Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 9:50 a.m. No.7394523   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4789 >>4811 >>4848 >>4930 >>5075 >>5153 >>5278

Strzok-Page Texts Were Not Unearthed by Sharp FBI Investigative Work – Strzok’s Angry and Scorned Wife Turned Him In After Finding Texts on His Phone!

 

Oh my – the reason corrupt FBI agent Peter Strzok was caught texting his lover in the FBI, Lisa Page, was not due to incredible investigative work. The reason was the oldest explanation in the book – his jealous and scorned wife!

 

We are only now finding out how Peter Strzok got caught texting his mistress Lisa Page at the FBI. He was outed by his wife –

 

Sidney Powell summed it up – “There is some justice in that!”

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/huge-strzok-page-texts-were-not-unearthed-by-sharp-fbi-investigative-work-strzoks-angry-and-scorned-wife-turned-him-in-after-finding-texts-on-his-phone/>>7394511

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 9:51 a.m. No.7394530   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4789 >>4930 >>5153 >>5278

France to summon Turkish envoy after Erdogan hinted at Macron's 'brain death' – Elysee Palace

 

After Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that French leader Emmanuel Macron should be checked for “brain death,” Ankara's ambassador in Paris will now reportedly have to explain the “insult” at the Foreign Ministry there.

 

“On the latest excesses by the Turkish president, these are not statements, these are insults,” a French presidency official said, according to reports. “We are expecting president Erdogan to clarify.”

 

https://www.rt.com/news/474692-erdogan-macron-turkish-ambassador-france/

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 9:53 a.m. No.7394541   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4789 >>4930 >>5153 >>5278

Was Sondland Threatened by Democrats? Top Witness Changes Testimony Before Hearing… Then Accused of Sexual Assault After Not Delivering the Goods on Trump

 

Excerpts from his new and revised testimony given by Gordon Sondland, the US Ambassador to the European Union were released before his hearing in November.

 

Sondland ‘s testimony was revised after his ‘memory was refreshed’ from reading other testimony to reflect what he described as a ‘quid pro quo message’ delivered to Andriy Yermak, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

 

Sondland’s testimony was also altered after Democrats harassed Sondland last month during his closed-door interview and accused him of being an agent of shadow foreign policy on Ukraine.

 

Democrats were so desperate to pressure Sondland that they even held several protests outside his hotels before his public testimony.

 

These were highly organized actions by Democrats on Sondland’s properties.

They were meant to send a message.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/was-sondland-threatened-by-democrats-top-witness-changes-testimony-before-hearing-then-accused-of-sexual-assault-after-not-delivering-the-goods-on-trump/

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 9:54 a.m. No.7394550   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4789 >>4930 >>5153 >>5278

Iraq PM Announces Resignation After 40 Protesters Killed On Single Deadliest Day

 

After two months of anti-corruption and anti-government protests have rocked Iraq, resulting in a death toll into the hundreds as the unrest turns increasingly sectarian and which has included the burning of two Iranian consulates, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi says he will resign.

 

He announced in an official statement put out by his office that he will submit his resignation to parliament after the country's top Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, suddenly pulled support, telling the nation in a Friday sermon that parliament should "reconsider its options" after putting Mahdi in power in the first place.

 

The subsequent statement signed by Abdul Mahdi indicated the following: "In response to this call, and in order to facilitate it as quickly as possible, I will present to parliament a demand (to accept) my resignation from the leadership of the current government."

 

Local authorities estimate the death toll since protests erupted on Oct. 1 has soared to over 400 people, with thousands wounded, amid reports of 'live fire' used by police. This includes security forces reportedly shooting some 40 people dead in Baghdad and in southern provinces in what was possibly the deadliest single day on Thursday.

 

At least on top provincial police chief was removed over shooting deaths this week, after Iraqi clerics had previously urged government forces to refrain from using deadly force.

 

Iraq remains a sectarian powder keg waiting to erupt further, given anti-corruption protests have quickly turned to target neighboring Iran's influence; however Mahdi's stepping down may relieve some of that pressure, given he had the close backing of Iran.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iraq-pm-adel-abdul-mahdi-resign-after-protests-single-deadliest-day

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 9:55 a.m. No.7394557   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4569 >>4768 >>4789 >>4930 >>5153 >>5278

Italy: Migrants riot and set asylum center ablaze

 

Angry, entitled migrants rioted and set fire to an asylum center in the northern Italian city of Turin after far-left Antifa members declared a hunger strike.

 

The mayhem broke out at migrant repatriation center (CPR) in Turin when migrants housed in the facility began protesting against what they perceive to be ‘inhumane conditions’, Italian broadcaster TGCOM24 reports.

 

A group of asylum center guests set fire to eight housing units – the so-called ‘purple’ and ‘yellow’ wings of the housing complex.

 

It took several firefighting brigades more than an hour to put out the fire. Police were also summoned to calm the situation.

 

The day before, a group of far-left Antifa members declared a hunger strike to ‘protest’ against the free food served and free healthcare administered at the facility, as well as free roof provided over the heads of the migrants.

 

Tensions at the facility have been mounting since late August, when migrants rioted, set fires, and hurled rocks at police officers. The incident saw three people arrested and left one police officer with multiple broken fingers.

 

A few days later a security guard working at the asylum was injured after four migrants tried to escape the facility.

 

In October, angry migrants clashed with Greek police and set fire to asylum centers on two separate occasions – one at a camp on the island of Samos and the other at a camp on the island of Lesbos. One of the incidents left two dead while the other left hundreds of migrants without proper shelter.

 

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/11/italy-migrants-riot-and-set-asylum-center-ablaze/

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 9:55 a.m. No.7394563   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4571 >>4789 >>4930 >>5153 >>5278

UPS Employees Arrested For Allegedly Running A Decade-Long Drug Trafficking Ring: Police

 

Four United Parcel Service (UPS) employees are accused of being involved in a decade-long operation to import and traffic large amounts of drugs and counterfeit vaping oils, police said, as 11 arrests were made over the past two weeks.

 

The scheme often saw thousands of pounds of narcotics and marijuana shipped weekly from narco-traffickers into the United States and then to various destinations across the nation. Authorities said the substances were transported meticulously in cardboard boxes through UPS’s trucking and delivery systems, the Washington Post reported.

 

Money made from the lucrative operation was then spent on purchasing luxury homes and properties, vehicles, and vacations, according to detectives.

 

Investigations first began in 2017 when the Tucson Police Department and an arm of ICE found evidence which pointed to the elaborate scheme.

 

John Leavitt, commander of the Tucson Police Department’s Counter Narcotics Alliance, said in a statement: “This investigation has identified and mitigated vulnerabilities in the shipping infrastructure that has allowed for the undetected trafficking of narcotics for more than a decade.

 

Over the past couple of weeks, agents arrested 11 individuals aged between 24 and 49, including four UPS employees. Authorities seized substantial sums of money, around 50,000 counterfeit THC vape pens, equipment to manufacture drugs, and vehicles, according to a police statement.

 

All eleven face charges related to narcotics smuggling, drug possession, money laundering and misconduct involving weapons, the New York Times reported.

 

A 49-year-old UPS employee of the Tucson distribution facility, Mario Barcelo, is accused of leading the operation, and allegedly used his position as supervisor to bypass security measures as drug shipments were loaded onto trucks and delivered, investigators from the Counter Narcotics Alliance said.

 

Barcelo was arrested on Nov. 13.

 

“He’s been able to provide this service to drug traffickers without being detected both internally and externally by law enforcement for years,” Tucson Police Sgt. William Kaderly told the Post.

 

“They’ve been doing it for so long that they were truly comfortable that they were never going to get caught.”

 

UPS told the Post in a statement that the company is “not at liberty to discuss the details of the arrests as this is an ongoing investigation,” but added that it is cooperating with law enforcement officials.

Trump to Designate Mexican Drug Cartels as Terror Organizations

 

President Donald Trump said this week he intends to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups for their role in trafficking narcotics and people. The day before, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he disagreed with the move.

 

During an interview on Nov. 26 with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on the topic, Trump confirmed it is something he has been working on for several months.

 

“Absolutely,” Trump told O’Reilly when asked whether Mexican drug cartels would be designated as terror groups.

 

“I’ve been working on that for the last 90 days. You know designation is not that easy, you have to go through a process, and we’re well into that process.”

 

Mexico’s foreign ministry promptly reacted to Trump’s comments, saying it would quickly seek a high-level meeting with U.S. State Department officials to address the legal designation as well as the flow of arms and money to organized crime.

 

https://www.theepochtimes.com/ups-employees-arrested-for-allegedly-running-a-decade-long-drug-trafficking-ring-police_3159552.html

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 10:01 a.m. No.7394578   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Former Speaker Admits He ‘Facilitated’ Stopping Clean-Break Brexit

 

Former Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow has admitted that he had a “handmaiden role” in helping to stop a clean-break Brexit.

 

Speaking to Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Mr Bercow denied that he had “stopped” No Deal, but confirmed: “I facilitated colleagues who wanted legally to stop the No Deal Brexit.”

 

He added: “I think I had a handmaiden role if I can put it that way. But did I do the deed? I didn’t do the deed. I facilitated those who wanted to do the deed.”

 

Brexiteers had accused Mr Bercow of bias in the latter years of his decade-long tenure as Speaker after making questionable decisions that appeared to favour the plight of Remainer MPs trying to stop Brexit. In January, he was accused of ignoring parliamentary protocol by allowing MPs a vote on blocking No Deal in a manner reportedly contrary to the advice of Commons clerks.

 

Breaking the appearance of impartiality in 2017, he admitted he had voted Remain in the June 2016 referendum. Earlier this month, he then dropped any pretence of neutrality entirely and said — shortly after vacating his role — he thought the vote to leave the EU was “the biggest foreign policy mistake in the post-war period”.

 

The former speaker reiterated that assessment during his interview with Italian media, and added that the UK leaving the EU is not a certainty, saying: “No, I don’t think it’s inevitable.”

 

Conceding that he thinks Brexit “probably will happen” he, however, said: “Is it possible there could be another referendum? Yes, it is possible. It may not look that likely at the moment… if you ask me what I think about that, I think there is a compelling case for the public to be asked to give their final verdict.”

 

“I don’t see how having more democracy can be undemocratic,” he added.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/11/29/former-speaker-admits-he-facilitated-stopping-clean-break-brexit/

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 10:03 a.m. No.7394585   🗄️.is 🔗kun

“Mind-reading” neurons allow us to simulate the thought process of another person

 

Humans pick up much of what they know by observing other people doing it. This observational learning approach relies on “mind-reading” brain cells that simulate whatever is going on in the mind of the person performing the task.

 

A University of Cambridge research team found the specialized neurons in the amygdala of the brain of monkeys. The brain cells reproduced the thought process of a member of the social group that a monkey had previously observed while performing a task.

 

Understanding the functions of these mind-reading neurons may help researchers improve their grasp of the “theory of mind.” Furthermore, the brain cells may contribute to the study and treatment of patients with autism and other mental health disorders that hamper their ability to socialize with other people.

 

“Our data suggest there could be two separate decision systems in the primate amygdala, one decision system for computing your own decisions and then a separate system for computing decisions of social partners,” explained Cambridge researcher Fabian Grabenhorst. (Related: Mind over matter: How the brain says “no” to overeating.)

“Simulations” brain cells predict the actions of other people based on earlier observations

 

Studies have linked the amygdala with emotions. This part of the brain manages fear conditioning, threat stimuli, and emotion recognition.

 

In 2012, Grabenhorst’s team found “decision neurons” in the amygdala. These brain cells participated in mental processes that made choices based on rewards. They checked each option before picking the most rewarding one.

 

The Cambridge researchers decided to investigate the possible connections between decision-making and social observation. They studied rhesus macaques since the brains and social behavior of these Old World monkeys bore considerable resemblance to those of humans.

 

Their experiment placed two monkeys on opposite sides with a horizontal touchscreen dividing them. The screen displayed vivid abstract images, and each picture had a different chance of rewarding the animals with their favorite juice treat.

 

Each monkey got its own set of images. The pair took turns in choosing the pictures.

 

“The monkeys had to learn by trial and error which picture would give them more reward over time,” explained Grabenhorst. “They could observe each other, and they could observe each other’s choices and learn from each other’s choices.”

 

A microelectrode registered the electrical activity of neurons in the amygdala of one of the monkeys. It tracked the neural activity of the animal during the times that it picked the picture. The sensor also observed the periods when the monkey watched what its partner selected.

 

https://governmentslaves.news/2019/11/28/mind-reading-neurons-allow-us-to-simulate-the-thought-process-of-another-person/

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 10:03 a.m. No.7394591   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4614 >>4757 >>4789 >>4930 >>5050 >>5153 >>5278

Bath House Barry Ordered His Puppets To Wire Tap Trump. His Puppets used Allied Intelligence Agencies To Carry It Out. THEY ALL CLEANED HOUSE!

 

Why they all cleaning house?

 

The Five Eyes is an anglophone intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are parties to the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

 

USA

National intelligence chief Clapper resigns

www.politico.com/story/2016/11/national-intelligence-chief-clapper-resigns-231547

 

UK

GCHQ chief Robert Hannigan quits

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/23/gchq-chief-robert-hannigan-quits

 

New Zealand

Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security resigns

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12252865

 

Canada

Canada: arrest of ex-head of intelligence shocks experts and alarms allies

www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/16/concern-mounts-after-canadas-ex-head-of-intelligence-accused-of-leaking

 

Australia

Australian cyber security chief announces resignation ahead of poll

www.defenceconnect.com.au/intel-cyber/3993-australian-cyber-security-chief-resigns

 

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/bath-house-barry-ordered-his-puppets-to-wire-tap-trump-his-puppets-used-allied-intelligence-agencies-to-carry-it-out-they-all-cleaned-house/

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 10:06 a.m. No.7394598   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Top Mexican Border State Cop Spiked Probes into Prison Corruption

 

MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon – Although the top law enforcement official in the state boasted about probes into prison corruption, an exclusive Breitbart Texas investigation revealed that most of those incidents were little more than media stunts since no evidence was actually turned over to prosecutors.

 

Soon after taking office in late 2018 as the public security secretary for Nuevo Leon, Aldo Fasci Zuazua claimed he had evidence about widespread corruption inside the state prison in Cadereyta. A series of subsequent raids in the facility revealed a working drug lab. Fasci then publicly claimed he ordered the investigation, firing, and prosecution of 80 guards and employees, Milenio reported at the time, adding that all evidence was then handed over to prosecutors.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/11/29/exclusive-top-mexican-border-state-cop-spiked-probes-into-prison-corruption/

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 10:08 a.m. No.7394604   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4789 >>4930 >>5153 >>5278

Labour Party anti-racism group: Why no one mentioning pro-Israel lobby and Zionist definition of anti-Semitism in 2019 election campaign?

 

he campaign group Labour Against Zionist Islamophobic Racism (LAZIR) considers the recent attack by Britain’s Chief Rabbi on Labour to be part of an ongoing campaign to prevent a Jeremy Corbyn-led government being elected that would criticise Israel for its treatment of the Palestinians.

 

It notes that Labour has been haemorrhaging Jewish support since before Corbyn became leader. It began with his (Jewish) predecessor, Ed Milliband, when he condemned Israel’s August 2014 invasion of Gaza, which killed 2,200 Gazans and wounded over 10,000 more. Israeli-supporting Jews were furious that Labour described this action as “wrong and unjustifiable”. Previously, wealthy Jewish donors had supported Blair and Brown for their pro-Israel stance – and now they were pulling their money out from Labour because it dared to criticise their colony.

 

LAZIR also notes that Corbyn was clearly identified as a target by Israel in the 2017 documentary The Lobby, which investigated the influence of the Israel lobby in the UK. It exposed the strong links between the Israeli embassy and the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM), which became active in 2015 in response to, as its chair said, “the rise of Jeremy Corbyn”. Here was evidence that the JLM was acting as little more than a front for the Israeli embassy and that the mission it set itself was to weaken Corbyn in the hope of removing him from the leadership. The communications watchdog Ofcom rejected complaints that the documentary series was anti-Semitic or had breached impartiality rules. (The JLM was formerly the pioneering Paole Zion, which had participated in the ethnic cleaning of over 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland in Palestine.)

 

This wholesale attack on our human right to freedom of expression was orchestrated by Zionists in the UK. On this basis, anyone who states that Israel is a racist endeavour can be labelled anti-Semitic.

 

https://www.redressonline.com/2019/11/labour-party-anti-racism-group-why-no-one-mentioning-pro-israel-lobby-and-zionist-definition-of-anti-semitism-in-2019-election-campaign/

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 10:13 a.m. No.7394620   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4655

>>7394607

 

Anons

 

Here are my digs, news, indictments, resignations etc…from 7 August to 17 November

 

All sauced

 

Feel free to dig and post whatever you need.

 

This fills the downtime timeline

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 10:13 a.m. No.7394627   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Israel creates more fake rocket attacks for an excuse to slaughter Palestinian babies from the air.

 

For the hundredth time Palestinians do not have heavy medium-range rockets nor the technicians or a way to smuggle in 5 ton, 20 foot long rockets which do not dissemble. They require semi-truck sized launchers how did they get those through the Gaza tunnels? Gaza is the most heavily blockaded, air surveillance patch of land on Earth. It’s just more Israeli lies for an excuse to slaughter Palestinian babies mercilessly from the air.

 

From Reuters in another incident in 2014:

 

Israel has been hazy in public about how the 5.5 meter-long (18-foot) M302s might have entered Gaza. The coastal enclave is under heavy Israeli surveillance, and Cairo has clamped down on the Egypt-Gaza frontier and the smuggling tunnels there….“You look at those things and it’s obvious they couldn’t have been slipped into Gaza,” the official said, adding that the M302s were not designed to be disassembled for easier smuggling.

 

And from “Defense Prize winner Moti Shefer: Iron Dome is a bluff”:

 

Iron Dome is a sound and light show that is intercepting only Israeli public opinion, and itself, of course. Actually, all the explosions you see in the sky are self explosions. No Iron Dome missile has ever collided with a single rocket.

 

And here’s the BIGGEST lol, from the OP article Israel strikes Gaza in response to rocket fire: army:

 

[Israel] said a weapons manufacturing site and underground infrastructure were among the sites targeted.

 

So Israel knew where they had a rocket factory all along and just let it sit until the Palestinians launched some rockets? They wouldn’t have taken it out a long time ago? Just LOL!

 

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/israel-creates-more-fake-rocket-attacks-for-an-excuse-to-slaughter-palestinian-babies-from-the-air/

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 10:14 a.m. No.7394634   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Haiti: Security Alert- ongoing protest in front of the U.S. Embassy. The police have deployed tear gas

 

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/haiti-security-alert-ongoing-protest-in-front-of-the-u-s-embassy-the-police-have-deployed-tear-gas/

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 10:16 a.m. No.7394642   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4665

G Maxwell Case 18-2868, Document 287, 08/09/2019, 2628251, Page1 of 76https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6250270/Sweet-Opinion-Unsealed.pdfhttps://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6250478-Giuffre-Exhibits.htmlhttps://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Giuffre-unseal.pdf

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 10:21 a.m. No.7394668   🗄️.is 🔗kun

The transatlantic anti-Semitism smear campaign

 

Here we are, with another General Election and another seemingly coordinated round of allegations to smear Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party. Labour has found it almost impossible during this election campaign to actually talk about its policies. Every time it launches a new one, the journalists just want to talk about the spectre of anti-Semitism.

 

This is despite the lack of evidence that anti-Semitism is any more of a problem in the Labour Party than in any other sector of British society. In fact, all available polling and statistical data shows quite the opposite.

 

The claims that there is a particular “problem” of anti-Semitism, or a “crisis”, in the party are a complete and utter fabrication. For the past four and a half years, these claims have all been driven along by the same political forces: the dying right-wing of the Labour Party, the British establishment in general and the pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian lobby.

 

By now, sadly, even parts of the left have gone along with and conceded to these smears, with people like Jon Lansman fretting about the supposed “problem” that they claim needs to be “rooted out”, condemned and apologised for. While denying that he sees himself as a “left Zionist”, Lansman is clearly a defender of Zionism and Zionist organisations such as the Jewish Labour Movement. Tellingly, in his denial to me, Lansman didn’t deny seeing himself as a Zionist, only as a “left Zionist”.

 

However, the problem is worse than that. Even Corbyn himself has given into these smears, constantly apologising for and condemning anti-Semitism, even when he has done nothing wrong. This has been his approach all along, especially since the smear campaign against him really took off in the spring of 2016. At that time, Corbyn condemned Ken Livingstone – who was being viciously attacked by the press and the Labour right at the time – and allowed the party bureaucracy to suspend the former Mayor of London, a giant of Labour’s genuinely anti-racist left.

 

Nothing Livingstone said was anti-Semitic, but ever since that early mistake was made, it has been the same pattern of capitulation all along by Corbyn and Labour. So far, there has been no coming back from it, and it may well be too late now. This smear campaign could well cost Labour the election.

 

Today the campaign is transatlantic. The US and Canada are also in the grip of the “left-wing anti-Semitism” spectre. It hasn’t reached the same national proportions yet in the US, but if Corbyn is defeated in this election, you can expect “Labour anti-Semitism” to cross the ocean and become “Democrat anti-Semitism” in swift order just in time for the presidential campaign next year.

 

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20191129-the-transatlantic-anti-semitism-smear-campaign/

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 10:23 a.m. No.7394674   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Secret Societies Revisited

 

As many of my readers know, I wrote a book called The Secret Behind Secret Societies (included as a bonus in Exit From The Matrix and Power Outside The Matrix). This article adds a few pieces to the puzzle.

 

Bilderberg Group, CFR, Trilateral Commission—I called these and other such groups Architects of Reality. Among their actions, they try to build our perception of the world.

 

What is that perception? It’s an endless string of crises and half-hearted resolutions—that’s how we’re supposed to see things. We’re not supposed to see what actually works about the world.

 

Because what works is freedom and everything that flows from that.

 

In other words, secret societies are trying to bury the idea of freedom under an ongoing process of manufacturing desperate situations that can only be dealt with by large organizations—governments and so-called public interest groups.

 

“THE GROUP WILL SOLVE EVERYTHING.”

 

“THE INDIVIDUAL IS TOO WEAK.”

 

“FREEDOM OF THE INDIVIDUAL IS PASSE, BECAUSE ONLY LARGE GROUPS CAN INFLUENCE THE COURSE OF EVENTS.”

 

With an estimated 40-60 million people in the US taking tranquilizers every year, it appears this program is working. One chronic user frankly told me, “I can’t deal with reality anymore. Unless it’s a chemical reality.”

 

Over the years, I’ve spoken with a number of teachers in the US. They tell me the areas variously known as Civics, Social Studies, and Government no longer place emphasis on the individual or individual freedom. Instead, it’s all about “group rights” and “victims.”

 

So again, the agenda of burying freedom is working.

 

In 1776, the Illuminati was announced as an operating society in Europe. The most important political tenet of this group was the abolition of private property—and that principle can be historically traced all the way down to the formation of the USSR. And beyond. These days, private property is under attack, albeit in a “softer” manner. It, too, is a concept no longer given emphasis in our schools—and when you de-link private property from the individual, you are attacking a significant aspect of what freedom translates into, in everyday life.

 

An American Studies professor at a prominent Northeastern university told me, off the record, because he was afraid he might lose his job if he went public, “Political and economic crises are being manufactured all the time. It’s basically psychological warfare, because one feels these endless crises can’t be solved. People just give up. And when they do, who do they turn to? Government. Government will handle things. That’s a sign that freedom is no longer a priority. It’s going into the dustbin of history.”

 

He was suggesting that, in wider and wider circles, freedom is no longer considered a solution to any serious problem. And since we seem to be awash in a sea of problems, freedom goes on the shelf.

 

As I’ve been writing for years, creative power of the individual is the prow of the ship of our society. Great innovators are the people who keep us moving into the future. Well, if the legs are being cut out from under freedom, we will be seeing fewer and fewer of these innovators. As has been pointed out, we will be “naturally selecting” away from those people and toward groups.

 

This is no accident. This is an agenda. To say the loss of freedom is simply a trend overlooks the keynote of coming global government and management—it is groups, not individuals, who have access to larger and larger structures that run our affairs.

 

One small example: 90 years ago, the rise of labor unions was achieved through legislation passed by the federal government. In other words, government would protect the right of employees to organize and bargain with management. But now we have public unions—government employees who bargain with “themselves.” It’s an absurdity. The real purpose is to expand the size of government by making its jobs more attractive and intractable.

 

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/11/secret-societies-revisited.html

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 10:26 a.m. No.7394688   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4789 >>4930 >>5153 >>5278

ICE arrests child sexual predator released twice by local law enforcement, despite ICE detainer

 

PHILADELPHIA — Nov. 27, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested unlawfully present Guatemalan national for sexual abuse against children after he was released from police custody. This was the second time Philadelphia Police Department released this sexual predator onto the streets, despite an ICE detainer lodged against him in both cases.

 

Hector Moran-Espinoza was arrested April 2, by the Philadelphia Police Department for involuntary deviate sexual intercourse by forcible compulsion, unlawful contact with a minor-sexual offenses, statuary sexual assault, endangering the welfare of children-parent or guardian commits offense, corruption of minors, indecent assault-without the consent of other person, reckless endangerment of another person, rape by forceable compulsion, sexual abuse of children-photographing, videotaping, depicting on a computer or filming sexual acts, and aggravated indecent assault without consent.

 

May 9, Moran was again arrested by the Philadelphia Police Department for unlawful contact with a minor-sexual offenses, corruption of minors, indecent assault of a person under 13 years of age, reckless endangerment of another person, and endangering the welfare of a child-parent or guardian commits offense.

 

In both cases, ICE’s Philadelphia Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) lodged an immigration detainer on Moran the same day of the arrest, and each time Philadelphia Police Department did not honor this detainer and released this predator onto the streets.

“We are seeing politicians put their political agendas above the safety of the citizens they serve,” said ICE Philadelphia Field Office Director Simona Flores-Lund. “The victims in this case are young children, whose lives are now forever changed. This monster was released not once, but twice, without notifying ICE. We are committed to strengthening our relationship with local law enforcement, as we want nothing more than to keep our communities safe.”

 

By releasing a criminal with multiple offenses, the Philadelphia Police Department is putting their city at risk by letting this individual roam free to potentially harm the most vulnerable, our children.

About Detainers

 

Under federal law, ICE has the authority to lodge immigration detainers with law enforcement partners who have custody of individuals arrested on criminal charges and who ICE has probable cause to believe are removable aliens. The detainer form asks the other law enforcement agency to notify ICE in advance of release and to maintain custody of the alien for a brief period of time so that ICE can take custody of that person in a safe and secure setting upon release from that agency’s custody. Yet, across the United States, several jurisdictions refuse to honor detainers and instead choose to willingly release criminal offenders back into their local communities where they are free to offend.

 

When law enforcement agencies fail to honor immigration detainers and release a criminal alien onto the streets, it negatively impacts public safety.

Sanctuary Policies Put Public Safety at Risk

 

Sanctuary policies leave ICE with no choice but to increase enforcement in neighborhoods and workplaces to locate and arrest these persons while they are at-large – increasing the likelihood that other individuals previously not targeted for arrest will be taken into ICE custody.

It is safer for everyone if ICE takes custody of an alien in the controlled environment of another law enforcement agency as opposed to visiting an alien’s residence, place of work, or other public area. Arresting a criminal in the safety, security, and privacy of a jail is always the best option.

When law enforcement agencies don’t honor ICE detainers, these individuals, who often have significant criminal histories, are released onto the street, presenting a potential public safety threat.

 

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-child-sexual-predator-released-twice-local-law-enforcement-despite-ice

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 10:29 a.m. No.7394704   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4789 >>4930 >>5153 >>5278

The Secret War in Africa (Part 2)

 

The major powers have their ‘client states’ in pursuance of the extraction of those resources, where that extraction may result in corruption, confrontation, armed aggression, and even support for terrorist organizations in those states.

 

The Secret War in Africa (part 1) covered the overall strategic predominance of US military/ NATO bases – some secret – in Africa, and the expansion by private military contractors (PMC) there in aid of corporate and national interests according to the major powers.

 

In Part 2 we examine the geopolitical associations in Africa which vary by nation, where major powers have a vested interest in a particular resource causing that major power to assume an aggressive posture to ‘protect’ its national interest by dominating or subverting the African state, in possession of that resource.

 

Typically those resources include natural gas, oil, gold, diamonds, silver, uranium, coal, rare earth elements and minerals, etc. Thus the major powers have their ‘client states’ in pursuance of the extraction of those resources, where that extraction may result in corruption, confrontation, armed aggression, and even support for terrorist organizations in those states.

 

In this post-Colonial era the extraction of resources by the major powers in a region where the indigenous people are exhorted to have their own right to self-determination is a significant challenge to global corporations, and former colonial occupiers in Africa like Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, etc.

 

When corporate interests either collide or collude with state interests the local insurrection may be severe as mining giant Rio Tinto discovered in Bougainville. Other examples include coal and natural gas in Mozambique; uranium and gold in Niger and Mali; oil in Sudan; diamonds in the Central African Republic, and so on.

 

France in Africa

 

Perhaps the most notable component for NATO – specifically for France – is the uranium needed to run its nuclear operations. Most of that uranium originates in Africa even though France has reduced its capacity for nuclear power. Even so, France still receives in excess of two-thirds of its electricity from nuclear power via the former Areva Corporation, now called Framatome.

 

The uranium mined for Framatome’s nuclear reactors is commonly found in the Sahel region of Africa where most of France’s uranium comes from, primarily northern Niger and Mali. Chad** and Mauritania also possess enormous reserves of the dangerous material. Mali is the fourth-largest supplier of gold too, and with falling registered gold reserves and the already accomplished confiscation of gold by the west from its failed states Mali makes an especially attractive target… particularly for the EU’s struggling banks.

 

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https://theduran.com/the-secret-war-in-africa-part-2/

 

Part 1

https://theduran.com/the-secret-war-in-africa/

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 10:34 a.m. No.7394725   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4789 >>4930 >>5153 >>5278

Barack Obama Started the 'Fake University' ICE Sting Liberals Are so Outraged About

 

It didn't take long for snowflakes on the left to express their outrage over the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency's "fake university" sting operation which saw 90 students arrested this past week for immigration violations. Like clockwork, liberals took to Twitter in order to condemn the sting operation and the man they thought was responsible for it, Donald Trump.

 

Except it wasn't Trump who started the sting operation. It started in 2015—under Barack Obama.

 

Seven Facts About Obama’s Immigration Record Liberals Refuse to Admit

 

2020 Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, an alumnus of the Obama administration, called it "cruel and appalling." She added, "These students simply dreamed of getting the high-quality higher education America can offer. ICE deceived and entrapped them, just to deport them."

 

Newsday columnist Dan Janison lamented, "Once again the private sector shows the way. Trump’s experience setting up fake universities has been adapted for government use." He was quickly ratioed by Twitter users eager to point out to him when the sting operation was created.

 

Jamil Smith, a "journalist" at Rolling Stone, tweeted, “Leave it to the Trump administration to use a fake university—this time, to trick immigrants into forking over cash for fake classes and invalidating their legal visas in the process. They ended up arrested by ICE. How is this anything but entrapment?" He's not acknowledged the fact it started under Obama despite nearly a full day of being corrected.

 

There are endless tweets from liberals outraged at Trump, accusing him and the sting of being heartless, racist, etc. etc. And there's a deafening silence to the revelation that it started under Barack Obama, their left-wing messiah.

 

Will the left acknowledge their error? Probably not. Joe Biden still claims that he and Obama never locked kids up in cages when, in fact, they did. Most people on the left conveniently ignore inconvenient facts about Obama's immigration record because they'd much rather believe that Trump is solely responsible for things they consider racist and appalling.

 

https://pjmedia.com/trending/barack-obama-started-the-fake-university-ice-sting-liberals-are-so-outraged-about/

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 10:37 a.m. No.7394746   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4771 >>4789 >>4930 >>5153 >>5278

Documents Leaked to Frank Report Concerning Disappearance of Kristin Snyder!

 

It always happens.

 

Once we start writing about a matter we are investigating, sources, usually wishing to remain anonymous [but known to me], come out of the woodwork.

 

In the last few days, I have received more than 100 pages of documents concerning Kristin Marie Snyder, who was last seen Feb. 6, 2003 and is listed by the State of Alaska as a presumptive suicide.

 

The documents include much of the file from Nxivm itself on Kristin Snyder. It also includes the class list for her two intensives.

 

A diary of one of her classmates, long lost and forgotten for 17 years, gives us another fascinating insight.

 

And from another source, I was able to obtain phone records of Snyder’s and credit card statements.

 

Among the sources, one is the last person known to have seen Kristin alive, who confirms that Kristin was definitely saying she was pregnant and that, my friends, is a motive for her disappearance.

 

Whether of not Nxivm acted on that motive, the trove of documents may help us get closer to understanding.

 

Frank Report is scanning documents now and reviewing them. I expect we will publish most or all of them in the next few days, with our first ‘Data Dump’ anticipated tomorrow.

 

More

https://frankreport.com/2019/11/27/shocking-and-explosive-trove-of-documents-leaked-to-frank-report-concerning-disappearance-of-kristin-snyder/

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 10:39 a.m. No.7394756   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Top Neocon Says Tucker Carlson is Loyal to Moscow, the 'Capital of the White Race'

 

As I mentioned yesterday, a lot of the current push for World War III is coming from media types who are getting themselves all worked up over their feelings that the World Is Already At War between the Moscow-Tehran-Fox News Axis of Evil and the Beltway-Jerusalem-Kiev Alliance of Niceness. For example, just now:

 

But really, if David could just come visit the Ethnic Foods aisle in my dad’s old Jon’s Supermarket in Valley Village, CA, he could see how all sorts of people who are some fraction of both sides in this conflict inside David’s head. Yet, they all seem to get along well enough. So we really don’t need to get into a tank war on the Eastern Fro

 

https://russia-insider.com/en/top-neocon-says-tucker-carlson-loyal-moscow-capital-white-race/ri27940

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 10:41 a.m. No.7394772   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Swamp Creature Unmasked: Anonymous Author who Attacked Trump in Op-ed FOUND! His Identity is SHOCKING!

 

If a guy answers a direct yes or no question with ‘I have no comment at this time’ then you can be fairly sure of the answer.

 

People who are not the author of a book attacking Donald Trump, for instance, would simply say “no”, would they not?

 

It looks like yet another swamp creature has been exposed.

 

Well, well, well… Another swamp creature has identified himself and his name is Guy Snodgrass.

Here’s more from The Daiy Wire:

 

A new article from The New Republic suggests that former Pentagon aide Guy Snodgrass, who wrote speeches for Defense Secretary James Mattis, may have been the anonymous author of the infamous New York Times op-ed attacking President Donald Trump and the author of the new book “A Warning.”

 

David Kusnet, a former speech writer for former President Bill Clinton, wrote at The New Republic:

 

Reading Snodgrass’s Pentagon memoir, Holding the Line, makes the clues to Anonymous’s identity apparent. As in A Warning, the sentences and paragraphs are pithy and punchy. Every chapter in both books begins with an inspiring but not cliché quotation from a historic figure. Many passages in the books are remarkably similar: the ordeal of conducting a Pentagon briefing for Trump; national security staffers exchanging appalled asides about Trump’s conduct of foreign policy via Twitter; and the arguments for why American alliances strengthen national security and why immigration policy shouldn’t be based on building a border wall. In particular, both books stress that, when briefed about international alliances, Trump derails discussions by griping about how allies are stiffing the U.S., from allegedly miserly NATO contributions to ostensibly one-sided trade policies.

 

Fox News’ Trace Gallagher pressed Snodgrass about the matter during an interview on the network, noting that Snodgrass tweeted out a link to The New Republic and wrote: “The swirl continues…”

 

“If you look at the article, the author, David Kusnet, pretty much hits all the high points, I mean he makes a very good case,” Gallagher said. “The question is, are you anonymous?”

 

“Great question, as you mentioned, I have a book out right now with my name on it called ‘Holding The Line,’ Snodgrass said. “I do appreciate that The New Republic said the writing was excellent across both books, but if I was going to make an announcement like that I would come into the studio with you in New York City.”

 

“So you are not denying that you are Anonymous,” Gallagher pressed.

 

“I just heard this reporting as I was coming over to the studio, I got invited on to talk about national security,” Snodgrass replied. “There is a lot to talk about there.”

 

“Why not just deny it outright? You said you just heard about it on your way to the studio but you sent out the tweet today not really denying it,” Gallagher continued.

 

“It’s the latest in a long series of D.C. parlor games, not unique to this point in time, it’s been going on for decades,” Snodgrass responded.

 

https://www.dcclothesline.com/2019/11/29/swamp-creature-unmasked-anonymous-author-who-attacked-trump-in-op-ed-found-his-identity-is-shocking/

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 10:43 a.m. No.7394783   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Was Victoria’s Secret Show Cancelled Because of Jeffrey Epstein’s Links With Its Boss?

 

Clothing mogul Leslie Wexner’s company has in recent years faced both financial struggles and criticism for objectifying women. On top of this, the 82-year-old mogul has landed in hot water over an “unholy alliance” with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who allegedly lured young women by promising a modelling career with the famous brand.

 

The scandal over the connections between disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and the owner of Victoria’s Secret’s parent company L Brands, Leslie Wexner, “had to contribute to the cancellation of the show”, John Connolly, the author of a bestseller about the high-profile paedophile, told The Sun.

 

“If these allegations are true, there was an unholy alliance between Epstein and Wexner. L Brands has faced financial problems for a few years, but the bad press about Wexner’s connections to Epstein had to contribute to the cancellation of the show”, the writer, whose book is titled Filthy Rich, suggested.

 

No More Angels?

 

The clothing giant, best known for its lingerie, announced last week that it would not hold its signature show featuring star models for the first time in 25 years.

 

"We're figuring out how to advance the positioning of the brand and best communicate that to customers", L Brands’ Chief Financial Officer Stuart Burgdoerfer explained, adding that the show was "an important aspect of the brand and a remarkable marketing achievement".

 

The statement comes after L Brands recently reported a net loss of $252mln in third-quarter results. At the same time, the lingerie brand is facing several controversies, including the possible cancellation of the Angels - its most elite group of contracted models, which has included Tyra Banks, Heidi Klum, and Miranda Kerr.

How Far Do Their ‘Connections’ Go?

 

This came against the backdrop of a controversy surrounding Wexner’s work with Jeffrey Epstein. Shortly after the convicted paedophile was arrested for the second time this summer, the mogul hurried to make a statement to members of the Wexner Foundation, alleging that the financier had misappropriated his funds. This was discovered after the L Brands CEO decided to cut ties with Epstein in 2007. However, the mogul managed to recover $46 million, as Epstein reportedly transferred equivalent investments to a Wexner charitable fund in January 2008.

 

Before that, reports revealed that the financier could have used his close ties to Wexner, the owner of a $4.6 billion fortune, to try to get access to younger women. Epstein posed as a Victoria’s Secret talent scout to try and “manhandle” a California model by luring her to a Santa Monica hotel room, according to a police report reviewed by The New York Times.

 

The model, Alicia Arden, told the NYT about the 1997 encounter, one of the earliest documented allegations against Epstein. Arden visited Epstein in his Santa Monica hotel room, expecting to discuss appearing in a Victoria’s Secret catalogue, when the attack allegedly happened. The incident came less than a year after a similar reported sexual misconduct claim, filed by Maria Farmer, who was working on an art project for Epstein in Leslie H. Wexner’s Ohio mansion.

 

https://sputniknews.com/us/201911291077438947-victorias-secret-show-jeffrey-epstein-links/

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 10:51 a.m. No.7394809   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4818 >>4930 >>5153 >>5278

Exposed: Bellingcat fabricate evidence, deliberately hide documents in new ‘Russian spy plot’

 

The UK group caught manipulating data in order to slander actual investigative journalism

 

Bellingcat, an online investigation organization headed by Eliot Higgins, has deliberately and with malicious intent manipulated evidence by hiding crucially important documents in order to slander me as a journalist and misrepresent my investigation, 350 flights carry weapons for terrorists, as “intentionally incorrect”.

 

On 23 November 2019 the group published an article entitled, “The Dreadful Eight: GRU’s Unit 29155 and the 2015 Poisoning of Emilian Gebrev”. According to Bellingcat’s Investigation Team, the Bulgarian arms dealer Emilian Gebrev, owner of Emco Ltd., Bulgaria, was poisoned by GRU agents in 2015 ( a claim which so far is based only on the Gebrev’s words). Bellingcat ignores the statement of the Bulgarian Attorney General and all Bulgarian institutions that there is no evidence of such poisoning taking place.

 

Bellingcat goes on further and attempts to implicate me as a journalist in a deliberate attempt to discredit Mr. Gebrev internationally as his company Emco appears in a previous investigation into Silk Way diplomatic flights carrying weapons for terrorists in Syria. My investigation was originally published on July 2, 2017 by the Bulgarian newspaper Trud Daily. My sources were diplomatic documents from the Azeri Embassy in Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry which were leaked online following a cyberattack.

 

The authenticity of the leaked documents was later confirmed by the Azeri Embassy which announced that it had been subjected to a cyber attack and urged the Bulgarian authorities to investigate. The Bulgarian National Security Agency (DANS) did launch an investigation. Three years on, no one has ever questioned the authenticity of these publicly leaked documents. Bellingcat has not questioned them either, but has used them to fabricate a false story, by deliberately hiding facts and omitting crucially important documents.

 

https://southfront.org/exposed-bellingcat-fabricate-evidence-deliberately-hide-documents-in-new-russian-spy-plot/

 

Part 1

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 10:53 a.m. No.7394818   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4830 >>4930 >>5153 >>5278

>>7394809

 

Bellingcat Lie 1: “We have reviewed correspondence between the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of Azerbaijan from April 2015 which does show that Emco’s name was fraudulently – or erroneously – included in the export request.”

 

Bellingcat claims that this is an MFA letter to the Azeri Embassy (see the document below) correcting the name of the actual export applicant initially listed as Emco. In this diplomatic note there is no such information about correction of the names of the companies. Here, Bellingcat inserts their own words into the narrative which appears to be designed to change the meaning and context of the letter in question. In fact, there is nothing in the document that even suggests what they are positing. This is an invention by Bellingcat.

 

Part 2

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 10:56 a.m. No.7394830   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4930 >>5153 >>5278

>>7394818

 

  1. The Bulgarian ministry writes that “the actual BULGARIAN exporters” have informed that they were not ready for the requested diplomatic flight on 5-6 May 2015 and they ask for later dates. The reason why this is written is that the exporter is a US Company and USSOCOM contractor – Purple Shovel (as proven by documents not shown by Bellingcat) but the subcontractor is a Bulgarian company which actually exported the weapons.

 

Bellingcat Lie 3: “it is beyond doubt that during 2015, 2016 and 2017 there were attempts to discredit Emco internationally, including through an English-language article in a Bulgarian newspaper that used the false export license application to implicate Emco in arms exports to ISIS-linked militants.”

 

The documents which Bellingcat deliberately does not publish prove that the export license application was not false, meaning that I have not intentionally discredited Emco as I have shown a genuine document from the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan.

 

Bellingcat Lie 4: “The journalist who authored the article incorrectly implicating Emco cited documents allegedly leaked to it from a little-known organization calling itself “Anonymous Bulgaria”.

 

Again, Emco was not incorrectly implicated, as proven by the documents above.

 

Bellingcat Lie 5: “After being dismissed from the Bulgarian newspaper over the incorrect reporting, the journalist launched an English-language website called Armswatch.com”

 

I was not dismissed by Trud Daily over “the incorrect reporting”. I was dismissed the same day after I was interrogated by the Bulgarian National Security Agency about my source of the leaked information and a week before my planned assignment in Syria where I should have continued my investigation into illicit arms trafficking on the ground. My firing prevented me from pursuing one of the biggest state-sponsored international arms trafficking operations seen to date. Trud Daily did not provide an explanation about their decision to terminate my contract. However, they gave a statement that they did stand behind this investigation. This is further evidenced by the fact that 3 years later my investigation has not been redacted or retracted and is still accessible on the Trud Daily’s website.

 

Suffice to say, the only incorrect reporting on display here comes from Bellingcat.

 

Bellingcat Lie 6: “Armswatch.com publishes information and unverifiable claims”

 

Arms Watch is a media organisation which investigates war crimes and arms trafficking. Two months ago I published a series of investigations based on leaked documents from the Serbian arms factory Krusik. The information was verified as genuine as the whistleblower Alexander Obradovich who leaked these documents was arrested and charged with disclosing trade secrets. No body has so far questioned the authenticity of this leaked information.

 

Based on the above evidence of a deliberate smear campaign by Bellingcat (defamation, slander and data manipulation in order to damage my reputation) I demand that:

 

Part 3

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 11 a.m. No.7394843   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4930 >>5153 >>5201 >>5278

Bolivia’s Coup Government On the Hunt for Dissidents

 

Bolivia’s coup government and it’s Self-Proclaimed Interim President Jeanine Anez appear to be rapidly turning into a military dictatorship.

 

The situation is so dire, that even MSM outlets such as the Guardian are reporting this. It should be reminded that there were protests in front of the Guardian’s HQ in London, demonstrating against its bias in reporting on the situation in the country.

 

And the signs of the dictatorship are all there, the authorities are carrying out heavy suppression and are resorting to violence simply to stop those protesting in support of “former” President Evo Morales.

 

On November 15th, military personnel and police opened fire on protesters in Cochabamba, killing eight and wounded dozens. On the next day, Self-Proclaimed Interim President Jeanine Anez issued a decree exempting all of those involved in the crackdown from criminal responsibility because they were simply taking part in a “restoration of order and public stability.”

 

To protest the coup government, indigenous people blocked the Senkata hydrocarbon plant in El Alto, security forces dispersed them, killing eight more and injuring dozens more. In addition, two more died in hospital as a result of their gunshot wounds.

 

Two days after the crackdown on the Senkata plant blockade, security forces dispersed a peaceful funeral procession with tear gas and rubber bullets. Nobody was killed, but people were forced to put the coffins of those killed by security forces on the ground.

 

Officially, the death toll since the protests began stands at approximately 30 and upwards of 700 injured. “Surprisingly,” both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International are completely silent regarding victim counts and the suppression that’s taking place in Bolivia. When it came to, Iran for example, they were quite vocal, publicizing numbers that were backed up by arbitrary evidence.

 

Currently, the military junta in Bolivia is close to consolidating power and according to most recent reports is rounding up the last remaining dissidents – “harassing, disappearing, or killing them.”

 

https://southfront.org/bolivias-coup-government-on-the-hunt-for-dissidents/

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 11:02 a.m. No.7394854   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4875 >>4882 >>4919 >>4930 >>5153 >>5278

US Vows to ‘Reinforce’ Sanctions, Accuses Venezuela and Cuba of Stirring Regional ‘Strife’

 

Elliott Abrams reiterated support for Guaido and denied that sanctions are damaging the Venezuelan economy.

 

The Trump administration has pledged to continue economic sanctions against Venezuela in its ongoing bid to oust the Maduro government.

 

Speaking at a press conference at the State Department Wednesday, Special Envoy for Venezuela Elliott Abrams defended US regime change policy, which he said would “continue.”

 

“There’s no change… What is next is, I would say, a continuation of the current policy,” he said in response to questions about the status of US efforts more than ten months after recognizing opposition politician Juan Guaido as “interim president” of Venezuela.

 

Guaido proclaimed himself head of state in January and has gone on to lead several unsuccessful efforts to topple Maduro, including a failed military putsch in April.

 

Trump immediately backed Guaido’s “interim presidency,” handing the Venezuela file to Abrams, a veteran cold warrior infamous for his role in the Iran/Contra scandal, the Reagan administration’s Central America policy, and the Iraq War.

 

Asked about the efficacy of US sanctions, Abrams assured reporters that the measures are cutting off vital funds for the Venezuelan government. However, he acknowledged that he “would like to see, obviously, the sanctions work better,” adding that “there are plans to reinforce the effort.” He did not offer further details.

 

“The gravy train days that they had 10 years ago are over,” he announced, referring to the period when Venezuela had the highest minimum wage in Latin America and among the lowest levels of inequality.

 

Abrams went on to deny that US sanctions are negatively impacting Venezuela’s economy, citing a paper authored by former Guaido Inter-American Development Bank envoy Ricardo Hausmann claiming, “the bulk of the deterioration of living standards occurred long before sanctions were enacted in 2017.” Hausmann was a key architect of neoliberal policies in Venezuela in the 1980s and 1990s and has been a longtime government opponent.

 

The conclusions of Hausmann’s study have been disputed by the DC-based Center for Economic and Policy Research, which published its own report in April finding sanctions responsible for at least 40,000 deaths since 2017. The study likewise claims that sanctions amount to “collective punishment,” blocking any possibility of economic recovery in the Caribbean nation.

 

Washington has dramatically ramped up its sanctions regime since January, imposing an oil embargo which has since been escalated to a sweeping banon dealings with Caracas under threat of secondary sanctions.

 

Abrams likewise rebuffed reporters’ concerns about Guaido’s “lack of momentum,” suggesting that “hundreds of thousands… went to the streets on November 16.” The claim was scrutinized by journalists who pointed out that viral video footage purported to be from the protests was in fact taken in January.

 

Questioned repeatedly about allegations of the Maduro government “intervening” in regional protests, the White House envoy accused Caracas and Havana of acting to “promote more strife everywhere.”

 

“There is evidence beginning to build of an effort by the regimes in Cuba and Venezuela to exacerbate problems in South America,” he added.

 

In recent weeks, the region has been rocked by massive anti-neoliberal protests that have shaken right-wing governments in Ecuador, Haiti, Chile, and Colombia. Government spokespeople have frequently attributed the uprisings to “meddling” by Caracas, while the Organization of American States has branded them a “destabilization strategy” by the “Bolivarian and Cuban dictatorships.”

 

https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-vows-reinforce-sanctions-accuses-venezuela-cuba-stirring-regional-strife/5696301

Anonymous ID: 5c6113 Nov. 29, 2019, 11:18 a.m. No.7394932   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4941 >>5153 >>5278

Henry Kissinger Gets It… US ‘Exceptionalism’ Is Over

 

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger made prudent remarks recently when he said the United States is no longer a uni-power and that it must recognize the reality of China as an equal rival.

 

The furor over a new law passed by the US this week regarding Hong Kong and undermining Beijing’s authority underlines Kissinger’s warning.

 

If the US cannot find some modus vivendi with China, then the outcome could be a catastrophic conflict worst than any previous world war, he admonished.

 

Speaking publicly in New York on November 14, the veteran diplomat urged the US and China to resolve their ongoing economic tensions cooperatively and mutually, adding: “It is no longer possible to think that one side can dominate the other.”

 

A key remark made by Kissinger was the following: “So those countries that used to be exceptional and used to be unique, have to get used to the fact that they have a rival.”

 

In other words, he is negating the erroneous consensus held in Washington which asserts that the US is somehow “exceptional”, a “uni-power” and the “indispensable nation”. This consensus has grown since the early 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the US viewed itself as the sole super-power. That morphed into a more virulent ideology of “full-spectrum dominance”. Thence, the past three decades of unrelenting US criminal wars and regime-change operations across the planet, throwing the whole world into chaos.

 

Kissinger’s frank assessment is a breath of fresh air amid the stale and impossibly arrogant self-regard held by too many American politicians who view their nation as an unparalleled power which brooks no other.

 

The seasoned statesman, who is 96-years-old and retains an admirable acumen for international politics, ended his remarks on an optimistic note by saying: “I am confident the leaders on both sides [US and China] will realize the future of the world depends on the two sides working out solutions and managing the inevitable difficulties.”

 

Aptly, Kissinger’s caution about danger of conflict was reiterated separately by veteran journalist John Pilger, who warned in an exclusive interview for Strategic Culture Foundation this week that, presumed “American exceptionalism is driving the world to war.”

 

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/11/29/henry-kissinger-gets-it-us-exceptionalism-is-over/