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Haiti's president killed by 'foreign hit squad' of ex-Colombian military & Haitian-Americans, 11 arrested inside 'Taiwan embassy'


RT
Fri, 09 Jul 2021 04:31 UTC
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Weaponry, mobile phones, passports and other items are being shown to the media along with suspects in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise
Port-au-Prince, Haiti • July 8, 2021
Haiti's national police force has claimed that two Americans and 26 Colombians were responsible for the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, while Taiwan has confirmed that 11 arrests were made at its diplomatic compound.

At least 28 people carried out the murder plot earlier this week, police chief Leon Charles told reporters on Thursday, noting that several suspects were brought into custody, while others were killed in firefights with authorities.
"We have arrested 15 Colombians and the two Americans of Haitian origin. Three Colombians have been killed while eight others are on the loose. Weapons and materials used by the assailants were recovered. We will strengthen our investigation and search techniques to intercept the other eight mercenaries."
Rifles, machetes and other tools that were seized were displayed on a table near the police chief.


Comment: See also:

Haiti president Jovenel Moïse assassinated - UPDATE

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'I love talking about election fraud': Trump says he's 'looking forward' to sitting for deposition in Big Tech lawsuit


RT
Thu, 08 Jul 2021 18:07 UTC
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Former US President Donald Trump and Big Tech
Donald Trump has revealed that he plans on and is committed to giving a deposition in the recently announced class-action lawsuit against the Big Tech companies Facebook, Twitter, and Google.

After announcing that he would be the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit against the various social media companies who banned his accounts following the January 6 Capitol riot, Trump expanded on his role in the suit in an interview with Bill O'Reilly.

"I look forward to it, actually," the former president said, when asked about sitting for a deposition in the suit, which will mean answering direct questions about the day of the Capitol riot and facing the accusation he incited an insurrection - an accusation from Democrats that morphed into an impeachment vote which ultimately failed in the Senate.

Trump confirmed to O'Reilly that he would address the Capitol riot issue head-on and even get into the accusations of "election fraud."

"I love talking about the election fraud," he said.
Both Trump and O'Reilly described the legal battle ahead as a "war."
"Everything's a war," Trump said. "With me, life is a war."
Facebook, Twitter, and Google, the former president added, "may be in the process of destroying our nation."
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Taliban strike key Afghan city as US speeds up withdrawal

Emma Graham-Harrison, Akhtar Mohammad Makoii
The Guardian
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 12:41 UTC
Afghan Security
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Afghan security personnel stand guard along a road in the western city of Qala-i- Naw after the Taliban launched a major assault on the provincial capital.
The Taliban fought their way into the centre of a key western Afghan city on Wednesday and accepted the surrender of senior security officials, as militants and Afghan government representatives met in Iran for negotiations.

Insurgents attacked Qala-i-Naw, the capital of Badghis province, overnight and seized the provincial headquarters of the police and the intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), before being pushed back by special forces.

The Taliban have taken swaths of Afghanistan as the US has accelerated the departure of its forces in recent weeks despite warnings from Afghans and the US commander on the ground that such a rapid exit could tip the country into full-blown civil war.

The attack on Qala-i-Naw was the first major assault on a provincial city since the militants began their sweeping advance, although several others have been encircled and are in effect besieged.

The US has announced its withdrawal is now more than 90% complete.

Comment: Videos shared online purported to show members of the Taliban riding into Qala-e-Naw on motorbikes.

Local media said the Taliban offensive on Qala-e-Naw was the first time they have taken over a provincial capital since US President Joe Biden's announcement in April that American troops would begin to withdraw from Afghanistan, with only a few hundred set to remain. The latest update from the Pentagon on Tuesday said the US has now withdrawn around 90% of its troops and equipment from Afghanistan.

The Taliban now control around one third of the country's 421 districts and district centers.
Force strength and strategy are the two important aspects in the post-US occupation scenario:

The areas under Taliban control in the north are increasingly strategic, running along Afghanistan's border with central Asian states. The Taliban in previous surrenders have shown video of Afghan soldiers taking transportation money and returning to their homes. From those who didn't return, many have joined the Taliban ranks as deserters from the Afghani army.

The Taliban reportedly captured the city of Farah, another provincial capital, and the largest city of the Farah Province in western Afghanistan. Footage of the city showed dozens of Afghani army soldiers, many of which were killed. Hundreds are being killed on each side every day, with reports coming in from scores of Taliban being killed by Afghan security forces, and still the Taliban are the ones coming in on top and capturing even more areas.
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Democrats dug themselves an election integrity hole; courts may bury them in it

John Solomon
Just the News
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 11:10 UTC
audit votes sign
© Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror
The will of the people demands election integrity
For months now, President Biden and key Democrats have waged endless battle against state laws designed to improve the integrity of elections, ones that make voting easier and cheating harder.

From the start, the mission was complicated since its message ran smack into strong American sentiments in the court of public opinion: Polling shows three quarters of Americans support integrity measures like voter ID that Biden called "Jim Crow in the 21st century."

Now the Democrat train has run into a similar harsh reality in the courts of law, where justices and judges alike have concluded integrity measures aren't unconstitutional if they aren't designed to suppress based on race or skin color or socio-economic status.

The latest blow to the Jim Crow 2.0 argument was delivered Wednesday, when a federal judge refused to issue a preliminary injunction blocking Georgia's new election integrity law.

Georgia has been the Democrats' ground zero, the first state to enact comprehensive voting reform after the contested November 2020 elections. From activist Stacy Abrams to Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Peach State law has come under withering assault from the left.

Comment: Elections polarize as 'might makes right'. Americans have seen how vastly and deeply this dynamic destroys when coupled with fraud and compromise - given time to evaluate and regroup.

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US Forces are under constant rain of fire in both Syria and Iraq


SouthFront
Fri, 09 Jul 2021 03:46 UTC
Truck and rocket site
© Iraqi Media Security Cell/Reuters
Truck onsite from where rockets were launched
Smoke in al-Baghdadi following rocket attacks
Anbar Province, Iraq• July 7-8, 2021
The United States seems to have stepped in a wasp's nest after their most recent strikes on 'resistance' positions along the Syrian-Iraqi border. The US strike took place on June 27th. The response from the resistance came on the very next day.

The largest American base in Syria - at the al-Omar Oil Field came under fire by at least 8 rockets, which resulted in no casualties but significant material damage.

Exactly a week later, reports surfaced of another rocket attack on al-Omar, this time the rumors were first spread by a US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesman. The reports of an attack were subsequently denied by both the US and the SDF.

Other reports, however, said the blasts were caused as a result of "training" activity taking place among foreign forces there. Alongside all of this, US convoys in Iraq are subject to daily IED attacks, with the most recent one taking place on July 5th, in the Baghdad governorate. There is no single area of focus for these attacks, as they happen all across Iraq's provinces.


Comment: Yankees go home!

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Data shows US mass shootings rose during pandemic lockdown

Rob Roth
KTVU
Wed, 26 May 2021 17:47 UTC
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© AP Photo/Noah Berger
Emergency personnel respond to a shooting at a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) facility on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, in San Jose, Calif. Santa Clara County sheriff's spokesman said the rail yard shooting left multiple people, including the shooter, dead
It may appear as if the pandemic put the brakes on mass shootings. But in reality, mass shootings kept occurring during the coronavirus lockdown. They just weren't out in public as much.

"The overlying trend of gun violence has been moving in a bad direction both in 2020 and in 2021," says John Donohue, a Stanford University law professor who studies gun violence and mass shootings.

"The public mass shootings were suppressed in 2020. Now as we are coming out of the pandemic you see more of them," says Donohue.

Comment: What about the stressful, unnatural crowding together of people who, on a unconscious level, know their circumstances are based on a ever-changing, manipulative lie? That might send one or two over the edge.

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Bipartisan committee approval of $3.3 billion in US security aid to Israel ripped on Twitter: 'Wasteful spending!'


RT
Fri, 09 Jul 2021 18:29 UTC
Israeli jets
Many United States taxpayers were far from pleased after the bipartisan US House Appropriations Committee approved a $3.3 billion security assistance package to Israel at a time when so many Americans are struggling.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) celebrated on Twitter Friday, following the approval last week, thanking both the Democrat and Republican members of the House Appropriations Committee.

AIPAC declared that the "critical aid helps ensure our ally has the resources needed to defend itself by itself in the world's most dangerous region."

Comment: Translation:

"We will devote as much of the grant to displacing and bombing Palestinians as we like, and if you want to keep those campaign donations coming, you won't say a word."

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Bad Guys

'An attack on us all': European leaders condemn shooting of Dutch reporter

Jon Henley
The Guardian
Fri, 09 Jul 2021 18:07 UTC
Peter R. de Vries
© SBS6
Peter R. de Vries was host of 'De Raadkamer', where he discussed the most current topics from the world of crime and the prison system with judges, lawyers, journalists, victims, pathologists, scientists, researchers and public prosecutors.
Politicians and press campaigners call for justice as Peter R de Vries fights for life in hospital

European leaders and press freedom campaigners have condemned the shooting of journalist Peter R de Vries on a busy Amsterdam street, demanding his attackers face justice as the veteran Dutch crime reporter fights for his life in hospital.

"This is a crime against journalism and an attack on our values of democracy and rule of law," the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, tweeted. "We will relentlessly continue to defend the freedom of the press."

The Dutch king, Willem-Alexander, and his wife, Máxima, expressed their "deep shock" at the attack on De Vries, who was shot up to five times, including once in the head, shortly after leaving a TV studio at about 7.45pm on Tuesday.

Comment: The attempt on Peter de Vries' life is tragic, yes. Unconscionable, yes. Should the various reports and investigators speak out about it? Yes.

Yet one hears nary a word in support of Julian Assange, one of the world's premiere journalists, being held in solitary confinement in the 'Gitmo' of Britain, Belmarsh Prison. Why is that?

Julian Assange is being held in Belmarsh Prison - Britain's terrorist torture jail

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Nebraska Gov. Ricketts calls out China, warns leftists in declaring Victims of Communism Month

Ronn Blitzer
Fox News
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 10:48 UTC
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts
© MIKE THEILER/AFP via Getty Images
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts speaks to the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor, Md., Feb. 24, 2017.
Ricketts says Americans need to know what communist regimes have done throughout history.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts has declared July to be Victims of Communism Remembrance Month and is speaking out against the actions of communist regimes throughout history and the present.

In an interview with Fox News, Ricketts warned that Americans need to remember what communism has wrought, as the Chinese Communist Party is celebrating its success after 100 years in power.

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John Kerry flouts mask mandate at airport

Alana Goodman
The Washington Free Beacon
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 15:20 UTC
john kerry airport
Kerry also went maskless on March flight.

White House climate envoy John Kerry was photographed without a face mask while walking through Boston Logan International Airport on Monday morning — the second time he has been snapped apparently flouting the mask mandate during air travel this year — according to photographs obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

In photos, Kerry can be seen walking through an airport body scanner without wearing a mask. The source who provided the photos said they were taken at 11:41 a.m. on Monday at Logan Airport.

Kerry previously denied that he went maskless on an American Airlines flight after a picture emerged in March, calling the image "malarkey" and claiming his mask slipped momentarily.

Comment: No matter how many times the elites get caught disobeying the very rules they dictate to everyone else, it seems it just isn't enough to get the people riled up. The rules don't apply to these people, they were written for the rest of us.

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