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India-Pakistan war warning: PoK leader urges Pakistan’s Imran Khan to ‘take strong steps’ (express, May 13, 2020)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1281912/india-pakistan-war-warning-Kashmir-news-Imran-khan-attack-india-haider-coronavirus
“PAKISTAN’S Imran Khan has been urged by the prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir to order his forces to attack India because verbal statements don’t work”.
Raja Farooq Haider made the chilling comments on Tuesday after visiting villages along the Line of Control as the coronavirus crisis rages on. He said the Pakistani prime minister must bold steps to address India’s actions in the disputed territory.
Mr Haider said: “PM Imran Khan must react now and take some strong steps.
“Only verbal statements will not work. You must move forward and order your forces to attack India…”
Grazer Arzt testet CO2 Wert unter einer Maske! CO2 Wert gesundheitsschädlich!
Graz/Austrian doctor tests CO2 amount under a mask! CO2 amount harmful to health!
https://summit.news/2020/05/13/1962-life-in-2022-image-depicted-everyone-trapped-in-pods/
The ChiComs decided that if they were going to suffer an epidemic why should they suffer alone? Share the joy. Make it a pandemic. So went this crime against humanity. Such is my humble assessment after reading endless economic articles, and giving them the benefit of the doubt that the whole mess was an accident.
https://in.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-usa-corn/farmers-planting-mountain-of-u-s-corn-as-prices-collapse-idINKBN22O0IA?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews
Yet,
I agree, all of the evidence says it was a accidental release in October that was semi contained until the CCP allowed the expats to return to Wuhan for Lunar New Years. I think the decision was that they needed the hard currencies that the expats were bringing in and the expats would spread the flu so everyone would suffer a major blow to their economy.
If we don’t develop a vaccine we are going to discover how bad the world was hurt by this cynical bio weapon attack when the next flu season hits.
Things are getting nervous, after having the blood thinner level check delayed for a month I have to go to the VA today. Hopefully I will avoid all of the nasties.
NO vaccine that’s even CLOSE to safe and effective for YEARS. (?15)
• • https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2005456117
• • https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.06048-11
We need a range of TREATMENT options. That’s definitely happening. Re-purposed drugs with known side-effects, profiles that are acceptable.
Prevent or diminish the autoimmune response to the virus, and it’s no longer a killer. Lupus meds, MS treatments have been around for years. HCQ is by no means the only example.
Forget the vaccines. Or think about them as science-fiction. Maybe in time for Gen Z.
Another article on critical cesium and Canada’s importance to the U.S. in the 5G race. Dear Leader had better man-up to ensure this resource is protected from Red China:
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Why-Trump-Is-Desperate-To-Secure-This-Rare-Metal.html
Another reason we can’t let Red China make a client state of Canada.
If it isn’t already it’s getting there fast.
It’s been a firehosin’ disinformation campaigner’s Mardi Gras. Time to get back to work and fix it. Wait for a vaccine is waiting for Godot, and plays into the hands of our enemies. If you don’t want to go out then don’t, but don’t stop the rest from being productive:
https://community.oilprice.com/topic/14737-coronavirus-hype-biggest-political-hoax-in-history/
Remember the Dems want power, they aren’t worried about the economy our anything else as long as they have power. The idea that Trump can get the economy working by the election has them changing their underpants several times a day. Everything, and I do mean everything they do is related to power. They have nvested a lot of their political capital into helping a fellow left wing tyrant and are now facing the very real possiblity of losing almost all of their power. Its gonna get scary over the next few months.
California Democrats lost three bi-elections to the GOP in the past few days, a first since 1998. A sign of change in the air?
I’ll take it as a ‘yes’ !
(Though air is vicarious for me right now…)I’m with Yucki this is a sign of change, the Dems aren’t making any effort to hide the fact that they don’t care about the people and are willing to destroy the US if they can hurt Donald Trump.
Casualties Reported as Powerful Car Bomb Blast Hits Capital of Afghan Province of Paktia (sputniknews, May 14, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/asia/202005141079299215-casualties-reported-as-powerful-car-bomb-blast-hits-capital-of-afghan-province-of-paktia/
“A car bomb exploded at a square in the city of Gardez, the capital of the eastern Afghan province of Paktia, on Thursday, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
A shop owner in Gardez told Sputnik that the blast was powerful and caused casualties.
According to the spokesman for the Paktia provincial governor, Abdullah Hasrat, the explosion took place near the Afghan National Army (ANA) office at around 8.20 a.m. (03:50 GMT).
A spokesman for the 203rd ‘Tandar’ (Thunder) Corps, Aimal Mohmand, said the Mazda truck exploded before reaching the ANA office.
“The information is that so far four people have been killed and ten injured, including both civilians and soldiers,” Paktia’s police chief, Col. Sultan Dawood, told Sputnik.
Meanwhile, according to Tariq Areen, a spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, dozens of civilians were killed and injured in the morning explosion.
He added that the attack was carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT, terrorist organization banned in Russia) and the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network.”
Terrified victim of Rochdale child sex grooming gang reveals ‘heart-stopping’ moment she bumped in to her freed abuser, 50, with another child shopping at Asda (dailymail, May 14, 2020)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8319325/Victim-Rochdale-child-sex-grooming-gang-reveals-moment-bumped-freed-abuser.html
“A terrified victim of Rochdale’s child sex grooming gang has revealed how her heart ‘stopped beating’ when she bumped into her freed abuser while shopping at Asda.
The woman, who cannot be identified, said she ran from the supermarket in Rochdale town centre in tears and reported Adil Khan, 50, to the authorities as he was with a ‘seven or eight-year-old’ child.
She told a friend: ‘Oh my God, he’s been in Asda. I’ve never been so scared in all my life. I feel like my heart just stopped beating.’
The victim is outraged that Khan and two other members of the gang remain in Greater Manchester despite losing an appeal against their deportation to Pakistan in 2018.
Former taxi driver Khan, known as Billy, began a relationship with the woman when she was school-aged, a few weeks after his wife had delivered their first child.
The victim, who believed Khan was her boyfriend, fell pregnant with his child when she had just turned 13.
Khan, who was jailed for eight years for trafficking and conspiracy to engage in sex with a child in 2012 but released in 2016, also trafficked a second girl, 15, to other abusers.
A jury convicted him of trafficking and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child and he was ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register for life.
Khan and two others who were jailed, Abdul Aziz, 49, and Qari Abdul Rauf, 51, were told they would be deported after their British citizenship was revoked.
The trio lost an appeal against the Home Office ruling in 2018 but, for unclear reasons, they still remain in the UK.
Their claims has been dismissed on all grounds by the Upper Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber.
Beverley Hughes, Greater Manchester’s deputy mayor, told the BBC it was ‘completely unacceptable’ that the men remain in Rochdale.
She added: ‘Their continued presence in the community will doubtless be very distressing to those affected by the appalling crimes they perpetrated.’
When approached, a spokesperson for the Home Office refused to outline why the three men had not yet been deported.
Khan, Aziz and Rauf were among nine men convicted and jailed in 2012 over a catalogue of serious sex offences against five victims in Rochdale and Heywood.
Girls, some as young as 12, were plied with drink, abused and pimped out to paying customers at parties held across the north of England…”
BRANNON HOWSE INTERVIEWING DR JUDY MIKOVITS
audio – 56 mins 18 secs
Guest: Dr. Judy Mikovits
Topic: Today Brannon interviews Dr. Judy Mikovits about her book Plague of Corruption which is endorsed by conservative columnist Michele Malkin, a Senior Research Scientist at MIT and the 2008 Nobel Laureate for the isolation of the HIV retrovirus.
Question: First, could you please give us a brief bio of who you are, what degrees you have, where you’ve worked, so our audience can be caught up to speed on your background?
Question: How would you respond to people who have researched your name and found many articles from medical peer reviews saying you should not be trusted?
Question: Could you please tell us the story of your relationship with Fauci—where it began, what he did to your AIDS research and how his guy took the credit, etc.
Question: In your opinion, are the people who have had the flu virus more susceptible to contracting and/or dying from the Coronavirus? And is this related to what you said in a recent interview that this “is not an ingested virus, it’s an INJECTED virus?” Could you please explain in laymen’s terms what this actually means?
Question: I am told that you now have the ear of President Trump. Has he watched your interviews? What can you tell us of his reaction to the information he has learned?
Question: Could you please give us a brief synopsis of what happened in 2017, when the ban on “GAIN A FUNCTION” studies was lifted, and the role Francis Collins played in this, and why Fauci funded these studies in Wuhan. Maybe take us back to before 2013, because you were involved in this, right? And then they deemed it too risky in 2013?
Question: So from your perspective, could you compare this Covid-19 virus to the normal flu virus for us? Is it more contagious, less contagious? What is the true cause of death when people are dying from this?
Question: I understand that you are very much opposed to using a mask. Could you please explain the medical reasons behind this? Question: Now, when I was a kid we had, what, 2 or 3 shots? And now these poor kids are given around 75 or so in multiple vaccination series!?! Can you comment on why there are so many, which ingredients are concerning, and how parents should handle this if they are concerned?
Topic: Is there any truth to the reports that the 1950 vaccine for polio included cancer cells and resulted in the drastic increase in cancer for the next several years?
http://www.worldviewweekend.com/tv/video/brannon-howse-interviewing-dr-judy-mikovits
…………………Neither Mikovits nor Malkin have any connection to MIT whatsoever…………………
U.N. Disappointment as World Leaders ‘Unlikely’ to Gather for 75th Anniversary (breitbart, May 14, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/14/u-n-disappointment-as-world-leaders-unlikely-to-gather-for-75th-anniversary/
“World leaders and thousands of other diplomatic participants will not gather in New York in September for the annual U.N. General Assembly, Secretary General Antonio Guterres lamented Thursday, as the globalist body marks 75 years since it was inaugurated in the shadow of the end World War II.
In an interview with the French weekly magazine Paris-Match, published Thursday, the U.N. chief said he was looking at “various alternatives” made possible by digital technology, which he will present to member states in lieu of a physical gathering made impossible by the march of the global Chinese coronavirus pandemic…”
Conservative MPs Urge Govt to Reduce ‘Dangerous’ Dependence on Communist China (breitbart, May 14, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/14/conservative-mps-urge-govt-reduce-dangerous-dependence-communist-china/
“More than twenty Conservative parliamentarians have written to Boris Johnson’s trade secretary urging action to reduce Britain’s “dangerous” dependence on China, after a report revealed the country relies on the Communist-led dictatorship for many vital supplies…”
Australian Union Wants Global Push Back Against Chinese Communist Party (breitbart, May 14, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2020/05/14/australian-union-wants-global-push-back-against-chinese-communist-party/
“The traditionally left-wing Australian Workers’ Union (AWU) has put partisan politics to one side and joined calls for China’s efforts at global supremecy to be defeated. It wants a “trade NATO” bloc powerful enough to take on “China’s preferred approach of bilateral bullying” as a preferred means of keeping free trade a reality.
AWU National Secretary Daniel Walton has sent a letter to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison urging him to not capitulate to the Communist state’s threats of trade retaliation over the coronavirus pandemic, telling the conservative coalition leader the union is backing him.
“The integrity of Australia’s trading regime is paramount to sovereignty,” Walton wrote. “We note with concern the pressure being placed upon the Australian government with respect to the integrity of its trade regime.”
The letter comes after after China targeted Australia’s beef and barley producers this week before threatening to cut off Australia’s $63 billion iron ore export pipeline to Beijing following the Morrison Government’s calls for an international inquiry into the origins of the deadly coronavirus.
The AWU, which was founded in the 1880s and has over 100,000 members, says Australia must stand firm against the Chinese government.
“Australia should resist any attempts to be bullied,” Walton’s letter continued, as News.com reports. “It is critical the Australian government holds its nerve against such pressure and enforces its international and domestic rights.”
The AWU show of public support for the Australian government came within hours of China slapping an import ban on four Australian abattoirs in an escalation of Beijing’s warning of a widening consumer boycott in retaliation for Canberra’s push for an independent coronavirus probe…”
Italy: Illegal Migrant Labourers Threaten General Strike If Not Given Amnesty (breitbart, May 14, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/14/italy-illegal-migrant-labourers-threaten-general-strike-if-not-given-amnesty/
“Aboubakar Soumahoro, an Italian-Ivorian trade unionist of the USB Agricultural Workers Coordination has threatened a general strike of migrant farm labourers if the Italian government does not grant amnesty to all illegals.
A spokesman for illegal migrants in Italy, Mr Soumehoro clashed with populist Senator Matteo Salvini on television programme In Mezz’ora in Piu over the issue saying, “The government should regularise, otherwise it is a strike!”
League leader and former Italian interior minister Salvini rejected the call to strike saying, “are the illegal immigrants going on strike now? Sorry, what country do we live in?”
“We are also striking for you as a consumer because the food you consume is the result of exploitation, we are striking for 60 million Italians. It is a strike by foreign workers who also fight for Italian labourers,” Soumehoro said in reply.
“The problem is that if we continue to regularize irregular immigrants we have slaves, I don’t want people to go to work in the fields for three euros an hour and the mass amnesty brings more exploitation,” Salvini said.
The League leader has previously compared mass illegal migration to slavery in 2018 when he slammed Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros saying the left-wing figure, “would like Italy [to become] a giant refugee camp because he likes slaves.”
“The only thing I don’t share with you is mass amnesty, otherwise I agree,” Salvini told Soumehoro and added, “They accuse me of going to too many farms and not being in the office, I know many farmers. The problem is that if you do not cut taxes and bureaucracy for agricultural entrepreneurs, then they will never start up again.”
Migrant amnesty has been on the radar of many European countries over the course of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, with many arguing that residence permits will allow migrants easier access to healthcare and other government services that could aid in stopping the spread of the disease.
Portugal took such measures in March and over 100 French MPs demanded such measures be undertaken in France to grant amnesty to an estimated hundreds of thousands of illegals last month.
Even prior to the coronavirus pandemic the leftist Italian coalition government had considered granting amnesty to an estimated 700,000 illegal immigrants believed to be residing in the country.”
Quarantined Migrants Costing Italy Over 4,000 Euros a Month Each (breitbart, May 14, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/14/quarantined-migrants-costing-italy-over-4000-euros-a-month-each/
“Illegal migrants quarantined aboard the Moby Zaza ferry after landing in Italy to stop the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus are estimated to be costing taxpayers over 4,000 euros per month each.
The ferry, which is to be placed two or three miles offshore from the Sicilian town of Porto Empedocle after around a month of pleas by the mayor of Lampedusa Salvatore Martello, houses around 250 people at a time including 35 medical staff to aid the migrants who will be made to engage in quarantine measures in order to make sure they do not have or spread the Chinese virus.
Operations aboard the vessel are expected to begin next Monday but the true costs of renting the ship were not revealed until Alessandro Pagano, a member of Matteo Salvini’s League, revealed that the government had given upwards of a million euros to the Moby Line company to rent the ferry from them, Il Giornale reports.
“The Moby Line company will receive between the €900,000 and €1.2 million: the sum of €4,210 per month for illegal immigrants embarked,” he said.
“We are not talking about a third-hand dinghy, but of a ship equipped with a self-service restaurant, pizzeria, ice cream parlour, pub with special wine assortment, play area and video room, double or quadruple cabins with services and even luxury suites. All this while Italian families and businesses are on their knees due to the serious economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic,” he added.
Italy has seen a new surge in illegal migrant arrivals in recent weeks despite the Wuhan coronavirus lockdown measures put in place by the government of Prime minister Giuseppe Conte.
The island of Lampedusa has once again seen hundreds of new arrivals which threaten to overwhelm the small island community and Italian police in the north of the country have complained that Slovenian police and border guards have allowed migrants to cross into Italy as well.”
12 extremist suspects dead after arrests in Burkina Faso (abcnews, May 14, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/12-extremist-suspects-dead-arrests-burkina-faso-70677099
“Twelve people who had been arrested in Burkina Faso as suspected extremists were found dead in the cells where they were held overnight, a local prosecutor said Wednesday.
Judicael Kadeba, the prosecutor of Faso in the Eastern region, said 25 people were arrested Monday on suspicion of being extremists in Tawalbougou, a village in the Fada N’Gourma commune.
“Twelve among them died in the same night in the cells where they were detained,” he said in a statement.
An investigation has been opened into the deaths, he said.
The deaths come less than a month after Human Rights Watch reported that Burkina Faso security forces allegedly executed 31 men hours after their arrests during a counterterrorism operation in the northern town of Djibo.
The latest arrests come amid a worsening security situation in the northern Sahel region where jihadist groups linked to the Islamic State and al-Qaida are increasing attacks. The violence has killed hundreds of people and displaced more than 775,000 others.”
CNBC – Coronavirus whistleblower Rick Bright’s complaint shows high likelihood of ‘wrongdoing,’ watchdog says
A government watchdog has found a “substantial likelihood of wrongoing” in the removal of a vaccine specialist from a federal agency overseeing coronavirus response efforts, according to a newly released document
The findings about the allegations were revealed as Rick Bright, who filed a whistleblower complaint, was set to testify before a House panel about how he was removed from his role.
Bright has claimed he was removed as director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority after resisting efforts to increase access to an anti-malarial drug promoted by President Donald Trump as a possible treatment for Covid-19.
[…]
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/14/coronavirus-rick-bright-testifies-as-trump-criticizes-him.html
Ousted federal vaccine scientist Dr Rick Bright’s opening statement to Congress
Dr. Rick Bright: “Our window of opportunity is closing…I fear the pandemic will get worst and be prolonged…Without better planing, 2020 could be the darkest winter in modern history.”
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europravda – The COVID-19 coronavirus “may never go away”, says WHO’s Michael Ryan
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CBC – World Health Organization says COVID-19 may never go away
The Word Health Organization is warning that the novel coronavirus may never be eliminated.
Trump sounds off on Bright: ‘Nothing more than disgruntled, unhappy person’
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If I were a Senator or Congressman, the first person I would call to testify about the biggest political crime and scandal in the history of the USA, by FAR, is former President Obama.
He knew EVERYTHING.
Do it @LindseyGrahamSC , just do it. No more Mr. Nice Guy. No more talk!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1260938381254701060
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Trump talks Michael Flynn, Obama admin and China with Maria Bartiromo
europravda – Hungary: ‘Critics silenced’ in social media arrests as EU debates Orban’s powers
The EU calls for emergency powers to be eased along with lockdowns, amid concern at a spate of arrests in Hungary over social media posts.
Raisonneur - 2 hours agoStop spreading lies, Euronews/Shona Murray: nobody has been jailed! 2 persons were interrogated by the police, both of them have been released. The investigation has ended for one of them: not guilty. Shame on you: you obviously did not doublecheck your informations as a journalist!
Similarly, it is a shame that the socialist and green EP members have converted the European Parliament into a monkey business by spreading lies there. A very expensive monkey business!
People gather outside Michigan State Capitol for anti-lockdown protest
Beyond Biden, Brennan, and Clapper: How Grenell’s satchel tells us this is on the right track
By J.E. Dyer May 13, 2020There’s an understandable impatience and frustration from many with how long it’s taking to see visible action from the Obamagate investigators. We’ve been getting clues and “bombshells” for a long time now, and yet nothing concrete seems to happen.
What I’ll briefly lay out here is the case that it’s going to happen soon – it might be any day now – and we know that from the appearance of Grenell with the satchel at the Justice Department, along with a very few, easy-to-miss words of tweet in journalist Adam Housley’s feed in the last 48 hours.
The clues are minimal, but if you know how to read them, you know that the investigators at DOJ and in the intel community have gone right where they needed to go, and they’ve hit the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
What will blow the whole thing wide open is simply this: laying bare the nexus of the operation at the National Security Council staff.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/05/13/beyond-biden-brennan-and-clapper-how-grenells-satchel-tells-us-this-is-on-the-right-track/
Vandals Cut Down Monumental Iron Cross in France (breitbart, May 14, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2020/05/14/vandals-cut-down-monumental-iron-cross-in-france/
“Vandals have cut down the iconic iron cross surmounting the summit of Pic Saint-Loup in southern France, hewing through the vertical beam one meter above the base.
The 30-foot high iron cross, erected in 1911 to replace a previous wooden cross, is an important symbol of the Hérault department and the entire Languedoc region, and could be seen from miles around. It was discovered toppled on Monday and the vandals are still at large.
“It is an emblematic place for the inhabitants of Hérault and the whole Montpellier basin because it is visible from everywhere,” said Father Michel Plagniol, rector of the Saint-Pierre cathedral in Montpellier. “We can see it from the coastal plain of Montpellier. Many people go there for a walk and climb the peak.”
Pic Saint-Loup extends over six kilometres and spans the municipalities of Cazevieille, Mas-de-Londres, Saint-Jean-de-Cuculles, Valfaunès and Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers.
The 2,000 lb (900 kg) iron cross stood atop the Saint-Loup peak, 628 meters above sea level. The vandals who cut the cross down also covered its base in graffiti.
This is not the first time that an act of this type has been perpetrated, as the monumental cross was also vandalized in 1989. Local police are investigating the matter while elected officials and the local population reportedly agree that the cross should be rebuilt according to the original design.
A trail that passes near the cross, used by hikers and pilgrims alike, has been closed until further notice.
While Europe has experienced a growing number of acts of vandalism and profanation of Christian sites, the greatest number of such acts have occurred in France, where churches, schools, cemeteries, and monuments “are being vandalized, desecrated, and burned at an average rate of three per day,” according to reports drawing from government statistics.
French churches and other Christian monuments have come increasingly under attack, with an average of nearly three churches per day targeted for vandalism over the past three years.”
Another brawl of peace in the Netherlands, including kicks to the head. Looks like immigrant on native:
https://dailybuzz.nl/media/2020/5/14/466e34b0-95d3-11ea-9c1c-10ddb1b30d21/assendelft_matten_web_wm.mp4
Article here (in Dutch):
https://zaanstad.nieuws.nl/112/53999/politie-op-zoek-naar-getuigen-massale-vechtpartij-assendelft/
Happened yesterday, May 13.
Ramadan during a pandemic
Bangladesh readies huge makeshift hospital in fight against virus
Ramadan during a pandemic
Judge appoints amicus to essentially outsource prosecution of Flynn; suggests contempt citation for guilty plea
By J.E. Dyer May 14, 2020
How far Judge Emmett Sullivan has fallen. And how fast. Not long ago he was being hailed as a hero of the war for “discovery” integrity, a judge with a well-earned reputation for demanding that prosecutions conform with the law in turning over exculpatory material to defenses. That reputation carried him through some increasingly questionable interactions with Michael Flynn and Flynn’s defense, especially after it was taken over by Sidney Powell.
Then, this week, Sullivan made the bizarre move of suddenly deciding to open the Flynn case to amicus curiae briefs. That isn’t done with criminal cases, to which the statutes regulating amicus procedures don’t apply.
Weirdly, Sullivan didn’t just admit one brief, for which a motion had been filed the previous day. He solicited amicus briefs if anyone wanted to file them; an extraordinary move, and a reversal of the 24 occasions when Sullivan had already denied motions from third parties to file amicus briefs.
So there’s something going on here. Sullivan is doing so many things that seem likely to be reversible on appeal, this can’t just be a personal animus against Flynn. Speculate at your leisure as to what this is about. It isn’t hard to imagine. And, as with so many things going on today, it is no longer the “wise” or “temperate” course to assume away what we can all see it probably is. It is not more likely that Sullivan has lost his mind than that he is under outside pressure.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/05/14/judge-appoints-amicus-to-essentially-outsource-prosecution-of-flynn-suggests-contempt-citation-for-guilty-plea/
GREECE – Minister says 11,000 migrant returns pending
A total of 16,000 asylum applications were processed in Greece in April, four times the usual monthly average, according to Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis, who added that 11,000 applications have been rejected over the past two months, paving the way for returns to Turkey.
“They must return,” Mitarakis said in comments to Skai Radio. “This is a very major issue that Greece first raised with the European Union in 2011,” he said.
A new law allows authorities to detain any individuals believed to be a flight risk, Mitarakis said. The returns will most likely resume once restrictions for containing the spread of the coronavirus have been lifted, he said.
Mitarakis added that authorities are investigating suspected financial mismanagement at some nongovernmental organizations. Some NGOs have done their job, he said while linking others to “mismanagement and dubious goals.”
https://www.ekathimerini.com/252641/article/ekathimerini/news/minister-says-11000-migrant-returns-pending
Greek border with Turkey now
Lesbos – 2018
N. Mitakaris
pending, pending, pending…Saudi Arabia to Announce Discovery of Two New Oil Fields Soon – Reports (sputniknews, May 14, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202005141079305344-saudi-arabia-to-announce-discovery-of-two-new-oil-fields-soon—reports/
“The Energy Ministry of Saudi Arabia will soon announce the opening of two new oil fields that were discovered in the first three months of this year, Arab media reported, citing a communication from the kingdom’s oil company Saudi Aramco.
According to Al Arabiya broadcaster, the Saudi Energy Ministry will announce the opening of the new fields after putting together the data about their discovery in accordance with all legal requirements and regulations.
Saudi Arabia is the third-largest producer of oil and one of the world’s largest exporters.”
Afghan Migrant Prosecuted For Raping Underage Swedish Girl (breitbart, May 14, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/14/afghan-migrant-prosecuted-for-raping-underage-swedish-girl/
“A 20-year-old Afghan migrant is facing prosecution for allegedly raping a Swedish girl under the age of 15 whose family he had lodgings with.
The incident is said to have taken place during the night of April 13th earlier this year and involved the Afghan adult sexually abusing the young girl by performing various sexual acts on her over a period of around two hours.
The abuse took place in the home of the girl’s family and while the man admitted to having physical contact with the underage girl, he denies he raped or sexually assaulted her and even claimed that he rejected the girl’s sexual advances because of her young age, Nyheter Idag reports.
According to court documents the man, “states that it was the plaintiff who wanted sex with him but that he did not want to when he saw it as inappropriate partly because of the plaintiff’s age. He also states that he believes he was reported to the police because he did not want to have sex.”
The Afghan migrant was previously rejected for asylum and had been scheduled for deportation but was given a temporary residency permit after the government passed the so-called “high school law” which granted residency to mainly Afghan migrants in 2018.
It was revealed before the law was even passed that the vast majority of the migrants who qualified for the high school law were not minors and were actually adults. Swedish newspaper Expressen claimed that 78 per cent of the 9,000 or so migrants were adults and 99.4 per cent were males.
Sweden has seen a number of sexual abuse cases involving Afghan migrant perpetrators in recent years including a case in June of last year involving seven Afghan nationals and a Swedish citizen. One of the men was also said to have worked with an asylum seeker integration charity prior to the incident.”
Just sharing this as a comment , they sell “palestine” apparel from several us states
https://www.instagram.com/p/B_AefZmlRc4/?igshid=1spkitfmxtn3q
They sell baby clothes and other outfits
Hashtags include :
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This is worth a listen. If he isn’t a crack pot then he’s ahead of it all. I’ve listened once and will listen again.
https://youtu.be/LFNgxOnem_g
Ramadan madness in Leidschendam, the Netherlands. Muslim youth rule the streets, burn cars and use drugs. Cameras and extra police deployed, 6 people received restraining orders. A curfew will be imposed as well.
Article in Dutch:
https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/540244438/avondklok-en-fouilleeracties-vanwege-relschoppers-ramadan
Mozambique government kill 50 insurgents in recent days -minister
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mozambique-insurgency/mozambique-government-kill-50-insurgents-in-recent-days-minister-idUSKBN22Q3CH
“Mozambican security forces have killed around 50 insurgents in recent days in the northern Cabo Delgado region that has been plagued by violence for several years, the interior minister said on Thursday.
Since 2017, infrequent but violent raids on government buildings and villages by militias with suspected links to Islamic State have intensified in the gas-rich northernmost province of one Africa’s poorest nations.
“On May 13 the insurgents were surprised by our forces on a road that connects Chinda to Mbau, … in the confrontation 42 terrorists were killed,” Interior Minister Amade Miquidade said at a news conference.
He added that on Thursday security forces had killed another eight insurgents who were attacking the Quissanga district, also in Cabo Delgado.
“These acts of terror are aimed at demoralising and sowing confusion amongst the communities,” Miquidade said.
Little is known about the insurgents, though initial attacks were claimed by a group known as Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama. More recently, Islamic State has claimed a number of attacks which security officials have struggled to contain.
Since starting a second term in January, President Filipe Nyusi has vowed to dedicate more resources to fighting the insurgency.
Exxon Mobil and Total are among big international energy companies developing natural gas projects offshore northern Mozambique.”
US state body urges India to release Muslim activists protesting CAA law
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2221559/1-us-state-body-urges-india-release-muslim-activists-protesting-caa-law/
“The US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has called upon India to release “prisoner of conscience” protesting controversial anti-Muslim law during the time of Covid-19 crisis.
“At this time, #India should be releasing prisoners of conscience, not targeting those practicing their democratic right to protest,” the USCIRF urged the Modi government in a tweet from its official handle on Thursday…”
Senior PKK terrorist neutralized by Turkish intel body
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/senior-pkk-terrorist-neutralized-by-turkish-intel-body/1841045
“A senior member of the PKK terrorist organization was neutralized in an operation carried out by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) in northern Iraq.
With the MIT maintaining its operations at full speed, Galya Bekir — codenamed Berivan Sarya — became one of the terrorist ringleaders neutralized in cross-border operations, said an official on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media.
The official said the terrorist was neutralized on April 15 near Mt. Karakocak in northern Iraq.
It was stated that the terrorist joined the PKK in 2002 and was part of terrorist acts in Iraq and Syria.
In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK — listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US and European Union — has been responsible for the deaths of 40,000 people, including women, children, and infants. The YPG is the PKK’s Syrian offshoot.”
Madrid street protests buck Spanish coronavirus lockdown
Several major cities still under tight restrictions
After two months of tightly controlled lockdown, Spain’s government is facing growing resistance to its handling of the coronavirus crisis from the political right, which has started organising street demonstrations against restrictions.[…]
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/madrid-street-protests-buck-spanish-coronavirus-lockdown-1.4253730
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Dozens in upmarket Madrid neighbourhood ignore social distancing to protest lockdown measures
Residents of Madrid’s upmarket district of Salamanca have been taking to the street and ignoring social distancing orders to protest the socialist government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis.
For the fourth evening in a row on Wednesday crowds gathered on Nuñez de Balboa to bang saucepans and shout for Sanchez’s resignation in a protest that has been mobilized on social media
The unrest had started gradually weeks earlier when the act of applauding heath workers from open windows and balconies in the nightly 8pm sessions was gradually overtaken by a cacerolada – a Spanish word which describes a spontaneous noisy protest often involving the banging of kitchen utensils.
As well as residents taking part from open windows, the protest on Wednesday included several hundred people gathering in the street, many of them failing to keep the two metres apart required under social distancing.[…]
https://www.thelocal.es/20200514/in-pics-dozens-ignore-social-distancing-to-protest-lockdown-measures-in-madrid
Looks like fun.
Beautiful neighborhood. Guardia Civil thugs haven’t slipped their leash.
John Solomon makes bold prediction on Flynn charges
FOX Business contributor John Solomon told Lou Dobbs he predicts ‘charges are going to be dismissed against’ former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn ‘because the law requires it.’
Dave Portnoy unleashes scathing coronavirus rant on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’
zero hedge – Flynn’s Lawyer Excoriates Obama In Open Letter
Last week, former President Barack Obama reacted to the DOJ’s move to end its case against Michael Flynn by declaring in a leaked private phone call that the “rule of law is at risk,” and that “there is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free.”
“That’s the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic — not just institutional norms — but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk. And when you start moving in those directions, it can accelerate pretty quickly as we’ve seen in other places,” said the former President.
On Wednesday, Flynn’s lawyer Sidney Powell punched back – correcting Obama’s inaccurate diatribe, while managing to drop MOABs on his “wingman” – former Attorney General Eric Holder, Andrew McCabe, Loretta Lynch and others. It’s quite the read.
Authored by Sidney Powell via sidneypowell.com (emphasis ours)
To: Barack Hussein Obama
From: Sidney Powell
http://www.SidneyPowell.com
Date: May 13, 2020
Re: Your Failure to Find Precedent for Flynn Dismissal
Regarding the decision of the Department of Justice to dismiss charges against General Flynn, in your recent call with your alumni, you expressed great concern: “there is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free. That’s the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic — not just institutional norms — but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk.”
Here is some help—if truth and precedent represent your true concern. Your statement is entirely false. However, it does explain the damage to the Rule of Law throughout your administration.
First, General Flynn was not charged with perjury—which requires a material false statement made under oath with intent to deceive.1A perjury prosecution would have been appropriate and the Rule of Law applied if the Justice Department prosecuted your former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe for his multiple lies under oath in an investigation of a leak only he knew he caused.
McCabe lied under oath in fully recorded and transcribed interviews with the Inspector General for the DOJ. He was informed of the purpose of the interview, and he had had the benefit of counsel. He knew he was the leaker. McCabe even lied about lying. He lied to his own agents—which sent them on a “wild-goose-chase”—thereby making his lies “material” and an obstruction of justice. Yet, remarkably, Attorney General Barr declined to prosecute McCabe for these offenses.
Applying the Rule of Law, after declining McCabe’s perjury prosecution, required the Justice Department to dismiss the prosecution of General Flynn who was not warned, not under oath, had no counsel, and whose statements were not only not recorded, but were created as false by FBI agents who falsified the 302.
Second, it would seem your “wingman” Eric Holder is missing a step these days at Covington & Burling LLP. Indelibly marked in his memory (and one might think, yours) should be his Motion to Dismiss the multi-count jury verdict of guilty and the entire case against former United States Senator Ted Stevens. Within weeks of Mr. Holder becoming Attorney General, he moved to dismiss the Stevens prosecution in the interest of justice for the same reasons the Justice Department did against General Flynn—egregious misconduct by prosecutors who hid exculpatory evidence and concocted purported crimes.
As horrifying as the facts of the Stevens case were, they pale in comparison to the targeted setup, framing, and prosecution of a newly elected President’s National Security Advisor and the shocking facts that surround it. This case was an assault on the heart of liberty— our cherished system of self-government, the right of citizens to choose their President, and the hallowed peaceful transition of power.
Third, the inability of anyone in your alumni association to find “anybody who has been charged [with anything] just getting off scot-free” would be laughable were it not so pathetic.
Many of your alum feature prominently in the non-fiction legal thriller published in 2014: Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice. A national best- seller, it focusses on the egregious prosecutorial misconduct of your longest serving White House Counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler; your counter-terrorism advisor Lisa Monaco; Loretta Lynch’s DAG for the Criminal Division Leslie Caldwell; and Mueller protégé Andrew Weissmann. While they worked as federal prosecutors on the Enron Task Force—under the purported supervision of Christopher Wray—they destroyed Arthur Andersen LLP and its 85,000 jobs; sent four Merrill Lynch executives to prison on an indictment that criminalized an innocent business transaction while they hid the evidence that showed those defendants were innocent for six years. Both cases were reversed on appeal for their over-criminalization and misconduct. Indeed, Andersen was reversed by a unanimous Supreme Court.
Fourth, even if your many alumni don’t remember multiple cases that had to be reversed or dismissed for their own misconduct, Judge Emmet Sullivan should remember dismissing the corrupted case against Ted Stevens. Judge Sullivan is the judicial hero of Licensed to Lie. It is that case that caused Judge Sullivan to enter the strong Brady order the Mueller and D.C. career prosecutors violated repeatedly in the Flynn prosecution.
Fifth, there is precedent for guilty pleas being vacated. Your alumni Weissmann and Ruemmler are no strangers to such reversals. At least two guilty pleas they coerced by threats against defendants in Houston had to be thrown out—again for reasons like those here. The defendants “got off scot-free” because—like General Flynn—your alumni had concocted the charges and terrorized the defendants into pleading guilty to “offenses” that were not crimes. Andersen partner David Duncan even testified for the government against Andersen in its trial, but his plea had to be vacated. Enron Broadband defendant Christopher Calger had his plea vacated. There are many others across the country.
Sixth, should further edification be necessary, see Why Innocent People Plead Guilty, written in 2014 by federal Judge Jed Rakoff (a Clinton appointee). Abusive prosecutors force innocent people to plead guilty with painful frequency. The Mueller special counsel operation led by Andrew Weissmann and Weissmann “wannabes” specializes in prosecutorial terrorist tactics repulsive to everything “justice” is supposed to mean. These tactics are designed to intimidate their targets into pleading guilty—while punishing them and their families with the process itself and financial ruin.
Most important, General Flynn was honest with the FBI agents. They knew he was—and briefed that to McCabe and others three different times. At McCabe’s directions, Agent Strzok and McCabe’s “Special Counsel” Lisa Page, altered the 302 to create statements Weissmann, Mueller, Van Grack, and Zainab Ahmad could assert were false. Only the FBI agents lied—and falsified documents. The crimes are theirs alone.
Seventh, the D.C. circuit in which you reside vacated a Section 1001 case for a legal failure much less egregious than those in General Flynn’s case. United States v. Safavian, 528 F.3d 957 (D.C. Cir. 2008). Safavian sought advice from his agency’s ethics board and did not give them all the relevant info. The jury convicted him on the theory it was a 1001 violation to conceal the information from the government ethics board. The court disagreed: “As Safavian argues and as the government agrees, there must be a legal duty to disclose in order for there to be a concealment offense in violation of § 1001(a)(1), yet the government failed to identify a legal disclosure duty except by reference to vague standards of conduct for government employees.” General Flynn did not even know he was the subject of an investigation—and in truth, he was not. The only crimes here were by your alumni in the FBI, White House, intelligence community, and Justice Department.
These are just a few obvious and well-known examples to those paying any attention to criminal justice issues.
Finally, the “leaked” comments from your alumni call further evinces your obsession with destroying a distinguished veteran of the United States Army who has defended the Constitution and this country “from all enemies, foreign and domestic,” with the highest honor for thirty-three years. He and many others will continue to do so.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/flynns-lawyer-excoriates-obama-open-letter
.... seems impossible to post the last part of the letterthe whole thing on this page :
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/flynns-lawyer-excoriates-obama-open-letter
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Ghena Dimitrova – Turandot – In questa reggia
WoW - Sidney Powell, Ghena Dimitrova -Righteous power!
the rebel – POLL: Canadians want nothing to do with China
Tucker: Now we see that COVID lockdowns aren’t the only solution
NIH begins clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to treat COVID-19
Study enrolling adults with mild to moderate COVID-19 in the United States.
[…]Participants in the ACTG study, called A5395, will receive oral medications to take at home. Those randomly assigned to the experimental treatment group will take 400 milligrams (mg) of hydroxychloroquine twice on the first day and 200 mg twice daily for an additional six days. They also will take 500 mg of azithromycin on the first day and 250 mg daily for an additional four days. The control group will receive equivalent numbers of placebo pills. Neither the participants nor the study team will know who received experimental treatment or placebo until the end of the trial.
more :
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-begins-clinical-trial-hydroxychloroquine-azithromycin-treat-covid-19
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reuters – COVID patients given malaria drug didn’t see significant improvements: studies
Patients given the malaria drug touted by President Donald Trump as a potential treatment for COVID-19 did not improve significantly over those who did not, according to two new studies published in the medical journal BMJ on Thursday.
[…]Neither trial was placebo controlled, generally considered the gold standard for clinical data.
In a randomized, controlled trial of 150 patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 in China, researchers found that patients on hydroxychloroquine did not get better
An observational study of patients in France found that the drug did not significantly reduce admission to intensive care or death in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia who required oxygen.
[…]Demand for hydroxychloroquine surged after Trump touted it in early April
But the drug has not been proven effective against the disease.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-hydroxychloroq/covid-patients-given-malaria-drug-didnt-see-significant-improvements-studies-idUSKBN22Q37C
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ACP recommends against chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19
Current evidence does not support the use of chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine — alone or in combination with azithromycin — to treat or prevent COVID-19 outside of clinical trials, according to practice points published by the ACP in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
[…]Previously, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine were touted by President Donald J. Trump and others as a potential treatment for COVID-19,
[…]The researchers found little evidence on the efficacy and safety of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19. They reported that the findings are conflicting, and the studies are low quality.
Therefore, the authors of the practice points concluded that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine alone or combined with azithromycin should not be used to treat or prevent COVID-19 in the general population.
https://www.healio.com/primary-care/infectious-diseases/news/online/%7B548fdf5c-bbfd-4ccb-974c-6ada7c6d3ce9%7D/acp-recommends-against-chloroquine-hydroxychloroquine-for-covid-19