SecDef Keeps Military Stop-Movement Order in Place After Review

The Defense Department has yet to figure out how permanent change-of-station moves will be conducted this summer when and if the stop-movement order, which currently runs through June 30, is lifted, Pentagon chief spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said Friday.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper recently reviewed the June 30 order but came to no decisions, Hoffman said at a Pentagon briefing.

Esper and other officials "did not make a determination to modify or lift the order, and the order is still in place. At the same time, we haven't made a decision to extend it," Hoffman said.

The novel coronavirus pandemic, and the shifting restrictions and guidelines in various jurisdictions to prevent its spread, have vastly complicated the DoD's approach to the peak summer moving season, he added.

U.S. Transportation Command has to take into account local and state restrictions in arranging PCS moves, Hoffman explained. As an example, "we can't move somebody from California to South Carolina if the sending state has issues or the receiving state does."

The DoD also must consider the ability of localities to test for and treat COVID-19, and whether military families arriving back in the States from overseas might have to face extensive screenings or quarantines, he said.

Hoffman noted that waivers and exemptions to the stop-movement order continue to be approved by individual commands, particularly for deployments within combatant commands and basic training.

In a virtual town hall meeting Thursday from the Pentagon, Ramon Colon-Lopez, senior enlisted adviser to Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, and Air Force Master Sgt. Jason France, the senior enlisted leader of TRANSCOM, took questions from service members.

Colon-Lopez said the DoD will continue to evaluate and review the stop-movement order. "Every 15 days, we're conducting a review to make sure that the implementation of practices makes sense," he said.

"And we're taking a common-sense approach to everything that we're doing with regards to the restrictions imposed by COVID-19. Whether it's going to be extended or stopped, it is yet to be determined," Colon-Lopez added.

France said TRANSCOM has told movers that they must adhere to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines while working in service members' homes.

"Those measures include face coverings, minimizing crew size to enable social distancing, the fact that crews must practice good hygiene, and they also must routinely clean frequently touched surfaces in our service members' homes," he said.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/05/17/secdef-keeps-military-stop-movement-order-place-after-review.html

Exploiting, not serving, the people: Israel’s shamefully inflated new government

Ben-Gurion managed with 12 ministers in Israel’s first coalition. Now we are to have 35, some overseeing patently absurd, illogical portfolios, at a time of economic meltdown

Only Benjamin Netanyahu knows the full range of factors that prompted him to leave ultra-loyal Likud colleague Nir Barkat — among the frontrunners to succeed him come the day, and publicly anointed by Netanyahu in February as Israel’s next finance minister — out of his ministerial team.

Only he knows why he is exiling one would-be successor, Gilad Erdan, to the US, to serve as ambassador to the UN and, maybe, bizarrely, for a few months from year’s end, simultaneously as ambassador in DC, while naming a second would-be successor, Israel Katz, as his minister of finance, and leaving a third would-be successor, ex-Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter, with no senior role at all.

Only he knows why he moved another loyalist, Ze’ev Elkin, away from the Environment Ministry job and instead set up the ludicrous Ministry of Higher Education and Water Resources for him; chose Yoav Gallant over other aspirants to the post of education minister; toyed with but ultimately rejected the idea of booting Yuval Steinitz from Energy; retained ex-Kulanu minister Eli Cohen (now appointed as minister of intelligence, though not with any practical oversight of the intelligence services); created a patently absurd ministerial post of “strengthening and advancing community” for the unreliable Orly Levy-Abekasis; and resurrected another name-only ministry (of “liaison between the government and the Knesset”) for loyalist David Amsalem.

Netanyahu pulled chunks of responsibility from some ministries — separating Higher Education from Education is only the most glaringly ridiculous example — and manufactured portfolios as he sought to keep almost everybody happy. (Gideon Sa’ar, who ran against Netanyahu for the Likud leadership in December, will not have been surprised to find no seat at the cabinet table.)

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/exploiting-not-serving-the-people-israels-shamefully-inflated-new-government/

After Youtube and Facebook, Vimeo bans ‘Sayed Hasan’ & Nasrallah’s videos

source: https://resistancenews.org/2020/05/16/after-youtube-and-facebook-vimeo-bans-sayed-hasan-nasrallahs-videos/

‘Sayed Hasan’ channel censored for the umpteenth time

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Please write to Vimeo (legal@vimeo.com) to protest this decision, putting me in bcc if possible (contact@lecridespeuples.fr).

On February 28, 2020, Vimeo arbitrarily deleted my channel ‘Sayed Hasan‘ which, since the deletion of my Youtube channel in December 2017 (followed by my Facebook pages in May 2019), published my French subtitled videos —extracts from speeches from Hassan Nasrallah, Ali Khamenei, Vladimir Putin, Bashar al-Assad, alternative anti-imperialist documentaries, Al-Mayadeen or Russian TV News Bulletins, etc. Thus, two years and two months of work, 400 videos posted and 600,000 views, which is not negligible in view of the fact that Vimeo is marginal vis-a-vis the giants Youtube or Facebook and their quasi-monopoly, went up in smoke.

This is not Vimeo’s first act of censorship. In June 2019, the Project Veritas account was banned following the publication of its exclusive investigation into Google’s ideological censorship, the first part of which I captioned.

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https://thesaker.is/after-youtube-and-facebook-vimeo-bans-sayed-hasan-nasrallahs-videos/

The British Rothschild biowarfare conspiracy

Look who is hiding behind the Queen and the Monarch with their plans for global genocide and control….the ROTHSCHILDS.

May 07, 2020—Conclusion from this CDC data review: The increases in mortality appear to have a direct accelerating correlation to the increased rates of vaccination.

Since the prevailing assumption that vaccines should reduce flu mortality, the statistics appear to show that vaccines disproportionately increase flu mortality, not decrease it, as intended.

Let’s stop injecting unknown foreign substances into our bloodstreams because some “expert” says its good, but where those experts have a political agenda as well as investments in the vaccine companies that will benefit.

Let’s wake up and stop being so gullible. These so-called experts who fail to disclose their massive conflicts of interest is proof enough that they only have their self interest in mind, and not the welfare of We the People and our families.

https://theduran.com/the-british-rothschild-biowarfare-conspiracy/

Nevada Dem Steven Horsford admits affair with former Harry Reid intern after he was exposed in 'Mistress for Congress' podcast

Horsford confessed to a past extramarital affair involving a 21-year-old UNLV student, who claims he provided "financial support" over the years

Nevada Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford admitted that he engaged in "a previous relationship outside of my marriage, over the course of several years." The allegations of the affair between Horsford and the former intern were first presented in a podcast series titled "Mistress for Congress."

Horsford, who has been married since 2000 and has three children, confessed that he had an affair with a woman in a statement released to the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Friday.

"It is true that I had a previous relationship outside of my marriage, over the course of several years. I'm deeply sorry to all of those who have been impacted by this very poor decision, most importantly my wife and family. Out of concern for my family during this challenging time, I ask that our privacy is respected," he Horsford said.

Gabriela Linder revealed that she is "Love Jones," the pseudonym of a person who hosted the "Mistress for Congress" podcast, "an audio memoir told week by week, of a young woman's affair with a sitting congressman, that began in 2009 and would span over a decade."

Linder told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the relationship began in 2009, when she was a 21-year-old senior at UNLV, and he was the 36-year-old majority leader of the Nevada state Senate. Linder claims that Horsford "used his status as an older, powerful man to take advantage of her and control her."

Linder was an intern to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in 2009.

Linder alleges that she and the congressman, who represents Nevada's 4th congressional district, were engaged in an on-again, off-again sexual relationship that happened from 2009-2010 and then again from 2017-2019.

Linder said she never worked for Horsford, but claimed on the "Mistress for Congress" podcast that he provided job referrals and "financial support" over the years. Linder said that Horsford filmed a segment for her young son's YouTube show using his congressional staff.

Linder also alleges that Horsford discussed leaving his wife for her, but said he couldn't do so amid the 2020 election.

Linder suggested that Horsford resign. "He obtained this position under false pretenses that he was a family man and man of God. He should take a step back, alone, and if people are satisfied, then he can come back into politics," Linder said.

Lisa Song Sutton, the Republican challenger for Horsford's seat, called on him to resign and for a House Ethics Committee investigation.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/steven-horsford-cheating-affair-scandal-intern

Sunday shows - Trump trade adviser knocks Obama, whistleblower, CDC

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro appeared on multiple Sunday morning political talk shows, taking shots at former President Obama, whistleblower Richard Bright and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Several governors also discussed reopening efforts in their states amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Read The Hill's complete coverage below.

White House trade adviser: 'I'm glad Mr. Obama has a new job as Joe Biden's press secretary'

https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/498201-trump-trade-adviser-knocks-obama-whistleblower-cdc

BOMBSHELL: Mike Flynn’s Name Might Never Have Been Masked In The First Place

The revelation that dozens of Obama officials sought to unmask the identity of Michael Flynn was definitely a bombshell that raises a ton of questions, but according to National Review’s Andrew McCarthy, there’s a huge hole in the story that has so far been missed.

Based on the unmasking list declassified by acting-DNI Richard Grenell, McCarthy says there’s no evidence of any request pertaining to the December 29, 2016, call between Flynn and then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. “Where is the record showing who unmasked Flynn in connection with his fateful conversation with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak? There isn’t one.”

According to McCarthy, the evidence suggests that Flynn’s call with Kislyak was likely not recorded by the FBI, but a different agency. “I suspect that’s because General Flynn’s identity was not ‘masked’ in the first place. Instead, his December 29 call with Kislyak was likely intercepted under an intelligence program not subject to the masking rules, probably by the CIA or a friendly foreign spy service acting in a nod-and-wink arrangement with our intelligence community.”

One theory is that Ambassador Kislyak was routinely being surveilled by the FBI and that Flynn was simply caught up in that surveillance, but McCarthy does not buy the theory. “If it were true, there would be a record of Flynn’s unmasking. DNI Grenell has represented that the list he provided to Senators Grassley and Johnson includes all requested unmaskings of Flynn […] Yet, it appears that not a single listed unmasking pertains to the December 29 Kislyak call,” he explained.

“There are no unmasking requests on December 29, the date of the Kislyak call. Nor is there one during the week after that.” The first request following that call came on January 5, 2017, by Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff Denis McDonough—which itself raises its own questions, especially since that was the same day Barack Obama discussed the Flynn surveillance with Joe Biden, Sally Yates, James Comey and Susan Rice. But, based on what we know about that meeting, Flynn’s identity was already known at this point—supporting McCarthy’s thesis that his name was never masked in the first place.

In fact, McCarthy’s belief that Flynn’s name was never masked doesn’t seem to be a hunch at all. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe seems to have confirmed this theory during an interview in an executive session of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on December 19, 2017:

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/05/17/bombshell-mike-flynns-name-might-never-have-been-masked-in-the-first-place-n398597

Trump Demands Biden and Obama Go to Jail 'For 50 Years' for Flynn Case

Biden and Obama knew about the FBI seeking to investigate the incoming National Security adviser, and the former submitted a formal “unmasking” request for all intelligence agency information held on Flynn.

Donald Trump demanded Sunday morning former President Barack Obama and his deputy Joe Biden go to jail for their involvement in the witch hunt against Michael Flynn.

Speaking to Fox Business, he dubbed the targeting of his former national security adviser “the greatest political crime in the history of our country”.

“If I were a Democrat instead of a Republican, I think everybody would have been in jail a long time ago, and I'm talking with 50 year sentences. It’s a disgrace what's happened this is the greatest political scam, hoax in the history of our country. And people should be going to jail for this stuff and hopefully, a lot of people are going to have to pay,” the President fulminated.

Trump went on to celebrate the case against Flynn being dropped, calling him a “hero” for fighting the charges, and saying it was “all Obama…all Biden” behind the legal effort.

“These people were corrupt the whole thing was corrupt, and we caught them. I watched Biden yesterday – could barely speak, and he said he didn't know anything about it and now, it just gets released right after he said that – it gets released he was one of the unmaskers meaning he knew everything about it. He lied to your friend George Stephanopoulos,” Trump claimed, in reference to the Democratic presidential nominee’s Fox interview a day prior.

Trump also used the interview to discuss the US federal response to coronavirus, and alleging shutting down the country in the midst of the outbreak had in itself caused deaths.

“People are dying this way too. They're dying with this closure, with this shutdown of the country. In their house, in their apartment. Some people are too tough on it. They can't leave their house,” he said.

Original Flynn

Flynn’s one of few Trump associates convicted as part of US state investigations into an alleged conspiracy between the US president and Russia, which while dominating news headlines for over two years failed to establish a link of any kind between Trump and Moscow.

The Justice Department decided to drop its case against Flynn 7 May, a big victory for the President given he’d long-argued Obama's White House had gone after Flynn in a bid to damage the incoming administration.

The end of Flynn's three-year legal battle followed the release of FBI communications which showed the Bureau leadership discussed whether they should "get [Flynn] to lie" or "get him fired" before interviewing him. It’s also been revealed the operation targeting Flynn found no evidence implicating the general in "colluding" with Russia and would’ve been closed if then-FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok, later fired for anti-Trump text messages, hadn’t intervened to keep the case open.

https://sputniknews.com/military/202005171079333759-trump-demands-biden-obama/

College Students Call For Closing Confucius Institutes Across America

Bipartisan groups of college students across America have joined forces with non-profits, human rights organizations, and leaders of the youth organizations of both Democrats and Republicans to call for the closing of Confucius Institutes on college campuses across America.

Confucius Institutes are instruments of Chinese soft power and propaganda funded by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). More than 100 were established in universities throughout the United States from the mid-2000’s on.

Human Rights Watch reports that as of January of this year, 29 colleges had closed their institutes, largely due to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2018, which requires academic institutions to choose between receiving language funding from Confucius Institutes, or from the U.S. Defense Department.

Caleb Max, a senior at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, said he was inspired to build support to challenge the influence of the Confucius Institute on his campus when he discovered that the organization was spreading CCP propaganda on campus.

Max pointed out the irony that his college is named for the author of Virginia’s Declaration of Rights, yet “my tuition dollars are going to fund the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda on my own campus.”

Max said that another motivation to organize support to close the CCP-funded organization was his discovery that some Chinese students at George Mason felt intimidated by Confucius Institute staff.

During his conversations with Chinese students, Max came across some who felt that the Institute was “bothering them.” When asked, however, if they would sign the open letter that his new non-profit, Athenai (Action to Halt the Expansion of Neo-Authoritarian Influence), put out this week announcing their mission to close the institutes, the students demurred.

Asked why, they said that they were afraid of reprisals against their families back in China.

The publicly-available agreement between the Confucius Institute and George Mason University states that among the institute’s scope of activities is to provide “non-degree Chinese language courses,” administration of a Chinese language proficiency test, training of Chinese language teachers, and “language and cultural exchange activities.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/college-students-call-for-closing-confucius-institutes-across-america_3354141.html

Iran Lodges Protest Against Alleged US Plans to Intercept Venezuela-Bound Tankers With Swiss Envoy

A group of five Iranian tankers was previously spotted sailing through the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean and is believed to be heading towards Venezuela. Media reports have suggested that Tehran could be helping Caracas overcome its domestic fuel crisis, which has partially been caused by American sanctions.

Tehran has summoned the Swiss ambassador to the country, representing Washington's interests, to lodge a protest against the alleged plans of the US Navy to intercept its tankers that are on their way towards Venezuela with a cargo of fuel. Earlier, the possibility of such a move by Washington was reported by Reuters, but has not been officially confirmed by either the White House or the Pentagon.

Deputy Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, in his conversation with the summoned Swiss envoy, stressed that the trade relations between Venezuela and Iran are absolutely legal. He added that the US attempts to use bullying to prevent international trade is a gross violation of basic human rights and a clear "act of piracy".

In addition to it, Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif cautioned the US against intercepting or pursuing Iranian tankers in a letter sent to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Zarif called alleged plans to intercept the Iranian tankers "illegal, dangerous and provocative" acts, which look very much like an act of piracy.

"Zarif also reminded that the US government will be held accountable for any kind of illegal actions, stressing that Iran has the right to take the necessary steps to counter [US] threats", the statement by the Iranian Foreign Ministry said.

Iranian Fuel Shipment for Venezuela

The first reports of five Iranian tankers, the Fortune, Petunia, Forest, Faxon, and Clavel, crossing the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean surfaced on 15 May, with the online media outlet Al-Masdar News suggesting that they were sailing towards Venezuela, without revealing the source of the information. Maritime monitoring services gave no indication that the ships were moving towards the Latin American country.

Soon after, Reuters published a report, citing an anonymous American official, claiming that the White House was considering taking action against the ships and the two countries. The report also claimed that Washington believes that Iran would be paid for the fuel it is allegedly delivering in gold from Venezuela’s reserves.

Venezuela has one of the largest proven oil reserves in the world, but its crude is heavy and requires a considerable level of technology to be refined. Caracas has had trouble maintaining its refineries since the US introduced sanctions, primarily against its oil industry, thereby cutting it off many equipment manufacturers. The American sanctions have not only exacerbated the economic crisis in the country, but have also resulted in fuel shortages.

https://sputniknews.com/world/202005171079333123-iran-reportedly-cautions-us-against-intercepting-its-oil-tankers-sailing-towards-venezuela/

Swiss envoy aka Rothschild

President Trump discusses bombshell revelations in Flynn case in exclusive interview with Maria Bartiromo

President Trump called the Russia Probe “the greatest political crime in the history of our country, ” and labeled his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn a hero, in an exclusive interview that aired Sunday with Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo.

Trump's comments, during the interview on “Sunday Morning Futures,” come after the Justice Department this month moved to drop its case against Flynn, in a stunning development that follows internal memos being released and raises serious questions about the nature of the investigation that led to Flynn’s late 2017 guilty plea of lying to the FBI.

“They [FBI agents] weren't after General Flynn. They wanted him to lie about me, make up a story,” Trump told Bartiromo. “And with few exceptions, nobody did that.”

He added, “If I were a Democrat instead of a Republican, I think everybody would have been in jail a long time ago; and I'm talking with 50-year sentences.”

“It is a disgrace what's happened,” he continued. “This is the greatest political scam, hoax in the history of our country.”

Trump went on to say that "people should be going to jail for this stuff and hopefully a lot of people are going to have to pay."

“No other president should have to go through [this] and I'll tell you, General Flynn and others are heroes,” Trump continued.

Trump also reacted to top Obama administration officials, including former Vice President Joe Biden, purportedly requesting to "unmask" the identity of Flynn – whose calls with the former Russian ambassador during the presidential transition were picked up in surveillance and later leaked.

The list of names was revealed after it was declassified in recent days by Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell and then sent to GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, who made the documents public.

The unmasking concerns events between the November 2016 election and Inauguration Day 2017.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/president-trump-discusses-bombshell-revelations-in-flynn-case-in-exclusive-interview-with-maria-bartiromo

Trump Goes on Offense Against Obama

If Donald Trump wants to get re-elected as President of the U.S. he’s going to have to take out former President Barack Obama. At this point Obama is the person who most stands in his path for a second term.

Former Vice President Joe Biden may well wind up being the nominee but that’s only because he is Obama’s stand in since Obama can’t run for a third term thanks to the only part of the U.S. Constitution anyone seems to give a damn about anymore.

But, make no mistake, the current flap about the unmasking of Trump’s first (and short-lived) National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn is all about Trump finally going on the offensive after more than three years of fighting rear-guard actions just to stay in power.

Obama was the ring leader in the operation to spy on Trump and anyone with half a brain knows it. The unmasking of the unmaskers in the Obama administration is to tarnish his legacy and dishearten any centrist voters who may be tiring of Trump’s mistakes and the worsening economic collapse engineered by the shutdown of the economy during the peak of the COVID-19 hysteria.

This is why it is imperative for Trump to take Obama out of this election cycle as quickly as possible.

With Hillary finally bending the knee to Obama when she publicly endorsed Biden that was the signal that she’s acknowledging she’s lost the fight for control over the Democratic Party, which she and her husband have ruled with a closed fist for decades.

Now Obama is free and clear to begin campaigning openly on Biden’s behalf. And don’t for a second think that the trial balloons of his wife Michelle being Biden’s running mate are the fanciful wishes of hopeless Democrats. Michelle is absolutely one of the top candidates for that job.

Because with Trump surviving everything thrown at him to this point the only chance Biden has this fall is his second coming as the Left’s political messiah. Take nothing away from Obama, he is an excellent campaigner.

With Michelle as his running mate that puts Obama right where he needs to be, hounding Trump on all the issues that are supposed to be weaknesses for him – the economy, COVID-19 deaths, unemployment, etc.

So, the timing of Trump having his acting ODNI Director Richard Grenell pick a public spat with the hapless Head of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff and get the transcripts of the impeachment interviews released to the public isn’t coincidence, folks. These transcripts confirm that Obama’s inner circle all lied through their teeth in the media for years about the RussiaGate collusion story.

This comes on the heels of Trump’s somewhat cleaned up Dept. of Justice dropping the case against Flynn which then opens up the opportunity to resurrect the timeline of events which led up to his firing and indictment by the very people now revealed as bald-faced liars and conspirators.

Trump then goes directly to the people and coins the term of the year, “Obamagate.”

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/05/17/trump-goes-on-offense-against-obama/