DOJ Announces New Hate Crimes and ‘Bias-Related Incident’ Measures

A grant worth $5 million will be used to set up a federal hate crime reporting hotline

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced new initiatives worth $10 million to combat hates crimes and other “bias-related incidents.” The move comes just days after the House passed a bill that would authorize “dedicated offices” within U.S. federal government departments to monitor domestic terrorism and hate crimes.

“Throughout our history, and to this day, hate crimes have a singular impact because of the terror and fear they inflict on entire communities,” Attorney General Merrick Garland wrote in a press release.

“We have seen a spike in hate crimes against many communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. In many cases, individuals are still scared to leave their homes – not only because of worry that they may contract the virus, but out of fear for their physical safety,” Garland continued.

This is unacceptable,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, who serves as Co-Chair of the White House Initiative and President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. “The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to combatting hate crimes against all Americans. Today’s announcements help deliver on the President’s pledge to ensure the safety of our communities.”

The DOJ issued new guidance with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to raise awareness on COVID-19 related hate crimes.

Garland referenced attacks against “Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities” while detailing “several steps that law enforcement, government officials, and others can take to raise awareness of increased hate crimes and incidents.”

These steps include $5 million in grant opportunities the department will use to set up a state-run reporting hotline for victims of hate crimes.

“Through these programs, the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) will provide up to $5 million in grant funds for the Bureau of Justice Statistics to support the transition of state and local law enforcement agencies to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and reporting of hate crimes through NIBRS, and for the Office of Victims of Crime (OVC) to fund states to establish and run state-run reporting hotlines for victims of hate crimes,” Garland wrote.

In addition, Garland tapped Saeed Mody to serve as the Department’s new “Anti-Hate Crimes Resources Coordinator.”

The DOJ’s announcement comes on the one-year anniversary of the enactment of the COVID-19 Hate Crimes and “Khalid Jabara-Heather Heyer NO HATE Acts.”

Since January 2021, the DOJ has said it has secured more than 35 convictions of defendants charged with “bias-motivated crimes”, according to The Epoch Times.

https://nationalfile.com/doj-announces-new-hate-crimes-and-bias-related-incident-measures/

Camp director removed after suit alleges sex abuse ‘cover up’

The head of a well-known Jewish sleepaway camp was removed from his post in the wake of a lawsuit that alleged he tried to cover up a teen’s sexual-abuse claim, legal papers say.

Rabbi Ethan Linden was put on leave as head of Camp Ramah in Wingdale, NY, which costs more than $11,000 a summer.

The action comes four years after the alleged incident involving a 15-year-old New Jersey camper identified as Jane Doe in the lawsuit.

The girl claims that she awoke on July 7, 2018, to find a male camper in her bed “with his hands touching her … and his fingers inside her genitals,” according to the suit filed May 4 in Manhattan federal court.

The alleged assault was reported to Linden, who “insisted he would keep all of this a secret.” When the teen insisted she be allowed to call her parents, Linden allegedly explained away the assault to them by saying there had been a “little incident” and that “nothing really happened.”

“He is just a horny little boy,” he allegedly told the victim.

The boy was arrested for forcible touching and the case was brought in Family Court, according to the suit, which seeks unspecified damages.

The suit names Linden, the camp and the Manhattan-based National Ramah Commission which oversees it.

The camp said Linden had been placed on administrative leave and that its “board will reassess his status once there has been a thorough review of the allegations contained in the legal complaint.”

Wylie Stecklow, a lawyer for the victim, said Linden’s removal was “a good first step in the right direction.”

“We will only know if Camp Ramah is serious about addressing the harmful conduct that was permitted to exist for such a long time if further remedial steps are taken throughout the Ramah Camps and the organization itself,” he said.

Linden did not immediately return a request for comment.

https://nypost.com/2022/05/21/camp-ramah-director-removed-after-allegations-of-sex-assault-cover-up/

Lawmaker Demands Capitol Police Release Tapes After ‘False’ Allegation by Jan. 6 Panel

Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), ranking GOP member of the House Administration Committee, is demanding that U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) release security footage tapes from Jan. 5, 2021, after the Jan. 6 panel made “demonstrably false” allegations against another House Republican.

Specifically, in a letter to the USCP, Davis cited “recent press reports, [that] the partisan January 6th Select Committee has falsely accused Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) … of leading so-called reconnaissance tours of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 5, 2021.”

This charge, Davis said, “is demonstrably false. As you are aware, [Administration] Committee Minority staff have reviewed all footage in question and have confirmed no ‘reconnaissance tours’ occurred.”

Davis also foresaw and rejected claims that the tapes he requested would pose a security risk if released to the public, noting that the same tapes have already been made public in some capacity.

“Any argument that this footage represents sensitive ‘security information’ was destroyed once the Board provided copies

to Democrat impeachment managers for public dissemination or it otherwise became available to the public,” Davis wrote.

Concluding the letter, Davis wrote: “If the Board has any hope of preserving a reputation as an unbiased security agency and re-establishing itself as a non-partisan entity, there is no alternative but to release the tapes. If the Board does not release the relevant footage in a timely manner, I will have no choice but to exercise my authority under 2 U.S.C. $ 1979 to release the footage myself.”

The Jan. 6 panel originally leveled the charge against Loudermilk in a May 19 letter requesting his “voluntary cooperation in advancing our investigation” (pdf).

“We believe you have information regarding a tour you led through parts of the Capitol complex on Jan. 5, 2021,” the letter said.

“The foregoing information raises questions to which the Select Committee must seek answers,” the Jan. 6 panel continued. “Public reporting and witness accounts indicate some individuals and groups engaged in efforts to gather information about the layout of the U.S. Capitol, as well as the House and Senate office buildings, in advance of January 6, 2021. For example, in the week following January 6th, Members urged law enforcement leaders to investigate sightings of ‘outside groups in the complex’ on January 5th that ‘appeared to be associated with the rally at the White House the following day.'”

However, Republicans on the House Administration Committee have refuted this claim, saying that their own review of the tapes inside the Capitol on Jan. 5, 2021, showed that no tours had been given—a claim that Davis seems confident enough to back up with a public release of the tapes in question.

https://www.ntd.com/lawmaker-demands-capitol-police-release-tapes-after-false-allegation-by-jan-6-panel_783079.html

Leaked emails expose UK Home Secretary Priti Patel’s connection to MI6-style ‘research and influence operation’

A deeply anti-democratic MI6-linked cabal’s apparent influence on Priti Patel raises serious questions about her fitness to rule on Julian Assange’s extradition to the US.

Cabal now managing MI6-inspired “research and influence operation”

Effort may be funded by intelligence agency actors

British Home Secretary implicated in plot

Green advocates and perceived Chinese agents targeted

Home Office infiltrated by cabal’s civil service mole

Cabal seeks to seize power over energy policy and “displace” government minister

British Home Secretary Priti Patel is due to imminently decide on whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is extradited to the US, where he faces life imprisonment for journalistic activities.

The Grayzone can exclusively reveal that Patel appears to be embroiled in a covert “research and influence operation,” directly inspired by MI6 “principles and methods” and guided in part by Richard Dearlove, the foreign spying agency’s former chief.

While the Home Secretary may not be fully apprised of the dark forces swirling around her, and the purposes for which she is being exploited, there is incontrovertible evidence that her ministerial agenda and Home Office policies are being directly influenced as a result of her links to the shady group.

“Dark Ullen” to be “conducted on the same broad principles and methods as an [MI6] research and influence operation”

This May 15, the Grayzone exposed a shadowy intelligence cabal’s plot to sabotage Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal, remove her from office, and replace her with Boris Johnson in order to secure a ‘hard’ withdrawal from the EU. The cabal pursued a variety of undemocratic, if not outright criminal methods to achieve its aims.

A vast tranche containing leaked email messages between members of the cabal provided the sourcing for that exposé. Further communications reviewed and verified by The Grayzone point to more recent, shockingly diabolical schemes.

These include plots to smear environmental activists as communist agents of Chinese influence, paint Ukrainian refugees as potential Russian double agents seeking to carry out terror attacks on British soil, and “displace” Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Minister Kwasi Kwarteng.

The spectral group’s apparent leader and puppet master is Gwythian Prins, a member of the Chief of Defence Staff’s Strategy Advisory Panel, and former NATO and Ministry of Defence advisor. On January 21st, Prins wrote to former MI6 director Richard Dearlove – a key member of the cabal – outlining the terms of ‘Dark Ullen’, the codeword title of “our China project.”

“Dark Ullen will have no structure and hence no post-holder titles: it will be conducted on the same broad principles and methods as an SIS [MI6] research and influence operation [emphasis added],” Prins wrote, adding that he would seek annual remuneration of £60,000 for the effort. The operation’s “sun king” would be invoiced as a sole trader, not an employee, so British tax authorities would not consider Dark Ullen a commercial entity and ask further questions.

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https://thegrayzone.com/2022/05/18/leaked-emails-uk-home-secretary-priti-patels-mi6-operation/

A history of naked imperialism continues as Biden approves Somalia redeployment

Biden has reversed Donald Trump’s withdrawal of US forces from Somalia and will redeploy Special Operations Forces. It is just the latest move in a long history of destructive US-UK meddling in the Horn of Africa.

Almost as soon as the administration of President Joseph Biden announced a redeployment of US Special Operations Forces to Somalia on May 16, the Western media began to spin the intervention.

As the BBC framed it, Biden’s deployment would “support the fight against militant group al-Shabab” (sic). The intervention coincides with the re-election of former Somalian President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who governed between 2012 and ‘17.

Similarly, the New York Times (NYT) reported that “Biden has approved a Pentagon request for standing authority to target about a dozen suspected leaders of Al Shabab, the Somali terrorist group that is affiliated with Al Qaeda.”

But are these motives true? Does Washington really want merely to defeat al-Shabab? Is al-Shabab actually linked to al-Qaeda and, if so, to what degree? As usual, the mainstream state-corporate media reportage is missing context and reference to international law.

As we shall see, the context behind the US redeployment is naked imperialism using counterterrorism as the latest in a long line of excuses to interfere in the politics of the strategically-significant country on the Horn of Africa. In terms of international law, signatories of the UN Charter have legal responsibilities to gain authorization from the Security Council before launching military operations –– something the Biden administration and its predecessors have never done in Somalia, or anywhere else, for that matter.

It is also worth tackling the Trump-era propaganda, which is double-edged. Trump supporters claimed that their hero ended America’s “forever wars,” as he “bombed the shit out of ISIS,” in his words, which often meant dumping munitions on Iraqi and Syrian women and children, while blowing Somalis to pieces via drone operators in numbers greater than during Obama’s term. It is accurate that Trump withdrew US ground forces from Somalia, though it appears to have been both an America First PR stunt and a device to make things difficult for the incoming Biden administration.

On the other side, the pro-war, neoliberal, anti-Trump establishment sought to portray Trump’s withdrawal of ground troops as a sign of American weakness in the face of globalized “Islamic” terrorists. By demonizing Trump and inaccurately reporting the motives of his withdrawal, the NYT, BBC and company were essentially clamoring for US militarism in Somalia: Trump bad so militarism good. And as usual, their reporting was absent of any critical or skeptical voices.

https://thegrayzone.com/2022/05/21/us-somalia-imperialism-military-biden-redeploy/

Area 51 is a top secret government facility in Nevada. Top secret development and testing are performed there on experimental aircraft and weapon systems.[1] Some of these top secret planes bear a resemblance to typical UFO craft sightings. Area 51 has been a test center for the U-2 spy plane, the SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance plane, the F-117 fighter and bomber, and saucer-like aircrafts as well.[2] The man-made tests that are being conducted on advanced aircraft at this place probably make up many of the reported “UFO Sightings” in the area. Sightings have been reported by people who believe that some of the strange planes or lights seen near Area 51 are from aliens.

However, it’s possible that some of the lights and strange things that people see at Area 51 are preternatural. It has been said that, in 1947, satanist Jack Parsons held a huge satanic ritual on the very spot where Area 51 is currently located. Parsons’ magical ceremony was called the “Babylon Working” project. It was designed by Aleister Crowley – a satanist and a man who called himself “the beast 666.”[3] The purpose of the series of magical ceremonies, on the spot where Area 51 is now located, was to unseal an inter-dimensional gateway. This, they hoped, would allow other dimensional entities known as the “Old Ones” access to our space/time continuum. During the ritual, the spirit of Antichrist was bestowed on Jack Parsons. One person claimed to witness Parsons rip a hole in space time and he said that something evil flew in.

The culmination of the ceremonies was supposedly effective, having resulted in the establishment of “extra-terrestrial contact…” [4] Jack Parsons was also a rocket designer who developed patented rocket technology which is still in use by NASA. NASA even named a crater on the far side of the moon in honor of Jack Parsons.[5] Parsons held that Jesus Christ and His Church were the enemies of civilization. Parsons was chosen by Aleister Crowley to lead the satanic O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientalis) secret society in California in 1942.[6] So, it would not be surprising at all that at Area 51, the very spot where this satanic gateway was opened, there would be many UFO sightings.

Endnotes:

[1] http://www.dreamlandresort.com/area51/dreamland_50years.html and http://www.ufomind.com/area51/desert_rat/1996/dr36/walz/

[2] Gary Bates, Alien Intrusion, p. 194. Also see http://www.desertusa.com/mag05/oct/51.html

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons, p. 1.

[4] Ron Patton, Demons in Alien’s Clothing, p. 2, internet version. The incident was described in the book, Outside the Circle of Time (1980) by Kenneth Grant found also on www.conspiracyarchive.com/UFOs/demons_aliens_clothes.htm, also on www.thewatcherfiles.com/ufo-satanism.html

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons, p. 2.

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons, p. 1. Also see Dr. Jacque Vallee, Messengers of Deception, p. 216.

Russian Media Says Head Of Azov In Custody After 2,439 Total Fighters Surrender At Steel Plant

Late Friday Russia's Defense Ministry announced that the last Ukrainian fighters holed up in the giant Azovstal steelworks plant emerged, days after there were reports that top Azov commanders still holding out.

The ministry said it counted 2,439 defenders had emerged and surrendered over the past few days. The final holdout group that was last to come out was tallied at 531. The Russian military's now total control over the sprawling plant and city of Mariupol is considered the be its greatest victory over three months of war.

The final 500+ came out Friday, after Azov regiment commander Denys Prokopenko giving the order to stop defending the city. "The higher military command has given the order to save the lives of the soldiers of our garrison and to stop defending the city." Prokopenko had said in a video posted to Telegram.

The Ukrainian side has presented it as an end to the "combat mission" while Moscow emphasized the Azov militants, who are neo-Nazi in ideology, were defeated and surrendered. Prokopenko those under him to preserve "life and health … and stop defending the city."

Russia announced that "The territory of the Azovstal metallurgical plant … has been completely liberated." Further, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu informed President Putin of the city's complete 'liberation'.

Crucially, there are Russian and other international press reports saying that the head of Azov is now in Russian military custody: "The Russian Defense Ministry also confirmed the surrender of Denis Prokopenko, the commander of the so-called Azov battalion - a far-right military unit of neo-Nazi volunteers operating in Ukraine as a reserve force of the country's Armed Forces," according to the reports.

Meanwhile, Western mainstream media has remained silent on the fate of the Azov leaders - likely also as few or none of its correspondents are on the ground at Azovstal, and Kiev has yet to confirm whether or not Prokopenko and others are now in Russian detention.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-media-says-head-azov-custody-after-2439-total-fighters-surrender-steel-plant

Japan Nuclear Regulator Greenlights Radiactive Water Release From Fukushima

The Japanese Nuclear Regulator Authority has given its initial approval to Tepco to start releasing irradiated water from the Fukushima plant that collapsed during a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

Plans were revealed last year to pour the water from Fukushima into the sea after an assessment that would check whether there were any safety issues with such a plan. According to the Nuclear Regulator Authority, there are none. Final approval will be granted in a month after the public has had the opportunity to comment on the issue.

The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency will also carry out safety reviews of the water release.

There are about a million tons of contaminated water from Fukushima that Tepco, the operator of the nuclear plant, has been looking for ways to dispose of for several years now. Releasing the water into the ocean has emerged as the most viable solution to the problem despite opposition both from inside Japan and its neighbors.

Despite the absence of viable options, environmental groups and fishing industry organizations are against the release of the liquid into the sea, even with assurances from scientists that the risk of contamination is low.

The water will be first filtered and then diluted to reduce the concentration of radioactive material 40 times, according to some of the reports from last year that were confirmed this year as well. The release is scheduled to begin this year if the Nuclear Regulator Authority gives its final go-ahead to Tepco.

Back in 2018, official calculations by the Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corp pegged the cost of decommissioning the Fukushima nuclear power plant at some $75 billion, which was a sum four times larger than the initial estimate of how much it would cost to put Fukushima out of commission.

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Japan-Nuclear-Regulator-Greenlights-Radiactive-Water-Release-From-Fukushima.html

Horror in south east France as tourist plane crashes into mountains, killing all five onboard

Small tourist plane crashed in Isère region of France shortly before 5pm today

Local media reports that all five passengers onboard the plane have been killed

It is understood plane belongs to a flying club and took off from an aerodrome

A small plane has crashed into a mountain in south east France killing five people, local media has reported.

It is understood the plane crashed near the town of Isere on Saturday in the Isère region of south east France, reports have suggested.

French media outlet BFMTV reported that the crash happened shortly before 5pm this evening near the town of Adrets, citing a police source.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10840653/Horror-south-east-France-tourist-plane-crashes-mountains-killing-five-onboard.html