Former Gov. Blagojevich Underestimated the Deep State and Ended Up with a 14 Year Sentence – Now He Wants to Get the Truth Out About the Deep State Actors Who Targeted Him

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is now free. It’s time for him to drop the goods on former Illinois Senator – President Barack Obama and the Deep State gang of dirty cops led by partners in crime, Mueller and Comey.

As previously reported, former FBI Directors Mueller and Comey were not only involved in the fraudulent Trump – Russia sham and protecting Hillary Clinton before the 2016 election, but they also were involved in protecting incoming President Barack Obama in the 2008 election and they were involved in the Valerie Plame scandal known as Plamegate.

The Mueller – Comey gang committed their crimes by projecting the crimes of those they protected (i.e. Obama or Hillary) onto a chosen target (i.e. Governor Blago or President Trump).

Blago’s case is not unique.

In 2008 Obama had a history of receiving bribes and favors from convicted felon Tony Rezko: Rezko’s partner, Saddam Hussein bagman Nadhmi Auchi: and former Chicago cop Daniel T Frawley, who claimed in an email to have passed $400k in cash bribes through Rezko to Obama.

In order to divert attention from Obama’s criminal dealings with Rezko and Auchi, FBI Director Mueller opened an investigation into Rezko’s dealings with Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich and simultaneously swept Obama’s crimes under the rug. The five year “investigation” of Blago came to an abrupt end when the Justice Department leaked information to the Chicago Tribune in order to avoid having to arrest Obama’s presidential election campaign co-chairman, Jesse Jackson Jr., for trying to buy Obama’s senate seat.

Blago was arrested, Jackson was not.

Blago faced criminal prosecution while Obama moved on to become President.

Now that Blago is out of prison, he is free to talk about the crimes Obama committed in Illinois, how Muller covered them up, and how it all relates to Comey’s seditious acts that followed.

In the video below of taped conversations involving Blago, the former governor claims that Obama was trying to get away from Chicago politics, which meant that he was working on distancing his problems with Rezko and moving the focus to the former governor:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/former-gov-blagojevich-underestimated-the-deep-state-and-ended-up-with-a-14-year-sentence-now-he-wants-to-get-the-truth-out-about-the-deep-state-actors-who-targeted-him/

23 Iran MPs & Head Of Emergency Medical Services Confirmed For Coronavirus

Iran now officially confirms at least 2,336 coronavirus cases and 77 dead, while members of parliament have been hit hard. Tehran officials have now revealed that 23 parliament members have been confirmed for the virus, suggesting much bigger numbers of infected nationwide, after multiple reports alleged the Islamic Republic is hiding its true numbers, or at least refusing to test.

On that note the country is bracing itself for the possibility of “tens of thousands” getting tested and possibly being confirmed for the virus after the latest spike in cases, an official said previously.

And after a week ago the country's deputy Iran's deputy health minister tested positive, another top health official, the head of the nation's emergency medical services, has been confirmed for Covid-19.

Reuters reports, "The head of Iran’s emergency medical services, Pirhossein Kolivand, has been infected with coronavirus, the ILNA news agency reported on Tuesday." The statement cited that Kolivand’s “health is good and there is no need for concern,” according to ILNA.

Iran has the highest death toll and confirmed infection rate outside of China, Covid-19's epicenter and believed point of origin.

As of Tuesday Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the armed forces to assist Health Ministry in combating the spread, which has at this point even threatened leaders in Tehran, given the vice president was infected and a former top ambassador has died.

It's as yet unclear what role national troops could play, but Fox News reports hundreds of thousands could be mobilized:

After downplaying the coronavirus as recently as last week, Iranian authorities now say they have plans to potentially mobilize 300,000 soldiers and volunteers to confront the virus.

Thus far the other worst hit country nearby has been the United Arab Emirates, a regional business hub and key transit point between the West and Asia. At the start of this week it reported 21 cases, and authorities had recently locked down two Abu Dhabi hotels on suspicion that a guest had it.

The region's largest airline, Emirates, has also greatly reduced flights and in many instances has had to ground planes altogether.

Meanwhile, previously unscathed Saudi Arabia and Jordan announced their first cases of Covid-19 Monday. The Saudis have lately taken unprecedented measures to ensure it keeps the virus out of the kingdom, including canceling and blocking all visas for religious tourists, which will impact this summer's scheduled annual Haj pilgrimage.

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/23-iran-mps-head-emergency-medical-services-confirmed-coronavirus-tehran-mulls-military

Exclusion zone & aviation ALERT triggered as Indonesia’s most active volcano violently erupts

Indonesia’s most active volcano, Mount Merapi, erupted without warning early on Tuesday for the second time in a month, sending column of ash 6km (20,000ft) into the sky and blanketing nearby communities with ash and dust.

Authorities issued the highest aviation alert, telling pilots to avoid the area, while also establishing a 3km (1.8-mile) exclusion zone established around the volcano, amid the threat of lava and pyroclastic flows. Eyewitness footage from the scene shows the full extent of nature’s wrath.

The initial eruption reportedly lasted for almost eight full minutes and the nearby Solo city international airport was shut down temporarily as a precaution despite being 40km away from the volcano.

There were no casualties or damage reported and apparently, local residents are brushing it off as ‘just another eruption’.

“Residents are monitoring the situation, although they are going about their daily activities as per normal,” said Klakah village head Marwoto.

The last eruption at Merapi took place on February 13, and coated the entire landscape in ash for a time.

“As with previous instances, today’s eruption was not preceded by clear precursors,” said the geological center BPPTKG.

The volcano’s last major eruption in 2010 claimed over 300 lives and forced the evacuation of roughly 280,000 people.

Indonesia is located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a huge area of seismic and volcanic instability where tectonic plates collide leading to monstrous earthquakes and destructive volcanic eruptions.

https://www.rt.com/news/482179-indonesia-volcano-merapi-erupts/

"Millions Of Refugees Moving Toward EU" - Erdogan Vows 'Doors' Will Not Be Shut

Turkey has upped the ante in both Idlib — where its military is busy attacking Syrian government forces in a state of open war — and its stance toward Europe, after late last week making good on threats to 'open the gates' for refugees fleeing Syria's war-torn northwest. But European leaders are standing by Greece and Bulgaria, saying the EU's borders are shut.

Already over 35,000 refugees are reportedly at EU borders under watch of Turkish security which had been ordered last Friday to "stand down" while thousands try to force their way into Greece and Bulgaria, and make the dangerous drip in rubber boats across the Aegean. As we've detailed there's a sense of chaos and panic at the borders, with Greece's military response aggressively trying to keep migrants out.

“Millions of refugees” will soon be moving toward Turkey’s borders with the EU, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced in new provocative televised statements on Monday.

“Hundreds of thousands have crossed, soon we will reach millions,” Erdogan said in the speech; however, the UN has thus far counted around 13,000 to have entered Europe since the first wave began last Friday.

“The period of Turkey’s unilateral self-sacrifice in relation to the refugees has come to an end,” Erdogan said, speaking in Ankara. “Since we have opened the borders, the number of refugees heading toward Europe has reached hundreds of thousands.”

He's repeatedly urged NATO, the EU, and Washington to back Turkey's military intervention against the ongoing Syrian-Russian offensive in Idlib. He's also charged Europe with ignoring pleas for assistance in dealing with over 3 million Syrian refugees said to be on Turkish territory.

Erdogan also warned Syria in the Monday speech that it must withdraw from Idlib “to the lines Turkey has determined as soon as possible,” or be left without “a head on their shoulders.”

According to Deutsche Welle's account of the speech, he said further:

Erdogan called on Europe to help take responsibility.

"After we opened the doors, there were multiple calls saying 'close the doors,'" he said. "I told them 'it's done. It's finished. The doors are now open. Now, you [Europe] will have to take your share of the burden."

Germany's Merkel and France's Macron have been swift to reject Erdogan's move to essentially weaponize Syrian refugees. Macron previously expressed “full solidarity” with Greece and Bulgaria as they deal with the new influx.

This is one of the many horrible consequences of the war on #Syria for which the West, the GCC and Turkey should be held responsible . They're the ones who funded the jihadist & salafist factions which, posing as freedom fighters, dragged Syria to where it finds itself today. https://t.co/CqNuDYj1XU

— Walid (@walid970721) March 2, 2020

Merkel's words were strongest. On Monday the German Chancellor slammed Erdogan's actions as "wholly unacceptable".

She also notably charged Ankara with actively facilitating transport of thousands to Turkey's borders with the EU:

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/millions-refugees-will-move-toward-eu-erdogan-vows-doors-will-not-be-shut

Russia ‘strongly rejects’ UN Commission allegations of war crimes in Syria, says inquiry was ‘one-sided’

The Kremlin has dismissed allegations by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria that the Russian military may have carried out war crimes in Syria last year, accusing the investigation of not being objective.

Russia rejects any accusations of war crimes, because they were made immediately after terrorists started their offensive against Syrian troops in Idlib, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.

"It's obvious that no committee could get reliable information of what was happening on the ground."

Peskov branded the report “one-sided,” adding that terrorists’ actions are not taken into account.

On Monday, the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria published its report covering the period between 11 July, 2019 and 10 January, 2020. It described several cases which allegedly involved Russian jets operating in Syria. The Commission stated that in “each of the incidents the Russian Air Force did not direct the attacks at a specific military objective," amounting to war crimes.

The Russian military is operating in Syria in agreement with Damascus forces, as it is conducting an operation to drive terrorists from the country.

https://www.rt.com/news/482183-syria-russia-un-war-crimes/

VIDEO Erdogan framed Turkish military offensive as religious war

https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/03/video-erdogan-framed-turkish-military-offensive-as-religious-war/

Germany: AfD leader injured in arson attack

AfD leader Tino Chrupalla was injured during an arson attack on his car on Monday night. Enemies of Chrupalla set fire to his Volkswagen Caddy that was parked on his property in Görlitz, a town in eastern Germany not far from the Polish border.

When attempting to put the fire out, the AfD leader – who last November was nominated by Alexander Gauland to replace him as co-chairman – inhaled toxic fumes and had to be treated at the hospital for several hours for smoke poisoning, German weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit reports.

“Despite the sharpness of the political debate, it is a direct attack on my family. That exceeds all conceivable limits. This escalation must stop,” Chrupalla told German media.

When asked how was doing following the brazen attack, he replied: “Badly.”

Police spokeswoman Katharina Korch said that state police have started to investigate the arson attack as a possible “politically motivated act”.

Alexander Dierks, the Secretary General of the Saxony CDU, condemned the attack on Twitter, saying: “Violence is never a means of political debate.”

He added there was never an excuse for such attacks.

In Germany, politicians from the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party are more frequently violently attacked than politicians from any other party.

Between October and December of 2019, 112 attacks on offices or facilities of parties represented in German parliament were recorded by the Federal Government. Of those 112 attacks, more than half (62) of the attacks were carried out against the AfD. According to the criminal police service, 58 of the attacks were motivated by leftists.

Furthermore, 87 of the 202 attacks on party representatives or members of a political party in Germany were carried out against the AfD, with 78 crimes seen as politically motivated by the police, according to the Federal Government’s figures.

Last December, Voice of Europe reported of left-wing extremists in Heilbronn, Germany threatening to murder Christina Baum, an AfD MP.

The month before that, Voice of Europe reported on numerous death threats that the son of an AfD politician in Berlin had received from three of his classmates in Berlin-Biesdorf.

Last August, an AfD party official in Krefeld, Germany had his car set ablaze by hooded assailants.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/03/germany-afd-leader-injured-in-arson-attack/

GOP Rep. Devin Nunes hits Washington Post with $250M lawsuit for publishing 'falsehoods' about him

'…severely impugns [Nunes's] integrity and prejudices him'

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, filed a massive $250 million defamation lawsuit on Monday against the Washington Post and intelligence reporter Shane Harris.

Last month, the Post claimed Nunes went to the White House to personally tell President Donald Trump about an intelligence briefing given to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) by top intel official Shelby Pierson regarding Russia's efforts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.

The newspaper also claimed that Trump was angry at acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire because he learned about the meeting through Nunes.

But according to Nunes, the Post's claims are "falsehoods." In fact, the lawsuit claims it was impossible for Nunes to have met with Trump to discuss the classified briefing when the Post claimed the meeting happened because Nunes was in Oklahoma at the time.

The lawsuit states:

Devin Nunes never told the President or anyone else that Shelby Pierson had given an exclusive briefing to Schiff.

Devin Nunes did not meet or speak with the President on February 13, 2020 – the day of the "classified hearing" - or on February 14, 2020, and never conveyed to him any indication that Schiff was given an exclusive assessment of Russian actions.

In fact, WaPo and Harris knew that Devin Nunes was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on February 14, 2020 for a breakfast hosted by the Republican Party of Tulsa County .

The lawsuit adds, "Devin Nunes did not say or do anything to 'ruin' Maguire's chances of becoming the permanent intelligence chief Maguire's term was already due to expire pursuant to Federal Law on March 11, 2020."

The lawsuit claims the "WaPo hit piece" imputes to Nunes "criminal conduct" and "dishonesty, deceit, sharp and unethical practices, and independently actionable tortious acts, all of which severely impugns [Nunes's] integrity and prejudices him in the performance of his duties as a United States Congressman."

The lawsuit goes on to accuse the Post of publishing the story "in concert with House Democrats" in order to "impugn" Nunes' "reputation and undermine his relationship with the President."

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Richmond and seeks a total of $250,350,000 in damages, plus prejudgement interest. Nunes is requesting a jury trial.

In response, the Post said it will defend its reporter and story.

"The Post stands behind the reporting of Shane Harris and his colleagues We will vigorously defend our work against the claims made in Rep. Nunes's lawsuit," Kris Coratti Kelly, the newspaper's VP of communications, told the Washington Examiner.

Nunes promised the lawsuit less than two weeks ago. In December, he also sued CNN for $435 million over what he characterized as a "demonstrably false hit piece."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/gop-rep-devin-nunes-hits-washington-post-with-250m-lawsuit-for-publishing-falsehoods-about-him

Just 3 Out Of 260 Harvard Faculty Members Plan To Vote Trump: Survey

Out of 260 Harvard Arts and Sciences faculty member respondents, only three faculty members said they plan to vote for President Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election, a survey of faculty shows.

A survey conducted by the Harvard Crimson found that 44% of faculty surveyed said they would vote for former Harvard Law School professor Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Only 20% of the faculty surveyed said they would vote for 2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, and only three out of 260 respondents said the would vote for Trump.

The poll also found that the majority of Harvard faculty identify as either very liberal or liberal: 38.4% of those surveyed identified as very liberal, 41.3% identified as liberal, 18.9% identified as moderate, and a mere 1.46% identified as conservative.

The survey closed before the Feb. 28 South Carolina primary, which former vice president Joe Biden won.

The Crimson’s polling comes as multiple Democratic candidates drop out of the presidential race and endorse Biden ahead of Super Tuesday. Former 2020 presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke also endorsed the former vice president Monday.

The paper conducted the poll in late February through a 74 question anonymous survey distributed to more than 1,000 members of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences between Feb. 20 and Feb. 27.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/03/harvard-warren-faculty-presidential-election/

>>8308841

Attacks sauce presents no counter argument

Fuck off shill

French Unions Call for PROTEST over Macron Pension Reforms

https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/03/live-from-paris-french-unions-call-for-protest-over-macron-pension-reforms/

Sweden Teacher: Those Opposed to Islamic Headscarf Should Leave The Country

A teacher in Sweden has expressed strongly-worded opposition to a mooted ban on religious headscarves in schools, saying that those opposed to the garment have no place in the country at all.

Naouel Aissaoui, who is employed as a teacher in the municipality and follows the Muslim faith, said she will defy any ban on the Islamic headscarf, also known as the hijab, which she wears.

Aissaoui engaged in a conversation with centre-right Moderate Party member Loubna Stensåker Göransson, who is supportive of a ban on the hijab in local schools, and said she associates the veil with the oppression of women and religious indoctrination.

“You cannot come to a country that is secular and equal and live with medieval values,” Ms Göransson said, reports Nyheter Idag.

“I feel confident and strong with my faith that says that there is God who is greater than Skurup municipality and this decision,” Aissaoui said and expressed confusion over Göransson’s stance, given the fact that Göransson is also from an immigrant background and is a fellow Muslim.

“It feels very strange, in fact, that she is an immigrant, a Muslim, a woman. She should have more understanding for us, and respect,” Aissaoui said.

“Move away, if it annoys you. Move from Skurup or from Sweden. This is my country, too,” she added.

Aissaoui’s statement comes just months after a report claimed that an area in the Swedish city of Borås has seen a process of Islamisation in recent years following a high number of Somalian migrants coming to the area.

According to the report, not only have Somalian clans taken root in the area but children as young as one year old have been seen wearing the Islamic veil. “Veil-wearing has already started to occur in pre-school already at the age of one,” the report stated.

In 2018, another report carried by the newspaper Göteborgs Posten claimed that some preschools in so-called “vulnerable areas”, also known as no-go areas, could force children to wear Islamic veils.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/03/muslim-woman-those-opposed-islamic-headscarf-should-leave-sweden/

Woman ‘Rushed’ Into Gender Reassignment as a Teen Suing NHS

A woman given gender reassignment therapy as a teen is suing the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust for having “rushed” her into the treatment.

“I wanted to go onto the medical pathway as soon as possible, I was very eager and I was very reluctant about speaking to anyone who would possibly get in the way of that,” Keira Bell explained to Sky News.

But after being “rushed” into gender reassignment after “roughly three” short sessions with “no real investigation” into any other underlying mental health problems, she came to realise she was not a boy “born in the wrong body” after all, and that her gender identity crisis had only been a “coping mechanism” for deeper issues.

“I just realised that it hadn’t worked after a few years,” she recalled.

“I just went into like a menopause-like state and everything just kind of shut down.

“I felt drained and tired and had nothing but negative effects from it really, I didn’t have a good experience with it at all.

“I think the depression kicked in a bit more because I was without any hormones in my body, especially at such a young age when it’s supposed to be at such a peak.

“It’s very detrimental to someone and the psychological and the brain effects I think are completely understudied as well,” she said.

The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, as the National Health Service’s main hub for “treating” people with gender dysphoria, has become somewhat infamous in recent years, with the number of patients it receives rising from a few dozens to more than 2,000 over the last ten years.

Research by Sky News suggerts that at least 35 psychologists have resigned from the service over a three-year period, fearing “young people are being over-diagnosed and then over-medicalised”.

“We are extremely concerned about the consequences for young people… For those of us who previously worked in the service, we fear that we have had front row seats to a medical scandal,” said one source.

The concerned psychologists said professionals feel powerless to resist putting children on the so-called medical pathway for treatment, including powerful hormones, for fear of being branded “transphobic”.

Sky News insists, however, that “most gender reassignment stories are positive.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/03/woman-rushed-into-gender-reassignment-teen-suing-nhs/

>>8308899

yeah still no counter FFS

ISRAEL, EU AND TURKEY are fighting together against Russia and the US

Wakey wakey

The swine flu fraud of 1976, on 60 Minutes

https://youtu.be/8elE7Ct1jWw

Bill Gates Warns Outbreak Could Hit Africa Worse Than China

Africa’s inadequate health care systems will be overwhelmed without major outside help.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/bill-gates-warns-outbreak-could-hit-africa-worse-than-china/

GERMANY: Film Depicts Adult Man In A Relationship With A 10-Year-Old Robot. People Walk Out Of Screenings.

A sci-fi film out of Germany has sparked controversy and severe backlash for depicting a relationship between an adult man and a 10-year-old robot designed to resemble his daughter. The outrage has prompted walkouts at several of the film’s screenings.

“Titled ‘Trouble With Being Born,’ the film is programmed as part of Berlinale 2020, the annual film festival held in Berlin, Germany,” reports the Independent. “In the film, the child-like android, played by Lena Watson, 10, is seen calling her owner ‘Daddy.'”

Though the movie features no graphic depiction of sex between the man and the girl sexbot, the implications are clear.

“The android role was originally written for a 20-year-old actor, but after removing some of the more explicit elements, director Sandra Wollner decided to cast a child,” continued the report.

People on Twitter have objected to the film as “pedophile propaganda” while certain outlets like The Hollywood Reporter (THR) have hailed it for its artistic merits, even going so far to call it a “hidden gem”. Wolner told the outlet she meant the film to be an antithesis to “Pinnochio” or Steven Spielberg’s “AI.”

“What I found interesting about it is that we have an android whose only desires are the ones you program it to have,” she said. “I found it fascinating to show the perspective of the world through this machine that does not judge and does not care, and doesn’t need the meanings that we do.”

Regarding the nude scenes featuring the 10-year-old robot, Wolner says they were created using CGI and permission from the young actress’s family. More from THR:

Looking for Elli was — perhaps obviously — slightly removed from your average casting call, the filmmakers not merely wanting someone who suited the part but also a child, Wollner says, that “came from a healthy environment,” with the sort of open-minded family who would understand the story they wanted to tell and also allow them to do it. In the end, she says it was “pure luck” in finding Watson, whose parents were known by a friend of a friend.

“We had really honest talks with the family, who were there during the shoot. It was very open, very transparent. And of course we talked to [Watson] about the film in a very child-appropriate way.”

Understandably, the few nude scenes were all created via VFX with Watson in a bikini and covered in dots (“Of course we didn’t have a minor running around naked,” says Wollner). The young actress also wore a silicone mask and wig, which served a dual purpose, not only hiding her real identity but also helping her resemble another actress who appears later in the film.

http://www.tathasta.com/2020/03/germany-film-depicts-adult-man-in.html

Freedom of Speech ‘No Longer Exists’ in Australia and the UK: Katie Hopkins

Stringent government control and oppressive social media platforms are forcing Australians to self-censor themselves, according to controversial media personality Katie Hopkins.

Ms Hopkins, who is known for her strident support of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, says social media giants like Twitter and Facebook often punish those whose views fall out of the mainstream.

She told Sky News freedom of speech, which was once the bedrock of democracy, “no longer exists” in many western nations.

“Frankly, no one would defend freedom of speech to their death because we (Australia and the UK) don’t have it anymore,” she said.

“Good Australians that I know and I love, they self-censor everywhere they go because they can no longer speak about how they think or how they feel.

“It’s the mechanism of control.”

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/freedom-of-speech-no-longer-exists-in-australia-and-the-uk-katie-hopkins/

Internet – Doorway to Cyber Warfare

The new world of cyber warfare is upon us. Today, enemies send out malware through the internet. They send instructions to external computers, often in email attachments. This is their way to steal passwords, email correspondence, and documents, mostly unnoticed; this is how they gain access to the computers of generals and ministers to record conversations; this is how hackers manipulate elections or paralyze government authorities and power stations. These are attacks meant to damage what keeps countries together at their very core: their economy, their internal security, everyday life.

This conflict has intensified steadily over the last decade. Today, it looks as though it might be steering towards escalation. Espionage, sabotage, and destabilization are all happening every day. The question is what comes next. How long will it take until someone reprograms drones or sabotages a nuclear program?

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/internet-doorway-to-cyber-warfare/

Harvard study on why denial Is worse than panic during a pandemic

Early panic makes for clearer thinking and action in the long term.

For those of us that prepared during the initial Wuhan outbreak we are better equipped mentally than those who used denial as their immediate action.

nieman.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/pod-assets/microsites/NiemanGuideToCoveringPandemicFlu/CrisisCommunication/HowDoPeopleReactInAPandemic.aspx.html

Bloomberg tells AIPAC he'll 'never impose conditions' on military aid to Israel

Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg on Monday pledged to support Israel’s security and constrain Iran’s nuclear program at the annual pro-Israel AIPAC summit in Washington, while also criticizing Sen. Bernie Sanders for boycotting the annual event, which has been a lightning rod in the 2020 Democratic primary.

Bloomberg was the only 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to attend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Conference in Washington, a move criticized by progressives and some Democrats not aligned with the group's views.

“I can’t tell you how glad I am to be at AIPAC,” he said. "Israel is small, we know, but resilient, and surrounded by adversaries. And if you caught the last couple of presidential debates you know that I can empathize."

MORE: Bloomberg criticizes Trump’s response to coronavirus as he launches campaign blitz ahead of Super Tuesday

Sanders declined to attend this year’s conference – he called it a platform for “leaders who express bigotry” – and referred to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “reactionary racist” in last week’s debate.

“He’s dead wrong,” Bloomberg said of Sanders.

If Not Now, a progressive group that describes itself as working to “end our community’s support for the occupation” of Palestine, pressured the 2020 Democratic field to skip the annual event. Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Amy Klobuchar will address the conference by video.

At the summit, Bloomberg called for strong bipartisan support for Israel in U.S. politics. “Israel should never be a political football that American politicians kick around in an effort to score political points,” he said.

Bloomberg also condemned the rising number of anti-Semitic attacks in the U.S., and noted his own personal connection to the uptick: his sister attended the Pittsburgh synagogue targeted in a mass shooting in 2018 when she lived in the city.

He promised to “never impose” conditions on military aid to Israel, and praised the move of the American Embassy to Jerusalem without mentioning President Donald Trump's decision to make that happen.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/bloomberg-tells-aipac-hell-never-impose-conditions-military-203000128.html

At first, banks leveraged the repo market to force the Fed to ease liquidity & capital rules; now they leverage the coronavirus. Whatever it takes.

The largest bank lobbying group in the US, the Bank Policy Institute, is now leveraging the coronavirus to pressure the Fed to relax nettlesome banking regulations imposed on banks after the Financial Crisis. These regulations, particularly the liquidity and capital requirements, were imposed on banks in order to avoid a replay of the Financial Crisis.

BPI’s lobbying piece, releases yesterday – “Actions the Fed Could Take in Response to COVID-19” – was authored by three people, including BPI CEO Gregory Baer, who’d been Managing Director and General Counsel for Corporate and Regulatory Law at JP Morgan Chase from 2010 through 2015, and Deputy General Counsel for Corporate Law at Bank of America from 2006 through 2010. Both banks were massively tangled up in the Financial Crisis.

BPI’s bord is comprised of bank CEOs, including the CEOs of the four largest banks in the US: Jamie Dimon (CEO, JP Morgan), Brian Moynihan (CEO, Bank of America), Michael Corbat (CEO, Citigroup), and Charlie Scharf (CEO, Wells Fargo). And they can’t stand the limits that bank regulations impose on them.

This comes just months after the biggest banks, spearheaded by JP Morgan, blamed the nettlesome liquidity requirements imposed on banks after the Financial Crisis for the repo market blowout. JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon admitted during the Q3 earnings call in October last year that JP Morgan could have lent to the repo market as repo rates were surging, and could have eased the problem, but refused to because of the liquidity requirements.

There have been allegations that the biggest banks purposefully refused to lend to the repo market in order to force the Fed to ease the liquidity regulations.

In its current attack, the BPI used the coronavirus outbreak as an explicit lever. Among several items that the BPI exhorted the Fed to change, were:

Easing liquidity requirements to “encourage banks to deploy their liquid assets….”

Easing capital requirements to “support the ability of banks to provide credit to the economy and be able to accommodate large amounts of deposit inflows in the event of a flight to safety.”

And today, Better Markets – a non-profit founded after the Financial Crisis “to promote the public interest in the financial markets, support the financial reform of Wall Street and make our financial system work for all Americans again” – launched a blistering counter-attack, with a statement, titled “Wall Street Biggest Banks Shamelessly Trying to Use Coronavirus to Get Federal Reserve to Weaken Rules”:

“It is shameless but not surprising, that Wall Street’s biggest banks would use the coronavirus to attack the financial rules they have been trying to weaken for a decade, including weakening critically important capital and liquidity requirements.

“It is even less surprising that they would direct their request to their favorite regulators at the Federal Reserve, which secretly doled out trillions of dollars bailing out Wall Street in 2008-2009 with virtually no public transparency, oversight or accountability. That was great for Wall Street’s biggest banks, but a disaster for Main Street and should not be repeated now.

“As the coronavirus-created uncertainty mounts and the possibly of financial deterioration increases, the worst thing anyone could do is reduce the biggest banks’ ability to withstand a downturn or shock, which is exactly what Wall Street’s biggest bank lobby group is arguing.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/at-first-banks-leveraged-the-repo-market-to-force-the-fed-to-ease-liquidity-now-they-leverage-the-coronavirus-whatever-it-takes/

Felon Illegal Who Was Released by Chicago Arrested for Allegedly Abusing 3-Year-Old

I’m not certain most Americans are familiar with what sanctuary cities entail. There isn’t a set definition of what a sanctuary city even is, mind you, but one characteristic those cities generally share in common is that they don’t share citizenship information with federal law enforcement officials, including if an individual is arrested or jailed.

If the federal government knows a jailed individual is in the country illegally or is a non-citizen, it can sometimes issue a detainer, which requests that the jurisdiction hold the prisoner until it can take him or her into custody. Sanctuary cities generally ignore these and will release the individual back into the community.

Chicago’s sanctuary city policy includes all of that, which is part of why a 34-year-old Mexican national was able to allegedly molest a 3-year-old at a McDonald’s in the Windy City.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy says Christopher Puente was able to lure the girl into a bathroom stall at the fast food restaurant on Feb. 17 by motioning to her while her father was helping her brother go to the bathroom in another stall.

The father heard the girl crying and, unable to pull the locked door of the stall open, pulled her out from under the door. He brought both children out to their mother and went back to the bathroom to confront Puente, who was still locked in the stall. After going back to check on his children, he went back again to find that Puente had escaped.

Police would arrest him the next day for trespassing in a parking garage and would recognize him from a still in the surveillance video from the McDonald’s.

Puente, Murphy said, had confessed to the crime.

“[Puente] said he was f—ed up and thinking dirty. … He said he was paranoid and looking around as he left the bathroom because he knew what he did was wrong,” Murphy said.

When the judge announced that Puente was being held without bail for predatory criminal sexual assault, the hearing-impaired Puente signed, “You don’t understand. This is my first time,” before his public defender stopped him. In a separate case, he also faces misdemeanor battery charges for inappropriately touching and then shoving a woman.

And yet, Chicago police refused to honor a detainer on him in June of 2019 when he was arrested on theft charges.

It’s not as if he didn’t have a lengthy criminal history, either.

According to The Daily Caller, he has convictions for forced entry burglary (2011, 2017) and forgery (2012). Those are felonies. He was deported in 2014 but tried to re-enter just five days later. He claimed American citizenship and presented authorities with a birth certificate. That ended with charges of falsely claiming U.S. citizenship.

When he was ordered to appear before an immigration judge, lo and behold, he didn’t show up. In 2017, a judge ordered his removal from the United States in absentia.

All of this information was available to Chicago officials. None of it could move them to deport Puente.

“How many more victims must there be before lawmakers realize that sanctuary policies do not protect the innocent?” Robert Guadian, director of the ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations Chicago field office, said in a statement.

“Puente should have been in ICE custody last year and removed to his home country. Instead, irresponsible lawmaking allowed him to walk free and prey on our most vulnerable.”

https://postnewsd2.blogspot.com/2020/03/felon-illegal-who-was-released-by.html

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>>8309237

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