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The mainstream media wants the Mifsud story to just go away

Brian Cates
The Epoch Times
Mon, 05 Aug 2019 13:10 UTC
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Foreign policy advisor to US President Donald Trump's election campaign, George Papadopoulos goes through security at the US District Court for his sentencing in Washington, DC on Sept. 7, 2018.
While many mainstream media journalists have been spinning fantasies for more than two years, based on Russian collusion stories being handed to them by anonymous sources, crack reporter John Solomon of The Hill has been pursuing real leads and uncovering actual evidence.

Now, Solomon is reporting that an audiotape containing professor Joseph Mifsud's deposition has been given to both U.S. Attorney John Durham's investigators and to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

"I can report absolutely that the Durham investigators have now obtained an audiotape deposition of Joseph Mifsud, where he describes his work, why he targeted George Papadopoulos, who directed him to do that, what directions he was given, and why he set that entire process of introducing Papadopoulos to Russia in motion in March of 2016, which is really the flashpoint the starting point of this whole Russia collusion narrative," Solomon told Fox News' Sean Hannity.

"I can also confirm that the Senate Judiciary Committee has also obtained the same deposition," he said.
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Attention

Sweden set to deport underage Afghan migrant found guilty of murder

Chris Tomlinson
Breitbart
Mon, 10 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
Afghan migrant murder Nyheter Idag

The deportation of Afghan migrants from Sweden has been a major issue over the last year with PM Löfven allowing around 9,000 underage migrants to remain in the country. While the 9,000 migrants were initially labelled as “underage,” reports revealed that as many as 78 per cent of the 9,000 were actually adults claiming to be children.
A Swedish court has found a 15-year-old Afghan guilty of attempted murder and sentenced him to a year of juvenile care as well as deportation, the migrant claiming he wanted to leave Sweden as he felt bad about the attack.

The unnamed male Afghan teen had stabbed a 16-year-old in the municipality of Staffanstorp, located just outside of the heavily migrant-populated city of Malmö, on the afternoon of April 28th with the victim requiring hospitalisation, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.

While the 15-year-old admitted that he carried out the attack, he claimed that his intentions were not to kill the victim. The psychiatric evaluation showed that the Afghan national did not suffer any kind of mental issue.

According to news site Nyheter Idag, the youth requested to be sent back to Afghanistan, saying that he felt guilty about stabbing the 16-year-old.

Comment: Crime wave in Sweden: Government's immigration policy blamed for gang shootings, rapes and no-go zones

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Asma al-Assad gives first interview after recovering from cancer


Hands Off Syria
Mon, 05 Aug 2019 21:20 UTC
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Syria's First Lady Asma al Assad tells of overcoming cancer - "thankfully, I have defeated cancer completely" - and of Syria's National Cancer Control Plan.

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Stock Down

Global markets are in panic mode — sparking a wave of investment into gold, bonds and currencies

Sam Meredith
CNBC
Mon, 05 Aug 2019 08:21 UTC
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At times of market turbulence, investors tend to flee to assets expected to either retain or increase in value — such as gold, the Japanese yen and government bonds.
Global growth worries and an intensifying trade war between the world's two largest economies sparked a stampede into perceived 'safe-haven' assets on Monday.

Gold prices jumped more than 1% to hit their highest level in over six years on Monday, while the Japanese yen and core government bonds also rallied.

It comes at a time of heightened volatility in financial markets, with the pan-European Stoxx 600 falling almost 2%. That's on top of the 2.5% it lost on Friday — its worst day so far in 2019.

Comment: There are other signs the markets are struggling: Deutsche Bank slashes 18,000 jobs in brutal cull, "financial system is in trouble"

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Pills

UAE customs seize batch of 274,000 pills of 'Jihadi drug' Captagon


Sputnik
Mon, 05 Aug 2019 20:45 UTC
UAE skyline
© AP Photo / Kamran Jebreili
The customs of Dubai seized a large batch of 274,000 pills of synthetic drug Captagon, which the smugglers hid on board a small vessel, the WAM news agency reported on Sunday.

Captagon is a psychotropic substance, co-drug to amphetamine. It is also known as the "jihadist drug", since terrorists in the Middle East often use it.

According to the agency, two suitcases with drugs were hidden in the fuel tank of the ship. They were found despite the fact that there was a large amount of diesel fuel in the tank.

Comment: It was only a month ago that the biggest ever Captagon haul - 33 million pills - were seized at a Greek port. Someone - clearly a well funded and organised entity - wants to keep those Jihadi's stocked up.

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Arrow Down

French farmers: Trade deal with Canada 'distorts competition'


RT
Mon, 05 Aug 2019 07:15 UTC
Farm work France
© Reuters/Pascal Rossignol
The government-pushed trade deal with Canada provides an unfair advantage to foreign producers, disgruntled French farmers told RT as they stage protests outside the ruling party's offices across the country.

French farmers have been dumping tons of manure outside the offices of lawmakers from the ruling party, LaREM (La Republique En Marche!), in protest against the free trade agreement between the EU and Canada. The deal, known as CETA, was approved by the nation's parliament and took effect on a preliminary basis.

The agreement, among other things, removes 98 percent of tariffs between Canada and EU countries, and is intended to boost bilateral trade.

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French farmers dump manure outside politician's office protesting EU's trade deal with Canada

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Fire

Hong Kong: Mass anti-gov protests threaten to cause transportation nightmare


RT
Sun, 04 Aug 2019 17:53 UTC
Demonstrators burn stuff
© Reuters/Tyrone Siu
Demonstrators burn stuff during a protest in Hong Kong, China on August 4, 2019.
Weeks-long protests in Hong Kong over a controversial extradition bill escalated on Sunday. Protesters tried to block major tunnels as well as taking aim at public transport networks and crucial industries.

The protests continue in Hong Kong for the ninth weekend in a row. Sunday night has seen violent altercations between law enforcement and demonstrators who tried to block traffic and besiege police stations throughout the city. Over 20 people were arrested for various offenses, including assault and participation in unlawful assemblies.

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Family

American University to mandate use of preferred pronouns

Audrey Fahlberg
The College Fix
Mon, 05 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC
Identity 101
© Sarah Carter
Visiting scholar objects: 'I would not feel fully included' under 'official morality' policy.

American University's Center for Diversity and Inclusion would like to require faculty to address students by their "chosen name and pronouns," so as to make transgender, genderqueer and gender non-conforming students feel welcome. A visiting scholar who just left AU's Department of Management is so concerned about the proposal that he's trying to nix it from the top.

Adam Kissel, who formerly served in the Trump administration's Department of Education, learned about the proposal after asking the center about a "pronoun guide" on the private university's website (below). In a Wednesday letter to President Sylvia Burwell that he shared with The College Fix, Kissel expressed concerns about mandatory compliance with the pronoun guide.
"Not only would such a policy be exclusive with respect to people who have moral views that differ from those of the official morality of AU and its Center for Diversity & Inclusion, and not only would such a policy enforce a set of alleged facts that are deeply contested in American society and among scholars," he wrote, but this policy would also "violate AU's promises of academic freedom and free speech."
The university does not have an explicit policy of punishing community members who use pronouns incorrectly, but they can be investigated for failure to respect gender identity through its bias reporting system.
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Eye 1

NXIVM sex cult founder, alleged followers tied to experimental schools for children still operating internationally

Andrew Kerr and Brad Sylvester
Daily Caller
Sun, 04 Aug 2019 08:39 UTC
NXIVM sex cult
The convicted leader of the notorious NXIVM sex cult concocted an experimental child development program that's still operating internationally, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has found.

NXIVM is the Albany, New York-based "self-help" group that in 2017 was exposed of coercing numerous of its female members into becoming sex slaves branded with the initials of its leader, Keith Raniere. A federal jury in New York convicted Raniere in June on numerous charges, including sex trafficking and sexual exploitation of a child. Former "Smallville" actress Allison Mack pleaded guilty in April for the role she played in the sex slave ring.

In 2006, Raniere founded Rainbow Cultural Garden (RCG), which he called a "revolutionary child development program promoting children's cultural, linguistic, emotional, physical and problem-solving potential." The program claimed it could teach children as young as 2 years old up to seven languages simultaneously.

But cult expert Rick Alan Ross, who has studied NXIVM for more than 15 years, said RCG had nothing to do with teaching languages to children.

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Bomb

Another massive explosion at an arms depot in Russia


RT
Mon, 05 Aug 2019 16:24 UTC
arms depot siberia explosion
At least eight people were injured after a series of loud blasts rocked a military base, reportedly packed with around 40,000 artillery shells, in Russia. An evacuation of all nearby villages was ordered.

Monday's explosions happened at an army installation outside the small village of Kamenka in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia. The blasts were triggered by a fire that broke out inside a munitions depot.

A blaze is currently raging in the area, which houses around 40,000 125mm and 152mm artillery shells, typically used by tanks and howitzers, the media reported, citing military sources. Base personnel took cover in a bomb shelter when the explosions began.


Comment: The Russian military has lately had an 'unlucky run' with explosions at weapons depots and factories.

In early June this year there was a massive explosion at a munitions factory outside the city of Dzerzhinsk in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

Later the same month there was a massive explosion at an arms depot on a military base in Kazakhstan.

In August 2018 there was another major explosion at an arms factory, also in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

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