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Turkey reiterates demand for extradition of FETO leader (aa, Mar 1, 2019)
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/turkey-reiterates-demand-for-extradition-of-feto-leader/1406159
“Turkish Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul reiterated his demand for the extradition of leader of the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) in a letter to his newly appointed U.S. counterpart, the ministry said Friday.
In a statement, the Turkish Justice Ministry said that Gul stressed the importance of extradition of U.S.-based Fetullah Gulen and other members of FETO, the group behind the 2016 defeated coup bid in Turkey.
The Turkish minister conveyed his message to William Barr to deepen investigations to reveal the “real face” of FETO.
FETO and its leader Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016 in Turkey, which left 251 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.
According to Turkish officials, Ankara has requested Gulen’s extradition from the U.S. several times.
Ankara also accuses FETO of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, including the military, police and the judiciary.”
Gun battle rages between Al Shabaab and Somali troops after hotel attack (reuters, Mar 1, 2019)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-somalia-security/gun-battle-rages-between-al-shabaab-and-somali-troops-after-hotel-attack-idUSKCN1QI3K4
“A gun battle raged in Mogadishu on Friday between Somali soldiers and Al Shabaab fighters, holed up in a building next to a hotel they had hit with a suicide car bomb the previous evening.
Heavy gunfire resounded across the Somali capital through the night and as dawn broke, police said the death toll, put at 13 so far, was rising following the blast at the Hotel Maka Al-Mukarama, located on a street lined with hotels, shops and restaurants.
“The security forces rescued dozens of civilians in the hotel and nearby buildings. The militants are still inside and exchange of fire still continues. So far we confirmed 13 people died and scores were injured,” Major Mohamed Hussein, a police officer, told Reuters on Friday.
“The death toll may rise. It was very difficult for the security forces to enter the building last night because it is dark and electricity was cut by the blast. Now it is daybreak, and we hope the operation will be concluded in the following hours,” he said.
Al Shabaab’s military spokesman said they still controlled the hotel.
“The government tried three times to enter the building but we repulsed them. We still control the hotel,” said Abdiasis Abu Musab, Al Shabaab’s military spokesman.
The main street of Maka Al Mukaram where the blast occurred was closed on Friday.
Reuters witnesses saw frantic residents in the city searching for missing relatives through the night, making countless phone calls to find out if anyone had seen their family members…”
“… holed up in a building next to a hotel they had hit with a suicide car bomb the previous evening.”
Didn’t their drill sergeant train them not to crap on their own doorstep? Yeesh, what’s become of boot camp?
Anyone tried the new “Dissenter” app? Just tried it, seems to be a good alternative to twitter.
https://dissenter.com/
Some background.
Secretary of HUD Dr. Ben Carson | American Thought Leaders – at CPAC (by The Epoch Times)
Germany: Political Left “humanitarian organization” apparently embezzled 3 million Euros in refugee aid money+++
According to the tabloid BILD, a raid took place in the office of the Workers’ Samaritan Federation (ASB) in Hanover on Wednesday afternoon. ASB managing director Mohamed Abou-Taam (46 years old) is suspected of having defrauded the company of funds. Mohamed Abou-Taam has been in custody since Wednesday.Chief Public Prosecutor Thomas Klinge explains that the public prosecutor’s office has started investigations in a particularly serious case on suspicion of embezzlement. On top of that, bribery and bribery in business dealings are also an issue. There had been several searches in the Hanover area, during which extensive data media and documents had been confiscated by the officials. However, the ASB manager denies the accusation.The Workers’ Samaritan Federation (ASB) is a humanitarian organization with 1.1 million members nationwide. It is politically close to the Social Democrats. In addition to the rescue service, care and disaster protection, it is also active in the refugee aid and takes care of the care in the appropriate accommodations. During the refugee crisis in autumn 2015, the ASB also gained praise from political circles.According to the BILD newspaper, the investigations into embezzlement are about funds from a refugee budget that have presumably been misappropriated. According to an insider of the charitable organization, the ASB had been able to line its pockets nicely with the refugee aid in 2015.
Read more:
https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/02/germany-political-left-humanitarian.html
DAILY MAIL – Plans to smuggle Jihadi Jack out of Syria and take him to Canada collapse at the last minute ‘after Foreign Office intervention’
Jack Letts, 23, has been held in a Kurdish jail in Syria for the last two years
Justin Trudeau’s government had sought to give him safe passage from prison
Letts holds dual British-Canadian nationality through his father who is Canadian
But it has been claimed that just before his release the Foreign Office blocked it
[…]The Canadian government pledged ‘they would do everything’ to ensure the release of Letts and planned his transit through Turkey, Channel 4 reported.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6758131/Plans-smuggle-Jihadi-Jack-Syria-Canada-collapse-minute.html
Channel 4 Exclusive: ‘Jihadi Jack’ parents speak out on attempts to bring him home
The parents of the young British man known as ‘Jihadi Jack’ have spoken to exclusively to Channel 4 News about seeing their son in an ITV News interview from his Kurdish jail. Jack Letts was detained in Syria, accused of joining the so-called Islamic State. They told us a Canadian government plan to bring Mr Letts back to the UK or Canada was suddenly blocked with little explanation as to why.
https://www.channel4.com/news/exclusive-jihadi-jack-parents-speak-out-on-attempts-to-bring-him-home
NATIONAL POST -Christie Blatchford: Why all this effort by the Liberal government on behalf of SNC?
Just how stupid do the Liberals think Canadians are?
As an old criminal court reporter, I have watched dozens and dozens of cross-examinations, and rarely have they not been what the great American jurist John Henry Wigmore said they were: “The greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth.”
The deposed Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould was hardly exposed to a court-style cross this week, but make no mistake: She’s come a hell of a lot closer to it than any of the other sorry players in the SNC-Lavalin imbroglio. She emerged whole, and her evidence had the wonderful and unmistakable ring of truth.
At the Justice Committee Wednesday, she was cogent and detailed, with names and dates and some contemporaneously made notes and/or emails and texts to help her already-clear memory. She was thoughtful and responsive to the questions.
Then look at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau, Liberal house leader Bardish Chagger and all the other Liberal MPs who nod like those bobble-heads you see in the back windows of cars — and with approximately the same intelligence.
Since this scandal broke, the PM has been completely unresponsive to Opposition questions in Question Period (when he has deigned to appear), reciting instead the pap he has force-fed Chagger et al about “always standing up for jobs” while simultaneously “respecting Canadian institutions.”
Even Morneau was reduced to saying this Thursday, before he bolted from a group of reporters.
Among them, the Liberals have said this probably 100 times and I still don’t understand how the Speaker lets them get away with it or what it means — except that what they mean are SNC-Lavalin jobs.
One of the tiny, telling details from Wilson-Raybould’s evidence was how, when making the case for a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) for SNC-Lavalin, Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick brought up the fact that the company had “a board meeting on Thursday with stockholders.”
(This was at a meeting Wilson-Raybould had Sept. 17, 2018 with Wernick and Trudeau, at a point when Director of Public Prosecutions Kathleen Roussel had already decided not to offer a DPA, and Wilson-Raybould had decided it was not appropriate for her to intervene.)
Even if one accepts that it was A-OK for Trudeau and his minions to badger Wilson-Raybould into changing her mind – and she didn’t, and told the pair of them they were out of line, as indeed they were — why on Earth was Wernick so acutely aware of SNC’s business timelines?
He did it again two days later, at a second meeting Trudeau insisted Wilson-Raybould have with Wernick, mentioning again the upcoming SNC meeting, telling her that its lawyer, Frank Iacobucci (a former Supreme Court judge), was “no shrinking violet” and that he, Wernick, understood SNC was “going back and forth with” Roussel.
Why all this effort on behalf of SNC?
Well, the benign explanation is that DPAs are meant to spare innocent parties – workers, shareholders, pensioners – from paying the price for the corporate malfeasance of a few. Like plea bargains for individuals, DPAs are pragmatic tools for prosecutors.
And SNC-Lavalin, under its current CEO Neil Bruce and previous CEO Robert Card, has made much of how they have changed the corporate culture at the company, brought in a big broom and fired anyone remotely associated with bad behaviour and developed a whole ethical regime.
This is all to the good, if so.
But consider the company’s very checkered past, not all of it so long ago.
In 2016, on the heels of the Charbonneau inquiry into the construction industry in Quebec, SNC-Lavalin entered into a “voluntary reimbursement program” with the Quebec government.
According to Justice Quebec, this was a two-year program “to ensure mainly the recovery of amounts improperly paid as a result of fraud or fraudulent tactics in connection with public contracts.” After paying back the monies owed, “participants could obtain a discharge that protected them from civil proceedings for fraud or fraudulent tactics” in connection with getting a public contract.
In October 2015, SNC-Lavalin reached a settlement with the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) “regarding allegations of sanctionable practices” by a subsidiary of the company in connection with two AfDB-financed projects, one in Uganda, the other in Mozambique.
According to the AfDB press release, the agreement “resolves allegations uncontested by the company of illicit payments ordered by former SNC International Inc. employees to public officials in order to secure contracts.”
Under the terms of the agreement, AfDB imposed “a conditional non-debarment (debarring prevents a company getting public contracts) … for a period of two years and 10 months” and repayment of $1.5 million.
The projects dated to October 2008 and December 2010.
More recently, in September 2016, SNC-Lavalin entered into a “compliance agreement” with the Commissioner of Elections Canada for illegal contributions made to federal political entities between March 9, 2004 and May 1, 2011.
According to the agreement on the Commissioner’s website, SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. reimbursed $117,803.49 for illegal contributions, almost all of which had gone to the Liberal Party of Canada, various Liberal riding associations and contestants in the Liberal Party’s 2006 leadership race. The rest, $8,200, was tossed the way of the Conservative Party. (The company was reimbursing employees for contributions it had wanted them to make.)
And, of course, there’s the World Bank debarment of SNC-Lavalin, and 100 affiliates, for a period of 10 years.
That happened in April 2013, and, according to the World Bank press release, it was related to the company’s “misconduct in relation to the Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project in Bangladesh,” as well as unspecified misconduct in relation to another World Bank-financed Rural Electrification and Transmission project in Cambodia.
None of that much mattered when it came to giving SNC-Lavalin a pass.
In December 2015, less than two months after the Liberals came to power, SNC signed an “administrative agreement” with the federal government, allowing it to bid and win work despite the criminal charges still pending.
These fraud and bribery charges date back to 2000-2011, for its alleged $48-million worth of bribery in Libya, which are now in different ways before two Canadian courts.
As of Thursday, according to the Public Services and Procurement website, SNC-Lavalin is the only supplier in the country with such an agreement.
Just how stupid do the Liberals think Canadians are?
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/christie-blatchford-why-all-this-effort-by-the-liberal-government-on-behalf-of-snc
GLOBE & MAIL – A closer look: The 11 people Wilson-Raybould said were involved in the SNC-Lavalin affair
Jody Wilson-Raybould on Wednesday detailed what she described as a “consistent and sustained effort” by federal officials to “politically interfere” in her role as attorney-general.
In her testimony before the House of Commons justice committee, the former justice minister and attorney-general said she was “hounded” to negotiate a settlement with SNC-Lavalin, the Quebec-based engineering giant facing charges of fraud and corruption.
Mostly freed by an order-in-council from the confines of solicitor-client privilege and cabinet confidence, Ms. Wilson-Raybould laid out a cast of characters that she said were involved in the controversy between September and December of last year.
“These events involved 11 people – excluding myself and my political staff – from the Prime Minister’s Office, the Privy Council Office, and the Office of the Minister of Finance,” she told the committee. “This included in-person conversations, telephone calls, emails and text messages.”
The Globe and Mail confirmed the names with her office and takes a closer look at the 11 people – who they are and what Ms. Wilson-Raybould said in her testimony about their alleged involvement.
JUSTIN TRUDEAU: PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing his largest scandal since taking office in 2015. In her testimony, Ms. Wilson-Raybould said she had a meeting with the Prime Minister on Sept. 17 regarding another matter.
But, she said he raised the SNC-Lavalin issue “immediately,” asking her to find a solution for the company, repeatedly citing risks of job losses and that the engineering firm would move its headquarters away from Montreal. Ms. Wilson-Raybould said she had decided not to issue a directive to the director of public prosecutions in this case, as it was not appropriate.
She said Mr. Trudeau then stressed that there is a provincial election in Quebec and said he is an MP in the province. Ms. Wilson-Raybould said she outright asked if he was politically interfering with her role and decision as attorney-general, to which he replied, “No, no, no, we just need to find a solution.”
In a December conversation with Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick, Ms. Wilson-Raybould said Mr. Wernick repeatedly invoked the Prime Minister’s name, saying Mr. Trudeau was concerned. To her, these amounted to “veiled threats.”
On Jan. 7, the Prime Minister informed Ms. Wilson-Raybould that she was being shuffled to minister of veterans affairs; she said she believed the reason was because of the SNC case. In response to her testimony, Mr. Trudeau said he disagreed with her characterization of events and that he and his staff acted appropriately in the matter.
BILL MORNEAU: MINISTER OF FINANCE
Minister of Finance Bill Morneau was an experienced businessman and a political newcomer when he successfully ran as a Liberal candidate for the Toronto Centre riding in 2015. Mr. Morneau came under scrutiny after The Globe reported in October of 2017 that he had not placed his substantial personal holdings into a blind trust, an approach the Prime Minister had held up as the gold standard for avoiding conflicts of interest. Mr. Morneau said he was not doing anything against the rules, but subsequently said he would sell his shares in his family’s human-resources firm and put other assets in a blind trust.
In her testimony, Ms. Wilson-Raybould said Mr. Morneau raised concerns about potential job losses should SNC-Lavalin not receive a deferred prosecution agreement, describing a conversation she had with Mr. Morneau on Sept. 19 in the House of Commons.
“He again stressed the need to save jobs, and I told him that engagements from his office to mine on SNC had to top – that they were inappropriate,” she said. “They did not stop,” she said, adding that her chief of staff subsequently received calls from Ben Chin and Justin To, both from the Minister of Finance’s office, regarding SNC-Lavalin and deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs).
On Thursday, Mr. Morneau denied doing anything improper, saying it was “entirely appropriate” for his staff to speak with the Justice Minister’s staff about the economic effects of their decisions.
BEN CHIN: CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE MINISTER OF FINANCE
Ben Chin began his career as a broadcast journalist, moving to politics in 2005 as a communications adviser to former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty. He unsuccessfully ran for the Ontario Liberals in the Toronto-Danforth by-election in 2006. Mr. Chin was vice-president of communications for the Ontario Power Authority between 2009 and 2011, and in 2013 was called to testify before a provincial legislative committee looking into a decision by the government to cancel plans to build two gas-fired power plants before the 2011 election.
Mr. Chin served as communications director for former B.C. Liberal premier Christy Clark from December, 2012, until July, 2017, later that year moving to federal politics as a senior adviser to Mr. Morneau. In May of 2018, he became the minister’s chief of staff. Lobbying records show SNC-Lavalin representatives met with Mr. Morneau and Mr. Chin on Sept. 18, to discuss subjects including “justice and law enforcement.”
Ms. Wilson-Raybould’s statement said one of the first communications she had about a deferred prosecution agreement for SNC-Lavalin came on Sept. 6, when Mr. Chin told her chief of staff that if the company did not get a DPA, “they will leave Montreal, and it’s the Quebec election right now, so we can’t have that happen.”
In another reference to Mr. Chin, Ms. Wilson-Raybould described a follow-up conversation between him and a member of her staff on Sept. 11, in which she says Mr. Chin noted that “SNC’s legal counsel was Frank Iacobucci, and further detailed what the terms were that SNC was prepared to agree to – stating that they viewed this as a negotiation.”
MATHIEU BOUCHARD: SENIOR ADVISER, PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE
Mathieu Bouchard is a senior adviser to the Prime Minister, with a particular focus on Quebec and legal issues. Prior to joining the PMO in November of 2015, he was a lawyer with Montreal firm Irving Mitchell Kalichman LLP, where he worked in corporate and civil litigation as well as human-rights law.
Ms. Wilson-Raybould’s testimony had numerous references to SNC-related communications with Mr. Bouchard. She said her then-chief of staff, Jessica Prince, had a phone call with Mr. Bouchard and Elder Marques, also from the PMO, on Sept. 16.
In this call, they said her office should get external advice on the SNC-Lavalin matter and they mentioned the context of a Quebec election. On Sept. 19, they had another call with Ms. Prince, in which they suggested an “informal reach out” to the director of public prosecutions. Ms. Prince said Ms. Wilson-Raybould was not comfortable with that and this likely constituted political interference.
On Oct. 18, Mr. Bouchard called Ms. Prince and asked that the Attorney-General consider seeking an external legal opinion on the prosecutor’s decision not to offer a deferred prosecution agreement. Mr. Bouchard repeated this request to Ms. Prince on Oct. 26. Ms. Wilson-Raybould said he told Ms. Prince that there could be negative consequences should SNC-Lavalin announce it is moving its headquarters out of Canada.
“We can have the best policy in the world, but we need to get re-elected,” he allegedly said. On Nov. 22, Ms. Wilson-Raybould met with Mr. Bouchard and Mr. Marques. She said it was a lengthy meeting where Mr. Bouchard said Ms. Wilson-Raybould needed to find a solution, even though she said she had already made up her mind not to intervene.
AMY ARCHER: POLICY ADVISER, PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE
Amy Archer has a BA in political studies from Queen’s University and a law degree from the University of Western Ontario, according to her LinkedIn profile. The profile says she articled at McCarthy Tétrault and worked there as a litigation associate for two years, then moved to a job at Lerners LLP.
She became a senior adviser to Ontario’s government House leader in 2014. From there, she took a post as senior policy adviser with the attorney-general of Ontario in 2017. She went on to become a policy adviser in the PMO, joining several other former Ontario Liberal staffers who found jobs on Parliament Hill after the Progressive Conservatives won the June provincial election.
In Ms. Wilson-Raybould’s opening statement, she says she got a note from her staff on Sept. 7 on the role of the attorney-general; she said the note was shared with Elder Marques and Ms. Archer.
MICHAEL WERNICK: CLERK OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE
A 61-year-old career civil servant, Michael Wernick ascended through the bureaucracy to the top job of Clerk of the Privy Council in 2016. In the role, he is tasked with helping to implement the vision of the government of the day. Mr. Wernick testified before the justice committee on Feb. 21, where he maintained that Ms. Wilson-Raybould – whom he described as a partner, ally and friend – was not subjected to “inappropriate pressure.”
Ms. Wilson-Raybould detailed several occasions when she spoke with Mr. Wernick about the SNC-Lavalin matter. She said she met with the Prime Minister and Mr. Wernick on Sept. 17 on an unrelated issue, but that Mr. Trudeau immediately brought up the SNC-Lavalin case, flagging the potential economic consequences if there is no deferred prosecution agreement.
“Then, to my surprise, the Clerk started to make the case for the need to have a DPA,” Ms. Wilson-Raybould told MPs, adding that Mr. Wernick referred to a coming SNC-Lavalin board meeting and an election in Quebec. Ms. Wilson-Raybould said that at meeting two days later, the Clerk brought up potential job losses.
On Dec. 19, Mr. Wernick called Ms. Wilson-Raybould and told her the Prime Minister is “quite determined, quite firm” on the SNC-Lavalin matter, according to her testimony. “He said: ‘I think he is gonna find a way to get it done one way or another,’” she said.
Ms. Wilson-Raybould said that on Jan. 11, Mr. Wernick told her deputy minister that a cabinet shuffle is happening and that the SNC-Lavalin matter will be one of the priorities for the new minister.
ELDER MARQUES: SENIOR ADVISER, PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE
Elder Marques is a former top commercial litigator and trial lawyer from McCarthy Tétrault. Mr. Marques, who once served as the law clerk to now-retired Supreme Court chief justice Beverley McLachlin, joined the Liberal government in 2016 as chief of staff to Minister of Innovation Navdeep Bains.
In 2017, he became a senior adviser in the PMO and was named by The Hill Times as one of the 15 most influential unelected people in federal government. Since 2017, SNC-Lavalin lobbied federal officials – including Mr. Marques – a total of more than 50 times on the topic of “justice” and “law enforcement,” according to the federal lobbyists registry.
Ms. Wilson-Raybould said that on Sept. 16, her then-chief of staff, Ms. Prince, had a call with Mr. Marques and Mr. Bouchard, another senior PMO adviser.
“They said that they think we should be able to find a more reasonable resolution here,” Ms. Wilson-Raybould testified, adding that the two mentioned the coming SNC-Lavalin board meeting and the Quebec election. Ms. Wilson-Raybould said they asked Ms. Prince if the office was open to suggesting to the Public Prosecution Service of Canada that it get outside advice. The men told Ms. Wilson-Raybould’s chief of staff that “they didn’t want to cross any lines.”
In a Sept. 19 call with Ms. Prince, Mr. Marques and Mr. Bouchard raised the idea of “an informal reach-out” to the director of public prosecutions, Ms. Wilson-Raybould said. They asked if it would still constitute political interference if Ms. Wilson-Raybould’s staff or her deputy minister reached out to the director, she said.
On Nov. 22, after Ms. Wilson-Raybould had told various officials that SNC-Lavalin would not be getting a DPA, she had a “quite long” meeting with Mr. Marques and Mr. Bouchard, she said. They “continued to plead their case,” she said.
GERALD BUTTS, FORMER PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO THE PRIME MINISTER
Gerald Butts and Mr. Trudeau have a long history. They met as university students when they were both English majors at McGill University. Mr. Butts, a two-time university debating champion, was a top adviser to former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty and formerly the CEO of the World Wildlife Fund’s Canadian office.
He was principal secretary to Prime Minister Trudeau – and one of the PM’s most trusted advisers – from 2015 until his abrupt resignation on Feb. 18. In his letter of resignation, he said any accusation that he put pressure on Ms. Wilson-Raybould is “simply not true.”
In her testimony, Ms. Wilson-Raybould said she met with Mr. Butts on Dec. 5, a meeting in which she says she stressed that she had made up her mind on SNC-Lavalin and that further engagements were inappropriate; he said he needed her to find a solution. According to Ms. Wilson-Raybould, he said the statute involved in the matter was one passed under the previous Harper administration and that he did not like the law.
On Dec. 18, Mr. Butts and Katie Telford, the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, met with Ms. Wilson-Raybould’s chief of staff, where they again asked for a solution. In a text conversation, her chief of staff cited Mr. Butts as saying “there is no solution here that does not involve some interference.” On Thursday, Mr. Butts said he asked the Justice committee that he be allowed to testify.
JUSTIN TO: DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE MINISTER OF FINANCE
Justin To is director of policy and deputy chief of staff to Finance Minister Bill Morneau, a department where he has worked since September, 2017. Before that, he was a deputy director of policy along with finance and economic adviser to Prime Minister Trudeau; he also worked as a senior policy adviser to the former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff.
According to Ms. Wilson-Raybould’s testimony, her chief of staff spoke with Mr. To and Mr. Morneau’s chief of staff on Sept. 20, in their capacity as members of the Finance Minister’s office, about SNC and deferred prosecution agreements. This occurred the day after she said she had told the Finance Minister that engagements on the matter from his office were inappropriate and needed to stop.
KATIE TELFORD: CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE PRIME MINISTER
Katie Telford cut her teeth in the Ontario Liberal government of Dalton McGuinty, where she quickly rose through the ranks and served as chief of staff to then-education minister Gerard Kennedy. She managed Mr. Kennedy’s unsuccessful 2006 federal leadership bid, served as deputy chief of staff to former Liberal leader Stéphane Dion and was a senior consultant at the lobbying firm StrategyCorp.
Ms. Telford managed Mr. Trudeau’s winning bid for party leadership in 2012-13, and served as national campaign director in the 2015 federal election that brought Mr. Trudeau to power. Ms. Telford, who cemented her relationship with Mr. Butts when the two were at Queen’s Park, became Mr. Trudeau’s chief of staff and a central figure in the PMO.
Ms. Wilson-Raybould testified that on Dec. 18, her then-chief of staff, Ms. Prince, was “urgently summoned” to meet with Ms. Telford and Mr. Butts to discuss SNC-Lavalin. She described this meeting as part of the “final escalation in efforts by the PMO to interfere in this matter.”
Ms. Wilson-Raybould read from text messages exchanged with Ms. Prince after the meeting, in which Ms. Prince said the PMO officials wanted Ms. Wilson-Raybould to seek outside counsel on whether she should review the SNC-Lavalin decision and recounted Ms. Telford as saying “we don’t want to debate legalities anymore.”
According to Ms. Wilson-Raybould, Ms. Prince says in the text messages that Ms. Telford believed outside advice would “give us cover in the business community and legal community.” Ms. Telford also offered to line up “all kinds of people to write opeds saying that what [Ms. Wilson-Raybould] is doing is proper.”
NATHALIE DROUIN: DEPUTY MINISTER OF JUSTICE AND DEPUTY ATTORNEY-GENERAL
Nathalie Drouin was previously deputy attorney-general for the Quebec government, and has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 1992. Before joining government, Ms. Drouin held senior positions in Quebec’s Autorité des marchés financiers, which regulates the financial sector in the province. She was named deputy minister of justice and deputy attorney-general of Canada in June of 2017. She had previously served as senior associate deputy minister at the justice department.
Ms. Wilson-Raybould testified that on Sept. 7, her then-deputy minister said her department was working on the issue and provided a list of what some options would be – for example, “informally call [director of public prosecutions] Kathleen Roussel, set up an external review of their decision, etc.”
Ms. Wilson-Raybould said that on Sept. 16, her chief of staff had a conversation about SNC-Lavalin with Mr. Bouchard and Mr. Marques, from the PMO.
“They said they understand that there are limits on what can be done, and that they can’t direct, but that they hear that our Deputy Minister (of Justice) thinks we can get the PPSC to say, ‘We think we should get some outside advice on this,’” Ms. Wilson-Raybould said.
She also said she had a number of discussions with her deputy in which she raised concerns about the “appropriateness of communications” they were receiving from outside the department, and concerns about some of the options she was suggesting.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-a-closer-look-the-11-people-wilson-raybould-said-were-involved-in-the/
RT – ‘Justin Trudeau is done’: Canadian PM refuses to resign amid corruption scandal
Justin Trudeau has dismissed calls to resign amid explosive allegations from Canada’s ex-attorney general, who testified that the prime minister tried to pressure her to drop a bribery probe into a Quebec-based firm.
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Moon of Alabama – Justin Trudeau Is Finished
The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is finished. A long simmering scandal did him in.
Between 2001 and 2011 the Canadian construction and engineering company SNC-Lavalin bribed officials in Libya with tens of millions to get contracts in that country. In 2015 the company was charged by the Public Prosecution Service of Canada. It tried to avoid a trial and argued instead for a negotiated settlement since it had cleaned shop by changing its chief executive officer.
In 2016, SNC-Lavalin admitted that some former executives had illegally arranged donations of more than C$80,000 to Trudeau’s Liberal Party from 2004 to 2011.
The company had revenues of some C$10 billion in 2018. Some 9,000 of its 52,000 employees work in Canada. The headquarter and 3,400 of its employees are in the province of Quebec where the Liberals need to pick up votes in October’s federal election to keep their majority.
It was the task of the Justice Minister and Attorney General, Jody Wilson-Raybould, to decide if the case should go on trial as the law demands, or if it could be settled out of court. A trial would likely end with SNC-Lavalin banned from all public contracts in Canada for 10 years. It would cost jobs and votes.
The company lobbied the Liberal government which brought in a remediation agreement regime in 2018 as part of a massive budget bill.
more :
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/03/justin-trudeau-is-finished.html#more
CBC – Monsef, MacAulay, Bibeau take on new jobs in cabinet shuffle
[…]Minister for Women and Gender Equality Maryam Monsef will take on international development as part of her duties.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cabinet-shuffle-three-ministers-1.5038694
the rebel – SEPTEMBER 2016 – Trudeau cabinet minister LIED about being Afghan refugee
Toronto man arrested with $1M in cash may have ties to international money launderer. Now, he’s allegedly fled Canada
One night in April 2016, RCMP officers were trailing a man driving west from Montreal to Toronto in a grey Hyundai Genesis, according to affidavits filed by the RCMP.
The vehicle would not have appeared suspicious to other drivers on Highway 401. But according to a senior RCMP officer, police had watched the driver — a wealthy North York currency exchange owner named Farzam Mehdizadeh — travel the onerous route from Toronto to Montreal and back, 81 times in a single year.
At 10:20 p.m., as Mehdizadeh drove past the village of Trenton, RCMP contacted an Ontario Provincial Police unit and asked them to pull Mehdizadeh over for speeding.
An officer conducted a brief search of the Hyundai Genesis and found a bit of cannabis slipped into a cigarette package, RCMP officer Colleen Piers wrote in an affidavit obtained by Global News.
“It is at this time that Mehdizadeh voluntarily discloses that he has a large sum of money in his possession and that the money is in the amount of $1.3 million,” Piers said in her report describing the investigation.
On the floor mat near Mehdizadeh’s feet — where the typical Highway 401 traveller might leave a Tim Hortons bagel wrapper — was a large brick of bundled $20s, according to a police report.
The officer opened Mehdizadeh’s trunk and saw a black hockey bag. It allegedly concealed 50 bricks of cash and a blue backpack that held another 21 bricks of cash. Pictures filed in RCMP evidence showed there was also a leather travel bag holding 37 bricks of cash, and the ID of a man with the last name of Pelletier.
Police seized Mehdizadeh’s car and the cash, and several days later, executed search warrants at Mehdizadeh’s Yonge Street currency exchange shop and his $4.8-million York Mills mansion.
The evidence they seized would allegedly reveal a global underground banking network — apparently legitimate accounting books and a second set of secret accounting books — plus wire transfers, bank drafts, and loans involving both major Canadian banks and also some shady currency trading shops.
And among the items seized from Mehdizadeh’s office — according to an RCMP evidence affidavit — were nine Ontario driver’s licences, and a brick of $20s wrapped in elastic bands and attached to a white bank envelope, with a $14,000 bank draft from a major Canadian bank tucked inside.
Eventually, Mehdizadeh would be accused of laundering $100 million in just one year in Toronto and Montreal and would be facing 16 criminal charges, including laundering drug money, tax evasion, and possessing proceeds of crime. Mehdizadeh has not responded to the charges and could not be reached for comment by Global News. His colleagues said they could not locate him either.
But the RCMP believed he was just one suspect in a very large group of underground bankers, active in Toronto and Montreal especially, with links to real-estate money laundering. And they were believed to be connected to the upper echelons of Middle East organized crime and terrorism financing, according to a senior former DEA investigator interviewed by Global News.
Since charges were laid in 2017, however, Mehdizadeh has yet to appear in court, and according to colleagues, he has left Canada for his native Iran. The RCMP would not confirm any information about Mehdizadeh’s current whereabouts.
A senior investigator with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), who asked not to be identified because of potential ongoing investigations, added his voice to other critics from the DEA, that saythis is just the latest example that Canada’s justice system is unable to tackle money laundering and transnational crime.
A Global News investigation has found that Canada largely fails to effectively prosecute money-laundering cases, with just 321 convictions between 2000-2016. Roughly 809 cases were either stayed, withdrawn or dismissed, over that same time period, resulting in a conviction rate of around 27 per cent.
In B.C., just 10 people have been found guilty of money laundering since 2002, while Ontario has seen just 186 guilty verdicts since 2006.
Khanani network
Global News has learned that RCMP’s investigation and arrest of Mehdizadeh was the Canadian culmination of a number of global undercover investigations started by the DEA, and winding through Medellin, Colombia, to Dubai, Australia, Panama, Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal.
Mehdizadeh was arrested in an operation code-named “Project Oryx” RCMP affidavits say.
The evidence seized would connect Mehdizadeh to Altaf Khanani — an alleged mastermind underground banker and money launderer who moved up to $16 billion per year for global crime groups, with alleged links to Hezbollah and other terrorist groups that are now blurring into transnational organized crime networks, according to the DEA.
The U.S. Department of State has designated Khanani’s organization a “transnational organized crime group” with alleged links to “terrorist financing.”
“The Khanani money laundering organization also has been involved in the movement of funds for the Taliban, and Altaf Khanani, the group’s leader, is known to have had relationships with Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Dawood Ibrahim, al-Qaeda, and Jaish-e-Mohammed,” a Department of State document alleges.
Khanani has not been charged specifically for terrorist financing, or for money laundering for terrorists, according to public records on his case.
Wall Street Exchange — one of the currency exchanges used by Khanani’s organization, according to a report that quotes a senior Australia Federal Police official — was also used to make a wire transfer through a Canadian bank and into the United States for the 9/11 terror strike, a congressional investigation found.
On Feb. 11, 2019, RCMP announced 17 people were charged after a series of raids were carried out in Montreal and Toronto targeting what investigators believe is an extensive international money-laundering syndicate with ties to organized crime.
The RCMP probe, dubbed Project Collector, involved 300 RCMP officers in Ontario and Quebec who carried out almost a dozen search warrants in Montreal and Toronto. The network, and time frame of the investigation, suggest possible connections to the international probe of Khanani and Project Oryx.
However, the RCMP would not comment on potential links suspected by a former DEA investigator interviewed by Global News.
Seventeen people face charges including conspiracy, possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking, and laundering proceeds of crime. The network’s alleged leaders, Nader Gramian-Nik, 56, of Vaughan, Ont., and Mohamad Jaber, 51, of Laval, Que., were among those arrested.
Three suspects — Francisco Javier Jiminez Guerrero, 35, Victor Vargotskii, 56, and Frederick Rayman, 77 — are still being sought.
“The network’s members facilitated the collection of money from criminal groups in Montréal and then laundered the results of their illegal business,” the RCMP stated. “The network moved money that was collected in Montréal through various individuals and currency exchange offices in Toronto.”
The RCMP alleged the underground banking network used what is known as hawala — meaning transfer of credit and debt among linked illegal bankers, without money actually crossing borders — with “connections in Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, the United States and China. The funds were often wired through Dubai, and then returned to drug-exporting countries, such as Colombia and Mexico.”
The method of transaction is similar to the one RCMP say they exposed in B.C. casino money-laundering investigations.
To complete a transaction, a drug trafficker will arrange for $200,000 in drug cash, for example, to be deposited with a currency broker in Toronto. This broker will then ask a business partner in Colombia, for example, to provide $200,000 worth of pesos to the drug trafficker’s agent in that country. The brokers in Toronto and Columbia will settle up accounts over time, as drugs and money move back and forth with various clients.
Five Eyes Probe
At an anti-money laundering conference in Toronto in 2017, Scott Doran, then a senior RCMP organized crime investigator who is now chief superintendent of international policing, confirmed the alleged links of the Mehdizadeh probe to Khanani’s network.
In his report to the conference, which included slides and pictures of Mehdizadeh and Khanani, Doran said the RCMP’s probe of Mehdizadeh started as an information-sharing initiative between the so-called Five Eyes intelligence partners, including the U.S., Canada, Australia, and the U.K.
Doran said that RCMP undercover officers were involved in two “cash drops” in Toronto that led them to Mehdizadeh.
Doran said Mounties kept Mehdizadeh under surveillance, and eventually took him down driving between Montreal and Toronto. The RCMP suspected that Mehdizadeh could be just one player in a massive underground banking scheme in eastern Canada, according to Doran, with suspected links to real-estate money laundering.
According to RCMP evidence filed in court and obtained by Global News, the Dubai company linked to the 9/11 attacks, Wall Street Exchange, had made a wire transfer to Mehdizadeh’s currency exchange, Aria.
An affidavit filed by the RCMP to retain evidence seized, said forensic investigators needed time to pursue all national and international angles of the case, and would also need his tax and banking information in the seizure, and to consider “potential production orders on banking institutions to determine a legitimacy of the source of funds.”
Media reports on the Five Eyes probe of Khanani that focus on the successful partnerships between Australian police and the DEA, say that Khanani was lured into providing cash money-laundering services for the DEA. Undercover agents would meet Khanani operatives in cities around the world, including Toronto, and provide them bags stuffed with hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to the reports.
The reports say these cash “mules” would deliver the fake drug cash to currency exchanges in these cities and wire transfers would be run through Dubai and back into the bank accounts used by DEA front businesses.
The Khanani organization employed myriad fake shell businesses around the world and a network of currency shop owners worldwide, according to the DEA and Financial Action Task Force (FATF) — an inter-government anti-money-laundering agency.
The FATF and U.S. government reports say the Khanani organization has laundered billions annually for the Taliban, and terrorist groups including Hezbollah and al-Qaida, as well as Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, and Chinese organized crime groups.
In 2017, Khanani was sentenced by a U.S. District Court in Florida to almost six years in prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering, the FATF report says.
“Extensive law enforcement co-ordination took place between multiple law enforcement agencies from Australia, Canada and the U.S., who all held a different piece of the puzzle,” the FATF report says.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4949475/toronto-man-arrested-1m-cash-international-money-launderer-fled-canada/
TAPE: Pakistan hands over a captured Indian pilot (NAT SOUND)
Germany: Swedish teen activist Thunberg joins Hamburg climate school strike
Teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg joined thousands of demonstrators as they marched through Hamburg on Friday, calling for more and faster action on climate change.
The protesters, predominantly students and pupils, marched under the motto ‘Fridays for Future,’ skipping Fridays classes, to highlight the importance to act sustainably immediately.
‘Fridays for Future’ was begun by a then 15-year-old Thunberg in August 2018 when she started protesting for climate justice in front of the Swedish parliament building in Stockholm on Fridays instead of attending school. The school strike protests have subsequently been adopted and expanded by students and young people around the globe.
Speaking to the assembled crowd of young protesters, Thunberg said “Yes we are angry. We are angry because the older generations are continue to stealing our future, right now.”
Indian, Pakistani Troops Exchanging ‘Heavy Fire’ Along Line of Control – Sources (sputniknews, Mar 1, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201903011072872667-india-pakistan-troops-fire/
“Tensions between the nuclear-armed Asian nations escalated this week, with their militaries skirmishing following an Indian Air Force strike on a suspected terrorist stronghold in the contested region of Kashmir.
Indian and Pakistani forces are engaged in a heavy exchange of fire at as many as eight different locations along the Line of Control separating the two countries’ forces in Kashmir, multiple informed sources have told Sputnik.
Major firefights are taking place in sectors including Mendhar, Balakot, Krishna Ghati, the sources said.
Earlier Friday, Indian television reported that at at least two Indian police officers and two soldiers were killed by militants in the Kupward district of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, with two terrorists also said to be eliminated in the shootout.
Tensions between India and Pakistan remain dangerously high despite efforts to deescalate the conflict, including Islamabad’s decision to hand over an Indian fighter pilot whose MiG-21 jet was shot down over Pakistani airspace on Wednesday.
New Delhi has accused Islamabad of failing to fight Islamist extremists holed up in its territory. Multiple jihadist groups, including the Jaish-e-Mohammed* terrorist organisation, are thought to be situated in Kashmir, and to have been involved in attacks on Indian security personnel on the Indian side of the line of control. Earlier this month, the group claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing which killed over 40 Indian security personnel. In response, India carried out an airstrike on a suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed base on the Pakistani side of the border on Tuesday. A day later, the Pakistani military reported shooting down two Indian aircraft. India’s defence officials later revealed that a Pakistani Air Force F-16 was also downed during a dogfight with IAF planes. Islamabad insists it did not use F-16s in the air battle, and has accused New Delhi of violating its sovereignty and territorial integrity with its strikes.
*Outlawed in Russia and many other countries.”
Soros Foundation Demands Brussels Step Up War on Poland ‘Or EU Won’t Survive’ (breitbart, Mar 1, 2019)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/01/soros-ngo-brussels-war-poland-eu/
“George Soros’s Stefan Batory Foundation has demanded Brussels step up its war on patriotic Poland, asserting that the EU’s survival rests on “the progressive battle” to force globalism on the central European nation.
A paper by the NGO, founded by the open borders-backing billionaire in 1988 with the goal of turning then-Communist Poland into an “open society”, praised the European Commission for taking action against Polish efforts to reform what the government argues is a corrupt judicial system lacking in accountability.
Despite EU undermining of national sovereignty fueling widespread, growing anger at the bloc in Poland, lawyers at the foundation called on Brussels to step up its attacks on the central European nation, alleging that the fight for supposed judicial “independence” was vital for protecting “human rights” throughout the union.
“The battle for the rule of law in Poland… is effectively a battle for the survival of the EU,” proclaims the Soros-backed NGO, which has spent recent years working on projects to “prepare Polish society for refugees”, to “form positive attitudes towards” mass third world migration, and training tens of thousands of professionals and officials in various roles to fight “prejudice” as well as “hateful online comments”.
Poland’s conservative Law and Justice (PiS) has repeatedly spoken out against EU moves to encroach on member states’ sovereignty since the party was the first in the post-Communist era to gain enough seats to rule without a coalition when it swept to power in 2015 elections, with the promise of reversing the Europhile, globalist previous government’s vow to resettle huge numbers of migrants in the country.
Jacek Czaputowicz, Polish foreign affairs minister, and his Hungarian counterpart, Péter Szijjártó, told a press conference in Budapest this week that the two countries would continue to defend a Christian, pro-sovereignty Europe in the face of attempts by the Brussels establishment to force mass migration “down nations’ throats”.”
Italian Intelligence Warn of Insidious Threat of Violent Far-Left Anarchist Extremists (breitbart, Mar 1, 2019)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/01/italian-intelligence-warn-insidious-threat-violent-far-left-anarchist-extremists/
“The Italian security services has revealed an increasing threat of far-left radical anarchists with a report claiming a “growing tendency toward radicalisation.”…”
France Will Intervene if ISIS Fighter Citizens Sentenced to Death in Iraq (breitbart, Mar 1, 2019)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/02/28/france-intervene-isis-fighter-citizens-sentenced-death-iraq/
“France’s Minister of Justice has announced that the government will intervene should French Islamic State members be sentenced to death in Iraq for their activities.
Thirteen French Islamic State fighters face trial in Iraq after being captured in Syria and under Iraqi law, the penalty for anyone caught providing material aid to Islamic State or other extremist organisations is death, Le Parisien reports.
Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet said that the French would allow the Iraqis to judge the foreign fighters but would insist on imposing a limit which would not allow the use of the death penalty.
” There are French adults who have knowingly gone on the battlefield, it is not illogical that they are responsible for their actions where they committed them,” Belloubet said.
“We are on the one hand ensuring that the rights of defence are ensured and on the other hand the French who are entitled to consular protection. We, therefore, will ensure the minimum of respect for the right to a fair trial,” she added.
The upcoming trials are just the latest of foreign fighters from Europe. Last year, the Iraqi courts sentenced French national Melina Boughedir to life in prison for being a member of Islamic State…”
Somali Pirate Arrested After Trying to Claim Asylum in Europe (breitbart, Mar 1, 2019)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/02/28/somali-pirate-arrested-after-trying-claim-asylum/
“A Somali migrant, alleged to have been involved in piracy incidents in 2010 and 2011, has been arrested after trying to claim asylum in Salzburg, Austria.
The 24-year-old asylum seeker was arrested by Austrian police earlier this week and is believed to have taken part in incidents off the coast of Somalia in which pirates captured two German ships, Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung reports.
The Somalian was arrested on February 12th and was sent to jail in Salzburg prison in Puch near Hallein for ten days and is expected to be extradited to Germany.
According to investigators, he was involved in blackmail, gang-related activity, criminal extortion, and piracy between 2010 and 2011 when he was only 16 years old.
A spokesman for the Osnabrück public prosecutor said that the man had, along with others, captured and boarded the EMS River cargo ship on December 27, 2010, and kidnapped the eight-person crew. They released the crew several months later in March after a $3 million ransom was paid.
The second attack the Somalian is alleged to have been involved in occurred in April 2011 and saw him, along with others, attack the ship Susan K and once again kidnap their crew of ten people. The crew were subsequently let go in June after $3.5 million was paid to the pirates.
The case will not be the first in which Somalians are tried for piracy in Germany. In 2012, ten Somalis were found guilty of piracy and given various sentences…”
Saudi Arabia revokes citizenship of Hamza bin Laden (abcnews, Mar 1, 2019)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/saudi-arabia-revokes-citizenship-hamza-bin-laden-61410688
“Saudi Arabia announced Friday it had revoked the citizenship of Hamza bin Laden, the son of the late al-Qaida leader who has become an increasingly prominent figure in the terror network.
There was no immediate explanation why the royal decree stripping his citizenship, signed in November, was only becoming public now. However, the announcement comes after the U.S. government on Thursday offered a $1 million reward for information leading to his capture as part of its “Rewards for Justice” program.
The kingdom similarly stripped Osama bin Laden’s citizenship in 1994 while living in exile in Sudan when Hamza bin Laden was just a child. Where he is now remains in question…”
US military says airstrike in Somalia kills 26 al-Shabab (abcnews, Mar 1, 2019)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-military-airstrike-somalia-kills-26-al-shabab-61412060
“The United States military on Friday said it had killed 26 fighters with the al-Shabab extremist group with an airstrike in central Somalia, after a pair of strikes earlier this week killed 55.
The U.S. has carried out 24 such strikes this year, or more than half the number in all of 2018. Several have had death tolls in the double digits, including one in mid-January that killed 52 fighters and one in late January that killed 24.
A U.S. Africa Command statement said the attack occurred Thursday in the Hiran region, where the earlier ones took place. It did not immediately respond to a question about why recent strikes appear to be deadlier.
The new airstrike was announced shortly after Somali authorities said a deadly overnight siege by al-Shabab had ended in the capital, Mogadishu, with all attackers killed. At least 24 people were killed with more than 50 others wounded, many of them critically.
The attack, which began with a pair of car bombs on Thursday night as Somalis relaxed in a popular neighborhood of restaurants and bars, was one of the most serious in months and was quickly claimed by the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab.
While the U.S. statement said the airstrikes are meant to degrade al-Shabab’s ability to coordinate attacks against the Somali people, the carnage showed that Africa’s deadliest Islamic extremist group still has the ability to strike in the heart of the capital.
The U.S. has dramatically increased airstrikes against al-Shabab since President Donald Trump took office. Authorities and experts acknowledge that it will take more than airstrikes to defeat the extremist group, which holds large parts of rural central and southern Somalia…”
Algeria protests: Thousands denounce president’s bid for fifth term (BBC, Mar 1, 2019)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47420485
“Thousands in Algeria have taken to the streets angry at 81-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s plan to seek a fifth term in office.
Police fired tear gas at protesters in the capital, Algiers.
Anti-government protests are rare in Algeria but several broke out after Mr Bouteflika confirmed his candidacy.
He has rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke in 2013 and is currently undergoing medical tests in Switzerland.
As they marched through the streets of Algiers, some demonstrators carried banners saying “leave means leave”. Others stressed their intentions were peaceful.
“Twenty years are enough,” said one woman, quoted by AFP news agency, who was joined by her husband and children.
It is not clear what led police to use tear gas in Algiers.
Demonstrations have also been taking place at several other cities in Algeria.
Mr Bouteflika came to power in 1999 and is credited with putting an end to a civil war that is estimated to have killed more than 100,000 people.
Protests against food prices and unemployment broke out in 2011 during the Arab Spring but he responded by lifting a nearly two-decades old state of emergency, meeting a key demand of protesters.
After his stroke he won re-election in a poll denounced by the opposition and dissolved the country’s powerful spy agency, replacing it with a body loyal to him.
Critics say his ill health means that he is unable to perform his duties as president.
Despite the show of dissent, Mr Bouteflika is still widely tipped to win the election in April.”
Thousands protest president fifth term bid in Algeria capital
Algeria braced for ‘million man’ anti-Bouteflika march
This has been going on for a while, this is from January:
the rebel – “Two migrants attacked our car”: The Rebel in Ouistreham, France | Janice Atkinson
Illinois-Based Sheikh Omar Baloch: Islamic Relief Organizations Should Promote the Caliphate
On January 29, 2019, Illinois-based Sheikh Omar Baloch uploaded a video titled “Constructive Criticism of Islamic Relief Organizations” to his YouTube channel.
In the video, Baloch said that Islamic relief organizations do not place enough emphasis on the establishment of an Islamic caliphate as the long-term solution to humanitarian problems.
He said that the problem is that many Islamic organizations are scared to lose funding if they are too vocal about the establishment of a caliphate, and he criticized them because they “wear the garb of [piety]” by providing aid, but they do not call out the “forces of injustice,” for which they are serving as a “bandage.”
He said that such organizations should use their platform to convey a message about the common dream, legacy, and hope of Muslims, and he elaborated: “We all have a higher goal… that is bigger than us, and that is the establishment of the caliphate.”
According to the Facebook page of the Furqaan Institute of Quranic Education (FIQE), Sheikh Omar Baloch was born in Chicago and is the scholar in residence at the Al-Furqaan Foundation, of which FIQE is a division.
The Facebook page also says that Baloch studied at Georgetown University, at Al-Azhar University in Egypt, at Jamia Thul Ahlul Hadith in Pakistan.
Turkey’s membership of EU ON BRINK after Italy says Turks will NEVER be Europeans
TURKEY’S membership to the European Union has been robustly rejected by many Italian MPs – despite an official document from one of the country’s ministry opened to Ankara’s future in Brussels.
The Italian Parliament is at odds with its own EU Affairs Ministry, which recently published a paper claiming Rome is open to the possibility of Turkey joining the European Union. The detailed report called Italy’s participation in the EU (La partecipazione dell’Italia all’Unione Europea), has been registered in Parliament for the attention of Italian MPs. But rather than being approved it sparked outrage among ruling party Lega and other right-wing groups by claiming “Turkey remains a candidate country” for EU membership.
Agriculture Minister Gian Marco Centinaio, one of the key figures of Lega, denied its party has ever changed its mind over Turkey.
He told news website AffariItaliani.it: “As a minister and Lega official I can clearly state Lega’s strategy on Turkey hasn’t changed in the past months.”
When asked if Turkey should be given an EU membership, he said: “Absolutely not, and we have never spoken about opening on this matter within our party.”
Guglielmo Picchi, the party’s undersecretary of state at the Foreign Ministry, was also left livid by the report.
He wrote on Twitter: “We confirm Italy is opened to a dialogue between the EU and Turkey to improve their relationship and strengthen their institutions, but it is against Turkey joining the EU.”
The Ministry’s paper mirrors Brussels’ desire to open to new members on the eastern side of the European continent, including the Balkans and Turkey.
The document said: “Ankara remains a fundamental interlocutor to the EU for security and regional politics in the Middle East and on the Gulf.
“However, we can’t oversee the worries regarding the declining respect of fundamental rights in the country.”
Far-right Lega, which is in a Government coalition with anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S), has historically opposed to Turkey joining the EU.
Party leader and anti-immigration interior minister Matteo Salvini declared his party’s view on the matter in 2013.
In a speech in the European Parliament, the then-MEP said Lega looks at the EU as a “homogeneous, compact, respectful and prideful unity”, where its members share values and similar cultures – too different from Turkey’s.
Mr Salvini said: “It’s clear Turkey is not and will never be Europe, for its history, geography, economy, culture, respect of human rights, respect of women’s rights, respect of ethnic an religious minorities.
“The only sensible way to avoid carry on with this senseless a debate for 20 more years is to suspend once and for all the talks with what is not and will never be a piece of Europe.”
Mr Salvini made a similar comment to the French press earlier this year, saying “Turkey’s admission to the EU is out of question”.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1094282/eu-news-turkey-eu-membership-italy-news-lega-matteo-salvini
In America, talk turns to something unspoken for 150 years: Civil war
Greg Jaffe and Jenna Johnson, The Washington Post Published 6:29 am CST, Friday, March 1, 2019
In America, talk turns to something unspoken for 150 years: Civil war
Greg Jaffe and Jenna Johnson, The Washington Post Published 6:29 am CST, Friday, March 1, 2019
Photograph from the main eastern theater of the Civil War at Brandy Station, Virginia, Dec. 1863-April 1864. Photo: Library Of Congress. / Library of Congress
Photo: Library Of Congress.
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Photograph from the main eastern theater of the Civil War at Brandy Station, Virginia, Dec. 1863-April 1864.
At a moment when the country has never seemed angrier, two political commentators from opposite sides of the divide concurred last week on one point, nearly unthinkable until recently: The country is on the verge of “civil war.”
First came former U.S. attorney Joseph diGenova, a Fox News regular and ally of President Trump. “We are in a civil war,” he said. “The suggestion that there’s ever going to be civil discourse in this country for the foreseeable future is over. . . . It’s going to be total war.”
https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/In-America-talk-turns-to-something-unspoken-for-13654893.php
Richard: We are in the opening stages of a civil war, the left is about to start one and bleme President Trump and his supporters.
Prior to the 2016 election they kept screaming that Trump was refusing to say he would accept the results of the election, he won and they have been refusing to accept the results of the election since. Now they are busy spreading rumors that President Trump won’t accept the results of the 2020 election, and once again they are going to be the ones who refuse to accept his winning.
Having said this the violence will start long before the election as the left attacks all Trump supporters they can find and uses violence to disrupt Trump rallies.
Things are getting scarier daily, keep your musket clean your powder dry and watch you back.
Second Amendment Sanctuaries: A Growing Trend
GOPUSA StaffThe Daily Times (Farmington, N.M.) Posted On 11:50 am March 1, 2019
FARMINGTON — The city of Farmington is one of at least two New Mexico municipalities that have passed ordinances in reaction to proposed gun control measures being considered by the state legislature.
Both Farmington and Española city councils unanimously passed resolutions Tuesday opposing what they consider unconstitutional gun laws. These resolutions would bar using city resources to enforce unconstitutional gun laws and allow the police chief or director of public safety discretion in enforcing firearm laws.
The Farmington City Council passed the resolution on a 3-0 vote. Councilor Janis Jakino was absent, but Mayor Nate Duckett read a statement from Jakino voicing support for the resolution.
“I find it almost sad that we as a city have to stand up to defend our constitutional rights,” said Farmington City Councilor Sean Sharer prior to the vote.
It’s not just New Mexico. Colorado’s Custer County follows Fremont’s lead, passes 2nd Amendment Sanctuary resolution
Sharer said he will fight for constitutional rights at any level he can and the resolution was a way Farmington could stand up for those rights at a city level.
“Here in Farmington we are resilient people and we will continue to be so, and we will stand up to Santa Fe if we have to, and we’ll draw lines in the sand when it comes to our constitutional rights,” he said.
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=65866?omhide=true
Rashida Tlaib Paid Herself $45,500 From Campaign Funds
Made $17,550 in payments following election
Freshman Democratic representative Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) paid herself tens of thousands of dollars from her campaign’s funds during the midterm elections, filings with the Federal Election Commission show.
Tlaib, who was elected to the House last November, began paying herself on May 7, 2018, from Rashida Tlaib for Congress, her campaign committee, and averaged $4,000 per month outside of August, which included two checks of $3,000 each.
From May 7 until the general election on Nov. 6, Tlaib paid herself a total of $28,000 in payments from the campaign committee, which first-time candidates are permitted to do up until the day of the general election if they so choose.
“If the candidate wins the primary election, his or her principal campaign committee may pay him or her a salary from campaign funds through the date of the general election, up to and including the date of any general election runoff,” FEC provisions state. “If the candidate loses the primary, withdraws from the race, or otherwise ceases to be a candidate, no salary payments may be paid beyond the date he or she is no longer a candidate.”
An FEC spokesperson said that a candidate can pay themselves after the general election only for activity that occurred up to the day of the election.
Following the general election, Tlaib cut herself a $2,000 check on Nov. 16 and disbursed $15,500 to herself on Dec. 1, which was well above the average of what she was paying herself during the campaign.
“On its face, it looks like the $2,000 payment on November 16 might be for the candidate’s salary for the first two weeks of November,” an election law and government ethics lawyer told the Free Beacon when asked about the payments. “But given that the election occurred on November 6—i.e., part-way through the first November pay period—I am surprised that this last payment wasn’t prorated. In other words, Tlaib stopped being a candidate halfway through this period, but it appears that she kept collecting her full salary as if she was still a candidate throughout the full first two weeks of November.”
“The $15,500 payment is interesting. It’s not 100% clear what she’s doing, but what she may have done is to low ball her earlier payments for political purposes (at $2k), knowing full well that she would make up any difference at the end by giving herself a lump sum payment,” the lawyer continued. “That would let her skirt negative publicity, of the sort that Alan Keyes generated when he paid himself a sizable salary. An after-the-fact, lump sum payment cuts against the purpose of the rule, which is to help the candidate pay for daily living expenses while campaigning.”
Tlaib’s campaign did not respond to requests for comment on the payments.
During the campaign, Tlaib said that she had taken a leave of absence from her job at the Sugar Law Center, a Detroit-based economic and social justice organization, and cut her hours down to seven per week. The now-congresswoman was paid $28,712.79 from the law center up until May of last year—when the payments from the campaign started—and collected $42,500 salary in 2017, according to her financial disclosure forms.
Tlaib also reported a $68,307 salary for a “Leadership in Government Fellowship” in 2017 but did not disclose the name of the organization who provided the funding for the fellowship, as required by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ethics.
The Washington Free Beacon reached out to George Soros’s spokesperson in December and were provided copies of tax forms for all entities that are run by the liberal billionaire and make up his Open Society network.
On page 97 of the 321-page tax form for the Open Society Institute, the legal name for the Open Society Foundation, an expenditure of $85,307 is shown to Tlaib for a “leadership in government fellowship,” the Free Beacon reported.
The amount that Soros’s group reported paying out to Tlaib on its tax forms, $85,307, differs from the amount Tlaib reported on her financial disclosure—$68,307—for her leadership in government fellowship.
“Rashida Tlaib was awarded a Leadership in Government fellowship from the Open Society Foundations in the fall of 2016,”Jonathan Kaplan, Soros’s spokesperson, told the Free Beacon at the time. “Her project: to focus on increasing the civic participation of disenfranchised urban communities of color. When Ms. Tlaib informed us that she was planning to run for Congress, we mutually agreed to suspend her fellowship and no further payments were made.”
Kendra Arnold, the executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, a government watchdog group, said that the payment was “problematic” given that candidates are required to disclose the source of their income.
“Identify the source by naming the organization, corporation, or other entity making the payment. It is not necessary that individual clients of a business be named, only the business itself,” the manual states. Tlaib did not report that it came from Soros’s Open Society Foundation.
Tlaib ultimately collected $225,180 from Soros’s organization throughout 2016 and 2017, according to the group’s tax forms.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/rashida-tlaib-paid-herself-45500-from-campaign-funds/
zero hedge – US Army Takes 50 Tons Of Gold From Syria In Alleged Deal With ISIS
As the remaining pockets of ISIS fighters faced imminent defeat in northeast Syria, the United States allegedly gave them an offer they couldn’t refuse: give us your massive caches of gold – or die.
According to reports by Syrian state news agency SANA, U.S. forces struck a deal with ISIS whereby the terrorist group would give up 50 tons of gold across eastern Syria’s Deir el-Zour province in exchange for safe passage.
The precious metal, worth about $2.13 billion, was plundered by the self-designated “caliphate” as its reign of terror spread across Syria and Iraq between 2015 and 2017.
Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah reports that local sources claim U.S. Army helicopters have already transferred the gold from the U.S. forces’ base in Kobani, the Kurdish-controlled city that lies close to Syria’s northern border with Syria. A portion of the gold was also distributed to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which dominates the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The news comes after SANA claimed that locals witnessed U.S. helicopters airlifting large cases of gold amounting to about 40 tons from the al-Dashisha area in Hasaka’s southern countryside earlier this month. The gold was purportedly looted by ISIS from Mosul in Iraq and other parts of Syria.
The Syrian state media outlet claimed that ISIS leaders were on-hand to guide the U.S. helicopters to the places where the gold was stashed, “closing a deal by which Washington spared hundreds of the terror organization’s field leaders and experts.”
The claims by the Syrian government outlet coincide with reports by U.K.-based war monitor, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR), which alleged that the U.S. and its Kurdish allies had been sparing ISIS fighters in hopes of acquiring the group’s war spoils.
The SOHR said:
“The U.S.-led coalition forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) deliberately do not target the areas under the control of the ISIL terrorists and commanders in Eastern Euphrates in Deir el-Zour as they are trying to locate this treasure by forcing the ISIL militants to speak about its location after surrendering.”
Syrian and Russian media alike have long alleged that, contrary to Washington’s claims, it is waging a war on the extremist group. U.S. forces are instead collaborating with them in myriad ways.
During the destruction of ISIS-controlled Raqqa in Syria by the U.S.-led coalition, a secret deal was struck with the group that granted members safe passage as it evacuated the area. The deal, uncovered by the BBC, ensured the survival and freedom of many top ISIS leaders and a number of foreign fighters.
The U.S. still maintains its base in al-Tanf at the Syrian-Jordanian border in contravention of international law and against the wishes of the Syrian government on the pretext of combating ISIS. Moscow has repeatedly accused the United States of forming new armed groups from the remains of ISIS, where they are allegedly given free rein and pop up “like a jack-in-the-box” to ambush Syrian troops before fading back into the U.S.-controlled region.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-01/us-army-takes-50-tons-gold-syria-alleged-deal-isis
Syria: Surrendered IS militants recount experiences en route to SDF camp
Surrendered Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) fighters and their relatives recounted their experiences of fighting for the militant organisation, while en route to a Syrian Democratic Forces’ camp on February 28, having previously left the last remaining IS enclave near Baghouz.
“I am Radvan, I was in IS. I come from Indonesia. I am from the squad ‘Caliphate’s young lions.’ My father is fighting for IS,” the son of an IS militant said.
An IS militant of Tunisian origin told his story about joining the militant group and provided some details of his experiences.
“We took a ride to Deir ez-Zor where the regime’s air force, which opened fire on us, appeared. And I was wounded,” he said.
DAILY MAIL – The SUPER SUV: Incredible ten-wheeled vehicle is built for a sheikh from a military truck and a Jeep
Sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, from Abu Dhabi, UAE, had the SUV built
Posting snaps on Instagram, he revealed monster vehicle is largest SUV in world
‘Dhabiyan’weighs 24 tonnes and has engine from Oshkosh M1075 military truck
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6760511/Abu-Dhabi-Sheikh-builds-incredible-ten-wheeled-vehicle-military-truck-Jeep.html
The conundrum of ‘Trump’
By J.E. Dyer March 1, 2019
The conundrum of the Trump phenomenon, especially for legacy conservatives, is actually pretty simple. Trump and his effects defy expectations.
That’s about it. I could pad this post with a lot of structural analysis of that point, but I don’t think it’s necessary. Here is a fellow whose personal history doesn’t fit anyone’s idea of marital fidelity, conservative values, or philosophical consistency about politics. He tends to mouth off on issues, shooting out words rather than framing sentences. He sends triggering tweets and seems to enjoy it. He communicates policy by tweet. He sometimes says mean-spirited things about people, from the office of the president. On the other hand, he talks about falling in love with a young-punk dictator and having a beautiful relationship with him.
His history as an entrepreneur includes big successes and big failures. He has detractors as well as supporters in the business world. He has hired some weird employees, alongside the excellent ones. There are a lot of court cases in his wake; maybe not more than the average billionaire entrepreneur, but certainly more than any U.S. president.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/03/01/the-conundrum-of-trump/
Richard: Trump is Trump, he isn’t going to be a square or round peg, he is both and neither at the same time. Just thank God he won in 2016 and pray he wins in 2020, he is returning the US to the Representative Republic we were meant to be. If we can get lucky and get 8 years of Pence after 8 years of Trump the radical left will have to work hard for a long time to once again have enough power to once again think about turning us into a Marxist nation. As the article I posted earlier says we are probably going to have to fight and win a civil war before PY’s next 4 years are over. (This doesn’t mean there won’t be attacks by the far left for well over a decade). Never doubt for an instant the the lovers of freedom will win, the left has no idea what hell they are going to unleash when they start the killing side of the civil war.
The Dan Bongino Show
Ep. 927 What Are They Really Hiding?
https://bongino.com/ep-927-what-are-they-really-hiding/
Israel’s Three-Front War Scenario
The daunting challenges of confronting symmetrical and asymmetrical threats.
March 1, 2019
Ari Lieberman
With the conclusion of Operation Northern Shield, Israel’s successful effort to locate Hezbollah-constructed cross-border tunnels, Israeli residents of the north can breathe a sigh of relief. In all, six tunnels of various lengths and complexity were uncovered. While a tense calm prevails in the north, there is still no respite for Israel’s southern residents, particularly for those living in the Gaza periphery who must endure kite terror, periodic rocket attacks and daily violent riots along the border.
Adding fuel to the fire, this week the Gazan-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad unveiled a rocket construction/storage facility housing rockets that the group claims can hit Tel Aviv and beyond. The PIJ alleged that the rocket was designed and developed with assistance from Iran demonstrating once again the Islamic Republic’s malign influence on the world stage.
The PIJ and Hamas, the entity that controls the Gaza Strip, share similar goals and ideologies but their tactics somewhat differ. Both groups are funded by Iran but Hamas is the principle orchestrator and instigator of the ritual weekly riots that occur along the border. Hamas is also the principle schemer behind the systematic effort to cause ecological mayhem in Israel’s south using incendiary balloons. As Gaza Strip’s governing entity, Hamas is constrained by political and military realities and is not as ready to deploy its rocket arsenal as its smaller but no less pernicious ally, the PIJ. Hamas prefers to keep tensions simmering in an effort to maintain relevancy but has no interest in sparking another war that it will surely lose.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273003/israels-three-front-war-scenario-ari-lieberman
Media Shocked to Learn Chinese Dissidents Back Trump
March 1, 2019
Daniel Greenfield
In leftyworld, things are simple. And have nothing to do with reality.
In leftyworld, pro-democracy activists fighting against actual totalitarian regimes were supposed to be impressed by Obama’s right arc of appeasement. In reality, if you’re a political dissidents seeking a leader who will stand up to the PRC, it won’t be a Democrat.
Politico wanders confused through this elementary reality.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/273022/media-shocked-learn-chinese-dissidents-back-trump-daniel-greenfield
europravda -Hungary’s Fidesz party faces expulsion from European People’s Party
“Steve Crowder says to Change His Mind on Michael Cohen”
reddit – February 28, 2019
https://www.reddit.com/r/CA2NWO/comments/avunj3/steven_crowder_says_to_change_his_mind_on_michael/
“LEGAL UPDATE: TIME TO SUE!! | Bill Richmond and James O’Keefe Guest | Louder With Crowder”
StevenCrowder – March 1, 2019
“CPAC 2019 – Seouled Out: Preserving South Korea’s Freedom”
American Conservative Union – Published on February 28, 2019
Tata O – Bio
https://www.icasinc.org/bios/o_tara.html
Dr. Tara O – Twitter
https://twitter.com/DrTaraO
Not quite the Dirty Dozen but it’ll do:
https://themindunleashed.com/2019/02/50-tons-gold-syria-isis.html
Kelly’s Heroes were the Gold Thieves, The Dirty Dozen was an assassination unit.
Hillary goes on bitter rant against Trump, says peace with North Korea is ‘lipstick on a pig’
I Love My Freedom March 1, 2019
[Ed. – She will go to her grave as a bitter loser.]
https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/03/01/hillary-goes-on-bitter-rant-against-trump-says-peace-with-north-korea-is-lipstick-on-a-pig/
Hillary Goes On BITTER Rant Against Trump, Says Peace With North Korea Is ‘Lipstick On A Pig’
While President Donald Trump spent the week in Vietnam trying to reach a peace deal with North Korea, Hillary Clinton went on a bitter rant trying to attack the president.
During an interview with Tina Brown in a podcast episode, Clinton claimed she didn’t believe Trump could negotiate for North Korean denuclearization and claimed that achieving peace would be like putting “lipstick on a pig.”
https://ilovemyfreedom.org/hillary-goes-on-bitter-rant-against-trump-says-peace-with-north-korea-is-lipstick-on-a-pig/?utm_source=star&utm_medium=twitter
Did China Make Taiwanese Horror Game Devotion Disappear? | China News Headlines
Did Trump Really “Defeat ISIS?” | America Uncovered
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada ordered that a 14-year-old girl receive testosterone injections without parental consent. The court also declared that if either of her parents referred to her using female pronouns or addressed her by her birth name, they would be considered guilty of family violence.
As previously reported, Maxine* was encouraged by her school counselor in BC’s Delta School District to identify as a boy while in seventh grade. When Maxine was 13 years old, Dr. Brenden Hursh and his colleagues at BC Children’s Hospital decided that Maxine should begin taking testosterone injections in order to develop a more masculine appearance.
Although Maxine’s mother was ultimately willing to support hormone injections, her father Clark* was concerned about the permanent ramifications of cross-sex hormones. Suspecting that his daughter’s mental health issues might be more the cause than the effect of her gender dysphoria, he ultimately decided that it would be better for her to wait until she was older before she embarked on any irreversible course of treatment.
At that point, Hursh informed Clark that he would begin testosterone injections on the basis of Maxine’s consent alone, claiming that he had a right to do so under the BC Infants Act. Clark promptly sought an injunction to prevent this. On Wednesday, however, a judge deemed Maxine “exclusively entitled to consent to medical treatment for gender dysphoria,” regardless of the opinions of either of her parents.
Further, the court stated that “Attempting to persuade [Maxine] to abandon treatment for gender dysphoria; addressing [Maxine] by his birth name; referring to [Maxine] as a girl or with female pronouns whether to him directly or to third parties; shall be considered to be family violence under s. 38 of the Family Law Act.”
https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/01/canadian-court-rules-parents-cant-stop-14-year-old-taking-trans-hormones/
A 19-year-old man has been arrested for attacking an 81-year-old wearing a MAGA hat in Somerset, N.J., prosecutors say.
Police were called to a grocery store in Franklin Township, outside New Brunswick, on Monday to investigate a report of a fight.
When they arrived, the 81-year-old told police he had been confronted by a man over his “Make America Great Again” hat as he left the store with his groceries.
http://time.com/5541025/new-jersey-maga-hat-assault/?utm_source=reddit.com&utm_source=reddit.com
Defending yourself against home invaders is now a criminal offense in Canada. A 23-year-old man was charged with second degree murder after fatally wounding one of three invaders that overtook his home.
On a cold night in Weyburn, Saskatchewan Canada, three masked men broke into the home of Keegan Muxlow. Armed with a shotgun and knife, the three home invaders took the lone man by surprise, threatening his life.
In fear for his life, Muxlow brandished his .22LR caliber rifle and fired several shots. One of the shots struck 18-year-old burglar Nathan Hutt. The three home invaders fled as Muxlow stood his ground. Around 9PM, Muxlow called the police to report the break-in and the shooting.
https://www.newstarget.com/2019-02-17-defending-yourself-against-a-home-invader-now-a-criminal-offense-in-canada.html?fbclid=IwAR0l8j64AQ9n1vGdVophq2y5DmbgeYaEecNTZ0ZpCvywvDLUr58mg4TyXrQ
If you can not preserve “life and limb”there to goes the right to private property ,for any-one may take it from you,and resistance is illegal.However natural law says that you make every effort to kill the bastards,irrespective of the consequences,and that is what every person with common sense would do,and also you have removed some scum from this ailing civilisation.
MIAMI – More firings at TV and Radio Martí over controversial George Soros report
Four additional staffers at Radio and TV Martí have been fired over a controversial report broadcast last year that referred to Jewish philanthropist George Soros as “anti-Semitic”
— bringing to eight the number of dismissals at the station so far following a months-long internal investigation by the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB), which oversees the Martí stations, as well as the Martínoticias digital site.
The report, aired by Isabel Cuervo for the Antena Live program, raises conspiracy theories about Soros, who is identified as a “left-wing billionaire of Hungarian-Jewish origin” and a “nonpracticing Jew of flexible morals.” The broadcast, which aired in three separate segments, included an interview that was posted on YouTube by RT.com that Cuervo used with no attribution to the source and another one passed off as her own interview with an alleged expert.
Cuervo and former News Editor Wilfredo Cancio were dismissed immediately after then Senator Jeff Flake and Senator Bob Menéndez demanded an investigation. The Martí report, broadcast last May, made headlines at the end of October when a blog on Cuban issues raised questions about the broadcast just days after Soros received a bomb threat.
John Lansing, director of the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees Radio and TV Martí, issued a statement Wednesday saying that the three-part report should have never aired.
The report, he said, was “a blatantly anti-Semitic video segment about George Soros that was deeply offensive and wholly inconsistent with our professional standards and ethics. OCB should have never aired it.”
“A comprehensive human resources investigation of the incident is now complete. One employee and three contractors have been terminated to date, and the agency has initiated the standard disciplinary process for four additional OCB employees,” said Lansing.
On Wednesday, Cuervo, her editor Vivian Martínez, producer Janet Lomba and journalist Armando de Armas were notified that they would be dismissed, according to a Martí employee who asked for anonymity in order to speak freely. Lomba produced the program Levántate Cuba in which Cuervo regularly promoted her Antena Live reports. De Armas wrote an article about a Judicial Watch lawsuit related to Soros that served as the basis for Cuervo’s report.
The USAGM did not immediately confirm the number of dismissals or answer questions about the investigation. Tomás Regalado, director of Radio and TV Martí, did not respond to several el Nuevo Herald phone calls seeking comment.
Cancio was previously fired, along with three other Martí contract workers: the host of Levántate Cuba, Maité Hernández, another producer of that program, Ibetty Pérez, and editor José Montoya, who took part in the production of the Soros report. They were dismissed before the conclusion of the investigation.
In an interview with el Nuevo Herald, Hernández and Pérez said they had been fired unfairly because they had no decision-making power over the Cuervo segment in the Levántate Cuba program.
According to the identical letters sent to them by the Chaise Management Group, the contracting agency, which were obtained by el Nuevo Herald, the decision to dismiss them was a recommendation of the OCB. The agency argues that they both violated “the trust and the credibility” of their work. The letter adds that the OCB informed the agency, after a “meticulous investigation,” that they had “contributed to the story in three parts,” which was aired by Cuervo.
“What the letter says is false, I did not participate in the reporting,” Pérez said in the interview and in a statement sent by attorney Gadiel Espinoza, who is representing both Pérez and Hernández.
Pérez said that her responsibilities with the program — contacting and coordinating with guests and other logistics — required that she be out of the studio for extended periods. She also said she does not remember being in the studio when Cuervo promoted the report. Hernández, meanwhile, said that Cuervo sent her the questions about the report the host should ask her in the show.
Both questioned why the presenters and producers of Antena Live, the show that originally broadcast Cuervo’s story, had not been investigated and that they were dismissed before the investigation was completed.
In his statement, Lansing also said that he had appointed an independent panel that would audit the entire contents of the Martí stations and the Martínoticias site, media outlets funded by federal money approved by Congress with a mission to transmit truthful information to Cuba as a way to break through government censorship.
In addition to dismissals tied to the Soros report, about another dozen Martí workers have been laid off by Regalado, which he has attributed to budget cuts. Regalado was named director of the Martí outlets last June and has made substantial changes since then.
Contracts with agencies that represented independent journalists in Cuba were canceled and several people who worked for the digital site also were dismissed. Martínoticias now mainly publishes wire stories. Meanwhile, a series of new television and radio programs have been launched, hosted by dissidents in Cuba and Miami as well as members of organizations that represent the so-called “historic exile” community.
The cuts, the investigation into the Soros report and the announced audit of Martí’s overall content has generated much angst among employees.
“The environment that has been created by the upper hierarchy of the Agency for Global Media is repressive,” said an employee who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals. “People write with fear. Adjectives are no longer used. “
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article226975224.html
Stay Out of Africa, Whitey
Ok monkey,who will turn up at any disasters with relief if whitey does not? Africans,chinese,muslims?all applauded for their humanitarian concern without doing anything,but constantly criticize whitey for his help.It is always the same,earthquake,flood,famine,the first action of those concerned is to sit in the shit looking pathetic and wait for whitey to come and wipe its arse,then insult him and tell him he did not get the aid there quick enough,if whitey is such a thouroughly bad lot,why does he continue to do these things?
‘Second Amendment Sanctuary Counties’ Declared in New Mexico
Ces élèves belges se “déguisent” en musulmans et suscitent l’indignation
Pour le carnaval qui célèbre le 100e jour avant la fin des cours et l’entrée dans le secondaire en Belgique, les élèves de l’établissement privé catholique Paters Jozefieten de Melle, en Flandre-Orientale, se sont “déguisés” en musulmans. Certains élèves arboraient des ceintures explosives, faisant clairement l’amalgame entre islam et terrorisme. Face à l’indignation, le directeur de l’établissement a fait part de ses regrets
https://twitter.com/N_Moufadil/status/1101231398155894785
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Turkey Anadoly Agency – Belgium students mock Islam dressed as suicide bombers
High school seniors wear head scarfs, don suicide belts while going though movements of Islamic prayers
A group of high school students here mocked Islam when they wore headscarves and suicide belts while imitating the movement of Islamic prayer.
Senior students traditionally celebrate graduation ceremonies 100 days before the end of school year, Mahinur Ozdemir, an independent member of parliament from Brussels Regional Parliament, told Anadolu Agency.
“However, it is scandalous that these students chose the theme as ‘Islam and Saudi Arabia’ and imitated prayer moves wearing headscarves and bombed belts, THEREFORE RELATING MUSLIMS WITH TERRORISM ”
Principal Jan de Gendt of the College Paters Jozefieten, the Catholic school in Ghent where the students attend, defended their actions and said it is an event for entertainment and does not aim to provoke or upset anyone.
Ozdemir said the principal’s remarks normalizes such events and that leads to Islamophobia.
“Is it free to wear headscarves for entertainment, while it is forbidden to wear it at schools?” Ozdemir asked.
It is intolerable that students wear traditional Arab clothes and relate Islam and Muslims with terrorism and violence, said Coskun Beyazgul, the head of religious affairs in Belgium.
“This behavior, which is incompatible with the culture of coexistence and causes the dissemination of negative Islamic perception in the public, is seen as a manifestation of anti-Islamic and hate speech,” he added.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/belgium-students-mock-islam-dressed-as-suicide-bombers/1406789
ITALIAN TV … 80’s
Andy Luotto received dead threats for this sketch …
“12 Giugno 1985 – Luotto – afferma il comunicato – interrompe con rincrescimento la sua partecipazione alla trasmissione nel ruolo di Harmand, perchè continuano a sussistere equivoci sul suo personaggio, nonostante il tono leggero di “Quelli della notte” e l’ assoluta intenzione di non offendere il mondo arabo”. A spingere Luotto ad abbandonare il programma sarebbero state le ultime due telefonate con cui è stato minacciato di morte.” Da Repubblica.it Archivio?
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‘American First’ Activist: ‘You Are No More Mexican Than I Am African’
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Project Veritas’ Facebook Expose – James O’Keefe at #CPAC 2019 | American Thought Leaders
Invest an hour and watch this presentation on the philosophical underpinnings of China’s decision making and the strategic implications thereof:
According to reports by Syrian state news agency SANA, U.S. forces struck a deal with ISIS whereby the terrorist group would give up 50 tons of gold across eastern Syria’s Deir el-Zour province in exchange for safe passage.
The precious metal, worth about $2.13 billion, was plundered by the self-designated “caliphate” as its reign of terror spread across Syria and Iraq between 2015 and 2017.
Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah reports that local sources claim U.S. Army helicopters have already transferred the gold from the U.S. forces’ base in Kobani, the Kurdish-controlled city that lies close to Syria’s northern border with Syria. A portion of the gold was also distributed to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which dominates the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The news comes after SANA claimed that locals witnessed U.S. helicopters airlifting large cases of gold amounting to about 40 tons from the al-Dashisha area in Hasaka’s southern countryside earlier this month. The gold was purportedly looted by ISIS from Mosul in Iraq and other parts of Syria.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-01/us-army-takes-50-tons-gold-syria-alleged-deal-isis