the information about the plot in advance.

A video published on Twitter by a local journalist also allegedly shows the moment when an unknown assailant draws a pistol and fires at ex-president's car as it drives through a busy crossing crowded with people in the nation's capital of Bishkek.

Comment: See also:

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Footprints

Pelosi says Democrats are looking at the 25th Amendment to remove Trump

Steven Nelson
New York Post
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 12:42 UTC
Pallone/Pelosi
© AP/J. Scott Applewhite
Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J.• Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Oct. 8, 2020.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday threatened that Democrats are looking at using a provision of the 25th Amendment to effectively remove President Trump from office.

Pelosi (D-Calif.) teased that she and her fellow Democrats are considering invoking the constitutional provision on presidential succession — a seemingly fantastical yearning among Trump opponents.

"Tomorrow. Come here tomorrow. We're going to be talking about the 25th Amendment, but not to take attention away from the subject we have now," Pelosi told reporters at a press conference.


Comment: Pelosi is corroded, vindictive, chronically destructive, and, as they say, 'coup'-'coup'.



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Brick Wall

FBI stonewalls over Hunter Biden; refuses to provide Congress answers on Burisma, China

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 10:19 UTC
WrayBiden
© Alex Brandon/AP/ZeroHedge
FBI Director Christopher Wray • Hunter Biden
The FBI is stonewalling a congressional inquiry into Hunter Biden's overseas business activity described in a Senate report last month which chronicles the Biden family's international conflicts of interest, as well as potentially criminal business activity, according to The Federalist.

The Senate report detailed Hunter's financial dealings with Ukrainian, Chinese and Russian businesses created potential "criminal financial, counterintelligence and extortion concerns," and alarmed US officials who perceived an ethical conflict of interest and flagged potential crimes ranging from sex trafficking to bribery.

Last week, in response to the report, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan (R) - the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, demanded answers from the FBI over what actions it's taken, if any, regarding 2015 reports from the DOJ, that the owner of Ukrainian energy giant Burisma paid a $7 million bribe to government officials to shut down an investigation while Hunter sat on its board.
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Cardboard Box

Biden says he'll reveal position on court packing 'when the election is over'

Dominick Mastrangelo
The Hill
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 04:41 UTC
Biden
© Ashlee Rezin/Sun Times/AP
Former VP Joe Biden
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Thursday refused to say whether he supports adding additional seats to the Supreme Court, saying he won't reveal his position until after the November election.

"You'll know my opinion on court packing when the election is over," Biden said during a campaign stop in Phoenix.

"It's a great question, and I don't blame you for asking. But you know, the moment I answer that question, the headline in every one of your papers will be on the answer to that question," he said.

Biden suggested that major media coverage of his stance on the Supreme Court would needlessly distract from "what's going on" in America.

Comment: Biden's remark is a convenient dodge for a 'supremely' important question, the decision of which would alter the construction, definition and effect of the Supreme Court for generations to come. Likely he doesn't know the answer because no one has told him.

See also: The Left wants regime change and 'Court packing'

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Snakes in Suits

Washington blacklists Iran's entire financial sector


RFE/RL
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 20:18 UTC
Mnuchin
© Susan Welsh/AP
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
Washington has blacklisted virtually all of Iran's financial sector, striking an economy already hit hard by U.S. sanctions.

The move on October 8 blacklists 18 Iranian banks that had, so far, escaped most of the U.S. sanctions imposed by President Donald Trump's administration since the United States pulled out of a 2015 nuclear pact between Tehran and world powers.

Critically, the move subjects foreign, non-Iranian financial institutions to penalties for doing business with the blacklisted Iranian entities -- effectively cutting off Iran from the international financial system.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in statement:
"Today's action to identify the financial sector and sanction eighteen major Iranian banks reflects our commitment to stop illicit access to U.S. dollars. Our sanctions programs will continue until Iran stops its support of terrorist activities and ends its nuclear programs. Today's actions will continue to allow for humanitarian transactions to support the Iranian people."

Comment: Does tightening the financial screws solve anything? Has it ever? Perhaps that is the point.



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