Biden’s Intelligence Community Is Not Focused on China or Antifa But on their Political Opposition – President Trump, Roger Stone, Kash Patel and American Patriots Are First in Line

It’s no secret. We know Obama did it before. Now the Obama/Biden White House is at it again – using the Intel community to attack Americans who are supporters of America and the MAGA agenda.

We heard yesterday from the Deep State’s mouthpiece – the Washington Post – that the Deep State is again on the attack. Now they’re after Kash Patel:

Kash Patel, the former GOP congressional aide who uncovered the FBI’s surveillance abuse against the Trump campaign, is the target of a federal leak investigation, according to a report from The Washington Post.

David Ignatius, a columnist for the Post, reported Friday that two sources familiar with the probe said that Patel is being investigated for unauthorized disclosures of classified information.

The investigation was sparked by a complaint made by an intelligence agency, according to Ignatius.

This is only the beginning. We knew the Deep State was bad and corrupted under Obama. They allowed Hillary to walk in a sham investigation and created the made-up Trump – Russia conspiracy at the same time. The Deep State was never addressed under the Trump Presidency.

The new Attorney General was Obama’s pick to the Supreme Court. We saw him in action in the General Flynn case before the DC Circuit Court. He was rude and biased. He agreed with the court that they needed to keep the Flynn case open. Unprecedented in US history, it was fine with Garland to keep prosecuting a case even though the prosecution and the defendants agreed to end it as long as the defendant was General Flynn.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/bidens-intelligence-committee-not-focused-china-american-patriots-president-trump-roger-stone-cash-patel-good-americans-first-line/

Biden Isn't Ending The Afghan War, He's Privatizing It

'Unclear' If Over 18,000 Contractors Will Ever Leave Afghanistan: Pentagon

While President Biden said he will withdraw troops from Afghanistan, it’s not clear if his plan extends to the thousands of contractors working for the Pentagon that are still in the country.

When asked about this issue on Friday, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said he wasn’t sure. "So on the contractors, we don’t know exactly. There are some preliminary plans. And clearly, the goal is to get all our personnel out and I suspect that contractors will be part of that. But whether there’ll still be a need for some contractor support, I just don’t know," he said.

The US plans to continue supporting the Afghan military and Air Force. Since the bulk of the maintenance for these armed forces is performed by US contractors, there’s a good chance the Pentagon will justify a continued presence of private contractors.

According to numbers released in January, there are over 18,000 contractors working in Afghanistan. About 4,700 of the current contractors are Afghans that were hired locally. The remaining come from outside of the country, including about a third who are US citizens.

According to Stars and Stripes, 1,575 of the contractors are armed mercenaries, mostly Americans and other foreigners. While this number is only a small fighting force, it could be combined with intelligence operatives and proxies like the Afghan military to give the US the ability to strike inside Afghanistan.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday that the US wants to maintain "counterterrorist assets" in the region. On Tuesday, The New York Times cited current and former US officials who said the US "will most likely rely on a shadowy combination of clandestine Special Operations forces, Pentagon contractors and covert intelligence operatives" to conduct operations inside Afghanistan.

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/04/16/pentagon-unclear-if-contractors-will-leave-afghanistan/

China denounces US-Japan statement in which Washington vows to defend its Asian partner with NUCLEAR ‘capabilities’

Beijing has blamed Washington and Tokyo for undermining stability in the Asia Pacific region after they released a joint statement saying “regional challenges” would be addressed by all means, “including nuclear.”

The statement by US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, the first foreign leader to officially visit Biden at the White House, was released on Friday. It criticized China, suggesting its actions “are inconsistent with the international rules-based order” and impact “peace and prosperity” in the region.

The alliance between Washington and Tokyo, on the other hand, “has become a cornerstone of peace and security in the Indo-Pacific region and around the world,” and the two countries “are more prepared than ever to address regional challenges,” the statement continued. Beijing’s activities in the South China Sea were mentioned among the challenges, as well as issues in Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Taiwan.

“Japan resolved to bolster its own national defense capabilities… The United States restated its unwavering support for Japan’s defense… using its full range of capabilities, including nuclear,” the statement read.

Beijing condemned the document, saying it went beyond the scope of bilateral relations and interfered in China’s internal affairs. It also endorsed separatist activities, a statement by the Chinese Embassy in the US said on Saturday, as reported by the CGTN news channel.

China, which has for decades considered Taiwan an integral part of its territory, has repeatedly called on the US not to interfere in its domestic policies. Tensions in the South China Sea have long been increasing, with a number of military drills happening in the region, particularly around the island of Taiwan, which considers itself an independent nation and is supported by Western states.

https://www.rt.com/news/521347-us-japan-statement-nuclear/

Twitter Promotes Conservative Doxxing Article Based On 'Hacked' Materials – Violating Own Policy Used To Protect Hunter Biden

Twitter hypocrisy is on full display, and they aren't even trying to hide it.

After banning the New York Post and others for a factual report on Hunter Biden's not hacked laptop last October - citing their 'doxxing and hacked materials' policy, the social media giant actively promoted a story from The Guardian on Friday which not only doxxes conservative donors to Kyle Rittenhouse and other BLM targets - but was based on hacked materials obtained by a hacking collective that Twitter banned in

As Luke Rosiak of the Daily Wire details, The Guardian story which doxxes several low-level government employees who donated to Rittenhouse and others was based on a "data breach at a Christian crowdfunding website" GiveSendGo - and placed atop Twitter's "trending" section, which is manually curated by site employees.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitter-promotes-conservative-doxxing-article-based-hacked-materials-violating-own-policy

Russia Briefly Detains Ukrainian Diplomat On Spy Charges, Orders Expulsion

Yet another major crisis has erupted between Russia and Ukraine, this time involving the brief detention of a Ukrainian diplomat over accusations of spying.

"Ukraine's foreign ministry said Saturday that Russia briefly detained one of its diplomats in St Petersburg, marking the latest instance of tension between the two countries," The Hill reports Saturday morning.

The diplomat, identified as Oleksandr Sosoniuk was taken into custody by Russia's FSB security service shortly after meeting with a Russian citizen. Sosoniuk is being accused of attempting to gain classified information from Russian databases from a local 'asset'.

"This activity is incompatible with the status of a diplomatic employee and is hostile to the Russian Federation. The foreign diplomat will be dealt with in accordance with international law," the FSB said in a statement.

The diplomat has been given till April 22 to depart the country, Reuters reports. The diplomat was reportedly held for several hours in Russian custody before being delivered back to Ukraine's consulate in St. Petersburg.

While the FSB said he was essentially caught 'red-handed', Ukraine's foreign ministry is fuming, saying in a statement, "The Ukrainian side will soon decide how to respond to this provocation, taking into account current practice," and condemned the detention, however brief.

It's the latest incident to send tensions soaring at a moment Kiev is accusing Moscow of preparing for an 'offensive' in eastern Ukraine due to a large Russian troop build-up on the border and in Crimea, which by many accounts is the largest mustering of forces since 2014.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-briefly-detains-ukrainian-diplomat-spy-charges-orders-expulsion

West cited ‘fake news’ to justify bombing Syria, MEP tells RT after confronting ‘compromised’ OPCW chief over Douma report

MEP Mick Wallace has made no apologies for grilling OPCW Director-General Fernando Arias during a parliamentary session, telling RT that Arias seemed to be using the organization to back the West’s interventionist agenda in Syria.

Arias addressed the European Parliament Subcommittee of Security and Defence on Thursday, an occasion that Wallace used to put some tough questions to the chief of the UN chemical weapons watchdog.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has repeatedly suggested that President Bashar Assad has deployed chemical weapons on his own people, allegations that have been used by the US and some of its Western allies to launch airstrikes against Syria. But some of the agency’s conclusions have come under intense scrutiny in recent months, particularly a report it released concerning an alleged chemical attack in Douma, near Damascus, in 2018. Whistleblower testimony and internal documents suggest that the OPCW may have suppressed key information that contradicted a predetermined conclusion regarding who was responsible for the incident.

Wallace called on Arias to fully investigate the allegations in a “transparent” manner, a request which did not sit well with subcommittee chairwoman Nathalie Loiseau, who accused the Ireland South MEP of spreading “fake news.”

https://www.rt.com/news/521352-mick-wallace-opcw-syria/

‘System irregularity’ leaves Twitter users in the dark & support accounts down as outage continues

The massive outage affecting Twitter continues, with users around the world getting error messages saying “something went wrong” and being unable to log in. Twitter’s team says it’s investigating a “possible system irregularity.”

Twitter users first experienced problems logging in and loading tweets on Friday night. Amid tens of thousands of error reports, the company’s support team said they were “working on fixing a problem,” and that users would be “back on the timeline soon.”

These problems continued into Saturday morning, and affected users across several continents. DownDetector, a website that tracks the availability of web services based on user reports, showed errors in more than 40 countries, from the US to Europe to Asia.

Losing my mind at how this Twitter error message I keep getting all of a sudden is also a motivational poster. pic.twitter.com/eXBLkfRrYR

— Elaine Scattermoon (@scattermoon) April 17, 2021

Users experiencing these errors found themselves unable to sign in to their accounts, unable to post tweets or send direct messages, and unable to see profiles. Not everyone reported all of these issues at once, and service seemingly dipped in and out into Saturday afternoon. Additionally, mobile users were apparently less likely to be affected.

Me trying to tweet about twitter being down while twitter is down#twitterdownpic.twitter.com/pxs2lPRScb

— Mahii Mehar (@itx__mahi) April 17, 2021

Worse still, when people tried to seek an explanation from @TwitterSupport, many found the account to be inaccessible, with a “something went wrong” message showing up instead. Twitter published a short technical report on a separate webpage as the outage continued.

“The Twitter data team is investigating a possible system irregularity,” read a message posted on Saturday to Twitter’s API status website. “The presence and scope of any developer impact has not been determined at this time, but we will provide an update as soon as we know more,” the message added.

My Twitter on pc doesn't work too😭 is anyone else experiencing this? Or has my account be suspended or something😢? Help me my fellow #kpop multi tech experts😭#twitter#twittererrorpic.twitter.com/x0uSGjc5Fm

— ⟭⟬ᴮᴱSuga_at_first_sight⁷ ²⁰¹³𖧵⟬⟭ (+ㅅ-)🗡 (@at_suga) April 17, 2021

Twitter’s nearly 200 million daily active users occasionally experience difficulties accessing the site, but global outages are rare. The most notable recent crash was on October 15, 2020, just ahead of the competing TV town halls by then-president Donald Trump and his challenger Joe Biden, and following the company’s decision to lock the account of the New York Post over its reporting of a scandal featuring Biden’s son.

https://www.rt.com/news/521365-twitter-down-outage-error/

Russia Shuts Ukraine's Military Access To Black Sea

It was announced Thursday that Russia will close off the Kerch Strait to all foreign warships for six months amid rising Ukraine tensions, and after the US threatened to send additional warships to the area. The Kerch Strait is the vital, narrow waterway connecting the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, and which importantly connects southern Russia to "annexed" Crimea.

"Putin will close the Kerch Strait beginning next week until October, blocking foreign warships that are conducting military exercises, including the US, the Ukraine foreign ministry said Thursday," The New York Post reported.

The move has enraged Ukraine, which is now accusing Russia of seeking to 'illegally' block its ships - especially naval vessels - from accessing the Black Sea, and has protested what it says is a severe violation of norms of 'freedom of navigation.

Ukraine's foreign ministry said "such actions by the Russian Federation are another attempt to violate the norms and principles of international law to usurp the sovereign rights of Ukraine as a coastal state, as Ukraine has the right to regulate navigation in these areas of the Black Sea."

Moscow has since underscored that it will not impact regional trade, particularly the regional grain trade for which the strait serves as a vital passageway, and that the closure is necessary for "military exercises". Reuters on Friday cited state sources to detail the following:

The right of passage of foreign warships and "other state ships" will be suspended in three spots near Crimea's Black Sea coast from April 24 until October 31, RIA said, citing Russia's defence ministry.

Russia says the strait is not closed to commercial and trade vessels. The closure comes after the Kremlin warned American naval ships to stay away from approaching the Crimea "for their own good".

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-shuts-ukraines-military-access-black-sea

The Military Origins of Facebook

Facebook’s growing role in the ever-expanding surveillance and “pre-crime” apparatus of the national security state demands new scrutiny of the company’s origins and its products as they relate to a former, controversial DARPA-run surveillance program that was essentially analogous to what is currently the world’s largest social network.

In mid-February, Daniel Baker, a US veteran described by the media as “anti-Trump, anti-government, anti-white supremacists, and anti-police,” was charged by a Florida grand jury with two counts of “transmitting a communication in interstate commerce containing a threat to kidnap or injure.”

The communication in question had been posted by Baker on Facebook, where he had created an event page to organize an armed counter-rally to one planned by Donald Trump supporters at the Florida capital of Tallahassee on January 6. “If you are afraid to die fighting the enemy, then stay in bed and live. Call all of your friends and Rise Up!,” Baker had written on his Facebook event page.

Baker’s case is notable as it is one of the first “precrime” arrests based entirely on social media posts—the logical conclusion of the Trump administration’s, and now Biden administration’s, push to normalize arresting individuals for online posts to prevent violent acts before they can happen. From the increasing sophistication of US intelligence/military contractor Palantir’s predictive policing programs to the formal announcement of the Justice Department’s Disruption and Early Engagement Program in 2019 to Biden’s first budget, which contains $111 million for pursuing and managing “increasing domestic terrorism caseloads,” the steady advance toward a precrime-centered “war on domestic terror” has been notable under every post-9/11 presidential administration.

This new so-called war on domestic terror has actually resulted in many of these types of posts on Facebook. And, while Facebook has long sought to portray itself as a “town square” that allows people from across the world to connect, a deeper look into its apparently military origins and continual military connections reveals that the world’s largest social network was always intended to act as a surveillance tool to identify and target domestic dissent.

Part 1 of this two-part series on Facebook and the US national-security state explores the social media network’s origins and the timing and nature of its rise as it relates to a controversial military program that was shut down the same day that Facebook launched. The program, known as LifeLog, was one of several controversial post-9/11 surveillance programs pursued by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that threatened to destroy privacy and civil liberties in the United States while also seeking to harvest data for producing “humanized” artificial intelligence (AI).

As this report will show, Facebook is not the only Silicon Valley giant whose origins coincide closely with this same series of DARPA initiatives and whose current activities are providing both the engine and the fuel for a hi-tech war on domestic dissent.

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https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/04/investigative-reports/the-military-origins-of-facebook/