China Military Releases War Simulation Video Of Attack On US Guam Base

Following weeks of multiple Chinese fighter jet incursions over Taiwan, the Chinese air force released a shocking video on Saturday showing bombers conducting a simulated attack "on what appears to be Andersen Air Force Base on the U.S. Pacific island of Guam," according to Reuters.

Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu warned Saturday that China was increasing drills and other forms of military pressure with the threat of intervention. Wu said China's crackdown in Hong Kong is a reminder that "Taiwan might be next".

The short video, titled "The god of war H-6K goes on the attack!," was posted on the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) Weibo account, comes as the Chinese military carried out the second day of drills near Chinese-claimed Taiwan.

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) said the island in the simulation video "has more than a passing resemblance to the US facility on the island of Guam." Reuters noted the runway in the video mirrors that of Anderson's.

PLAAF wrote in the description of the video:

"We are the defenders of the motherland's aerial security; we have the confidence and ability to always defend the security of the motherland's skies."

Collin Koh, a research fellow at Singapore's Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, told Reuters the propaganda video has aims to project PLAAF's increasing long-range power.

"The video is meant to warn the Americans that even supposedly safe, rearward positions such as Guam may come under threat when conflicts over regional flashpoints, be it Taiwan or the South China Sea, erupt," Koh said.

PLAAF's H-6K bombers have a combat range of 3,700 miles and can carry nuclear weapons, long-range cruise missiles, and will one day be armed with hypersonic missiles.

Drew Thompson, a former US defense department official who was responsible for managing US relations with mainland China and Taiwan, told SCMP the video is a warning to surrounding countries:

"The messages put out by the People's Republic of China propaganda machine threaten anyone who opposes [mainland] China or the Communist Party," Thompson said. "[The footage] warns that the PLA is prepared to use force to settle differences."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-military-releases-war-simulation-video-attack-us-guam-base

H.R. McMaster: Some WH Advisers ‘Cast Themselves In The Role Of Saving The Country And Maybe The World From Trump’

Former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said Sunday that there were some White House advisers who believed their job was to save the world from President Donald Trump.

McMaster explained that when he joined CBS’ Scott Pelley to discuss his new book, “Battlegrounds,” on “60 Minutes.”

Pelley introduced McMaster, a three-star general who claims no allegiance to either political party, saying, “He told us the last few presidents, not just President Trump, have left the United States vulnerable in the eyes of those who would do us harm. How do our competitors view the United States today?”

McMaster said that competitors — specifically China and Russia — likely see the United States as “weak and divided.”

“I think they see an opportunity. I think China thinks it’s winning. You know, China sees an America that is divided against each other,” McMaster said, citing what he called the “triple crisis of Covid-19” — the spread of the virus, the subsequent recession and the civil unrest that followed the death of George Floyd.

“And so, China is acting, I think, now much more aggressively because they think it’s time to do it. They have a window of opportunity to exploit our weaknesses and to come after us. I think Russia feels the same way. I think other adversaries could feel the same way,” McMaster explained.

“The very first line in your book is, ‘This is not the book that most people wanted me to write,'” Pelley prompted then.

“Right. People wanted me to write another tell-all about my time in the Trump Administration,” McMaster said. “People wanted me to write another book about palace intrigue. I think what Americans need today is we need— we need— a discussion— a meaningful, a respectful discussion about these very serious challenges to our security, our prosperity and our influence in the world.”

McMaster went on to say that while he got a wide range of advice from friends and family members — both for and against — when he was asked to serve in the Trump administration, he found the decision to be an easy one.

Pelley went on to ask McMaster what he thought about rivalries within the West Wing, and the former National Security Adviser explained that he believed there were several different agendas in play.

“There is certainly one group of people there who are there to serve the elected president and to serve the country,” he said. “I think there are other groups there though, as well, a second group that is there really, instead of providing options to the elected president, they really want to advance their narrow agendas. And then I think there’s a third group, and I think this is true probably of any administration, who cast themselves in the role of saving the country and maybe the world from the president.”

“Were you trying to save the world from the president?” Pelley asked.

“No. It was my duty to help the president come to his own decisions,” McMaster replied.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/21/hr-mcmaster-white-house-advisers-trump-60-minutes-scott-pelley/

The Epstein Mossad Connection

The Epstein Mossad Connection from Ryan Dawson

I’m pretty sure that Kushner knew about 911 in advance. He built a large amount of new office space across the river from the Towers, even tho it wasn’t needed… until 911 happened. RCCW

Mossad, short for HaMossad leModiʿin uleTafkidim Meyuḥadim, is the national intelligence agency of Israel. It is one of the main entities in the Israeli Intelligence Community, along with Aman and Shin Bet.

https://youtu.be/e6hC4_xy2YY

Microsoft To Buy 'Doom'-Maker Bethesda Softworks For $7.5 Billion

Having failed to lock down TikTok, Microsoft took charge of Merger Monday in what was otherwise a dismal trading session, when it announced it would drastically expand its games business with the acquisition of ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks - the largest privately-held game developers and publishers in the world - for $7.5 billion in cash. Bloomberg reports the deal is expected to close sometime in the second half of 2021 and have an insignificant impact to non-GAAP operating income in 2021 and 2022.

The deal will allow Microsoft's Xbox to have direct ownership to top-selling games, including "Fallout," "The Elder Scrolls," "Doom," "Quake," "Wolfenstein," "Prey" and "Dishonored." Microsoft will also integrate Bethesda's franchises to its Xbox Game Pass cloud-based service, which has about 15 million subscribers.

The acquisition is expected to boost Microsoft's creative studio teams from 15 to 23. The deal is three times bigger than Microsoft's largest game acquisition, "Minecraft," in 2014 for $2.5 billion.

According to CEO Satya Nadella the deal will allow the company to control more of the gaming market worldwide.

"Gaming is the most expansive category in the entertainment industry, as people everywhere turn to gaming to connect, socialize and play with their friends," said Nadella. "Quality differentiated content is the engine behind the growth and value of Xbox Game Pass—from Minecraft to Flight Simulator. As a proven game developer and publisher, Bethesda has seen success across every category of games, and together, we will further our ambition to empower the more than three billion gamers worldwide."

Phil Spencer, executive vice president, Gaming at Microsoft, said, "This is an awesome time to be an Xbox fan. In the last ten days alone, we've released details on our two new consoles which go on pre-order tomorrow, launched cloud gaming in Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and now we're making another investment in the most critical part of our strategy: the games."

ZeniMax CEO Robert Altman said both companies had worked together for decades.

"The big winners today are our fans," ZeniMax CEO Robert Altman said in a statement. "Our games can only get better."

The move comes 49 days before Xbox is expected to launch its next big video game consoles on Nov. 10.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/microsoft-acquire-doom-maker-bethesda-softworks-75-billion

Ocasio-Cortez: Impeachment of AG Barr, Trump on the Table to Stop SCOTUS Pick

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Sunday night at a joint press conference with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called on Democrats to buy time with procedural tools which she said could include impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr.

Earlier in the press conference, Ocasio-Cortez said, “We must also commit to using every procedural tool available to us to ensure that we buy ourselves the time necessary. We must commit to allowing and considering and utilizing every single procedural tool available to us again to buy that time.”

When a reporter asked if buying time could include impeachment of President Trump or Attorney General Barr, Ocasio-Cortez said, “Well, I think I am. I believe that certainly, there has been an enormous amount of law-breaking in the Trump administration. I believe that Attorney General Barr are is unfit for office am, and I am that he has pursued potential we are breaking he here. That being said, this is these are procedures that are in decisions are largely up to house Democratic leadership. But I believe that I also we must consider all the tools available to our disposal and that all of these options should be entertained and on the table.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/09/21/ocasio-cortez-impeachment-of-ag-barr-trump-on-the-table-to-stop-scotus-pick/

Ultra-Orthodox Jews set dumpster on fire during anti-lockdown protests in Israel

Ultra-Orthodox protesters took to the streets in several Israeli cities to express their anger over the government’s decision to impose a second nationwide lockdown, which interfered with Jewish New Year celebrations.

Residents of Jerusalem and Bnei Brak rallied on Sunday against the strict three-week quarantine, which began on the eve of Rosh Hashanah. The measures, purportedly put in place to stop the spread of coronavirus, prohibit Israelis from traveling more than one kilometer (0.6 miles) from their homes – a restriction that irked many who planned to celebrate the Jewish holiday with family.

In Bnei Brak, demonstrators marched through the streets and set a dumpster on fire. Some of the protesters reportedly called police “Nazis.” Law enforcement arrested one individual for allegedly disturbing public order, local media reported.

A leading member of the ultra-Orthodox community in the city told the Times of Israel that the “protest is meant to express the feeling of pain in the face of the lockdown’s destructive consequences, which harm religious institutions, the economy and the well-being of residents.”

Hundreds of people also protested in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem.

Several thousand protesters also gathered outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home on Sunday evening. One person was arrested after reportedly driving his car toward a police barricade. Police pulled the individual from the vehicle before restraining him.

צילומים בלעדיים ל"שיחה מקומית" של החשוד בניסיון הדריסה בהפגנה בירושלים מבצע את המעשה ונעצר. מהמשטרה במחוז ירושלים נמסר כי החשוד הועבר לחקירה.צילום: אורן זיו pic.twitter.com/7ucKLlAmdX

— שיחה מקומית (@mekomit) September 20, 2020

Although all non-essential activity is banned under the lockdown, protests are still allowed if they follow social distancing rules. Many Israelis reportedly traveled during the holiday weekend under the guise of attending protests.

Israel has seen a spike in new coronavirus cases, but daily deaths remain low. In total, the country has registered 188,000 Covid-19 cases, resulting in 1,256 fatalities since the start of the pandemic.

The Israeli government claims the second lockdown is necessary to avoid a serious health crisis. Netanyahu’s critics have accused the scandal-plagued prime minister of using the pandemic to distract from his falling political support and corruption trial.

https://www.rt.com/news/501241-israel-orthodox-covid-lockdown-protest/

Trump says to expect SCOTUS nominee Friday or Saturday, after Justice Ginsburg's funeral

The president has narrowed his choices down to five

President Donald Trump says he will announce his nominee to fill the United States Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death by this weekend.

In an interview on "Fox & Friends" Monday morning, the president said he will announce his decision "Friday or Saturday," after funeral services for Justice Ginsburg.

"I think it will be on Friday or Saturday," Trump said. "We want to pay respect; it looks like we will have, probably, services on Thursday or Friday, as I understand it. I think, you know, with all due respect, we should wait until the services are over for Justice Ginsburg."

"So we're looking probably at Friday or maybe Saturday," Trump added.

Brian Kilmeade asked the president about three of his rumored top choices for the court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Judge Barbara Lagoa of the Eleventh Circuit, and Judge Allison Jones Rushing of the Fourth Circuit. The president confirmed that Lagoa is under consideration.

"Well, she's excellent. She's Hispanic. She's a terrific woman from everything I know; I don't know her," Trump said, noting that Lagoa is from Florida and "we love Florida."

Lagoa is one of the recent additions to President Trump's Supreme Court list, along with Rushing. The president said he's narrowed his choices from that list down to five.

"They're all very smart," Trump said. "There are actually five I'm looking at; it's down to five. It could be any one of them; they'll all be great. These are really top people, if you get on that list — I created a list, and Biden should do that too."

Trump criticized Biden's potential Supreme Court nominees as all "major radical left players," saying Biden would upset his base if he appointed a centrist judge instead of a member of the "AOC plus three crowd."

"He's got a problem. If he puts somebody on that is not going to be popular with a certain group of people, they will all run away from him like the plague," Trump said.

Trump declined to reveal who else is under consideration when pressed.

"I'd rather not say, but they're two fantastic people," Trump said. "So I'm looking at five, probably four, but I'm looking at five very seriously. I'm going to make a decision on either Friday or Saturday. I will announce it either Friday or Saturday, and then the work begins. But hopefully it won't be too much work, because these are very qualified people; no matter how you would look at it, these are the finest people in the nation. Young people, pretty young, for the most part."

Steve Doocy asked the president whether electoral politics is influencing his decision, noting that Lagoa being from Florida may sway Florida voters in November. "Is politics gonna be part of it?" Doocy asked.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-scotus-nominee-friday-saturday

ViacomCBS Launches Mass ‘Vote For Your Life’ Campaign

ViacomCBS has launched a mass voter registration, early voting, and get-out-the-vote campaign called “Vote For Your Life,” in response to the so-called “crisis” caused by the Chinese coronavirus ahead of the November election.

The push launched Thursday in partnership with the Ad Council, according to the company’s website, which added MTV will pay for ballot application printing and postage for American voters.

“Voter registration is down by as much as 70% in some states, largely affecting Millennials and Gen Z voters aged 18-30,” wrote Viacom. “Adding to this registration crisis, the pandemic is making it even more critical for all voters to learn about and take advantage of their options to vote early or absentee.”

The website goes on to stress it is “critical” that Millennials and Generation Z are engaged in the 2020 election, adding the Vote For Your Life initiative seeks to expand voter access, “particularly for young people and first-time voters.”

Moreover, the initiative affirms it will “connect the urgency of voting with the issues that 18-30 year-olds, primarily Black and Latino audiences, care about.”

The campaign will be available in both English and Spanish, and will highlight issues such as “jobs,” “security and justice,” and “mental health.”

“With the pandemic, social injustices, protesting and environmentally caused catastrophes like the wild fires on the West Coast and the hurricanes on the East Coast, our audiences are facing unprecedented and life-wrenching decisions which make the 2020 election so important to their daily lives,” said Chris McCarthy, President, Entertainment & Youth Group, ViacomCBS.

“That’s why we’re launching the Vote For Your Life campaign to give them the resources to easily register, check their early voting options, vote safely and as early as possible,” he added.

The president and CEO of the Ad Council Lisa Sherman added “the Vote For Your Life platform is urging potential voters to participate in the 2020 election as if their lives depend on it… because they do.”

“We know that Americans everywhere are passionate about a variety of issues, yet they don’t always see voting as an effective way to make an impact on what matters most to them,” she added. “With our incredible partners at ViacomCBS, we’re connecting the urgency of voting with the causes people care about and providing them the tools to easily participate in the upcoming election.”

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/09/21/viacomcbs-launches-mass-vote-for-your-life-campaign/

TikTok Parent Company ByteDance Disputes $5 Billion Government Fee in Deal with Oracle

TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has emphasized that it will remain in control of the TikTok Global business which appears to contradict President Trump’s recent statement that the entity will be direct by Americans and pay a $5 billion fee to the U.S. government.

Bloomberg reports that TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance has emphasized that it will remain in control of TikTok Global which was recently founded to meet the Trump administration’s demands that an American firm stays in control of the app and it’s user data.

President Trump recently granted preliminary approval for a deal in which Oracle and Walmart will partner with the popular Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok in the United States, allowing the app to continue to operate within the country.

Speaking to reporters on the White House South Lawn before departing for North Carolina, President Trump stated: “I have given the deal my blessing — if they get it done that’s great, if they don’t that’s okay too. I approved the deal in concept.”

The U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it would delay the prohibition of U.S. transactions with TikTok until next Sunday as the deal is officially reviewed and approved. Before President Trump’s comments, Oracle announced that it was chosen as TikTok’s secure cloud provider and will become a minority investor in the company with a 12.5 percent stake.

Now, ByteDance appears to be disputing claims by President Trump that TikTok Global will be directed by Americans and that the company will pay a $5 billion fee to the U.S. government. In a blog post entitled “clarifying groundless rumors about TikTok,” ByteDance contest the President’s assertions that the TikTok will be paying $5 billion to the U.S. government.

ByteDance stated that the figure was an estimate of the amount of taxes TikTok Global would pay over several years if the business was successful. ByteDance is currently seeking a valuation of $60 billion for TikTok Global in which ByteDance may end up owning as much as 80 percent after investments from Oracle and Walmart.

In the recent blog post, ByteDance stated: “As for the so-called $5 billion tax to the U.S. Treasury, that refers to an estimate of the corporate income tax and other taxes TikTok will have to pay in coming years as part of its business development. TikTok is confident in its future but the actual tax amount will have to be determined in accordance with the actual state of the business and American tax structures.”

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/09/21/tiktok-parent-company-bytedance-disputes-5-billion-government-fee-in-deal-with-oracle/

Farage: ‘Say No!’ to Second National Lockdown, Reject Boris Johnson’s ‘Elective Dictatorship’

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said the UK must reject a second national lockdown, warning of a “complete and utter catastrophe” if Prime Minister Boris Johnson implements another.

Mr Farage admitted that self-isolation might make some sense for vulnerable people, such as the elderly, chronically ill, or the very obese, but said: “It does not make sense for the whole of the country to isolate and I think we’re at a point now where the cure is becoming worse than the disease itself.”

He warned that should the government introduce a second national lockdown, “the spectre of mass unemployment becomes all too real,” and that it will have a serious impact on the mental health of millions of people.

“I think the time has come for us to say loudly and clearly ‘no’ to a second lockdown,” the arch-Brexiteer said on Sunday.

Mr Farage also decried the imposition of the £10,000 fine for those found to have broken the now mandatory self-isolation regulations. He alleged that the decision was undemocratic, in that it was made by Health Secretary Matt Hancock, alongside a “small group in Number 10”, without any parliamentary consent.

“We are supposed to be living in a democracy; actually, it’s becoming increasingly like an elective dictatorship,” he said.

Mr Farage called on his supporters to lobby their local MPs, and demand that they stand up in parliament to oppose a second national lockdown and to “insist that rule by ministerial decree comes to an end, and we get back to being a functioning democracy”.

“None of these draconian measures… should be done without full open debate in parliament,” he said.

Farage Compares UK to East Germany After Patel Says She’d Call Police if Neighbours Broke Coronavirus Rules https://t.co/2Ghy6pHeps

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) September 15, 2020

Noting the support from the Labour Party, Farage said that “you’d think the way the government’s behaving, you’d think Jeremy Corbyn had actually won the last election.”

He went on to criticise the apparent double standards that have been in place during the China virus pandemic, where police have allowed Black Lives Matter protests, but have clamped down on anti-lockdown protests.

“If you want to go and desecrate the Cenotaph, or vandalise Churchill’s statue, or topple statues and chuck them in the dock in Bristol, or even wear paramilitary uniforms and march through the streets of Brixton, well that’s fine because you can pretty much guarantee that nothing will happen to you.”

Prime Minister Johnson is expected to give an address to the nation on Tuesday to unveil his government’s plans for the China virus going into the winter months.

He is expected to announce what the government is terming the ‘circuit breaker’ — an on and off two-week national lockdowns until the spring, in order to stem the spread of a so-called second wave.

A senior government source told The Sun: “There’s not much on the cards to look forward to. The next six months’ll be pretty s***.”

Boris Brings in £10,000 Quarantine Fines as Khan Demands Lockdown https://t.co/TosuCeEoGy

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) September 20, 2020

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/09/21/farage-say-no-second-national-lockdown-reject-boris-johnsons-elective-dictatorship/

Mexican Border State Mayor Calls for Executing Drug Lords

A Mexican border state mayor called for the government to take a hard line against drug lords. He suggested having them shot rather than taking a soft approach like the one that current Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been widely criticized for.

“Drug trafficking and drug lords need to be sent to the firing squad like they do in other countries,” said Celida Lopez Cardenas, the mayor of Hermosillo, Sonora, during her second state of the city address last week. “They should be shot for poisoning our youth, they (drug lords) need to go to the front, but to the front of a firing squad to be responsible for the punishment they bring to our city.

During her address, largely ignored by Mexican news outlets, Lopez spoke about the progress being made in her city. The mayor also lashed out against drug traffickers and those who enable the practice. She claimed it wasn’t enough for authorities to freeze assets or send drug traffickers to prison.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/09/20/mexican-border-state-mayor-calls-for-sending-drug-lords-to-the-firing-squad/

Delingpole: Boris Goes Full Fascist Against Lockdown Protests – But Not BLM or XR

Here is some footage of the Metropolitan Police charging into action against demonstrators in London’s Trafalgar Square.

The police have charged anti-lockdown protesters in Trafalgar Square.

The police are spoiling for a fight with peaceful protesters when they take the knee for BLM.

Decent society is under attack from all quarters.pic.twitter.com/HnmgPulJMP

— Darren of Plymouth (@DarrenPlymouth) September 19, 2020

How much braver, more confident — and aggressive! — they look than the hapless colleagues caught on camera in June fleeing from a BLM demonstration, pursued by a jeering mob chanting ‘Run, Piggy! Run!’

Is this a sign that car crash Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Home Secretary Priti Patel have finally got a grip on law and order in the United Kingdom?

Sadly not. It’s a sign, rather, that under Johnson’s disastrous premiership Britain is enforcing a bizarre and unjust authoritarianism where genuinely malign forces such as Extinction Rebellion and Black Lives Matter — who even managed to blockade Oxford Circus on Sunday — get treated with kid gloves, while peaceful lovers of liberty like the anti-lockdown, anti-mask demonstrators in Trafalgar Square on Saturday are maligned, misrepresented and ruthlessly crushed with arrests, brutality and swingeing fines.

The economic damage inflicted on Britain by the spoiled hard-left, anti-freedom, anti-prosperity cry-bullies of Extinction Rebellion has run into the tens of millions. This deeply unpleasant outfit has brought cities to a standstill, preventing commuters from getting to work, ambulances reaching hospitals, families from seeing their dying relatives. It has wasted many hours of police time. It has vandalised statues, dug up the lawns of a Cambridge college, even threatened the safety of airports. That’s why Richard Walton — former head of the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command — has argued that they are dangerous extremists who should be put behind bars.

The same can be said of the Black Lives Matter demonstrators who have vandalised public property (including a number of statues), attacked passers-by and injured numerous police, including the police rider thrown from her bolting horse after it was startled by BLM activists.

Compare and contrast this aggressive, relentlessly provocative behaviour by XR and BLM with the peaceable crowds which have gathered on occasion to protest against what they see as the British state’s overreaction to the Chinese coronavirus. They believe that lockdowns, compulsory masks, and proposed curfews are ineffective and a needless assault on freedom; they are worried that this is all leading to the imposition of a vaccine which they believe may be unsafe — and also unnecessary for healthy people with an uncompromised immune system.

About the worst you could say about these people is that some of them — the anti-vaxxers and the anti-5G protestors in particular — are at the eccentric fringe of the debate. But they’re not damaging property, hurting anyone (except possibly in self-defence) or causing economic damage or disruption.

Why then, is it one rule for the nasties, bullies, thugs, saboteurs, and economic terrorists in the first two groups but another for the fundamentally decent, law-abiding freedom-loving members of the public in the third group?

The answer, I fear, may be even worse than cowardice.

Nelson Statue Vandal Walks Free After Judge Lets Him Off With Conditional Discharge https://t.co/kDBnS77t1X

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) August 18, 2020

Note the massive sucking up by the authorities and the Establishment towards both Extinction Rebellion and Black Lives Matter.

A number of policemen, senior ones included, have been filmed ‘taking the knee’ to Black Lives Matter. Politicians have bent over backwards to show how totally down they are with BLM’s supposed war on racism and its allegedly noble objectives.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/09/21/boris-goes-full-fascist-against-lockdown-protests-but-not-blm-or-xr/

Indictment Charges Alaska Man for Threatening a California Synagogue

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/indictment-charges-alaska-man-threatening-california-synagogue

COUP 53 Sheds New Light on How CIA and MI6 Brought Tyranny to Iran

Trailer for COUP 53, a new documentary on the joint CIA-MI6 operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Iran.

The coup that toppled a democratically elected government in Iran in August 1953 and replaced it with a tyrannical monarchy that lasted 25 years was an intelligence operations whose effects are still felt to this day.

A new documentary recounts the crime with special attention to the often-overlooked role (at least in the United States) of the British.

(If you live in the United States, you can stream COUP 53 here. If you live in the United Kingdom, you can stream here. As with all quality journalism, it will cost you something.)

From the nonprofit National Security Archive, which found some of the key documents cited in the film.

Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service – MI6 – took part in the 1953 kidnapping of the chief of police of Tehran, Iran, according to a recently recovered interview of an ex-MI6 operative that is featured in a new documentary film, COUP 53. The full interview transcript has been posted for the first time by the National Security Archive.

The MI6 operative was a named Norman Darbyshire, described as:

elusive figure who was a key contributor to Britain’s clandestine approach toward Iran in the early 1950s and whose final words on the coup, provided for the Granada Television series End of Empire, were never aired.

In the interview, Darbyshire said that the Americans took too much credit for ousting Prime Ministers Mohammed Mossadegh, and replacing him with a general. Mossadegh was described as a communist sympathizer because he was calling for the British petroleum company to pay the same royalty fee that American oil companies paid to the Saudis.

What helps make this item noteworthy is the near-total lack of publicly available official records on Britain’s role during the oil nationalization crisis starting in 1951. Closing in on 70 years after the fact, authorities continue to withhold archival records about the coup. (The Americans in 2017 published what will probably be the last significant official release of their records, although more are known to still be classified.)

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/78053/coup-53-sheds-new-light-on-how-cia-and-mi6-brought-tyranny-to.html

Wow, check out what they’re doing to new born babies for Covid

Actual plastic face shields on new born babies.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/wow-check-out-what-theyre-doing-to-new-born-babies-for-covid/

The banks are in trouble yet again

This week has opened with what has become a familiar drum beat and bass line. The banks are in trouble again. Or rather what has now been over a decade of trouble has just got worse.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – HSBC HSBA.L and Standard Chartered STAN.L Hong Kong shares dropped on Monday after media reports that they and other banks moved large sums of allegedly illicit funds over nearly two decades despite red flags about the origins of the money.

So this started before the wave of post credit crunch bank bailouts although those two banks were only implicitly rather then explicitly supported. The driver here is explained by Reuters below.

BuzzFeed and other media articles were based on leaked suspicious activity reports (SARs) filed by banks and other financial firms with the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen).

The revelations underscore challenges for regulatory and financial institutions trying to stop the flow of dirty money despite billions of dollars of investments and penalties imposed on banks in the past decade.

There are all sorts of issues here as we note that the supposedly reformed system has failed again.The reason for the article relating to Hong Kong is that is where the financial week has mainly started with Japan being closed for Respect the Elders day.

The share price impact is as follows.

HSBC shares in Hong Kong fell as much as 4.4% to HK$29.60 on Monday, their lowest level since May 1995. The stock has now nearly halved since the start of the year.

StanChart dropped as much as 3.8% to HK$35.80, the lowest since May 25 this year. The Hang Seng Index .HSI was down nearly 1%.

The two banks noted here have followed a typical path for banks as it was only a few short years ago that there emphasis on China and the Far East was presented as a triumph. Now HSBC has a share price at its lowest for 25 years.

Who are the main players?

According to the ICJJ report it is again a familiar list.

The records show that five global banks — JPMorgan, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank and Bank of New York Mellon — kept profiting from powerful and dangerous players even after U.S. authorities fined these financial institutions for earlier failures to stem flows of dirty money.

Of these one is picked out.

JPMorgan, the largest bank based in the United States, moved money for people and companies tied to the massive looting of public funds in Malaysia, Venezuela and Ukraine, the leaked documents reveal.

However in terms of scale we have a case of hello darkness my old friend.

In all, an ICIJ analysis found, the documents identify more than $2 trillion in transactions between 1999 and 2017 that were flagged by financial institutions’ internal compliance officers as possible money laundering or other criminal activity — including $514 billion at JPMorgan and $1.3 trillion at Deutsche Bank.

More

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/the-banks-are-in-trouble-yet-again/

China to lose access to Australian space tracking station

China will lose access to a strategic space tracking station in Western Australia when its contract expires, the facilitys owners said, a decision that cuts into Beijings expanding space exploration and navigational capabilities in the Pacific region.

The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has had a contract allowing Beijing access to the satellite antenna at the ground station since at least 2011. It is located next to an SSC satellite station primarily used by the United States and its agencies, including NASA.

The Swedish state-owned company told Reuters it would not enter into any new contracts at the Australian site to support Chinese customers after its current contract expires. However, it did not disclose when the lease runs out.

"Given the complexity of the Chinese market, brought about by the overall geopolitical situation, SSC has decided to focus mainly on other markets for the coming years," the SSC said in an emailed response to questions.

The site is owned by SSC subsidiary, SSC Space Australia.

The Australian government did not immediately respond to questions on Monday.

The Chinese foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

The expansion of China`s space capabilities, which includes the growing sophistication of its Beidou navigation network, is one of the new frontiers of tension between the U.S. and China, who are clashing on everything from technology and trade to Chinese activities in the disputed South China Sea.

Australia has a strong alliance with the United States, which includes working together on space research and programmes, while Canberra`s diplomatic and trade ties with Beijing have also been fracturing.

China last used the Yatharagga Satellite Station, located about 350 km (250 miles) north of the Australian city of Perth, in June 2013 to support the three-person Shenzhou 10 mission which completed a series of space docking tests, SSC said.

The SSC said the current contract supports Chinese scientific space missions within its programme for manned-space flights for telemetry, tracking and command services.

http://www.sensation-hub.com/2020/09/china-to-lose-access-to-australian.html

Acting as Fed’s agent, JP Morgan is buying all silver to save Comex

London metals trader Andrew Maguire today tells the TF Metals Report’s Craig Hemke that the silver inventory of the exchange-traded silver fund SLV must be questioned because so many bars are being quickly credited to it even as the physical market is so tight that no one else can get metal without long delays.

Maguire adds that a new physical gold and silver exchange is being created in London to compete with the London Bullion Market Association and require deliveries to be made within a day from metal already held on the exchange.

Further, Maguire says, on the basis of confidential sources, that JPMorganChase has cornered the physical silver market and has given at least one trading house an unlimited letter of credit to buy silver at any price. This, Maguire says, can be only a Federal Reserve operation to restore liquidity in silver to the New York Commodities Exchange’s silver futures contracts.

Hemke’s interview with Maguire is 42 minutes long and can be heard at the TF Metals Report here:

https://www.tfmetalsreport.com/podcast/10412/thursday-conversation-andrew-maguire

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/acting-as-feds-agent-jp-morgan-is-buying-all-silver-to-save-comex/

Exposed: There’s a new federal court to handle all the expected COVID vaccine-injury claims

The simple truth is: the US government is anticipating many people will be filing claims for compensation, when their family members are harmed or killed by a new COVID vaccine.

Of course, the government isn’t coming right out and admitting that.

The press will tout the usual excuses for injury and death. “He died from COVID, not the vaccine.” “Well, there was just one bad batch of vaccines.” “Because COVID is such a dire situation, and we’re rushing to save lives, a few mistakes are inevitable.”

Anything but the truth: GUESS WHAT, THE VACCINE IS HIGHLY TOXIC.

This new federal vaccine court for COVID will operate exactly like the present system for paying out claims for vaccine injury to children. Citizens have to jump through many absurd hoops and navigate all sorts of red tape, to try to squeeze money out of the federal government. The system is set up that way. It’s your basic bureaucratic nightmare.

The language that establishes the new COVID vaccine court is found in the Federal Register, 3/17/20, buried in section 14 of a document titled: “Declaration Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID-19.”

Here is the relevant passage in that document:

“Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program…Section 319F-4 of the PHS Act, 42 U.S.C. 247d-6e, authorizes the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) to provide benefits to eligible individuals who sustain a serious physical injury or die as a direct result of the administration or use of a Covered [COVID] Countermeasure [e.g., a vaccine]. Compensation under the CICP for an injury directly caused by a Covered Countermeasure is based on the requirements set forth in this Declaration, the administrative rules for the Program, and the statute. To show direct causation between a Covered Countermeasure and a serious physical injury, the statute requires ‘compelling, reliable, valid, medical and scientific evidence.’ The administrative rules for the Program further explain the necessary requirements for eligibility under the CICP…”

(The US military’s webpage that explains the CICP to US soldiers is here.)

A quick piece of important history. In the mid-1980s, vaccine manufacturers were facing a blizzard of law suits from parents of vaccine-injured children. The very nervous manufacturers told the government they were going to get out of the vaccine business. The financial hit was going to be too deep.

The government said WAIT. Meetings were held. A plan was devised. A law was passed exempting the manufacturers from financial liability.

Instead, for any of the recommended childhood vaccines, parents had to go to a government court to file a claim for compensation, after their children had been injured or killed by a vaccine.

And the government made this court a VERY tough place to win compensation.

That’s the precise model for this new COVID vaccine court. And it’s based on the same unstated confession that existed in the 1980s: there are MANY vaccine injuries.

Bottom line: the government expects many COVID vaccine injuries.

That’s what they aren’t saying. They’re just preparing. With a new vaccine court. To handle injury and death of children and adults.

That should not give you a warm secure feeling.

Quite the opposite.

“We know—and don’t ask us how—that millions of you are going to get headaches. To prevent that, we’re going to hit all of you on the head with a very heavy sledgehammer. If, ahem, a few of you happen to sustain an injury or die, we have a court where your relatives can try to get money out of us. By the way, in this court, we’ll do everything we can to deny you money. Good luck.”

Yes, the government knows exactly what’s coming when they approve a COVID vaccine. And now, so do you.

https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/09/21/exposed-new-federal-court-to-handle-expected-covid-vaccine-injury-claims/

Former Israeli President Moshe Katzav convicted of rape

FORMER Israeli President Moshe Katsav was found guilty of two counts of rape, a forceful indecent act, and sexual harassment Thursday morning, with the leading judge calling him a liar.

December 31, 2010

FORMER Israeli President Moshe Katsav was found guilty of two counts of rape, a forceful indecent act, and sexual harassment Thursday morning, with the leading judge calling him a liar.

Katsav was convicted of two instances of rape and one forceful indecent act against A. of the Tourism Ministry, one indecent act and sexual harassment of L., of the President’s Residence, and sexual harassment of H., also of the President’s Residence.

After the verdict was read, cries of glee could be heard throughout the courthouse as well as from the women’s rights activists protesting outside.

Katsav appeared pale and wan, shaking his head with disbelief after the judges read out the verdict.

His punishment is expected to be severe, as the maximum penalty for rape is 16 years, and the minimum four.

The three judges, George Karra, Judith Shevach and Miriam Sokolov determined that A. of the Tourism Ministry, who accused Katsav of two counts of rape and a forceful indecent act, had been telling the truth and that the former president’s alibi had been refuted.

“The defendant was found unreliable and the complainant’s testimony on her rape in the office and hotel were found credible,” said Judge George Karra. “No basis was found to the claim that the relations took place with her agreement.”

“The defendant’s attempts at contradicting A.’s claims by bringing in witnesses who claimed her actions were impaired turned out to be nothing but a broken reed,” Karra said.

After this, one of Katsav’s family members cried out, “It’s not true!”

The former president appeared pale and weak, and leaned against the wall for support. Meanwhile, the judge continued, “We cannot suspect A. of libel.”

“Over time we received evidence that back complainant A’s testimony. She was telling the truth, which was hard for her to do, and we accept her explanations,” Karra said.

Katsav claimed that he had not had relations with A. in his office at all, but the verdict determined that “it happened, and a rape occurred there”.

“The process of shaming A. derived from her refusal to bend to Katsav’s will,” the judges added.

The former president had also claimed that A. had sent him a love letter and shown clear affection for him.

“We reached the conclusion that this was not a love letter… He deceived A. about troubles that did not exist and forced her to discuss his troubles in order to tape her,” the verdict says.

https://ajn.timesofisrael.com/former-israeli-president-moshe-katzav-convicted-of-rape/

CDC Beclowns Itself, Admits it Randomly Posted on Website Unproven Guidance that COVID-19 Remains Suspended in Air

The CDC beclowned itself again today.

The radical politicized health organization admitted to randomly posting unproven guidance on the COVID-19 virus on their website.

What a disgrace!

This comes after a report last week that the CDC included 5,692 intentional injuries and poisonings in their total US coronavirus death count.

This follows a previous Gateway Pundit report that only 9,210 COVID-19 victims in the US died from the coronavirus alone. The rest had different serious comorbidities.

This was such an egregious mistake today that the WHO actually called them out!

We need a new CDC!

CNBC reported:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that it erroneously posted guidance that said the coronavirus spreads through airborne particles that can remain suspended in the air and travel beyond six feet.

The updated guidance, posted on the CDC’s website on Friday, also recommended that people use air purifiers to reduce airborne germs indoors to prevent the disease from spreading, according to Reuters.

“A draft version of proposed changes to these recommendations was posted in error to the agency’s official website,” the CDC said Monday. “CDC is currently updating its recommendations regarding airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19). Once this process has been completed, the update language will be posted.”

Earlier in the day, the World Health Organization said it contacted the CDC about the guidance change.

The WHO had not seen any “new evidence” on airborne particles and was checking with the CDC to “better understand” the exact nature of the change, Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO’s health emergencies program, said during a news conference at the agency’s Geneva headquarters.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/disgraceful-cdc-beclowns-admits-randomly-posted-website-unproven-guidance-covid-19-remains-suspended-air/

Meet Brock Pierce, the Presidential Candidate With Ties to Pedophiles Who Wants to End Human Trafficking

In the trailer for First Kid, the forgettable 1996 comedy about a Secret Service agent assigned to protect the president’s son, the title character, played by a teenage Brock Pierce, describes himself as “definitely the most powerful kid in the universe.” Now, the former child star is running to be the most powerful man in the world, as an Independent candidate for President of the United States.

Before First Kid, the Minnesota-born actor secured roles in a series of PG-rated comedies, playing a young Emilio Estevez in The Mighty Ducks, before graduating to smaller parts in movies like Problem Child 3: Junior in Love. When his screen time shrunk, Pierce retired from acting for a real executive role: co-founding the video production start-up Digital Entertainment Network (DEN) alongside businessman Marc Collins-Rector. At age 17, Pierce served as its vice president, taking in a base salary of $250,000.

DEN became “the poster child for dot-com excesses,” raising more than $60 million in seed investments and plotting a $75 million IPO. But it turned into a shorthand for something else when, in October of 1999, the three co-founders suddenly resigned. That month, a New Jersey man filed a lawsuit alleging Collins-Rector had molested him for three years beginning when he was 13 years old. The following summer, three teens filed a sexual-abuse lawsuit against Pierce, Collins-Rector, and their third co-founder, Chad Shackley. The plaintiffs later dropped their case against Pierce (he made a payment of $21,600 to one of their lawyers) and Shackley. But after a federal grand jury indicted Collins-Rector on criminal charges in 2000, the DEN founders left the country. When Interpol arrested them in 2002, they said they had confiscated “guns, machetes, and child pornography” from the trio’s beach villa in Spain.

While abroad, Pierce had pivoted to a new venture: Internet Gaming Entertainment, which sold virtual accessories in multiplayer online role-playing games to those desperate to pay, as one Wired reporter put it, “as much as $1,800 for an eight-piece suit of Skyshatter chain mail” rather than earn it in the games themselves. In 2005, a 25-year-old Pierce hired then-Goldman Sachs banker Steve Bannon—just before he would co-found Breitbart News. Two years later, after a World of Warcraft player sued the company for “diminishing” the fun of the game, Steve Bannon replaced Pierce as CEO.

http://www.domigood.com/2020/09/meet-brock-pierce-presidential.html

Protests against Sisi’s rule break out across Egypt

In Suez, Kafr El Dawwar, a city on the Nile Delta, Cairo, Alexandria and Aswan, demonstrators demanded Al-Sisi stand down

Protests have broken out across Egypt against the rule of General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi.

In Suez, Kafr El Dawwar, a city on the Nile Delta, Cairo, Alexandria and Aswan, demonstrators demanded Al-Sisi stand down.

Following security forces’ attack on demonstrators, the presidential residence in Aswan, Upper Egypt, was set on fire.

One video at another protest shows a police car retreating after anti-Sisi protesters threw stones at it.

In Al-Qanater, Qalyubia Governorate, protesters marched through narrow streets to stop them being attacked by security forces or beltagayya.

In Kadiya village in Giza Governorate, Egyptian protesters overturned a police truck, angry at the government’s demolition of buildings there.

This is despite Egyptian security forces being deployed in several areas in cities across the country, including Tahrir Square and Suez, with military checkpoints being set up at crossing and highways.

Several cafes were closed, particularly in the capital Cairo, as a pre-emptive measure.

The protests are in response to calls made by Egyptian whistleblower Mohamed Ali for people to take to the streets on 20 September.

Under the hashtag, which at the time was number one trending in Egypt, “go out on 20 September” Ali called for Egyptians to unite against oppression and injustice to save the country.

Last year, Ali released a series of videos accusing the ruling regime and his family of corruption and squandering public funds whilst Egyptians got poorer and poorer.

Under the current regime, the Egyptian economy has continued to deteriorate and human rights abuses have escalated, compounded by the coronavirus crisis in the country which has been mishandled by the ruling authorities.

Thousands of houses have been demolished after the government claimed they violated building requirements.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200921-protests-against-sisis-rule-break-out-across-egypt/

Israel Under Lockdown as Purge Commences Pentagon Officials Say

The autumn offensive begins. The rogue nation of Israel was put under lockdown at the start of the Jewish New Year to facilitate a purge of Zionists, Pentagon sources say. MI6 sources say their next target is a mysterious Swiss-based entity known as the Octagon Group. In a counter-offensive, an estimated one-million Satanists in the U.S. are being mobilized to overthrow the government, multiple intelligence agency sources agree.

The major anti-Zionist offensive was started with the announcement of the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Here is how Pentagon sources summed up the situation:

“[U.S. President Donald] Trump announced a list of Supreme Court nominees on September 9th, so the Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG) death on Rosh Hashanah sends a New Year message to the Jewish mafia while Israel is forced into another lockdown to round up Zionists.”

https://benjaminfulford.net/

The Pentagon sources add they have jerked Trump’s chain to force him to act against the Zionists, and his son-in-law Jared Kushner will face a military tribunal on charges of treason and possible execution.

We are also hearing from MI6 why they are going after the mysterious group in Switzerland known as the “Octagon,” whose members are descendants of Pharaonic bloodlines.

Before we go any further into this issue, though, we need to take a deep dive into the secret government power structure that we are battling. The organizational chart below was given to me by an envoy of David Rockefeller (via former Japanese finance minister Heizo Takenaka) ten years ago.

This document (2 dozen pages in all) was handed to me after Asian secret societies mobilized to target people who were members of all three of the following groups: The Bilderbergers, The Trilateral Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

What this flowchart page allegedly shows is the Zionist power structure. It has Switzerland at the top. Underneath is the “Royal Bank.” On the left is “Elizabeth E.C.” Below that is the City of London, followed by “properties,” then the “Chief Executive of Japan.” On the left you find France. Below is the “Committee of 500” (i.e. the Fortune 500) and “ILIO 48.”

At the bottom, you see enforcement units including North Korea, Military Police, and the CIA. At the very bottom is a Chinese assassin designated by the U.S. occupation forces to control Japan. In the middle you see they claim to control Japan, Mexico, Canada, the United States, Africa, Iran, Greece, England, Mongolia, and Russia. What they do not control is Italy, Germany, India, and China among others.

It was also at this time that Leo Zagami was sent by the P2 Freemasons to Japan to visit me. When I reciprocated the visit and went to Italy, I was told the P2 (now P3) took orders from “aliens in Switzerland.” They claimed to have started and run Communism.

Now after 10 years of puzzling over this and other information given to me, we can start to connect some dots. First of all, we have received reports that we are being ruled by descendants of the Egyptian Pharaohs, from many sources like the arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi (whose nephew Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered in Turkey).

https://benjaminfulford.net/2020/09/21/as-zionists-purged-in-israel-the-next-target-is-switzerland/

Gantz orders IDF to build field hospital for virus cases as hospitals fill up

With cases spiking, defense minister also deploys 600 additional Home Front soldiers across the country to conduct contact tracing

Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Monday ordered the military to prepare to establish a field hospital for coronavirus cases as hospitals overflow across the country.

“Gantz has ordered staff to begin preparations to build an army field hospital that would contain about 200 beds,” a statement from the Defense Ministry said.

Israel hit a record high on Monday, registering 51,503 active infections. While a three-week nationwide lockdown was instituted on Friday to contain the outbreak, numerous violations were reported across the country. Many health experts have said that they do not expect that the lockdown will effectively flatten the curve of the virus.

At least two major hospitals in Israel — Assuta in Ashdod and Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek — announced that they will no longer accept coronavirus cases due to overload.

Other coronavirus wards at a number of major hospitals around the country have topped 100 percent capacity — Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem (129%) and Hadassah Mount Scopus (100%), Netanya’s Laniado hospital (120%), and Ramat Gan’s Sheba Medical Center (109%).

Both Hadassah and Sheba announced that they were continuing to accept coronavirus cases as usual on Monday.

“Hadassah is expanding its corona hospitalization wing and is not collapsing,” Hadassah Ein Kerem spokesperson Hadar Elboim said in a statement.

Gantz also ordered the military to begin planning for an exit strategy to the lockdown, as well as for the possibility that further reinforcements will be required by police should the lockdown become more severe.

The Israel Defense Forces will send hundreds of additional soldiers to work as coronavirus contact tracers in the coming days, the military announced on Monday.

Transferring responsibility for contact tracing over to the IDF was one of coronavirus czar Ronnie Gamzu’s first moves after taking on his position. In early September, Gamzu said that the program might not be operational until November 1.

As part of the program, the army said 600 regular soldiers will be diverted from their normal positions, in addition to dozens of reservists.

Thousands of Home Front Command soldiers were deployed last week throughout the country to work with local authorities in handling the pandemic. The soldiers are not responsible for directly enforcing the lockdown; rather, they conduct tests, run quarantine hotels and distribute food.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/gantz-orders-idf-to-build-field-hospital-for-virus-cases-as-hospitals-fill-up/#gs.g7tvqp

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>Also I think he gets some of his info straight from HERE

I agree with your comment about fulford but this is BS