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Tories call for urgent investigation into £3million that George Soros funnelled into anti-Brexit campaign aimed at bringing down Boris Johnson
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7668695/Tories-call-investigation-3million-George-Soros-funnelled-anti-Brexit-campaign.html
The billionaire financier known as 'the man who broke the Bank of England' is facing a possible investigation into nearly £3 million that his foundation channelled into a campaign aimed at bringing down Boris Johnson.
Tories have called for an urgent Electoral Commission probe into George Soros's American organisation after The Mail on Sunday discovered that it funnelled money into a campaign trying to block Brexit at the ballot box.
His New York-based Open Society Foundation sent the money to the pro-EU Best for Britain group via a London outpost, circumventing a ban on foreign donations to political organisations.
Best for Britain (BfB) has designed a website telling people how to vote tactically for Remain-backing candidates, which, if successful, would wipe out Mr Johnson's hopes of a majority.
Why all the fires WW
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Former child model says Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her when she was 16 in 2002 as she rejects his $25m group victim settlement and launches a separate lawsuit of her own
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7811545/Former-child-model-accuses-Harvey-Weinstein-sexually-assaulting-16.html
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This may look apocalyptic, but it's actually a time lapse of the snow squall coming in over the Hudson River!
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snow as in white?
Brazil spiritual healer sentenced to 19 years for four rapes
A popular Brazilian spiritual healer known as “John of God” has received his first prison sentence for sexual abuses following a deluge of allegations
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/brazil-spiritual-healer-sentenced-19-years-rapes-67831299
The faith healer gained international fame in 2010 when Oprah Winfrey visited his retreat to interview him for her talk show.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and supermodel Naomi Campbell are among those rumoured to have visited him.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6664777/Woman-arrest-John-God-takes-life.html
BRING THE RAIN
BREAKING: Rep. Ilhan Omar Named as Adulteress in Lover Tim Mynett’s Divorce Settlement
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/breaking-rep-ilhan-omar-named-as-adulteress-in-lover-tim-mynetts-divorce-settlement/
When J.F.K. Secretly Reached Out to Castro
Kennedy’s national security adviser, McGeorge Bundy, told Attwood that J.F.K. wanted to “know more about what is on Castro’s mind before committing ourselves to further talks on Cuba.” He said that as soon as Attwood and Lechuga could agree on an agenda, the president would tell him what to say to Castro; in the meantime, J.F.K. had to make a trip to Texas.
Had Kennedy survived, the Attwood back channel might conceivably have led to some improvement in the relationship between Havana and Washington, but the odds against it were formidable. By allying Cuba with the Soviet Union, Castro was in flagrant defiance of America’s Monroe Doctrine, and Kennedy was eager to stop it.
In April 1961, he had authorized an invasion of Cuba by C.I.A.-supported Cuban exiles at the Bay of Pigs. When that failed, Castro’s regime jailed more than a thousand members of the invasion brigade, who were released in December 1962 in exchange for $53 million in medical supplies and food. President Kennedy greeted the freed prisoners at the Orange Bowl in Miami. They presented him with their battle flag, which J.F.K. pledged to return to them “in a free Havana.”
Trying to recoup from the Bay of Pigs disaster, the Kennedy administration covertly unleashed Operation Mongoose, which included sabotage, paramilitary raids, guerrilla warfare and – although differences remain to this day over how much the president knew about them – efforts to assassinate Castro.
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Kennedy saw Operation Mongoose as a substitute for authorizing a full-fledged American invasion to remove Castro from power. But the Cuban leader mistakenly presumed that Mongoose was actually the prelude to such an invasion, and he asked the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, to do something to keep the Americans out. Castro’s request was one of the reasons that, in the fall of 1962, Khrushchev ordered nuclear-capable missiles sent to Cuba, which led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/upshot/when-jfk-secretly-reached-out-to-castro.html