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Pre-election rush? Trump OKs US funding of science projects in illegal Israeli settlements

Yumma Patel
Mondoweiss
Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC

In a move that has further legitimized Israel's illegal settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territory, the US and Israel have expanded a number of existing scientific cooperation agreements to now include Israeli institutions in the occupied West Bank and the Golan Heights.

The new agreement, signed on Wednesday between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, amended three existing scientific cooperation agreements between the two countries.

According to the original agreements, which were created back in the 1970's, cooperative projects between the US and Israel "may not be conducted in geographical areas which came under the administration of the State of Israel after June 5, 1967, and may not relate to subjects primarily pertinent to such areas."

The new amendments will now for the first time allow US taxpayer money to be spent in Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law.

DOJ confirms FBI criminal investigation into "Hunter Biden and Associates" has money laundering focus - probe ongoing

Cristina Laila
The Gateway Pundit
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:21 UTC

Money for nothing?

A Justice Department official confirmed with Sinclair reporter James Rosen that in late 2019, the FBI opened up a criminal investigation into "Hunter Biden and his associates," focused on allegations of money-laundering, and that it remains open and active today.

Fox News reported last week that Hunter Biden's laptop was linked to a FBI money laundering probe.

Comment: Tony Bobulinski, who dropped his own Biden bombshell earlier this week, says he was questioned by FBI agents five hours as a material witness.

Tony Bobulinski told James Rosen in an interview that the FBI interviewed him with counsel present for 5 hours on October 23rd as a "material witness" in an ongoing investigation focused on Hunter Biden and his associates.

Tony Bobulinski is the CEO of Sinohawk Holdings which was a partnership between the Chinese operating through CEFC/Chairman Ye and the Biden family.

Hunter Biden's associate-turned-whistleblower Tony Bobulinski came forward and provided documents and his electronics to senate investigators and FBI officials to be examined.

Bobulinski confirmed his 3 cell phones were examined by the FBI.

Tony Bobulinski said he is a material witness in connection with the discussion with the Biden family, CEFC and other operations around the world involving other countries.

MSM may attempt to whitewash White Helmets' founder James Le Mesurier's dubious history, but the truth is there for all to see

Kit Klarenberg
RT
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 18:52 UTC

White Helmets’ founder James Le Mesurier

A fetishistic Guardian article seeks to rehabilitate the life and death of the former British soldier turned 'humanitarian', but cannot explain away his lavish lifestyle, missing money, and all the other financial irregularities.

On the morning of November 11, 2019, James Le Mesurier, founder of Syria's controversial White Helmets, was found dead in Istanbul. Since then, the Western establishment has struggled to get its story straight on the man, his professional history, the group he founded, and how he died.

The latest example of mainstream media narrative management in the ever-mysterious case came in the Guardian on October 27, in the form of a 6,000-word hagiography of Le Mesurier, authored by its veteran Middle East reporter Martin Chulov.

Comment:

Hunter Biden emails request 'formal meetings with Dad' to secure billion-dollar deals

Raheem Kassam and Natalie Winters
The National Pulse
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 18:21 UTC

An email thread entitled "Engagement" from June 2011 reveals a Hunter Biden business associate - Sean Conlon - telling the former Veep's son: "we need to get these guys to an event or something where they get to just formally meet your Dad. For follow on they can talk to Chief of Staff."

AN E-MAIL TO HUNTER BIDEN ATTEMPTING TO TRADE ACCESS TO THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR POTENTIAL BILLION DOLLAR BUSINESS DEALS.

In full, the e-mail leveraging a meeting with Joe Biden in exchange for "more bonds to move" reads:

"So we have engagement letter if they get other 10 bonds they have a face value of 10b. While it is far fetched Devon said he talked to his professor and these get traded. We get 10% in fees. We need to get these guys to an event or something where they get to just formally meet your Dad. For follow on they can talk to Chief of Staff. Let me know how soon we can do that. V brief. If Nagi get that done we get more bonds to move. Regards your hard working partner in Positano! Sean"

Per subsequent e-mails, "each bond is worth over $2.1 billion."

Comment: Perhaps it should be illegal for public servants and their families to be able to profit from their terms in office. Maybe that way, you could weed out the money-grabbing parasites like the Clintons, Bidens, Bushes, etc.

Daily Caller authenticates NYPost's 'smoking gun' Hunter Biden/Burisma email

Andrew Kerr
The Daily Caller
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 18:15 UTC

An email Hunter Biden received in April 2015 from a Burisma executive discussing an introduction to then-Vice President Joe Biden, which lies at the heart of a New York Post investigation, is unquestionably authentic, a cybersecurity expert told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday.

The DCNF obtained a full copy of Hunter Biden's alleged laptop from former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday. The DCNF provided Robert Graham, the founder of the cybersecurity firm Errata Security, with a copy of the email and its metadata for forensic analysis.

Graham, who has been cited as a cybersecurity expert in The Washington Post, the Associated Press, Wired, Engadget and other news and technology outlets, told the DCNF that he used a cryptographic signature found in the email's metadata to validate that Vadym Pozharsky, an advisor to Burisma's board of directors, emailed Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015.

In the email, Pozharsky thanked Hunter Biden for "inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together."

© Robert Graham
Cybersecurity expert Robert Graham said this email is unquestionably authentic after analyzing its DKIM signature.

The New York Post first reported the email in October, describing it as a "smoking-gun" showing that Hunter Biden had introduced his father to the Burisma executive in 2015.

'Blood lust, killings, cover-ups': Report describes Australia's 'Abu Ghraib' moment in Afghanistan

Nick McKenzie and Chris Masters
The Age
Tue, 27 Oct 2020 23:15 UTC

Australian SAS soldiers on patrol near Bagram, Afghanistan.Credit:

Warning: Disturbing content

Australian special forces soldiers were fuelled by "blood lust" when they tortured and executed prisoners in Afghanistan and then covered up their actions, according to a briefing handed to military chiefs which likened the conduct of some troops to that of American soldiers in Abu Ghraib.

The confidential report was commissioned in 2016 by then chief of army Angus Campbell and is the most detailed and significant internal military dossier to be aired about the special forces' war crimes scandal that took place during the war in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2015. It was the catalyst for the soon-to-be-completed four-year Inspector-General inquiry into war crimes by senior judge Paul Brereton.

The report was delivered to General Campbell, who is now Chief of Defence Force, making him Australia's most senior officer. It says unarmed civilians and prisoners were shot or had their throats slit by some Australian soldiers with a "large number of illegal killings often gloated about".

Comment: Though disturbing the above story should not be very surprisng by now. Since the "war on terror" (but really long before that too) we imagine that there have been countless atrocities and war crimes commited in the name of freedom and democracy Western style.

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After 3rd ceasefire fails in Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia & Azerbaijan blame violations on each other, casualties reported

RT
Wed, 28 Oct 2020 14:36 UTC

© Reuters / Aziz Karimov
A burnt car, which was hit by shelling during a military conflict over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the town of Barda, Azerbaijan.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have again accused one another of shelling civilians, as fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region continues after the failure of the US-brokered truce earlier this week.

Azerbaijan said that Armenian forces have shelled the cities of Tartar and Barda. The strikes on the latter are said to have killed 21 civilians and left dozens of people injured. The attack was allegedly carried out using Smerch multiple rocket launchers.

Azerbaijani officials have invited foreign diplomats and human rights groups to visit the city and see the aftermath of the shelling for themselves. They also posted photos of destruction and body bags lying on the ground on social media.

Comment: See also:

Police chief ridiculed after declaring British 'civic duty' to snitch on neighbors who violate lockdown rules

RT
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 21:25 UTC

A UK police constable has been deluged with mockery and Hitler memes after arguing it's every resident's duty to turn in neighbors and local businesses for breaking lockdown rules and complaining British culture reviles snitches.

UK residents who report their neighbors and local businesses to the police for violating the country's increasingly stringent Covid-19 control measures are just doing their "civic duty" and should be praised, not ostracized, Merseyside chief constable Andy Cooke told the Daily Mail on Wednesday.

"People are doing a civic duty in contacting us for the right reasons," he stated, insisting "the vast majority of people across the country are really concerned about this" and "any information that you can give us in relation to breaches will save lives, and that's why people are [reporting to the police]."

Comment: It's a sorry state of affairs and yet it seems that this is what it has had to come to for citizens to realise just how corrupt the ruling class in the UK (and elsewhere) has become:

Putin rules out another strict Covid-19 lockdown in Russia, citing economic concerns, says 'we don't have a kind Aunt to help us'

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 18:29 UTC

© Sputnik / Alexey Nikolsky / Kremlin via REUTERS
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a session of the VTB Capital Investment Forum "Russia Calling!" via a video conference call at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia October 29, 2020.

After his government imposed some of the world's harshest measures to suppress the spread of coronavirus last spring, Vladimir Putin made it clear on Thursday that there are no plans in place for a repeat lockdown this winter.

Speaking remotely to an audience at VTB Bank's 'Russia Calling' event in Moscow, on the day the country posted its highest one-day total for new infections (17,717) since the pandemic began, the president said the economy must be protected. He pointed out, in jest, that Russia has no 'kind aunt' to tap for money in the event of a financial crisis.

"We do not plan to introduce restrictive measures across the board, or launch a so-called 'nation-wide lockdown,' when the economy, the operation of business is actually halted completely," the president said. "Despite the challenging epidemiological situation, we are much better prepared now to work in the epidemic environment."

Comment: See also:

The real story behind the New York Times's big 'anonymous' op-ed is exceptionally sleazy

Becket Adams
Washington Examiner
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:51 UTC

The true story behind the New York Times's 2018 anonymous opinion article is exceptionally sleazy.

Indeed, based on what we know now, everyone involved in this sad episode comes across as remarkably unethical, most especially the op-ed's author, former Department of Homeland Security employee Miles Taylor.

For starters, Taylor and the New York Times grossly exaggerated his credentials as a "senior" member of the Trump administration. Taylor served as a "Deputy Chief of Staff" at the time he submitted his op-ed to the paper. He did not hold the position of chief of staff until later. Yet, the New York Times billed him anyway as a "senior official in the Trump administration," an overblown descriptor that Taylor himself made no effort to correct.

Comment: See also: Ex-DHS official reveals himself as 'Anonymous'

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Puppet Masters

Pre-election rush? Trump OKs US funding of science projects in illegal Israeli settlements

DOJ confirms FBI criminal investigation into "Hunter Biden and Associates" has money laundering focus - probe ongoing

MSM may attempt to whitewash White Helmets' founder James Le Mesurier's dubious history, but the truth is there for all to see

Hunter Biden emails request 'formal meetings with Dad' to secure billion-dollar deals

Daily Caller authenticates NYPost's 'smoking gun' Hunter Biden/Burisma email

'Blood lust, killings, cover-ups': Report describes Australia's 'Abu Ghraib' moment in Afghanistan

After 3rd ceasefire fails in Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia & Azerbaijan blame violations on each other, casualties reported

Police chief ridiculed after declaring British 'civic duty' to snitch on neighbors who violate lockdown rules

Putin rules out another strict Covid-19 lockdown in Russia, citing economic concerns, says 'we don't have a kind Aunt to help us'

The real story behind the New York Times's big 'anonymous' op-ed is exceptionally sleazy

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