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Elite exponents of fear politics deliberately exaggerate the 'terrorist threat' of QAnon to spread alarm across the US

Frank Furedi
RT
Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:50 UTC
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© Carlos Barria/ReutersTrump supporters with a QAnon flag at an Oregon rally in September, 2020
It's clear that gullible people do not have a monopoly on the promotion of conspiracy theories. The elite's scaremongering about QAnon is designed to increase fear of the far right and drive demand for more aggressive policing.

Michelle Cottle, who is a member of the New York Times editorial board, recently highlighted an example of the favourite conspiracy theory peddled by the mainstream US media. Her opinion piece, 'Don't Let QAnon Bully Congress', comes with the warning that "steps must be taken to safeguard the seat of government."

Cottle, like many of her colleagues, is devoted to a conspiracy theory that evokes an over-the-top drama about a supposedly insurrectionary threat posed by members of QAnon. Citing the acting chief of the Capitol Police, who has warned that extremists are talking about blowing up the Capitol during President Biden's first address to a joint meeting of Congress, she pleads for more security.

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Bad Guys

How nine Mexican cartels are responsible for flooding the streets of the United States with drugs

Adry Torres
Daily Mail
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:26 UTC
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© Illustration by Steve McNiven, Colouring by R.Klkuo Johnson
Nine major Mexican cartels are responsible for flooding US cities with fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana, according to an annual report by the US Drug Enforcement Administration.

The DEA's 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment, which was published Tuesday, shows how each of the key players exert their influence over different parts of the US.

A map shows how El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel and their rivals the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) were the dominant forces in funneling drugs over the Mexico-United States border in 2020.

Comment: History demonstrates that it is not only the Mexican cartels who are responsible for flooding the USA with drugs. From the 2014 New American article U.S. government and top Mexican drug cartel exposed as partners:
For over a decade, under multiple administrations, the U.S. government had a secret agreement with the ruthless Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed it to operate with impunity, an in-depth investigation by a leading Mexican newspaper confirmed this week. In exchange for information and assistance in quashing competing criminal syndicates, the Bush and Obama administrations let the Sinaloa cartel import tons of drugs into the United States while wiping out Sinaloa competitors and ensuring that its leaders would not be prosecuted for their long list of major crimes. Other revelations also point strongly to massive but clandestine U.S. government involvement in drug trafficking.

Relying on over 100 interviews with current and former government functionaries on both sides of the border, as well as official documents from the U.S. and Mexican governments, Mexico's El Universal concluded that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the U.S. Justice Department had secretly worked with Mexican drug lords.

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The newspaper's investigation also confirmed long-held suspicions that U.S. authorities were signing secret agreements with Mexican drug cartels - especially Sinaloa, which CIA operatives have said was a favorite for use in achieving geo-political objectives. Supposedly without the knowledge or approval of officials in Mexico, ICE and DEA, with a green light from Washington, D.C., made deals with criminal bosses allowing them to avoid prosecution for a vast crime spree that has included mass murder, corruption, bribery, drug trafficking, extortion, and more. In exchange, cartel leaders simply had to help U.S. officials eliminate their competitors - certainly a win-win scenario for crime bosses who prefer to operate without competition or fear of prosecution.


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Compass

Matthew McConaughey giving running for governor of Texas 'true consideration'

Andy Sahadeo
Fox News
Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:23 UTC
Matthew McConaughey
© Gary Miller/Getty ImagesMatthew McConaughey may be getting involved in politics in the future.
Matthew McConaughey could be headed for a career in politics in the near future.

In a recent appearance on The Balanced Voice podcast, host Rania Mankarious said Texans would be "very happy" to have McConaughey as governor of the Lone Star State.

The 51-year-old actor then briefly replied, "It's a true consideration."

In November, McConaughey also discussed running for office in his home state of Texas and hinted at a future run in politics if the demand was there.

Comment: McConaughey could be another breath of political fresh air, just as Trump has been. Stay tuned!

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Attention

Thousands of migrants pouring over US border overwhelm government agents

Isabel Vincent
New York Post
Sat, 06 Mar 2021 17:08 UTC
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© John Moore/Getty ImagesA U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer speaks with immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Thousands of Central American migrants, many of them unaccompanied children, have been streaming across the southern border in recent days, overwhelming government agents.

Many of those trying to cross the border had been told by Mexican officials that they would be able to enter the US. In one camp on the Mexican side of the border, which had been set up two years ago, some asylum seekers were told that may reopen their cases and they would eventually be able to enter the US to wait out the asylum process, according to a CBS report.

Mexican authorities have long tried to close the improvised camps that have been set up by migrants attempting to cross into the US.

Comment: The 'Biden administration' continues to minimize the scope of the crisis it set in motion:
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday refused to characterize the spiraling situation at the US-Mexico border as a "crisis," even as the number of detained children has surged and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has resorted to asking for volunteers to help hold the line.


The number of children detained in cramped federal facilities along the border has more than tripled in the past two weeks to more than 3,250, the New York Times reported Tuesday, with more than a third of those kids held past the 72 hours they're legally allowed to be kept before being transferred to shelters.

Psaki refused to confirm those figures — which the Times obtained from government documents — and directed reporters to DHS, even after being told that the federal agency had declined comment.




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Network

Russia begins slowing down Twitter over child porn, suicide & drug-use claims as regulator warns it could block service altogether


RT
Wed, 10 Mar 2021 07:58 UTC
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Twitter users in Russia are about to find it takes longer to share their thoughts online, as authorities start slowing the service's connection speeds amid a row over illegal content hosted by the US-based social media giant.

Communications regulator Roskomnadzor issued a statement on Wednesday morning announcing the decision, which it says is because Twitter "does not remove content that incites minors to commit suicide, contains child pornography or information about the use of drugs."

The watchdog claims it has sent more than 28,000 requests for posts, links and publications to be deleted or blocked on the platform. However, at present, "3,168 pieces of content containing prohibited information... remain not deleted." These reportedly include more than 2,500 calls for children to kill themselves and 450 involving child pornography.

Comment: Twitter blocks and censors pretty much everything and everybody that doesn't go with the official lies and half-truths of the PTB, while at the same time enabling content that incites children to commit suicide, contains child pornography, or information about the use of drugs. It is just an extended hand of the PTB in their aggressive imposition of the "new normal" over humanity.

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Quenelle

'Shoot till they are dead' - Some Myanmar police say fled to India after refusing orders

Devjyot Ghoshal
Reuters
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
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© AP PhotoMyanmar riot police crossing blockage during a protest against the military coup in Mandalay, Myanmar.
When Tha Peng was ordered to shoot at protesters with his submachine gun to disperse them in the Myanmar town of Khampat on Feb. 27, the police lance corporal said he refused.

"The next day, an officer called to ask me if I will shoot," he said. The 27-year-old refused again, and then resigned from the force.

On March 1, he said he left his home and family behind in Khampat and travelled for three days, mostly at night to avoid detection, before crossing into India's northeastern Mizoram state.

"I had no choice," Tha Peng told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday, speaking via a translator. He gave only part of his name to protect his identity. Reuters saw his police and national ID cards which confirmed the name.

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Magnify

Iran claims 100% success with its Covid-19 vaccine as it gears up for mass vaccine production


RT
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 15:15 UTC
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© Majid Asgaripour/WANA via REUTERSFILE PHOTO: An Iranian health official fills a syringe with Russia's Sputnik V Covid vaccine at Imam Khomeini Hospital, in Tehran, Iran
The head of Iran's indigenous vaccine development program has said the country's phase-one human trials showed "unexpectedly good" results, claiming the jab has been 100 percent successful so far.

"I promise the people of Iran that there will be no concern about access to coronavirus vaccine in the country in the next 2 months," said Mohammad Mokhber, the head of Iran's Headquarters for Executing the Order of Imam (EIKO), on Tuesday.

"The good news about the COV-Iran Barekat vaccine is that in phase one of the clinical trial, the results were unexpectedly good and the human test was 100 percent successful at this stage," Mokhber added.

The official said that mass production of the jab will begin in late spring, echoing previous comments from the Iranian government on the issue. Clinical data has yet to be published from the COV-Iran Barekat human trial.

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Eye 2

Deadly threats persist: Deaths from terrorist activity up 20%, says Janes


Janes
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:01 UTC
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2020 full-year terrorism figures from Janes highlight 2,543 more deaths in 2020 from terrorist activity than in 2019 - despite operational activity slowing down.

Data from the 2020 Global Attack Index by Janes, spanning the entirety of 2020, demonstrates a total of 17,122 non-militant deaths in 2020 resulting from attacks by non-state armed groups (NSAG), a 17.4% increase from 2019. Despite this, information from the trusted global agency for open-source defence intelligence recorded a 3.7% decrease in attacks - with 13,310 attacks by NSAG recorded from open-sources.

"The overall downturn in attacks can be largely attributed to the July ceasefire in Ukraine's Donbass region, which resulted in attacks dropping by one-third in the high-tempo separatist conflict," said Matthew Henman, head of Terrorism and Insurgency at Janes. "This decrease masked major shifts in violence in Afghanistan and key conflict zones in sub-Saharan Africa, though, where attacks and resultant fatalities rose dramatically."

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Heart - Black

The Mauritanian: With a Second War on Terror looming, a new film explores the grave abuses of the first

Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 12:48 UTC
Imprisoned without charges for fourteen years in Guantánamo, Mohamedou Slahi is a symbol of humans' impulse to abuse power and their capacity for redemption.
Glenn Greenwald - Mohamedou Slahi
Mohamedou Slahi is an extraordinary person with a harrowing past and a remarkable, still-unfolding story. The interview I conducted with him on Saturday, which can be viewed below, is one I sincerely hope you will watch. He has much to say that the world should hear, and, with a new War on Terror likely to be launched in the U.S., his story is particularly timely now.

Known as the author of the best-selling Guantánamo Diary — a memoir he wrote during his fourteen years in captivity in the U.S. prison camp at Guantánamo — he is now the primary character of a new Hollywood feature film about his life, The Mauritanian. The first eight years of Slahi's imprisonment included multiple forms of abuse in four different countries and separation from everything he knew, but it afforded no charges, trials, or opportunities to refute or even learn of the accusations against him.

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Family

Swedish feminists seek donations to pay fines for slanderous #MeToo women


RT
Wed, 10 Mar 2021 10:50 UTC
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© Deros Andres / ZumaPress via Global Look PressA MeToo protest in Gothenburg, Sweden.
A Swedish feminist group, which says "no woman should pay damages to her rapist," is soliciting donations to cover fines that courts imposed as part of successful defamation prosecutions.

Called "Fortalskassan" or "Defamation Fund," the compensation mechanism is a response to an increase in lawsuits filed by men who were accused of sex crimes by women encouraged by the #MeToo movement. It was launched by a group of influential feminists, including journalist and author Maria Sveland and actress Lo Kauppi.

Sweden has strict laws in relation to sex crimes. In 2018, the country changed the definition of rape to include any acts conducted without consent, dropping a requirement for prosecutors to prove coercion or intimidation. The result was a 75 percent hike in conviction rates in the following two years, as reported by the National Council on Crime Prevention (Bra).

Comment: Believe all women. Women are biologically incapable of lying about sexual abuse. The #MeToo movement has relied almost exclusively on trying the accused in the court of public opinion (which has a rather large bias toward guilty verdicts, regardless of the evidence or, more often, lack thereof). God forbid these accusers actually go through the existing court system in order to receive justice. Accusational tweets so much easier.

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