DEA Makes Shocking Move, Orders Increase In Cannabis Production by 500% to Fight Opioid Crisis
A new filing from the FDA could signal a massive shift in drug policy as the DEA orders a 540 percent increase in the production of marijuana for studies.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/dea-makes-shocking-move-orders-increase-in-cannabis-production-by-500-to-fight-opioid-crisis/
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Apple Removes Thousands of Apps in Compliance With Chinese Government
Apple has removed around 25,000 apps from its service after the Chinese government criticized the company for not doing enough to monitor content.
As the company makes further commitments to China amidst the ongoing trade war, the stakes are getting higher.
As reported by the Wall Street Journal:
U.S. companies are paying close attention to the messages they get from the Chinese government and the state media in this sensitive trade environment, said Ben Cavender, a director at China Market Research Group who focuses on consumer technology and retail.
“They are going to move very quickly to try to rectify that problem, because this is a situation where there could be a lot more backlash in the government in terms of regulations,” Mr. Cavender said.
As big tech companies move across the globe, internet regulations in the EU and China are impacting users in the United States.
The European Union’s GDPR legislation, under the guise of “privacy protection”, grants the “right to be forgotten”. This law directly effects the free speech of journalists world-wide.
Additionally, China’s cyber security legislation requires U.S. companies operating there to hand over source codes for products to the Chinese government, raising serious national security and privacy issues.
Apple CEO Tim Cook, along with Google executive Sundar Pichai made their first appearance at China’s World Internet Conference last year, signaling their intent to make moves to the country.
A de-facto social credit system is attempting to creep into the United States through unelected multinational corporations who have become slaves to the communist Chinese.
President Trump has vowed to not allow censorship to happen in the United States. He tweeted Saturday morning, “Social Media is totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices”.
Trump made it clear that “we won’t let that happen”.
The President added that ““All of the fools that are so focused on looking only at Russia should start also looking in another direction, China. But in the end, if we are smart, tough and well prepared, we will get along with everyone!”
All of the fools that are so focused on looking only at Russia should start also looking in another direction, China. But in the end, if we are smart, tough and well prepared, we will get along with everyone!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 18, 2018
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/67857/apple-removes-thousands-of-apps-in-compliance-with-chinese.html
Facebook Suspended a Latin American News Network and Gave Three Different Reasons Why
On August 13, Facebook shut down the English-language page of Telesur, blocking access for roughly half a million followers of the leftist media network until it was abruptly reinstated two days later. Facebook has provided three different explanations for the temporary disappearing, all contradicting one another, and not a single one making sense.
Telesur was created by Venezuela’s then-President Hugo Chávez in 2005 and co-funded by hemispheric neighbors Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Uruguay — Argentina pulled support for the web and cable property in 2016. As a state-owned media property, it exists somewhere on the same continuum as RT and Al Jazeera, though like the former, Telesur has been criticized as a nakedly partisan governmental mouthpiece, and like the latter, it does engage in real news reporting. But putting aside questions of bias and agenda, Telesur does seem to exist on a separate plane than, say, Infowars, which exists primarily to peddle its particular, patently false genre of right-wing paranoia fan fiction packaged as news (and brain pills), as opposed to some garden-variety political agenda. Unlike RT, Telesur hasn’t been singled-out for a role in laundering disinformation for military intelligence purposes, nor is it a hoax factory, à la Alex Jones.
So it was unexpected when Telesur English blinked out of existence on the 13th, and even stranger when Facebook struggled to explain its own actions. At the time of its suspension, Telesur received this boilerplate message from Facebook:
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/20/facebook-suspended-a-latin-american-news-network-and-gave-three-different-reasons-why/
The FBI’s Secret Rules
President Trump has inherited a vast domestic intelligence agency with extraordinary secret powers. A cache of documents offers a rare window into the FBI’s quiet expansion since 9/11.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3416775-DIOG-Redactions-Marked-Redacted.html
Mick Mulvaney blames D.C. politics for helping kill Trump’s military parade (VIDEO)
https://truepundit.com/mick-mulvaney-blames-d-c-politics-for-helping-kill-trumps-military-parade-video/
Putin to Europe: Help Rebuild Syria so all “Refugees” Can Go Home
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on the European Union to contribute financially to the estimated $250 billion needed to rebuild Syria so that the millions of “refugees” elsewhere can go home—because they are “huge burden for Europe.”
Speaking to the media this weekend ahead of a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany, Putin said Europe and Russia “need to strengthen the humanitarian effort in the Syrian conflict.
“By that, I mean above all humanitarian aid to the Syrian people, and help the regions where refugees living abroad can return to.”
Earlier this month, a Russian suggestion that the United States and Russia form a joint group to finance infrastructure renovation in Syria was met with an icy reception, according to a US memo seen by Reuters.
There are currently one million refugees in Jordan, the same number in Lebanon, and three million in Turkey, Putin said.
Referring to the millions of “refugees” who invaded Europe after Merkel declared Germany’s borders open in 2015, Putin said that this was “a huge burden for Europe.
https://newobserveronline.com/putin-to-europe-help-rebuild-syria-so-all-refugees-can-go-home/
Top Far Left Organizations Bragged About Working with Facebook and Twitter to Censor and Eliminate Conservative Content
In January 2017 after Hillary Clinton was shellacked in the November 2016 election top Democrat operatives at Media Matters, Share Blue, American Bridge, and CREW came together and released their two-year plan to take back power in Washington DC.
Share Blue is a far left website that works with the Democrat party and claims to reach 140 million people a month
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/08/top-democrat-activist-organizations-admitted-to-working-with-facebook-and-twitter-to-eliminate-conservative-content/
Florida man sentenced for traveling to Dominican Republic for child sex
MIAMI – A Florida man was sentenced Thursday to more than 17 years in prison and 30 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to traveling to the Dominican Republic for engaging in illicit sexual conduct with minors. The sentencing is the result of an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Miami and the Dominican Republic.
According to court documents, Theodore Williams Symonds, 51, of Wesley Chapel, Florida, travelled frequently between the United States and the Dominican Republic including a trip on March 20, 2017. Symonds was arrested March 23, 2017 by local Dominican authorities for crimes related to the sexual abuse of children. HSI began investigating him shortly thereafter and uncovered proof of Symonds’ sexual abuse of children, both in person and using the internet.
“This sentence should send a powerful message to child predators who believe that they can evade law enforcement by using international travel to engage in this type of reprehensible behavior,” said Mark Selby, Special Agent in Charge of HSI Miami. “Sexual exploitation of children is a despicable crime that will never be tolerated. HSI will continue to work closely with its law enforcement partners around the world so that sexual predators are always brought to justice.”
U.S. Attorney Benjamin Greenberg said, “The U.S. Attorney’s Office and our law enforcement partners stand united against child exploitation and abuse. There is no immunity for these heinous crimes, whether committed at home or abroad. Any individual who victimizes the most vulnerable members of society, our children, can look to today’s sentencing to see there will be severe consequences within the U.S. federal criminal justice system.”
This investigation was conducted under HSI’s Operation Predator, an international initiative to protect children from sexual predators. Since the launch of Operation Predator in 2003, HSI has arrested more than 16,000 individuals for crimes against children, including the production and distribution of online child pornography, traveling overseas for sex with minors, and sex trafficking of children. In fiscal year 2017, more than 2,700 child predators were arrested by HSI special agents under this initiative and more than 900 victims identified or rescued.
HSI encourages the public to report suspected child predators and any suspicious activity through its toll-free Tip Line at 1-866-DHS-2-ICE or by completing its online tip form. Both are staffed around the clock by investigators. From outside the U.S. and Canada, callers should dial 802-872-6199. Hearing impaired users can call TTY 802-872-6196.
Suspected child sexual exploitation or missing children may be reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, an Operation Predator partner, via its toll-free 24-hour hotline, 1-800-THE-LOST.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/florida-man-sentenced-traveling-dominican-republic-child-sex
Tom Fitton: DOJ is Attacking the Presidency through the Mueller Operation
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/in-the-news/tom-fitton-doj-is-attacking-the-presidency-through-the-mueller-operation/
‘Migration Must be Stopped’: Central EU Leaders Demand Border Shutdown
The flow of third world migrants must be brought to a halt, European leaders said over the weekend, with Sebastian Kurz calling for EU nations to begin blocking boats from Africa.
Der Standard reported the Austrian Chancellor [pictured above, left] held a telephone conversation with Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, in which the pair agreed that the situation with migrants being ferried across the Mediterranean was not sustainable.
“We are both of the opinion that the EU cannot just allow every ship to dock,” said Kurtz, urging other nations in the bloc to close their ports to boats carrying illegal immigrants.
According to a statement from Austria’s Federal Chancellery published Sunday, the Conservative head of state said migrant-laden vessels should be stopped at the EU’s external border, and asylum seekers either returned to their country of origin or delivered to a safe third country on mainland Africa.
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/20/leaders-demand-eu-border-shutdown/
Delingpole: Sorry But Women Don’t Have Penises…
“Women don’t have penises.”
Saying this in Liverpool may now be a criminal offence.
The city’s mayor has promised to “work with police” to track down and “identify” those responsible for spreading this hateful, transphobic message.
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/20/women-can-have-penises-insist-mayor-and-police-of-liverpool/
Appeaser Theresa to Let EU Migrants Stay in Britain, Draw Unemployment Benefits After ‘No Deal’ Brexit
Theresa May is planning to let all European Union (EU) Migrants stay in the UK, even if the bloc refuses to agree on a trade deal and does not treat British expatriate in the same way.
The Prime Minister hopes to take the “moral high ground” by allowing EU migrants to continue to access the taxpayer-funded NHS and claim benefits, according to leaked papers seen by the Daily Telegraph.
The government’s contingency plans for a “no deal” departure from the bloc reportedly rely “on the availability of existing labour”, meaning Mrs May is keen to ensure European migrants stay in the country.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the leading pro-Brexit MP who chairs the 60-strong European Research Group, welcomed the idea.
He said: “I have always thought we should make a unilateral offer in this area. EU migrants came here legally and the UK is not the sort of country that applies retrospective legislation.
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/20/appeaser-theresa-to-let-eu-migrants-stay-after-no-deal-brexit/
‘Secret directive’ bans UN agencies from helping rebuild Syria until ‘political transition’ – Lavrov
Washington’s “absolutely deconstructive” stance is hampering the rebuilding of Syria and constricts the UN in aiding the country until a so called ‘political transition’ takes place, Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister, said.
Washington’s “absolutely deconstructive” stance is hampering the rebuilding of Syria and constricts the UN in aiding the country until a so called ‘political transition’ takes place, Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister, said.
“We addressed UNESCO on how they plan to implement the longtime talks, the longtime understanding on attracting the potential of this organization to rebuilding Palmyra,” an ancient city, regarded by the agency as a World Heritage Site, Lavrov said. “From the explanations of why UNESCO has still been unable to get involved in this process actively, we took that there was some kind of a directive from the United Nations headquarters in New York.”
https://www.rt.com/news/436411-secret-directive-un-syria-russia/
Turkey lodges WTO complaint against US tariffs
Turkey has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) against US tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminum products.
“Turkey has requested WTO dispute consultations with the United States concerning additional import duties imposed by the United States on steel and aluminium products. The request was circulated to WTO members on 20 August,” the WTO said on Monday.
In its petition to the WTO, Turkey said the US violated free trade rules when it initially imposed tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum imports in June for most countries. Doubling them is an additional violation, according to Ankara.
On August 10, US President Donald Trump doubled steel and aluminum tariffs on Turkey, up to 50 and 20 percent, over the arrest a US citizen. American pastor Andrew Brunson is being held on terrorism charges in Turkey, facing up to 35 years in prison for his alleged role in a failed coup in 2016.
Last week, Ankara retaliated by raising tariffs on 22 American-made products ranging from cars to tobacco.
Under WTO rules, Ankara and Washington now have 60 days to settle the dispute through negotiations. If talks fail, the WTO will decide the dispute.
https://www.rt.com/business/436397-wto-turkey-complaint-tariffs/
Lawmakers Raise Concerns Over DOD Grants to Colleges Hosting Confucius Institutes
GOP Rep.: U.S. 'cannot be naïve to the threat faced by Chinese influence operations'
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/lawmakers-raise-concerns-dod-grants-colleges-hosting-confucius-institutes/
SWAMP. Claire McCaskill’s Family Made Over $130 MILLION in Govt. Subsidies Since She’s Been in DC
$131,000 Million
In July The Kansas City Star reported on how businesses tied to Claire McCaskill’s family received $131 MILLION in federal dollars since she’s been in Washington DC.
In an interview with Politically Speaking, Claire McCaskill complained about TV ads informing Missouri voters that their Senator has made millions off of taxpayer subsidized housing, calling them “incredibly false.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/08/swamp-claire-mccaskills-family-made-over-130-million-in-govt-subsidies-since-shes-been-in-dc/
Taliban Accepts Invitation to Attend Reconciliation Talks in Moscow - Reports
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Taliban movement has accepted Russia's invitation to attend the Moscow format of Afghan reconciliation talks scheduled for September 4, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the Taliban’s decision to attend the talks comes as the movement steps up its political engagement with the United States in what seems to be political balancing.
Washington, meanwhile, is likely to abstain from the format, the newspaper suggested.
Earlier in the day, the Russian Foreign Ministry's Second Asian Department Director Zamir Kabulov told Sputnik that Moscow expected the Taliban to participate in the upcoming conference. Afghan Ambassador to Russia Abdul Qayyum Kochai, in turn, told Sputnik that Kabul does not mind the participation of the Taliban movement in the meeting.
The latest diplomatic efforts on Afghanistan come amid Kabul’s bids to reach a lasting ceasefire. On Sunday, President Ashraf Ghani announced a ceasefire with the Taliban to mark the upcoming Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday. The president said the truce would begin on Monday and would last for three months. Ghani noted, however, that the ceasefire would only be in place if the Taliban adheres to it.
https://sputniknews.com/world/201808201067343799-taliban-reconciliation-talks/
'Not Negotiable': Tehran Warns Merkel Not to Link Its Missile Program to JCPOA
In November 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron called for the amendment of the the 2015 Iran nuclear deal to include Tehran's ballistic missile activity.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has reiterated Tehran's stance that the issue of the Islamic Republic's missile program is beyond debate, according to Iran's Fars news agency.
Referring to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Qassemi stressed that "she and her advisors should be aware that the [Iran] nuclear deal, [also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)] and Iran's missile program are two separate issues and are not related."
"Iran's missile issues are not negotiable," Qassemi pointed out.
His statement came after Merkel touched upon the issue ahead of her talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Berlin last Saturday.
"Of course, we will discuss Iran. We want to preserve the JCPOA but we are concerned about Iran's activities, whether it is a missile program or the situation in Syria," Merkel said.
Earlier, Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami made it clear that Tehran would continue to strengthen its missile defense capability regardless of its enemies' threats and sanctions.
"Iran's missile power is a defensive deterrent power and as I had promised our dear people, I will not spare any efforts to increase the country's missile capabilities and certainly, we will increase our missile power on a daily basis," he stressed, warning "any foreign power" against meddling in its "defense and military affairs."
In November 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron said that Iran's ballistic missile program was "very worrying" and that additional measures against the Islamic Republic should be included in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which should not be canceled.
Iran has repeatedly insisted that its ballistic program has a purely defensive nature and remains the most important component of the country's sovereignty – an issue that should not be negotiated.
US President Donald Trump announced Washington's withdrawal from the JCPOA in early May, also pledging to reinstate the anti-Iranian sanctions which were scrapped after the signing of the nuclear deal in 2015.
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201808201067337313-Iran-missile-program-merkel/
Journalist Exposes Western, Gulf Arming Terrorists in Syria
n August of 2017, Bulgarian reporter Dilyana Gaytandzhieva published a report in mainstream outlet Trud in her home country exposing the paper trail documenting the US, NATO, and Gulf countries were shipping weapons to terrorists in Syria. Gaytandzhieva’s reporting was the result of her own travels to Syria where she saw these documents firsthand and her subsequent follow-up investigation after her return home.
That article, “350 Diplomatic Flights Carry Weapons For Terrorists,” is still available and I highly recommend reading it now before going any further in this article.
Now, nearly a year to the day after Gaytandzhieva’s article was released (for which she was summarily fired), journalist Robert Fisk has conducted a similar investigation and come to similar conclusions. In his article for The Independent, “A Bosnian signs off weapons he says are going to Saudi Arabia – but how did his signature turn up in Aleppo?” Fisk traces back the numbers found on shell casings, mortars, and other weapons used by terrorists to their manufacturers in Bosnia and the United States. He writes,
https://www.globalresearch.ca/journalist-exposes-western-gulf-arming-terrorists-in-syria/5651203
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Despite Trump’s Claims US Forces Are Not Going To Withdraw From Syria And Iraq
On August 19th, Army Colonel Sean Ryan, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS announced that the US Forces will remain in Iraq as long as necessary.
“We’ll keep troops there as long as we think they’re needed,” he said in a press conference in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). “The main reason, after ISIS (Daesh) is defeated militarily, is the stabilization efforts and we still need to be there for that, so that’s one of the reasons we’ll maintain a presence,” he added.
Initially the US announced a partial withdrawal from Iraq in February 2018, two months after the Iraqi authorities announced the defeat of ISIS. “The American forces have begun reducing their numbers as victory has been achieved over Daesh,” a spokesman said on February 5th. “Coordination continues, to maintain (US) assistance to the Iraqi forces in accordance with their requirements,” he continued.
However, US Army 1st Lt William John Raymond based at Al-Asad was cited by AP: “We’ve had a recent change of mission and soon we’ll be supporting a different theater of operations in the coming month.” Furthermore, a US-led coalition spokesman declined to confirm or deny that the withdrawal had begun. “It is our intent to publish a release whenever we have forces moving out of the theater,” the spokesman, US Army Col Ryan Dillon said, cited by Reuters.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has numerous times said that Iraq wishes for fewer US forces on its territory after the defeat of ISIS.
However, no notable withdrawal has been performed as of August 20th, 2018.
Regarding Syria, on March 29th, 2018, US President Donald Trump said that the US would withdraw from Syria “very soon.” His words were: “We’re knocking the hell out of Isis. We’ll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon. Let the other people take care of it now.” Despite Trump’s words, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said that she was “unaware” about any plans for withdrawal. As of March 2018, The Pentagon had acknowledged about 2,000 troops in Syria, many of them who were working closely with the Kurdish militia the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against ISIS.
Despite Trump’s promise to withdraw, no such thing happened. Furthermore, in April 2018, the US ordered missile strikes against Syria in response to an alleged poison gas attack in Douma.
On May 19th, Reuters cited the Pentagon which had reported that ISIS had lost 98% of its territory in Iraq and Syria.
According to an article by Vox from June 29th, prior to the July 16th Trump-Putin meeting in Helsinki, the US President still wished for withdrawal of forces from Syria, however his national security team has been strongly against it.
Furthermore, on July 16th, National Security Advisor John Bolton linked the continued presence of U.S. troops in Syria with the “menace” posed by Iran in the region. Ahead of the meeting between Trump and Putin, which reached no conclusive agreements between the leaders, Bolton commented “I think the president’s made it clear that we are there until the ISIS territorial caliphate is removed, and as long as the Iranian menace continues throughout the Middle East.”
Almost 5 months after Trump initially claimed that US troops would withdraw from Syria and almost 7 months since US troops supposedly began withdrawing from Iraq no such thing has been achieved. There is a clear discrepancy between what the US President claims regarding US presence in the two countries and what is actually being realized.
https://southfront.org/despite-trumps-claims-us-forces-are-not-going-to-withdraw-from-syria-and-iraq/
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