Anonymous ID: 0d86b6 June 11, 2020, 8:01 p.m. No.9581904   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1919 >>1947 >>1951 >>1953 >>2079

Seattle Officials Deliver Porta Potties in Support of Antifa – Mayor Defends Autonomous Zone, “CHAZ is Not a Lawless Wasteland of Anarchist Insurrection”

 

Far left Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan lashed out at President Trump on Thursday evening and threw her support behind the leftist insurrection.

 

President Trump fired a warning shot to radical Democrat governor Jay Inslee and the Seattle Mayor on Thursday.

 

“Take back your city NOW. If you don’t do it, I will. This is not a game. These ugly Anarchists must be stopped IMMEDIATELY. MOVE FAST!” Trump said in a tweet.

 

Antifa domestic terrorists in Washington state set up an “autonomous zone” dubbed “CHAZ” in six square blocks in Seattle this week.

 

On Tuesday “Free Capitol Hill” the Antifa “Autonomous Zone” released its list of demands from the Seattle and Washington State governments.

 

The domestic terrorists are shaking down businesses, set up armed guards and violently attack anyone who dares question their insurrection.

 

The anarchists also declared local rapper Raz Simone as its first warlord.

 

The Seattle Mayor totally supports this lawlessness.

 

The Mayor lashed out at President Trump.

 

Seattle officials enabled the terrorists by bringing in porta potties and other supplies.

 

WATCH:

https://youtu.be/STrghbZKLyk

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/seattle-officials-deliver-porta-potties-support-antifa-mayor-defends-autonomous-zone-chaz-not-lawless-wasteland-anarchist-insurrection/

 

From day forth she will be Jenny Merkin

Anonymous ID: 0d86b6 June 11, 2020, 8:02 p.m. No.9581925   🗄️.is 🔗kun

U.S. intel viewed Steele dossier as ‘highly politically sensitive’ and mostly uncorroborated

 

Declassified memo show intelligence community's assessment in December 2016, two months after FBI had already used dossier to support FISA warrant.

 

Two months after the FBI used Christopher Steele’s dossier to support a warrant targeting the Trump campaign, U.S. intelligence officially declared his evidence was “highly politically sensitive,” minimally corroborated and not worthy of including in its analysis of Russian election interference, a newly declassified document shows.

 

The so-called Annex A of the official Russian election interference Intelligence Community Assessment was declassified this week by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, providing the most definitive proof to date that the U.S. intelligence in December 2016 as President Obama was leaving office was wary of a dossier that was essential to the FBI probe into now-disproven Trump-Russia collusion.

 

“An FBI source, using both identified and unidentified sub sources, volunteered highly politically sensitive information from the summer to the fall of 2016 on Russian influence efforts aimed at the US presidential election. We have only limited corroboration of the source reporting in this case and did not use it to reach the analytic conclusions of the CIA/FBI/NSA assessment," the appendix stated.

 

The intelligence community assessment also warned that Steele appeared to have leaked his information to the media just before Trump was elected Nov. 8, 2016.

 

“The source’s reporting appears to have been acquired by multiple western press organizations starting in October,” the annex stated.

 

The annex confirms Republicans’ long-held suspicions that the intelligence community saw the Steele dossier as suspect even as the FBI portrayed its allegations as verified to a FISA court starting in October 2016.

 

You can read the newly declassified document here.

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2020-06/ACFrOgC0YUaFkCypZoCZsmZ2ZVH-5mfspviaERCirKScNCvysqfx0ALCTrDaaRkvBLLpTyCyNkBRWj5ubHTQtcHUm9_mi6Q75XPbn-tGl8cFZ4EJk5owK_MI8PwlJP4%3D.pdf

 

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/us-intel-viewed-steele-dossier-highly-politically

Anonymous ID: 0d86b6 June 11, 2020, 8:03 p.m. No.9581942   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1987 >>2055

Joe Biden: George Floyd’s Death Bigger than MLK Assassination

 

During a round table in Philadelphia on Wednesday, Joe Biden claimed the death of George Floyd was bigger than the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

“Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd’s death did,” Biden said with a mask dangling from his ear.

 

“Because just like television changed the civil rights movement for the better when they saw Bull Connor’s dogs ripping the clothes off of elderly black women who were trying to go to church, and fire hoses ripping the skin off of young kids,” he said.

 

Bull Connor was a Democrat and Commissioner of Public Safety for Birmingham, Alabama.

 

“That — all those folks around the country who didn’t have any black populations heard about this, but they didn’t believe it, but they saw it, it was impossible for them to close their eyes,” Biden continued.

 

“Well, what happened to George Floyd, now you’ve got how many people around the country? Millions of cell phones, it’s changed the way everybody’s looking at this,” he said. “Look at the millions of people marching around the world.”

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/11/joe-biden-george-floyds-death-bigger-than-mlk-assassination/

Anonymous ID: 0d86b6 June 11, 2020, 8:06 p.m. No.9581975   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1995 >>2023 >>2248

Nancy Pelosi Silent on Own Father Who Oversaw Dedication of Confederate Statue

 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who on Wednesday demanded the removal of Confederate statues occupying the U.S. Capitol, has remained silent on her father’s role in overseeing the dedication of the Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument while serving as Baltimore’s mayor in 1948.

 

Pelosi this week formally requested the removal of Confederate statues occupying the U.S. Capitol, dismissing them as “monuments to men who advocated cruelty and barbarism to achieve such a plainly racist end.” Her demand comes as angry protesters across the nation take matters into their own hands, vandalizing — and in some cases, beheading — statues and monuments memorializing the Civil War era and beyond.

 

“As I have said before, the halls of Congress are the very heart of our democracy. The statues in the Capitol should embody our highest ideals as Americans, expressing who we are and who we aspire to be as a nation,” Pelosi said in her letter to Committee Chair Roy Blunt (R-MO) and Vice Chair Zoe Lofgren (D-CA).

 

“Monuments to men who advocated cruelty and barbarism to achieve such a plainly racist end are a grotesque affront to these ideals,” she continued. “Their statues pay homage to hate, not heritage. They must be removed.”

 

However, her father, Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr., oversaw the dedication of such a statue in Baltimore’s Wyman Park — the Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument — as mayor of the city in 1948. At the time, the Speaker’s father said people could look to Jackson’s and Lee’s lives as inspiration and urged Americans to “emulate Jackson’s example and stand like a stone wall against aggression in any form that would seek to destroy the liberty of the world.”

 

“World Wars I and II found the North and South fighting for a common cause, and the generalship and military science displayed by these two great men in the War between the States lived on and were applied in the military plans of our nation in Europe and the Pacific areas,” D’Alesandro said at the dedication ceremony, as detailed by the Baltimore Sun. He continued:

 

Today with our nation beset by subversive groups and propaganda which seeks to destroy our national unity, we can look for inspiration to the lives of Lee and Jackson to remind us to be resolute and determined in preserving our sacred institutions … remain steadfast in our determination to preserve freedom, not only for ourselves, but for other liberty-loving nations who are striving to preserve their national unity as free nations.

 

“In these days of uncertainty and turmoil, Americans must emulate Jackson’s example and stand like a stone wall against aggression in any form that would seek to destroy the liberty of the world,” he added.

 

City crews removed the statue in August 2017 under the direction of the city council:

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/11/nancy-pelosi-silent-on-own-father-who-oversaw-dedication-of-confederate-statue/

 

Oh this just gets better

Anonymous ID: 0d86b6 June 11, 2020, 8:08 p.m. No.9581992   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2043

Mueller Witness Said Manafort Might Have Given Russian Oligarch’s Money To Pro-McCain Group

 

A key witness in the special counsel’s probe said Russian money might have flowed to a dark money group supporting Arizona Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign.

Rick Gates told investigators in August 2018 that his former boss, Paul Manafort, contributed funds from a shell company to a dark money group that supported McCain.

Gates said he believed that a Russian oligarch funded the shell company that Manafort tapped for the donation.

McCain was known as a staunch Russia hawk during his Senate career.

 

Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain was known throughout his political career as a staunch Russia hawk, opposing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Eastern Europe and serving as one of the conduits to the FBI for the infamous dossier that alleged a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Kremlin in 2016.

 

But testimony from a key witness in the special counsel’s probe suggests that McCain might have received Russian help of his own during his 2008 presidential campaign.

 

Rick Gates, who served as deputy chairman of the Trump campaign, told the special counsel’s team in August 2018 that his former boss, Paul Manafort, might have contributed to a pro-McCain dark money group from a shell company he controlled that was funded by a Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin.

 

Gates told prosecutors he believed Manafort contributed to the group Americans for Patriotism through his Cyprus-based shell company, LOAV, Ltd. He also said that Oleg Deripaska, a Russian aluminum magnate, funded LOAV.

 

“Gates stated he heard that a Paul Manafort controlled Cypriot account, LOAV, contributed money to the 501c(4), and the funds in the LOAV account were from Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch,” read the FBI notes of Gates’s Feb. 28, 2018, interview.

 

The FBI released the summary and other interview documents from the special counsel’s probe as part of a lawsuit filed by BuzzFeed and CNN.

 

The notes do not show if Gates said whether McCain was aware of the source of the funds, or whether Deripaska knew that Manafort provided it to the group supporting McCain’s failed presidential campaign. Gates also did not say how much money Manafort sent to Americans for Patriotism.

 

https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/11/mueller-john-mccain-russian-oligarch-manafort/

Anonymous ID: 0d86b6 June 11, 2020, 8:11 p.m. No.9582025   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2051 >>2304 >>2513 >>2586 >>2615

Texas Dem: 'Even If People Loot, So What? Burn It to the Ground'

 

When protests over the police killing of George Floyd devolved into looting, vandalism, and arson across America, destroying black lives, black livelihoods, and black monuments, Democrats and liberals shamefully downplayed or even excused the violence because the perpetrators agreed with their political agenda. Yet it seems none have proven quite as vocal as a Democrat running for U.S. House in Texas’s 24th congressional district.

 

In a live digital event on Tuesday, Kim Olson complained about police snipers stationed on a roof at a protest she attended in Dallas, Texas.

 

“They had snipers on the roof, what the hell you got snipers on the roof for in a peaceful march? Even if people loot, so what? Burn it to the ground, if that’s what it’s gonna take to fix our nation,” Olson said in video obtained by The Washington Examiner. “I don’t think — but I’m just saying, what are you going to do? Shoot us as we protest?”

 

“I mean, we really have fundamentally pivoted the militarization of our police force. … It used to be ‘protect and serve,'” she complained.

 

Olson made the comment during a long answer to a question about her position on far-left calls to disband or defund police departments. The candidate began by admitting that while “defunding” is a “tough word,” she supports shifting funding toward rehab centers and social workers.

 

“You can’t just tackle the police, you’ve got to tackle some of the social injustice issues that are going on within our justice system,” Olson said. “You can’t train racism out of folks.”

 

“This quote is being taken out of context,” Rachel Perry, Olson’s campaign manager, told the Washington Examiner. “As a combat vet, Colonel Olson knows first hand the human heartbreak of violence. She knows we cannot use force to fix a systemic problem of undue violence and discrimination perpetrated by those who are sworn to protect and serve. We have to rebuild from the ground up a color-blind public safety institution across America.”

 

Olson is the front-runner in the Democratic nomination in Texas’s 24th district, an open seat since Rep. Kenny Marchant (R-Texas) is retiring. Cook Political Report rates the race a “Republican toss up” and Politico also describes it as a “toss-up.” Marchant won reelection by about 3 points in 2018.

 

Olson, a military veteran, faces school board trustee Candace Valenzuela in a runoff election on July 14. The winner will face former Mayor Beth Van Duyne (R-Irving).

 

While Olson became one of the first women to attend and graduate from flight school, her service was not without scandal. When she was stationed in Iraq, the Pentagon accused her of directing contracts to a private security firm that she helped operate. She has denied profiting from the arrangement, but she did plead guilty to charges that included creating the appearance of a conflict of interest, paid a $3,500 fine, and retired with an honorable discharge.

 

While the campaign insisted that Olson’s statement was taken out of context, that statement echoed a distressing trend among Democrats. Many have downplayed — if not excused — the destructive riots across America. As antifa militant rebels set up a rogue state in Seattle, Gov. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Mayor Jenny Durkan not only defended the rebels as “peaceful” and “patriotic,” but insisted it would be “illegal and unconstitutional” for President Donald Trump to suppress the armed insurrection.

 

Olson likely regrets her words, but the context does not excuse them. Democrats insist that America’s institutions are fundamentally racist, and this narrative justifies a violent revolution. President Trump is right to counter that America is fundamentally good, although it is undeniably flawed. Trump has condemned the horrific killing of George Floyd and he has championed criminal justice reform. But he will not abide violent riots or rebellions in American cities, and Democrats shouldn’t, either.

 

https://pjmedia.com/election/tyler-o-neil/2020/06/11/texas-dem-even-if-people-loot-so-what-burn-it-to-the-ground-n518917

Anonymous ID: 0d86b6 June 11, 2020, 8:13 p.m. No.9582053   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2239

Academics Demand Econ Journal Purge Prof For Criticizing Defund Police Movement

 

Only 16 percent of Americans support slashing police budgets

 

Students and professors are demanding that an academic journal fire a professor who criticized efforts to defund the police.

 

Activists submitted a petition accusing University of Chicago economics professor Harald Uhlig of "trivializing the Black Lives Matter movement" on his Twitter account. The campaign came after Uhlig wrote that Black Lives Matter "torpedoed itself with its full-fledged support of #defundthepolice." Max Auffhammer, an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and University of Michigan economics professor Justin Wolfers created the petition to oust Uhlig from his position of editor of the prestigious Journal of Political Economy.

 

Uhlig's comments "hurt and marginalize people of color and their allies in the economics profession," the petition said. "We do not question the right of Prof. Uhlig to make such comments, but we are strongly opposed to him holding a position of power as the editor of a prominent journal in our discipline."

 

Uhlig did not respond to request for comment.

 

In a tweet thread, Uhlig criticized the "#defundthepolice" movement and called for a serious conversation on police brutality and policy reforms instead of the proposal—which is gaining traction on the left even as an overwhelming majority of Americans oppose it. A YouGov poll found that only 16 percent of Americans support decreasing law enforcement funding in the wake of nationwide protests; 65 percent oppose the idea.

 

"Time for sensible adults to enter back into the room and have serious, earnest, respectful conversations about it all: e.g. policy reform proposals by [the Democrats] and national healing. We need more police, we need to pay them more, we need to train them better," Uhlig said.

 

The petition, which is no longer active, allegedly urged Uhlig to resign his position as lead editor of the Journal of Political Economy. Uhlig has made comments on controversial topics in the past, including the riots and looting that followed the murder of George Floyd's death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, as well as the 2017 Charlottesville protest that left one dead.

 

https://freebeacon.com/issues/academics-demand-econ-journal-purge-prof-for-criticizing-defund-police-movement/

Anonymous ID: 0d86b6 June 11, 2020, 8:14 p.m. No.9582057   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Are You Enjoying the Far-Left Church of Woke?

 

If you are subscribing to this religious fervor we are seeing in the streets, in academia, in the media, and in private industry, be warned. You are the frog in the pot.

 

The woke mob spares no one. Being a heretic to their religiosity with a relatively small voice, I am not much of a scalp. However, if you are Tucker Carlson, you must be canceled. He refuses to bend to the mob. If you are Drew Brees, you will be made to atone for the sin of respecting the American flag. Except no amount of atoning will actually work.

 

Sarah Attkisson at Just the News compiled a list of the stunning number of resignations, more appropriately characterized excommunications, that have occurred in a matter of days due to insufficient wokeness. See, the Left will tell you silence is violence. However, if you speak or allow someone else to speak that doesn’t conform to the current orthodoxy, you must pay.

 

The secular left has had this strategy for a while. It went by the name cancel culture. Occasionally it worked, such as with Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, and some others. Occasionally it backfired and their target exploded. This was the case with people like Dave Rubin, Jordan Peterson, and others.

 

Now that the far left has taken it over, it has been structured to fill the God-shaped hole in these people’s hearts as they are pursuing it with a zeal that is unnerving and a bit shocking. Some people are trying to preempt it such as the country trio Lady Antebellum. They have now changed the band name to Lady A. Because I guess we all won’t remember what the A stands for or something.

 

So how has this gone from mobbing to a legitimate secular religion? It now simply has all the features. For those of us who use the Old and New Testaments in our faith, we have the concept of original sin. In his speech to the nation, Barack Obama redefined this for white Americans, regardless of where you come from and when you got here. He explicitly said slavery is our collective original sin and where you exacted your white privilege.

 

That is a wild departure. Sin is normally an individual concept. You confess, atone or apologize for things you personally have done wrong. In the Church of Woke, you are responsible for the sins of your forefathers, associates, and family members. In the case of original sin, you are responsible for the sin of the nation at its founding. Heavy burden my friend.

 

There is also a set of incomprehensible teachings. We call them grievance studies, or the curriculum your children must take that teach them to hate America because it was discovered by and founded by really bad, awful, terrible, racist, misogynistic, men. Did you know Columbus didn’t have a single woman on his senior crew?

 

Because these are incomprehensible, mostly because they are poorly written, based on emotion and not facts and nearly devoid of any real data or verifiable history, we need interpreters. These are the people you see in online videos leading chants that may remind you of a catechism. The leader says something, and the crowd repeats it back.

 

Recently, the Church of Woke got ceremonies. This was new. You may have seen the videos of cops, guardsmen, and large groups of white people kneeling in front of black people to atone for the original sin of slavery and other things these people have probably never done. We have even had feet washing. Quite a spectacle really.

 

https://pjmedia.com/columns/stacey-lennox/2020/06/11/are-you-enjoying-the-far-left-church-of-woke-n518513

Anonymous ID: 0d86b6 June 11, 2020, 8:26 p.m. No.9582182   🗄️.is 🔗kun

European Court of Human Rights backs BDS activists convicted in France, orders Paris to pay €101,000 in compensation

 

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that France violated the rights of 11 pro-Palestinian activists when it convicted them for campaigning against Israeli goods, and has ordered the government to pay damages.

 

The criminal conviction against the activists with the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement “had no relevant and sufficient grounds,” the ECHR said in its ruling on Thursday, arguing that their basic right to freedom of expression had been violated. The court ordered France to pay €101,000 ($115,000) in compensation to the activists.

 

The case dates back to 2009 when a group of protesters led by French activist Jean-Michel Baldassi staged a demonstration in a hypermarket in the eastern French town of Illzach. The group handed out leaflets calling for various forms of boycott against Israel in response to its treatment of Palestinians and occupation of the Palestinian territories.

 

Israel has long claimed that the movement is driven by anti-Semitism and a desire to deny Israel’s right to exist.The French authorities charged the BDS activists with incitement to economic discrimination, and promoting racism and anti-Semitism.

 

France’s highest court of appeals upheld the sentence in 2015. The defendants were each handed down a suspended fine of €1,000 ($1,133) and ordered to pay a total of €13,000 ($14,730) in legal fees and donations to organizations promoting French-Israeli friendship and combating anti-Semitism.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/491569-echr-france-bds-activists-compensation/

Anonymous ID: 0d86b6 June 11, 2020, 8:53 p.m. No.9582428   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2456

Top Democrat Chuck Schumer Blocks Amendment Opposing the Left’s “Defund the Police” Movement

 

Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer today blocked an amendment by Senator Tom Cotton to oppose the left’s latest movement to ‘defund the police.’

 

The radical Democrat base is pushing to defund the police in several cities across the country.

The party has gone totally insane.

 

The New York Post reported:

 

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer opted to block a resolution from a GOP senator that would oppose defunding the police – despite the motion calling for “justice for George Floyd,” because it did not do anything.

 

The resolution, introduced Tuesday by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), called for two simple things: “justice for George Floyd” and to oppose “efforts to defund the police.”

 

The Arkansas Republican wrote in the motion that the murder of George Floyd, “was a horrific act that violated the public trust and was inconsistent with the values and conduct expected of law enforcement officers.”

 

He went on to note that “good law enforcement cannot exist without accountability and justice,” a sign of openness to discussions about police reform and accountability without discussion of defunding.

 

Cotton asked the Senate on Wednesday to pass the motion by unanimous consent, a move which means a single senator could block it.

 

In this case, it was Schumer (D-NY) who opposed Cotton’s move, arguing that the motion was nothing more than rhetoric.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/top-democrat-chuck-schumer-blocks-amendment-opposing-lefts-defund-police-movement/

Anonymous ID: 0d86b6 June 11, 2020, 8:55 p.m. No.9582442   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Flashback: Obama Admin Turned Down Renaming of Army Bases: ‘Reconciliation, Not Division’

 

The U.S. Army under President Barack Obama turned down the suggestion in 2015 of renaming military bases that had been named for Confederate generals.

 

The idea emerged in the wake of the mass shooting at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in which a white supremacist murdered nine black parishioners. In the aftermath, the state government removed the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the state capitol, noting its history as a symbol of division.

 

However, the Obama administration rejected the idea of renaming military bases named for Confederate bases, noting that many of the names had been adopted as symbols of reconciliation between North and South after the brutal Civil War.

 

As the Los Angeles Times reported at the time:

 

The Army’s top spokesman, Brig. Gen. Malcolm B. Frost, issued a brief statement in the aftermath of questions about whether the military ought to consider changing the name of bases like Fort Bragg, North Carolina, which is named after the man who led the Confederate Army of Tennessee, Gen. Braxton Bragg.

 

“Every Army installation is named for a soldier who holds a place in our military history,” Frost said. “Accordingly, these historic names represent individuals, not causes or ideologies. It should be noted that the naming occurred in the spirit of reconciliation, not division.”

 

President Obama chose Fort Bragg as the site for an address welcoming U.S. troops home from their mission in Iraq in 2011.

 

In the wake of the killing of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and nationwide protest and unrest, Democrats have pushed for the renaming of the bases, and some Republicans have indicated an openness to the idea.

 

However, the present push to rename bases began before Floyd was killed. On Saturday, May 25 — the first day of the Memorial Day weekend — the New York Times published an op-ed titled, “Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy?”. The subtitle read: “It is time to rename bases for American heroes — not racist traitors.”

 

The article was signed by the editorial board, and accompanied by an illustration of a bullet shaped like a Ku Klux Klan hood.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/06/11/obama-admin-turned-down-renaming-of-army-bases-reconciliation-not-division/

Anonymous ID: 0d86b6 June 11, 2020, 8:56 p.m. No.9582449   🗄️.is 🔗kun

US Confirms Plans to Further Reduce Number of Troops in Iraq

 

The United States has confirmed its plans to further decrease the number of servicemen deployed to Iraq, the joint statement of the governments of the United States and Iraq said.

 

"On the security partnership, the two countries recognised that in light of significant progress towards eliminating the Daesh* threat, over the coming months the US would continue reducing forces from Iraq and discuss with the Government of Iraq the status of remaining forces as both countries turn their focus towards developing a bilateral security relationship based on strong mutual interests. The United States reiterated that it does not seek nor request permanent bases or a permanent military presence in Iraq", the statement issued by the US Department of State on late Thursday said.

 

Ahead of the talks, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo emphasised that the US and Iraq need a strategic partnership to move forward and reap mutual benefits.

 

On 5 January, the Iraqi parliament approved a resolution that demanded the immediate and complete withdrawal of foreign troops from the country. The resolution was approved after the United States killed Iran's Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi Shia militia group commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis near Baghdad. Members of parliament concluded that the US action violated Iraq's sovereignty.

 

https://sputniknews.com/world/202006121079590549-us-confirms-plans-to-further-reduce-number-of-troops-in-iraq/

Anonymous ID: 0d86b6 June 11, 2020, 8:58 p.m. No.9582463   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2513 >>2586 >>2615

Westpac could face more allegations of breaches as AUSTRAC digs deeper

 

The financial crimes watchdog will conduct a deeper probe into Westpac over its failure to properly vet international transactions potentially linked to child exploitation that could increase by over 20 times the number of alleged breaches of anti-money laundering laws the bank faces.

 

The country's second largest bank was thrown into turmoil last November when the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) accused it of breaching anti-money laundering laws over 23 million times, including a failure to properly vet payments potentially linked to paedophilia.

 

The lawsuit led to the resignation of chief executive Brian Hartzer and the early retirement of veteran chairman Lindsay Maxsted. Furious shareholders also voted for a second strike against the bank's executive pay report at its AGM.

 

In the wake of the scandal, the bank reviewed its payments monitoring processes and updated its technology to betterdetect evidence of payments potentially linked to paedophilia. This resulted in the discovery of an additional 272 customers with payment transaction patterns that were indicative of child exploitation and Westpac self-reported these to AUSTRAC in December.

 

The regulator informed Westpac it will further probe these transactions and may broaden its lawsuit to include additional anti-money laundering breaches if any are found.

 

Westpac has indicated it will not defend a substantial majority of the initial breaches alleged by AUSTRAC and has set aside $900 million to cover an expected penalty. It is unclear if this provision will now need to be increased as the bank braces to receive the largest fine in Australian corporate history.

 

https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/westpac-could-face-more-allegations-of-breaches-as-austrac-digs-deeper-20200612-p551z7.html