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Jeff Sessions will soon have the power to ban whatever substance he doesn't like

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkreig
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:58 UTC

Allowing government to arbitrarily determine which substances human beings can put into their own bodies is one of the most idiotic things a society can do. As such, its no surprise Congress is salivating at the prospect of furthering this travesty by giving additional discretion on the matter to drug war-crazed loon, Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Reason published an excellent article on the topic in yesterday's piece: Congress Wants To Give Jeff Sessions Unprecedented New Drug War Powers.

Here are some key excerpts:

If you think the Department of Justice has more than enough tools to wage the war on drugs, a bill passed by the House would create a fast-track scheduling system that could lead to the criminalization of kratom, nootropics, and pretty much anything that gives you a buzz and isn't already illegal.

Comment: Waging war against a mythical crime wave Attorney General Sessions ramps up the 'War on Drugs'

Russia has sold half its US Bonds: Where did they disappear to?

Ivan Danilov - Translated by Ollie Richardson and Angelina Siard
stalkerzone.org
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 16:21 UTC

Practice shows that there are three topics connected to Moscow that attract genuine attention, and often also invoke the sincere surprise of the foreign financial press and expert community.

The main mystery that the authors of the western financial periodical press try to solve is why the Russian economy hasn't yet collapsed, despite unprecedented western sanctions? If it continues like this, then the meme about the "mysterious Russian economy" will occupy in the western news sphere a place near a meme about the "mysterious Russian soul".

One more topic moving the world is the Russian successes in relation to intercepting control over the OPEC oil cartel, which the Americans once created to advance their own interests. Now American journalists sadly joke that it is time to rename OPEC into ROPEK, because now it is Russia - which (oh the horror!) doesn't react to the tweets of Trump demanding to immediately lower the prices of oil - that rules here.

FBI agents, including Peter Strzok, under investigation for evidence tampering in Flynn case

Breitbart News
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 15:57 UTC

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) on Thursday revealed Congress is investigating whether FBI agents tampered with evidence in the Michael Flynn case.

"Justice should be meted out evenly, and yet we're finding that evidence could have been tampered with,"the Freedom Caucus leader told Hill.TV's Rising.

Meadows, who raised the prospect of evidence tampering during Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's testimony before House investigators this week, suggested FBI "302" interview documents may have been altered in the case against former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn

Comment:

Putting all the pieces together: Tying up the loose ends in the Skripal case

Rob Slane
The Blogmire
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:33 UTC

Over the last five pieces (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5) I have, slowly but surely, advanced a theory of what happened in the Skripal case. I must confess to having done so with a fair amount of unease. I don't want to believe that my Government has been stating a case that is false. I don't want to believe that the public have been lied to. I don't want to have to think that there has been a lot of effort made to present an explanation that hides the truth.

And yet, given the fact that the Government story contains self-evident fallacies, and cannot be made to add up, I don't think that there's much alternative than to be hugely sceptical about their claims. I stated the two main fallacies in Part 1, which are the claims that three people were poisoned by the nerve agent A-234, which is 5-8 times more toxic than VX, and that because A-234 was developed in the Soviet Union, the Russian State is responsible for what happened. The first claim cannot be true, because the three people are alive and well and have suffered no irreparable damage. The second claim is palpably untrue, because A-234 has been synthesised in a number of countries.

Comment: Slane's previous pieces connecting the dots of the Skripal case:

At the very least, his scenario makes much more sense than the official one. The British authorities were seemingly caught off guard. Of course, that doesn't mean that British intelligence was responsible. They may have been, but the response would've been the same if a third party (say, US or Israeli intelligence) committed the crime. Either way, the Brits would have to cover it up to avoid the kind of exposure Slane describes above.

The US intel community is trying to pull a repeat of what they did to Jimmy Carter re: North Korea

Voltaire Network
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:29 UTC

A polemic is evolving right before our eyes within the US Intelligence Community. Some members are declaring that while North Korea has undertaken to destroy the site of launching missiles from Sohae, it does not actually have the slightest intention of doing so.

This debate arises after President Donald Trump made a commitment to withdraw US troops from South Korea.

This situation cannot help but bring back to our mind the identical pledge made by Jimmy Carter, during his 1976 electoral campaign. Yet when Carter was elected president, he was unable to follow through with his promise: the US Intel community and the Pentagon joined hands to prevent the US withdrawing from South Korea. Finally, a NSA report, drafted by John Armstrong, provided evidence that the North Korean armed forces had become more powerful than South Korea's, and that, consequently, withdrawing US troops would effectively mean delivering up South Korea to North Korea. Of course, just like Team B's 1976 Report on the Soviet Military Power, all the data was false. Although President Carter fired General Singlaub from his position as commander of PaCom (the Command of the US Armed Forces in the Pacific), nothing came of it. Accused of endangering an ally, he was forced to resign.

Comment: It's probably the same dynamic playing itself out regarding Iran, Russia, Syria, and Afghanistan. The US intel community doesn't like not having its way, and dealing with presidents who think they're in charge. See also:

Why is the CIA's intel on the Taliban so consistently wrong? Because they're making it up, along with their Afghan sources

Linguistic trickery: Sanitizing language to disguise illegality

Victor Davis Hansen
Townhall
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:01 UTC

DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee

Throughout Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's massive report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation are lots of strange things. One of the weirdest is the extent to which the FBI went to make up words and phrases to disguise reality.

In early draft of the 2016 FBI report on the email scandal was reportedly subjected to linguistic surgery to exonerate the former secretary of state, who at the time was the Democratic nominee for president. Clinton was originally found to be "grossly negligent" in using an illegal email server. That legalistic phrase is used by prosecutors to indict for violation of laws governing the wrongful transmission of confidential government documents.

Yet the very thought of a likely President Clinton in court so worried the chief investigator, FBI Director James Comey, that he watered down "grossly negligent" to the mere "extremely careless."

FBI investigators also had concluded that it was "reasonably likely" foreign nations had read Clinton's unsecured emails. Comey intervened to mask such a likelihood by substituting the more neutral word "possible."

IG Horowitz' reaction when asked if Hillary committed "no crimes"

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:40 UTC

That face . . . . .

An overlooked exchange from Tuesday's testimony by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz provides an insightful moment into his opinion of Hillary Clinton's guilt or innocence.

Unearthed by journalist Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) for her latest report which can be found here, this is a must-see exchange between Horowitz and Rep. Eric Salwell (D-CA) during a joint hearing of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees, the look on the Inspector General's face - and the guy behind him - are priceless...

"Do you agree, yes or no, that Hillary Clinton committed no crimes?"

Euro irreversible, says German finance minister after Merkel and Macron agree on Eurozone budget

RT
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 12:57 UTC

The euro sign in front of the former headquarters of the European Central Bank

The euro is here to stay and serve as a guarantor of a stronger, more cohesive Europe, Germany's finance minister said as he commended French President Emmanuel Macron for spearheading the effort.

In an interview with the Rheinische Post on Saturday, Olaf Scholz argued that the future of Europe's single currency no longer hangs in the balance with Greece getting back on its feet after a long recession and Paris and Berlin agreeing on a vision for how to reform the EU.

Asked if the euro will still exist in 10 years, Scholz has said he has no doubt about it.

"Yes, the euro is irreversible. It secures our common future in Europe," the German minister said.

Washington 'indefinitely' delays two more military exercises with Seoul

RT
Sat, 23 Jun 2018 12:52 UTC

The US continues to wind down the scope of its military activity on North Korea's doorstep, with the Pentagon announcing on Friday it was "indefinitely" suspending two joint training programs with Seoul.

The exercises, which were scheduled to take place within the next three months, have been put on hold with an open-ended date, Pentagon spokesperson Dana White announced on Friday. The drills in question are a part of the marine exchange training program between the US and South Korea.

"To support implementing the outcomes of the Singapore Summit, and in coordination with our Republic of Korea ally, Secretary Mattis has indefinitely suspended select exercises," White said.

Lavrov: NATO's military build-up near Russia's borders requires special attention

FARS News Agency
Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:45 UTC

Sergey Lavrov

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that NATO's military build-up and growing military activities near the Russian and Belarusian borders require special attention.

"The United States and its allies are not reluctant to interfere in the domestic affairs of sovereign states and even use military force," he said at a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus, TASS reported.

"The deployment of the US global missile defenses causes particular concern as the US doctrines reduce the threshold for the use of nuclear arms. NATO's military build-up and growing military activities near the Russian and Belarusian borders require special attention," the Russian top diplomat added.

Comment: Russia is right to be concerned about NATO:

Winternights3 There's probs a good connection! Just think about it.

sbc

Moving the goalposts. and people are too shit stupid to notice or care

sbc

Hang em... All the jab pushers. At this point they are trying very hard to continue blatant bullshit lies in a bid for total societal control

sbc

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Scoot Over

I ain't going to watch any more than I didn't watch the OJ trial, which ended exactly as I predicted. The thing is that the state should have...

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Puppet Masters

Jeff Sessions will soon have the power to ban whatever substance he doesn't like

Russia has sold half its US Bonds: Where did they disappear to?

FBI agents, including Peter Strzok, under investigation for evidence tampering in Flynn case

Putting all the pieces together: Tying up the loose ends in the Skripal case

The US intel community is trying to pull a repeat of what they did to Jimmy Carter re: North Korea

Linguistic trickery: Sanitizing language to disguise illegality

IG Horowitz' reaction when asked if Hillary committed "no crimes"

Euro irreversible, says German finance minister after Merkel and Macron agree on Eurozone budget

Washington 'indefinitely' delays two more military exercises with Seoul

Lavrov: NATO's military build-up near Russia's borders requires special attention

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