Anonymous ID: 934239 June 18, 2019, 4:27 p.m. No.6783426   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3454 >>3510 >>3574 >>3693

Grassley Responds to State Department’s Findings of 23 Violations Concerning Hillary’s Emails – ‘Violators Should be Held Accountable’

 

Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said on Tuesday afternoon that the 15 individuals culpable for multiple security incidents related to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server and her mishandling of classified information should be held accountable.

 

The State Department in a letter to Senator Grassley (R-IA) confirmed Hillary Clinton’s classified material violations.

 

The State Department stated that it has assessed culpability to 15 (unnamed) individuals, some of whom were culpable in MULTIPLE security incidents related to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server and her mishandling of classified information.

 

In total, there were 23 violations and 7 infractions incidents, according to a letter to Grassley from the Assistant Secretary of Bureau of Legislative Affairs Mary Elizabeth Taylor.

 

President Trump responded to this news just after midnight.

 

“Wow! The State Department said it has identified 30 Security Incidents involving current or former employees and their handling of Crooked Hillary Clinton’s Emails. @FoxNews This is really big. Never admitted before. Highly Classified Material. Will the Dems investigate this?” Trump said in a midnight tweet.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/grassley-responds-to-state-departments-findings-of-23-violations-concerning-hillarys-emails-violators-should-be-held-accountable/

Anonymous ID: 934239 June 18, 2019, 4:40 p.m. No.6783571   🗄️.is 🔗kun

15,500 Kilos of Cocaine, Worth $1 Billion Officials Say, Seized at Philadelphia Port; Crew Charged

 

Some crew members allegedly brought the massive cache aboard while at sea, and were paid $50,000 each for their efforts, according to a federal complaint.

 

Shipping containers full of illegal drugs have been found and seized by federal authorities at a Philadelphia port in what federal authorities describe as the largest seizure in the region's history.

 

A senior law enforcement official said more than 15,500 kilos of cocaine were found in seven containers, which were found aboard a cargo ship, the MSC Gayane, that previously stopped in Colombia, Chile, Panama and the Bahamas.

 

$77M in Coke Seized at NJ Port in Biggest Bust This Century

 

At least two crew members of the Gayane have been charged with trafficking, according to a complaint filed Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney's Office. Other crew members were also allegedly involved, the complaint charges.

 

The bust occurred at the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal Port on the Delaware River in South Philadelphia, multiple local, state and federal law enforcement sources have told NBC10.

 

$38M Half-Ton of Cocaine Seized at Port of Philadelphia

 

Members of the ship's crew have been arrested and charged with federal drug trafficking charges, the U.S. Attorney for Eastern Pennsylvania said in a tweet. They allegedly pulled the drugs aboard while at sea, the complaint said.

 

The massive cache of drugs could have a street value of $1 billion, the U.S. Attorney's Office also tweeted. The office characterized the seizure as the largest in the Philadelphia region's history.

 

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Massive-Drug-Cache-Seized-at-Philadelphia-Shipping-Yard-Sources-Say-511455802.html

Anonymous ID: 934239 June 18, 2019, 4:45 p.m. No.6783617   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Downing of US MQ-9 Drone Over Hodeida Shows Direct US Involvement in Yemeni War

 

Yemen’s Houthi-allied military has made significant strides in its air-defense sector and has become a real threat to Saudi-led Coalition and U.S. operations over Yemen

 

HODEIDA, YEMEN — News that a U.S. government drone was shot down over Yemen’s port city of Hodeida has provoked anger among local residents, who say it is clear evidence of direct U.S. involvement in a war which has resulted in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, according to the UN, and has left almost 25 million people in need of aid.

 

On Sunday, Lieutenant Colonel Earl Brown, a spokesman for the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), said in a statement that on June 6 Houthi fighters shot down a U.S. government MQ-9 Reaper drone using an SA-6 surface-to-air missile, adding that the altitude at which the drone was shot down “indicated an improvement over previous Houthi capability.”

 

U.S. officials attempted to link the attack on a U.S. drone on Yemen’s coast to the downing of the MQ-9 on June 13, as the unmanned surveillance aircraft was said to be flying over one of two crippled oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman that the U.S. and Saudi Arabia claim were also targeted by Iran. High-ranking Yemeni officials strongly reject this link, but also assert that they will not hesitate to accept any help to defend their country.

 

The CENTCOM statement confirmed reporting by MintPress that the Yemeni army, loyal to the Houthis, shot down a U.S.-made MQ-9 Reaper in al-Jabaliyah on the country’s west coast. It is not the first U.S. drone downed by Houthi forces. On June 4, a U.S.-made drone was downed and last month a U.S.-made General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone was shot down in Yemen. This March, Yemeni forces shot down an MQ-1 Predator over Yemen’s capital, Sana’a. A few weeks later, an MQ-1C drone was shot down, also over Sana’a.

 

Yemen’s Houthi movement called Brown’s statement an avowal of U.S. participation in the war. Mohammed Abdulsalam, a spokesman for the Houthis, said: “The U.S. military admitting the downing of the reconnaissance drone on Yemen’s west coast proves that the aggression carries a U.S.-Zionist agenda.” He claimed that the U.S. has been involved in “various crimes committed for the fifth year against our people.”

 

This was not the only incident that angered local residents in Yemen this week. Families of the victims of a Saudi airstrike on a Yemeni school bus — including Zaid al Tayeb, who lost two sons in the attack — told MintPress that the Trump administration’s emergency authorization allowing a top defense firm the right to build high-tech bomb parts in Saudi Arabia is a gift to the Kingdom that killed their loved ones.

 

Earlier this month, Trump granted Riyadh its very own bomb factory, despite the Kingdom’s abysmal human rights record, prompting fear from Yemenis that the move will allow Saudi Arabia to reinforce its stockpile, which is already tens of thousands strong, and that the new weapons would not be used for their stated purpose of countering Iran, but instead would be dropped on Yemen.

 

On August 10, 2018, Zaid al Tayeb lost two of his sons — Ahmed and Ali — in a deadly school bus attack in Dhahran city in Sadaa, northern Yemen, when Saudi warplanes dropped the U.S.-manufactured Raytheon Mark-82 bomb, killing 40 children. Saudi warplanes also used the Mark-82 in a 2016 attack on a funeral in the capital Sana’a. That attack claimed over 140 lives and injured 525 others.

 

https://www.mintpressnews.com/downing-of-us-drone-over-hodeida-shows-direct-us-involvement-in-yemen-war/259298/

Anonymous ID: 934239 June 18, 2019, 4:48 p.m. No.6783641   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3693

Pittsburgh Mayor Presents DICK’S Award for Gun Control Advocacy

 

On June 4-5, the annual Yale Mayors College & CEO Summit was held in New York City. The theme of this year’s CEO Summit was “Trumpeting the Issues without Becoming the Issue: Selective Use of CEO Voice.” Making clear that much of the event was about corporate virtue signaling strategy, “Session 2” on the June 4 agenda was titled, “The Courage to Stand Alone: CEO Voice & Virtue.”

 

With the promotion of virtue-signaling the goal, Yale secured its two finest practitioners in their respective fields. At the event, Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto presented DICK’S Sporting Goods CEO Edward Stack with the “Maverick in Leadership Award.” According to a press release from Peduto’s office, the award was for Stack’s “work on behalf of common-sense gun safety measures.”

 

Peduto presented the award alongside Ethan Allen CEO Farooq Kathwari. History buffs will note the irony attendant to the CEO of a company that trades off the name of an American Revolutionary War patriot promoting gun control.

 

The choice of Peduto to present the award to Stack was inspired. In his pursuit of gun control, Peduto has breached his duty to the public by advocating for local anti-gun measures that are illegal under Pennsylvania law. It can be argued that Stack has deviated from his duty to shareholders in order to indulge his political predilections.

 

In December, Peduto’s office proposed a raft of local gun control ordinances in violation of Pennsylvania’s firearms preemption law. The relevant statute (18 Pa.C.S.A. § 6120) makes clear,

 

No county, municipality or township may in any manner regulate the lawful ownership, possession, transfer or transportation of firearms, ammunition or ammunition components when carried or transported for purposes not prohibited by the laws of this Commonwealth.

 

Moreover, the matter of local gun ordinances had already been settled by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. In a 1996 case involving a local ordinance that restricted commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms, Ortiz v. Pennsylvania, the court determined,

 

Because the ownership of firearms is constitutionally protected, its regulation is a matter of statewide concern. The constitution does not provide that the right to bear arms shall not be questioned in any part of the commonwealth except Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, where it may be abridged at will, but that it shall not be questioned in any part of the commonwealth. Thus, regulation of firearms is a matter of concern in all of Pennsylvania, not merely in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and the General Assembly, not city councils, is the proper forum for the imposition of such regulation.

 

Despite the statute and clear precedent, in April Peduto signed legislation restricting the “use” of commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms and standard capacity magazines within the city. NRA immediately filed suit against Pittsburgh to vindicate city residents’ rights.

 

https://www.ammoland.com/2019/06/pittsburgh-mayor-presents-dicks-award-for-gun-control-advocacy/#axzz5r73eaeg2

Anonymous ID: 934239 June 18, 2019, 4:50 p.m. No.6783655   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Syrian-Chinese talks on enhancing bilateral relations in all fields

 

Beijing, SANA – Official talks were held on Tuesday between Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, detailing all aspects of bilateral relations and means for enhancing them in all fields.

 

The two sides asserted the importance of exchanging visits and increasing coordination on all levels, and they exchanged opinions on developments in Syria and the regions and the efforts to make progress in the political track regarding the crisis in Syria along with fighting all forms terrorism, including the economic terrorism practiced by the US and some of its allies against the Syrian and Chinese people, with both sides expressing matching viewpoints in all issues that were discussed.

 

Minister al-Moallem reiterated that Syria views relations with China as strategic, and that it wants to elevate them in all fields to achieve true partnership, pointing out to the policy of heading to the east which President Bashar al-Assad proposed and the Belt and Road Initiative proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping, the two of which are important frameworks for realizing the desired partnership between Syria and China.

 

https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=167896