Guilty until proven innocent (again): UN report on alleged Russian ‘war crimes’ in Syria is based on ‘We Say So’ & unnamed sources

A UN-mandated report, which accuses Russia of war crimes in Syria, heavily relies on anonymous sources and lacks evidence, but also smacks of deliberate disinformation that is halting the eradication of terrorism in Idlib.

Earlier this week, the The Independent International Commission of Inquiry into the Syrian Arab Republic released a report largely lambasting Syria and Russia in their fight against terrorism in Syria. Corporate media were quick to echo allegations of Russian “war crimes” in Syria, all while diminishing the crimes of terrorist groups against Syrian civilians and soldiers.

The report does passingly acknowledge that Syria, Russia and allies are fighting “armed opposition groups, including Hay’at Tahrir” (al-Qaeda); the rest of the document reads mainly as a litany of accusations against Syria and Russia.

In the “mandate and methodology” section, the report notes that its information is based on “233 interviews conducted in the region and from Geneva” as well as from governments, NGOs, and UN reports.

So a report based on testimonies taken in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon or by phone, is again negating the masses of Syrians in Syria who would like their truths to be heard, the terrorism they have endured to be known.

I scoured the 24 pages of the report, but even in the annexes I could find no transparent and credible sources, only the following vague terms repeatedly referred-to: Witnesses, civilians, NGO, rescuers, medical teams, first responders, flight spotters, and early warning observers.

As Western media has largely focused on two accusations of Russian war crimes, I'll address these here.

Russia War Crime – Accusation One

The first of two major accusations against Russia is of conducting airstrikes on Marat al-Numan, Idlib, on July 22, 2019, allegedly killing 43 civilians and targeting a market.

Details for this claim are provided by the unnamed sources mentioned above. Quite possibly, information was also provided by the usual suspects, like the one-man (Rami), UK-based “Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,” and the terrorist-affiliated White Helmets fake rescue group, which, by 2020, should need no introduction.

The commission refers to flight spotters, “civilians who monitor aircraft flights to provide…advance warning prior to an air strike.”

But who are these civilians? Do they use the early-warning radar systems like those provided to the White Helmets? Are they neutral observers? Or the usual sources embedded with terrorists that we are meant to believe as credible?

The report claims it had obtained “satellite imagery, video footage and photos” regarding the alleged airstrikes. Yet none are included in the report.

It claims it “obtained flight communication intercepts conducted in the Russian language.”

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/482572-russia-war-crimes-syria-sources/

Police-Enforced Quarantine Hits California Neighborhood – Residents Ordered to Stay Inside Due to Coronavirus

Sacramento police ordered all residents in a California neighborhood to stay inside on Thursday due to a coronavirus death in the area.

The local health department issued a statement after the police presence in the area.

This is a frightening development.

WIBW reported:

Sacramento County Sheriff deputies and Rocklin Police, some wearing protective gloves, converged on a residential street Thursday as a sheriff’s helicopter circled overhead, ordering people to get inside.

It was later learned that the first California coronavirus patient to die from the illness lived on this block.

The Placer County Health Department issued a brief statement shortly after the police presence, stating: “Law enforcement partners are currently responding to enforce a health officer’s order. We cannot share any additional information to protect patient confidentiality.”

The orders were given under sections of California Health and Safety Code that allows Placer Health to “enforce regulations requiring strict isolation, or quarantine if the action is necessary for the protection of the public health.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/police-enforced-quarantine-hits-california-neighborhood-residents-ordered-to-stay-inside-due-to-coronavirus/

We Caught the Mueller Team in Massive Lie – Roger Stone Was Right!

Yesterday we reported breaking news that the firm that started the entire Russia collusion lie, Crowdstrike, is now backpedaling.

Today we show how Crowdstrike’s actions now leave the Mueller gang exposed with no place to hide.

As we reported yesterday, the firm Crowdstrike is backpedaling on their actions related to the fraudulent claim that Russians hacked the DNC and shipped these hacked emails to WikiLeaks.

Summary from Yesterday

For more than three years of the mainstream media (MSM) promoted the biggest fraud in US history – that Russians hacked the DNC’s emails and gave the emails they hacked to WikiLeaks who then leaked the emails before the 2016 election. Now, suddenly the firm at the center of this fraud, Crowdstrike, is taking a step back from their previous positions related to the entire sham. This past Tuesday, the website Personal Liberty received an email from John Eddy, Executive Vice President of the PR firm Goldin Solutions. The email follows:

My firm works with CrowdStrike and we read your article titled “Trump seeks to boost Sanders and foment discord among Democrats” (https://personalliberty.com/trump-seeks-to-boost-sanders-and-foment-discord-among-democrats/ [personalliberty.com]). We need to request important updates to the article.

The article states that the “FBI was denied access to the emails and the conclusion that they were stolen and released by ‘Russian intelligence operatives’ was made by the DNC-hired cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which has ties to Ukrainian oligarchs and the Council on Foreign Relations.” This is incorrect.

CrowdStrike’s founders have no connections to Ukraine. The company also provided all forensic evidence and analysis to the FBI that they requested, and the conclusions have been fully supported by the US Intelligence community (https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democratic-national-committee/). Additionally, CrowdStrike was hired by the DNC to respond to the suspected breach of its servers, and did not do any investigations around the release of the information.

Could you please update the article for accuracy to clarify that CrowdStrike does not have ties to Ukraine, and that the company was hired by the DNC to investigate the hack of the servers?

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/breaking-exclusive-we-caught-the-mueller-team-in-massive-lie-roger-stone-was-right/

HACKED Israeli Defense Minister demands ‘freedom for Palestine,’ tweets out Turkey’s anthem

The Twitter handle of Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett appears to have been breached, sending out a highly off-message post urging the liberation of Palestine, followed by the lyrics of Turkey’s anthem in English.

The post appeared briefly on Bennett’s Twitter page early on Saturday morning, and while there’s yet no confirmation of the intrusion from the minister or his office, the tweet was archived and captured in a number of screenshots before it was deleted.

In addition to the pro-Palestinian message – surely a first from the hawkish defense minister – Bennett’s account also mysteriously tweeted out a reference to Turkish poet Mehmet Akif Ersoy, a patriotic icon and author of the country’s national anthem, as well as its text along with a photo of the Turkish flag.

For decades, Palestinian territory has been under Israeli military occupation, including the West Bank, East Jerusalem and – until 2005 – the Gaza Strip, despite a litany of United Nations resolutions condemning Tel Aviv for repeated human rights violations in the territories and the continued expansion of Israeli settlements on Palestinian land.

https://www.rt.com/news/482546-israel-defense-minister-twitter/

AIPAC confirms two coronavirus cases at Israeli lobby gathering attended by US elites & veteran politicians

Two people from New York who attended the AIPAC conference in the US capital have tested positive for Covid-19, raising the possibility that lawmakers in Washington DC were exposed to the potentially lethal contagion.

“At least” two conference-goers who came from Westchester County, New York have tested positive for the virus, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee said on Friday evening, adding that they’ve sent notice of this to the attendees, participants, speakers, administration staff and congressional offices.

AIPAC previously said that a group that traveled to the conference from New York “potentially” interacted with an individual carrying the illness beforehand. Almost two dozen cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in New York state.

The conference held just outside of Washington on March 1-3 was attended by 18,000 people, including more than 3,600 students from campuses across the US, over two-thirds of Congress, as well as a number of attendees from abroad. The day after it concluded, Israel asked anyone who attended “international conferences abroad” to self-quarantine for 14 days, in the hope of containing the infection to 15 cases reported so far.

Most of the fatalities from the virus are among people with underlying medical conditions and the elderly – which would apply to many members of Congress.

Vice President Mike Pence, who spoke at the conference, said he hadn’t heard of the coronavirus revelation when asked about it on Friday. Other speakers included Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, current Democrat presidential front-runner Joe Biden, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York).

DC health officials have not reported any confirmed coronavirus cases, but authorities in nearby Montgomery County, Maryland have already identified three. As of Friday morning, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had registered 164 total confirmed Covid-19 cases in 19 US states, including 11 fatalities – 10 in Washington state and one in California.

The novel coronavirus, designated Covid-19, first appeared in Wuhan, China in December last year. Most of the fatalities so far have been in China. The airborne pathogen has since managed to spread to Europe, the Middle East and the US despite strict quarantine measures.

https://www.rt.com/usa/482542-aipac-two-positive-coronavirus/

Led by the socialist 'Squad,' 174 House Dems oppose anti-terrorist and sexual predator amendment

'The socialist wing' now controls the Democratic Party

A bipartisan coalition of House Republicans and some Democrats came together Thursday to pass an amendment to the "Rights for Transportation Security Officers Act" that would make it harder for the Transportation Security Agency to hire people who have been convicted of sexual assault, terrorism and other violent crimes, the Daily Caller reported.

However, 174 Democrats, including House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, voted against the common sense measure that was authored by one of their colleagues, Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.).

Leading the majority of House Democrats to oppose the amendment was the socialist "Squad," including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.). House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not cast a vote.

'The socialist wing' now controls the Democratic Party

Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy blasted House Democrats for opposing the law and pointed out how it serves as another example that the Democratic Party has been hijacked by a Marxist cadre.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/the_squad_opposes_anti_terrorist_amendment

Hillary Clinton Takes Back Apology For Email Scandal

Former First Lady Hillary Clinton retracted her apology to Americans for using a private email server while she was secretary of state.

“We’ll just say what you did was a mistake. It was dumb. It’s over. And that will end it,” Clinton said in the Hulu documentary released Friday, “Hillary,” that is a celebration of her life. “I didn’t not believe that. I wasn’t convinced of that. But I understood the frustration of my campaign,” she told the Hulu documentary, according to the Washington Examiner.

“So against my better judgment, I said, ‘OK, fine,'” she said about the apology the failed presidential candidate eventually made on ABC News. (RELATED: Will Hillary Ever Be Charged For Her Emails? James Comey Says ‘Zero Chance’)

“As I look back at it now, even though it was allowed, I should have used two accounts. That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility,” Clinton said in September 2015, adding that she was sorry for “confusing” Americans.

“It turned out to be a mistake because look at all the oxygen it was sucking out of my campaign. But it didn’t end it,” Clinton argued in the Hulu interview. “It didn’t end it at all. And it never ended, it never ended.”

Although the FBI conducted a criminal investigation into the matter, then-Director James Comey advised that Clinton not be charged with a criminal offense, even though her use of an unofficial email server contravened State Department rules. He suggested her choice of servers was “extremely careless” and inappropriate for sending and receiving classified information.

Comey has never approved of Clinton’s choice of a private email server and even admitted at a July 2016 news conference that someone of less political stature than the former first lady might be charged.

“To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences,” he said at the time.

Critics cried foul over that decision by Comey and Clinton’s conduct became a major issue in the 2016 presidential election. Just a week before voters went to the polls, Comey decided to reopen his investigation only to reverse that decision a few days before election day.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/07/hillary-clinton-retracts-apology-emails/

Facebook shuts down London offices over Covid-19 after visiting Singapore employee tests positive

Facebook has shut down its three London offices until Monday after a Singapore-based staff member who’d visited two weeks earlier was diagnosed with coronavirus, the social media company confirmed.

"An employee based in our Singapore office who has been diagnosed with Covid-19 visited our London offices February 24-26, 2020,” a Facebook spokesperson told Sky News on Friday, explaining that all three London offices would be closed for “deep cleaning” and employees would be “working from home” until they reopened on Monday.

While Facebook declined to say how many individuals the infected employee had potentially exposed through direct contact – some 3,000 people work for the social media behemoth in London – the platform insisted it had notified all of them. It is reportedly reaching out to other visiting employees and contractors who’ve passed through its London sites in the past few days in order to alert them to the possible risk.

Affected employees have been advised to “self-isolate” and monitor potential symptoms closely. Coronavirus can take as long as two weeks to make its presence felt, and while an infected person might feel healthy, they can still infect others. The UK saw a jump in coronavirus cases since Thursday, with 47 new diagnoses confirmed in the preceding 24 hours – bringing the total number of infected up to 163. While two deaths have been linked to the virus, according to Sky, the second victim was in his 80s and had underlying health conditions; doctors are still waiting for the return of tests to confirm the presence of coronavirus.

The total shutdown mirrors Facebook’s actions in Seattle, where an employee who was last at work on February 21 was diagnosed on Wednesday with the virus. Facebook informed its workers that the office would close until March 9, ordering them to telecommute until then. Others were informed they’d be working from home until the end of the month. The company had already curtailed social guests to its offices as a precaution, and recently called off the in-person part of its annual 5,000-person developer convention in San Francisco. The states of California and Washington have declared emergencies over the outbreak, which has sickened 233 people in the US so far and killed 14.

https://www.rt.com/uk/482528-facebook-closes-london-offices-coronavirus/

George Soros-Backed Group Gave Huge Donation to County Prosecutor Who Dropped Jussie Smollett Charges

Anti-American billionaire George Soros reportedly gave seven-figure campaign donations to re-elect Kim Foxx, the Chicago prosecutor who decided to drop all charges against accused hate hoaxer Jussie Smollett.

Foxx is running to return to her office as state’s attorney for Cook County, and it’s reported that she benefited from a political pac named the Illinois Justice & Public Safety PAC which helped her run a six-figure ad campaign. It turns out that the pac’s entire $2 million budget came from one of the many activist groups stealthily funded by Soros, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

The Soros funding came as part of the billionaire’s effort to put radical leftists into county attorney and prosecutor offices all across the country. And Foxx has been part of the Soros plan for years, already. She received $408,000 from the foreign billionaire when she first ran for her office in 2016.

Foxx was widely criticized for her controversial decision to drop charges of lying about a hate crime lodged against TV actor Jussie Smollett despite that the Chicago Police and a grand jury recommended that he be prosecuted. Even the city’s left-wing mayor vowed to hold the actor accountable for his actions.

Readers may recall last January when Smollett claimed that he was beaten by two white racists in MAGA hats who poured bleach on him and hung a noose around his neck after he left a Subway restaurant in downtown Chicago during a freezing cold morning.

It was not long before the Chicago Police Dept. gathered enough evidence to show that the former Empire star was lying about the attack. Police collected evidence they say showed that Smollett had conspired with two brothers, Abel and Ola Osundairo, to buy all the supplies used in the “attack,” that he paid them thousands of dollars, and that he likely invented the whole story to get publicity.

George Soros is not the only super-rich leftist who supported Foxx. Free Beacon also noted that Foxx was the recipient of a lot of big dollar donations:

Donald Sussman, a billionaire hedge fund manager and major Democratic donor, has given $100,000 to Foxx’s campaign. Fred Eychaner, chairman of Newsweb Corporation, has provided $600,000. Michael Sacks, CEO of the Chicago-based Grosvenor Capital Management, gave $400,000. EMILY’s List, the SEIU, and the Real Justice PAC, a committee run by Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King, each sent hefty donations to Foxx’s campaign.

Foxx is competing against three other Democrat candidates in the Democrat primary in Illinois which is scheduled for March 17.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/03/06/george-soros-backed-group-gave-huge-donation-to-county-prosecutor-who-dropped-jussie-smollett-charges/

Greek Border in Flames as Migrants Keep Trying to Break Through

Dramatic pictures and video are emerging of fires raging along the border between Greece and Turkey, as migrants — aided and even armed by the Turks, according to the Greeks — continue their efforts to force their way in.

The European Union, including the United Kingdom, funnelled billions of euros to the Islamist government in Ankara in an effort to persuade it to bring the migrant crisis under a modicum of control after hundreds of thousands of illegal border crossings, often by sea, in 2015-16.

That deal unravelled at the end of February 2020, as Turkish president Reep Tayyip Erdogan announced migrants were free to pass through his country and into Europe, seemingly as punishment for the West’s failure to offer sufficient support to his invasion of Syria, which has become fraught with danger as his forces clash with the Russian-backed Syrian government in Idlib province.

Right now, let’s be honest, the [EU-Turkey] agreement [on migration] is dead,” said Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in an interview with CNN.

“And it’s dead because Turkey has decided to completely violate the agreement, because of what happened in Syria,” he added.

Prime Minister Mitsotakis accused the Turkish government of having “systematically assisted, both at land and at sea, people in their effort to cross into Greece,” but vowed that “Europe is not going to be blackmailed over this problem by Turkey.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/07/pictures-greek-border-flames-migrants-keep-trying-break-through/

Tories Rebel over Huawei: As ‘Ridiculous’ as Germany Working on UK Radar in 1939

A group of Conservative party grandees will seek to pass legislation to make Huawei involvement in British telecoms networks illegal, over fears the Chinese may use the equipment to spy on the United Kingdom.

Former Cabinet ministers including Sir Iain Duncan Smith, David Davis, and Owen Paterson will submit an amendment to Boris Johnson’s Telecoms Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill on Tuesday. It would seek to ensure that no equipment provided by companies deemed “high-risk vendors” by the National Cyber Security Centre, a branch of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), are used in Britain’s communication networks from after December 31st, 2022.

Currently, BT, O2, EE, Vodafone, and Three are all using Huawei in the United Kingdom.

Tory rebels speaking to the Financial Times said that as many as 40 to 60 MPs could back them, which could be enough to defeat the vote on the government’s bill. Another said that, currently, the number is closer to an ineffectual 20.

While the rebel leaders represent the right-wing European Research Group (ERG) faction, there is also support from “centrist” SO-CALLED One Nation Tories such as Tom Tugendhat.

There is also opposition to Huawei from the Labour Party and the Scottish National Party (SNP).

According to The Guardian, an insider said the move is the first in a “guerilla” campaign to force Downing Street to rethink its decision. In January, Prime Minister Johnson announced that he would be giving the go-ahead to allow the Chinese firm to assist developing the British 5G network, against the security advice of Five Eyes security alliance partners Australia and the United States.

Assertions that Huawei would only be working on the “non-core” elements and be limited to 35 per cent of the work has not assuaged the concerns of British politicians and security specialists. Last month, Nigel Farage warned that Huawei involvement could threaten intelligence-sharing with allies, a future trade deal with the U.S., and even pose a risk to NATO.

MPs discussed Huawei’s involvement in 5G during a debate in Westminster Hall on Wednesday, with Sir Iain Duncan Smith, a former Tory leader, calling the decision to allow “effectively a state-owned corporation in the People’s Republic of China under the Communist Party” access to Britain’s 5G network “ridiculous”, comparing it to coopering with Nazis on British radar development just before the war.

He said: “Imagine that in 1939 we had been developing our radar systems and decided to have one of the Nazi companies in Germany directly involved. Oh, but we reduced their involvement to 35 per cent, so they only controlled 35 per cent. I wonder how ridiculous that would have seemed.”

The Brexiteer Tory also said the figure of 35 per cent had been “plucked from thin air” and said that restricting the Chinese firm only to the peripheries “rests on the assumption that the core cannot be compromised from the edge. Most cyber experts whom I have spoken to know that this is an unsafe assumption, because they know that the whole 5G network can be attacked starting from the compromised edge, given the nature of change to the technological capability of the edge.”

“The UK Government have brushed aside the concerns of all our most important allies and the people we generally rely on. There is an overwhelming body of evidence indicating that Huawei is an untrusted vendor, which should not be given any further opportunity of access to our most vital communication networks,” he said.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/07/tories-rebel-huawei-ridiculous-german-company-uk-radar-systems-1939/

Reddit admins and CEO Spez do not want “wrong think” on Reddit. If it goes against what they want everyone the “sheep” to believe.'

They are using it eliminated the_donald. After all election season is coming up.

For a 4th day in a row, the entire Reddit frontpage has been removed by mods/admins!

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/reddit-admins-and-ceo-spez-do-not-want-wrong-think-on-reddit-if-it-goes-against-what-they-want-everyone-the-sheep-to-believe/

German City to Erect Statue of Communist Mass Murderer Vladimir Lenin

A court in a German city has ruled that the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) will be allowed to erect a statue of Vladimir Lenin, the mass-murdering founder of the Soviet Union.

The administrative court in Gelsenkirchen overruled the city’s decision to halt the construction of a monument to Vladimir Lenin, the architect of the Russian Revolution of 1917 which birthed the Soviet Union — a state responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of innocent people.

The city had argued that the statue would detract from the historical value of the adjacent savings bank building, but the court ruled that objections over Lenin’s historical atrocities were irrelevant as the statue is to be constructed more than ten meters away from the bank, Deutsche Welle reports.

The Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany hailed the decision by the court, saying: “A few weeks before his 150th birthday, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin has once again won a great victory.”

The move by the court was slammed by Marco Buschmann, a Free Democrats (FDP) member of parliament from Gelsenkirchen, who said: “A Lenin statue would be a disgrace for Gelsenkirchen” as “Lenin stands for mass murder and totalitarianism.”

“Anyone who wants to erect a Lenin statue should ask themselves whether they are still grounded in liberal democratic principles or not,” he added.

In 2017, following the controversy over Confederate memorials in the American South, activists tried to remove a statue of Vladimir Lenin in the city of Seattle. The statue was first installed in the city in the early 1990s after a local man purchased the statue following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Benedict Evans, a local venture capitalist, and over 900 people in a Facebook group named “Seattle, Tear Down This Lenin Statue!” called for the removal of the monument to the communist dictator.

“If one wanted to pull down statues of profoundly evil people, responsible for uncountable human suffering, this one might be on the list,” Evans wrote.

Lenin’s reign as the head of the Soviet Union was marked by mass starvation, the internment of political enemies in gulags (concentration camps), the mass executions of the Red Terror, and the invasion of neighbouring countries.

In his persecution of the kulaks — peasants with over eight acres of land — Lenin ordered his men in one instance to: “1) hang without fail, so that the public sees, at least 100 notorious kulaks, the rich, and the bloodsuckers. 2) Publish their names. 3) Take away all of their grain. 4) Execute the hostages.”

“This needs to be accomplished in such a way, that people for hundreds of miles around will see, tremble, know and scream out: let’s choke and strangle those blood-sucking kulaks,” Lenin commanded.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/07/german-city-to-erect-statue-of-communist-mass-murderer-vladimir-lenin/

Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman arrests 'treasonous' rivals: Saudi Arabia king's brother, an ex-crown prince and a cousin are held by masked black-clad guards for 'coup plot' as MBS tightens his grip on power

Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz al Saud and Prince Mohammed bin Nayef arrested

Over plot to oust king and son, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, reports suggest

Mohammed bin Nayef had been crown prince before his title was taken away

King Salman put his son - Prince Mohammed bin Salman - first in line for throne

The brother and nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Salman have been arrested over a plot to oust the king and his son, Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, a brother of King Salman, and the monarch's nephew Prince Mohammed bin Nayef were accused of treason.

They were taken from their homes early on Friday by black-clad royal guards, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The Saudi royal court has accused the two men, once potential contenders for the throne, of 'plotting a coup to unseat the king and crown prince' and could face lifetime imprisonment or execution, the newspaper said.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8085257/Two-members-Saudi-royal-family-arrested-plotting-coup.html

THROUGH APPS, NOT WARRANTS, ‘LOCATE X’ ALLOWS FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TO TRACK PHONES

U.S. law enforcement agencies signed millions of dollars worth of contracts with a Virginia company after it rolled out a powerful tool that uses data from popular mobile apps to track the movement of people’s cell phones, according to federal contracting records and six people familiar with the software.

The product, called Locate X and sold by Babel Street, allows investigators to draw a digital fence around an address or area, pinpoint mobile devices that were within that area, and see where else those devices have traveled, going back months, the sources told Protocol.

They said the tool tracks the location of devices anonymously, using data that popular cell phone apps collect to enable features like mapping or targeted ads, or simply to sell it on to data brokers.

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Babel Street has kept Locate X a secret, not mentioning it in public-facing marketing materials and stipulating in federal contracts that even the existence of the data is “confidential information.” Locate X must be “used for internal research purposes only,” according to terms of use distributed to agencies, and law enforcement authorities are forbidden from using the technology as evidence — or mentioning it at all — in legal proceedings.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/76438/through-apps-not-warrants-locate-x-allows-federal-law-enforcement-to-track.html

Finland’s Millennial Feminist Govt to Help Greece… By Sending Border Guards to Help Migrants Claim Asylum

Finland’s millennial feminist-led government faces a vote of no confidence after pledging to send personnel to the Greek border — to help migrants claim asylum.

34-year-old Green League politician Maria Ohisalo, who serves as Minister of the Interior under 34-year-old Social Democratic party leader Sanna Marin in a red-green left-wing coalition government, said Finland was following the common European Union line to “reject Turkey’s attempts to use people as political pawns” — but also said that the Greek government’s decision to suspend asylum applications was “wrong”.

The Greeks have been faced with huge pressure at their land border with Turkey, where thousands of migrants have massed, facilitated by transport provided by the Turkish authorities.

The migrants have been making violent sallies against Greek border forces for days, often under cover of tear gas fire on the Greek lines by Turkish personnel — although the Turks claim this has only been in response to the Greeks firing tear gas at them.

But despite going along with the official EU-mandated line of support for the Greek government and committing to “sending a four-guard unit to take part in a rapid border intervention operation” on the Greek border, according to public broadcaster Yle, the Finnish government has also denounced the Greek government’s decision to suspend asylum applications — and suggested any Finnish personnel on the ground will “try to support Greece” by receiving asylum seekers.

“The Finnish government’s position here is clear. When we secure our borders, we are abiding by international obligations. International obligations include [observing] the right to apply for asylum. This is one of the areas where we will try to support Greece,” said Maria Ohisalo.

Danish personnel operating in Greek waters with Frontex, the European Union Border and Coast Guard Agency, have already boasted of having defied orders from Greek senior officers to turn back illegal migrants arriving in Greek territorial waters by sea, instead bringing them to the Greek island of Kos.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/07/finlands-millennial-feminist-govt-helping-greece-by-sending-border-guards-help-migrants-claim-asylum/

Al Nusra Deploys To Front Line In Donbass

Reinforcements from the ranks of terrorist groups in the Middle East arrived at the Kiev militants on the front line with the Lugansk People’s Republic, according to the Office of the People’s Police of the LPR.

“Due to the low staffing of units of the armed forces of Ukraine and the unsatisfactory level of combat training of personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ukrainian leadership continues to attract Islamic mercenaries from the countries of the Middle East to the punitive operation zone in the Donbass,” said Ivan Filiponenko, press officer of the UNM.

The defense department of the Republic announced the information received by the intelligence: in the area of ​​n. Muratovo arrived two trucks with ammunition.

According to eyewitnesses, together with the ammunition, up to ten unknown people of eastern appearance in black uniform arrived at the temporary deployment point of the 93rd brigade.

“It was possible to establish that these persons belonged to the radical Islamist group Jabhat Fath al-Sham (formerly Jebhat al-Nusra) and arrived from Severodonetsk, where they were trained under the leadership of the militants of Hizb-ut-Tahrir-al- Islami “. In this connection, we expect an increase in the intensity of provocative attacks and the work of enemy sabotage reconnaissance groups in order to aggravate the situation in this direction, ” Filiponenko said.

Note that n. Muratovo is located on the other side of the front line from the long-suffering village of Donetsk, which has been covered by shells for 6 years.

https://www.fort-russ.com/2020/03/major-al-nusra-deploys-to-front-line-in-donbass/

Coronavirus outbreak: Globally more than 56 thousand recovery cases reported, death toll rises to 3,461

The impact of the virus outbreak can clearly be seen in the travel industry as the international tourist arrivals have come down by as much as 3% in 2020, said UN

The deadly coronavirus has infected more than 100,000 people across 91 countries. China which is the epicentre of coronavirus has recorded 28 new deaths on Friday (March 6, 2020) bringing the nationwide toll to 3,070. Meanwhile, 56,106 recovered cases of coronavirus were also reported globally.

There were 99 fresh cases of infection, according to the National Health Commission, with a rise in the new cases outside the virus epicentre of Hubei province for a third consecutive day.

In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, US President Donald Trump has signed an $8.3 billion measure to help tackle the emergency situation.

The impact of the virus outbreak can clearly be seen in the travel industry as the international tourist arrivals have come down by as much as 3% in 2020, said UN. The dip in percentage is due to the travel restrictions imposed by several countries in order to prevent the spread of the virus.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged countries to take the issue of containing coronavirus at their 'highest priority'.

Italy which is one of the most affected countries after China has also reported 49 more deaths on Friday taking the total number of deaths in the country to 197. The 49 deaths reported in a day is the highest single-day toll till date. Italy also has the fourth-highest number of infections due to coronavirus with 4,636 cases. The first three are China, South Korea and Iran.

South Korea on Saturday reported 174 additional coronavirus cases taking the national tally to 6,767, the Korea Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention (KCDC) said.

The countries which reported its first cases of coronavirus on Friday include the Vatican, Bethlehem and Bhutan. Bethlehem was put on lockdown on Friday after the first Palestinian cases of the deadly coronavirus were discovered there.

A French parliamentarian was also found to be coronavirus positive on Friday.

http://postnewsd2.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-outbreak-globally-more-than.html

ISIS Attacks Rally in Afghan Capital, Kills 32

Attack targeted Shi'ite neighborhood

A group of gunmen carried out a major attack in the Kabul neighborhood of Dasht-e Barachi on Friday, targeting a rally attended by self-proclaimed President-elect Abdullah Abdullah.

The rally was a commemoration for Abdul Ali Mazari, a Shi’ite politician who was killed by the Taliban in 1995. The rally was heavily attended by Shi’ite Hazaras, and they were the bulk of the casualties. The Interior Ministry reported 32 people killed and 81 wounded.

Coming amid a very tenuous peace deal, the Taliban was quick to deny responsibility. They’ve regularly denied strikes on Shi’ites recently. ISIS, however, has continued to target the Shi’ites, and issued their own statement taking credit for the attack.

There would be plenty of potential complicating factors, from the Taliban peace deal and the contested election. Abdullah and President Ghani have both claimed victory in the last election, and both plan to be inaugurated on Monday.

In such an unstable situation violence could’ve come from any number of sources for any reason. Ultimately, ISIS attacking Shi’ites just for the sake of attacking Shi’ites was probably the most likely explanation, and all evidence suggests that is once again the case.

https://news.antiwar.com/2020/03/06/isis-attacks-rally-in-afghan-capital-kills-32/

New Evidence Shows Coronavirus Started In The US, Not China

Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, with Ryan Cristián – The Last American Vagabond – a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (3/6/19).

As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth is, or claiming they have the answer, is likely leading you astray, for one reason or another. Stay Vigilant.

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/03/new-evidence-shows-coronavirus-started-in-the-us-not-china.html

US Blocks UN Statement Backing Syria Ceasefire

US says endorsement is 'premature'

The ceasefire in Syria’s Idlib Province took effect on Friday, and has been holding so far. With every other nation on board, the US blocked a joint UN statement backing the ceasefire, saying it was “premature” to do so.

The ceasefire was brokered by Turkey and Russia, and that’s almost certainly the problem from the US perspective. The US broadly refuses to back any Syria agreements Russia is involved in.

US officials had also been loudly backing Turkey’s military offensive in Idlib, and probably aren’t happy that Turkey has made a deal not to go to war. US officials weren’t super on board with directly participating in a Turkey-instigated war, but were only too happy to give lip-service to it.

Having the UN back a ceasefire, even if it is one not expected to necessarily survive, is usually the norm, though the US may find, in seeking backing for its Afghan deal, they may face similar resistance.

https://news.antiwar.com/2020/03/06/us-blocks-un-statement-backing-syria-ceasefire/

OVER 100 TURKISH-BACKED SYRIAN MILITANTS WERE KILLED IN LIBYA – REPORT

The number of Turkish-backed Syrian militants who were killed fighting for the Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya has risen to 117, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) revealed in a report on March 7.

According to the London-based monitoring group, the slain militants fought in the ranks of the Mu’tasim Division, the Sultan Murad Division, the Northern Hawks Brigade, the Hamza Division and Suleiman Shah Brigade. These groups are all members of the so-called Syrian National Army (SNA).

“The slain fighters were killed during clashes on the axes of Salah Al-Din neighborhood south of Tripoli, the Ramla axis near Tripoli airport in addition to the axis of the Hadaba project and other areas in Libya,” the SOHR said in its report, citing sources familiar with the matter.

The monitoring group said that many other Turkish-backed militants were injured while fighting in Libya. Wounded Syrian militants are reportedly receiving treatment in three medical centers known as al-Mashtal clinic, al-Kaddour clinic, and al-Shaal Ghout clinic.

The current of number of Syrian militants in Libya is around 4750. All of them were transported from Turkey over the last few months as a part of Ankara’s efforts to support the GNA. A least 150 of these militants escaped their Turkish commanders in Libya to seek refuge in Europe.

The Turkish military intervention in Libya allowed pro-GNA forces to hold onto their remaining positions around the capital, Tripoli. However, the Libyan National Army (LNA) still has the upper hand in the country.

https://southfront.org/over-100-turkish-backed-syrian-militants-were-killed-in-libya-report/

‘SURPRISE’: AL-QAEDA’S HTS REJECTS RUSSIAN-TURKISH AGREEMENT ON GREATER IDLIB, VOWS TO FIGHT ON

Al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has officially rejected the recent Russian-Turkish agreement on Greater Idlib, vowing to keep on fighting.

In an official statement, the terrorist group claimed that the agreement would allow the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Russian forces to resume military operation in the region. The group also noted that most of the agreement’s terms are “not implementable.”

“This agreement is tinged with ambiguity and loose, floating phrases that allow the Russian occupier to use it for aggression again, and there are also terms that cannot be implemented at all, in face, they are considered an insult and humiliation of the blood of the martyrs and the sacrifices of ten continuous years,” HTS’ statement, which was released on March 7, reads.

The terrorist group also thanked the Turkish government for directly engaging in the recent battle against the SAA and its allies in Greater Idlib

HTS concluded its statement by vowing to fight on against the SAA and its allies, promising that there will be “no peace or security” until the Syrian government is overthrown.

“Know that there is no language that works with the occupier other than the language of force and weapons, so seek the help of Almighty God, the great,” HTS said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish Counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan finalized the new agreement on Greater Idlib during a face-to-face meeting in Moscow on March 5. Under the new agreement, a ceasefire was put in place and joint patrols are set to start very soon on the Aleppo-Lattakia highway.

HTS’ rejection of the agreement was widely expected. The terrorist group has already violated the ceasefire several times. This hostile behavior could sabotage the agreement. In this case, the SAA and its allies will very likely resume military operations in Greater Idlib.

https://southfront.org/surprise-al-qaedas-hts-rejects-russian-turkish-agreement-on-greater-idlib-vows-to-fight-on/

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