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New indictments expected in wake of Epstein's death, lawyers say

Bowen Xiao
The Epoch Times
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 19:02 UTC
jeffery epstein
© New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services/Handout via Reuters
Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019.
New indictments are expected in the wake of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's death by apparent suicide, as the case shifts to focus on unnamed co-conspirators, according to criminal defense lawyers.

Two criminal defense attorneys told The Epoch Times that if the government was investigating Epstein to such a degree that they were able to make an arrest, it can be assumed that federal prosecutors in New York were also gathering evidence on those in his inner circle.

One attorney specifically mentioned the disgraced financier's former girlfriend, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who allegedly assisted Epstein in luring minors. He said Maxwell would be prosecutors' next main target and she could potentially name others connected to the multimillionaire.

"She's going down. She's going to take everybody with her," Jeffery Greco, a New York criminal defense lawyer and former prosecutor, said in a phone call. "They are going to ask her, 'Who else did you provide these girls to?' I think that she is going to start talking."

"Remember, it's just pieces to a puzzle, so she may not know everything. But they are going to use her to place the people at those parties, so if she can say, 'I was there on this date ... and this senator and so-and-so was there,' that will be enough for them to get them involved."
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Greed is winning and humanity is losing

John Wight
RT
Mon, 12 Aug 2019 23:09 UTC
Super Rich
© REUTERS/Carlos Barria
The one thing upon which the world's major religions and most schools of philosophy are agreed is the perils and evil of human greed.

Unfortunately, there are some people who didn't get the memo on greed. Take the Waltons, for example, the family behind the Walmart retail empire. According to the financial and money website, Bloomberg, they get richer by $4 million every hour - yes, you read that right, not every week or month, every hour - while at the same time paying their workers (or as they prefer to refer to them, 'associates') a paltry 11 bucks an hour.

There is no human being on this Earth who can justify getting (not making, mind, getting) $4 million an hour, and there is no justification for paying any worker a wage as low as $11 an hour. Only the most psychologically dysfunctional or morally empty could conceivably consider such a scenario and wealth gap compatible with progress.

And yes, yes, yes, we've heard it all before about human enterprise and dynamism and hard work and entrepreneurship. But these are merely words used to legitimize greed and avarice. Words thrown into the faces of the masses like so much dust to blind them as to the reality of the world and their true place in it. That place is as human drones, consigned to a life spent working their fingers to the bone for a pittance while being programmed to believe that they're actually free.

If they are free it's free to be poor, to be homeless, to go hungry, and to suffer.

The Walton family, whose fortune now sits at an outrageous $191 billion, aren't the only reprobates at the apex of this world grown sick with greed. Hark the Mars family, the confectionery giants, with a fortune of $127 billion. That's a lot of Mars Bars. Or how about the Kochs, notorious for bankrolling numerous politicians in Washington? They're currently sitting on a mountain of assets to the tune of $125 billion.
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Corbynite MP Williamson sues Labour for re-suspension over alleged anti-Semitism


RT
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 10:58 UTC
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© Reuters / Andrew Yates (Bottom left) Chris Williamson MP AFP / PRU / HO
"Main) Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn with party activists
Left-wing MP Chris Williamson is suing Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party over their decision to reimpose his suspension following allegations of anti-Semitism. A crowdfunding page has been set-up to help with his legal fees.

Williamson, the MP for Derby North and key ally of Labour leader Corbyn, is challenging the party's right to withdraw the whip from him (i.e., suspend him) just two days after he was reinstated following a disciplinary hearing.

The 62 year-old has taken to social media to thank supporters who have contributed to cover court costs to help "overturn the unconstitutional decision to 're-suspend' me from the party I love."

Comment: Pandering to the baseless accusations will only serve to fan the flames and, as we can see, further divide the party, which is what the smear campaign was intended to do: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal #29: What Israeli Lobby? Anti-Semitism Hysteria Hits US, UK, France

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South Korea proposes reunification with North Korea by 2045

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ
Thu, 15 Aug 2019 20:16 UTC
Koreas
© Fort Russ
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said he was willing to reunite the Korea's in 2045. Statement was made during the 74th anniversary celebration of the end of Japanese rule in Korea.

By 2045 the Korea's will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of Japanese rule. Moreover, it was exactly in 1945 that Korea was divided into North and South.

Today, South Korean President, in a speech to celebrate the 74th anniversary of the liberation of the Korea's from Japanese rule, Moon Jae-in, commented on the advantages of a united Korea and the plans for reunification.

Comment: Japan will NOT be happy about this!

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China slams Hillary's regime change record after she praises HK "democracy" protests

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 15 Aug 2019 20:52 UTC
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© Image via Salon
China's largest state-run newspaper group, People's Daily, has produced a viral video slamming Hillary Clinton's disastrous record of promoting regime change abroad from Libya to Syria to Iraq.

It comes in response to a tweet this week where she expressed solidarity with the still raging Hong Kong protests, at a moment the Chinese military is staging outside the city possibly prepared to invade and put down the demonstrations. "May we all stand in solidarity with the people of Hong Kong as they speak out for democracy, freedom from repression, and a world they long to see," she wrote Tuesday.

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Hillary Clinton's emails were sent to Gmail address similar to name of a Chinese company

Ivan Pentchoukova
The Epoch Times
Thu, 15 Aug 2019 20:41 UTC
Hillary Clinton
© Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers the commencement address at the Hunter College Commencement ceremony at Madison Square Garden, May 29, 2019 in New York City.
All but four of the 30,490 emails from Hillary Clinton's unauthorized email server were forwarded to a private Google email address featuring a name similar to a Chinese company, according to documents released by a Senate committee on Aug. 15.

Virtually every email that was sent to and from the Clinton-email server was forwarded to "carterheavyindustries@gmail.com," which raised concerns that a foreign actor gained access to Clinton's emails after an intelligence community inspector general (ICIG) investigator searched Google for "Carter Heavy Industries" and came up with a result for Shandong Carter Heavy Industry Co., Ltd, according to the documents (pdf).
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Snakes in Suits

US House Foreign Affairs panel is threatening 'swift consequences' should China use violence in Hong Kong


RT
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:22 UTC
Chinese police
© Reuters/Tyrone Siu
Any violence used against "peaceful protesters" in Hong Kong would be a "mistake" for China and will trigger a "swift" response, a congressional foreign affairs panel has warned, insisting Beijing is responsible for the unrest.

The ranking members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee - Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Michael McCaul (R-TX) - issued the warning in a statement on Wednesday, drawing parallels with 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square that ended in bloodshed, also known as the 'June Fourth Incident'.


Comment: Perhaps Chairman Engel and Congressman McCaul should check the facts:


"We urge China to avoid making such a mistake, which would be met with universal condemnation and swift consequences," the lawmakers said.

Comment: What, when and where will be the trigger point turning the protests into a conflagration lethal enough to accuse China of persecuting their own, while the US backtracks its means and motives? Surely the protests are proceeding right on (US) schedule, their usefulness to the West: despicably invaluable.

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Manufacturing Normality

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC
cartoon
© unknown
If people could see the world with fresh eyes, as though they were viewing it for the very first time, they would suddenly find themselves smashed between two equally strong yet wildly different experiences.

On the one hand, they would experience breathless awe at the thunderous beauty of everything that exists. We tend to develop a mental habit of taking things for granted just because we have a thought story about knowing what they are and having seen them before. The labeling, dividing mind says "Oh yeah, I know what that is, that's a tree. I've seen a million of those, no big deal," and we make a habit of overlooking it. This habit combines with our fixation on looping mental chatter to pull the interest and attention out of our experience of the world which would otherwise be experienced as a nonstop eruption of staggering beauty.

On the other hand, someone seeing the world with fresh eyes would at the same time experience howling rage at all the immense evils that the mass media manipulators have convinced us to accept as normal. All the oppression, exploitation, violence, domination, ecocide and corruption which we were born into would no longer be seen as unfortunate but necessary mundane realities, and neither would all the horrible propagandists who deceived us into thinking they were.

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Snakes in Suits

Bolton dangles trade deal if Britain toughens line on Iran, China and anything else deemed useful!

Finian Cunningham
RT
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:05 UTC
Johnson/Bolton
© independent.co.uk/Reuters/Joshua Roberts/KJN
UK PM Boris Johnson • US Natl. Security Advisor John Bolton
It's more than coincidence that on the first day of US National Security Advisor John Bolton's visit to London this week, Britain announced the dispatch of another warship to the Persian Gulf.

Since Boris Johnson became British prime minister nearly three weeks ago, President Donald Trump's administration has been pushing London to take a harder foreign policy line, in particular towards Iran and China.

Ahead of Bolton's visit to London, Washington was pointedly making it clear in media reports that a future US trade deal with Britain was dependent on Johnson's government being more amenable to America's policy of pressuring Iran and China.

It won't stop there either. The implication is for an open-ended demand by Washington for British compliance on other foreign policy interests. That is, for Britain to be more compliant than it usually is.

Comment: See also: 'Pro-China' Boris Johnson 'enthusiastic' about belt and road plan

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2020 Democrats say they double down on diversity...but do they?


RT
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 20:28 UTC
DNC buttons/Trump
© Kiplinger.com/Unknown/KJN
Democrats vying to defeat President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election are insisting he's a racist and a bigot, while they represent diversity and the future of America. How is that working out for them?

There is certainly a lot of diversity among the candidates vying for the party's nomination. Senator Kamala Harris (D-California) is of Jamaican and Indian descent. South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is in a same-sex marriage. Businessman Andrew Yang's parents were from Taiwan. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) is part Samoan and a practicing Hindu.

That said, the most popular candidate in all the polls of Democrat voters is former Delaware Senator Joe Biden, who checks all the "bad" boxes on the diversity questionnaire: white, male, old (76)... Admittedly, he was also vice-president to Barack Obama, so he is presumably woke-by-proxy.
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