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>>8349104 Biden Supporter Steals “Joe Biden Is a Pervert” Sign from Pro-Trump Filmmaker and Runs Off – Is Quickly Cuffed and Arrested

>>8349118 Gates Foundation to help with coronavirus testing in Seattle

>>8349140 Prince Andrew has hired Britain’s “most formidable” extradition lawyer to protect him against an FBI inquiry

>>8349241 ‘Open your gates’: Erdogan tells Greece how to ‘fix’ migrant standoff

>>8349255 Israel Deploys Teens & Army To Combat Virus As Health Ministry Says "Tens Of Thousands" Will Be Infected

>>8349264 NYCHA worker fired for investigating falsified elevator safety records: suit

>>8349308 Saudi Arabia Starts All-Out Oil War: MbS Destroys OPEC By Flooding Market, Slashing Oil Prices

>>8349316 Q: World War Z! The BioWar on You and Me! video

>>8349351 Blackwater boogeyman Prince accused of helping Project Veritas infiltrate political campaigns & unions

>>8349359 Northern Italian region protests massive quarantine over coronavirus

>>8349395 Hunter fails to turn over financial documents in child support case

>>8349407 Meadows – Chairman Burr now supports Ratcliffe for DNI…

>>8349434 Trump refuses to attend St. Patrick's Day lunch at Capitol this week in major snub to host Nancy Pelosi

>>8349512 Italy Imposes China-style Quarantine on 16m People In Attempt to Contain Coronavirus

>>8349544 Pharmaceutical Companies to Infect Volunteers with Coronavirus for $4,500

>>8349546 Du Pont heir dodged prison for raping 3-year-old daughter after judge ruled he 'would not fare well' behind bars

>>8349668 Phoenix business leader, political adviser dies after setting himself on fire

>>8349701 Indicted Alabama sheriff hospitalized ahead of trial, tested for coronavirus, lawyers say

When clowns bake this is what gets left behind

200 Pounds of Meth, Fentanyl, Cocaine, Heroin Seized at Interior Immigration Checkpoints

Yuma and San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents seized in excess of 200 pounds in methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin at interior immigration checkpoints and through traffic stops in Arizona and California. Officials estimated the drugs to be worth more than $2 million.

Welton Station Border Patrol agents assigned to the Interstate 8 Immigration Checkpoint on March 5 observed a shuttle van approaching for inspection. During an inspection and interview, a K-9 detection team alerted to the possible presence of drugs inside the van, according to information obtained from Yuma Sector Border Patrol officials.

The agent referred the driver of the shuttle van to a secondary inspection station. During a more intensive search, agents found two U.S. citizen teenagers with drugs taped to their legs. Agents determined the drugs to be fentanyl weighing more than one kilogram. Officials explained this is approximately 540,000 lethal doses. Only two milligrams absorbed, inhaled, or swallowed can be fatal, officials warmed.

The agents arrested the two juvenile teens and seized the drugs and the van. Border Patrol officials did not provide an estimated value of the drugs. An article posted by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) estimated the value of fentanyl at about $900,000 per kilo.

San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents conducted a traffic stop on a 2016 Nissan Frontier on Interstate 215 during the evening of March 4, officials reported. Following an alert by a K-9 team, agents search the vehicle and found 27 bundles that tested positive for cocaine. The smugglers allegedly hid the drugs in the front and rear seats.

The 27 packets weighed approximately 71 pounds and had an estimated street value of $786,450.

“In the last 72 hours San Diego Sector has seized over 117 pounds of lethal narcotics worth more than $1,300,000,” San Diego Sector Chief Patrol Agent Aaron Heitke said in a written statement. “Thankfully these dangerous drugs will not reach our local communities.”

The agents arrested the 32-year-old U.S. citizen driver and turned the drugs over to the DEA.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/03/08/200-pounds-of-meth-fentanyl-cocaine-heroin-seized-at-interior-immigration-checkpoints/

Banks Implementing Emergency Protocols Nation Wide – Many Branches Shutting Down

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/horrific-banks-implementing-emergency-protocols-nation-wide-many-branches-shutting-down/

3 videos: Q’s best spokesperson yet to explain, document, prove US White Hat capability to arrest .01% American traitors, looters, Orwellian-liars

I’ve just viewed all of Austin Steinbart’s videos. He claims to be among the people gathering evidence to prove a US .01% class of illegal rogue state imperialists. I fully recommend all his videos. I’ll share three:

12 minutes: What is “QAnon”?

https://youtu.be/t9ttbREavRM

32 minutes: The Dark Truth About the CIA

https://youtu.be/6m5Q_mCK58o

5 minutes: What’s up with the Resignations?

https://youtu.be/OJ_Mof-ocX8

My analysis of Q:

13-minute video of Q’s promise to reveal, arrest, and end US .01% rogue state criminals: Biblical victory OR epic PsyOp?

And for bonus, a 2-minute Bat Signal that resonates for me:

https://youtu.be/s4DwYVbBlgo

https://carlbherman.blogspot.com/2020/03/3-videos-qs-best-spokesperson-yet-to.html

China Rejects US Offer To Join Trilateral Arms Control Talks With US, Russia

BEIJING – The People’s Republic of China has not changed its mind and still has no intention to join any trilateral arms control talks with the United States and Russia, the foreign ministry said on Friday in the wake of Washington’s renewed invitation for such negotiations.

“China has repeated many times that we have no intention to join the so-called trilateral arms control talks between Russia, China and the United States, and this stance is quite clear,” Spokesman, Zhao Lijian said at a briefing, according to Sputnik.

According to the diplomat, “the US should first respond to calls from the Russian side to extend the New START Treaty and reduce its own nuclear arsenal to create conditions for other countries to join multilateral negotiations on nuclear disarmament”.

China, in turn, keeps its nuclear arsenal at a minimum level necessary to ensure national security and will never join any arms race, Zhao noted. The spokesman also stressed that the refusal to join the trilateral talks did not mean that China would abandon global nuclear disarmament efforts.

China, in turn, keeps its nuclear arsenal at a minimum level necessary to ensure national security and will never join any arms race, Zhao noted. The spokesman also stressed that the refusal to join the trilateral talks did not mean that China would abandon global nuclear disarmament efforts.

“Beijing would like to work with all sides to strengthen communication and coordination as part of existing international mechanisms and discuss issues related to global strategic stability,” he added.

Speaking at the UN on March 5, US Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation Christopher Ford effectively announced Trump’s invitation for Russia and China to join such talks. He added that China would respond soon and expressed hope for a positive answer.

The announcement comes amid debates on the future of the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) – the last remaining arms control treaty in force between Russian and the United States. The treaty expires in February 2021 and the US has so far not committed to extending the accord, signaling it favors an amended arms control regime that would also include China.

https://www.fort-russ.com/2020/03/china-rejects-us-offer-to-join-trilateral-arms-control-talks-with-us-russia/

Catholic Church Shields $2 Billion in Assets to Limit Abuse Payouts

Dioceses are aggressively moving and reclassifying holdings to shrink the value of their bankruptcy estates

For most of the 20th century, the Catholic Church in the U.S. minimized the damage wrought by pedophile priests by covering up the abuse. When the bishop of the Davenport, Iowa, diocese was told in the mid-1950s that one of his priests was sexually abusing boys at a local YMCA, he kept it secret. “It is consoling to know that no general notoriety has arisen, and I pray none may result,” he wrote to a priest, capturing the strategy of the era.

Cover-ups worked when victims and their families could be intimidated or shamed into silence. But in the 1980s and ’90s, victims started filing civil lawsuits against the dioceses where the alleged incidents took place. Church leaders across the country kept these suits quiet by settling out of court and demanding nondisclosure agreements in return. Church leaders paid out about $750 million from the early ’80s through 2002, according to BishopAccountability.org, a nonprofit that tracks clergy sex abuse.

The veil of secrecy on these transactions was pierced when the Boston Globe published its investigations into church sex abuse in 2002, sparking public outrage at how clergy had protected their own. From 1950 to 2002, 4,392 priests were accused of abuse, according to a study by John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

The pace of lawsuits escalated as public awareness grew, and besieged church leaders looked to a new option: bankruptcy. When a church district that’s been sued files for Chapter 11 and then reaches a bankruptcy settlement, a percentage of its assets are divvied up by victims. Like Fortune 500 executives—and more recently the Sacklers, the family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP—church leaders see bankruptcy as an attractive solution because it provides a controlled process for settling a large number of lawsuits while holding on to as many assets as possible.

Another benefit is secrecy. Lawsuits and trials lead to testimony and publicity. Bankruptcy ensures a quieter mass settlement that forces an end to existing lawsuits and blocks new ones. “It provides a clean slate,” says Robert Kugler, a lawyer who represented abuse victims in the St. Paul and Minneapolis archdiocese. Dioceses have gone this route more than 20 times since 2004, when the Archdiocese of Portland, Ore., declared itself insolvent.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-01-08/the-catholic-church-s-strategy-to-limit-payouts-to-abuse-victims

Esper says new virus won’t prevent military operations

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military and its warfighting command centers in the Pentagon are prepared to continue operations even if there is a local outbreak of the new coronavirus, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Thursday, as the department began finalizing its response plans.

Although only one soldier and a handful of family members and Defense Department civilians have so far tested positive for the virus, tens of thousands of troops are in countries and regions that have been hardest hit, including South Korea and portions of Europe.

The nation’s more than 2.1 million active duty, Guard and Reserve forces are spread all around the globe. And they are one of the nation’s last lines of defense against any outside threats or disasters during an outbreak, as well as a force that could be used as a last-resort to maintain order or enforce quarantines within the U.S. in the case of a pandemic.

“Our national military command center has the capability to go for weeks at a time if they have to be locked down inside the building if we have some type of outbreak,” Esper told reporters during a Pentagon press conference. He said the Pentagon is finalizing plans to prevent the spread of the virus across the force and military installations and also mitigate it in the event of any outbreak.

Already on Thursday, workers were wiping down doorknobs at the Mark Center, a major Defense Department complex in northern Virginia, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff had set up a 24-hour operations center inside the Pentagon to track the virus and any impact on the military.

Esper said that U.S. Forces Korea, where the solder and his wife and child tested positive, has set up a good model for other military commands to follow.

Army Gen. Robert Abrams, top commander of U.S. forces in Korea, has implemented restrictions on off-base travel — to include non-essential social events and “eat-in seated dining” — and allowed non-essential civilian workers and contractors to stay home. Abrams has also kept up a constant barrage of information to the troops, ranging from simple hygiene procedures to updates and even photos on Twitter of his visits with personnel affected by the virus.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/coronavirus/2020/03/06/esper-says-new-virus-wont-prevent-military-operations/

VIDEO: California Now Allowing Criminals to Come Into Stores and Steal Whatever They Want Up to $950 Under the New No-Arrest Policy (REAL)

‘Total Anarchy’: Viral Video Shows What San Francisco’s

‘No-Arrest Policy’ Looks Like

townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2020/03/04/anarchy-what-san-franciscos-no-arrest-policy-looks-like-n2563121

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/video-california-now-allowing-criminals-to-come-into-stores-and-steal-whatever-they-want-up-to-950-under-the-new-no-arrest-policy-real/

NY Major Crime Soars. Police Blame Bail Reform.

Major crimes soared in February in New York City, and New York Police Department (NYPD) officials blame one change that was implemented for the uptick: bail reform. The NYPD stated in a press release, “Criminal justice reforms serve as a significant reason New York City has seen this uptick in crime.”

According to the NYPD, compared to February 2019, major crimes grew 22.5%; in addition, the city suffered a 7.1% increase in shootings. The city also saw a rise in robbery, assault, burglary, grand larceny, and grand larceny, according to Fox News. The only piece of good news was that murder plunged 20%.

Fox News added, “The NYPD says that in the first 58 days of 2020, 482 individuals who had already been arrested for committing a felony such as robbery or burglary were rearrested for committing an additional 846 crimes. Thirty-five percent, or 299, were for arrests in the seven major crime categories – murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny, and grand larceny auto – that is nearly triple the amount of those crimes committed in the same 58 days in 2019.”

The New York Post pointed out, “All of the 482 suspects could have landed in jail prior to Jan. 1 when the state’s new bail reform law kicked in and prohibited pretrial detention in most misdemeanors and some nonviolent felonies, the NYPD said.”

The NYPD revealed that New York prosecutors declined to prosecute 803 crimes in January and February; last year that figure was 527 cases.

Police Commissioner Dermot Shea stated, “Each number presents a victim. We will continue to work hand-in-hand with New Yorkers and our law enforcement partners to zero in on the drivers of crime and deliver justice for the victims.”

In early January, Barry Latzer, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY,explained in National Review:

The new law prohibits arraignment judges (the ones that handle an arrested person’s first court appearance) from demanding bail for certain defendants or remanding them to jail. Instead, they must release the defendant on his own recognizance (ROR). This release order supposedly does not apply to violent felony offenders. However, numerous crimes of violence or potential violence are found among the state’s so-called nonviolent felonies, including certain robberies, rapes, and assaults.

And judges in New York — unlike judges in 46 other states — may not take public safety into account when deciding whether or not to release someone. While New York law directs arraignment judges to focus on the likelihood of return when ruling on release, it does not provide for an assessment of the risk of nonappearance.

He concluded, “It is true that defendants who have been arrested but not yet convicted should not be punished. It is also true that without some security — cash deposits, bail, or jail — many thousands of these defendants will never show up for their day in court, and some will commit additional crimes once freed. The balance between individual rights and public safety is best achieved by letting the judges determine on a case-by-case basis who is a flight risk or a danger to the public and helping them make this determination through data-based assessments. Top-down, arbitrary decision-making by state government simply won’t work.”

https://postnewsd2.blogspot.com/2020/03/ny-major-crime-soars-police-blame-bail.html

Putin states need to limit number of presidential terms for power alternation in Russia

Russian President noted however that there is nothing extraordinary in the unlimited number of presidential terms

MOSCOW, March 8. /TASS/. The limited number of presidential terms is a more preferable option for Russia to guarantee power alternation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.

The Russian president made this statement in an interview for the documentary project: "After A Flight over the Abyss." A fragment of the interview was shown on the Vesti Nedely (News of the Week) program on the Rossiya-1 TV Channel on Sunday.

"Today we are considering amendments to the Constitution. Very many diverse proposals are being made, including the proposal to remove the number of terms, for which the president may be elected. But still, to my mind, it is better to have a limited number of terms for electing the president to guarantee power alternation (this is important for such a country as ours)," Putin said.

There is nothing extraordinary in the unlimited number of presidential terms, Putin stated.

"In many countries, there is no limitation for the terms of electing the president. In the West, in the [United] States, this [rule] was cancelled quite recently from the historical perspective," the Russian president noted.

Putin also said that he would never take efforts to create a state system unacceptable for Russia for the sake of retaining power.

"Today there are many rumors about creating some alternative and parallel bodies of power, for example, giving additional powers to the State Council. I consider this absolutely unacceptable," the Russian president stressed.

"I understand that, honestly speaking, I will be able to control the situation in this way to keep it stable. But it is completely harmful for the country to create a situation of dual power for the future, for a perspective. To sum it up, I will say that the conclusion is as follows: I do not want and will not take efforts for the sake of extending my powers to create such a system of state power in Russia that would be unacceptable or pernicious for it," Putin said.

https://tass.com/politics/1127867

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange plummets as coronavirus fears deepen

Netanyahu promises emergency aid for vital industries; finance minister calls on businesses to allow working from home; airports authority announces cutbacks

Stocks on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange went into freefall Sunday with energy and infrastructure conglomerate Delek Group leading the rout, dropping by 35 percent at one point before recovering to -29% as the oil and gas sector took a pounding on weak demand as a result of coronavirus fears.

Israel’s national air carrier El Al was down 8% after reporting that it expected losses of $140-160 million in the period from January to April 2020 as a result of having had to close several routes due to the virus outbreak and reduced demand on other lines.

The TA-35 index of major shares slumped by over 5 percent before regaining some ground to – 4.5% as of 12:50 p.m, while the TA-125 slumped by 4.7%.

The fall followed sharp declines at the end of a highly volatile trading week on global markets, Friday. In the US, the S&P 500 index fell 1.7%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 1%, and the Nasdaq lost 1.9%. In Europe, France’s CAC 40 shed 3.7%, while Germany’s DAX was down 3.6% and Britain’s FTSE was off 3.2%.

Amid the economic and market turmoil resulting from the rapid spread of the coronavirus around the world, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the government would set up an emergency fund to provide cash flow relief to vital industries.

“We head into this crisis with the economy in a very sound position and that, of course, is an asset when compared to the situation in almost all Western states. The bad news is that no one knows just how far this epidemic will spread and what cost it will exact from an economic point of view. Therefore, we are preparing ourselves to deal with what has already happened and with what may yet happen.

“The first step that I am announcing today is that by next Sunday the Ministry of Finance will set up an emergency fund to provide cash flow relief to businesses that are vital to the functioning of the economy. The next step will be, depending on how the crisis develops, that the treasury, in coordination with the Bank of Israel, propose tools to provide cash flow relief to businesses experiencing stress as a result of the crisis.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/tel-aviv-stock-exchange-plummets-as-coronavirus-fears-deepen/

Lebanon Announces Default On $1.2BN Debt Payment In Historical First

Lebanon announced Saturday it will default on its Eurobond debt for the first time in its history. The protest-racked country has seen a recent change in government, banks opened for merely about half of the past few months, strict controls on hard currency withdrawals and transfers abroad amid a liquidity crisis, a plummeting Lebanese Lira since October, a run on dollars, and crushing public debt which has lately blown up to nearly 170% of its gross domestic product (now about $89.5 billion).

Prime Minister Hassan Diab confirmed in public statements the bond payment of $1.2 billion due on Monday will not be paid: “The debt has become bigger than Lebanon can bear, and bigger than the ability of the Lebanese to meet interest payments,” he said in a televised address. “We are paying the price for the mistakes of the past years. Must we bequeath them to our children?”

The broader crisis is being widely described as the worst and most potentially destabilizing disaster since the 1975-90 civil war. It also means that the country’s bond which mature on Monday and which last traded at a price of 57 cents on the dollar (or roughly 8000% YTM) won’t be repaid.

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/03/lebanon-announces-default-on-1-2bn-debt-payment-in-historical-first.html

5G Proponents Warn About Cyber Attacks, “Huge Levels of Vulnerability,” and Threats to National Security

Warnings from experts about cybersecurity risks from 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) technology are not breaking news (see 1, 2, 3). Internet of Things (IoT) technology has a 74% failure rate and experts report that cybersecurity risks are increasing with its use – not decreasing.

Here’s yet another warning from 5G Radar:

5G is here to stay, and it’s set to shake up a lot of different industries. It brings a host of benefits, including super-fast speeds, reliability, efficiency and support for many more devices. However, these innovations will change the way we approach security, as 5G opens up many new opportunities for hackers.

This is a concern, as research firm Gartner predicts that 66 percent of organizations will adopt 5G by the end of 2020. And 59 percent of these businesses plan to use 5G to support the Internet of Things.

According to the 2019 Brookings report, there are five ways in which 5G networks are more susceptible to cyberattacks, which are:

5G is no longer centralized, hardware-based but has switched to distributed, software-defined digital routing – cyber hygiene checks cannot be implemented

Higher-level network functions are no longer physical but virtualized in software – this increases cyber vulnerability

5G networks are managed by software and so cannot be shutdown if a hacker gains control of the software, they have complete control of the network

5G has a huge increase in bandwidth, giving hackers additional areas to attack

Billions of devices can be attached to an IoT network which provides huge levels of vulnerability

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/03/5g-proponents-warn-about-cyber-attacks-huge-levels-of-vulnerability-and-threats-to-national-security.html

The West Is One Real Crisis Away From a Skynet-Style Surrender of Privacy

In a 2015 video, Microsoft's Joseph Sirosh described the advantages of wiring up a herd of cows to the cloud application via a motion sensor. One of the farmer's problems is determining when a cow is in estrous so it can be artificially inseminated during the short period it is fertile. Motion sensors can pick up the abnormal restlessness of cows in heat with 95% accuracy, leading to immense benefits for the Japanese farmers who implemented the system of connected cows.

The Chinese Communist Party used the same system to inform and guide its quarantine during the recent Covid-19 outbreak: "China used locational and other data from hundreds of millions of smartphones to contain the spread of Covid-19, according to Chinese sources familiar with the program."

In addition to draconian quarantine procedures, which kept more than 150 million Chinese in place at the February peak of the coronavirus epidemic, China used sophisticated computational methods on a scale never attempted in the West. …

Chinese government algorithms can estimate the probability that a given neighborhood or even an individual has exposure to Covid-19 by matching the location of smartphones to known locations of infected individuals or groups. The authorities use this information to use limited medical resources more efficiently by, for example, directing tests for the virus to high-risk subjects identified by the artificial intelligence algorithm.

All smartphones with enabled GPS give telecom providers a precise record of the user’s itinerary. Smartphone users in the United States and Europe can access their own data, but privacy laws prevent the government from collecting this data. China has no such privacy constraints.

Without Western limits, the Chinese Communist Party treated hundreds of millions like a herd of cows. Any doubt that a similar technological capability exists in the West is dispelled by Taiwan. The island nation also managed its population similarly.

https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/connected-cows/

SYRIAN ARMY FOUND PLACE WHERE MILITANTS PLANNED CHEMICAL PROVOCATION IN GREATER IDLIB

The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has found the place where militants planned to stage a chemical provocation near the city of Saraqib in southeast Idlib, the Russia Russia-24 TV reported on March 8.

Syrian troops discovered a rocket-propelled munition containing a chemical substance, an improvised explosive device (IED) and equipment for working with hazardous chemicals.

“during a more thorough inspection next to the container of liquid was discovered improvised explosive device with the supplied wires. Our equipment recorded that the yellow substance in the container is a chemical toxic substance. The results of the preliminary analysis, the chlorine,” Syrian officer, Hassan Bashir, role the channel.

The RIA Novosti agency released several photos showing the materials and equipment found by the SAA near Saraqib city.

Militants of al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) attempted to use the chemicals to stage a provocation on March 2. However, they ended up poisoning themselves, according to the Ministry of Defense of Russia.

The militants’ provocation was likely meant to justify a intervention by the U.S. and other Western nations against the SAA. Similar plans were uncovered by Russian, Syrian and Lebanese sources over the last year.

https://southfront.org/syrian-army-found-place-where-militants-planned-chemical-provocation-in-greater-idlib-photos/

TURKISH ARMORED VEHICLE ATTEMPTED TO PULL DOWN GREEK BORDER FENCE

On March 6th, a video was shared on social media showing Turkish security forces use an armored vehicle, with a rope to pull down the fence at the Greek border and allow migrants to pass.

The vehicle, according to Greek media is one of the “HIZIR / ATES” type vehicles with daytime and nighttime border surveillance vehicles, which Turkey received from May to August 2019, financed by a program for which 75% were paid for the EU.

Furthermore, Turkish special police operations units were shown pointing their high-powered rifles at the Greek border patrol cars.

Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said that the migrants that the migrants who cross to Europe would go above one million, which would cause the fall of European governments and destabilization of their economies.

https://southfront.org/turkish-armored-vehicle-attempted-to-pull-down-greek-border-fence/

Turkish government is now attacking all its neighbours

FEDS BUST HEINOUS BIRTH TOURISM RING IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials conducted raids on three residential buildings being used for an elaborate ‘birth tourism’ scheme in Southern California last week.

The buildings were being utilized by a birth tourism ring called You Win USA Vacation Resort. The entity charged pregnant foreign women around $50,000 in return for shepherding them through the US visa and immigration process, with the understanding that they would exploit America’s birthright citizenship laws to ensure their children would be US citizens.

Community members in the Irvine neighborhood described seeing groups of pregnant Chinese women arriving and living at the apartments where the birth tourism ring was keeping them.

Court documents related to the bust of You Win USA Vacation Resort describe the birth tourism ring as having enabled more than 400 women give birth in the geographic United States in the past two years- at one Orange County Hospital alone.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/76444/feds-bust-heinous-birth-tourism-ring-in-southern.html

Israel Hits a Brick Wall

Elections are supposed to solve problems by reordering government, adopting new policies, and putting new people in control. But how many elections must Israel have before it realizes it can do none of those things because it’s caught in an intractable constitutional bind?

The latest election, the third in less than a year, saw Benjamin Netanyahu surge past Benny Gantz, his slightly more moderate rightwing challenger. But otherwise it accomplished nothing since it still left Netanyahu’s coalition with just 58 seats, three shy of a majority. This was a slight improvement over the last election, which left him six short, but a step back from the election last April when he was able to assemble a hair-thin 61-seat majority – but which, in any event, fell apart after just a few weeks.

So Netanyahu is back where he started. No matter how many times Israelis go to the polls, they find that that a stable ruling majority is still out of reach.

Why? The problem, basically, is one of politics and demography. A growing portion of the population is either anti-Zionist, non-Zionist, or indifferent to the entire concept. Zionist parties must therefore battle for control of a Zionist hard core that is constantly shrinking in hopes of assembling a governing majority. The more the numbers turn against them, the more difficult the task becomes, which is why paralysis and incoherence are increasingly the norm.

This is especially the case the more politicians quarrel over what Zionism even means. Avigdor Lieberman, Netanyahu’s bellicose former minister of defense, shows how mind-bending the problem has become. His party, Yisrael Beiteinu (“Israel is Our Home”), saw its representation shrink from eight to seven seats in the latest round. But since he’s also far to the right, it should still be enough to put Netanyahu over the edge – if, that is, he agreed to join his coalition.

But he won’t. The reason is that Yisrael Beiteinu represents a million or so ex-Soviets who immigrated after 1989 only to fall victim to a curious contradiction in Israeli religious law. For purposes of immigration, Israel uses the old Nazi definition of a Jew as anyone with one or more Jewish grandparents. As strange as this may sound, Israel’s founders figured that anyone Jewish enough to suffer under Nazi oppression should be Jewish enough to find refuge in the Jewish state – and so the Nazi standard became law. But for purposes of family law and other domestic affairs, they adopted a different standard, that of the orthodox rabbinate, which holds that the only Jews who qualify are those born of a Jewish mother or who convert under orthodox supervision.

Some forty percent of Lieberman’s followers do not meet the rabbinic standard, which means that they are effectively reduced to second-class citizenship in terms of marriage, employment, and a host of other issues as well. But makes the issue especially explosive is the military draft, which affects ex-Soviets but not orthodox males who devote themselves full-time to religious studies. David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, struck the deal back in 1948 when just a few hundred yeshiva students in Jerusalem were affected. Since then, however, the orthodox sector has expanded to twelve percent of the population, more than a million people in all. Soviet immigrants and their children must their lives at risk to protect orthodox Israelis who don’t even regard them as Jewish.

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/03/08/israel-hits-a-brick-wall/

NYT Bombshell: Soviet Documents Detail Plan To Use Bernie To Spread Communist 'Propaganda' in US

It’s difficult to remember that as of last Saturday afternoon, Sen. Bernie Sanders was still considered the odds-on favorite — if not a shoo-in — to win the Democratic nomination for president.

It’s been a long week for the Vermont socialist since then.

His loss to Joe Biden in Saturday’s South Carolina primary, while expected, was worse than anyone had anticipated. This led to Super Tuesday, which erased any pretensions that Sanders had to front-runner status.

Then came Friday, in which The New York Times revealed Sanders had been the target of a Soviet plot to spread their propaganda in the United States.

In the 1980s, Sanders rose to fame as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont. This would have been wholly unexciting to anyone except for the novel fact that he was a socialist at a time where the word was considered verboten if you wanted to win any sort of political office in the United States.

If you want to see how much of a novelty this was and you have a few minutes to spare, here’s a 1981 video of Sanders on NBC’s “Today” shortly after he was elected, with Phil Donahue cautiously considering him as if he were a sort of space alien:

Later in the 1980s, when Sanders’ Burlington became a sister city to Yaroslavl, USSR, he said he wanted the two superpowers to “live together as friends.”

That’s great, but it turns out the Soviets wanted a little something more from our space alien.

According to The Times, the sister-city program more than just a goodwill effort — Sanders was reportedly being groomed by the Soviets to spread their propaganda in the United States.

“One of the most useful channels, in practice, for actively carrying out information-propaganda efforts has proved to be sister-city contact,” a document from the Soviet Foreign Ministry to Yaroslavl at the time read.

Sanders would visit the USSR in 1988 in what he would call “a very strange honeymoon” (whether it was actually his honeymoon or not is a fact that remains under dispute, not that it matters much). In Yaroslavl, according to NBC News, he was filmed singing “This Land is Your Land.”

That’s all very nice, but it turns out the Soviets had more in mind for Sanders than just singing Woody Guthrie songs.

The files detailing the sister-city relationship, which have been at the Yaroslavskaya Region State Archive in Yaroslavl (and remained unseen by anyone in the media because, according to Russian officials, no one bothered to look at them), discuss the negotiations for setting up the sister-city initiative.

“Throughout their negotiations with Burlington City Hall, Yaroslavl officials were coordinating their messaging with Soviet officials in Moscow,” The Times’ report said.

“In a letter to Moscow seeking approval for travel to the United States, Yaroslavl officials pledged that they would talk about the ‘peace-loving foreign policy’ of the Soviet Union and the changes being implemented by [then-Soviet Premier Mikhail] Gorbachev. They attached a seven-point ‘plan for information-propaganda work’ on their visit to Burlington, with specific talking points for each of the delegation’s three members.

“The plan is followed by a nine-page guide issued by the Soviet Foreign Ministry on how to communicate Mr. Gorbachev’s policies to international audiences. It describes antiwar movements, sister-city contacts and foreign cultural figures as particularly important targets for Soviet propaganda.”

“When carrying out propaganda measures abroad, the forms and methods of the information-propaganda work and its concrete contents must be approved by the Soviet Embassy and take into account the Soviet Union’s relationship with the given country,” that document reads.

This was all part of a Soviet initiative to “reveal American imperialism as the main source of the danger of war,” according to The Times.

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http://www.hideoutnow.com/2020/03/nyt-bombshell-soviet-documents-detail.html

US, Israel waging biological warfare on massive scale

The Israel-supported group United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is pressuring the big pharmaceutical companies to end their Iran business at the exact moment that Iran is the second hardest-hit country by the coronavirus pandemic after China.

The group United Against Nuclear Iran has paid John Bolton a quarter of a million dollars, which (money) is coming from Israel, which of course gets that money by raiding the United States Treasury to the tune of well, one estimate published in Christian Science Monitor two decades ago was that Israel had already stolen trillions, literally trillions of dollars. That’s what it cost the United States. So Americans have allowed Israel to colonize them and raid them and rape and pillage them.

Pro-Trump US group moves to prevent medicine sales to Iran

The American hawkish group UANI is pressuring pharmaceutical firms to stop selling drugs to Iran amid a massive coronavirus outbreak in the country.

And this UANI group is just one of the many Israel pressure groups running United States foreign policy. It’s just an outrage. And now they’re trying to amplify the plague of coronavirus in Iran, which one suspects that they themselves may have actually engineered it, because otherwise how could an Israeli company claim that they’ll have a vaccine against coronavirus in less than two weeks when all scientists say that if there’s a novel outbreak like this, it would take at least a year to have a vaccine.

A recent article by former CIA officer Philip Giraldi suggests that probably the US and Israel are working together. They’re the same people who used Stuxnet against Iran, endangering the nuclear facilities not only in Iran, but all over the world because it got loose and nearly created horrible nuclear accidents all over the world. And apparently now they’ve done the same thing with this coronavirus.

Philip Giraldi’s article is called, Who Made Coronavirus? Was It the U.S., Israel or China Itself?, and he strongly suspects the US and Israel, with China being America’s biggest geostrategic antagonist and Iran being Israel’s biggest problem.

https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/03/08/us-israel-waging-biological-warfare-on-massive-scale/