Anonymous ID: da4de3 March 13, 2019, 1:27 p.m. No.5664315   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4341 >>4373 >>4394 >>4557 >>4666 >>4746

Hefty Israeli Military Aid Avoids Chopping Block in Trump's 2020 Budget Proposal

 

US President Donald Trump's spending budget proposal for fiscal year 2020 contains cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, but not to the $3.3 billion portioned off for Israeli military aid that was promised to Tel Aviv during the Obama years.

 

Budget documents obtained by Israeli outlet Globes show that the budget proposal "includes $3.3 billion in Foreign Military Financing grant assistance to bolster Israel's capacity to defend itself against threats in the region and maintain its qualitative military edge." The proposal was delivered to Congress on Monday.

 

The large sum of military aid is the result of the 10-year, $38 billion Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by then-US President Barack Obama to help bolster Israeli forces and strengthen US-Israeli ties. The 2016 agreement went into effect on October 1, 2018.

 

"Under the terms of the MOU, the United States will set funding for Israel at levels of $3.3 billion in Foreign Military Financing and $500 million for cooperative programs for missile defense over each of the next ten years," a release from the US Department of State explains.

 

"Our implementation of this historic MOU reflects the enduring and unshakable commitment of the President, this Administration, and the American people to Israel's security."

 

Journalist Dan Lazare told Sputnik on Wednesday that the US' monetary aid to the Israeli state isn't something that began in the last few years. In fact, Washington has been forking over the benjamins for several decades.

 

"The US has been providing Israel with military funding since the early 1960s, covertly at first, but then on a wide-open basis following the Six-Day War in June 1967," Lazare said. "The goal was to combat Soviet influence and enable Israel to maintain its ‘qualitative military edge' over its Arab rivals, most of whom were deemed to be pro-Soviet. But rather than tapering off with the fall of the USSR and the waning of the so-called Communist threat, US arms sales soared."

 

To Lazare, while the 2016 MOU is "America's bit to keep the game going," it's also "a sop to the Israeli military" and to the US military industrial complex, as it requires Israel "to spend the full sum on US-made arms."

 

https://sputniknews.com/us/201903131073210222-israeli-military-aid-trump-2020-budget-proposal/

Anonymous ID: da4de3 March 13, 2019, 1:28 p.m. No.5664339   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4666 >>4743 >>4746

Judicial Watch Announces Depositions of Obama-Era Officials and Former Hillary Clinton Aides

 

Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch announced Wednesday a schedule of depositions of senior Obama-era officials, lawyers and former Hillary Clinton aides.

 

Thanks to the heavy lifting by Judicial Watch, Judge Royce C. Lamberth ordered these corrupt Obama and Hillary officials to provide answers, under oath, to the watchdog group about the Benghazi and Hillary Clinton email scandals.

 

Recall, Judge Lamberth previously slammed Hillary’s corruption and said the State Department provided ‘clearly false’ statements to derail requests for Hillary Clinton documents.

 

Judge Lamberth, a Reagan appointee, said he was “dumbfounded” when he found out that Hillary’s aide-turned-lawyer Cheryl Mills was given immunity.

 

“I had myself found that Cheryl Mills had committed perjury and lied under oath in a published opinion I had issued in a Judicial Watch case where I found her unworthy of belief, and I was quite shocked to find out she had been given immunity in — by the Justice Department in the Hillary Clinton email case,” Lamberth said during a hearing last October.

 

The confirmed deposition schedule is as follows:

 

March 12: State Department’s responses to interrogatories and document requests were due.

 

March 14: Deposition of Justin Cooper, a former aide to Bill Clinton who reportedly had no security clearance and is believed to have played a key role in setting up Hillary Clinton’s non-government email system.

 

April 5: Deposition of John Hackett, a State Department records official “immediately responsible for responding to requests for records under the Freedom of Information Act.”

 

April 16: Deposition of Jacob “Jake” Sullivan, Hillary Clinton’s former senior advisor and deputy chief of staff.

 

April 23: Deposition of Sheryl Walter, former State Department Director of the Office of Information Programs and Services/Global Information Services.

 

April 26: Deposition of Gene Smilansky, a State Department lawyer.

 

April 30. Deposition of Monica Tillery, a State Department official.

 

May 7: Deposition of Jonathon Wasser, who was a management analyst on the Executive Secretariat staff. Wasser worked for Deputy Director Clarence Finney and was the State Department employee who actually conducted the searches for records in response to FOIA requests to the Office of the Secretary.

 

May 14: Deposition of Clarence Finney, the deputy director of the Executive Secretariat staff who was the principal advisor and records management expert in the Office of the Secretary responsible for control of all correspondence and records for Hillary Clinton and other State Department officials.

 

June 11: 30(b)(6) Deposition, which will be designated by the State Department.

 

June 13: Deposition of Heather Samuelson, the former State Department senior advisor who helped facilitate the State Department’s receipt and release of Hillary Clinton’s emails.

 

As yet to be determined is the deposition date for Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security Eric Boswell, who wrote a March 2, 2009, internal memorandum titled “Use of Blackberries on Mahogany Row,” in which he strongly advised that the devices not be allowed.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/03/judicial-watch-announces-depositions-of-obama-era-officials-and-former-hillary-clinton-aides/

Anonymous ID: da4de3 March 13, 2019, 1:30 p.m. No.5664397   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4666 >>4746

The Global Economic Reset Begins With An Engineered Crash

 

For a few years now, since at least 2014, the phrase “global economic reset” has been circulating in the financial world. This phrase is used primarily by globalist institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to describe an event in which the current system as we know it will either die out or evolve into a new system where “multilateralism” will become the norm. The reset is often described in an ambiguous way. IMF banking elites will usually mention the end results of the shift, but they say little about the process to get there.

 

What we do know is that the intent of the globalists is to use this reset to create a more centralized monetary system and micro-managed global economy. At the core of this new structure would be the IMF along with perhaps the BIS and World Bank. It is a plan that has been supported openly by both western and eastern governments, including Russia and China.

 

As noted, the details are few and far between, but the IMF describes the use of open borders and human migrations during the reset as a means to transfer capital from various parts of the world. It is a novel if not utterly insane way to transfer wealth that only makes sense if you understand that the globalist goal is to deliberately conjure a geopolitical catastrophe.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-13/global-economic-reset-begins-engineered-crash

Anonymous ID: da4de3 March 13, 2019, 1:40 p.m. No.5664562   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4622 >>4720

Whistleblowers Say NSA Still Spies on American Phones in Hidden Program

 

On Monday 4th, the New York Times reported that the National Security Agency has “quietly” shut down a controversial phone records surveillance program revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013.

 

The claim was made by a senior Republican congressional aide who told the newspaper that the Trump administration had stopped using the program, which analyses the domestic call and text logs of American citizens, due to technical problems.

 

On Twitter Snowden hailed the news as a “victory”, while Intercept journalist Glen Greenwald, who broke the Snowden story to international acclaim, took the story at face value. Neither of them raised the obvious question — is the “shut down” of this program merely a smokescreen to continue spying on American phones under new or different secretive programs?

 

Since then, further doubt was cast on the NYT report when NSA chief General Paul Nakasone refused to confirm or deny the story. But he did tell a major security conference on Wednesday that the agency was still “in a deliberative process” about whether to use a revamped version of the vast database of American phone records.

 

All of this, however, is an elaborate ruse. According to two former top NSA officials interviewed by INSURGE, there is no credible reason to believe that NSA phone surveillance has truly been shut down.

 

What shut down?

 

When the NYT story broke, I reached out to two former senior NSA officials, Russ Tice and Thomas Drake, to find out what they thought.

 

Both of them told me that the NSA’s shut down of this particular program did not imply an end to domestic phone record surveillance, but quite the opposite — that the program had been superseded by superior technology.

 

According to Russ Tice, a former senior NSA intelligence analyst who had previously worked with the US Air Force, Office of Naval Intelligence and Defense Intelligence Agency, the latest claim that the NSA was rolling up phone surveillance beggared belief.

 

“Why would anyone believe a bloody word of what NSA says about their mass domestic surveillance programs?” said Tice, who was the first NSA whistleblower who exposed unlawful surveillance and wiretaps of American citizens as early as May 2005. “They have lied repeatedly in the past and they are likely lying now. They have been collecting metadata and content, word-for-word, both voice and text, for some time now.”

 

I asked Tice how certain he was that the NSA was still conducting phone surveillance of Americans in the United States. “Of course NSA is still conducting phone and computer comms surveillance and yes, ‘wider programs’ go on and a new massive program that is more efficient is likely to have already been implemented,” he told me.

 

The real reason the current program has become defunct is that there is now better technology for more advanced surveillance.

 

If anything, they no longer need this particular program to parse the card catalog — meta data — and can mine the content data directly with enhanced algorithms and processing and strapping. And when there is no pushback capability, congress is at the mercy of NSA to inform them on NSA’s abuses.”

 

Hidden programs under secret interpretations of different laws

 

Thomas Drake, a former senior executive of the NSA who blew the whistle on illegal mass surveillance, waste and mismanagement at the agency several years before Snowden’s revelations, agreed that NSA phone surveillance “continues in other forms” in spite of the closure of this particular program.

 

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/71585/whistleblowers-say-nsa-still-spies-on-american-phones-in-hidden.html

https://www.mintpressnews.com/whistleblowers-say-nsa-still-spies-american-phones-hidden-program/256208/

Anonymous ID: da4de3 March 13, 2019, 1:43 p.m. No.5664632   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4675 >>4733 >>4807

Theory

 

  1. Cabal says start revealing our crimes we'll start crashing planes.

  2. Alliance calls their bluff, drops a plane.

  3. Alliance grounds the planes WW.

  4. Will now proceed with reveal.

 

War is real

Anonymous ID: da4de3 March 13, 2019, 1:46 p.m. No.5664688   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Israeli Military Uncovers Alleged Hezbollah Network In Golan Heights

 

On March 13, the Israeli military uncovered an alleged network set up by Lebanese Hezbollah on the Syrian-held part of the Golan Heights, in order to carry out attacks against Israel. According to the Israeli claims, the network was established without the knowledge of the Damascus government.

 

The Israeli military called the network “the Golan File” and said that it is led by Ali Musa Daqduq, a senior Hezbollah operative. Daqduq, who has been a member of Hezbollah since 1983, held multiple leadership positions, including as the commander of a Hezbollah special forces unit and the head of security for Hezbollah Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah.

 

Israel claims that in 2006 Daqduq traveled to Iran to receive instructions and training from the commander of the Iranian Quds Forces, Qassem Suleimani. Later, he was sent to Iraq to head Hezbollah’s activity there.

 

Daqduq was allegedly responsible for planning a highly sophisticated raid at a US military base in Karbala during his presence in Iraq. During the raid, his group abducted than killed five US service members. Despite this, Daqduq was captured and spent a few years in prison. However, he was released later and returned to Hezbollah’s headquarters in Lebanon.

 

According to the Israeli military, Daqduq is currently cooperating with several Syrians within the framework of the Golan File network. The supposed Syrian collaborators were identified as Fahim Abu Qais, Talal Hassun and Ismail Mustafa. The Israeli military also accused the military wing of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) of assisting the formation of the network.

 

srael claims that the supposed network is now stockpiling weapons, recruiting members and building secret military infrastructure. The network is also gathering intelligence on the Israel-Syria border area from some outposts near the separation lines.

 

These new claims reflect Israel’s panic over Hezbollah deployment in Syria. Tel Aviv had used the Lebanese party as an excuse to strike the SAA on several occasions before. The alleged Golan File network is likely another attempt to justify attacks on the Syrian military.

 

https://southfront.org/israeli-military-uncovers-alleged-hezbollah-network-in-golan-heights/