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>>8234943, >>8234975 AIPAC blasts 'truly shameful' Bernie Sanders in blistering statement over claims of 'bigotry'

>>8235025 BBC: Having a Family with Children Supports Slavery

>>8235045 Boris Govt: Releasing Report on Ethnicity of Rape Gangs ‘Not in Public Interest’, Ministers Need ‘Safe Space’

>>8235107 Saudis Transfer Hundreds of Al-Qaeda Terrorists to Yemen

>>8235118 Trump's new intel chief makes immediate changes, ousts top official

>>8235134 James Woods These “snowflake complaints” are so ridiculous, I’m going to start posting them

>>8235246 UNESCO: Climate Denial To Be Criminalized And Prosecuted

>>8235299 Lest We Forget – Hillary Clinton: We Must Destroy Syria for Israel (EMAILS)

>>8235322 New York health officials warn over circumcision ritual after four cases of herpes in babies were linked to procedures performed by Rabbis

>>8235367 Navy and Marine Corps to Ban Personal Firearms for Foreign Troops

>>8235518 Tools to lookup non-profit compensation (DS NGOs & kid's charities)

02/24/2020

Former DEA agent and his wife indicted for alleged roles in scheme to divert drug proceeds from undercover money laundering investigations

TAMPA – A 19-count indictment was unsealed Friday against a former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) special agent and his wife for their alleged roles to divert drug proceeds from undercover money laundering investigations into bank accounts they, along with family members and criminal associates, controlled. This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Tampa, IRS-Criminal Investigation (CI), the FBI, the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General and DEA.

“The importance of this case cannot be overstated,” said HSI Tampa’s acting Special Agent in Charge Kevin Sibley. “Public trust is the cornerstone of law enforcement and anyone who violates that trust must be held accountable.”

Jose I. Irizarry, 46, and Nathalia Gomez-Irizarry (Gomez), 36, were arrested Friday morning at their residence near San Juan, Puerto Rico. Irizarry and Gomez made their first appearance in U.S. District Court in San Juan Friday and were released on bond. Their next court appearance is scheduled for Feb. 26.

The indictment alleges that while working as an agent for the DEA in Miami and Cartagena, Colombia, Irizarry engaged in an illegal scheme to divert drug proceeds from undercover money laundering investigations into bank accounts controlled by himself and Gomez, their family members, and their criminal associates. To carry out the plot, Irizarry and his criminal associates are alleged to have opened a bank account with a stolen identity and then utilized the account to secretly send and receive drug proceeds from active DEA investigations.

The indictment further alleges that Irizarry and Gomez used drug proceeds to purchase jewelry, a home and multiple luxury vehicles for themselves and their family. As alleged, Irizarry was in personal bankruptcy proceedings for nearly the duration of this criminal conduct and failed to disclose any of his illicit income to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

Irizarry is charged with conspiracy to launder monetary instruments, honest services wire fraud, bank fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, conspiracy to commit identity theft and aggravated identity theft. Gomez is charged with conspiracy to launder monetary instruments.

An indictment is merely an allegation, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

The case is being prosecuted in the Northern District of Georgia

The U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs, the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section’s Judicial Attaché’s Office, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida and District of Puerto Rico, the Colombian Attorney General’s Office (Fiscalia General de la Nacion) and the South Florida Money Laundering Strike Force at the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office provided valuable investigative assistance in this case.

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/former-dea-agent-and-his-wife-indicted-alleged-roles-scheme-divert-drug-proceeds

That Time Bernie Whined About Putin and Orban's 'Ourageous Anti-Semitic Attacks on Soros'

The various reflections of last night's debate between Democratic party primary candidates give a consistent picture.

Bloomberg lost. He had brought a wallet to a knife fight and made a generally bad impression. Even the news service that carries his name headlined: Bloomberg Hammered.

Buttigieg was again exposed as the soulless fluff he is.

Biden is frail, confused and talks too much.

Warren gets some points for hammering Bloomberg. But that is it.

Klobuchar gets points for hating Buttigieg but is otherwise too mechanic to attract votes.

Sanders ably defended his positions against attacks from all sides.

Tulsi Gabbard was unfortunately not invited.

This impression seems to be correct:

Carl Beijer @CarlBeijer - 3:01 UTC · 20 Feb 2020

Bernie Sanders is debating like a frontrunner, confidently advancing his agenda and fending off attacks.

Everyone else is frantically trying to make some kind of game-changer happen, throwing up one-liners and cutthroat attacks like Hail Marys with the clock winding down.

The Democrats will likely have a brokered convention. If there is no candidate who gets a majority in the first round, hand selected 'superdelegates' will also vote. They will select the candidate the party's paymasters want. They may even try to rerun Hillary Clinton through this backdoor.

Op-eds that argue for such sham democratic processes already get published. Even under the slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness":

https://russia-insider.com/en/time-bernie-whined-about-putin-and-orbans-ourageous-anti-semitic-attacks-soros/ri28323

SURPRISE, SURPRISE: Impeachment Witness Inks Seven-Figure Book Deal

Add Marie Yovanovitch to the long — and growing — list of Trump haters who cash in on their TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome).

The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, who was so toxic President Trump had to fire her, testified against the president at House impeachment hearings. Now, she’s getting more than a million dollars from publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, according to a New York Post report.

The book, a memoir that is not yet titled, is set for release in spring 2021.

“Yovanovitch’s book will deliver pointed reflections on the issues confronting America today, and thoughts on how we can shore up our democracy,” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt said in a statement.

Yovanovitch is represented by the Javelin literary agency, which has handled books for other #resistance icons such as ex-FBI director James Comey and former national security adviser John Bolton.

Yovanovitch’s long career in the U.S. Foreign Service came to an abrupt end in May 2019 when President Trump had her recalled from Ukraine.

At the time, Trump was pressuring Ukrainian officials to investigate Hunter Biden’s work with the energy company Burisma. Hunter’s father, Joe Biden, then was a frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

Tons of other TDS sufferers have inked big book deals, including former FBI Director James Comey, former National Security Adviser John Bolton and former Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Andrew McCabe. Christine Blasey Ford, who testified against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, raked in more than $600,000 on a GoFundMe account.

But Comey has really cashed in big time, including “six-figure speaking fees, prestigious writing contracts, a TV series, and a multimillion dollar book deal,” Business Insider reported in October.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02/surprise-surprise-impeachment-witness-inks-seven-figure-book-deal/

In Photos: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Members Publicly Use Turkish-supplied Military Equipment In Battle Of Idlib

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group that Turkey allegedly does not support) publicly uses Turkish-supplied military equipment in the battle against the Syrian Army in Greater Idlib. The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham media wing released photos showing the terrorist group’s members equipped with M113 armoured vehicles that Turkey sends to Idlib en mass.

https://southfront.org/in-photos-hayat-tahrir-al-sham-members-publicly-use-turkish-supplied-military-equipment-in-battle-of-idlib/

Sen. Graham and Rep. Collins push for FISA reform, ‘To restore American people confidence in our Intel Community’

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Doug Collins, (R-GA) are pushing ahead with investigations into FBI’s use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to conduct surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Both were guests of Maria Bartiromo the host of “Sunday Morning Futures” on Fox News.

“Now I want to know, what did McCabe and Comey know, when did they know that the dossier was unreliable?” Sen. Graham told Bartiromo, referring to former FBI Director James Comey and former Acting Director Andrew McCabe. Comey has insisted that he was not aware of what was going on at the time.

“I find it hard to believe that that did not work its way up to Comey and McCabe,” he said.

To get to the bottom of this, Graham said that he wants to begin his investigation by calling the four individuals who met with the sub-source to speak to the committee.

“Did Rosenstein know that the dossier had been debunked by the time he signed the warrant? How could he not know?” Graham asked.

Meanwhile, Rep. Doug Collins spoke about the House Republicans push to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

“We put this off in December because [Democrats] were in the middle of the sham impeachment and they couldn’t deal with the FISA stuff that needed to be authorized,” Collins said, referencing “things that we need in our intelligence committee,” including roving wiretaps.

“Instead of actually having hearings, and taking the Horowitz testimony, actually having Mr. Horowitz come in, talk about the problems he found in those FISA warrants, talk about how the court approved these warrants that actually spied on an American citizen… we’ve have no hearings, we’ve had no discussions and now we’re going to put forward a bill that really, I don’t think is going to address the issues,” said Rep. Collins.

Collins went on to say that if America could not trust FISA, “then people will not have confidence that our intelligence communities are doing what they need to be doing and being able to use this court properly.”

https://saraacarter.com/sen-graham-and-rep-collins-push-for-fisa-reform/

Saudi King Salman hosts rabbi in official residence for first time

King tells group of leaders from five religions that Saudia Arabia is returning to the era of Islamic openness of earlier ages.

For the first time ever, the King of Saudi Arabia has met with and hosted a rabbi in his formal residence during an annual meeting of the KAICIID inter-religious dialogue organization’s last week.

Rabbi David Rosen, a leading figure in interfaith cooperation, is one of the eight members of the KAICIID board of governors representing the Jewish faith, and was one of those hosted by Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud at his royal palace in Riyadh last Thursday.

Rosen is also an Israeli citizen living in Israel, making his meeting with the king even more remarkable.

Rosen was one of seven of the board members who met with King Salman, including KAICIID’s representatives for Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism.

According to Rosen, King Salman talked about the changes which Saudi Arabia is undergoing of late and asserted that the Islamic kingdom was adopting a more open form of Islam than that which it has observed in recent decades.

Rosen said that the king argued that political Islam and extreme nationalism had forced the country into a more protective and reactive position in regard to its attitude to the Islamic faith, and that Saudi Arabia had been unduly influenced by extremist ideologies.

King Salman said that the country was now going about the process of restoring it culture to that of its original, enlightened Islamic orientation, a part of which was an openness to other religions, Rosen said.

“He invoked the historical and authentic character of Islam as the openness of Islam that was shut down in recent times by political factors,” said the rabbi.

“My visit does not create a new reality, but reflects a new reality, and it is testimony to a new openness in Saudi Arabia,” Rosen told The Jerusalem Post.

The rabbi said that this new so-called openness was “relative,” given that the country still has far different values than the West on issues such as the status of women and other matters, but insisted that Saudi Arabia had undergone a “dramatic transformation,” compared to where it has been just a few years ago.

Rosen described King Salman’s description of how Saudi Arabia had adopted the more fundamentalist and extremist form of Islam that was prevalent in the country until recently as “revisionist history,” but said that “We don’t have to accept his historical analysis in order to accept his contemporary approach.”

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Saudi-King-Salman-hosts-rabbi-in-official-residence-for-first-time-618626

White House To Request Emergency Coronavirus Funds

The White House is preparing to request emergency funding from Congress in order to address coronavirus, which has suddenly spread at an alarming rate across the globe.

“We need some funding here to make sure that we protect all Americans,” White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said on Fox News. Gidley did not say how much funding would be requested.

“I don’t have an announcement on the specific amount yet, but we need to combat this, we need to make sure our people are safe and the president is always going to take action to do that,” Gidley said.

But some other news outlets said the administration would ask for about $1 billion, even though some experts said that may not be enough. Adriane Casalotti, an official at the National Association of County and City Health Officials, said $1 billion won’t cover the effort, The Hill reported.

“By any measure, that would not be enough for a government-wide supplemental to make a meaningful impact,” Casalotti said. “Vaccine development alone needs way more than that.”

“A congressional aide, meanwhile, said the administration has indicated it will be sending a funding request in the coming days, but that no details have been provided on its size or content,” The Hill reported.

Coronavirus cases have surged globally in recent days. “Official figures released Monday showed there had been 409 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 150 new deaths from the outbreak in China by the end of Sunday, bringing the total confirmed cases to 77,150, with a cumulative death toll of 2,592. The majority of the new cases — 398 — were in Hubei province, as were all but one death,” The Washington Post reported.

The outbreak widened in other countries; South Korea announced Monday that it has 833 confirmed cases, seven of which have resulted in deaths. Afghanistan reported its first case. Kuwait, Iraq and Bahrain reported new cases, as well.

The coronavirus has arrived with force in Italy, with case numbers spiking almost hourly and the virus jumping from one region to the next across the country’s north.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/02/breaking-white-house-to-request-emergency-coronavirus-funds/

Must See Corey Feldman Interview… Calls Out Matt Lauer and Barbara Walters

Gary Franchi from Next News Network sat down with Corey Feldman on Friday for a lengthy interview.

The interview is broken down into several segments to highlight certain topics.

I’ll just post the interview segments here and then follow with some more commentary on the release of Corey’s new film.

BOOM! Corey Feldman Just Put Barbara Walters, Matt Lauer on BLAST With a BRUTAL Reality Check!

Thanks Corey and Gary, that is some very powerful stuff.

Too busy to watch them all? I’d suggest that you bookmark this page and watch all of those videos when you can.

I first reported on Corey’s new documentary on February 16.

Corey Feldman is Finally Ready to Name Hollywood Pedophiles During Livestream: “(My) Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys”

Imagine Netflix turning anything down for being too dangerous or controversial.

That’s funny.

Netflix ‘Insatiable’ TV series mocks Christianity with young girls pleading for sex with Jesus and Holy Spirit

It just depends on who the controversy offends, and Netflix has decided to pass on “”(My) Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys”.

https://youtu.be/kNIVR8w6MC0

https://youtu.be/h8nTLlJv7ak

https://youtu.be/mvGx5-DaRcc

https://youtu.be/Rb50qAwXkfc

https://www.dcclothesline.com/2020/02/24/must-see-corey-feldman-interview-calls-out-matt-lauer-and-barbara-walters/

Four-Way Summit On Idlib Signals Turkey’s Inability To Turn Military Threats Into Reality

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan confirmed his intention to meet with the leaders of Russia and France Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron, as well as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on March 5th in Istanbul to discuss the situation in Idlib.

On February 23rd, Erdogan said that Macron and Merkel suggested that Putin hold a four-sided summit on Syria in early March.

Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Turkey was unable to fulfill several key commitments to solve the problems around Syrian Idlib. In particular, she did not dissociate the armed opposition from the terrorists, ready for negotiations with the government of Bashar al-Assad in the framework of the political process.

On the evening of February 22nd, Erdogan made his customary warning that large-scale military action may be undertaken by the Turkish army if the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) doesn’t stop its offensive in Idlib.

He has vowed such action several times so far, and the SAA appears to be undeterred, all the while Turkey is deploying large numbers of military vehicles and equipment to Idlib, but they appear to be leading to little effect.

But, Erdogan admitting that such a meeting would take place means that a large-scale Turkish operation is unlikely to take place before that day, if at all.

The Russian and Turkish military are in constant contact on the situation in Syria, the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.

If the necessity rises, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin will get into contact over the situation.

According to him, due to the aggravation of the situation in Syria, the past week “turned out to be extremely restless.”

“Naturally, the offensive actions of the terrorists could not go unanswered. The Syrian military, being in their own country, on their territory, naturally responded, which led to extreme tension. Thank God, our military, Russian and Turkish, are in constant contact , and, as we see, if necessary, the presidents will join in the discussion of this topic,” Peskov said.

Earlier, the Russian Reconciliation Center said that pro-Turkish militants, with the support of Turkish artillery, broke through the defenses of the Syrian army in the area of Kminas and al-Nayrab. Russian Su-24 fighter jets attacked the terrorists and destroyed one tank, six infantry fighting vehicles and five pickups. Turkey stopped its artillery attacks after Russia spotted them.

Peskov also noted that the President of Russia paid great attention to this issue.

“The situation remains tense. You know that this week the president devoted a lot of time to the situation in Syria. And, let’s say, the crisis situation around Idlib, in particular,” Peskov explained.

Separately, Peskov also, once again, underlined that Turkey was not fulfilling any of its commitments under the Sochi agreements.

https://southfront.org/four-way-summit-on-idlib-signals-turkeys-inability-to-turn-military-threats-into-reality/

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