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CIA, other spy agencies told White House about Rudy Giuliani's dealings with alleged Russian agents

The U.S. wasn't spying on Giuliani, but on people with whom he talked, including Andrii Derkach, identified by the Treasury Department as a Russian agent.

WASHINGTON — The CIA and other spy agencies gathered intelligence on Rudy Giuliani's dealings with alleged Russian intelligence agents last year and passed that information on to the White House, a source familiar with the matter tells NBC News.

The existence of the intelligence was first reported by the Washington Post and later confirmed by the New York Times, both of which reported that White House National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien warned President Donald Trump about it. NBC News has not confirmed that detail. The Post cited four former officials while the Times relied on four current and former officials.

John Ullyot, a spokesperson for the National Security Council, said in a statement that "the characterization of the meeting as described in reports is not accurate," but he did not dispute that the president was informed that his lawyer was dealing with alleged Russian agents.

Spokespersons for the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment.

American intelligence agencies were not spying on Giuliani, but on the people with whom he was talking, said the source, including Andrii Derkach, who has been identified by the Treasury Department as a Russian agent. That collection led them to learn about Giuliani's dealings with Derkach and other Russian operatives who wanted to feed him information attempting to discredit Democrat Joe Biden, the source said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/cia-other-spy-agencies-told-white-house-about-rudy-giuliani-n1243718

Ice Cube says CNN canceled his interview because they 'can't handle the truth'

"We can’t afford not to negotiate with whoever is in power," said the Hip Hop star, who's helped President Trump on plan to help black communities.

Ice Cube blasted CNN for canceling his scheduled appearance on the network, saying, "They can't handle the truth."

The rapper, whose real name is O'Shea Jackson, was set to appear with host Chris Cuomo, but the network backed out after he acknowledged that he’s advising President Trump’s administration on a plan for black Americans.

“So the POWERS that be cancelled my interview on @CuomoPrimeTime tonight,” Jackson wrote Thursday night on Twitter. “I’ve actually been (banned) from @CNN for a few months so I was surprised they even asked. But it seems like they can’t handle the truth.”

Jackson has been helping Trump on his multifaceted Platinum Plan to improve economic prosperity for black Americans. The plan includes a pledge for 3 million new jobs for the black community, creating 500,000 new, black-owned businesses and increasing access to capital in black communities by nearly $500 billion. The plan also calls for better policing and access to education and job opportunities in the community.

The hip hop star said he offered to meet with both presidential campaigns, but Joe Biden’s campaign said they would address the plan “after the election.”

Meanwhile, the Trump campaign on Tuesday praised Jackson's help.

"Shoutout to @icecube for his willingness to step up and work with @realDonaldTrump Administration to help develop the #PlatinumPlan," senior campaign adviser Katrina Pierson tweeted Tuesday. "Leaders gonna lead, haters gonna hate. Thank you for leading!"

But that doesn't mean the 51-year-old is backing the president. In fact, he once said he would “never endorse a motherf* like Donald Trump." But he also said he would help “anybody on the planet who has the power to help black Americans close the enormous wealth gap.”

Jackson also pushed back on the notion that he is being used by Trump.

"Every side is the Darkside for us here in America. They’re all the same until something changes for us. They all lie and they all cheat but we can’t afford not to negotiate with whoever is in power or our condition in this country will never change. Our justice is bipartisan," he tweeted.

https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/ice-cube-says-cnn-cancelled-his-interview-chris-cuomo-because-they-cant

Twitter Updates ‘Hacked Materials’ policy after censoring NY Post’s Hunter Biden Exposé

After intense backlash for suppressing the spread of the New York Post‘s Hunter Biden emails exposé on its platform, including a Senate subpoena, Twitter announced Thursday night that it’s changing its policy on “hacked materials.”

“Over the last 24 hours, we’ve received significant feedback (from critical to supportive) about how we enforced our Hacked Materials Policy yesterday,” tweeted Vijaya Gadde—Twitter’s lead for legal, policy, and trust and safety—in a nine-part thread. “After reflecting on this feedback, we have decided to make changes to the policy and how we enforce it.”

Over the last 24 hours, we’ve received significant feedback (from critical to supportive) about how we enforced our Hacked Materials Policy yesterday. After reflecting on this feedback, we have decided to make changes to the policy and how we enforce it.

— Vijaya Gadde (@vijaya) October 16, 2020

In her statement, Gadde listed two major changes to the policy. Firstly, Twitter “will no longer remove hacked content unless it is directly shared by hackers or those acting in concert with them.” And then secondly, the site “will label Tweets to provide context instead of blocking links from being shared on Twitter.”

Explaining Twitter’s reasoning, Gadde said that “We believe that labeling Tweets and empowering people to assess content for themselves better serves the public interest and public conversation,” and that the “Hacked Material Policy is being updated to reflect these new enforcement capabilities.”

However, she notes, “All the other Twitter Rules will still apply to the posting of or linking to hacked materials, such as our rules against posting private information, synthetic and manipulated media, and non-consensual nudity.”

When users tried to tweet a link to the exposé or retweet someone who had already tweeted it, a notification preventing them from sharing it would pop up, saying, “The link you are trying to access has been identified by Twitter and our partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe,” and then listing potential reasons for why the link was categorized as such. (See image below)

https://saraacarter.com/twitter-updates-hacked-materials-policy-after-censoring-ny-posts-hunter-biden-expose/

Israel stops granting visas to UN human rights workers

OHCHR foreign employees left in limbo amid Israeli crackdown on rights monitors

Israel has stopped granting any visas to employees at the United Nations’ human rights agency, effectively forcing the body’s top staff to leave, Middle East Eye can reveal.

In February, Israel announced it was suspending ties with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) after a report highlighted more than 100 companies that work in Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Since June all requests for new visas have gone unanswered, with passports sent off for renewals coming back empty.

'The forcing out of UN human rights monitors marks yet another attempt by the Israeli government to curtail documentation of its systematic repression of Palestinians'

- Omar Shakir, HRW

Nine of the organisation’s 12 foreign staff have now left Israel and the Palestinian territories for fear of being undocumented there, the OHCHR confirmed. Among those is country director James Heenan.

The other three have visas that are due to expire in the coming months. Three staff due to travel to Israel to start their work have been unable to do so.

Israeli and Palestinian staff continue to work and the organisation’s offices have not been closed.

“The absence of international staff from the occupied territory is a highly irregular situation and will negatively impact on our ability to carry out our mandate,” Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the OHCHR, told MEE.

“We continue to hope that this situation will be resolved soon, and we are actively engaged with various relevant and concerned parties to that end.”

Named: 112 companies linked to illegal Israeli settlements by the UN

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All access to the Palestinian territories is controlled by Israel and the country has faced multiple allegations of quashing access to human rights workers in recent years.

Last year, Israel expelled Human Rights Watch’s country director Omar Shakir, after accusing him of supporting calls for a boycott, a claim he denied. Also last year, the Israeli government refused to renew the mandate for an international force that monitored violations in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

Shakir said the “forcing out of UN human rights monitors marks yet another attempt by the Israeli government to curtail documentation of its systematic repression of Palestinians”.

“Denying visas in order to punish critics has now become a central tool in Israel’s sustained assault on the human rights movement,” he told MEE.

‘Victory march’

The OHCHR writes regular reports highlighting alleged Israeli rights abuses in occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip.

In February, it published a list of 112 companies that work in Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law. The report, which highlighted Tripadvisor, Airbnb and the truck and digger maker JCB, among others, was welcomed by Palestinians but sparked Israeli ire.

In retaliation, Israel's then-Foreign Minister Israel Katz suspended ties with the organisation, which he hailed as an “exceptional and harsh measure”.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-un-human-rights-stops-visas

Big Tech is set to shift more than 15 million election votes!

Everything this man analyzed have since accelerated aggressively, hence his estimates should be considered moderate.

In 2016 Google search algorithms likely impacted undecided woters in a way that shifted at least 2.7M votes to Hillary Clinton.

Biased search results can easily produce shifts in the opinions and voter preferences of undecided voters by up to 80% in some demographic groups, because people blindly trust high-ranking search results over lower ones.

On election day in 2018, the GOVOTE reminder that Google displayed on its home page gave one political party at least 800,000 more votes than it gave the other party. That reminder was not a public service, it was a vote manipulation.

2018 election bias in Google search results may have shifted upwards of 78.2M votes, spread across many races, to the candidates of one political party.

I know how to stop Big Tech in its tracks.. [System to monitor search bias]

This [preventive] system must be built to keep an eye on big tech in 2020.

If these companies all support the same candidate, they will have the power to shift 15M votes to that candidate.

To let Big Tech get away with subliminal manipulation on this scale would be to make the free and fair election meaningless.

Congress can quickly end Google’s worldwide monopoly on search by declaring Google’s massive search index, to be a Public Commons, accessible by all.

In 1961, Eisenhover warned about the possible rise of a technological elite that would control public policy without peoples awareness. That elite now exists.

This was his wife : i.imgur.com/LENLP0Y.jpg

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/goggle-bigtech-is-set-to-shift-more-than-15-million-election-votes/

Tesla's "Gigafactory" In Berlin Just Had The Water Shut Off For Not Paying The Bill

While Elon Musk was busy making high school style "420" and "69" jokes on Twitter, the water at his $400 billion company's latest project - the construction of a Gigafactory in Berlin, Germany - was being turned off for non-payment.

It's likely a wonderful glance into what the priority structure looks like at Tesla.

There are multiple reports coming out of Germany that Tesla had to stop their construction as a result of the water being turned off, according to electrek.

One German publication, Heise said: "Tesla is temporarily unable to continue building its factory in Grünheide near Berlin. The Strausberg-Erkner water association turned off the water because Tesla did not pay the money, said association spokeswoman Sandra Ponesky on Thursday in Strausberg."

The company also said it sent Tesla "several warnings" but that the company didn't respond until the water was actually turned off. A spokesperson for the water company told AP: “The 14-day notice period has expired. We can’t treat Tesla any differently than other customers.”

"Locals initially expressed concern about water management at the project when it was first announced," electrek wrote this week. Tesla had to change its water consumption plan as a result.

Back in January 2020 we highlighted that Elon Musk was going to war with German Environmentalists about the building of the new Gigafactory. Thousands of trees needed to be cut down in order to make space for Tesla's new building. Nothing like saving the planet by leveling a couple of forests, right Elon?

The building is slated to start production in July 2021 and is working on a tight schedule. Tesla has said it'll be producing its new battery cell on site, and that this battery will be used to produce the European Model Y.

Electrek said of the water being turned off: "That’s not surprising for Tesla at this point, and it highlights one of the company’s biggest problems: communications. Obviously, it’s not a money problem."

Of course is isn't. Right?

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/teslas-gigafactory-berlin-just-had-water-shut-not-paying-bill

Merkel Crushes the Right to Protest & US to Withdraw All Troops from Germany

In France, Macron announced a 9 PM curfew for Paris and an 8 PM curfew in other cities. In Germany, Merkel is digging in her feet because she knows she will not run again. In my mind, this raises serious questions that she has been bribed. There is way too much evidence that people in her own government have told her this is not even a pandemic. Nevertheless, she is turning Germany into where she grew up — East Germany, behind the wall.

Merkel has taken Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, and has begun to squash protests by imposing limits on people gathering at events as well as mandatory mask-wearing at crowded places. To crush all dissent and protests, Merkel has lowered the criteria from 50 positive tests per 100,00 people to 35 per 100,000 in seven days. This is her new yardstick to be used to crush political freedoms.

The number of people allowed to gather will be limited to 25 in public and 15 in private spaces. “We have decided on this prophylactic number of 35 because we have seen some examples of how fast the increase happens from 35 to 50.” Once a threshold of 50 new infections per 100,000 is exceeded, even tougher restrictions will apply. These include limiting private gatherings to 10 people or two households, and the closure of restaurants after 11:00 pm.

Meanwhile, Trump has approved the withdrawal of troops stationed in Germany. The crazy restrictions in Germany have made the lives of Americans stationed there a living hell.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/merkel-crushs-the-right-to-protest-us-to-withdraw-all-troops-from-germany/

Criticizing Israel isn’t anti-Semitic, say 80 percent of Canadians

Most Canadians don’t believe that criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic, a new poll conducted by the research firm EKOS shows.

This means that ordinary citizens do not support the government’s announcement last year that it would formally adopt a definition of anti-Semitism that conflates criticism of Israel with anti-Jewish bigotry.

According to the survey’s results, 80 percent of Canadians believe that accusing Israel of committing human rights violations is not an anti-Semitic act. Neither is calling for a boycott of Israel, 76 percent say.

Nearly 70 percent say that comparing Israel’s apartheid policies to South African apartheid laws is not tantamount to anti-Jewish bigotry.

And three quarters of Canadians polled think that students who advocate for Palestinian rights exhibit legitimate political expression.

Furthermore, the majority of Canadians understand the difference between classic anti-Semitism and criticism of Israel’s violations of Palestinian rights.

“Rather than seeing a correlation between criticism of Israel and otherwise anti-Semitic views, we saw the opposite,” states Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, which sponsored the poll along with Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) and the United Network for Justice and Peace in Palestine-Israel.

“Those who were most likely to see criticism of Israel as legitimate were also the most likely to say that statements about Jewish Canadians were anti-Semitic, and those who viewed criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic were the most likely to say that statements critical of Jewish Canadians were legitimate,” CJPME explained.

This is the final survey in a three-part series that has shown Canadians support investigations into Israel’s human rights abuses and want their government to oppose Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank.

Israel lobby pushes agenda

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that Canada would use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism as part of its strategy to “combat racism and discrimination.”

Israel lobby groups have pushed Canada to adopt the IHRA definition in order to shield Israel from criticism over its human rights violations.

Three major Canadian cities – Calgary, Montreal and Vancouver – have rejected the implementation of the IHRA definition.

Human rights activists in Ontario have been organizing to stop provincial lawmakers from passing a bill to adopt the IHRA definition.

Ontario #Bill168 to adopt the flawed IHRA definition of antisemitism could move to a final reading soon. This bill would have disastrous consequences for freedom of expression & Palestine solidarity. Take a minute and write to Ontario's MPs today! https://t.co/aL5tsvLea8 #NoIHRA

— Independent Jewish Voices (@IndJewishVoices) July 21, 2020

“The IHRA definition threatens to restrict forms of speech that a majority of Canadians, including many Jews, evidently hold to be legitimate,” stated Corey Balsam, national coordinator with Independent Jewish Voices.

“Any institutions currently considering adopting the IHRA definition need to reconsider whether doing so would be at the expense of public opinion, let alone the important fights against genuine anti-Semitism and for Palestinian human rights,” Balsam added.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/criticizing-israel-isnt-anti-semitic-say-80-percent-canadians

Biden Campaign Praises Censorship: Biden campaign ‘glad’ Twitter, Facebook censored Post’s Hunter Biden exposé… Facebook and Twitter execs on Biden transition team! HUGE CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Biden campaign ‘glad’ Twitter, Facebook censored Post’s

Hunter Biden exposé

Joe Biden’s campaign said Thursday they had no problem with Twitter and Facebook’s unprecedented censoring of The Post’s bombshell reporting on Hunter Biden’s business dealings — even admitting they were “glad” it happened.

Biden campaign national press secretary Jamal Brown went so far as to claim that the gagging of one of America’s largest news organizations “made clear” that The Post’s reporting on Ukraine- and China-related documents from a Hunter Biden hard drive was untrue.

“What is your campaign’s response to this article and do you think that Twitter is doing the right thing here?” a Cheddar anchor asked Brown of the forming political maelstrom.

“I think Twitter’s response to the actual article itself makes clear that these purported allegations are false and they’re not true and glad to see social media companies like Twitter taking responsibility to limit misinformation,” Brown said.

Twitter and Facebook censorship comes just weeks after executives from both companies joined Biden’s transition team

Following the publication of the New York Post’s bombshell story about the Biden family’s business dealings in Ukraine, Facebook and Twitter worked hard to suppress the story across their platforms. The censorship comes just weeks after executives from both firms joined the Biden transition team.

Breitbart News recently reported on the New York Post’s bombshell story that indicated that Joe Biden may have met with an adviser to the board of Burisma while he was Vice President, arranged by his son Hunter, who was working as a lobbyist for the company at the time. Joe Biden has previously said, “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.”

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/biden-campaign-praises-censorship-biden-campaign-glad-twitter-facebook-censored-posts-hunter-biden-expose-facebook-and-twitter-execs-on-biden-transition-team-huge-conf/