Illinois Lawmakers Move Forward With Nation’s Most Liberal Abortion Legislation

While some states are seeking to limit abortion — especially after a fetal heartbeat can be detected — Illinois lawmakers are moving forward with a bill to allow abortion right up until the day the baby is due to be delivered.

In a late-night vote Sunday, An Illinois House committee approved the Reproductive Health Act (RHA) in a straight party-line vote. The bill would remove all abortion restrictions in Illinois, repealing both the state’s Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act and the Illinois Abortion Act of 1975. Under the bill, all restrictions on abortions later in pregnancy would be removed, as would any criminal penalties for doctors who perform them.

In addition, the bill would mandate that insurance companies need to cover the cost of abortions.

“RHA codifies our existing practices and, and this is critical, treats abortion care just like any other health care, because it is,” said state representative and bill author Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago), according to ABC-7 in Chicago.

“Make no mistake, it doesn’t end here. Since Roe was decided in 1973, our opponents have fought to impede access to care and these efforts have the greatest impact on the most vulnerable population,” Cassidy said.

Cassidy sponsored a bill that if passed would be the most liberal reproductive health care measure in the country. But opponents say the bill was rushed, leaving them little time for debate.

“This is new language. It strips completely any rights of state to protect the rights of the unborn,” said Zach Wichmann, director of government relations for the Catholic Conference of Illinois.

Religious organizations, including Catholic churches have already begun to mobilize their base, asking congregants to reach out to lawmakers.

“We need to pray for them so they will be filled with the Holy Spirit so they can make the right decision,” said Holy Name parishioner Liji George.

The bill says “Every individual who becomes pregnant has a fundamental right to continue the pregnancy and give birth or to have an abortion, and to make autonomous decisions about how to

exercise that right. A fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent rights under the laws of this State.”

The measure follows legislation in other states to tighten abortion laws. Alabama has approved a new law that makes it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion in most cases and Georgia passed the “heartbeat bill” that prohibits bans abortion after doctors detect a heartbeat in a fetus. In the latter law, doctors would face criminal prosecution.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/illinois-lawmakers-move-forward-with-nations-most-liberal-abortion-legislation/

Kosovo Forces’ Raids In Serb Majority Area Are Part Of Povocations Indulged By US: Russia

The May 28 raids by Kosovo forces in the Serb-dominated area of the breakaway region is a provocation, the Russian Foreign Ministry stressed.

The Russian side emphasized that actions of Kosovo’s special forces (ROSU) were indulged by the EU and US.

Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that Pristina’s man aim is “to intimidate and force out the non-Albanian population and forcibly establish control of the area.”

She also explained Pristina’s aggressive behaviour with the “perennial indulgence” on behalf of the EU and the US.

The ROSU launched a raid in the town of Zubin Potok in the Serb-dominated north-western part of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (Serbia’s official name of Kosovo).

Some media outlets reported gunfire during the raids, which Pristina described as an operation against an organized crime. Over a dozen ethnic Serbs are said to have been arrested.

The raid violates the agreements between Belgrade and Pristina which prohibit the ROSU armed with long-barreled weapons from penetrating deep into the Serbian municipalities.

https://southfront.org/kosovo-forces-raids-in-serb-majority-area-are-part-of-povocations-indulged-by-us-russia/

In Huge Strategy Shift, Amazon Set To Purge Many Small Suppliers

Amazon is set to purge many of its small suppliers over the next few months, according to Bloomberg. The purge could shatter the generally favorable relationship between Amazon and many of its long-time vendors, as we first discussed last month when we reported that Amazon was accused of "crushing" its merchants by undercutting products with its own.

The move is supposed to help cut costs and focus wholesale purchasing on large brands like Procter & Gamble, Sony and Lego. Amazon wants to ensure that the company has adequate supplies of "must-have" merchandise that will help it compete with companies like Target and Walmart. As a result, bulk orders for thousands of smaller suppliers may dry up over the next few months.

It also means that many smaller retailers that have relied on Amazon for a steady stream of orders will have to win sales one shopper at a time on the platform's marketplace. This marks one of the large shifts in Amazon strategy since it opened the site up to independent sellers nearly 2 decades ago.

James Thomson, who organizes the Prosper Show, an annual e-commerce conference focused on Amazon said that "this is the kind of change that will scare the living daylights out of brands selling on Amazon. Amazon usually doesn’t give a lot of lead time and brands will be left scrambling. If they make this change soon, brands will have until the end of the summer to get their acts together or their holiday quarter will be at risk."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-28/huge-strategy-shift-amazon-set-purge-many-small-suppliers

Netflix Threatens To Boycott Georgia If Anti-Abortion Law Takes Effect

What happens when a formerly "growth company" transitions into a state of not so growth? Well, it will desperately do anything to restore its growth by attracting attention to itself in any way possible, or failing that, it will engage in some ideological virtue signaling, and while alienating one half of its possible clients, it will double down on the other half.

Netflix, whose US growth has now plateaued, has done something that falls in-between these two options, because as Bloomberg reports, the video streaming company - which is about to be existentially challenged by such bigger peers as Disney - plans to reconsider its “entire investment” in Georgia if a law restricting abortions takes effect in the state, where it films shows such as “Stranger Things” and “Ozark.”

In early May, Georgia became the fourth U.S. state this year to outlaw abortion after a doctor can detect a fetal heartbeat, although anti-abortion rights groups vowed to challenge the bill. The new law is set to be enacted in 2020 if it survives legal challenges; It has predictably triggered the liberal bastion of Hollywood, where several filmmakers have said they would refuse to work in the state, but so far large companies have remained silent.

This is where Netflix has taken virtue signaling to a whole new level.

But what does a money-losing video streaming service have to do with state abortion rights? Well, according to Reid Hastings, everything.

“We have many women working on productions in Georgia, whose rights, along with millions of others, will be severely restricted by this law,” Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said in a statement.

“It’s why we will work with the ACLU and others to fight it in court. Given the legislation has not yet been implemented, we’ll continue to film there, while also supporting partners and artists who choose not to. Should it ever come into effect, we’d rethink our entire investment in Georgia.”

But will Netflix, which is desperate for the cheapest possible content creation really pull out, pun probably not intended, of Georgia? Somehow we doubt it.

As Bloomberg notes, Georgia has some of the most generous film and TV subsidies in the country, and it’s become a popular hub for production. AMC Networks Inc.’s “The Walking Dead” is filmed there, along with several of Walt Disney Co.’s recent hits, including “Captain America: Civil War,” “Ant-Man” and “Black Panther.”

Others virtue signalling amateurs, such as J.J. Abrams Jordan Peele, the director of “Get Out,” said they will still be shooting their show “Lovecraft Country” in the state, although they’ll donate their fees for this season to the ACLU of Georgia and Fair Fight Georgia.

But if Netflix follows through with its threat to boycott Georgia, what will it do with all the other states that plan to follow in Georgia's footsteps. In addition to Kentucky, Mississippi and Ohio which have all enacted heartbeat laws since mid-March, and Iowa passed one last year, and Alabama which passed a bill that would ban all abortions unless the mother’s life is threatened, a total of 15 states have introduced measures to ban abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.

Will Netflix soon be stuck with only filming its money losing movies in only the most expensive of liberal states? Once again, we doubt it, but then again nothing is as money-losing as virtue signaling for the sake of, well, virtue.

Meanwhile, the Motion Picture Association of America has noted that similar legislation has been challenged in other states. “The outcome in Georgia will also be determined through the legal process,” the organization said. “We will continue to monitor developments.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-28/netflix-threatens-boycott-georgia-if-anti-abortion-law-takes-effect

US State Dept’s $75mn grant will help war-torn Syria… combat ‘Iranian disinformation’

After spending years trying to topple Damascus, Washington has now pledged to protect war-scarred Syrians from Iranian “disinformation.” The act of altruism is part of a grant aimed at “advancing US interests” in the country.

The US State Department wants to give $75 million to an eligible NGO as part of an initiative aimed at strengthening “credible governance and civil society entities” in Syria – at least in the areas controlled by illegitimate, US-backed forces.

The grant will also fund efforts to “counter extremism and disinformation perpetuated by Iranian forces,” since that is apparently the major life-and-death issue facing Syrians after seven years of devastating war. Additionally, the grant aims to “ensure the enduring defeat” of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

How the grant will help bring about a peaceful political solution in Syria is also an open question. Washington’s long-standing policy has been that President Bashar Assad “must go” – which sounds more like a demand backed by threat of force, and less like a peaceful settlement.

This may all sound like a profound waste of taxpayer dollars, but the grant synopsis makes it very clear that approved applicants will be nobly advancing “US government policy objectives in Syria.”

While the grant lists stringent requirements for all interested bidders, applicants are not required to obtain permission from Damascus to operate in Syrian territory, cutting out a lot of annoying bureaucratic red tape. Instead, the lucky grant winners will “strengthen government” in territories occupied by an estimated 2,000 US troops, as well US-backed Kurdish proxy forces, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

With thousands killed and millions displaced from the fighting in Syria, one might think the US government could find a better use of $75 million in Syria than “countering” a Damascus ally, which, unlike the US, operates in Syria with permission of the country’s legitimate government.

However, it would be wrong to suggest that Washington hasn’t helped to rebuild the country. In May, USAID announced that electricity was being restored to Raqqa, only two short years after the US military and its allies flattened the city in a deadly aerial assault on the former Islamic State stronghold.

https://www.rt.com/news/460458-us-syria-disinformation-iran-grant/

More tax $ to benefit Israel!

Officer Commits Suicide After Making Videos Sexually Assaulting a Child in His Patrol Car

Jackson, MS — For several days, the family of a 15-year-old girl who says she was repeatedly sexual assaulted by a Jackson Police officer tried to get the department to take action against that officer. However, the family claims that no action was ever taken and now, the accused officer, James Hollins, is dead.

On Sunday, JPD officer Hollins stopped his car on I220 and killed himself.

Attorney Lisa Ross, who is representing the mother of the alleged victim, noted during a press conference that the police department took no action against the officer despite seeing actual video evidence of the officer raping the girl in his squad car.

Ross told the press there are multiple videos taken from inside the officer’s patrol car, made over the course of six months.

“One of the chief’s first questions to the mother is, ‘Do you have any evidence?’,” said Ross. “She said, ‘Of course. I have videos.’ Then even when he sees the videos, he can’t tell the media what actions he’s taking,” said Ross.

Ross also noted that it took over 48 hours for police to even get back with the family after the original call.

“We plan to ask the United States Attorney’s Office and the Department of Justice to take over an investigation of a Jackson Police officer who has repeatedly sexually assaulted a minor,” Ross said. “What he did to this young girl was unconscionable and there’s no telling how many others are out there… We want people who have seen something to say something.”

“You wouldn’t find anything worse on PornHub,” she added.

According to Ross, Hollins approached the 15-year-old girl six months ago and would pick her up in his patrol car where the sexual assaults would take place.

Not until after the news broke of the officer’s suicide did the department claim he had been placed on administrative leave.

According to Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, he was in his personal car, but used the service revolver of another officer.

“It’s not known to us now if the officer even knew their weapon had been taken in the moment,” said Mayor Lumumba.

Ross now wants the Jackson Police Department and Chief James Davis to be held responsible for the assault.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/officer-commits-suicide-after-making-videos-sexually-assaulting-a-child-in-his-patrol-car/

MEP Janice Atkinson: “The people had spoken for a third time. How many more times do we have to vote?”

The UK won the EU elections, not fair and square, but as squatters who should be evicted as soon as possible.

The UK should never have held EU elections. It was immoral, undemocratic, expensive and farcical.

David Cameron slayed UKIP’s fox when he called the Brexit referendum.

In 2016 we voted to leave.

In the 2017 General Election Theresa May and Labour promised deliver Brexit with over 80% of the vote.

In the 2019 EU elections the Brexit Party won, with the largest mandate. The people had spoken for a third time.

How many more times do we have to vote? How many more times must we debate, argue, go to the polls and vent our anger? How many times must Nigel Farage rise like the Phoenix and win? How many times must the Conservative party damage itself, maybe beyond repair?

We stole other countries’ seats, one in particular, Geert Wilders’ PVV upsets me tremendously. My Dutch friends are waiting for the UK to vacate the seat so that they can continue their fight for Nexit. As are other countries.

Our opposition in the UK has tried every trick in the book to pretend that the other parties won, that they topped the polls with Remain, failing miserably to explain that there were other factors involved like voting against Labour’s anti Semitic, terrorist supporting Marxist leader and a vote for the Greens was somehow a Remain vote, when it’s clearly a rich middle class fashion vote for the hard left policies of higher taxation, anti car and anti aircraft by buying into a deeply disturbed kid’s agenda from Sweden.

This narrative is fuelled by the Lords, the BBC, the establishment, Whitehall and politicians who have never had to run the country as they ceded their powers to Brussels over forty years ago.

In 2014 the electorate sent me and 23 other MEPs to secure Brexit. We did. We were betrayed. The 29 new MEPs that replaced us should be more bloody minded than we were. Instead of arguing internally, punching each other, stabbing colleagues in the back and vying for the patronage of the leader, as UKIP did, they should become saboteurs.

The media and the EU expect them not to take up committee positions and not to work effectively with other Eurosceptic parties, because they believe nationalistic parties only worry about national interests. Wrong. I proved this in the ENF where we worked extremely effectively together. They should stage sit-in protests, disrupt all proceedings in committees and in plenary. They should work with Eurosceptic parties to stop and block legislation.

This, together with a real conservative heading up the Conservative party, will mean that the EU will do a deal to get rid of us and we can Brexit on 31 October.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/05/mep-janice-atkinson-the-people-had-spoken-for-a-third-time-how-many-more-times-do-we-have-to-vote/

Jared Kushner in Mideast to Garner Support for Peace Plan

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is in the Middle East to drum up support for his as-yet unveiled Israeli-Palestinian peace plan.

A White House official says Kushner, along with Trump’s special envoy for international negotiations Jason Greenblatt and special Iran envoy Brian Hook, are in Morocco and will visit Jordan and Israel later this week.

The trip comes as the U.S. prepares to roll out the economic portion of the plan at a conference in Bahrain in late June. The Palestinians have already rejected the peace plan and have urged Arab nations to avoid the conference. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar have already indicated they will participate.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/05/28/jared-kushner-in-mideast-to-garner-support-for-peace-plan/

Blair: Now Most Likely That Britain Will Have Second Referendum and Stay in European Union

Arch-remainer Tony Blair has leapt on the decisive victory of the Brexit Party in Sunday’s European Union election count as a clear sign that the United Kingdom needs a second referendum and to vote to cancel Brexit, keeping the country in the EU.

Speaking in an in-studio with Sky News’s Adam Boulton the Iraq war architect, New Labour leader, and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair reacted to the Brexit Party’s sudden surge from being founded as a new force to coming first in a national election in just 45 days by dismissing the concerns of their voters, claiming that a desire for Brexit itself is based on a “myth”.

Dismissing any attempt at a Brexit compromise, the globalist politician — who has previously called for the referendum to be re-run because voters failed to reach the right conclusion the first time around — said:

…compromise just doesn’t work because those people who voted for Nigel Farage and voted for Brexit want out of that trading system, that is integral to their case… if you are a Labour party politician and you’re worried you’re haemorrhaging votes to the Brexit party because you’ve not been clear about Brexit, and you’ve come out with a soft Brexit which the Brexiteers say is a betrayal you’re going to be no better off.

In fact, you’ll be worse off because you’ve alienated the people who want to remain from the Labour Party, but you won’t have given those people in traditional working class Labour seats who voted Brexit any reason to come back to Labour… there isn’t a Brexit compromise. There are two ways to resolve this, a sensible way and a not sensible way.

Those remaining options, he said, were staying in the European Union completely or leaving completely.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/28/blair-now-most-likely-that-britain-will-have-second-referendum-and-stay-in-european-union/

Supreme Court Strikes Compromise To Dodge Abortion Dispute

The Supreme Court reached an apparent compromise in an abortion dispute from Indiana Monday, keeping the issue off its docket as abortion roils the 2020 presidential race.

The justices reinstated a rule providing for humane disposal of fetal remains, but left a lower court ruling striking down the state’s trait-selective abortion ban untouched.

In a separate opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas said the states have a compelling interest in ensuring abortion does not become a tool of eugenics.

The Supreme Court reinstated an Indiana law Monday requiring abortion clinics to cremate or bury fetal remains.

In an apparent compromise, however, the justices declined to review a second provision of the Indiana law that banned abortions on the basis of sex, race, or disability. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said both provisions — which Vice President Mike Pence signed into law during his tenure as governor — were unlawful.

The 7th Circuit said Indiana had not identified a rational basis for its fetal disposal regulations, since fetuses do not qualify as human beings and thus cannot be regulated like persons under law. The Supreme Court summarily reversed that finding, a rarely-used mechanism saved for decisions that are clearly wrong.

“This Court has already acknowledged that a state has a ‘legitimate interest in proper disposal of fetal remains,'” the high court’s unsigned opinion reads. “The 7th Circuit clearly erred in failing to recognize that interest as a permissible basis for Indiana’s disposition law.”

The decision was narrow and left the Court’s “undue burden” test undisturbed, further solidifying the perception of a compromise. In the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey ruling, the justices said that the validity of abortion regulations would turn on whether they imposed an “undue burden” on abortion access. In Monday’s case, Planned Parenthood did not argue that Indiana’s fetal disposal rules impose an undue burden. Rather, Planned Parenthood challenged the provision under a different legal test.

“This case, as litigated, therefore does not implicate our cases applying the undue burden test to abortion regulations,” the opinion reads. (RELATED: Forget Alabama. These Abortion Cases Are In Front Of The Supreme Court Right Now)

Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the Court’s decision to restore the disposal rules, but agreed that denying review of the trait-selective abortion ban was correct.

Justice Thomas rails against eugenics

In a separate concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas said the Court would eventually have to decide whether trait-selective abortion bans are constitutional, saying the states have a compelling interest in preventing “modern day eugenics.”

“Given the potential for abortion to become a tool of eugenic manipulation, the Court will soon need to confront the constitutionality of laws like Indiana’s,” Thomas wrote. “But because further percolation may assist our review of this issue of first impression, I join the Court in declining to take up the issue now.”

Thomas’s concurrence canvassed the early history of the American birth control movement, saying that campaign was intertwined with eugenic efforts to reduce the population of racial minorities and disabled people. The arguments behind eugenic birth control, Thomas said, apply with even greater force to abortion.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/28/supreme-court-abortion-indiana/

Five Mexican Federal Police Investigators Arrested on Kidnapping Charges

Five ministerial investigative police officers assigned to the attorney general’s office (FGR) in Mexico City were arrested on kidnapping and extortion charges.

Five ministerial police officers from the federal attorney general’s office (PGR) of the Agencia de Investigación Criminal (AIC) were arrested and charged with kidnapping and extortion, according to a press release from the PGR. The five were arrested Friday by members of their own agency after a complaint accused them of kidnapping and extorting a ransom payment from a victim. The officers were identified as Raúl “R,” Ivan “G,” Librado Ricardo “S,” Luis Alberto “P,” and Karina “C.” All belonged to a unit that specializes in organized crime investigations (Subprocuraduría Especializada en Investigación de Delincuencia Organizada–SEIDO).

#FGR cumplimenta orden de aprehensión contra 5 elementos de la Policía Federal Ministerial #PFM, por la probable comisión del delito de secuestro agravado. https://t.co/FkHxLG6Ssc pic.twitter.com/0F6Kx5Kj3u

— FGR México (@FGRMexico) May 25, 2019

The initial complaint pertained to a kidnapping case in January in the Miguel Hidalgo borough, which is one of 16 that makes up the Federal District of Mexico City. The five officers would reportedly travel in a convoy and carry out fake arrests. The victims would eventually be held for ransom, according to a local report. During further follow up investigation, more kidnapping victims were discovered. The five officers were initially assigned to narcotics investigations and some were later transferred to the anti-kidnapping unit.

The attorney general’s office commented in a prepared statement, “we will not tolerate under any circumstances any type of illegal conduct committed by any public servant and we will punish all those who commit crimes.”

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/05/28/five-mexican-federal-police-investigators-arrested-on-kidnapping-charges/

Far from solving the Palestine-Israel conflict, the US ‘deal’ will take it to an unimagined level

One thing caught my attention during the latest Israeli escalation in the Gaza Strip, which left dozens of Palestinians dead. It was a video message, in Arabic, by Israeli parliamentarian Avi Dichter, a former head of Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet. Dichter spent a life time torturing Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and assassinating many others, but used the video to offer “sincere” advice to the people of Gaza to rebel against Hamas rule and stop firing rockets at Israel.

In an attempt to blame the victims, he said that whatever misery the Palestinians are suffering from is the result of choosing war against Israel. According to him, in 1947, the UN offered them a partition plan, but they refused it and they chose to fight, and as a result they are now stifled in this tiny piece of land, the Gaza Strip. In his warped logic, they have only themselves to blame for their predicament; they gambled against the Zionist movement and lost.

In an attempt to intimidate the Palestinians, Dichter says that they should learn a lesson from Syria, where almost half-a-million people have been killed and around ten million have been displaced. Only Israel, claims the Knesset member, has helped the Syrian people; he ignores the fact that millions of Syrian refugees stay in neighbouring countries such as Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. Not only does he demand that the Palestinians should stop firing rockets, but he also tells them that they will not gain anything by gathering near the Israeli-erected “border” fence for the Great March of Return protests because they have to forget about returning to their land. The only way to stop their suffering, insists Dichter, is to topple Hamas.

This video did not surprise me; Dichter was merely regurgitating decades-old Israeli propaganda. What was a surprise, though, was how similar it was in content to an article in the New York Times on 22 April — “Care about Gaza? Blame Hamas: The world wants to help. The terrorists won’t allow it” — written by US President Donald Trump’s Israel Envoy, Jason Greenblatt. The only real difference resulted from Dichter’s use of Arabic to address the Palestinians in Gaza directly, while Greenblatt chose a prestigious newspaper to speak largely to the American people and the West.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190528-far-from-solving-the-palestine-israel-conflict-the-us-deal-will-take-it-to-an-unimagined-level/

Israel's Role In 9/11

FBI evidence supports prior knowledge or complicity

The tale of 9/11 will just not go away, largely because it is clear to anyone who reads the lengthy 9/11 Commission Report that many issues that should have been subject to inquiry were ignored for what would appear to be political reasons. The George W. Bush Administration quite obviously did not want to assume any blame for what had happened and that bias also extended to providing cover for U.S. “allies,” most particularly Saudi Arabia and Israel. Those who have sought the truth about 9/11 have been persistent in their attempts to find out information that was suppressed but they have been blocked repeatedly in spite of numerous FOIA requests.

Now, eighteen years after the event, there has been something like a breakthrough, penetrating the wall of silence erected by the government. FBI reports on the possible Israeli role in 9/11 were released on May 7th and they serve to support speculation by myself and other former intelligence officers that Israel, at a minimum, had detailed prior knowledge of what was to take place. More than that, Israeli intelligence officers working in the United States might well have enabled certain aspects of the conspiracy.

To recount some of what is already known and suspected, one should first examine the 2016 release of a heavily edited and redacted 28 pages long annex to the 9/11 Commission Report that explored the Saudi Arabian role in the terrorist attack . The section concluded that the Saudi government may have played a direct role in 9/11 by assisting two of the hijackers, including a dry run exercise intended to learn how to get into a plane’s cockpit. There was also considerable evidence suggesting that wealthy Saudis and even members of the Royal Family had been supporting and funding al-Qaeda.

But far exceeding the Saudi role is the involvement of the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, which was not subject to any serious inquiry or investigation by U.S. intelligence or police agencies. Israel, in spite of obvious involvement in 9/11, was not included in the 9/11 Commission Report despite the existence of an enormous Israeli intelligence operation freely working in the United States that was known to the FBI. Some of those Mossad officers were notably filmed celebrating as the Twin Towers were burning and collapsing.

http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/israels-role-in-9-11/

De Genova: Section 702 Queries – 4 FBI agents used them to illegally spy in 2012 and unmask Americans

702 comes out of the NSA database.

The FBI abused the NSA database starting in 2012. This is what Adam Schitt is trying to hide. This is why Wray is covering up/stalling.

Four FBI Agents used Samantha Powers name to unmask Obama’s opponents, to leak stuff they found out to the press.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/de-genova-section-702-queries-4-fbi-agents-used-them-to-illegally-spy-in-2012-and-unmask-americans/

The Mass Media Is Poisoning Us With Hate

In “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media,” published in 1988, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky exposed the techniques that the commercial media used to promote and defend the economic, social and political agendas of the ruling elites. These techniques included portraying victims as either worthy or unworthy of sympathy. A Catholic priest such as Jerzy Popiełuszko, for example, murdered by the communist regime in Poland in 1984, was deified, but four Catholic missionaries who were raped and murdered in 1980 in El Salvador by U.S.-backed death squads were slandered as fellow travelers of the “Marxist” rebel movement. The techniques also included both narrowing the debate in a way that buttressed the elite consensus and intentionally failing to challenge the intentions of the ruling elites or the actual structures of power.

“Manufacturing Consent” was published on the eve of three revolutions that have dramatically transformed the news industry: the rise of right-wing radio and Fox-style TV news that abandon the media’s faux objectivity, the introduction of 24-hour cable news stations, and the creation of internet platforms—owned by a handful of corporations—that control the distribution of news and information and mine our personal data on behalf of advertisers, political campaigns and the government. The sins of the old media, bad though they were, are nothing compared with the sins of the new media. Mass media has degenerated into not only a purveyor of gossip, conspiracy theories and salacious entertainment but, most ominously, a purveyor of hate. Matt Taibbi, the author of “Hate Inc.: How, and Why, the Media Makes Us Hate One Another,” has dissected modern media platforms in much the same way that Herman and Chomsky did the old media.

The new media, Taibbi points out, still manufactures consent, but it does so by setting group against group, a consumer version of what George Orwell in his novel “1984” called the “Two Minutes Hate.” Our opinions and prejudices are skillfully catered to and reinforced, with the aid of a detailed digital analysis of our proclivities and habits, and then sold back to us. The result, Taibbi writes, is “packaged anger just for you.” The public is unable to speak across the manufactured divide. It is mesmerized by the fake dissent of the culture wars and competing conspiracy theories. Politics, under the assault, has atrophied into a tawdry reality show centered on political personalities. Civic discourse is defined by invective and insulting remarks on the internet. Power, meanwhile, is left unexamined and unchallenged. The result is political impotence among the populace. The moral swamp is not only a fertile place for demagogues such as Donald Trump—a creation of this media burlesque—but channels misplaced rage, intolerance and animosity toward those defined as internal enemies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51676.htm

French Senate Defies Macron, Says Notre Dame Should Be Rebuilt Exactly How It Was

Over the weekend, the French Senate approved a bill paving the way forward for restoring Notre Dame cathedral, which nearly burned to the ground back in April in a construction fire. There's one caveat, however: the cathedral must be returned to its "last known visual state."

In other words, despite French president Emmanuel Macron's desire to see parts of the cathedral rebuilt with an eye to more "contemporary architecture," the French government wants to see Notre Dame returned to its former glory, according to The Local.

"French Senators have stipulated that Notre-Dame cathedral must be restored exactly how it was before the devastating fire that tore through the Paris landmark," the Parisian news outlet reported Tuesday.

The stipulation came in the form of an addendum to a bill authorizing French authorities to begin work on Notre Dame so that the cathedral is completely rebuilt in time for the Paris Olympics in 2024 — just five years from now. The French Parliament approved the measure earlier this month but did not comment on how the cathedral should look once restoration work was finished.

The bill is controversial already: it's written so that the French government can bypass the traditional requirements of public and legislative approval before it can shuttle money from national coffers into the project. It's also tied to what experts consider a "rush job," allowing only five years for a refurbishment that could — or should — take decades.

France 24 reports that several hundred historians and architects have weighed in on the bill and found it wanting.

"Surveying a medieval monument is the work of a dozen different specialists. You have to get these people together to understand what they can bring because an edifice like this one is so complex that no single person has all the expertise necessary,” one historian told France 24.

“From an archaeological point of view, one of the risks of rushing in is that you can’t guarantee the sustainability of the work,” he added. “Building a monument is something that can be done rapidly. Restoring a monument is infinitely more complex.”

http://www.stationgossip.com/2019/05/french-senate-defies-macron-says-notre.html

Forget “Money”: What Will Matter Are Water, Energy, Soil and Food–and a Shared National Purpose

f you want to identify tomorrow’s superpowers, overlay maps of fresh water, energy, grain/cereal surpluses and arable land.

The status quo measures wealth with “money,” but “money” is not what’s valuable. “Money” (in quotes because the global economy operates on intrinsically valueless fiat currencies being “money”) is wealth only if it can purchase what’s actually valuable.

As the world slides into an era of scarcities, what will matter more than “money” are the essentials of survival: fresh water, energy, soil and the output of those three, food. The ability to secure these resources will separate nations that fail and those that survive.

In a world of abundance, it’s assumed every essential resource can be bought on the open market. Surpluses are placed on the market and anyone with “money” can buy the surplus.

Things work differently in scarcity: “money” buys zip, zero, nada because nobody with what’s scarce can afford to give it away for “money” which can no longer secure what’s scarce.

Parachute into a desert with gold, dollars, euros, yen and yuan, and since there’s nothing to buy, all your money is worthless. Once you’re thirsting to death, you’d give all your money away for a liter of fresh water. But why would anyone who needs that liter for their on survival trade it for useless “money”?

Imagine the longevity of a regime which sold the nation’s food while its populace went hungry. Not very long once the truth comes out.

Having resources is only one component: consumption is the other half of the picture. Having 4 million barrels a day of oil (MBPD) is nice if you’re only using 3 MBPD, but if you’re consuming 8 MBPD, you still need to import 4 MBPD.

Water and soil are not tradable commodities. Nations which share water resources (rivers and watersheds) have to negotiate (or fight wars over) the division of that scarce resource, but as a generality, fresh water and fertile soil can’t be bought and sold like grain and oil.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/forget-money-what-will-matter-are-water-energy-soil-and-food-and-a-shared-national-purpose/

Merkel Unretires: Chancellor Determined To Remain In Power Until 2021 As Succession Plan Implodes

The CDU's abysmal showing in last week's EU Parliamentary election marked the party's worst result ever in a national election. And apparently, the the loss of the CDU/CSU's position as the largest party in the bloc's largest legislative body was the last straw for Chancellor Angela Merkel, who reportedly regrets her decision to step aside as party leader last year - a decision she made to clear the way for her chosen successor, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, or AKK.

According to media reports, Merkel is so frustrated with AKK over a series of missteps by the new CDU party leader that the chancellor has decided to withdraw her political support, throwing her well-laid succession plans into disarray.

Merkel's determination that AKK is not 'up to the job' of being chancellor comes as AKK and others within the CDU have pressured Merkel to step down early to give AKK a better shot at securing a full term in 2021.

Though her ability to influence the party is limited now that she has handed over control of the party's machinery, Merkel can still throw a massive wrench in the works by deciding to spend no more political capital helping AKK, whose chances of winning the chancellorship are fading.

Merkel's decision to withdraw support for her erstwhile protege is the latest sign that the longtime German leader is determined to stay on as Chancellor at least until her term ends in 2021, despite growing pressure from AKK and others within the party to step aside before the vote. The latest conflict between the two women erupted after AKK called an impromptu party conference next week to examine the CDU's poor showing in the EU vote, a meeting that' sure to produce some awkward encounters between Merkel and AKK.

And who knows? If the acrimony between the two female conservative leaders continues to intensify, Merkel may yet change her mind and decide to seek an unprecedented fifth term in office. She certainly has the popularity to make a credible go at it.

Even if she doesn't actively campaign for AKK, Merkel has plenty of incentive to quit while she's ahead. Not only was the CDU pummeled during the last two national elections, but AKK’s approval rating recently slipped three points to 36%, according to broadcaster ARD. That's the lowest since she became CDU party leader, and almost 20 points behind Merkel. AKK's standing has been hurt by a series of gaffes, including an off-color joke about transsexuals that alienated many moderates. Adding insult to injury, as the CDU's popularity wanes, support for the progressive Greens has surged, with the party doubling its vote share to 20% last week compared with the 2014 EU Parliamentary elections.

If she presses ahead, we wouldn't be surprised to see the chancellor draw comparisons to other infamous German authoritarians. Though conveniently, soon it will be time to distract from the possibility that Merkel will stay on as German emperor with speculation that Trump will ignore the results of the 2020 vote and refuse to give up the White House, or worse (for liberals), win in 2020 then decide to run for a third term.

But no matter what Merkel decides, for AKK, there might still be a way out.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-28/merkel-unretires-chancellor-determined-remain-power-until-2021-succession-plan

Genocide of Christians Reaches "Alarming Stage"

Many of the world's most persecuted Christians have nothing whatsoever to do with colonialism or missionaries. Those most faced with the threat of genocide — including Syria's and Iraq's Assyrians or Egypt's Copts — were Christian several centuries before the ancestors of Europe's colonizers became Christian and went missionizing

The BBC report highlights "political correctness" as being especially responsible for the West's indifference….

Among the worst persecutors are those that rule according to Islamic law, or Sharia – which academics such as Georgetown University's John Esposito insist is equitable and just. In Afghanistan (ranked #2), "Christianity is not permitted to exist."

"Christian persecution 'at near genocide levels,'"

the title of a May 3 BBC report, cites a lengthy interim study ordered by British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and led by Rev. Philip Mounstephen, the Bishop of Truro.

According to the BBC report, one in three people around the world suffer from religious persecution, with Christians being "the most persecuted religious group". "Religion 'is at risk of disappearing' in some parts of the world," it noted, and "In some regions, the level and nature of persecution is arguably coming close to meeting the international definition of genocide, according to that adopted by the UN."

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt is also quoted on why Western governments have been "asleep" — his word — concerning this growing epidemic:

"I think there is a misplaced worry that it is somehow colonialist to talk about a religion [Christianity] that was associated with colonial powers rather than the countries that we marched into as colonisers. That has perhaps created an awkwardness in talking about this issue—the role of missionaries was always a controversial one and that has, I think, also led some people to shy away from this topic."

Whatever the merits of such thinking, the fact is that many of the world's most persecuted Christians have nothing whatsoever to do with colonialism or missionaries. Those most faced with the threat of genocide — including Syria's and Iraq's Assyrians or Egypt's Copts — were Christian several centuries before the ancestors of Europe's colonizers became Christian and went missionizing.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14281/genocide-of-christians

If You Can Kill a Human Before They’re ‘Viable,’ Why Does Doing the Same to a Turtle End in Jail Time?

Hypocrisy is not a new look for the left.

While the left pickets on the front steps of state legislative halls over a bill that dare protect a human baby once a heartbeat is detected, they are silent when it comes to a law that protects the unviable fetuses of the Atlantic Loggerhead.

A quick read of Florida’s Marine Turtle

Protection Act proves my point: “A person, firm, or corporation that illegally takes, disturbs, mutilates, destroys, causes to be destroyed, transfers, sells, offers to sell, molests, or harasses any marine turtle species or hatchling, or parts thereof, or the eggs or nest of any marine turtle species described in this subsection commits a felony of the third degree.“(FLA. 379.2431 (1)(d)(5))

Yes. You read that right.

Florida levies a stiff burden for a first-time offender of harassment of turtle eggs — to the tune of up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. However, if you abort a human baby, the left tells you to celebrate it on social media or go watch a comedy routine that makes abortion jokes.

The Florida law threatens to imprison and fine a person for disturbing a turtle, egg or nest during nesting season. But the left is outraged at states for drawing a line in the sand to protect human life. They are furious that someone dare tell a mother she is not allowed to murder her own child.

They picket and protest that it’s unfair. They shriek and howl that that thing inside a mother is “not a baby.” (They really say that. Watch it here.)

As they sigh in feigned frustration that a group of legislators dare protect human life more than turtle life, they reveal the underlying issue: They don’t care.

They don’t care that “viability” as a standard could give license to kill grown adults.

They don’t care that science has expanded the period of viability, not restricted it.

They don’t care that abortion lets rapists off the hook. That abortion lessens responsibility of men who prey on vulnerable women. That abortion affects minority babies far more than Caucasian ones.

They simply do not care.

No one on the left is screaming that Florida’s Marine Turtle Protection Act is a vestige of a bygone era. They are not complaining that protecting those eggs is unfair to the autonomy of female leatherbacks.

They aren’t throwing blood on themselves and dog-piling each other to expose the injustice of saving the unviable fetuses of the Lepidochelys kempi.

To be clear, conservation is good. Protecting the creation that God gave us is a worthwhile goal. But murdering those who are fashioned in the image of their Creator is neither moral nor compassionate.

Abortion is shaping up to be the most controversial issue of the 2020 election. The arguments on both sides expose a fundamentally different perspective of the value of human life. The left much prefers for the controversy to be put behind us because as science develops, so does technology that reveals with great clarity and definition that life within the womb is human, valuable and worthy of protection.

Medical advancement and research only weakens the lefts’ argument. So they become more desperate. They lean so heavily on the argument of a mother’s “choice” that they now — with a straight face — endorse measures that allow a baby to be aborted at full term and even post birth.

The greatest resource that God gave earth is human life. We must protect these innocent lives at all costs. At every stage. For all time. Without exceptions.

America finds itself once again at a moral crossroad. The iron is hot.

https://postnewsd2.blogspot.com/2019/05/if-you-can-kill-human-before-theyre.html

Lindsey Graham basically admitting on tonight’s interview that no democrats will be prosecuted.

But Lindsey will make sure it never happens again.

WAKE UP AMERICA, THIS MAN IS A SNAKE. AND HES COVERING HIS OWN ASS

IM TELLING YOU. LINDSEY GRAHAM IS THE ONE RUNNING THE GAME AGAINST TRUMP

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/lindsey-graham-basically-admitting-on-tonights-interview-that-no-democrats-will-be-prosecuted/

Atlanta to Transform 7 Acres of Vacant Land Into Country’s Largest Free Food Forest

Atlanta’s City Council just voted in favor of transforming over 7 acres of vacant property into the state of Georgia’s first food forest. The measure, which paves the way for the largest food forest in the country according to Councilwoman Carla Smith, was approved last Monday after a unanimous vote.

The Urban Food forest will be available free of charge and will include edible trees, shrubs, and vines in addition to traditional community garden beds as well as walking trails, public gathering spaces and other features.

“It’s just like going into a park and picking muscadines from a bush,” Smith said.

The land, currently own by environmental agency The Conservation Fund, will be sold to the city of Atlanta for $157,384.00. The agency was in possession of the land after it was abandoned due to a failed business venture.

According to the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,

The Urban Food Forest at Browns Mill has been in the works since November 2016 when the city accepted an $86,150 grant from the U.S. Forest Service Community Forest and Open Space Program.

Atlanta’s Department of Parks and Recreation will oversee the property and Trees Atlanta, will maintain the Urban Food Forest. Trees Atlanta has secured $121,500.00 in funding and plans to employ two part-time workers including including a Forest Ranger and a Community Workforce Educator.

Plans for the Urban Food forest conform to the city’s goal to “strengthen local food economy to ensure 85 percent of the city residents are within one-half mile of fresh food access by 2021.” According to the measure, “parks, greenspace and recreation are an integral part of the fabric of the City of Atlanta.”

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 36 percent of Atlanta was classified a food desert in 2017 and a quarter of the city’s residents must travel more than a half-mile to purchase fresh produce.

Hopefully Atlanta will be the first of many cities pushing for legislation that focuses on the wellbeing of their residents and transitions vacant lands into productive spaces that benefit the people. With many Americans living in areas classified as food deserts, it only makes sense to further legislation like Atlanta’s Ordinance 19-O-1251 to make use of the vacant lands that dot America’s urban landscapes.

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2019/05/atlanta-to-transform-7-acres-of-vacant-land-into-countrys-largest-free-food-forest.html

German Ex-Spy Chief: Mossad Behind Video Leak That Led to Austria Gov't Collapse

Austrian politics has been rocked by "Ibiza-gate" allegations that the country's vice chancellor was discussing the possibility of a foreign citizen investing into a local newspaper in exchange for favourable media coverage.

Rudolf Adam, a former diplomat and deputy head of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service, claims that the scandal that turned Austria's politics upside down was orchestrated by Israeli secret services.

Writing for the political magazine Cicero, Adam argues that the plan to bring down Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache with an explosive video leak was unlikely to have been hatched by the United States, which is currently "fully occupied with Korea, Iran and China".

Nor could be Russia behind the "political assassination", as Adam puts it, given that the now-former vice chancellor had been advocating closer ties with Moscow.

No European service "could and should" do such a thing, Adam maintains, while China and the Arab countries appear to have little interest in Austrian domestic politics.

"All that remains is a state that has the human and technical capacities for such an operation and a clear motive: Israel," he continues.

Rufold Adam, who has worked in German embassies in Moscow and in London, points out that Jewish communities in Europe are afraid of a rise in anti-Semitic sentiment and Holocaust denial, which could pose an existential threat to the State of Israel.

He claims that Strache embodies "deep-seated anti-Semitism" and a "trivialisation" of Nazi atrocities, so Israel had to react.

"Israel has a survival interest in the EU pursuing an Israel-friendly policy. This line has already been controversial among EU members. A triumph of political parties close to the FPO could initiate a turnaround here and bring the EU as a whole into a more Israel-critical line," he claims.

Ironically enough, Adam himself was accused of anti-Semitism following the publication of his opinion piece.

According to Israeli newspaper Ynetnews, the Conference of European Rabbis (CER), the foremost Rabbinical alliance in Europe, said that the attempt to blame Israel for Strache's downfall is "reminiscent of classic anti-Semitism" and cannot be ignored.

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201905281075403985-rudolf-adam-austria-video-leak/

Tom Fitton: Deep State ‘Coup Cabal’ Tried to Interfere in 2016 Election & Wants to Overthrow Trump

May 28, 2019- JW President Tom Fitton appeared on “The Sam Sorbo Show” on Sam Sorbo Radio to discuss the ongoing Clinton email scandal and Deep State targeting of Donald Trump.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/in-the-news/tom-fitton-deep-state-coup-cabal-tried-to-interfere-in-2016-election-wants-to-overthrow-trump/

Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US hacking

Chinese military won't move to Linux, but develop a custom OS instead.

Amidst an escalating trade war and political tensions with the US, Beijing officials have decided to develop a custom operating system that will replace the Windows OS on computers used by the Chinese military.

The decision, while not made official through the government's normal press channels, was reported earlier this month by Canada-based military magazine Kanwa Asian Defence.

Per the magazine, Chinese military officials won't be jumping ship from Windows to Linux but will develop a custom OS.

Thanks to the Snowden, Shadow Brokers, and Vault7 leaks, Beijing officials are well aware of the US' hefty arsenal of hacking tools, available for anything from smart TVs to Linux servers, and from routers to common desktop operating systems, such as Windows and Mac.

Since these leaks have revealed that the US can hack into almost anything, the Chinese government's plan is to adopt a "security by obscurity" approach and run a custom operating system that will make it harder for foreign threat actors – mainly the US – to spy on Chinese military operations.

The task of developing the new OS and replacing Windows will fall to a new "Internet Security Information Leadership Group," as first reported by the Epoch Times, citing the May issue of the Kanwa Asian Defence magazine.

Per the magazine, this new group answers directly to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), being separate from the rest of the military and intelligence apparatus.

This is similar to how the United States Cyber Command operates as a separate entity in the US Department of Defense, separate and independent from the other US military and intelligence agencies.

In the late 90s, North Korea also developed a custom operating system for use inside the country, called Red Star OS. The OS is still alive, it is a Linux distro, but it never became the "only" official OS for government agencies, which continued to use Windows, Mac, and Linux in parallel.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/chinese-military-to-replace-windows-os-amid-fears-of-us-hacking/

Two Constitutions in the United States. First one was illegally suspended in favor of a Vatican “Crown” corporation in 1871

Since 1871 the United States president and the United States Congress have been playing politics under a different set of rules and policies. The American people do not know that there are two Constitutions in the United States. The first penned by the leaders of the newly independent states of the United States in 1776. On July 4, 1776, the people claimed their independence from the Crown (temporal authority of the Roman Catholic Pope) and Democracy was born. And for 95 years the United States people were free and independent. That freedom ended in 1871 when the original “Constitution for the United States for America” was changed to the “THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”.

The Congress realized that the country was in dire financial straits, so they made a financial deal with the devil – the Crown (a.k.a. City of London Corporation – est. by the Catholic Church on Jan 1, 1855 ) thereby incurring a DEBT to the Pope. The conniving Pope and his bankers were not about to lend the floundering nation any money without some serious stipulations. So, they devised a way of taking back control of the United States and thus, the Act of 1871 was passed. With no constitutional authority to do so, Congress created a separate form of government for the District of Columbia.

With the passage of “the Act of 1871” a city-state (a state within a state) called the District of Columbia located on 10 square miles of land in the heart of Washington was formed with its own flag and its own independent constitution – the United States’ secret second constitution.

The flag of Washington’s District of Columbia has 3 red stars, each symbolizing a city-state within the three-city empire. The three city empire consists of Washington D.C (the D.C. stands for District of Columbia)., City of London Corporation, and Vatican City State. City of London Corporation is the corporate center of the three city-states and controls the world economically. Washington D.C. is in charge of the military, and the Vatican controls it all under the guise of spiritual guidance. Although geographically separate, the city states of City of London Corporation, the Vatican and the District of Columbia are one interlocking empire called “Empire of the City”

The constitution for the District of Columbia operates under tyrannical Vatican law known as “Lex Fori” (local law). When congress illegally passed the act of 1871, it created a corporation known as THE UNITED STATES and a separate form of government for the District of Columbia. This treasonous act has unlawfully allowed the District of Columbia to operate as a corporation outside the original constitution of the United States and in total disregard of the best interests of the American citizens.

http://presscore.ca/two-constitutions-in-the-united-states-1st-was-illegally-suspended-in-favor-of-a-vatican-crown-corporation-in-1871/

Globalist Ruling Class Has No Legitimacy; Must Slander All Who Disagree

Back in January 2018, I wrote this piece about The War on Dissent, which, in case you haven’t noticed, is going gangbusters. As predicted, the global capitalist ruling classes have been using every weapon in their arsenal to marginalize, stigmatize, delegitimize, and otherwise eliminate any and all forms of dissent from neoliberal ideology, and in particular from their new official narrative … “Democracy versus The Putin-Nazis.”

For over two years, the corporate media have been pounding out an endless series of variations on this major theme, namely, that “democracy is under attack” by a conspiracy of Russians and neo-Nazis that magically materialized out of the ether during the Summer of 2016. The intelligence agencies, political elites, academia, celebrities, social media personalities, and other organs of the culture industry have been systematically reifying this official narrative through constant repetition. The Western masses have been inundated with innumerable articles, editorials, television news and talk show segments, books, social media posts, and various other forms of messaging whipping up hysteria over “Russians” and “fascists.” At this point, it is no longer just propaganda. It has become the new “truth.” It has become “reality.”

https://russia-insider.com/en/globalist-ruling-class-has-no-legitimacy-must-slander-all-who-disagree/ri27116

Dossier Author Christopher Steele Refuses to Cooperate with US Attorney John Durham in His Investigation Into Origins of Spygate

Christopher Steele, the former British spy who was paid by Hillary Clinton and the DNC to compile a 35-page dossier smearing Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign is refusing to cooperate with US Attorney John Durham in his investigation into the origins of Spygate.

Reuters reported:

The former British spy who produced a dossier describing alleged links between Donald Trump and Russia will not cooperate with a prosecutor assigned by U.S. Attorney General William Barr to review how the investigations of Trump and his 2016 election campaign began, a source with knowledge of the situation said.

Christopher Steele, a former Russia expert for the British spy agency MI6, will not answer questions from prosecutor John Durham, named by Barr to examine the origins of the investigations into Trump and his campaign team, said the source close to Steele’s London-based private investigation firm, Orbis Business Intelligence.

Hillary Clinton hid her payments to Steele by paying him through Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented the DNC during the 2016 presidential election.

Steele worked as a CHS [Confidential Human Source] for the FBI while simultaneously working for oppo research firm Fusion GPS to compile a 35-page dossier full of lies against Donald Trump, using his Russian intel sources.

Even though the FBI terminated Christopher Steele, he continued to feed the US government information through DOJ official Bruce Ohr who was acting as a backchannel to the FBI.

The FBI ultimately used the phony, Hillary-funded dossier to obtain a FISA warrant and three subsequent renewals on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page in order to spy on Trump during the 2016 election.

Attorney General Bill Barr stunned the Deep State-Democrat media complex last month when he said he believes “spying did occur” during the 2016 election.

It was later announced Bill Barr appointed US Attorney in Connecticut John Durham to investigate the origins of Spygate.

According to Reuters, Steele is refusing to cooperate with John Durham, but he may cooperate with Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s parallel investigation.

The difference between Horowitz and Durham? Horowitz has no teeth — he cannot impanel a grand jury and he can only criminally refer people to the DOJ.

In contrast, Durham’s investigation spans across multiple intel agencies and he has the power to convene a grand jury.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/breaking-dossier-author-christopher-steele-refuses-to-cooperate-with-us-attorney-john-durham-in-his-investigation-into-origins-of-spygate/

Mike Pompeo, Jared Kushner to Attend 'Secret World Order' Meeting - Report

The clandestine gathering is also expected to be attended by prominent business and political figures such as NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, among others.

Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, is expected to take part in a Bilderberg Meeting scheduled to take place this week in Montreux, Switzerland, according to CNBC.

The media outlet reported, citing local media, that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will also attend the meeting, even though his name wasn't on the official guest list.

Other notable political and business figures who will be present for the gathering include NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire, Credit-Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, Total CEO Patrick Pouyanne, as well as former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

The meeting’s published agenda includes “Brexit, the ethics of artificial intelligence, the importance of space, and climate change and sustainability”.

The costs of the meeting are reportedly covered “wholly by private subscription”.

The annual Bilderberg Meeting was established in 1954 by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands in order to foster dialogue between Europe and America, with its participants being political leaders, experts from industry, finance, academia, and the media.

The clandestine nature of the meeting frequently gives rise to conspiracy theories about a “secret world order”, though the organizers merely claim that the gathering’s somewhat secretive nature “simply

https://sputniknews.com/world/201905281075423981-bilderberg-club-kushner-meeting/

>>6610573

>LG is patriot

Retard

He's a puppet on a string!

>>6610576

Jared Kushner Attending Secretive 2019 Bilderberg Meeting This Week in Montreux, Switzerland

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Google censorship expert Jared Cohen and billionaire Democrat Reid Hoffman – who was caught staging false flag to interfere with Alabama election – are also reportedly scheduled to attend.

White House senior advisor Jared Kushner is set to attend this year's secretive Bilderberg meeting in Montreux, Switzerland which starts on Thursday.

Attendees of Bilderberg have traditionally been forbidden from sharing the content of their secret, behind closed doors discussions held with dozens of world leaders in politics, industry, finance and media. The organization is still quite secretive and discussions rarely leak out but they've been forced to open up over the past few years due to their shady activities being exposed widely on the internet.

The Bilderberg group said in a press release this year that the meetings are "held under the Chatham House Rule, which states that participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s) nor any other participant may be revealed."

There's absolutely no reason any US officials should be attending such secretive meetings and potentially violating the Logan Act, but as we all know the rules no longer apply to those who rule over us.

Though President Trump ran on a populist platform of "America First" nationalism and railed against globalism, his globalist New York Democrat son-in-law has made sure he's continued business as usual and has been guiding most of his policies, so it's only appropriate that he meet with globalist leaders from around the world on what to do next.

The location of the meeting was revealed on Tuesday – just two days before the start of the event – in a press release on Bilderberg's website.

67th Bilderberg Meeting to take place 30 May - 2 June 2019 in Montreux, Switzerland

MONTREUX, 28 MAY 2019 – The 67th Bilderberg Meeting will take place from 30 May - 2 June 2019 in Montreux, Switzerland. About 130 participants from 23 countries have confirmed their attendance. As ever, a diverse group of political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia, labour and the media has been invited. The list of participants is available on bilderbergmeetings.org.

The key topics for discussion this year are:

1. A Stable Strategic Order

2. What Next for Europe?

3. Climate Change and Sustainability

4. China

5. Russia

6. The Future of Capitalism

7. Brexit

8. The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

9. The Weaponisation of Social Media

10. The Importance of Space

11. Cyber Threats

Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg Meeting is an annual conference designed to foster dialogue between Europe and North America. Every year, between 120-140 political leaders and experts from industry, finance, labour, academia and the media are invited to take part in the Meeting. About two thirds of the participants come from Europe and the rest from North America; approximately a quarter from politics and government and the rest from other fields.

The Bilderberg Meeting is a forum for informal discussions about major issues. The meetings are held under the Chatham House Rule, which states that participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s) nor any other participant may be revealed.

Thanks to the private nature of the Meeting, the participants take part as individuals rather than in any official capacity, and hence are not bound by the conventions of their office or by pre-agreed positions. As such, they can take time to listen, reflect and gather insights. There is no detailed agenda, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken and no policy statements are issued.

Though he's not on the official guest list, CNBC said Tuesday morning that a Swiss daily reported Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is also going to attend.

More in link

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=60266

>>6610647

So you trust him…….wow

>>6610809

Interesting