Unrest in Mozambique over alleged election fraud

Violence reported across the Southern African nation between police and opposition protesters following local elections

Clashes between riot police and opposition protesters in Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, have reportedly left dozens injured. The main opposition party, Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), called for the demonstrations on Tuesday in response to alleged fraud in municipal elections held last week.

Several of the protesters sustained minor injuries while attempting to flee from police, who fired tear gas into the crowd, according to the BBC.

“We once again call on all Mozambicans to take part in a general demonstration to repudiate electoral fraud… This is the beginning of the revolution in Mozambique,” Ossufo Momade, Renamo president, told a crowd in Maputo on Tuesday. Protests were reported in Chiure and Montepuez in the country’s northeast, and in Nampula in the north.

The ruling Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) was announced on Saturday as the winner of the local elections in most municipalities, including the capital, where the candidate of Renamo Venancio Mondlane had already claimed victory.

According to the Maputo Provincial Electoral Commission, Frelimo’s Rasaque Manhique obtained 58.78% of the total votes, while Renamo’s Mondlane had 33.59%, while the Democratic Movement of Mozambique received 6.8%.

However, Mondlane declared himself winner on Thursday, a day after the elections, with 53% of votes cast, bringing thousands of supporters to the streets in the capital, the Club of Mozambique news agency reported.

A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed by police on Thursday in the district of Chiure in Cabo Delgado province and a girl was injured during opposition supporters’ celebrations following the local elections. The police said in a statement that the boy was “accidentally fatally shot” while they were dispersing protesters.

Human Rights Watch has also accused the Mozambican police of using “excessive force” against opposition supporters in Nampula province. Violent clashes between police and opposition supporters have also been reported in the municipalities of Cuamba, Moatize, and Vilankulos, the organization reported on Thursday.

Frelimo and Renamo fought a brutal civil war from 1977 to 1992, devastating the southern African nation’s economy and leaving almost one million people dead. Since the conclusion of the war, Frelimo has consistently won all national elections and maintained control over the majority of municipalities in the former Portuguese colony, which gained independence in 1975.

https://www.rt.com/africa/585274-mozambique-election-fraud-protests-clashes/

Sam Bankman-Fried reportedly had dinner with Hillary Clinton after pumping $200M into former Clinton aide's firm

Former FTX Director of Engineering Nashad Singh told jurors that company founder Sam Bankman-Fried spent massive amounts of money on venture capitalism and celebrity endorsement deals.

Singh is the latest of Bankman-Fried's former colleagues to testify in court, adding to a plethora of accusatory statements alluding to fraud, bribery, and unmitigated spending using customer funds.

Singh testified that he had told Bankman-Fried that he was “embarrassed” and “ashamed” about how the company would spend the money but continued to approve spending anyhow, CNBC reported.

Despite saying the company's spending “reeked of excessiveness” and “flashiness," Singh reportedly admitted that he still explicitly gave the go-ahead to spend even after he knew customer money was involved.

Bankman-Fried and Singh met in high school. Singh worked at Facebook before joining Alameda Research, FTX's sister hedge fund, in 2017. Singh lived in Bankman-Fried's infamous property in the Bahamas and said that he had “always been intimidated by Sam” and called him a “formidable character.”

Singh alleged that he first learned of Bankman-Fried's excessive spending in 2022.

Court documents showed a spreadsheet of investments that included $1 billion to cryptocurrency platform Genesis, $499 million to AI start-up Anthropic, and $200 million to investment firm K5 Global. K5 Global was co-founded by Michael Kives, who "worked in Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's D.C. office as an Aide to Chief of Staff Huma Abedin."

Singh alleged that Bankman-Fried sent him a terms sheet that detailed hundreds of millions in bonuses going toward Kives and co-founder Bryan Baum. Their portfolio includes investments in SpaceX, the Boring Company, and Kendall Jenner's 818 Tequila.

A spreadsheet showed that the investment money came from Alameda, whose money comes from FTX. Alameda had a $65 billion line of credit with FTX, which eventually resulted in an $8 billion debt made up of customer deposits.

Following his investment, Bankman-Fried allegedly attended a K5 dinner with Hillary Clinton, Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Kris and Kylie Jenner.

In addition to the investments, the jury reportedly received a different spreadsheet that detailed celebrity sponsorship deals. Among them was a $205 million price tag for the naming rights to Miami's then-FTX Arena, $150 million to become the "official cryptocurrency exchange brand" of Major League Baseball, $50 million to NFL legend Tom Brady, $28.5 million to NBA star Steph Curry, and $10 million to "Seinfeld" creator Larry David.

In total, FTX shelled out $1.13 billion in endorsement deals.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/ftx-sbf-sponsors-hillary-clinton

LinkedIn, which discriminates against conservatives, just fired around 700 employees

Microsoft subsidiary LinkedIn, notorious for its anti-conservative bias, has fired around 700 employees as part of workplace reduction efforts.

According to a CNBC report, the layoffs sought to reshape LinkedIn's organizational structure and optimize operations. The company's engineering department bore the heaviest brunt of the layoffs, though it wasn't the only division affected. The cuts also extended to other areas, including the finance and human resources departments.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2023/10/linkedin-which-discriminates-against.html

Ukrainian Firm Tied To Hunter Planned Meetings With DC Lawmakers After Joe Biden Got Prosecutor Fired, Memo Shows

Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings planned on holding meetings with congressional lawmakers in Washington, D.C., shortly after then-Vice President Joe Biden successfully pressured Ukraine into firing its top prosecutor, according to a memo released in September.

Burisma was paying Hunter Biden more than $80,000 per month in spring 2016 when then-VP Biden successfully pressured Ukraine into firing Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin. The Ukrainian firm hoped to have meetings in D.C. with two senators and a house lawmaker right after the Ukrainian parliament voted to remove Shokin, according to an itinerary released by the House Ways and Means Committee in September.

Lobbying firm Blue Star Strategies planned on briefing Burisma on March 30, 2016, ahead of a meeting with the staff of then-Republican Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, a former member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and co-chair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus, the document shows.

Burisma representatives met with a staffer in Portman’s office but did not make any specific demands, according to a source familiar with the meeting. Portman did not know about the meeting and never spoke with Burisma, the source said. The Caller granted anonymity to speak on a sensitive issue.

Portman is now a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and his senate seat was filled by Republican Sen. J.D. Vance in the 2022 midterm elections.

In the afternoon, Burisma planned to meet with the staff Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a current member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Ukraine Caucus, according to the memo. Her office did not respond to a request for comment. It’s unclear if the meeting with Shaheen took place.

http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2023/10/ukrainian-firm-tied-to-hunter-planned.html

US Vetoes UN Security Resolution Calling for ‘Humanitarian Pauses’ in Gaza

The US was the only member to vote against the resolution

The US on Wednesday vetoed a Brazilian-proposed UN Security Council resolution that would have called for “humanitarian pauses” to allow the delivery of aid to Gaza.

The US was the only member of the Security Council to vote against the proposal, which is enough to veto the resolution since the US is a permanent member. Nine out of 12 members voted in favor of the resolution, while the UK and Russia abstained.

The vote came two days after the US and its allies on the Security Council rejected a resolution proposed by Russia calling for a ceasefire. The US claimed that it opposed the Russian resolution because it did not condemn Hamas.

The Brazilian version did condemn Hamas, but the US still complained about the language. US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the US vetoed the resolution because it “did not mention Israel’s right of self-defense.”

Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said Moscow did not vote in favor of the Brazilian resolution because it had “no clear call for a ceasefire” and “will not help to stop the bloodshed.”

During President Biden’s visit to Israel on Wednesday, Israel said it agreed to allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza from Egypt. The US is still not calling for a ceasefire or any kind of de-escalation and is strongly backing Israel’s bombardment with new military aid and deployments of military assets to the region.

https://news.antiwar.com/2023/10/18/us-vetoes-un-security-resolution-calling-for-humanitarian-pauses-in-gaza/

Wexner Foundation cuts ties with Harvard for not condemning Hamas’ barbaric actions

The Wexner Foundation, a nonprofit created by Victoria’s Secret founder Leslie Wexner, has taken a bold step by severing its connection with Harvard University as a result of the university’s “dismal failure” to condemn the brutal killing of Israeli civilians by Hamas.

In a firm letter dispatched to Harvard’s board on Monday, the foundation, started by Wexner and his wife Abigail, stated, “We are stunned and sickened by the dismal failure of Harvard’s leadership to take a clear and unequivocal stance against the barbaric murders of innocent Israeli civilians.”

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/10/wexner-foundation-cuts-ties-with-harvard-for-not-condemning-hamas-barbaric-actions/

The Rise of the Global Police State

At this point in time, it’s crucial to realize that the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are part of the plan to implement a One World Government, where the entire world will be run by unelected bureaucrats beholden to technocratic ideals.

In a two-part Unlimited Hangout investigative series,1,2 independent journalists Iain Davis and Whitney Webb expose how Sustainable Development Goal No. 16 (SDG16), which claims to advance “peaceful and inclusive societies” and “justice for all,” is really about consolidating authority, exploiting threats to advance regime hegemony, and forcing a “centrally controlled global system of digital identity3 (digital ID) upon humanity.”

As explained in Part 1,4 the term the globalist alliance of technocrats use to describe its network is a “global public-private partnership,” or G3P:

“The G3P is toiling tirelessly to create the conditions necessary to justify the imposition of both global governance ‘with teeth’ and its prerequisite digital ID system. In doing so, the G3P is inverting the nature of our rights. It manufactures and exploits crises in order to claim legitimacy for its offered ‘solutions.’

The G3P comprises virtually all of the world’s intergovernmental organizations, governments, global corporations, major philanthropic foundations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society groups. Collectively, these form the ‘stakeholders’ implementing sustainable development, including SDG16.”

The following chart, sourced from IanDavis.com,5 illustrates how the G3P operates.

What SDG16 Is Really About

The central objective of SDG16 is to strengthen the UN-led regime, and of all the subgoals included in this SDG, the establishment of “a legal identity for all” (SDG16.9), is the most crucial, as other goals rely on the use of digital identity. As noted by Davis and Webb:6

“Universal adoption of SDG16.9 digital ID will enable the G3P global governance regime’s to establish a worldwide system of reward and punishment. If we accept the planned model of digital ID, it will ultimately enslave us in the name of sustainable development …

SDG16.9 ‘sustainable development’ means we must use digital ID … Otherwise we will not be protected in law, service access will be denied, our right to transact in the modern economy will be removed, we will be barred from participating as ‘citizens’ and excluded from so-called ‘democracy.’”

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/10/joseph-mercola/the-rise-of-the-global-police-state/

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News presenter challenges Israeli government's account of Gaza strikes on civilian structures

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COVER UP: Israel DELETES Video They Claimed Showed Islamic Jihad Rocket Hit Hospital; Sound Analysis Suggests Israel Used Powerful JDAM Missile

The Israeli government on Tuesday deleted video they falsely claimed showed the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, not Israel, was responsible for the Gaza Baptist hospital massacre.

Their initial post was edited to remove the video, though they left up the same vague cover story.

Damning sound analysis from X user Lord Bebo (who has beat the New York Times to major stories) suggests the strike was most likely carried out by Israel with an extremely powerful US-supplied JDAM missile (the US announced just days ago they were sending Israel more JDAMs).

The IDF's Hananya Naftali initially hailed the strike in a now-deleted tweet, claiming "Israeli Air Force struck a Hamas terrorist base inside a hospital in Gaza."

"A multiple number of terrorists are dead," Naftali said. "It's heartbreaking that Hamas is launching rockets from hospitals, Mosques, schools, and using civilians as human shields. #Hamas_Is_ISIS."

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64053

Israel Orders Its Western Puppets to Ban Demonstrations for Palestine, and the Western Puppet Rulers Obey

Israel Orders Its Western Puppets to Ban Demonstrations for Palestine, and the Western Puppet Rulers Obey

French police break up pro-Palestinian demo after ban https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67088547

Germany bans pro-Palestinian group samidoun https://www.reuters.com/world/germany-bans-pro-palestinian-group-samidoun-2023-10-12/

The British government arrests you if you wave a Palestinian flag, and US corporations blacklist you from employment.

Nikki Haley Says Israel and America Are the Same Country“This is not just an attack on Israel. This was an attack on America.”

“Free Speech Advocates” Demand Silencing of Israel’s Critics

On last night’s show, we reported on a spate of disturbing censorship that is emerging throughout the West, ostensibly designed to outlaw – to criminalize – dissent from the West’s policy toward the war in Israel and Gaza: exactly as they have spent the last 18 months doing, censoring opponents of the US-NATO proxy war in Ukraine.

https://greenwald.locals.com/post/4720272/france-germany-officially-ban-pro-palestinian-protests-as-rabid-us-neocons-urge-us-war-w-iran

In “free America” we can exercise our First Amendment right only in favor of approved groups–Israel, Biden, blacks, LGBT, Ukraine.

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2023/10/17/israel-orders-its-western-puppets-to-ban-demonstrations-for-palestine-and-the-western-puppet-rulers-obey/