How The West Enabled China Organ Harvesting Expansion

The “collapse of Western values,” a “massive case of denial” in the free world, and “religious bigotry” towards the Falun Gong spiritual movement have allowed China to potentially expand its industrial-scale harvesting of live organs to Uighur Muslims imprisoned in concentration camps, Ethan Gutmann, author of several seminal reports on the topic, told Breitbart News.

Gutmann’s research and writing, in conjunction with authors David Kilgour and David Matas, exposed a million-dollar Chinese industry centered around the killing of political prisoners – mostly Falun Gong members, but some Christians, Uighur Muslims, and others considered enemies of the state – and extracting of livers, kidneys, hearts, and other vital organs to sell to buyers in need.

In the update to their research in 2016, Gutmann, Kilgour, and Matas revealed that China was conducting between 50,000 and 90,000 more transplant surgeries than the official government estimates of organ donors, even including death row inmates, could account for. Filling the gap between documented organ donations and actual transplants completed were the bodies of prisoners of conscience, the report concluded. Both Falun Gong survivors and doctors who have testified to engaging in live organ harvesting have corroborated the report.

Since the publication of that revelation, the U.S. Congress, the U.K. Parliament, and several international human rights organizations have moved to condemn China. Yet the World Health Organization, an arm of the United Nations, has not acted, nor has the global medical community attempted to isolate and punish doctors associated with the Chinese Communist Party for this behavior.

China has never explained the discrepancy between the number of organs documented as available and the number of transplants conducted. Its state propaganda arms tout the world’s acclaim for its “fair” organ donation system.

“China is establishing a new national system for organ donation and transplantation, based on Chinese cultural and societal norms, that aims to be ethical and sustainable,” a 2012 WHO Bulletin article proclaimed.

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2019/06/22/expert-wests-massive-case-of-denial-allowing-china-to-expand-political-prisoner-organ-harvesting/

Amazon patents ‘helpful’ surveillance delivery drones that totally don’t spy on your neighbors

Amazon has filed a patent for delivery drones that also surveil customers – for their own good, it claims, suggesting that a drone will inform people if there’s a fire or damage on their property but won’t snoop around.

Users who consent to the surveillance get a helpful eye in the sky to spot if they’ve left the garage door open, or if someone’s broken their window, or if burglars are walking off with all their newly delivered Amazon goodies (the latter isn’t mentioned in the patent filing, but would presumably fall within its purview). Users could even subscribe to the surveillance service as a high-tech alarm system, hiring their own airborne Big Brother to do daily perimeter sweeps while they’re on vacation, or check up on the kids while they’re at work.

Amazon claims its drones can be stopped from spying on non-consenting neighbors through geo-fencing, noting that “any image or data the drone captures outside the geo-fence would be obscured or removed,” but it stops short of explaining the mechanics of that removal. It doesn't explain whether the obscuring would be reversible, or whether the original unobscured images – like the millions of hours of Alexa background recording supposedly never archived but actually heard by thousands of humans – are actually saved somewhere, however temporarily, where they can be examined by a human or AI.

Amazon does grudgingly admit that filming a property might “possibly” require “consent of other people residing at that location,” and the patent seems to take into account the existence of multiple layers of possibly-contradictory local and federal laws concerning surveillance of private property and public property. The company filed the patent in 2015 and only received it on June 4, meaning at least a few of those laws have probably changed since it was drawn up.

The e-commerce giant hopes to begin delivering packages by drone in under 30 minutes within the next few months, though Amazon’s Prime Air drone – which boasts six axes of movement in comparison to the standard quadcopter’s four – only won an FAA testing license earlier this month, and is restricted under that certificate from serving customers. Indeed, while Amazon has been talking up drone delivery since 2013, it has never quite managed to get off the ground.

https://www.rt.com/usa/462437-amazon-patents-surveillance-delivery-drones/

Major Sinaloa Cartel Meth Lab Seized in Mexico

Mexican security personnel in the state of Sinaloa seized a major meth lab connected to the Sinaloa Cartel. Since 2018, Mexican officials busted over 20 similar labs in the state.

The Secretary of Public Security of Sinaloa, Cristóbal Castañeda Camarillo announced the seizure of a meth lab consisting of finished product and a large amount of precursor chemical. The Mexican State Preventive Police (Policía Estatal Preventiva) of Sinaloa and the Mexican Army (Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional–SEMAR) carried out the raid on the afternoon of Sunday, June 16.

Security elements discovered the clandestine lab after receiving an anonymous report of strong chemical odors in the rural area near the town of Alcoyonqui. The community is located within the municipality of the state capital of Culiacán. While patrolling, they decided to further inspect a property where they suspected the strong chemical odors were coming from. Upon approaching, they observed several individuals flee. Authorities secured what was later determined to be a major methamphetamine lab.

Once investigative personnel arrived at the location, a total of nearly 6,500 liters of liquid chemical precursors were located. They also discovered just over a ton of precursors in solid form. Additionally, officials seized 100 to 150 kilograms (220—330 pounds) of methamphetamine. Investigators estimated the total value of the lab and product seized to be several million dollars, according to Castañeda Camarillo.

This seizure is the 23rd clandestine lab seized in coordination with other military assets, according to officials from the Ministry of Public Security. All seized chemicals and a vehicle located on the property were turned over to ministerial investigative personnel. They will handle the investigative responsibility to identify the owner of the property and those responsible for setting up the lab. Breitbart News law enforcement sources indicated the lab is believed connected to the Sinaloa cartel.

Breitbart’s Cartel Chronicles reported on multiple drug labs recently seized in the area. Those included earlier this month when Mexican security personnel in Sinaloa seized a major meth lab connected to the Sinaloa Cartel Officials estimated the seizure to be worth an estimated $170 million.

In August 2018, Breitbart reported three seizures totaling more than 120,000 pounds of methamphetamine in Sinaloa believed to belong to the Sinaloa Cartel aka Cártel del Pacífico. Additionally, officials carried out numerous methamphetamine, fentanyl, and heroin seizures along smuggling routes in Northern Mexico leading into the U.S. and along the southern border at border crossing and Border Patrol checkpoints. These seizures originated from the major drug labs being set up throughout Mexico.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/06/22/major-sinaloa-cartel-meth-lab-seized-in-mexico/

Salmonella Strain Resistant to ‘Last Resort’ Antibiotics Uncovered in US

Recent university research has confirmed a type of salmonella said to be resistant to antibiotics of last resort has officially made its way to the US from Asia. Scientists now say the positive sample hints the drug-resistant salmonella may have been spreading across the country for some five years.

North Carolina State Veterinary Medicine researchers announced a human patient tested positive for a drug-resistant salmonella bacteria gene identified as mcr-3.1, which makes the drug of last resort, colistin, ineffective in treating the infection.

Salmonella enterica is the most common serotype of the bacteria that results in human illness, however, the CDC reports more than 2,500 different kinds of the bacteria have been identified. Fewer than 100 of those total serotypes are commonly found in infected persons.

This is not the first case of the mcr-3.1 gene being found in a human, but it is the first instance of it being present in a US individual with a salmonella infection.

“Public health officials have known about this gene for some time,” Siddhartha Thakur, professor and director of global health at NC State and corresponding author of the research, is quoted as saying in a June 13 release from the university. “In 2015, they saw that mcr-3.1 had moved from a chromosome to a plasmid in China, which paves the way for the gene to be transmitted between organisms.”

Plasmids, which are double-stranded DNA molecules, can move between bacteria within the same family.

Thakur would go on to reveal that once the gene is present on a plasmid, related bacteria, such as salmonella and E. coli, can transfer the drug resistance to each other.

“Once mcr-3.1 jumped to the plasmid, it spread to 30 different countries, although not – as far as we knew – to the US,” the professor explained.

The department’s discovery of mcr-3.1 in the US came about when veterinary medicine student Valerie Nelson and doctoral student Daniel Monte performed genome sequencing on 100 human stool samples retrieved from subjects in the US Southeast region. The clinical samples were collected from 2014 to 2016.

During the sequencing trials, the stool of a man who suffered from salmonella following a trip to China two weeks prior tested positive for the mcr-3.1 gene.

“This project proved the importance of ongoing sequencing and surveillance,” said Nelson. “The original project did not involve this gene at all.”

Given that the stool in question was from 2014, Thakur added that this “definitely has implications for the spread of the colistin-resistant salmonella in the US.”

https://sputniknews.com/society/201906211076013410-salmonella-resistant-last-resort-antibiotics/

Coyotes Use Federal Agencies to Smuggle ‘Unaccompanied’ Children to Parents in U.S.

The flood of “Unaccompanied Alien Children” may hit 88,000 this year, according to Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt.

Officials are “anticipating as many as 88,000 will come to the border by themselves by the end of September,” Blunt told other Senators during a June 19 markup at the Senate Appropriations Committee. Thirty percent of the children are aged 12 or below, while the majority of 70 percent are teenagers 13 and above, he said.

The 2019 UAC inflow is a massive increase over prior years. Roughly 180,000 children and youths were brought into the U.S. via the UAC pipeline from 2013 to 2018. The 90,000 who are expected in 2019 would allow the total of 270,000-plus UAC children to fill half of all the school seats in the four large school districts in the Washington, D.C. region — at a colossal annual cost of roughly $3.5 billion to taxpayers plus much classroom dysfunction for American public-school kids.

The UAC inflow may rise again in 2020 — even if President Donald Trump manages to block the catch-and-release loopholes created by Congress and the courts — because many UACs are being imported from Central America by their recently arrived illegal-alien parents and relatives.

“Unaccompanied minors: They’re coming here, sent probably by their parents,” GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham told Blunt and other Senators at the markup. The parents know that “if you can get here as an unaccompanied minor under our laws, if you are from Central America, 98 percent stay,” he said.

The 2019 flow of almost 90,000 UACs is hidden in the bigger inflow of perhaps 900,000 economic migrants from Central America who use the asylum catch-and-release loopholes to get into the United States.

The UAC inflow of youths and children enters via a different loophole in a 2008 law which was passed to help “Unaccompanied Alien Children” escape severe trafficking by criminal gangs and labor traffickers, typically for prostitution and sweatshops. But coyotes, cartels, migrants, and immigration lawyers use those laws to help transport migrants’ foreign children from Central America to the migrants’ homes in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and many other cities.

The pipeline usually starts with the arrival of a single illegal migrant, male or female, with or without a child, in an American city. Often, the spouse travels separately through the asylum loopholes and quickly joins the first migrant in the city, usually while carrying a second child to help claim asylum.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/22/coyotes-use-federal-agencies-to-smuggle-unaccompanied-children-to-parents-in-u-s/

Judge in Sandy Hook defamation lawsuits says Infowars readers have posted death threats on the site after its founder Alex Jones claimed she was 'part of a conspiracy to destroy him'

Judge Barbara Bellis wrote in a court filing Friday that the FBI contacted Connecticut State Police about the threats, however she did not elaborate

The threats were made in the comments section of Alex Jones' InfoWars website

Bellis is presiding over the case involving the controversial online host and the family members of Sandy Hook victims, who are suing Jones for defamation

Infowars attorney Norm Pattis said the threats don’t appear to be serious, but a review of the website was underway

The threats arose after the judge ordered Jones to pay the legal fees for the eight Sandy Hook families for accusing their lawyer of framing him with child porn

A Connecticut judge overseeing lawsuits filed by bereaved families of the Sandy Hook shooting massacre against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones revealed that she has received death threats from Jones' fans in posts on his Infowars website.

Judge Barbara Bellis wrote in a court filing Friday that the FBI and Connecticut State Police had contacted her about the threats, however she did not release further details about what the messages specifically entailed.

Bellis is presiding over the case involving the controversial online host and the family members of Sandy Hook victims, who are suing Jones for defamation after he claimed the 2012 elementary school shooting was a hoax.

‘The court was contacted by the Connecticut State Police who were reportedly contacted by the FBI regarding threats against [Bellis] made by individuals on the defendant Infowars website,’ Bellis’s filing details.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7168947/Judge-Sandy-Hook-defamation-lawsuits-says-Infowars-readers-posted-death-threats-site.html

British Judge Orders Forced Abortion Against Wishes of Mother, Grandmother

A British judge has ordered a Catholic woman with developmental disabilities to have an abortion at 22 weeks despite the objections of the woman and her mother.

“I am acutely conscious of the fact that for the State to order a woman to have a termination where it appears that she doesn’t want it is an immense intrusion,” Justice Nathalie Lieven said in her ruling in the Court of Protection on Friday, reported Catholic News Agency (CNA).

“I have to operate in [her] best interests, not on society’s views of termination,” Lieven continued, however, asserting that her decision was in the woman’s best interests.

The woman is under the care of a National Health Service (NHS) trust in the United Kingdom. She is reportedly in her 20s and, according to the report, “believed to have the mental capacity of a grade school-age child.”

Her mother is Nigerian and a former midwife, and made clear to the court the family is Catholic, opposed the abortion, and that she would assume responsibility for her grandchild.

According to a report at the Catholic Herald, while the woman’s doctors claimed an abortion was in her “best interests”, a social worker who helps care for the woman disagreed with forcing her to have one.

The report continued that the woman’s legal team argued there was “no proper evidence” to show the need for a forced abortion.

Alfie, Isaiah, Charlie: The Ill Children Mandated to Die by Hospitals Against Their Parents’ Wishes https://t.co/wa6mf1Qrz2

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) April 27, 2018

Though her lawyers accepted the woman’s developmental disability prevented her from giving or withholding consent, the woman’s mother said the doctors “underestimated [her] ability and understanding, and that more weight should be placed on her wishes and feelings.”

Currently, an investigation is underway as to how the woman became pregnant.

“I think she would like to have a baby in the same way she would like to have a nice doll,” Lieven decided of the pregnant woman, adding she did not believe the woman’s mother could possibly care for her own daughter and the baby at the same time.

Lieven said she also did not believe the woman could tolerate giving up her baby for adoption or foster care, adding that once the woman had a baby “outside her body she can touch” she “would suffer greater trauma from having a baby removed [from her care].”

According to CNA, while working as a lawyer, Lieven has argued cases in favour of abortion rights:

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/06/22/british-judge-orders-forced-abortion-against-wishes-of-mother-grandmother/

Israel analysts: Weak US attack on Iran could spark retaliation against Israel

Israeli military analysts are afraid that a weak US attack on Iran could provoke an Iranian attack on Israeli interests.

Currently, Israel is worried about ongoing US-Iranian tensions and is preparing for any possible escalation which could affect its own interests.

Israeli daily Ynet yesterday reported Israeli security officials as warning that US President Donald Trump might order a limited “surgical assault” to quell Iran’s provocations. However, these officials worry that, in return, Iran might attack Israeli interests via one of its proxies in the region.

It is worth noting that the Israeli security cabinet held two urgent meetings this week to evaluate the situation and asked its members not to speak to mass media. Haaretz’s military analyst, Amos Harel, reiterated that the meetings of the cabinet were related to tensions with Iran.

Based on Israeli and US intelligence, Harel said that Iran is likely to escalate the situation with the US “soon”, noting that the Iranians were disappointed about not being able to push the US to re-evaluate economic sanctions imposed on Tehran.

Therefore, he did not rule out Iranian attempts to provoke Israel by targeting its borders, in order to ignite a regional crisis that would push President Trump to quickly re-evaluate his sanctions.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190622-israel-analysts-weak-us-attack-on-iran-could-spark-retaliation-against-israel/

(((They))) are so pissed they didn't get their huge war started yet

‘Israel does not want peace’, former Mossad chief says

The former chief of Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad, Shabtai Shavit, has said that Israel does not want peace and that, if it had, it would have made peace with the Palestinian Authority (PA) long ago.

Shavit gave his remarks to Israeli daily Maariv, reiterating that if Israel wanted peace it would have discussed it in economic and infrastructure terms that serve the interests of both parties, Arab 48 reported yesterday.

However, Shavit said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not see the PA as a negotiating partner and therefore refuses to develop relations with the authority. “Do you know any other head of an Israeli government who did not talk with the Palestinians?” he asked.

Shavit also claimed that Netanyahu stopped speaking to the PA under pressure from the Israeli right-wing, who he claimed “would lynch him in the city centre” if he opened discussions today.

June 22, 2019 at 12:25 pm

The former chief of Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad, Shabtai Shavit, has said that Israel does not want peace and that, if it had, it would have made peace with the Palestinian Authority (PA) long ago.

Shavit gave his remarks to Israeli daily Maariv, reiterating that if Israel wanted peace it would have discussed it in economic and infrastructure terms that serve the interests of both parties, Arab 48 reported yesterday.

However, Shavit said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not see the PA as a negotiating partner and therefore refuses to develop relations with the authority. “Do you know any other head of an Israeli government who did not talk with the Palestinians?” he asked.

Shavit also claimed that Netanyahu stopped speaking to the PA under pressure from the Israeli right-wing, who he claimed “would lynch him in the city centre” if he opened discussions today.

Israel minister: ‘I intend to Judaise the Galilee’

“We [Israel] are the strongest in the Middle East”, Shavit continued, adding that:

at this time no Arab coalition is likely to be formed that would endanger [Israel’s] existence like in the 1960s and 1970s.

“The strong can do for itself what the weak cannot do […] We can run over the other side if we want,” he added.

Regarding the Oslo Accords of the mid-1990s – the last substantial attempt at peace negotiations – Shavit said that the Israeli right-wing has since painted this agreement as a “sin,” arguing that had they continued down this path, there could have been peace.

“This is not fantasy, because those who do not want peace succeeded in making large portions of the country believe that Oslo was the mother of all sins and the desire for peace is also a sin,” Shavit concluded.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190622-israel-does-not-want-peace-former-mossad-chief-says/

Macron Wants New UK Prime Minister to Be as ‘Loyal and Respectful’ to EU as Theresa May

French president Emmanuel Macron has indicated he does not care who succeeds Theresa May as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, provided they are as “loyal and respectful” to the European Union as she has been.

“All the way through the negotiations she’s been incredibly loyal and respectful, she never stood in the way, we sometimes disagreed but she never took the discussions or Europe hostage,” President Macron said, in comments reported by The Times.

“I do not know who will come next, and I certainly do not want to interfere but I hope it will be the same sense of respect and seriousness that she had.”

The French leader’s description of Mrs May’s behaviour during the negotiations — particularly the comments referencing her having “never stood in the way” of the EU’s schemes as it sought to impose harsh terms on the United Kingdom, may anger Brexit supporters who have long suspected that the former Remain supporter never sought to use utilise the leverage available to secure better terms from the bloc.

Mrs May agreed to pay the EU a so-called “divorce bill” estimated at £39 billion — despite the United Kingdom putting billions more into the bloc’s central budget than it takes out every year — in exchange for Brussels merely agreeing to discuss future trade terms.

But rather than quickly agree to a free trade agreement and mutual recognition of standards — which would appear to be strongly in the EU’s economic interests, given it exports far, far more to the United Kingdom than the United Kingdom exports to the EU — once these commenced, Brussels instead insisted that the only way to maintain a so-called “frictionless” customs border along the land frontier between the British province of Northern Ireland and EU members-state the Republic of Ireland would be for the former to be effectively annexed to the EU Single Market and Customs Union.

This would of course mean creating customs barrier within the United Kingdom between Northern Ireland and mainland Great Britain, but Mrs May seemingly offered little pushback, attempting to resolve the issue by agreeing a withdrawal treaty with the EU which would incorporate the whole contry into a so-called “single customs territory” governed by an EU-interpreted “common rulebook” on competition, regulation, and state aid — EU membership minus Free Movement and representation in EU institutions in all but name.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/06/22/macron-wants-new-uk-prime-minister-loyal-respectful-eu-theresa-may/

Top Merkel Party MP: Strip Right-wing ‘Extremists’ of Free Speech, Free Assembly

The former General-Secretary of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has advocated stripping right-wing “extremists” of their fundamental rights to free speech and free assembly.

Mr Tauber, who serves as an MP for the CDU in the German Bundestag, made his statements following the murder of pro-open borders CDU member Walter Lübcke and the arrest of a suspect thought to be linked to far-right extremism.

Writing for German newspaper Die Welt, Tauber blamed members of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) for the murder of Lübcke, saying, “the political climate of this republic has changed as well. The AfD in the German Bundestag and in the state parliaments contributes to this. With the dissolution of the language, they have paved the way for the dissemination of violence.”

Tauber also singled out several AfD members including co-chair Alice Weidel, saying they were ” complicit in the death of Walter Lübcke due to a language that is uninhibited and leads to violence.”

Germany Launches ‘How to Identify Nazi Parents’ Guide for Schools https://t.co/hvozX9qHVc

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) December 6, 2018

In order to combat right-wing extremism, Tauber advocates using Article 18 of the German constitution which allows the government to strip free speech, free assembly, property rights, privacy of communication, and freedom of the press from those deemed to be fighting against the “free democratic basic order”.

Tauber admitted that the rules were to prevent another rise of the Nazi party but said, “Article 18 is today an instrument not only against right-wing extremists but also against all others who are also committed to the fight against our freedom.”

Germany: Lawmakers Want Three-year Prison Terms for Burning EU Flag https://t.co/q6UjZbFpsS

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) June 22, 2019

While right-wing extremism has seen an increase over the past several years in Germany, so too has left-wing extremism, according to the German domestic intelligence agency the BfV, which released a report last year showing the number of violent left-wing extremists had increased by 27 per cent from 2012 to 2017.

The number of violent incidents committed by left-wing extremists rose by a staggering 88 per cent during the same period.

Tauber did not mention left-wing extremism at all in his writing, despite Antifa allegedly taking credit for nearly killing AfD politician Frank Magnitz earlier this year in Bremen.

German Intelligence: Left Wing Violence and Extremism Rising https://t.co/jDRsRoGCCF

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) June 20, 2018

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/06/22/top-merkel-party-mp-strip-right-wing-extremists-of-free-speech-free-assembly/

Syria Demands Withdrawal of Turkish Troops From Syrian Territory

As fierce gun battles continued in Idlib, Syria’s Foreign Minister demanded the withdrawal of Turkish troops in the region.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said in a press briefing Tuesday that his country considers Turkey’s military presence in parts of northern Syria as illegal. Muallem then demanded neighboring Turkey to withdraw its troops from the Syrian territories. Yet he asserted that Syria is not interested in a military showdown with Turkey.

Muallem’s remarks came on the sidelines of his five-day visit to the Chinese capital of Beijing, where he met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. Muallem held a press conference with Wang Yi where he made the remarks regarding Turkey’s presence in Syria.

According to the Syrian News Agency, the 13-year-long foreign minister of Syria emphasized Syria’s determination to eradicate all “terrorist” organizations that still operate in the northern province of Idlib.

However, according to the Syrian news agency Enab Baladi, Turkey’s Defense Minister, Hulusi Akar, had previously said on May 22, that he would not order Turkish troops to pull out of Idlib unless the Syrian government de-escalated its presence in the region.

Reconstruction Possibilities

Muallem also said in the press conference that his country will give top priority to friendly countries like China, Russia and Iran, in terms of the reconstruction efforts of the civil war-torn Arab Republic of Syria.

Back in 2016, a Chinese special envoy to Syria, Xie Xiaoyan, stated that “China will be an integral part of reconstruction efforts of Syria, once the war in Syria comes to an end.”

Muallem’s statement comes as the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has placed a series of economic restrictions on China, Venezuela and Iran.

For decades now, China and Syria have maintained close political and economic ties. China has repeatedly backed Syria by means of its veto power when it came to United Nations’ Security Council resolutions pertaining to Syria.

https://citizentruth.org/syria-demands-withdrawal-of-turkish-troops-from-syrian-territory/

Iran and US Officials Attend a Russian Security Forum but Nobody Is Talking About It

The tenth international meeting on security has just concluded in the Russian the city of Ufa. The forum has been under-reported, but it represents one of the few global examples of multilateral meetings between high-level representatives of countries that are in conflict. Hundreds of representatives from as many as 120 countries attended the meeting over three days to discuss humanitarian crises, hybrid warfare, terrorist threats and ways to recover from armed conflict.

President Putin’s opening speech was read aloud by Russian Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev, which explained the forum’s agenda and objectives, namely, to create a positive atmosphere that should succeed in reducing various areas of tension between countries around the globe.

“I expect your communication to be substantial and fruitful, and will help achieve our common goal of creating a reliable, flexible, indivisible and equal for all security system at the regional and global level. US exit from arms reduction treaties undermines global security. This forum has fully proved to be in demand and effective, ensuring a dialogue on countering global challenges. The meeting’s agenda addresses problems requiring joint solutions and collective action, overcoming the consequences of armed conflict and humanitarian problems, as well as ensuring information security.”

The most important news of the day coming from Ufa was revealed by Tass:

“A high-ranking official from the US National Security Council will take part in an international meeting of high security representatives at Ufa on June 18-20, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Alexander Venediktov said in an interview with the Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily on Sunday.”

This disclosure is particularly relevant as the US has not sent any representatives to attend the international security meeting in the last four years. This is an event where leading figures can meet and discuss ways of overcoming disagreements in spite of any current difficulties that may exist between countries, such as between Iran and the US.

The Ufa forum has drawn little attention from the international press and has even been little reported on in the host country, with only Tass putting out a couple of reports on the gathering. The lack of media exposure is probably intentional, with the lack of a media spotlight allowing for diplomacy to calmly do its work without any unnecessary distractions.

The world is at a critical historical juncture, with potential or already volatile situations present on the Korean peninsula, in Venezuela, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iran, Libya, Ukraine, the Arctic, the Persian Gulf, and the Baltic, Black and South China Seas. Other volatile situations can be found in the cyber and information-warfare domains, as well as in the competition in space.

With so many potential flashpoints, a conference to address these dangers is most welcome. The fact that 120 countries have the opportunity to talk and think about possible ways for de-escalation is a rare opportunity that should not be left to go to waste.

Given current global events, the most significant attendees in Ufa are a senior US National Security Council member and the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), Ali Shamkhani. As of now, the only official news comes from Ali Shamkhani’s words concerning the possibility of mediation with the US and the possibility of Iran acquiring weapons systems to fend off US threats. Shamkhani stated:

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/06/21/iran-and-us-officials-attend-a-russian-security-forum-but-nobody-is-talking-about-it/

Trump EPA Approves “Emergency” Use of Bee-killing Pesticide On 13.9 Million Acres For The Next 4-6 Years

The Facts: The Environmental Protection Agency recently announced “emergency” approvals to spray sulfoxaflor — an insecticide considered “very highly toxic” to bees — on nearly 14 million acres of crops known to attract bees.

Reflect On: Why do corrupt federal regulatory agencies have the power to do what they please, regardless of how many people oppose it? Why do their actions not take into consideration all life on Earth and the environment when they are tasked to do so?

It’s no secret that pesticides have been killing bees in extreme numbers, especially in North America. Many other countries have imposed bans and restrictions on the pesticides that are sprayed in Canada and America. The idea that pesticides and other endocrine-disrupting chemicals are killing bees in mass amounts isn’t really up for debate, and it’s something that we here at Collective Evolution have been creating awareness about for nearly 10 years.

Since 2006, when the term “Colony Collapse Disorder” or CCD was coined in the U.S., commercial beekeepers have reported extraordinary losses averaging 29 to 45 percent per year. Such losses are unprecedented — more than double what is considered normal. In the last several years, neonicotinoid pesticides — both alone and in combination with other pesticides — have emerged as a key catalyst behind this disturbing phenomenon, both because of their direct toxicity to bees and their indirect and cascading effects. If you’d like to learn more about this, there are countless examples and studies online.

The question that’s most important to ask is: Why and how are substances like these getting approved by our federal health regulatory agencies when they are clearly wreaking havoc on human, animal, and insect health? They are destroying nature.

We must acknowledge that our federal health regulatory agencies have been completely compromised. Big corporations have “captured them (our regulatory agencies) and turned them into sock puppets. They’ve compromised the press.” – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (source)

This is evident thanks to so many examples, including testimonies from employees within these agencies. Known as the ‘Spider Papers,’ a group called the CDC Scientists Preserving Integrity, Diligence and Ethics in Research, or CDC SPIDER, put a list of complaints in a letter to the CDC Chief of Staff and provided a copy of the letter to the public watchdog organization U.S. Right to Know (USRTK).

We are a group of scientists at CDC that are very concerned about the current state of ethics at our agency. It appears that our mission is being influenced and shaped by outside parties and rogue interests. It seems that our mission and Congressional intent for our agency is being circumvented by some of our leaders. What concerns us most, is that it is becoming the norm and not the rare exception. Some senior management officials at CDC are clearly aware and even condone these behaviors.

These rogue parties include pesticide manufacturing companies like Monsanto, which is now Bayer. This is also why we constantly see a ‘revolving door’ of employees that go to and from these corporations and our federal regulatory agencies. Merck’s Julie Gerberding is one of several great examples.

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2019/06/trump-epa-approves-emergency-use-of-bee-killing-pesticide-on-13-9-million-acres-for-the-next-4-6-years.html

Trump Accused Of 'Rape' One Day After Refusing to Go to War With Iran

President Donald Trump was accused of "rape" by a feminist journo one day after he refused to go to war with Iran.

Despite massive pressure from neocons in his administration to attack Iran after they shot down a US drone over the Gulf of Oman, Trump elected not to carry out a strike Thursday evening because he said the military's planned attack would have killed 150 people, which he said was not "proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone."

The next day, feminist journo E Jean Carroll accused him of raping her sometime "in late 1995 or early 1996" and said he has a small penis.

When asked on MSNBC Friday whether she would press charges against Trump seeing as how New York no longer has any statue of limitations on first degree rape, Carroll laughable said she would not because it would be "disrespectful" to the women at the border "who are being raped around the clock."

President Trump denied the allegations in a statement after the story broke:

Regarding the “story” by E. Jean Carroll, claiming she once encountered me at Bergdorf Goodman 23 years ago. I’ve never met this person in my life. She is trying to sell a new book—that should indicate her motivation. It should be sold in the fiction section.

Shame on those who make up false stories of assault to try to get publicity for themselves, or sell a book, or carry out a political agenda—like Julie Swetnick who falsely accused Justice Brett Kavanaugh. It’s just as bad for people to believe it, particularly when there is zero evidence. Worse still for a dying publication to try to prop itself up by peddling fake news—it’s an epidemic.

Ms. Carroll & New York Magazine: No pictures? No surveillance? No video? No reports? No sales attendants around?? I would like to thank Bergdorf Goodman for confirming they have no video footage of any such incident, because it never happened.

False accusations diminish the severity of real assault. All should condemn false accusations and any actual assault in the strongest possible terms.

If anyone has information that the Democratic Party is working with Ms. Carroll or New York Magazine, please notify us as soon as possible. The world should know what’s really going on. It is a disgrace and people should pay dearly for such false accusations.

There's no question powerful people are very angry right now due to Trump not attacking Iran. These conveniently timed "rape" allegations should be taken in the proper context.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=60375