Rotherham Groomer Kamir Khan Gets Short Sentence for Abusing 11-year-old Girl

South Asian heritage predator Kamir Khan has been imprisoned for grooming and abusing an 11-year-old girl in Rotherham.

31-year-old Khan is the latest in a long line of abusers to be convicted for abusing girls and young women in Rotherham, where South Asian heritage gangs once preyed upon mostly white, working-class victims in untold numbers with near-impunity for years, due to the authorities’ reluctance to intervene in case they were accused of “racism”.

Khan was convicted of “two counts of assaulting a girl under 13 by touching, inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity and engaging in sexual communication with a child” at Sheffield Crown Court, according to an official South Yorkshire Police news bulletin.

The court heard that the paedophile had bombarded the girl with “over 4,000 messages over a three-month period” over Snapchat and WhatsApp. including “lewd photos”, under the alias ‘Zayn’, “and at one point, even told her he loved her and wanted to marry her”.

Khan “inappropriately touched” the 11-year-old on two occasions in 2019, with the abuse only coming to light when the girls’ mother went through her phone. She then became “visibly distressed” and revealed what had been happening to her.

The sentencing judge saw fit to impose only a light sentence on Khan, however, handing him a term of just four and a half years.

Criminals in Britain do not typically serve their full sentences, either, with non-“life” sentences typically including a right to automatic early release on licence at the halfway or, more rarely, two-third point in the term.

A Rotherham man who groomed & abused an 11-yr-old girl has been jailed for 4.5 years. 31 year old Kamir Khan sent the girl 4,000 messages on Snapchat & Whatsapp. He said he loved her and wanted to marry her. Khan also inappropriately touched her on 2 occasions in Feb & Mar 2019. pic.twitter.com/d9zqwJG6mQ

— BBC Radio Sheffield (@BBCSheffield) November 26, 2020

“Khan preyed on his victim over a period of months, taking full advantage of her age, and her vulnerability. He manipulated her in to thinking he was her boyfriend, and it was normal for him to send her such explicit messages,” commented Rachel Scott, Investigating Officer, for South Yorkshire Police.

“This girl has been incredibly strong throughout this inquiry and I couldn’t be prouder of how much she has assisted our investigation,” Scott said.

“This was a difficult case, however I am pleased that we were able to establish such evidence that Khan had no option [but] to plead guilty to these offences. I believe he is a danger to children and I am pleased that he is now behind bars.

“I want to take this opportunity to remind young people to consider their safety online and never give out personal details or share intimate pictures. To parents, if your child is on social media sites, please be vigilant and regularly ask who they are speaking to,” she warned.

Police Knew About Rotherham ‘Asian’ Rape Gangs But Ignored Them over Fears of ‘Racial Tensions’: Report https://t.co/WWDiOm3r3R

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) January 19, 2020

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/11/28/rotherham-groomer-kamir-khan-gets-short-sentence-abusing-11-year-old-girl/

Shell must pay nearly half a billion for oil spill in Nigeria, court rules

Nigeria’s Supreme Court has declined an application from Royal Dutch Shell which aimed to set aside a previous ruling that ordered the company to pay $467 million for damages caused by an oil spill almost five decades ago.

The judges upheld the previous decision, which ruled that the oil conglomerate must pay damages for an oil spillage in Ejama-Ebubu in Rivers State. According to Bloomberg and local media reports, the five-member panel said that Shell’s request to review the case lacked merit.

The case centers around an oil spill that occurred in 1970 from Shell’s oil production activities in the Niger delta. The case was brought to court in 2001 by the Ejama-Ebubu community, which has accused the company of making their water sources unfit for human consumption. In 2010, a Nigerian court ruled that the company was liable for an oil spill in the community, but Shell still disputes its responsibility and says that it has cleaned the area.

“It is regrettable that the legal process in this case has been focused for so long on procedural issues and not the merits of the case,” Shell said in a statement responding to the latest ruling on Friday. Still disputing the Ejama-Ebubu claim, the company insists that “any attempt to enforce payment should not be permitted” due to other ongoing court proceedings.

https://www.rt.com/business/508092-shell-oil-spill-nigeria/

Declassified UK: REVEALED: The UK military’s overseas base network involves 145 sites in 42 countries

Britain’s armed forces have a far more extensive base network than ever presented by the Ministry of Defence. New research by Declassified reveals the extent of this global military presence for the first time – as the government announces an extra 10% spending on defence.

UK military has base sites in five countries around China: naval base in Singapore, garrisons in Brunei, drone testing sites in Australia, three facilities in Nepal and quick reaction force in Afghanistan

Cyprus hosts 17 UK military installations including firing ranges and spy stations, with some located outside UK’s “sovereign base areas”

Britain maintains military presence in seven Arab monarchies where citizens have little or no say in how they are governed

UK personnel are stationed across 15 sites in Saudi Arabia, supporting internal repression and the war in Yemen, and at 16 sites in Oman, some run directly by British military

In Africa, British troops are based in Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Mali

Many UK overseas bases are located in tax havens such as Bermuda and Cayman Islands

Britain’s military has a permanent presence at 145 base sites in 42 countries or territories around the world, research by Declassified UK has found.

The size of this global military presence is far larger than previously thought and is likely to mean that the UK has the second largest military network in the world, after the United States.

It is the first time the true size of this network has been revealed.

The UK uses 17 separate military installations in Cyprus as well as 15 in Saudi Arabia and 16 in Oman – the latter both dictatorships with whom the UK has especially close military relations.

The UK’s base sites include 60 it manages itself in addition to 85 facilities run by its allies where the UK has a significant presence.

These appear to fit the description of what General Mark Carleton-Smith, Britain’s Chief of the General Staff, recently termed as “lily pads” – sites which the UK has easy access to as and when required.

Declassified has not included in the figures the UK’s small troop contributions to UN peacekeeping missions in South Sudan or the Cyprus buffer zone, nor staffing commitments at NATO administrative sites in Europe or most of its special forces deployments, which are largely unknown.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55956.htm

US Congress ties bows on gifts to Israel

Before it recesses for the year, the US Congress is finalizing the text of a must-pass bill, the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a slew of significant pro-Israel measures.

The NDAA establishes Pentagon funding levels and sets out many Department of Defense and foreign policy priorities.

Last week, the Senate passed its version of the mammoth bill, totaling nearly 1,800 pages. The House, having passed its own version in July, rejected the Senate language.

With the House and Senate unable to agree, the bill has gone to conference to reconcile differences between the two versions.

During these backroom conferences, legislators hammer out an agreed-upon version of the bill before it is sent back to both the House and Senate for a final pro forma vote.

Flow of weapons to Israel

Most notably, the Senate version of the bill contains the provisions of the United States-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2020, originally a separate bill which was tacked onto the NDAA in July.

This bill would codify into law the Obama administration’s pledge of $3.8 billion per year in weapons to Israel. Additionally, it would set this level of assistance to Israel as a floor, not as a ceiling.

The bill promises Israel “not less than” $3.3 billion per year in weapons grants in addition to $500 million in missile defense projects.

This bill would enable Congress to appropriate weapons to Israel at a level beyond that envisioned by the Obama administration’s munificent 2016 memorandum of understanding.

The bill also contains a long wish list of other provisions for Israel, including most crucially a five-year extension of Pentagon authorization to stockpile weapons in the country. This stockpile can be accessed by Israel in an emergency to quickly augment US weapons already in its arsenal.

At the same time that the Senate tacked on this bill to the NDAA, it also refused to consider an amendment written by Chris Van Hollen, a Democratic senator from Maryland. Supported by 12 other senators, the amendment would prohibit US weapons for or training to Israeli forces in Palestinian territory illegally annexed under the Trump administration’s “peace” plan.

In addition to the perennial authorization of $500 million in joint US-Israel missile defense programs, the Senate version of the NDAA also includes a new provision to establish a US-Israel Operations-Technology Working Group.

That group would work “to identify and expeditiously field capabilities that the military forces of both countries need to deter and defeat respective adversaries.” It is designed to further enmesh joint US and Israeli weapons research and development, funding and deployment.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/josh-ruebner/us-congress-ties-bows-gifts-israel

Saudi-Led Coalition Bombs Multiple Targets in Yemen

One civilian reported killed, four wounded

The US-backed Saudi-led coalition bombed several targets inside Yemen on Friday. According to AFP, airstrikes targeted Houthi camps in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, the city of Amran, which is just north of Sanaa, and the western port city of Hodeidah.

According to Iran’s Press TV, one civilian was killed in the strikes, and another four were wounded in Sanaa. Yemen’s Ministry of Health said most of the airstrikes targeted residential areas, a common tactic for the Saudi-led coalition.

The airstrikes came after the Houthis launched a missile that hit a Saudi oil facility in Jeddah. Most media outlets framed the Saudi strikes as retaliation, but the Houthis and Yemen have been under a US-backed Saudi-led siege since 2015.

“Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates want to scare us with their airstrikes, but we say to them that their raids will only increase our strength,” an anonymous Houthi official told AFP.

https://news.antiwar.com/2020/11/27/saudi-led-coalition-bombs-multiple-targets-in-yemen/

EU Demands Italy Pay for Migrant Dependents Living Outside EU

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has determined that Italy must pay for the dependents of migrants even if they do not live in the European Union.

EU judges stated that Italian legislation which allows Italians to claim benefits for dependents living abroad but which bars non-EU migrants from doing so was contrary to EU law. The court, therefore, ruled that non-EU citizens with residency permits or who are long-term residents are entitled to allowances for their families living outside of the bloc.

The decision was a result of a challenge between the National Social Security Institute and two non-European Union citizens, one from Sri Lanka and another from Pakistan, who lived and worked legally in Italy and have families living in their home countries, Italian newspaper Il Giornale reports.

Populist Senator Matteo Salvini, who heads Italy’s most popular party, the League (Lega), commented on the court’s statement, saying: “The Court of Justice of the EU establishes (and imposes on Italy) that non-EU citizens are entitled to allowances even for dependent family members living abroad outside the EU! Are they joking?”

EU Moves Against Austria for Changing Benefit Payments for Children Living Abroad https://t.co/rnotGL4wCQ

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) January 27, 2019

The case comes after the European Commission brought up infringement procedures against Austria over a similar issue.

Austria attempted to index child benefits in 2019, which meant that child benefits would be paid according to the cost of living where the children lived so that if a migrant worker had children in a country with a lower cost of living than Austria, they would receive less money.

EU Social Affairs Commissioner Marianne Thyssen said of the Austrian proposal at the time: “When mobile workers contribute to a social security system in the same way as local workers, they must receive identical benefits, even when their children live abroad.”

Italy has seen a surge in migrants over the last several months, despite Wuhan virus outbreaks. Areas such as the island of Lampedusa continue to see waves of new migrants, most of whom come via Tunisia.

Spain Deploys Police to West Africa as Canary Islands Migrant Influx Increases by 1,000 Per Cent https://t.co/fWKAajS5F3

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) November 23, 2020

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/11/28/eu-tells-italy-pay-migrant-dependents-living-outside-eu/

California Governor Newsom Should Be Worried – The Petition To Recall Him Has Already Broken The Halfway Point At 750K Signatures

During the latest pandemic surge, state governors around the country face ramped-up scrutiny regarding stricter restrictions and regulations. Some citizens are even calling for governors to be removed.

For instance, there are demands in Michigan for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to be impeached. And out in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom is dealing with a similar issue.

This issue comes in the form of the “Recall Gavin Newsom Campaign.”

The group has seen a spike in traffic to their website recently, and their petition to recall the Golden State governor keeps adding more signatures.

In fact, the petition recently reached an important milestone, and now the campaign is halfway to the amount they need. And in fact, campaign organizers attribute their success to Newsom himself.

The effort to recall the governor is an admitted long shot, but one of the Recall Gavin Newsom Campaign’s organizers, Mike Netter, claims Newsom “is our best representative for this.”

Via The Daily Caller:

A petition to recall Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has reached 750,000 signatures, or half of the amount needed by March, Mike Netter, one of the campaign’s leading organizers, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Netter added that Newsom is “ruining the biggest economy in the world.”

Furthermore, controversy surrounds Newsom’s latest blunder — attending an indoor gathering without a mask in Napa Valley, California. Newsom did apologize but the damage was done.

His image has since taken a bit of a hit, as the Recall Gavin Newsom Campaign website has had up to 80,000 visits in just “the last week or so.”

The petition has received 750,000 physical signatures since it kicked off in June. If they can hit around 1.5 million by March 17, that will trigger a gubernatorial special election.

To be exact, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla says the Campaign needs to amass 1,495,709 signatures, or 12 percent of the votes cast for Newsom in 2018.

Originally, the Campaign only had until Nov. 17 to hit the goal. But due to the epidemic, a judge granted them a 4-month extension.

Though it’s unlikely Newsom will ultimately be removed, there’s obviously evidence that a certain portion of the California populace doesn’t agree with the governor’s actions recently.

Newsom’s latest move to combat the pandemic – a stay-at-home curfew order – has also come under fire.

Now we’ll just have to wait and see if the petition can reach the goal.

https://thepatriotjournal.com/petition-recall-newsom-milestone

Over 1,300 foreign aircraft conducted air reconnaissance near Russian borders in 2020

The Russian fighter aircraft from air defense quick reaction alert forces were scrambled over 170 times, according to the Aerospace Force deputy commander-in-chief

Russian air defense quick reaction alert forces detected and intercepted over 1,300 foreign spy planes in 2020, Aerospace Force Deputy Commander-in-Chief Lieutenant-General Andrei Yudin said in an interview with the Defense Ministry’s Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper on Friday.

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"Air defense alert forces detected and tracked over 1.5 million airliners, including about 3,600 foreign combat planes and over 1,300 spy aircraft," the general said.

The Russian fighter aircraft from air defense quick reaction alert forces were scrambled over 170 times to intercept foreign planes near Russia’s borders, he said.

No violations of Russia’s state border were allowed, the general stressed.

The Russian aircraft performed all their flights in compliance with the rules of using the airspace, the general said.

https://tass.com/defense/1228699

26 Pennsylvania House Republicans, 8 Senators Call for Withdrawing Certification of Presidential Electors

The Democrat-Marxist machine in Pennsylvania stopped counting votes on election night because Joe Biden was getting annihilated by President Trump.

Trump was up by nearly 700,000 votes on election night after the polls closed.

Within 48 hours of Election Day, hundreds of thousands of ballots were counted for Joe Biden while crooked Democrat elections officials blocked GOP poll watchers from observing the vote count.

The corrupt Pennsylvania Secretary of State and Democrat Governor Wolf rushed to certify the election results, but a Commonwealth judge said not so fast.

On Wednesday the Pennsylvania state legislature held a hearing on the 2020 election issues and irregularities.

One witness described the huge “spikes” in Pennsylvania during the hearing and the crowd gasped.

Rudy Giuliani pointed out two huge gaps with Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballots.

“You have two major gaps — you have the 672,770 votes that were not inspected by anyone secretly put into the ballot box and then you have this gap that I don’t understand between the mail-in ballots. You’ve sent out: 1.8 million and the number you counted: 2.5 million!” Rudy said.

On Friday the Pennsylvania State legislature filed a resolution to dispute the statewide 2020 election results.

26 House Republicans called for withdrawing certification of presidential electors, via Penn Live:

A band of 26 Pa. House lawmakers are circulating a memo seeking support of a proposed resolution declaring the state’s certification of presidential electors and other statewide election results to be in dispute. This comes two days after President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani testified before a panel of Pennsylvania House and Senate Republican lawmakers about his allegations of voter fraud and election rigging,

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/26-pennsylvania-house-republicans-8-senators-call-withdrawing-certification-presidential-electors/

Likud minister: Assassination of nuclear scientist ‘really embarrassed’ Iran

Netanyahu ally Tzachi Hanegbi says he had no idea who killed Mohsen Fakhrizadeh; Hamas chief phones Iranian FM to denounce killing, which ‘reflects a criminal mentality’

A Likud party ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has no idea who killed top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, whose assassination Iran has blamed on Israel.

But Settlements Minister Tzachi Hanegbi tells Channel 12 news that the killing “really embarrassed” Iran.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-november-28-2020/

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NATO – A Comatose Body Whose ‘Mission’ Seems To Be Little More Than To Preserve And Expand Itself.

PART 1.

In 1851, France had the misfortune to fall victim to a coup by the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, who styled himself Napoleon III. Karl Marx had been an enthusiastic supporter of the French 1848 uprising – one among those which had taken place throughout Europe – and viewed the coup as the work of a buffoon who happened to put together an odd coalition of social classes– businesspeople, aristocratic landlords, and a rabble of barely employed street peddlers and other workers with no consciousness of their own class interests. With his wicked wit, Marx saw Napoleon III as a dramatic come-down for France from the European-wide empire of Napoleon I. Marx wrote the famous words:

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He (Hegel) forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.”

In addition to the self-perpetuating, bloated monstrosity of NATO there should be added the various spook agencies, CIA, MI5, MI6 MOSSAD, BND, 5-EYES, and the rest whose mission is generally unstated and, for many, clouded in secrecy but nonetheless visible enough to those with eyes to see. Their permanent existence as a state within a state and their purported goals concerning ‘national security’ are not necessarily made clear, and, in fact, they might often be the very opposite of what they claim. Also included in the list of non-state actors are the NGOs such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) which in fact is not an NGO since it receives funding from the US government which makes it a GO. Along with this is the Human Rights Watch (HRW) as well as Soros’s Open Society Foundation, and these are just some of the lavishly underwritten think tanks and secretly funded organizations which have proliferated into the rich soil that sustains them. (Please see Ray McGovern on MICCIMATT) – Military Industrial Congressional Intelligence Media Academic Think Tanks, in this respect. (1) Just how large these sprawling bureaucracies are and how far their influence reaches is almost impossible to ascertain. It could I suppose be compared to a late stage carcinoma on the body politic which is actually killing the host. Given the enormous dimensions of this geo-political super-blob I will restrict myself to a few but telling examples of its activities and their outcomes.

The Trial Run: NATO And The Destruction Of Yugoslavia

In the early 1990s NATO had been taking a particular interest in the events in the independent sovereign state of Yugoslavia. Between June 1991 and April 1992, four republics declared independence, and, egged on by Germany, the local NATO enforcer, Slovenia, and Croatia were the most important. Only Serbia and Montenegro remained federated but the status of ethnic Serbs outside Serbia and Montenegro, and that of ethnic Croats outside Croatia, remained unsolved. This was the beginning of the deconstruction of Yugoslavia – part of a longer-term dismantling which would ultimately also include reducing the USSR/Russia to vassal status or failing that, of outright occupation. This contrived disintegration of Yugoslavia ultimately laid the early basis for the complete fragmentation of the Yugoslav state. The secessionist crisis which had started in 1991 ultimately laid the basis for overt NATO intervention in the Kosovo war in 1999, all of which is well-documented.

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https://thesaker.is/nato-a-comatose-body-whose-mission-seems-to-be-little-more-than-to-preserve-and-expand-itself/

Former House Republican wrests California seat from Dem incumbent

Former GOP Rep. David Valadao beat Democratic incumbent Rep. T.J. Cox by 862 votes

Former Republican Rep. David Valadao reclaimed his seat in California's 21st District on Friday, narrowly defeating Democratic incumbent Rep. T.J. Cox.

Valadao won in 2012 by focusing on local issues like agriculture, but Democrats including Cox came out swinging during the 2018 midterm elections and claimed seven GOP-held House seats in the Golden State.

The Hanford, Calif., native had previously withheld his endorsement of President Trump. This year, he changed strategies in a risky move that ultimately paid off in the Farm Belt.

But Valadao also highlighted his independence during the race, criticizing the president over family separations at the nation's southern border.

He beat Cox by 862 votes.

As The Associated Press reported Friday, much of California's agricultural centers have been known for their Republican leanings, at variance with a largely blue state.

Valadao himself is from a dairy farming family – lineage that put him at the top of the pack in the spring. He accused Cox of aligning his ideals with those of Democratic progressives and promised to pass a COVID-19 relief package amid a raging pandemic.

Valadao declared victory on Wednesday, calling for unity.

“This Thanksgiving, as the coronavirus continues to spread and our community and nation struggle, we desperately need relief,” he said. “The only way we will get through this is by sticking together as Americans, not divided by political parties. When I head back to Washington every resident of the Central Valley has my word that I will continue to always put this community first.”

While Democrats had expected to make serious gains this year, conservative candidates shattered expectations.

Elsewhere in the state, Reps.-elect Young Kim and Michelle Steel also bested Democratic incumbents, and Rep. Mike Garcia flipped the state’s 25th District last week.

Though Democrats have ultimately retained control of the House, their losses signaled a potential Republican-controlled House in 2022 and a possible foothold in a state where they have been sidelined for decades.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-house-republican-wins-back-california-seat-unseats-dem-candidate

Ex-CIA Chief In Twitter Feud With Ted Cruz Over Killing of Iranian Nuclear Scientist

On Friday, a senior Iranian nuclear scientist was assassinated in a gun and bomb attack about 175km east of Tehran. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif blamed Israel for the attack. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed to hold the perpetrators accountable.

Republican Senator for Texas, Ted Cruz, and former Central Intelligence Agency chief from the Obama era, John Brennan, have become embroiled in a war on Twitter over the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi, with the debate starting after Brennan called the killing a “highly reckless” and “criminal act".

“It’s bizarre to see a former head of the CIA consistently side with Iranian zealots who chant ‘Death to America’. And reflexively condemn Israel,” Cruz, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, tweeted, asking whether Joe Biden agreed with Brennan’s assessment.

Brennan responded a few hours later, accusing Cruz of “mischaracterizing” his comment.

“Your lawless attitude and simple-minded approach to serious national security matters demonstrate that you are unworthy to represent the good people of Texas,” the former spymaster wrote.

After that, Cruz retweeted a tweet by his adviser Omri Ceren, who suggested that the media should be asking if the former CIA director’s tweet “constitutes a Logan Act violation…according to the standards articulated over the last four years by John Brennan.”

The Cruz-Brennan to-and-fro isn’t the first time the men have clashed: Cruz tried to block Brennan’s nomination to the post of head of the CIA in 2013, and, since Trump’s election in 2016, has attacked the top spy for his “unhinged” claims that Trump’s contacts with Russia constituted “treason.”

Brennan was embroiled in a scandal last month after the Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe released hand-written notes by the former CIA director related to Hillary Clinton's alleged July 2016 "plan" to cook up a story falsely tying Trump to the Kremlin and alleged "Russian hackers" to distract from the controversy surrounding her private email server. Earlier this month, Brennan called on Vice-President Mike Pence and other members of Trump's cabinet to carry out a palace coup against the President to stop further declassifications that might "threaten our national security interests".

https://sputniknews.com/viral/202011281081304824-ex-cia-chief-in-twitter-feud-with-ted-cruz-over-killing-of-iranian-nuclear-scientist/

Pompeo Passes Torch to Biden Admin Touting a Fundamentally Realigned Globe

ABU DHABI—As the Trump administration finishes its final weeks in office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo opened up about his two-and-a-half years as America’s top diplomat, telling the Washington Free Beacon that the incoming Biden administration will inherit a fundamentally realigned globe.

During an interview with the Free Beacon in Abu Dhabi, where Pompeo was finishing the final stop in a 7-country, 10-day jaunt—likely his last major tour in office—Pompeo pulled the curtain back on his efforts to align the globe against adversarial regimes such as China and Iran.

Many of the Trump administration’s signature foreign policy achievements—from crushing the Iranian regime with sanctions to moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem—were met with fierce pushback from world leaders, as well as Democrats and sometimes Republicans in Congress. Pompeo was quickly billed by the American press as dangerous—criticism that Pompeo says is devoid of reality.

Take his latest trip, for instance: Pompeo stopped in France, Turkey, Israel, Georgia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. From these places he generated headlines for offending world leaders and leaning into a hardline pro-Israel, anti-Iran foreign policy that the Biden administration is more than likely to buck. Pompeo says, however, the policies laid down by the Trump administration—be it the administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital or its tight-knit relationship with Gulf Arab nations—will reverberate well into President-elect Joe Biden’s first term in office.

"These were just facts that everyone knew but refused to acknowledge and we ripped the band-aids, said these are the right things to do, and we got America and the Middle East in a better place," Pompeo said. "I think the American people get it. I think the people in Europe get it. I know the people throughout the Middle East get it, that this realism … rests on a set of foundations that are unassailable."

In France, Israel, and other Middle Eastern countries, Pompeo focused on Iran and its continued efforts to procure a nuclear weapon. Though the Biden administration is angling to reenter the landmark nuclear deal—paving the way for Tehran to revive its ailing economy—Gulf Arab partners are not likely to go along willingly. Pompeo spent much of his term solidifying ties with regional Arab players such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE, who share the United States' hardline position on Iran.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/pompeo-passes-torch-to-biden-admin-touting-a-fundamentally-realigned-globe/

Elon Musk’s Coup Stooge Áñez Arrested Trying to Escape Bolivian Justice

On November 24th, Elon Musk’s agent and now deposed Bolivian coup leader Jeanine Áñez was caught trying to escape justice by making her way to Brazil, but was prevented from boarding a plane by a group of citizens who were able to identify her in Trinidad.

Áñez was astoundingly prevented from boarding a plane at the Jorge Henrich Arauz airport in the city of Trinidad, as she was trying to go to a border city and then flee to Brazil. There is likely to be more to this story, involving a small deal with Trinidad & Tobago’s intelligence service, who appears to have informed a left-leaning activist group with ties to Bolivia and Venezuela, to make the ‘citizen’s arrest’, so as to separate the state from the actual arrest. Trinidad is a member of the U.S. led Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI), invites significant U.S. foreign investment, and is likely not to want to be seen as overtly involved.

These exciting events are now transpiring as the result of what has become an ultimately failed coup attempt in Bolivia, a tragic year-long period where democratic rule was upended.

Indeed, last month something incredible happened. The Globalist’s golpe de estado failed, in what has been a series of incredible failures world-wide. Among their sought after bounty was Bolivia’s lithium wealth, valued in billions. Bolivia is known to have somewhere between 50 to 80 percent of the world’s lithium.

Goldman Sachs says that the global market demand for lithium could in fact triple to some 570,000 tons a year in the next 10 years due to electric vehicles. It’s no wonder that Elon Musk’s hands were all over it.

But nevertheless, Evo Morales made a come-back in at the end of October 2020, and was able to overturn a coup (by way of law-fare) imposed on the country from the Globalist deep state.

Summarizing it succinctly, Ramona Wadi wrote for SCF last month;

“Bolivia has managed to overturn the neoliberal agenda which the U.S. attempted to force upon the nation in the 2019 coup, which ousted former President Evo Morales to install the far-right wing Jeanine Añez as president, or dictator. While Chile was dealing with its state violence, the Bolivian coup was out in the streets exerting its vengeance on the country’s indigenous population. For months, Bolivians protested against state violence and police repression. It is now the new government’s obligation to bring the perpetrators to justice, while retracing Bolivia’s path to its revolutionary progress.”

Besides being involved in an unconstitutional coup, where the armed forces and the police conspired with U.S. Deep-State agents to overthrow Evo Morales, Jeanine Áñez is also wanted in particular for killing of civilians in Senkata and Sacaba.

And yet despite all this, western media – in backing the coup – painted her as a symbol of a woman “breaking the glass ceiling”, and then she doubled-down on virtue signaling by claiming without evidence that she had ‘contracted the coronavirus’, in what was no doubt both a sympathy ploy and a signal to globalist elites that she was still their man, or woman, rather.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/11/28/elon-musk-coup-stooge-anez-arrested-trying-escape-bolivian-justice/

Final Offensive: Ethiopian Government Forces To Capture Tigray’s Capital

UPDATED: The commander of the Ethiopian National Defense Force, General Berhanu Julah, confirmed that the Ethiopian army captured the city of Makelle, the capital of the Tigray region.

On November 28, the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) began an offensive to capture Makelle, the capital of the northern region of Tigray, according to a number of sources.

Debretsion Gebremichael, leader of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), told Reuters in a text message that the city, where 500,000 people live, was under “heavy bombardment”. No human losses have been reported, thus far.

Sources in the ENDF confirmed to al-Jazeera that the offensive on Makelle city began, without providing any additional information.

A day earlier, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced that the ENDF had launched the “final phase” of their operation in Tigray.

The defense forces of Ethiopia reportedly captured several 122-mm rockets for the BM-21 Grad MLRS from the Tigray People’s liberation front. The rockets were reportedly kept at St. Michael’s Church in the Paradise area.

https://southfront.org/final-offensive-ethiopian-government-forces-to-capture-tigrays-capital-updated/

Military Situation In Syria On November 28, 2020 (Map Update)

A brief overview of the recent developments in Syria:

On November 27, the Russian Military Police conducted a joint patrol with Turkish forces east of Ayn al-Arab;

On November 27, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 32 times: 12 – in Idlib province, 4 – in Aleppo province, 9 – in Latakia province, 7 – in Hama province;

On November 27, 4 Turkish-backed militants were killed and 7 others were injured in a car-bomb explosion in the Mabrouka area;

On November 27, the SDF and the US-led coalition hed a joint security operation in Shaddadi area. An ISIS member responsible for smuggling weapons and providing logistical support for ISIS cells in Hasakah was captured;

On November 27, artillery of Turkish-backed forces shelled SDF positions in the Ain Issa area;

On November 27, clashes between SDF and Turkish-backed forces erupted in Ain Daghna and Brad areas;

On November 27, SAA artillery shelled positions of Turkish-backed forces in the Ruwayha area.

https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-syria-on-november-28-2020-map-update/

'Stop shirking your responsibility': Michael Gove warns 100 potential Tory lockdown rebels to put the country's interests first as it emerges almost the entire nation is to be banned from socialising indoors until APRIL

Michael Gove has warned Tory lockdown rebels to back the Government's new Covid Tiering structure

He warned that every hospital in England would be overrun with Covid-19 cases without state intervention

Senior sources said it was 'unrealistic' to expect areas under toughest curbs to go down to Tier 1 before spring

Tory backbenchers have accused the Government of risking catastrophic damage to the economy

Ex-Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption today called the tough new Covid Tiering regime 'unenforceable'

Michael Gove today warned up to 100 potential Tory rebels to put Britain's interests first after officials admitted last night that almost the entire nation will be banned from socialising indoors until Easter.

The Cabinet Office minister urged MPs to 'take responsibility for difficult decisions' to curb the spread of Covid-19, amid anger from some Conservatives that much of England will face stringent restrictions.

Writing in The Times today, Mr Gove said the decision to impose the restrictions was necessary to 'pull the handbrake' and avoid the 'disaster' of NHS hospitals – and private sector and newly-built Nightingale hospitals – becoming filled to capacity with only Covid patients and emergency cases.

'Keeping our hospitals open, available and effective was not just crucial to dealing with Covid-19. It was imperative for the health of the whole nation,' the pro-shutdown Tory minister argued.

'But the only way to ensure we can take care of cancer patients, administer radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and help stroke victims and treat heart attacks is by protecting the NHS,' he said, adding this could only be done by reducing the spread of the virus and thus limiting the number of Covid patients in hospitals.

Mr Gove also claimed that reducing infections would save the UK economy, which has been decimated by shutdown restrictions that prevent the trade of the hospitality industry and retail, tourism and air travel.

As official forecasts warn that the national debt could soar to £2.8trillion by 2025, he warned: 'Think for a moment what would happen to our economy if we allowed infections to reach such a level that our NHS was overwhelmed.'

But his argument was attacked by former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption today, who blasted the Government's use of 'extremely selective and tendentious' data to justify shutdowns.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8994847/Britain-entirely-locked-Easter.html

On Wikipedia, Israel Is Losing the Battle Against the Word 'Apartheid'

Trump’s peace plan and Israel’s creeping annexation of the West Bank are undermining one of Israel’s most important public diplomacy points in one of the most important arenas online

The consensus that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank does not constitute a form of apartheid is shifting on Wikipedia. While the validity of drawing an analogy between Israel and the apartheid regime of South Africa has long been debated on Wikipedia, a new article titled “West Bank bantustans” shows cracks in the editorial agreements that have stood for almost a decade on the volunteer-edited online encylcopedia.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-on-wikipedia-israel-is-losing-the-battle-against-the-word-apartheid-1.9330590

How The Fed Created The Ultimate Paradox: Stocks At All-Time Highs With No Liquidity And Soaring Realized Vol

For the entire duration of the record rally since the March "pandemic shutdown" lows, which has pushed the S&P to all time highs, there has been something off about the market: virtually every new all-time high in spoos took place at a level of the VIX that was also a new all time high. This is a paradox: traditionally, a rising VIX (i.e., higher implied vol and a willingness by traders to pay more for downside protection) means a growing sense of apprehension about the future, and yet that has not been the case since March, in fact quite the contrary - the higher the VIX rose, the higher the S&P moved as well, prompting many veteran traders to scratch their heads.

As shown in the chart below, the vol-SPX spot correlation clearly shifted to a new regime in the aftermath of the covid crash (Q2 2020 and onward)…

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/how-fed-created-ultimate-paradox-stocks-all-time-highs-no-liquidity-and-soaring-realized

Tsunami of voter fraud evidence is about to sweep away media’s claim that Biden won

'I am afraid large sectors of America’s population are going to be off guard, however, when the states begin to flip'

After a slow start, the Trump legal team is now well and truly underway, and intends to show that the November 3rd election was really won by their guy.

In Pennsylvania, a courageous judge has halted the certification while she looks at evidence of fraud. One question she might want to ask the Democrat Secretary of State: If there were only 1.8 million ballots requested, how is it possible that you received 2.5 million back in the mail?

In Wisconsin, a judge is reviewing a petition to throw out 150,000 potentially fraudulent ballots. This effort is led by Phil Kline of the Amistad Project. Pro-lifers will remember then-Attorney General Kline of Kansas from his years-long efforts to expose late-term abortionists and prosecute Planned Parenthood in that state some years ago.

In Georgia and Michigan, America’s favorite prosecutor, Sidney Powell has unleashed the Kraken. Her two 100-page plus lawsuits are chock-full of shocking examples of voter fraud, and have a plethora of affidavits appended.

A couple of my “favorite” scams:

In Georgia, at least 96,600 absentee ballots were requested and counted, but there is no record that they were actually returned to county election boards by the voter. Were they just created in-house by Democrat operatives?

Again in Georgia, “All 900 military ballots in Fulton county were 100% for Joe Biden.” Try flipping a coin and having it land “tails” 900 times in a row.

In Detroit, there were more votes cast than people of voting age, which seems unlikely on the face of it. Also, eyewitness report that vote counters were instructed to “pre-date” absentee ballots, and that they were also “overwriting” Trump votes to become Biden votes.

In Nevada, a judge is allowing the Trump team to present evidence of widespread voter fraud in a December 3rd hearing. Included will be evidence of 13,372 “phantom voters” who didn’t know their birthday or even their sex when they registered, and often put down casinos and RV parks as their home address. Definitely sketchy.

And finally, about electronic voter fraud, there is this from one of America’s leading cybersecurity experts quoted in Powell’s Georgia lawsuit:

Expert Navid Keshavarez-Nia explains that US intelligence services had developed tools to infiltrate foreign voting systems including Dominion. He states that Dominion’s software is vulnerable to data manipulation by unauthorized means and permitted election data to be altered in all battleground states. He concludes that hundreds of thousands of votes that were cast for President Trump in the 2020 general election were transferred to former Vice-President Biden. (Exhibit. 26).

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/tsunami-of-voter-fraud-evidence-is-about-to-sweep-away-medias-claim-that-biden-won?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=standard

Illinois To Borrow Another $2 BIllion From The Fed, Only State To Do So

Illinois has announced $2 billion more in additional borrowing from the Federal Reserve Bank’s Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF). Gov. J.B. Pritzker has informed the Fed of the state’s intention to borrow the funds before the facility expires at the end of December. The facility was put in place by the CARES act as a backstop for governments hit by financial market disruptions due to COVID.

While the presence of the Fed facility is credited with bringing stability to the municipal markets, the reality is only one state or city in the entire country has borrowed from the facility since its inception: the state of Illinois. All others have successfully raised billions from the traditional markets during the pandemic (New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority is the only other government in the country to borrow from the MLF.)

Illinois’ increased reliance on borrowing follows the public’s rejection of a $3.1 billion tax hike referendum on Nov. 3. More debt, in the absence of major spending reforms, means a junk rating is increasingly likely for Illinois. No state in modern history has ever been rated junk.

Illinois’ legislature authorized in the spring up to $5 billion in borrowings from the Fed to cover the state’s 2021 shortfalls, but Gov. Pritzker recently said:

“I am very reluctant to saddle our state with that large amount of short-term debt. I believe it would be irresponsible to borrow that entire amount, given the persistent fiscal pain it would cause over the next three years, as we would struggle to repay that entire amount. Our collective intention is to repay this line of credit as early as possible, after either the awarding of stimulus by Congress or a sufficient recovery of state revenues.”

Said another way, $5 billion in additional debt, with such a short repayment period, would likely trigger the credit rating agencies to act sooner than later. Moody’s recently said in an October report, “[Illinois’] ability to weather the coronavirus pandemic without hurting its credit quality will require keeping growth of its long-term liabilities within its capacity to pay.”

All three agencies rate Illinois just one notch above junk and all have a negative outlook on the state. In fact, Illinois bonds have already been trading at junk-level interest rates for some time.

Illinois already tapped the MLF once in June after the state was unsuccessful in raising $1.2 billion from the municipal market at favorable conditions. The $2 billion will be the state’s second borrowing from the MLF.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/illinois-borrow-another-2-billion-fed-only-state-do-so

Addicted: America’s Opioid Crisis

Story at-a-glance

1 child in 8 lives with a parent who suffers from a substance abuse disorder in America, and every 15 minutes, a baby in America is born suffering from opioid withdrawal

Prescription opioid use is a significant risk factor for subsequent heroin use; 1 in 3 people who misused opioids during their high school years ended up using heroin by age 35

One of the most prominent drug companies involved in the creation of this opioid addiction crisis is Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. In October 2020, Purdue pleaded guilty to three federal criminal charges relating to its role in the opioid crisis

When it comes to children and teens, a major source of opioids are dentists, who wrote a staggering 18.1 million prescriptions for opioids in 2017. Opioids are frequently prescribed when extracting wisdom teeth, even though there’s no evidence to support this strategy. Children are also recklessly prescribed addictive opioids for minor surgical procedures

Opioids have a very high rate of addiction and have not been proven effective for long-term use. Research shows opioids do not control moderate to severe pain any better than over-the-counter drugs such as acetaminophen, ibuprofen and naproxen

The featured 2019 BBC documentary, Addicted: America’s Opioid Crisis, explores the depth of the nation’s addiction to opioid painkillers and the role played by Purdue Pharma and other makers of the drug.

As noted in the film, opioids kill more people than any other drug on the market, and it’s the only type of drug that can condemn a person to a life of addiction after a single week of use.

According to the BBC, “1 in 8 American children live with a parent who suffers from a substance abuse disorder,” and “every 15 minutes, a baby in America is born suffering from opioid withdrawal.” Middle school-aged children interviewed also say they have easy access to drugs, should they want them.

Many now blame the drug companies that make these drugs and have falsely promoted them as safe and nonaddictive for patients of all kinds, including children.

That includes one of the former addicts followed in the film, who says he thinks the drug companies need to be held responsible for their role in creating this epidemic, and made to help pay for the solution.

See: The Lost Book of Remedies

Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty and Folds

One of the most prominent drug companies involved in the creation of this opioid addiction crisis is Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. At the end of October 2020, Purdue Pharma agreed to plead guilty to three federal criminal charges relating to its role in the opioid crisis, including violating a federal anti-kickback law, conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and violating the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.1,2

To settle the charges, Purdue is supposed to pay $8.3 billion in fines, forfeiture of past profits and civil liability payments,3 but because it doesn’t have the cash, the company will instead be dissolved and its assets used to erect a “public benefit company” that both makes opioids and pays for addiction treatment.

Legal Painkillers Now the Gateway Drug to Heroin

While marijuana was long known as the gateway drug to other illicit drug use, that distinction now belongs to prescription opioids. According to data4 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, prescription opioid use is a significant risk factor for subsequent heroin use.

1 in 3 people who misused opioids during their high school years ended up using heroin by age 35.

The incidence of heroin use is 19 times higher among those who have used opioids nonmedically than among those who have no history of opioid use, and 86% of young, urban injection drug users report using opioid pain relievers nonmedically before starting heroin. Overall, nearly 80% of heroin users now report using prescription opioids prior to heroin.

Similarly, data5 from the University of Michigan shows just under 1 in 3 people (31.8%) who misused opioids during their high school years ended up using heroin by age 35.

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2020/11/addicted-americas-opioid-crisis.html

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Many of these traumatized children, in turn, sought relief from the turmoil and ended up becoming addicted to opioids. All of this is particularly pertinent today, as many parts of the U.S. have been shut down for extended periods of time over fears of COVID-19.

Not being allowed to work, being forced to stay at home for weeks or months on end, maintaining an unnatural distance even to your loved ones and not being able to see people’s faces when out in public — all of these things can contribute to fear, anxiety and, ultimately, despair that fuels addiction. Indeed, reports23 warn that substance abuse is on the rise as a result of pandemic measures, as is domestic violence.24

Struggling With Opioid Addiction? Please Seek Help

It’s vitally important to realize that opioids are extremely addictive drugs that are not meant for long-term use for nonfatal conditions. If you’ve been on an opioid for more than two months, or if you find yourself taking a higher dosage, or taking the drug more often, you may already be addicted. Resources where you can find help include the following. You can also learn more in “How to Wean Off Opioids.”

Your workplace Employee Assistance Program

The Substance Abuse Mental Health Service Administration25 can be contacted 24 hours a day at 1-800-622-HELP

I also urge you to listen to my interview with Dr. Sarah Zielsdorf, which is being published in tomorrow’s newsletter. In it, she explains how low-dose naltrexone (LDN), used in microdoses, can help you help combat opioid addiction and aid in your recovery.26

Using microdoses of 0.001 milligrams (1 microgram), long-term users of opioids who have developed a tolerance to the drug are able to, over time, lower their opioid dose and avoid withdrawal symptoms as the LDN makes the opioid more effective.

For opioid dependence, the typical starting dose is 1 microgram twice a day, which will allow them to lower their opioid dose by about 60%. When the opioid is taken for pain, the LDN must be taken four to six hours apart from the opioid in order to not displace the opioid’s effects.

Nondrug Pain Relief

Many types of pain can be treated entirely without drugs. Recommendations by Harvard Medical School27,28 and the British National Health Service29 include the following. You can find more detailed information about most of these techniques in “13 Mind-Body Techniques That Can Help Ease Pain and Depression.”

Gentle exercise Physical therapy or occupational therapy

Hypnotherapy Distracting yourself with an enjoyable activity

Maintaining a regular sleep schedule Mind-body techniques such as controlled breathing, meditation, guided imagery and mindfulness practice that encourage relaxation. One of my personal favorites is the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)

Yoga and tai chi Practicing gratitude and positive thinking

Hot or cold packs Biofeedback

Music therapy Therapeutic massage

In “Billionaire Opioid Executive Stands to Make Millions More on Patent for Addiction Treatment,” I discuss several additional approaches — including helpful supplements and dietary changes — that can be used separately or in combination with the strategies listed above to control both acute and chronic pain.

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“We Have Clear, Clear Paths to Winning for This President!” – General Michael Flynn Comes Out Swinging for Trump in First Post Pardon Interview

President Trump announced on Twitter Wednesday afternoon he pardoned his former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (U.S. Army Ret.) Trump wrote,

“It is my Great Honor to announce that General Michael T. Flynn has been granted a Full Pardon. Congratulations to

@GenFlynn and his wonderful family, I know you will now have a truly fantastic Thanksgiving!”

General Flynn tweeted out a Bible quote in hearing the news.

General Michael Flynn held his first interview since the pardon with WVW-TV on Saturday.

General Flynn joined Lt. General McInerney and conservative activist Mary Fanning in his first interview.

General Michael Flynn took up most of the interview shedding light on the Trump election strategy in combatting the massive and obvious fraud in the 2020 election.

Flynn repeated during the interview, “We have clear, clear paths to winning for this president… If we don’t correct what is happening right now over the next couple of weeks then I hate to really think what will happen in our country going forward into the latter part of December and into the next month. I do not believe for a second that the country will accept Vice President Biden as the next president. “

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/clear-clear-paths-winning-president-general-michael-flynn-comes-swinging-trump-first-post-pardon-interview-video/