Galloway: First Cut Won't be The Deepest - Deeper Wounds Are Yet to Come in The Killing of Khashoggi

As I predicted, despite the Clinton family's own exposure to Saudi largesse, the Democrats and their vast media hinterland have adopted the killing of Khashoggi as their new casus belli displacing their running-out-of-steam 'Russiagate' narrative (in fact the people who filled the American airwaves with Russophobic hatred for the last two years are now throwing their hands up in horror at Trump - Putin's puppet, remember - declaring a new nuclear arms race, against Russia).

We met the then Saudi king and most of the important princes; Sir Francis was a master at work. He never apologized but boy, did he lay it on thick. It worked and the dirty business of milking the old fools in power in Riyadh was resumed.

Of course, British profits were even then a mere fraction of the American bounty, a gap which has only grown larger over the next thirty years. And different too, no longer just guns but butter, technology, media, movies, leisure (who knew Disneyland was a Saudi-playpark) and tourism.

Literally thousands of Western media outfits and their hirelings have been corrupted by Saudi gold. Think-tanks, 'institutes' of all kinds, even Britain's natural history museum, have been revealed to be on the take from the House of Saud. It was the latter's bad luck that when the music stopped with the murder of a Washington Post columnist and the dismemberment of his body, the very same night the Saudi Embassy was holding a soiree in one of their august halls.

The irony of the Creationist Kingdom sipping mocktails in the house that Charles Darwin built wasn't missed by many. Newspapers and magazines, which had grown fat on overt and covert Saudi sponsorship, advertising revenues and sweetheart arrangements, are now shocked! Shocked! in the manner of the corrupt Vichy police chief on 'discovering' there was gambling going on at Humphrey Bogart's Rick's Café in the movie Casablanca.

https://www.sott.net/article/399020-Galloway-First-Cut-Wont-be-The-Deepest-Deeper-Wounds-Are-Yet-to-Come-in-The-Killing-of-Khashoggi

Russia and U.S. discussed possible Putin visit to Washington: Kremlin

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and the United States have discussed the possibility of President Vladimir Putin visiting Washington next year, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and the United States have discussed the possibility of President Vladimir Putin visiting Washington next year, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-trump-putin/russia-and-u-s-discussed-possible-putin-visit-to-washington-kremlin-idUSKCN1MY1BR

Feds investigating suspicious packages sent to the Clintons and Barack Obama

The U.S. Secret Service said Wednesday that "potential explosive devices" were sent to former President Barack Obama and ex-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

A law enforcement official told The New York Times that the "explosive device" sent to the Clintons' home in Chappaqua, New York, was found by a technician who screens mail for the former president and his family.

The Secret Service said in a statement that the package addressed to Obama was intercepted by agency personnel in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday morning.

The U.S. Secret Service said Wednesday that "potential explosive devices" were sent to former President Barack Obama and ex-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

A law enforcement official told The New York Times that the "explosive device" sent to the Clintons' home in Chappaqua, New York, was found by a technician who screens mail for the former president and his family.

The Secret Service said in a statement that the package addressed to Obama was intercepted by agency personnel in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday morning.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/24/feds-investigating-suspicious-package-near-clintons-new-york-home-nbc.html

Leaked top secret document: CIA and Western nations are behind the Rwandan war crimes

The United States and its allies are experts at covering their crimes and finding scapegoats to take the blame for them. They are doing it now with their disinformation campaigns against Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, and Syria. The show trials at the UN's Yugoslav tribunal, the ICTY, were all about covering-up NATO's war crimes and spinning lies to blame everything on the Serbs who resisted NATO's aggression. They use their influence at the International Criminal Court for the same purposes. And now a document has come to light, leaked from the UN's Rwanda war crimes tribunal, the ICTR, that contains a report on the war crimes of the US supported Rwanda Patriotic Front that invaded Rwanda from Uganda in 1990, conducted four years of terrorist operations against the Rwanda people and government, then in 1994 launched their final offensive and slaughtered their way to power.

There is strong direct and circumstantial evidence that the Belgian and Canadian contingents of the UN peacekeeping force in Rwanda in 1993-94, known as UNAMIR, were also involved in the shoot down and assisted the RPF in their final offensive that was launched with the decapitation strike on the plane. It was the Canadian General Romeo Dallaire, Force Commander of UNAMIR, who arranged for one axis of the runway at the airport to be closed at the request of the RPF, making it easier to shoot down the plane as it tried to land.

Dallaire consistently sided with the RPF during his mandate, gave continuous military intelligence to the RPF about government army positions, took his orders from the American and Belgian ambassadors and another Canadian general, Maurice Baril, in the Department of Peace-Keeping Operations in New York, then headed by Kofi Annan, lied to his boss, Jacques Roger Booh-Booh, about his knowledge of a build-up for a final Ugandan Army-RPF offensive, and turned a blind eye to the infiltration into Kigali of possibly 13,000 RPF combatants when they were permitted only 600 under the Arusha Peace Accords signed in October 1993. It was another Canadian, General Guy Tousignant, who took over from Dallaire after the RPF took power when UNAMIR II helped the RPF consolidate the rewards of its aggression.

Burundi was involved both by permitting 600 US Army Rangers to be situated in Burundi in case they were needed by the RPF and by invading Rwanda from the south in May, 1994 to link up with the RPF forces. Tanzania was involved in both the planning of the shoot down and, itself invaded Rwanda from the east and south blocking escape routes for the Hutu refugees fleeing the atrocities of the RPF in their sweep towards Kigali.

https://www.sott.net/article/399014-Leaked-top-secret-document-CIA-and-Western-nations-are-behind-the-Rwandan-war-crimes

‘This is surveillance’: Apple boss takes aim at ‘weaponisation’ of customer data

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said on Wednesday customer data was being “weaponised with military efficiency” by companies to increase profit.

Issues about how data is used and whether consumers can protect their personal information are under the spotlight after big breaches of data privacy involving millions of internet and social media users in Europe and the US.

“The desire to put profits over privacy is nothing new,” Cook told a packed audience of privacy regulators, corporate executives and other participants.

He cited former US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis who in a Harvard Law Review article in 1890 warned that gossip was no longer the resource of the idle and the vicious but had become a trade.

“Today that trade has exploded into a data industrial complex. Our own information, from the everyday to the deeply personal, is being weaponised against us with military efficiency,” he said. “These scraps of data … each one harmless enough on its own … are carefully assembled, synthesised, traded, and sold.”

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2170045/surveillance-apple-boss-takes-aim-weaponisation-customer-data

>>3584038

The underground empire : where crime and governments embrace

The inhabitants of the earth spend more money on illegal drugs than they spend on food. More than they spend on housing, clothes, education, medical care, or any other product or service. The international narcotics industry is the largest growth industry in the world. Its annual revenues exceed half a trillion dollars – three times the value of all United States currency in circulation, more than the gross national products of all but a half dozen of the major industrialized nations. To imagine the immensity of such wealth consider this: A million dollars in gold would weigh as much as a large man. A half-trillion dollars would weigh more than the entire population of Washington, D.C.

Narcotics industry profits, secretly stockpiled in countries competing for the business, draw interest exceeding $3 million per hour. To what use will this money eventually be put? What will be its ultimate effect?

Though everyone knows narcotics is big business, its truly staggering dimensions have never been fully publicized. The statistics on which the above statements are based appear in classified documents prepared with the participation of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency. These studies are circulated in numbered copies with warnings of "criminal sanctions" for unauthorized disclosure. Why is this information withheld from public view?

https://www.amazon.com/Underground-Empire-Where-Governments-Embrace/dp/0440192064

>>3584124

FBI’s file on Accuracy In Media is just a bunch of kvetching

AIM alternated between defending Bureau’s actions during COINTELPRO to trying to get the FBI to admit to a 9/11 cover-up

Accuracy In Media isn’t an organization that MuckRock is particularly fond of, but its Federal Bureau of Investigation file is full of some of our favorite things: debates over what an FBI file actually says and complaints about FOIA denials.

The file discusses two incidents: a disagreement expressed in a complaint to the Federal Communication Commission about about whether or not the FBI was actually responsible for the publication of information as part of a COINTELPRO harassment campaign, and a postcard campaign from supporters complaining about a post-9/11 FOIA rejection. The latter resulted in over 300 “postcards” being sent to the FBI, all of originated from a printout on AIM’s website. The Office of Public and Congressional Affairs Correspondence Unit quickly proposed not responding to the campaign, a proposal that it seems they decided on.

The postcard itself referred to a statement made by President George W. Bush that the passengers on Flight 93 had prevented the plane from reaching its target by forcing it into the ground. The postcard stated that the “only source for evidence” was the cockpit voice recorder. The postcard then expressed confusion about why FOIA requests for the tape and transcript had been denied. The postcard concluded by suggesting that indeed if no such tape or transcript existed, then the Bureau should let Bush know to prevent him from accidentally promoting a cover-up of 9/11.

The rest of the file is devoted to a lengthy FCC complaint filed by AIM, disputing reports about the FBI’s activities and the meaning of documents released through FOIA. According to a number of media reports, the FBI had admitted to planting a rumor about Jean Seberg’s pregnancy to hurt the Black Panthers, ultimately resulting in a miscarriage and a pair of suicides. AIM was specifically complaining about CBS’ November 1981 reporting on the issue.

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2018/oct/23/fbi-aim/

Court Docs: Obama Admin Targeting Of Businesses Ran To Top Of FDIC

New filing sheds light on murky Operation Choke Point

(Free Beacon) – New court filings document the extent to which the Obama administration used government power to target disfavored industries, and subsequently sought to avoid responsibility for its targeting program.

The new information comes from a motion for summary judgement filed in federal court by the plaintiffs in Advance America et al. v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. et al.

Advance America, a payday lender, was one of the firms targeted by Operation Choke Point. The company contends—and the documents it filed show—that the FDIC was consciously working to target a totally legal industry, and also at a number of points to deny its involvement in the same work.

Choke Point was an initiative under which the Obama administration tried to shut down disfavored industries by removing their access to payment processing and other banking services, thereby cutting off their financial “oxygen.” They did so by applying pressure to third-party banks through the FDIC and other federal financial regulators. Targeted businesses were almost all entirely legal, and included ammunition sales, online gambling, and payday loans.

https://www.teaparty.org/court-docs-obama-admin-targeting-businesses-ran-top-fdic-329619/

This is just pure bullshit WHF.. everybody better make sure you have cell phones with cameras turned on

NYPD body cam explodes and dept. removes 3,000 from officers

On Sunday, a Staten Island police officer’s body cam burst into flames while he was wearing it and now the NYPD is eliminating 2,990 of them from use after they “revealed a potential for the battery inside the camera to ignite.”

The officer from the 121st Precinct wasn’t injured by the explosion, The New York Times reported. He said that he did notice smoke coming from the Vievu-brand LE-5 camera earlier that night and removed it immediately.

NYPD pulls nearly 3,000 bodycams after explosion https://t.co/cMDmSRw6mL

— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) October 22, 2018

He immediately halted the cameras from use “out of an abundance of caution” and officers were instructed to turn them in.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2018/10/nypd-body-cam-explodes-and-dept-removes-3000-from-officers/

>>3584366

Exactly , Stay Alert. Stay Awake and Stay Alive

Leftist Campaign Tries To Stop Gun Owners From Voting On Election Day

(Bearing Arms) – Gun rights activists are used to dealing with the stupid from anti-gunners. Social media especially is littered with armchair experts who talk about tasing or pepper spraying lawful gun owners carrying a firearm in according with all rules and regulations, then taking that gun from them until police arrive. It’s an effort to intimidate gun owners into not carrying firearms.

However, if you’re complying with the law, all the police would do is arrest the attacker for assault as well as any other charges that might be warranted.

Yet, a gun control activist is trying to claim that people who carry guns to polling places where it’s legal to do so are engaging in voter intimidation and he’s urging supporters to call the police.

Gun-control groups are launching a “voter protection campaign” to keep guns out of the polling booths this Election Day.

The social media campaign is encouraging voters who see people with firearms to text “Guns down” to 91990. Reports will be sent to nonpartisan election protection experts, who may contact authorities or send a lawyer to the polling place.

https://www.teaparty.org/leftist-campaign-tries-stop-gun-owners-voting-election-day-329639/

>>3584408

(VIDEO) Second US-bound migrant caravan of 1,000 treks through Guatemala

The second caravan originated in Honduras, and crossed into Guatemala on Sunday, containing an estimated 1,000 migrants, according to a Reuters report on Tuesday.

The additional caravan is said to be following the same path as the first caravan, and may be trying to catch up with it. Guatemalan migrant shelter, Casa del Migrante, said at least 1,000 migrants were a part of the movement, while local media estimated at least 2,000.

YESTERDAY: Second migrant caravan headed to the U-S entered El Salvador. https://t.co/5bFBD5dlzc pic.twitter.com/shXES53s2W

— The Hill (@thehill) October 19, 2018

The caravan stopped in Huixtla in the state of Chiapas, located approximately 31 miles inside the border. They have approximately 1,100 more miles to travel until reaching the U.S. border.

Locals provided sustenance and clothing donations, along with authorities who also administered vaccines to the migrants. Additionally, a medical truck has set up a mobile clinic to treat injured migrants.

A second migrant caravan of about 1,000 people, mostly asylum seekers from Honduras, is headed to the Guatemala-Mexico border, according to local Guatemalan shelters. pic.twitter.com/4hSEwvPMdI

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2018/10/video-second-us-bound-migrant-caravan-of-1000-treks-through-guatemala/

US coalition airstrikes kill 12 ISIS terrorists operating secretly in Syrian mosques

In less than one week, two strikes have been carried out by U.S.-led coalition against two ISIS command centers inside Syrian mosques.

The first strike was conducted on Oct. 18, killing 12 ISIS troops in as-Susah, Syria, CNN reported. The second attack, on Monday, “destroyed several buildings” that were key to ISIS for coordinating their attacks against Syrian Democratic Forces in the same region.

The U.S.-led coalition also noted, “The facility was a mosque, which the law of war protects from targeting unless it is used for a military purpose.”

However, ISIS “repeatedly planned and actively coordinated attacks” from the mosques, making them fair game.

Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning said, “They’re nasty, they’re brutal, they’re unethical and they certainly have no problem at all putting civilians at risk and jeopardizing the status of protected targets.”

“Such Daesh misuse of the mosque is another example of their violation of the law of war and made the mosque a valid military target,” the coalition added.

Col. Sean Ryan, a spokesman for the coalition said, “One of those facilities used by Daesh was a mosque that was being used as a defensive fighting position and command center. The strike killed terrorists as they were actively firing on coalition partner forces. After monitoring to reduce the risk to civilians, the Coalition precision strike targeted and destroyed the buildings adapted by Daesh terrorists as command centers and fighting positions when only their fighters were present.”

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2018/10/us-coalition-airstrikes-kill-12-isis-terrorists-operating-secretly-in-syrian-mosques/