One-year-old Palestinian toddler injured by Israel settlers

Israeli settlers injured a one-year-old Palestinian toddler after throwing stones at a car he was in on a West Bank road, reported Wafa news agency.

Illegal settlers from the Neve Daniel settlement to the west of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem threw stones at Palestinian cars driving on a highway between Bethlehem and Hebron in the south of the occupied West Bank.

According to local witnesses, Mahmoud Iyad Banat, was injured in the head after Israeli settlers hurled stones and smashed a window of a car he was in.

Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.

In July, Israel’s Settlement Council in the occupied West Bank announced the development of 164 new housing units in the Neve Daniel settlement.

The Director of the Anti-Wall and Settlement Commission, Hassan Breijah, said it is at the expense of land belonging to the Palestinians and that the Israeli occupation authorities will appropriate dozens of acres of agricultural land to build the new settlement project.

Between 500,000 and 600,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20201009-one-year-old-palestinian-toddler-injured-by-israel-settlers/

Netanyahu mulls international aid plea as fires force thousands from their homes

More than 5,000 evacuated from homes in Nof Hagalil near Nazareth, thousands more forced to flee as 250 wildfires sparked by heatwave hit communities across Israel, West Bank

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday held urgent consultations as thousands of people were evacuated from their homes as wildfires raged across the country, saying that he would call for international assistance if the situation deteriorated.

Firefighters were battling multiple blazes Friday near communities and major highways across the country and in the West Bank, amid an intense heatwave. The fires caused more than 5,000 people to be evacuated from the northern town of Nof Hagalil.

“I received updates from the fire department chief and I asked him to ensure that we are using all our resources, and if need be, consider international assistance,” Netanyahu tweeted after meeting with internal security, police and National Security Council officials.

A statement from his office said that he was assured that currently, the situation was under control and that firefighters were being assisted by the police and the Israel Defense Force’s Home Front Command.

Firemen fight flames near the Kfar HaOranim settlemet in the West Bank, October 9, 2020 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday held urgent consultations as thousands of people were evacuated from their homes as wildfires raged across the country, saying that he would call for international assistance if the situation deteriorated.

Firefighters were battling multiple blazes Friday near communities and major highways across the country and in the West Bank, amid an intense heatwave. The fires caused more than 5,000 people to be evacuated from the northern town of Nof Hagalil.

“I received updates from the fire department chief and I asked him to ensure that we are using all our resources, and if need be, consider international assistance,” Netanyahu tweeted after meeting with internal security, police and National Security Council officials.

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A statement from his office said that he was assured that currently, the situation was under control and that firefighters were being assisted by the police and the Israel Defense Force’s Home Front Command.

Israel formed a regional fire-fighting alliance with Cyprus and Greece after Israel was devastated in 2016 by a series of brushfires that burned tens of thousands of acres, wounded some 200 people, and damaged or destroyed hundreds of homes.

The country was forced to ask allies to send firefighting planes and other equipment and personnel to help fight the blazes, that were also largely caused by a late fall heatwave with dry weather and strong winds.

Firefighter chief Dedi Simchi told Channel 12 that his forces battled 250 fires on Friday, including seven major blazes.

Simchi said investigators were now starting to probe the cause of the fires,

“We believe that most will be found to have been caused by human factors, we don’t yet know if it was negligence or deliberate,” he said, noting that Israel does not suffer from frequent lightning strikes.

The Ynet news site quoted unnamed security officials as saying that there was concern some of the fires in the West Bank may have been deliberately started by Palestinians. Palestinian arson was widely blamed for many of the fires in 2016, but ultimately no one was prosecuted for nationalistically-motivated arson.

Palestinian sources said several blazes were caused by IDF smoke and tear gas canisters fired during clashes with Palestinian protesters.

President Reuven Rivlin also expressed his concern and support for those affected.

“I am following with concern the updates on the fires spreading across several parts of the country, my heart is with the citizens who have been evacuated,” he said, adding his thanks to all those taking part in the firefighting efforts.

In the most serious incident in Nof Hagalil, near Nazareth, at least 5,000 people were ordered to leave their homes, with many taken to hotels in parts of the city that were unaffected.

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-mulls-international-aid-plea-as-fires-force-thousands-from-their-homes/

Nancy Pelosi & Husband Invested $500K to 1M in CrowdStrike, Firm That Accused Russia of Hacking the DNC

The DNC and the Democrats corruption in America continues. New documents and disclosures show that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Husband Paul invested $500,000 to $1 Million in the Cyber Security firm CrowdStrike.

According to a RealClearInvestigations.com report, the Pelosis are now heavily invested in the firm CrowdStrike. As many of you know, CrowdStrike was the firm that in 2018 publicly accused Russia of hacking the Democratic National Committee and then stealing it’s data.

As many of you know, I’m being sued for investigating the murder of Seth Rich, and of course this news is just more icing on the cake that a cover up is in America.

The Hillary Clinton campaign seized on the CrowdStrike campaign by accusing Russia of meddling in the election to help now President Donald Trump. As you know, none of that was even remotely true as more and more intel reports and shows.

Now we’re a little more than three weeks from another presidential election, and Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats national leader is at it again. This time an opportunity to invest in CrowdStrike. In recent financial disclosures found by Aaron Mate at Real Clear Investigations, The House Speaker and her husband Paul, have invested up to $1 million in CrowdStrike holdings.

According to Mate’s investigation, the Pelosis purchased the stock at a share of $129.25 on Sept 3. According to Mate, the stock at the time of his report was at $142.97.

In a statement Mate received from Pelosi’s spokesman Drew Hammill, the spokesman said, “Speaker Pelosi is not involved in her husband’s investments and was not aware of the investment until required filing was made. Mr. Pelosi is a private investor and has investments in a number of publicly traded companies. The Speaker fully complies with House Rules and the relevant statutory requirements.”

https://thedcpatriot.com/bombshell-nancy-pelosi-husband-invested-500k-to-1m-in-crowdstrike-firm-that-accused-russia-of-hacking-the-dnc/

Federal Judge Drops Massive Bomb on Clinton Foundation, Reveals IRS Cover Up — Judge Blows Roof Off Protection Racket in Moynihan & Doyle $2.5 BILLION Case Against Clinton’s

Just as we reported previously in scoop after scoop on the Thomas Paine Podcast, a federal judge today slapped the Internal Revenue Service for what amounts to a massive cover up to protect the Clinton Foundation from having to pay as much as $2.5 Billion in unpaid federal back taxes. In a rare overture, the judge sided with pro-se litigants and Clinton whistleblowers John Moynihan and Larry Doyle and allowed their case to proceed, smacking down the IRS’s attempts to derail the case and cover its own illicit activities. Listen Above.

And smacking down the IRS. Big time. And in the process the judge uncovered damning and alarming documents and facts in the case — which until now has been sealed and kept secret from the public — which amount to a federal cover up by the Justice Department and the IRS to protect the Clinton’s.

https://truepundit.com/exclusive-federal-judge-drops-massive-bomb-on-clinton-foundation-reveals-irs-cover-up-judge-blows-roof-off-protection-racket-in-moynihan-doyle-2-5-billion-case-against-clintons/

Assad: Return of Golan Heights is precondition to Israel-Syria peace

Assad also noted that negotiations are not currently taking place between Syria and Israel at the moment.

Embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said during an interview with Russian state media Thursday that any future agreement with Israel must entail a return of the Golan Heights to Syrian sovereignty.

Assad made the remarks during an interview with Russia's Rossiya Segodnya news agency, which was also noted in Syria's official SANA news agency.

"Our stance has been very clear since the beginning of peace talks in the 1990s … when we said peace for Syria is related to rights and our right is our land," Assad said.

Assad stressed during the interview that Syria can only establish normal relations with Israel "only when we regain our land."

"We have seen no Israeli official who is ready to move one step forward toward peace," Assad said.

Assad also noted that negotiations are not currently taking place between Syria and Israel.

Israel and Syria have long had a fraught relationship marked by numerous wars in 1948 and 1967, when Israel captured the Golan Heights, in addition to 1973 and a large-scale battle in 1982.

During the 1990s, Israel and Syria held back channel discussions on a peace agreement at the height Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, which ultimately proved unsuccessful.

Amid the rise of Iranian influence in the region, and burgeoning Syria-Iran ties in the early 2000s, in addition to the Syrian Civil War beginning in 2011, Israel has had a tense relationship with the Syrian government, due to the latter's support for Hezbollah and allowing the Iranian military to operate and set up base in the country.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/assad-return-of-golan-heights-is-precondition-to-israel-syria-peace-645125

The 40 key Russia documents President Trump must still declassify

Many unreleased pieces of evidence have been sought by Congress dating back to 2017.

President Trump earlier this week vowed complete and final transparency in the Russia probe, ordering the declassification (without redaction) of all relevant documents that show how the false Russian collusion narrative was created by Hillary Clinton operatives and then investigated for three years by the FBI.

With less than four weeks to Election Day 2020, there is little time to complete the mission so that voters can understand the foreign influence, dirty tricks and misconduct that began in the last presidential election and continued for years.

So Just the News put together a list of the 40 most important documents yet to be released that would help America understand what really happened and who is most culpable.

Most of the documents have been sought by Congress dating all the way back to 2017 and have been withheld from public release, mostly by bureaucrats at the State Department under Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the FBI under Director Christopher Wray.

The many letters and subpoenas demanding these documents are attached below. Here is the list of unreleased documents:

1 Documents showing all the requests made by Obama administration officials to unmask the overseas phone calls of Trump campaign, transition and family members from the beginning of the 2016 election through Inauguration Day 2017. These records have been declassified by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe but have been awaiting Attorney General William Barr's permission for release, officials told Just the News.

2 The FBI interview reports of Igor Danchenko, the man identified as the primary sub-source for the Christopher Steele dossier, and any intelligence community documents raising concerns since 2008 that Danchenko had contacts with Russian intelligence.

3 Any and all documents gathered during the Justice Department inspector general's office interviews with Christopher Steele, including any notes or documents he turned over concerning his interactions with the FBI and any interview reports, synopses or transcripts.

4 All FBI 302 interview reports, confidential human source validation reports and CHS contact reports for Christopher Steele and Stefan Halper from May 2016 to December 2018.

5 All records showing whether and why Steele or Halper were ever discontinued as confidential human sources for the FBI and CIA.

6 All FBI text messages about the Russia investigation between former FBI Director James Comey, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Assistant Director Bill Priestap, FBI attorney Lisa Page or agent Peter Strzok.

7 The 2018 classified report of referral from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to the CIA concerning spy tradecraft failures in the Russia Intelligence Community Assessment.

8 The classified appendix to the DOJ inspector general's report on the FBI Mid-Year Exam investigation, which has been sought by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) for more than a year.

9 All threat assessment and risk assessment documents produced in connection with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) review and approval of the Uranium One transaction to Rosatom's ArmZ subsidiary in 2010.

10 An FBI email chain from the early days of Crossfire Hurricane that was identified by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/40-key-russia-documents-president-trump-must-still

Taibbi: After The QAnon Ban, Who's Next?

Facebook announced Tuesday that it’s stepping up efforts to clean its platform of QAnon content:

Starting today, we will remove any Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts representing QAnon, even if they contain no violent content…

Facebook had already taken several rounds of action against QAnon, including the removal this summer of “over 1,500 Pages and Groups.” Restricting bans to groups featuring “discussions of potential violence” apparently didn’t do the trick, however, so the platform expended bans to include content “tied to real world harm”:

Other QAnon content [is] tied to different forms of real world harm, including recent claims that the west coast wildfires were started by certain groups, which diverted attention of local officials from fighting the fires and protecting the public.

Describing what QAnon is, in a way that satisfies what its followers would might say represents their belief system and separates out the censorship issue, is not easy.

IBM To Split Into Two Companies In Order To Focus On Cloud Computing, AI Businesses

IBM will spin off its legacy infrastructure services unit as a yet unnamed public company

IBM said it expects to record almost $5 billion in expenses related to the separation

Krishna was the key force behind IBM’s $34 billion acquisition of cloud software company Red Hat last year

International Business Machines (IBM), one of the most iconic names among American corporations, said it will split the company into two by the end of next year in order to focus on the growing and higher-margin cloud computing and artificial intelligence markets.

IBM said it will spin off its legacy infrastructure services unit as a yet unnamed public company (NewCo), while the other company, the “new” IBM, will largely be engaged in the cloud and artificial intelligence businesses.

IBM Chief Financial Officer James Kavanaugh told Reuters that the new company (NewCo) will have about 90,000 employees and its executive structure will be decided over the next few months. IBM said it expects to record almost $5 billion in expenses related to the separation.

After the separation is completed, each company's dividend policy will be determined by its respective board of directors. (IBM currently pays a quarterly dividend of $1.62 per share)

"IBM is laser-focused on the $1 trillion hybrid cloud opportunity," said Arvind Krishna, IBM chief executive officer. "Client buying needs for application and infrastructure services are diverging, while adoption of our hybrid cloud platform is accelerating. Now is the right time to create two market-leading companies focused on what they do best.”

During a call with analysts on Thursday, Krishna noted how IBM has drastically changed its business lines over the past few decades.

“We divested networking back in the ‘90s, we divested PCs back in the 2000s, we divested semiconductors about five years ago because all of them didn’t necessarily play into the integrated value proposition,” Krishna said.

In recent years IBM has seen a slowdown in sales of software and only seasonal demand for its mainframe servers – hence the heavy push into cloud computing and AI.

“To drive growth, our strategy must be rooted in the reality of the world we live in and the future our clients strive to build,” Krishna wrote on his blog.

Wedbush Securities analyst Moshe Katri said that by separating into two companies, IBM is “essentially getting rid of a shrinking, low-margin operation given the cannibalizing impact of automation and cloud, masking stronger growth for the rest of the operation.”

https://www.ibtimes.com/ibm-split-two-companies-order-focus-cloud-computing-ai-businesses-3059598

Trump Slams Gov. Whitmer: 'Rather Than Say Thank You, She Calls Me A White Supremacist'

President Donald Trump on Friday responded brilliantly to the FBI's all-too-predictable suspected frame-up job of a group of low-IQ suckers in Michigan accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov Gretchen Whitmer.

Gov. Whitmer on Thursday responded to news of the alleged plot by immediately politicizing it and blaming Trump's "stand back and stand by" debate comment for the alleged plot – even though the FBI claimed in their indictment the alleged plot was dreamed up four months ago in late June.

Rather than say the FBI probably set the plot up themselves as they've been caught doing for decades, Trump took credit for the bust and slammed Whitmer for choosing to smear him rather than thank him for protecting her.

"Governor Whitmer of Michigan has done a terrible job," Trump said. "She locked down her state for everyone, except her husband's boating activities."

Trump continued: "The Federal Government provided tremendous help to the Great People of Michigan. My Justice Department and Federal Law Enforcement announced today that they foiled a dangerous plot against the Governor of Michigan. Rather than say thank you, she calls me a White Supremacist—while Biden and Democrats refuse to condemn Antifa, Anarchists, Looters and Mobs that burn down Democrat run cities."

"I do not tolerate ANY extreme violence," he said. "Defending ALL Americans, even those who oppose and attack me, is what I will always do as your President! Governor Whitmer—open up your state, open up your schools, and open up your churches!"

As I said yesterday, odds are overwhelming that this was another FBI frame-up job as we know according to the FBI's own report they had multiple undercover agents and informants embedded in these so-called "anti-government" groups for months.

You can tell just from looking at the suspects these are likely not the sharpest tools in the shed.

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https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61797

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61797

Devalued: How Many Deserving Winners Have There Been Since Nobel Peace Prize Was Created in 1901?

The Nobel Peace Prize was created in 1901 and has been awarded every year since, even if there have sometimes been few obvious contenders. This year it has been won by the World Food Programme.

The World Food Programme was awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, 9 October, for feeding millions of people around the world - in other words, for doing their job.

Supporters of US President Donald Trump have taken to social media to criticise the WFP winning it and Fredrik Heffermel, a Norwegian lawyer and critic of the whole process, was quoted on RFI saying: "We recognise the great value of the World Food Programme but the 2020 prize is much less ambitious than Nobel's idea of ‘conferring the greatest benefit on humankind'."

But has there really been a truly deserving winner since 1998 when David Trimble and John Hume shared the award for successfully bringing to an end The Troubles in Northern Ireland?

We are deeply humbled to receive the #NobelPeacePrize. This is an incredible recognition of the dedication of the @WFP family, working to end hunger everyday in 80+ countries.

Thank you @NobelPrize for this incredible honor! pic.twitter.com/bHcS0usWQa

— David Beasley (@WFPChief) October 9, 2020

​Among others whose efforts led to concrete peace were US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Vietnamese leader Le Duc Tho (1973) for the Paris Agreement which eventually led to the end of the Vietnam War, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat (1978) for agreeing peace between Israel and Egypt and Nelson Mandela and F W de Klerk (1993) for peacefully bringing black majority rule to South Africa.

But at the other end of the scale, let’s take a look at some of the least deserving winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Barak Obama -

Does nothing and wins the Nobel Peace prize.

Donald Trump -

Brings peace between nations who were at conflict for decades but gets ignored.

You can hate Donald Trump all you like - but the Nobel Peace Prize is clearly a political joke.

— David Collier (@mishtal) October 9, 2020

​First up - Barack Obama.

In October 2009 - just nine months after his inauguration as President - Obama woke up to discover he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Obama himself admitted he was "surprised" by the award and said he felt he did not deserve to be in the same company as "transformative figures" such as Nelson Mandela.

Nobel Peace prize is a meaningless joke. It is stained with a shameful history. Don't get too excited by it.

— Duncan Stuart (@duncan_stuart) October 9, 2020

​The Nobel Committee awarded it to him "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" but it was difficult to see what great diplomatic achievements Obama had accomplished.

One of his campaign promises was to close the Guantanamo prison camp - where dozens of people were being held without trial after the US invasion of Afghanistan - which he said was a "sad chapter in American history".

Yet Obama left office in January 2017 with Guantanamo still open and 40 people still held there, having not been convicted of any offence.

So Nobel Peace Prize for Tedros is a possibility..Peace Prize is such a joke especially after Obama awarded to himself

— Shreyas Bhat (@shhhyas) October 9, 2020

​In 1991 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was given the prize for her “non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights.”

She became State Counsellor - the de facto leader - of Myanmar in 2016 and has been heavily criticised in the last three years for her inability or unwillingness to stop human rights atrocities against the Muslim Rohingya people in the west of the country.

Thousands of Rohingya have been killed by Buddhist government soldiers and militiamen and tens of thousands have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh.

Nobel Peace Prize is a joke, something that couldn't be given to Mahatma Gandhi but could be given to everybody else.

— Jagachchhishya Prasadabhakta (@jagachchhishya) October 9, 2020

https://sputniknews.com/world/202010091080721814-devalued-how-many-deserving-winners-have-their-been-since-nobel-peace-prize-was-created-in-1901/

Russia Reinforced Large Air-Defense Base In Western Syria (Satellite Images)

Russia has reinforced a large air-defense base in western Syria, where an S-400 long-range air-defense system was deployed a few years ago.

New satellite images released on October 9 revealed that the base, which is located near the town of Masyaf in Hama’s western countryside, had been reinforced with three Pantsir-S1 short-range air-defense systems.

Russia has placed now a total of three Pantsir-S to protect its S-400 mountain site in Syria.

In the same compound the Syrian S-300PM2 with another Pantsir-S pic.twitter.com/mROo27EbLG

— Tajo Takoya (@TajoTakoya) October 9, 2020

Russian forces have been guarding its air base in Hmeimim and naval base in Tartus with Pantisr-S1 systems for a few years now. The system proved to be effective against armed drones as well as small projectiles, like Grad rockets.

The new satellite images also revealed that a 48Ya6-K1 Podlet K1 low-altitude radar was deployed in Masyaf base. The 3D, S-Band, low-altitude radar has a range of 200 to 300 km.

A Syrian air-defense base hosting an S-300-PMU-2 is located right next to the Russian base. The base is also protected by a Pantsir-S1 system.

Masyaf air-defense base cover the entire Syrian coast as well as large part of the country’s central and northwestern region. The S-400 system deployed in the base can also reach targets flying over Lebanon’s airspace.

Earlier this year, Russian began working to expand its military presence in Syria. Reinforcing key facilities like the base in Masyaf is crucial for the security of Russian troops in the country.

https://southfront.org/russia-reinforced-its-large-air-defense-base-in-western-syria-satellite-images/

Suburban Chicago Businessman Charged with Illegally Exporting Arms to Ukraine

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/suburban-chicago-businessman-charged-illegally-exporting-arms-ukraine

European lawmakers call for coordinated banking industry reforms in wake of FinCEN Files

A session of European Parliament focused on the need for stronger oversight of money flows across the European Union to fight money laundering.

European lawmakers have called for widespread reform of how the banking industry is regulated in Europe and demanded a more coordinated approach to fighting money laundering during a parliamentary debate in response to FinCEN Files revelations.

Thursday’s session of European Parliament devoted more than an hour to the debate, during which time a number of members pressed the need for more financial transparency and stronger oversight of money flows across the European Union.

European Commission vice-president Dubravka Šuica said EU countries needed to band together to close loopholes and stop the flow of dirty money.

“Time and again, we see criminals move [money] around the world with relative ease. Each new money-laundering revelation sparks more public anger … The FinCEN Files illustrate the vast scale of the problem,” she said. “The European Union has to act decisively and collectively with the European approach to supervision, the European approach to financial intelligence coordination.”

The FinCEN Files include more than 2,100 secret suspicious activity reports filed by nearly 90 financial institutions to the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, known as FinCEN. The documents were shared by BuzzFeed News with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and 108 media partners in 88 countries and include information on more than $2 trillion in suspicious transactions.

The year-long investigation shows that a number of global banks, including some of Europe’s biggest banks — HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank and Deutsche Bank — kept profiting from powerful and dangerous players even after U.S. authorities fined these institutions for earlier failures to stem flows of dirty money.

Eero Heinäluoma, treasurer for the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, applauded the work of journalists in uncovering the scale of the problem and demonstrating that the existing anti-money-laundering system in Europe was like a “Swiss cheese, full of holes.”

Heinäluoma was one of a number of members of European Parliament who called for the creation of a centralized EU agency to better police the cross-border money flows, and also hinted at the need for enforcement to go beyond financial penalties.

https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/european-lawmakers-call-for-coordinated-banking-industry-reforms-in-wake-of-fincen-files/

US regulator calls for ‘black box’ warning on breast implants

The new FDA guideline is meant to alert patients to the health risks of breast implants, which have been associated with serious illnesses, ICIJ’s Implant Files investigation found.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced last week its latest guidelines for breast implant manufacturers, recommending companies inform patients that their products have been associated with a type of cancer and other side effects.

The FDA’s labeling recommendations for a black box warning, the agency’s most stringent alert, apply to breast implants filled with saline or silicone gel but are not legally binding.

“As new information has become available about the risks and complications of breast implants, it is critical that women have access to information they need to make informed decisions,” Binita Ashar, director of the Office of Surgical and Infection Control Devices in the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said in a statement.

In 2018, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ Implant Files investigation revealed that thousands of women around the world were reporting serious illnesses after receiving breast implants.

Patients reported suffering from a cluster of ailments, sometimes referred to as breast implant illness, which includes autoimmune disorders as well as fatigue, joint and muscle pain, and cognitive decline. Hundreds of women were also diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma, or BIA-ALCL.

ICIJ’s investigation revealed how health authorities around the world often fail to protect millions of patients from poorly tested implants and struggle to quickly identify hazardous medical devices after they are released.

A study released in July provided additional evidence to support the existence of breast implant illness and found that the women who participated in the survey experienced significant relief from their symptoms within 30 days of having their implants removed.

https://www.icij.org/investigations/implant-files/us-regulator-calls-for-black-box-warning-on-breast-implants/

Cyprus to Revoke Seven Golden Passports

Cyprus will begin the process of revoking passports belonging to seven individuals who obtained them by submitting false information on their applications for the country’s Citizenship by Investment Program, according to a Wednesday government press release.

Following a meeting chaired by President Nikos Anastasiadis, government spokesperson Kyriakos Kousios released a statement to local media, who have since identified the seven individuals who allegedly “concealed essential facts and had made false representations when submitting their application.”

The government said it has decided to forward these findings to its chief of police, who will conduct an investigation to determine whether any of the listed individuals “are wanted for a serious criminal offence punishable by imprisonment for more than 5 years,” or if they are wanted by international authorities such as Interpol or Europol.

One of the seven individuals is reportedly Jho Low, who was charged with laundering some of the US$4.5 billion stolen from Malaysia’s 1MDB sovereign wealth fund. He reached a settlement with U.S. authorities to recover nearly a billion dollars in assets.

Jho Low remains at large and is wanted by Malaysian authorities. He is believed to be living in China, although Beijing’s government has recently denied this.

Another person who will reportedly lose his golden passport and be investigated is Maleksabet Ebrahimi, who is on Interpol’s most wanted list for charges of money laundering, fraud, forgery and counterfeiting, and leading an organized criminal group.

According to Al Jazeera, Ebrahimi is wanted by authorities in both Iran and Canada, but denies all charges and says that he has complied with both Iranian and Cypriot laws.

Others identified by local media include Mr. Ebrahimi’s wife, Mehdi Ebrahimi Eshratabadi, Sopheap Choeung, a close ally to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Zhang Schumin, a Chinese national, along with Rusian businessmen Alexander Bondarenko and Vladimir Stolyarenko.

Cyprus’ golden passport industry – which has helped its government raise more than 7 billion euros ($8 billion) since it started the program in 2013 – has come under increased fire after Al Jazeera’s investigative unit published the “Cyprus Papers,” a leak of more than 1,400 passport applications approved by the government of the island nation between 2017 and 2019.

In response to its findings, Cypriot Member of Parliament Eleni Mavrou told the outlet that the way the program was implemented “was obviously a procedure that allowed cases for which the Republic of Cyprus should be ashamed.”

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13221-cyprus-to-revoke-seven-golden-passports

South Africa’s Workers Protest Against Corruption

Thousands South African workers and representatives of unions staged a countrywide general strike and hit the streets on Wednesday, demanding a stronger fight against rampant corruption which they say causes “more job losses, more poverty and more unemployment.”

Calling on workers throughout the country not to go to work on Thursday, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, COSATU, stressed that “the workers need to unite in defending jobs and fighting corruption.”

COSATU also reminded of the shortcomings of law enforcement agencies in fighting corruption and gender-based violence.

“We are making a louder call for decisive state intervention in strategic sectors of the economy, the use of a variety of macroeconomic and other levers at the states’ disposal to deliberately drive industrialization, sustainable development, decent employment creation, and break historical patterns of colonial exploitation and dependence,” read the statement.

Corruption has emerged as one of the biggest threats to South African democracy and is “like cancer eating at the moral fibre of our society and eroding the moral standing of our revolution and the cause for which our people laid down their lives,” COSATU said in a proclamation.

The Congress cited the government’s 2017 figures stating that “corruption costs the country’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, at least 27 billion rand (US$1.63 billion) annually” but that the COVID-19 outbreak only added to the massive corruption storm triggered by the demand for personal protective equipment.

“Even before COVID-19, we faced an economic pandemic of soaring unemployment, grinding poverty and extreme inequality,” the South African Federation of Trade Unions, SAFTU, said, adding that the pandemic destroyed 2.2 million jobs, and more than five million workers more were reduced to utter hopelessness.

The Federation also blamed capitalism itself, saying that “poverty and hunger are widespread,” and that “capitalism fails the working class and the poor, not by default, but by design.”

Capitalism flourishes “when there is a reserve army of unemployed labor, when there is discord and disunity amongst the working class and the poor, and the state takes capital’s side to increase exploitation and undermine civil liberties,” SAFTU said.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13220-south-africa-s-workers-protest-against-corruption

Who Funds Agenda 21?

UN Agenda 21 is Literally Agenda 1984

The takeaway here is that our enslavement

in a satanic "New World Order"

is being financed by the

government and corporate establishment.

Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook Model Statues for Planning and the Management of Change was funded by a grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (the lead federal agency); Federal Highway Administration (US Department of Transportation); the US Environmental Protection Agency; the Federal Transit Administration (DOT); the Rural Economic and Community Development Administration (US Department of Agriculture). All of these agencies were members of the President's Council on Sustainable Development which ran from 1993-1999.

Private funders included the Siemens Corporation; Henry M. Jackson Foundation; Annie E. Casey Foundation; and the American Planning Association. These private organizations promote smart growth.

Siemens, for instance, benefits from the development of the 'smart grid' and is a key private for-profit corporation for solar, biomass, and other subsidized power generation. This huge multinational corporation is involved in health care, building systems, financing, communications, and more.

https://www.henrymakow.com/2020/10/who-funds-un-agenda-21sustaina.html

Anarchy Prevails in Israel, and It Starts With Netanyahu

Without any personal example, proper management or reasonable enforcement, Netanyahu proves that he is to blame – rather than protesters he likes to cast as 'anarchists'

Anarchy, in its standard definition, refers to a society with no central government. In the definition of the intrigue-rife residential floor of Balfour Street in Jerusalem, anarchy refers to a protest of devoted, tax-paying, army-serving citizens who are fearful for their country; people who are unwilling to tolerate the disgraceful management, the depth of the crisis, the corruption; who have had it up to here with a prime minister who’s forcing them to tie themselves to his political and judicial future, like a millstone around the neck of an entire country, which is threatening a kill confirmation even as it sinks implacably into the depths.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-anarchy-prevails-in-israel-and-it-starts-with-netanyahu-1.9222686

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Thank you Q.