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Sweden mobilizes all its reservists for 1st time in 40 years - 1 Month after "crisis" pamphlet issued

Sweden reservists
© Hanna Sköld / Försvarsmakten
For the first time since the height of Cold War, Sweden has called its entire Home Guard force - 22,000 reservists - for snap exercises. The drills were supposed to bolster country's "defensive and operational capabilities."

Sweden mobilized all 40 Home Guard battalions in an unprecedented exercise that has not been held since 1975. The drills marked the National Day of Sweden, celebrated on June 6.

"Our mission is to strengthen Sweden's military defense and improve our operational capabilities," Sweden's Supreme Commander Micael Byden said in a statement. "We are testing the chain of mobilization for around half our organization, something we have not done since 1975."

Comment: What does Sweden have in mind with all these "crisis" preparations? Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: 'Quitaly' Highlights EU's Democratic Crisis


Cult

Metro Atlanta child sex-trafficking sting rescues nearly 160 children, authorities say

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A sting on the sex-trafficking trade in metro Atlanta netted dozens of arrests and the rescue of dozens of children forced into sexual servitude, the FBI announced this week.

Operation Safe Summer was a collaborative effort between the FBI's Atlanta field office and 38 law enforcement agencies in six metro counties, assistant Special Agent in Charge Matt Alcoke told Channel 2's Mike Petchenik.

"They are crimes of special concern to the FBI and to law enforcement generally," Alcoke said. "Because the victims are so vulnerable as children and because the offenders could be from just about any walk of life, from a gang member all the way up to someone who is highly successful and wealthy."

The sting ended with nearly 160 children rescued, including one as young as 3 years old, and nearly 150 arrests, convictions or sentences, officials said.

Network

Time for something better: Kim Dotcom invites Assange and Snowden to create replacement for 'deep state conspirators' Twitter, Facebook

Kim Dotcom to create new social media platform
© Nigel Marple / ReutersKim says the secure social media platform would “replace the deep state conspirators Facebook and Twitter”. The joint venture would also include input from members of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), a group that claims to be “the most influential hacker collective in Europe”.
Kim Dotcom has invited Julian Assange, Edward Snowden and members of Europe's largest association of hackers to create a secure social media platform to replace "deep state conspirators" Twitter and Facebook.

On Monday the internet entrepreneur put the concept to the WikiLeaks founder and famous whistleblower on Twitter, writing: "After years of betrayal it's time for something better".


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No Entry

YouTube now claiming natural medicine videos are "dangerous" to society - just as bomb-making how-to videos are

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YouTube has now declared war on natural medicine, banning a 43-second video about cannabis oil while shutting down the Natural News Health YouTube channel because we dare to discuss this "dangerous" topic. In a warning sent to the Health Ranger, YouTube described the kind of content they don't allow, including content that "encourages or promotes violent or dangerous acts that have an inherent risk of serious physical harm or death." They instructed NaturalNews that "it's not okay to post videos showing drug abuse, underage drinking and smoking, or bomb making."

This outrageous act of censorship by YouTube was not an accidental human error. In the letter, YouTube claimed that the video "Doctors shocked when cannabis oil cures man of terminal cancer" had been flagged for review. Upon a final review process, YouTube "determined it violates our guidelines." Natural News Health channel was issued a Community Guidelines strike for three months and was warned that further action could be taken. If NaturalNews dares talk about the healing potential of cannabis medicine, then YouTube said they could pose additional strikes that could lead to the channel being terminated for good.

Attention

New warning issued by ACLU about campaign to silence criticism of Israel

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has issued a fresh warning about legislative efforts to "silence criticism of Israel", after Members of Congress introduced the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act last month.

In a blog post co-written by Manar Waheed, Legislative and Advocacy Counsel, and Brian Hauss, Staff Attorney, the renowned civil liberties group said the "overbreadth" of the new bill "makes it likely that it will...silence criticism of Israel that is protected by the First Amendment".

Noting that genuine anti-Jewish hate crimes is "already illegal under federal law", the ACLU highlights how the proposed legislation "defines speech that applies a 'double standard for Israel', or denies 'the Jewish people their right to self-determination' as evidence of anti-Semitism".

Comment: It's a testament to how far gone the values are of the US government that they are employing legislation to effectively silence anyone who criticizes Israel. And its further a testament to Israel's pathological and bullying nature that it would seek to make anyone having a problem with the treatment of Palestinians somehow an 'antisemite'.

The campaign to do this is so pervasive and powerful that its mind-boggling:


Black Magic

Tucson: Underground bunker suspected of child-trafficking has connections to Rothschilds, NXIVM sex cult

trafficking bunker
As we reported yesterday, a group of veterans known as Veterans on Patrol (VOP), which looks for homeless veterans around the area and offers them help to get them on their feet, spotted solar lights while on patrol and followed them until stumbling upon an underground bunker, that according to the group, is being used for child trafficking.

"The solar lights are what gave it away," said Lewis Arthur. "If we hadn't been walking on the right trail we would have never seen it, we would have walked right past it."

When the veteran group reached the site, what they found was truly ominous. Around the site, the group found trees equipped with restraints, a stroller, a crib, hair dye, and pornographic material. Inside the bunker, they found a dresser and two crates. The area inside was only big enough for children to fit inside.

Big League Politics reported that "after alerting local and federal law enforcement about the situation and receiving no help, Veterans on Patrol rallied local volunteers together to physically dig up the site."

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Info

US shows off air arsenal at Sarrin Military Base in western Al-Raqqa, Syria

Two U.S. Marine MV-2 Osprey fighter jets
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The U.S. Air Force released several photos of their troops operating inside a military base in northern Syria this week.

According to pro-opposition media, the photos were taken at the Sarrin Military Base in western Al-Raqqa.

As shown in the photos below, the base is equipped with a U.S. Marine MV-2 Osprey, C-130J Hercules cargo jet and several other military planes.

Network

How Russia's Trans-Arabian Railway could set the course for a multipolar Saudia Arabia

trans-arabian railway
The CEO of Russian Railways, the state-backed leader in this industry, announced his company's intent in participating in the Trans-Arabian Railway during last week's Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), thus drawing attention to a project that's been on the drawing board for a few years already but has failed to get off the ground. The concept is for the GCC states to tighten their non-energy economic integration with one another through a coastal railway that hugs the southern edge of the Persian Gulf and would run from Kuwait to Oman, but this vision hasn't yet been prioritized. That might change in the coming future, however, as a result of trilateral cooperation between Russia, Saudi Arabia, and China.

Jet1

US pokes the Dragon by sending B-52 bombers over South China Sea

US b-52 bomber
© Lubos Pavlicek / Global Look Press
The US military sent two nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to fly over the disputed Spratly Islands amid tensions with Beijing. The "routine" mission occurred days after a Pentagon chief said "America is to stay" in the Indo-Pacific.

The two US Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers took off from a Diego Garcia navy facility located on a small island in the Indian Ocean to conduct "a routine training mission" in the vicinity of the South China Sea, before returning to the base, a spokesman for the Pentagon told CNN.

The flyover took place on Tuesday, mere days after Defense Secretary Jim Mattis used his speech in Singapore to warn China against militarizing the islets. He accused Beijing of "intimidation and coercion" in the area, which starkly contrasted with the "openness"promoted by the US, and pledged its continued presence. Mattis had also reaffirmed the US intention to ensure military support of Taiwan's secessionist ambitions.

Comment: Mattis doesn't understand that this is the South China Sea, not the South United States Sea. The US has no business dictating terms in what China can or cannot do. US hubris really knows no bounds. Some basic decency, respect and humility is needed from the US, but it is very unlikely to come without some very difficult lessons.


Propaganda

Best of the Web: Daily Mail columnist loses it after former English football player refuses to indulge in Russia bashing

Gary Lineker
Former England striker turned TV pundit Gary Lineker's refusal to join in the Russia bashing ahead of the World Cup has provoked Daily Mail columnist Dominic Sandbrook into a now familiar display of ignorance and rage.

Lineker is a much-loved figure among England fans, having scored more World Cup finals goals than any other English player. He became a television presenter after retiring, and has become known as a 'liberal voice' on Twitter.

The former striker was speaking to the Radio Times magazine about criticism surrounding the upcoming World Cup, and gave a view that probably wouldn't have seemed controversial if he wasn't talking about Russia.