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>>9110641 Annual report on global preparedness for health emergencies Global Preparedness Monitoring Board September 2019 mention release of "Lethal Respiratory Pathogen"

>>9110695 ‘Shoot first, think later’: Obscure US law INCREASINGLY helps police officers to get away with using excessive force

>>9110713 Mexico's president calls for investigation into Obama-era Fast and Furious Operation

>>9110723 Italy: 79 illegal migrants arrive at Lampedusa despite lockdown

>>9110781 Germany: Thousands demonstrate against lockdown across the country

>>9110843 ‘Beginning of an Invasion’ – UK Boat Migrant Influx Hits New Record

>>9110893 Open Borders: Supreme Court Says Criminal Can’t Be Deported to Country with Worse Healthcare than UK

>>9110979 Three members of Rochdale grooming gang are STILL living in the town two years AFTER they were ordered to be deported for abusing girls as young as 12

NOT NOTABLE

AJC Video Appears to Show Ahmaud Arbery Entering Home on McMichael’s Street, Running Out After He’s Spotted By Neighbor

All week the liberal media was unglued over the tragic story of a young black Georgian, Ahmaud Arbery, who was shot dead by two white men and likely racists.

Of course, our hearts go out to his family.

The Georgia NAACP posted this description online of the shooting of Arbery who was ‘murdered’ by ‘white supremacists’ while he was out jogging.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution released security video of Ahmaud Arbery breaking into homes on McMichael’s Street.

Jack Posobiec reported– New AJC video appears to show Ahmaud Arbery entering new house on McMichael’s street, running out after spotted by neighbor.

It looks like, once again, the media and liberal hacks jumped the gun on a story to promote a narrative and NOT the truth.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/oopsie-ajc-video-appears-show-ahmaud-arbery-entering-home-mcmichaels-street-running-spotted-neighbor/

Portugal to take up to 60 unaccompanied migrant children from Greek camps

Portugal is to take up to 60 unaccompanied children from Greek refugee camps, according to Socialist Party lawmaker Isabel Santos, as concern mounts over the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the vulnerable group, Reuters reports.

The children are expected to arrive in Portugal within the next few weeks, Santos was cited by local news agency Lusa as saying during an online conference to celebrate Europe Day. The member of the European Parliament did not specify a date.

At least 5,200 unaccompanied minors live in Greece, many of them under harsh conditions in camps on islands in the Aegean.

Human Rights Watch said the Greek authorities had not done enough to address the “overcrowding and lack of health care, access to adequate water, sanitation, and hygiene products” in the camps to limit the spread of coronavirus.

Portugal, which has reported 27,406 cases of the virus, with 1,126 deaths, said it was willing to take in some children as part of a voluntary European scheme to relocate around 1,600. Other countries, including Germany, Ireland, France and Luxembourg, are also involved in the initiative.

The first relocations took place last month when 12 minors were transferred to Luxembourg, since when Germany has received around 50 children.

Santos, who said Portugal was the first country to offer assistance to Greece, was critical of the European response to the issue, saying the relocation scheme “had failed” since its introduction.

“These children live under bad conditions,” she said. “They live in refugee camps with the triple, quadruple and in many cases up to five times the population they are able to accommodate.”

Hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees fleeing conflicts and poverty in countries such as Syria have used Greece as a springboard to gain entry to other European countries.

In February, tens of thousands of migrants tried to enter Greece after Turkey said it would no longer prevent them from doing so.

Turkey now hosts about 3.4 million refugees and migrants, while Greece has about 120,000 who are waiting for asylum applications to be processed.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200510-portugal-to-take-up-to-60-unaccompanied-migrant-children-from-greek-camps/

Emirati foreign minister condemns Israel’s annexation plans

Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan joins chorus of states warning Israel against applying sovereignty over large parts of West Bank, dismisses claims Gulf states would accept the move

The United Arab Emirates on Sunday joined a growing chorus of states condemning the incoming Israeli government’s plans to annex parts of the West Bank.

“This unilateral step is illegal, undermines chances for peace and contradicts all efforts made by the international community to reach a lasting political solution in accordance with relevant international resolutions,” said the Gulf country’s foreign minister, Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Unilaterally applying sovereignty over any part of the West Bank would be illegal, undermine the chances for peace, “and contradict all efforts made by the international community to reach a lasting political solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he added.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/emirati-foreign-minister-condemns-israels-annexation-plans/

Roy Horn of Legendary Magic Duo ‘Siegfried and Roy’ Dies of Coronavirus

The world lost a Magic Legend on Saturday as the famous Roy of Siegfried and Roy passed away on Friday.

Roy Horn, one-half of the popular Las Vegas animal and magic act Siegfried and Roy, died Friday of complications from the coronavirus, according to his publicist. He was 75.

Roy Uwe Ludwig Horn and Siegfried Fischbacher began their upbeat performances in Europe, later becoming regulars in Las Vegas, where they performed for four decades.

“Roy was a fighter his whole life including during these final days,” Fischbacher said in a statement. “I give my heartfelt appreciation to the team of doctors, nurses and staff at Mountain View Hospital who worked heroically against this insidious virus that ultimately took Roy’s life.”

Their revue ended after Horn was attacked on stage by a white tiger named Mantecore in October 2003, severing his spine.

The attack happened on Horn’s 59th birthday, and an audience member told CNN at the time that Horn “looked like a rag doll in his mouth.” Horn suffered massive blood loss and stroke, and required two surgeries.

Horn believed the attack was a reaction to a stroke and afterward called Mantecore “my lifesaver,” his publicist said.

Horn eventually was able to walk again, but he and Siegfried would only perform together one more time for a benefit before retiring in 2010. He spent the rest of his life traveling, visiting his animals and attending shows and philanthropic events in Las Vegas, the statement said.

https://thedcpatriot.com/roy-horn-of-legendary-magic-duo-siegfried-and-roy-dies-of-coronavirus/

FLASHBACK: Barack Obama Pardoned a Former General Who Lied to the FBI

In a leaked phone conversation recording with former members of his administration released last week, Barack Obama claimed that the “rule of law is at risk” because of the “unprecedented” move by the Justice Department to drop charges against Michael Flynn, who was the victim of a perjury trap set up by officials in the FBI. Flynn was coerced into pleading guilty to lying to FBI officials.

“The news over the last 24 hours I think has been somewhat downplayed — about the Justice Department dropping charges against Michael Flynn,” Obama said. “And the fact that there is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free. That’s the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic — not just institutional norms — but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk. And when you start moving in those directions, it can accelerate pretty quickly as we’ve seen in other places.”

But, in 2017, just days before leaving office, Barack Obama pardoned retired Marine Corps general James E. Cartwright, who pleaded guilty to charges of lying to the FBI.

Cartwright served as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Obama, and was “a key member of Mr. Obama’s national security team in his first term and earned a reputation as the president’s favorite general,” according to the New York Times. Cartwright had leaked classified information regarding Iran’s nuclear program to the media and lied to FBI officials investigating those leaks. He faced up to two years in prison before Obama pardoned him.

General Cartwright left government in 2011. The leak investigation that ensnared him began in June 2012, when David E. Sanger, a reporter for The New York Times, published a book, “Confront and Conceal,” and an article in The Times that described Operation Olympic Games, an American-Israeli covert effort to sabotage Iranian nuclear centrifuges with a computer virus. F.B.I. agents came to believe that General Cartwright had also been a source for a February 2012 Newsweek article that discussed cyberattacks against Iran.

But when F.B.I. agents interviewed the retired general about the book and articles, he initially lied about his discussions with the journalists, according to a government sentencing memo.

The memo said the agents showed the general emails that contradicted his account, and he passed out and was hospitalized. Several days later, when the interview resumed, he changed his account of the discussions.

Obama reportedly based his decision to pardon the former general on Cartwright’s “description of his motive, as well as because of a letter by Mr. Sanger saying that he had already learned about the program before speaking to the general and that the conversation with the general informed his thinking about which information to withhold.”

Cartwright had only pleaded guilty to misleading the FBI, not to disclosing classified information.

General Flynn’s case, however, was dropped following revelations that Obama officials in the FBI had set up a perjury trap for him in order to get him fired as a Trump adviser. Obama officials also withheld exculpatory evidence, launched and carried out a bogus investigation over claims of Russian collusion of where there was no empirical evidence.

But, according to Obama, dropping the case against Flynn (who was the victim of entrapment and was pressured into pleading guilty) was an “unprecedented” move that put the rule of law is “at risk.”

You can’t make this stuff up.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/05/10/flashback-barack-obama-pardoned-a-former-general-who-lied-to-the-fbi-n389610

Atlanta Mayor on Arbery Shooting: Rhetoric From the White House Gives 'Permission' to Racists

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that rhetoric from the White House gave “permission” to people who are “prone to being racist” and contributed to the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man killed by two white men, in February.

Donald Trump called the shooting of the unarmed jogger a “very disturbing situation” and that “law enforcement is going to take a look at it.”

Arbery was shot by Gregory and Travis McMichael, who suspected Arbery of being involved in several home burglaries. Travis McMichael, the 34-year-old son of Gregory, had been involved in the prosecution of Arbery a few years ago on an unknown charge, although those circumstances have not been made public.

But there’s enough evidence to convict the McMicael’s of lynching, if not murder according to Bottoms.

The Hill:

“The rhetoric that we hear coming out of the White House in many ways, I think many who are prone to being racist are given permission to do it in an overt way in a way we wouldn’t [otherwise] see in 2020,” she said.

Bottoms said if local leadership fails in cities across the country, the Justice Department is supposed to step in and “make sure people are appropriately prosecuted.”

“But we don’t have that leadership at the top right now,” she said. “It’s disheartening. I have four kids, three of whom are African-American boys. They are afraid, they are angry.”

There’s more to this story that has yet to come out, but the verdict is in; guilty of racism. And not just the McMichaels, but Donald Trump as well.

The charge that rhetoric “enables” racists to commit violent, racist acts is absurd. Using that reasoning, no one should ever be able to disagree with any black activist because any counterargument will “enable” racists and white supremacists. It’s a phony argument that resonates with the black community, and not many more.

Frankly, it’s a charge that’s becoming stale. To agree with Bottoms, you have to accept the premise that she alone can discern “racist rhetoric” from the White House. Trump rarely utters anything racial at all and when he comments on race, it’s usually milquetoast bromides that are relatively uncontroversial.

That occasionally gets him in trouble because, apparently, he doesn’t emote enough about his hatred of racism. When he blamed violent, thuggish crazies on both sides for the violence in Charlotte a few years ago, the left went ballistic, saying that Trump “enabled” more violence.

Racists and white supremacists don’t need any encouragement to commit acts of violence. They are perfectly capable of hating all by themselves. That they see Trump as a kindred spirit isn’t the president’s fault, nor is it his responsibility.

Bottoms should stick to commenting on the homegrown racism in Georgia and not try to make every shooting of a black man by white people as representative of something national.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/05/10/atlanta-mayor-on-arbery-shooting-rhetoric-from-the-white-house-gives-permission-to-racists-n389609

President Obama was in on plot to 'frame' Flynn, attorney says

Former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn's lead attorney accused top officials of orchestrating a plot to frame her client, insisting that former President Barack Obama himself was in on it.

Flynn had initially pleaded guilty to providing a false statement to the FBI regarding his contact with a Russian ambassador, but later changed his story and pushed back by questioning the FBI's tactics.

"These agents specifically schemed and planned with each other how to not tip him off, that he was even the person being investigated," Powell told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," pointing to evidence that FBI agents took a casual approach with Flynn, not telling him they were investigating him and not warning him that it would be a federal crime to lie during their conversation.

"So they kept him relaxed and unguarded deliberately as part of their effort to set him up and frame him," Powell said.

According to recently released testimony, President Obama revealed during an Oval Office meeting weeks before the interview that he knew about Flynn's phone call with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, apparently surprising then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates.

After the meeting, Obama asked Yates and then-FBI Director James Comey to "stay behind." Obama "specified that he did not want any additional information on the matter, but was seeking information on whether the White House should be treating Flynn any differently, given the information."

"The whole thing was orchestrated and set up within the FBI, [former Director of National Intelligence James] Clapper, [Former CIA Director John] Brennan, and in the Oval Office meeting that day with President Obama," Powell said.

When asked if she believes that Flynn was the victim of a plot that went all the way up to Obama, Powell said, "Absolutely."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/flynn-attorney-claims-president-obama-was-in-on-plot-to-frame-him

Unidentified Gunmen Target Turkish-Backed Sham Corps In Eastern Idlib Once Again

On May 10, unidentified gunmen attacked a headquarters of the Turkish-backed Sham Corps near the town of Binnish in the eastern Idlib countryside.

“Clashes took place between the headquarters’ personnel and the attackers, before the latter run away … There is no information on any casualties until this moment,” the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said in a report.

A series of attacks targeted positions and personnel of the Sham Corps in the southern and eastern Idlib countryside over the last few weeks. In the most recent attack, which occurred on May 7, gunmen attacked a headquarters of the group near the towns of al-Fu’ah and Kafriya.

In a speech with Enab Baladi, a pro-opposition news outlet, Capt. Naji Mustafa, a spokesman for the Sham Corps, said the attacks are being investigating without providing any additional details on the matter.

Another spokesman for the group, Saif Ra’ad, told Enab Baladi that eight attacks targeted Turkish-backed militants in southern and eastern Idlib in the last few days. Equipment and arms were stolen in some of the attacks.

Al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham was accused of plotting some of the attacks. The group was recently provoked by the Sham Corps’ close work with Turkish forces to reopen the M4 highway. However, there is no evidence confirming the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham involvement in attacks yet.

https://southfront.org/unidentified-gunmen-target-turkish-backed-sham-corps-in-eastern-idlib-once-again/

Kissinger’s Self-Penned Eulogy

Some people blog, Henry Kissinger writes and his take on the consequences of the Covid-19 virus are certainly worth analysis. Kissinger as a major insider for generations of American power speaks with a voice that reflects a certain perspective on things from deep within the Beltway that those on the outside cannot entirely see or understand. But we are free to try, because one of the most solidly connected men in the world, in his mid 90s, has decided to speak out on what is to be done after the Coronavirus situation calms down. Let’s take a look at his words and see if we can read the tea leaves.

The overall message of Kissinger’s piece seems to be an appeal to the pre-crisis status quo as the plan for the post crisis world. He wrote…

Sustaining the public trust is crucial to social solidarity, to the relation of societies with each other, and to international peace and stability.

Nations cohere and flourish on the belief that their institutions can foresee calamity, arrest its impact and restore stability. When the Covid-19 pandemic is over, many countries’ institutions will be perceived as having failed. Whether this judgment is objectively fair is irrelevant. The reality is the world will never be the same after the coronavirus. To argue now about the past only makes it harder to do what has to be done.

It seems as though Kissinger agrees with those like myself that the Coronavirus and its Anti-Globalization effects could be a game changer. Where we disagree is that Ole Henry sees this as a terrible thing indeed.If there is a mass perception that the previous status quo was a failure, it will be the catalyst to choose a different path or at the very least question it.

Just a few months ago the idea that borders would be closed and human movement would be restricted seemed impossible, as it would surely sink the global economy. True we are in an obvious economic downturn, but America is not starving to death despite migrant labor being trapped on one side of the border or the other. Yes some goods are still coming cheap from China, but a quarantined America seems far from falling due to being cut off from two dollar T-shirt supplies. A Globalized Liberal World Order that Kissinger seems to have been working towards almost his entire adult life finally has a counterargument being shoved in the faces of the masses and the elites of the entire world.

Leaders are dealing with the crisis on a largely national basis, but the virus’s society-dissolving effects do not recognize borders. While the assault on human health will – hopefully – be temporary, the political and economic upheaval it has unleashed could last for generations. No country, not even the U.S., can in a purely national effort overcome the virus. Addressing the necessities of the moment must ultimately be coupled with a global collaborative vision and program. If we cannot do both in tandem, we will face the worst of each.

Although one could argue that Globalization has lead to the Coronavirus problem, Kissinger insists that only a big sloppy bucket of more Globalization is the answer. Furthermore, this raises questions. Why exactly can’t the United States deal with this problem? From the discovery of the germ theory of medicine up until the end of the Cold War a non-Globalized world was very capable of vastly extending human life and developing medical wonders Medieval peasants could only dream of. Interestingly in the very next paragraph Kissinger seems to contradict himself…

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/10/kissingers-self-penned-eulogy/

Mysterious Fires Burn Iraqi Crops For Second Year In Row (Videos)

For the second year in a row, hundreds of acres of farmlands in the northern, eastern and southern parts of Iraq were set on fire.

Local sources told the London-based New Arab on May 6 that the fires burned hundreds of acers of wheat and barley in the province of Najaf, in the areas of Azim and Muqdadiya in the province of Diyala and in Baiji in the province of Saladin.

“The losses are huge and they [the fires] are wiping out the agricultural season, which excelled with an abundant of crops,” one of the sources told the outlet.

Local farmers are blaming the government for not providing a sufficient protection for the vast farmlands. Shiekh Jamal al-Abaidi from Diyala told the New Arab that the government needs to make efforts to protect the farms.

“The government is looking at these organized fires and doing nothing, as if it is separating these agriculture issues from security issues,” al-Abaidi said.

Meanwhile, the government appears to be less warried. The Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture claimed that one of the largest fires hit Najaf crops this year was caused by a faulty generator.

The fires began following an announcement by the government that Iraq will be producing 6 million tons of wheat and barley, which is more than enough to cover the country’s needs for the upcoming year.

Some Iraqi officials, including Salam al-Shammari head of the Parliamentary Agriculture Committee, believe that some side is trying to keep Iraq an “importer” of crops.

Last year, ISIS claimed responsibility for similar crops fires in Iraq. The terrorist group’s cells used whatever they could place their hands on, from magnifying glasses to improvised-incendiary devices, to start the fires.

The fires were meant as a punishment to farmers, who had refused to pay Zakat [an Islamic income tax] to the terrorist group. The new fires this year were likely also orchestrated by ISIS for the exact same reasons.

https://youtu.be/vTQxiURaiKw

https://youtu.be/xBy6fMA-PZs

https://youtu.be/Z4pVGWoZ_Tw

https://youtu.be/ur1LxMtcBoY

https://youtu.be/VQBNuvpvwxw

https://southfront.org/mysterious-fires-burn-iraqi-crops-for-second-year-in-row-videos/

Nunes: Original FBI 302 Report Used to Brief Congress Confirming Flynn Did Not Lie is Still “Missing”

Congressman Nunes told Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that the original Flynn FBI 302 report used to brief Congress is still ‘missing.’

It was revealed in October former FBI lawyer Lisa Page EDITED General Mike Flynn’s 302 report, then lied to the DOJ about the edits.

A 302 summary report consists of contemporaneous notes taken by an FBI agent when interviewing a subject.

General Flynn’s lawyer Sidney Powell filed a motion in October, 2019 revealing that General Flynn was indeed set up by the FBI with an ambush, damaging leaks and altered 302 reports.

“Lisa Page, Special Counsel to Deputy Director McCabe, resigned; she edited Mr. Flynn’s 302 and was part of a small, high-level group that strategically planned his ambush.” the filing said.

A discussion between Lisa Page and her paramour Peter Strzok talking about editing Flynn’s 302 report was previously released.

Strzok to Page: “I made your edits” Also discussion of misleading leadership re: picking up 302.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/nunes-original-fbi-302-report-used-brief-congress-confirming-flynn-not-lie-still-missing-video/

Court: Netanyahu trial will not be aired live

But due to corona it will be aired to reporters in next door courtroom.

The trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery on May 24 will not be aired live, the Jerusalem District Court ruled Sunday.

Instead, due to the limited number of persons allowed in the courtroom under coronavirus regulations, the court will allow streaming the proceedings to two adjacent courtrooms for members of the media and some of the defendants’ lawyers.

Some members of the media and partisans on both sides of the political divide had hoped the trial would be aired live the same way that last week’s High Court of Justice proceedings related to Netanyahu were.

The court did not explain whether it had vetoed the live airing or whether one of the parties had opposed it.

Only one lawyer per defendant will be allowed in the main courtroom at a time. Besides Netanyahu, the other defendants on trial are Arnon “Noni” Mozes and Shaul and Iris Elovitch.

Normally, the media and multiple lawyers per defendant would sit in the main courtroom for a trial of this magnitude.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahus-trial-will-not-be-aired-live-627558

>>9111654

Go fuck yourself you hasbara cunts have infiltrated the kitchen and hide endless amounts of important shit and all the while attack the real anons and heavy diggers

Real Anon's don't attack those trying to get information out only clowns do

When The Masks Went On, Their Masks Came Off

Their modeling systems were wrong. Their numbers were highly exaggerated. Despite this, they were prepared to go all the way – to escalate a virus to astronomical proportions so they could shut this country down, shut the world down, and attempt to control all populations into submission through fear tactics and mind games. Why? What do they have to gain? Their masks came off when they began trying to control the minds of millions by feeding a deceptive narrative, moving for mail-in ballots to manipulate the upcoming elections, shutting down the economy while deciding who’s business was “essential” and who’s was “non-essential,” using tactics to keep people in a state of fear to make them vulnerable so they will heed the advice of so-called “experts” when a vaccine is deployed, creating a trillion dollar industry, all while simultaneously putting a halt to all protests, conferences, and rallies.

Essentially, the goal is to destroy America and install a new President that can drive them to their end game. Ultimately, when everyone was told to put on masks, their masks came off, and all was revealed. Most people see right through their charades, if for no other reason, because they have been illegally forced to close their “non-essential” businesses, lost their jobs, can no longer feed their families, and can see the unnecessary lengths they have gone to try to destroy EVERYONE, as they witness the real plague – tyranny! For those who are still trapped in the false narrative, and are complying to all rules out of fear, that fear needs to be checked against reality, as all of the evidence is out there.

The Washington Post wants everyone to believe that masks are a new fashion trend and have even brought Disney into the fold, trying to make this seem fun while declaring “masks are here to stay!” They use the word “solidarity” to make everyone feel as though they are a single unit working together to heal the world, when what they really mean is, “we believe you are all sheep and will listen to anything we tell you, so we will continue to program you to our benefit.”

More

https://www.coreysdigs.com/law-order/when-the-masks-went-on-their-masks-came-off/

How Jews are Deceived and Manipulated

Back in 2016, I was sitting in a Toronto coffee shop frequented by Jews and overheard a woman lecturing a toddler on the subject of Clinton- Good; Trump- bad." I don't know of another people so

brainwashed as my own. Antisemitism would end if more Jews acknowledged that Cabalist Judaism is essentially Satanic, and is the reason for antisemitism. Many Jews (and Freemasons) are being used as pawns to install the hellish NWO. Pawns get sacrificed.

The world economy is being destroyed by the covid hoax, perpetrated by the Cabalist (Masonic) Jewish controlled banking system, mass media and politicians. They are the real virus. Their strategy of deception is applied to humanity as a whole. In this sense, we are all becoming Jews, inductees into the Cabalist cult; cannon fodder.

Jewish children are taught that Jews are hated for no reason, due to no wrong-doing or fault.

They are taught that antisemitism is an irrational gentile trait. Explanations for this bizarre gentile behavior include envy, scapegoating, or the Crucifixion of Christ.

The Jewish child naturally grows up feeling that he is an outsider and society is flawed. An idealist, he wants to "change the world" so this type of injustice cannot occur. Thus unwittingly he becomes a pliant instrument of the Jewish power elite's "revolutionary" or globalist agenda.

Apologists serving this elite continue to mislead Jews. Take this recent article by Dennis Prager for example. Entitled "Blame the Jews?" it begins "No group in the world has been the target of nearly as many twisted and ludicrous accusations."

A Jewish reader sent it to me. See, we really are persecuted, she wanted to say.

Prager, co-author of Why the Jews? The Reason for Anti Semitism (2003) addresses the notion, advanced by Pat Buchanan and others, that Jews were responsible for the Iraq War. He compares this to other fantastic libels like the Jews started the Great Plague or made blood sacrifices of gentile children.

"Many groups have been hated in history, but their haters never made up as many lies, let alone such grandiose lies, as have Jews' enemies," Prager writes.

"It is worth analyzing this latest libel, if only to understand anti-Semitism and the enormous role it plays in the world."

Prager points to the fact that there is "not a single Jew" in the Bush cabinet. He asks why do "some people see Jews behind a war initiated by non-Jews?"

Disingenuously he neglects to mention ex Defence Policy Board Chairman Richard Perle and Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz.

Wolfowitz was featured Dec. 21 in TIME magazine in a story entitled "Godfather of the Iraq War."

https://www.henrymakow.com/000312.html

January 5, 2017: A Day that Should Live in Infamy

This week saw two major legal developments: The government withdrew its prosecution of General Michael Flynn and the transcripts of the 2017-2018 secret basement depositions by the House Committee on Intelligence were finally made public. Altogether they show a scandalous miscarriage of justice and media malpractice, which continues to this day, instigated by Barack Obama.

1. The Flynn Case

This week the Department of Justice announced that it was withdrawing its prosecution case against General Flynn. Former President Obama leaked his talking points to the ever-compliant press flacks and former officials, claiming that there was no precedent for such a dismissal, a claim that was false, to which he added another falsehood – that Flynn had been charged with perjury.

Having the new script in hand, this nonsense was repeated ad nauseam on TV, some press, and the new media.

Law Professor Jonathan Turley swatted it back. (I urge you to clip and save this because this echo chamber may well have convinced those with whom you are related or converse with and it will come in handy.):

Jonathan Turley

@JonathanTurley

President Obama is being quoted on Flynn, saying, "There is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free." It is a curious statement. First and foremost, Flynn was not charged with perjury…

Second, we now know Obama discussed charging Flynn under the Logan Act which has never been used successfully to convict anyone and is flagrantly unconstitutional. Third, this reaffirms reports that Obama was personally invested in this effort. Finally, there is precedent.

There is a specific rule allowing for this motion under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 48(a). There are specific Supreme Court cases like Rinaldi v. United States addressing the standard for such dismissals….

The Justice Department has dismissed cases in the past including the Stevens case. That was requested by President Obama's own Attorney General Eric Holder for the same reason: misconduct by prosecutors. It was done before the same judge, Judge Sullivan. How is that for precedent?

Once again, Obama makes a statement about law which is demonstrably false. In fact, not once to my recalling has he ever made a statement about the law that is correct.

As to the facts, you simply cannot count on media reports, so I will link for you the Government’s Motion to withdraw the case.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/05/january_5_2017_a_day_that_should_live_in_infamy.html

Three UN Peacekeepers Killed in Roadside Bomb Explosion in Northern Mali

UN peacekeepers are operating in Mali under the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), created by Security Council Resolution 2100 of 25 April 2013 to support political processes in the African country and carry out a number of security-related tasks.

Three UN peacekeepers were killed on 10 May and three wounded when their convoy hit a roadside bomb in northern Mali, Olivier Salgado, the spokesman for the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, said in a statement.

According to the statement, the peacekeepers were on a routine patrol in Aguelhok commune.

"We will combine all efforts to identify and apprehend those responsible for these terrorist acts so that they can answer for their crimes", Mahamat Saleh Annadif, UN mission chief in Mali, said in a statement.

On 25 January 2019, two peacekeepers of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) were killed and several others injured after a vehicle belonging to the mission hit a landmine and exploded.

The situation in Mali was destabilised in 2012 when Tuareg militants seized vast territories in the northern part of the country. The conflict escalated even more due to the activities of terrorists and forces loyal to former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, as well as French interference.

The tensions have significantly de-escalated since then; however, sporadic clashes still occur.

https://sputniknews.com/africa/202005101079264837-three-un-peacekeepers-killed-roadside-bomb-in-northern-mali/