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Judicial Watch sues CIA for communications targeting Trump

Sharyl Attkisson
sharylattkisson.com
Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:01 UTC
CIA logo
The following is from the watchdog group Judicial Watch:

Judicial Watch announced that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for records of communications and meetings between then-CIA Director Gina Haspel and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Central Intelligence Agency (No. 1:21-cv-03387)).

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on December 31, 2021, after the CIA failed to respond to a September 15, 2021, Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for:

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Bullseye

Fact-Checkers are used to confuse the public: Sharyl Attkisson

Masooma Haq and Jan Jekielek
The Epoch Times
Sun, 23 Jan 2022 00:00 UTC
Sharyl Attkisson
© York Du/The Epoch TimesSharyl Attkisson, a five-time Emmy Award winning investigative journalist and host of "Full Measure," in Leesburg, Virginia, on Jan. 14, 2022.
Five-time Emmy award-winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson said she has seen an increased effort to manipulate the public to appreciate censorship and disapprove of journalism. One of the strategies that has been employed is the use of third-party fact-checkers, she said.

"Nearly every mode of information has been co-opted, if it can be co-opted by some group, [and] fact-checkers are no different," Attkisson told EpochTV's "American Thought Leaders."

"Either they've been co-opted, in many instances, or created for the purpose of distributing narratives and propaganda," said Attkisson. "This is all part of a very well-funded, well-organized landscape that dictates and slants the information they want us to have."

Attkisson said she first started to notice news being controlled in the early 2000s when the media company she was working for was actively trying to suppress certain stories.

"The pushback came to be more about keeping a story from airing or keeping a study from being reported on the news, not just giving the other side, not just making sure it was accurately reported," she said of pharmaceutical company stories she was covering at the time.

Comment: SOTT.net has been publishing articles about the so-called fact checkers for quite some time now. So much so that even we came under the prevaricating eye of one of these bought and paid for propagandists:

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Yellow Vest

Protest truckers vow to remain at Canada/U.S. border blockade

Sheila Gunn Reid
Rebel News
Tue, 01 Feb 2022 01:06 UTC
truck protest mandates coutts border crossing convoy
© Jake ZachariasA convoy of trucks and other vehicles is blocking northbound and southbound traffic on Highway 4 near the Coutts border in southern Alberta on Jan. 29, 2022.
A standoff has ensued at the Alberta/Montana border, where truckers supporting the Freedom Convoy have vowed to remain despite police presence.

UPDATE from Kian Simone (4:40 p.m. ET): RCMP negotiators have met with a group of around 50 truckers who are blocking the border in Coutts, Alberta. The truckers are here in support of the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa to end all mandates. The RCMP has blocked all roads into the border town, denying supporters access to food and water. After three days of blockading, the protesters have opened a lane to let gridlocked truckers, who are not part of the protest, leave. This decision was made in hopes the police would allow food and water past the checkpoints. The ongoing negotiations have ended on a "part one" basis and will eventually continue, with both sides for a hopeful resolution. Sydney Fizzard and I have been on scene since 3 a.m. last night, bringing Rebel News viewers the other side of the story.

Tensions are ratcheting up with police and tow trucks descending on the scene. Blockaders have now opened up one lane of traffic to allow locals, school buses and emergency vehicles access to the border.
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Sheriff

China's GDP surpasses EU's 27-member bloc for the first time ever


Global Times
Mon, 31 Jan 2022 22:52 UTC
Europe EU HQ
© XinhuaNorwegian experts claim that corruption, instability, poverty and issues with democracy would prevent Kiev from swift accession
Chinas GDP has surpassed that of the European Union for the first time in history in 2021, one year earlier than previously estimated, as EU posted its whole-year GDP performance on Monday.

The 27-member EU posted a preliminary annual GDP growth of 5.2 percent on Monday, which translates into a GDP of 14.09 trillion euros, roughly $15.73 trillion in current dollars, below Chinas $18 trillion GDP recorded in 2021.


Comment: China has passed the EU by a significant margin, one suspects that the EU only has itself to blame for carrying on with the nonsensical lockdowns for well over a year longer than China did. Although, there's good reason to suspect that the WEF/BBB affiliated leaders aren't too concerned about destroying their own economies since deindustrialisation the planet seems to be part of the agenda.


China beat market expectations with an 8.1-percent-grwoth for 2021, with GDP reaching 114.37 trillion yuan ($18 trillion), according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on January 17.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Why You Should Question Media Reports About China 'Causing Covid' And 'Invading Taiwan'



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Noem bill would allow employees to sue over COVID vaccination mandates

Kim Jarrett
Just the News
Thu, 27 Jan 2022 11:23 UTC
Noam/Protesters
© RSBN/AP/Rich PedroncelliSouth Dakota Governor Kristi Noam • The people speak out
The proposed legislation would require employers to grant exemptions for medical or religious reasons as well for natural immunity.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is proposing a bill that would allow employees to sue employers if they are denied an exemption from a COVID-19 vaccination. The governor unveiled legislation Thursday that would require employers to grant the exemptions for medical or religious reasons.

Employers also would be required to recognize natural immunity as an exemption. The employee must provide proof of a positive serum antibody test from a qualified laboratory within 180 days of requesting the exemption. The employer could require another test to renew the exemption, according to the bill.

Noem said in a statement:
"The COVID vaccination should be a choice, and we should reject the efforts that we are seeing in other parts of the country to divide us into two classes: vaccinated and unvaccinated. Unvaccinated Americans are still Americans."
The bill would exempt the National Guard. The Pentagon is requiring the COVID-19 vaccine for all National Guard members.

Employees who are "injured by a violation of this Act may apply for injunctive and declaratory relief, without bond, to restrain their employer from violating this Act," according to the bill.

Comment: Governor Noem aims to make these exemptions permanent and to extend them to employees of private businesses.
Gov. Noem has largely become known as a strong conservative fighter in her home state of South Dakota, and she recently shared her thoughts on the Supreme Court of the United States' (SCOTUS) ruling to strike down one of Joe Biden's federal vaccine mandates.

Noem additionally promised in her statement that she would be, "working with the legislature to pass protections for private employees, just like we have already done for state workers."

On Thursday, Gov. Noem additionally released a statement clarifying her position on the Covid vaccine and her legislative proposal:
"The COVID vaccination should be a choice, and we should reject the efforts that we are seeing in other parts of the country to divide us into two classes: vaccinated and unvaccinated. Americans are still Americans. We live in a free country - free to make our own decisions. In South Dakota, we will protect the liberty of our people to make the best decisions for themselves and their families."


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Star of David

Israel is tightening its grip on Syria's Golan Heights by creating 'Facts on the Ground'

Jessica Buxbaum
MintPress News
Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:00 UTC
Mom and kid
© Ariel Schalit/APUltra orthodox Jews in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Aug. 4, 2020.
On Dec. 15, 1981, the Knesset (Israel's parliament) enacted a law officially annexing the Golan Heights — Syrian territory captured by Israel during the 1967 Six Day War. Now, 40 years later, the Israeli government hopes to double the size of Jewish settlements there by the end of this decade, in an effort human-rights activists see as further normalizing a forgotten occupation.

Last month, the Israeli government approved a $300 million plan to promote Jewish settlement expansion in the occupied Golan Heights. In response, Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel and Al-Marsad - Arab Human Rights Center in Golan Heights submitted a letter to Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett this month demanding the plan's cancellation, given that it is a violation of international law to build settlements on occupied land.

Adalah attorney Suhad Bishara said in a press release:
"Attempts to normalize the occupation of the Syrian Golan have no validity in international law and the status of the Golan Heights remains occupied territory."
The Israeli government has yet to respond to the organizations' letter.
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Star of David

4th Mossad commander resigns in under a year


RT
Mon, 31 Jan 2022 02:47 UTC
mossad
Four senior Israeli spy agency officials have allegedly resigned over disagreements with the newly appointed Mossad director.

Barnea, who joined Mossad in 1996 before becoming head of its Tzomet Division in 2013, Mossad deputy head in 2019, and finally director of the agency in 2021, has been described as a "gadget-loving killing machine" and has reportedly sought to take Mossad back to a code of absolute silence - threatening both current and former agents who speak to the media about operations.

After being appointed director of the agency by former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in June, Barnea singled out Iran as its top priority, accusing the country of "making constant progress toward a weapons of mass destruction program."

"Our security challenges are very big and at the top of the list is Iran," he said.

An unnamed commander of Mossad's special operations division has resigned, according to Israeli media. He reportedly became the fourth high-profile official to leave Mossad in seven months since David Barnea became director of the Israeli intelligence agency in June 2021.
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Take 2

Free speech, drugs, COVID controversies: Why Joe Rogan remains the world's most popular podcaster

Ian Miles Cheong
RT
Mon, 31 Jan 2022 20:11 UTC
rogan
© Getty Images / Alex Trautwig
Love him or hate him, Joe Rogan is both the most popular podcaster in the world and one of the most controversial, but there's no doubt about his influence and his millions-strong listener base, which eclipses even those of the corporate media outlets. With a small team, a couple of microphones, and a room, the 54-year-old New Jersey native has created 'The Joe Rogan Experience' - an audio and video podcast that's extremely listenable, regardless of where you stand on the political spectrum.

Broadcast exclusively on Spotify, it has fast become the most listened-to podcast on the platform, having been overtaken in the number-one spot only briefly and locally a few times in 2021. Its numbers far surpass those of CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC, and exceed even those of primetime king Tucker Carlson.
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Americans don't want Biden focused on race or gender of Supreme Court nominee - poll


RT
Mon, 31 Jan 2022 20:07 UTC
breyer and biden
© Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesJoe Biden shakes hands with US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer in the Roosevelt Room of the White House
A new ABC News/Ipsos poll has found a majority of Americans disapprove of President Joe Biden's pledge to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court, with most saying they want him to consider "all possible nominees."

The survey, conducted days after Justice Stephen G. Breyer announced his retirement, found 76% of respondents would prefer Biden reviewed "all possible nominees," rather than keep to his promise to find the most qualified black woman - a pledge he made during the 2020 presidential election campaign.

If Biden makes good on his promise, it would mark the first time a black woman had presided over the Supreme Court. However, Americans seem less focused on the nominee's race than their president, with only 23% saying they want him to stick to his pledge. Biden recommitted to it during a recent event honoring Breyer.
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Red Pill

Gender-inclusive language risks 'dehumanising women', top researchers argue

Wendy Tuohy
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sat, 29 Jan 2022 19:59 UTC
baby
© ALAMY
Replacing words like "women" and "mothers" with terms like "birth-givers" and "pregnant people" in research risks dehumanising women and would harm decades of work to improve the visibility of women in medical literature.

That is the conclusion of 10 prominent women's health researchers from Australia, the US, Europe and Asia who will argue in a paper published next week that replacing words like "breastfeeding" with terms such as "lactating parents" risks "reducing protection of the mother-infant [bond]" and "disembodying and undermining breastfeeding".

The authors acknowledge words are changing to ensure inclusion of those who give birth but do not identify as women, but they argue against removing references to the sex of mothers in research and medical information.

"Desexing the language of female reproduction has been done with a view to being sensitive to individual needs and as beneficial, kind, and inclusive," they write in the paper. "Yet, this kindness has delivered unintended consequences that have serious implications for women and children."
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