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This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.
https://newsthud.com/rapper-lord-jamar-george-soros-using-black-lives-matter-to-control-us-not-our-movement/
Rapper Lord Jamar: ‘George Soros Using Black Lives Matter to Control Us – It’s NOT Our Movement’
Rap star Lord Jamar has slammed the Black Lives Matter movement and its ideology, saying he doesn’t support them because it “isn’t our movement… it was given to us by… George Soros” in order to control the African American population.
Note: a most excellent essay on Antifa’s origins and purpose. Perfect for red-pilling friends and family.
With riots and civil unrest metastasizing across the United States, the president declared he intends to designate Antifa as a terrorist group. Predictably, the talking heads rushed out to declare that Antifa doesn’t really exist, and even if it did the president couldn’t possibly target it using that legal designation. They argue Antifa is an amorphous blob of discontents, not a functioning organization, and certainly not one which could be designated and targeted for concentrated counterterrorism enforcement. As usual, the Twitterati don’t know what they are talking about. Reality is both simpler and more complex. To begin at the beginning: Antifa—real name: Antifaschisitsche Aktion—was born during the street-fights of the 1932 Weimar Republic. It was founded by the Stalinist Communist Party of Germany (KPD), although various Communist “anti-fascist defense” units were associated with the KPD much earlier.
https://americanmind.org/essays/the-real-history-of-antifa/
A black anti-Trump agitator was stunned to see a black Trump supporter on Friday among the crowd who had lined up to attend the president’s Saturday campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The black Trump supporter, Deron Slater — who is also the Director of Member Relations of BLEXIT Minnesota — later spoke to Breitbart News about his support for President Trump.
“I want to make sure that I have an informed opinion, not just an opinion — I want to be on the right side of history,” said Slater, who added that the Democrat Party today is the same Party that former President Abraham Lincoln had to fight against, and that it has always been Democrats that wanted segregation and Jim Crow laws.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/22/watch-black-man-harassing-trump-supporters-shocked-see-black-supporter-among-crowd/
EDMONTON — A Saudi dissident living in Canada said he has been informed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that there have been threats against him made by Saudi Arabia — but that won’t stop his popular YouTube broadcasts.
“Because of the fear of the threats I am facing, I decided to stop doing the weekly broadcasts,” Omar Abdulaziz wrote on Twitter. “So it will be a daily broadcast, God willing.”
https://nationalpost.com/news/dissident-living-in-canada-says-rcmp-warned-him-about-threats-made-by-saudi-regime
Rex Murphy: The right to your own opinion is a keystone of a true democracy
Author of the article:Rex Murphy
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-the-right-to-your-own-opinion-is-a-keystone-of-a-true-democracy
South Korean slams Bolton’s book, says he is ‘distorting the reality’ of several high-level meetings
The South Korean national security advisor is taking issue with Bolton’s characterization of nuclear talks between the North, the South and the U.S.
South Korea’s national security advisor, Chung Eui-yong, says former national security adviser John Bolton’s book “The Room Where It Happened,” is “inaccurate” and that its publication Tuesday sets a “dangerous precedent.”
“It does not reflect accurate facts and substantially distorts facts,” Chung in a statement.
In the book, Bolton, details conversations leading up to several meetings between the United States, North Korea and South Korea.
“Unilaterally publishing consultations made based on mutual trust violates the basic principles of diplomacy and could severely damage future negotiations,” continued the South Korean adviser, in a comment that mirrored concerns expressed by the White House over the publication of the memoir, which reportedly contains classified information.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/south-korean-slams-boltons-book-says-he-distorting-reality-several-high-level
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Democrats voting against another one of Trump’s agenda items is not surprising.
However, it is shocking that almost a dozen Republicans betrayed the president and apparently agreed with Democrats that there was no need for an emergency declaration at the southern border.
The 11 Senate GOP lawmakers voting against Trump include several usual suspects:
Sens. Susan Collins (Maine)
Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
Mitt Romney (Utah)
Lamar Alexander (Tennessee)
Roy Blunt (Missouri)
Mike Lee (Utah)
Rand Paul (Kentucky)
Jerry Moran (Kansas)
Rob Portman (Ohio)
Pat Toomey (Pennsylvania)
Roger Wicker (Mississippi)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell denounced the result as another “show vote.”
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https://conservativebrief.com/senate-blocks-trumps-emergency-declaration-22562/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=Martin
CCFR asks Canadians to join them in challenging the government’s right to seize property
https://nationalpost.com/sponsored/news-sponsored/ccfr-asks-canadians-to-join-them-in-challenging-the-governments-right-to-seize-property
Note: This lawsuit may be doomed from before it started, because when Pierre Elliot Trudeau crafted the Canadian constitution, he very intentionally excluded ‘property rights’.
In other words, under the Canadian Constitution, Canadians do not have any property rights – and PET gloatingly celebrated this ‘achievement’.
Note: this may be funny, but it is also very, very important.
How a Conservative Commentator Turned the Left’s Cancel Culture Campaign Against Itself
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Conservative commentator Jesse Kelly has decided to bring the war home for these clowns, compiling a list of institutions that should be canceled due to the Left’s new rules on this matter. If you’re a member of the liberal elite, you should be ashamed. The entire Ivy League was built on racism. Granted, some of you knew this already. New York City was named after James, the Duke of York, and eventual King of England (James II), who, along with his brother, King Charles II, created a global monopoly on the slave trade. William M. Rice, who founded Rice University, wanted the institution to be “whites only.” Elihu Yale, who founded Yale University, was a slave trader as well. Oh, and you bet some liberals were not happy with Kelly making fun of them.
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2020/06/22/how-a-conservative-commentator-turned-the-lefts-cancel-culture-campaign-against-n2571015
Luke Rudkowski
@Lukewearechange
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22 Jun
Throwing fireworks on sleeping homeless people!? Wtf is wrong with humans
https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1275226591224672256
Note: Luke Rudkowski is a most respectable, on-the-grounds independent reporter
Brutal assault over ‘racial slur’ in Macy’s was unprovoked, investigation finds
A video of a man beating another man in a Flint, Michigan Macy’s store that went viral on social media was widely claimed to be racially motivated, but it was not.
https://thepostmillennial.com/brutal-macys-assault-unprovoked
Note: wanton destruction of property by entitled jerks…as well as posing public health risk in the age of weaponized viruses. Will they face consequences for their actions? I fear not…
ALS?BAM??BAM
@HLAurora63
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22 Jun
They want me to wear a mask because of jerks like this??
Find them and arrest them.
https://twitter.com/HLAurora63/status/1275076064176291842
Note: another unprovoked attack…
Bubette Salam
@BubetteS
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22 Jun
I’m not racist. Many of my friends are diverse.
https://twitter.com/BubetteS/status/1275111556599001088
Nashville Prep School Ends Annual George Washington Celebration Because It’s Not ‘Relevant To The Way That We Teach History Today’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-prep-school-ends-annual-george-washington-celebration-because-its-not-relevant-to-the-way-that-we-teach-history-today
Mississippi State running back Kylin Hill said on social media Monday he would not play for the Bulldogs this upcoming season unless the state flag is changed.
Hill tweeted in response to Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, who posted on Twitter that a proposal among some in the state legislature to create a second Mississippi flag “does not meet the threshold” and would “divide our state more.”
In response, Hill tweeted, “Either change the flag or I won’t be representing this State anymore & I meant that .. I’m tired.”
In a subsequent tweet, Hill, who was born and raised in Mississippi, cited the flag’s controversial history for his ultimatum.
Last week, the NCAA expanded its Confederate flag policy to prohibit all its championship events from being played in states that fly the flag, including regional sites in sports such as baseball, softball, lacrosse and women’s basketball.
Mississippi is the only state flag that features the banner of the Confederacy — a blue cross with 13 white stars.
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey also threatened to not hold future championship events in the state, saying “it is past time for change to be made to the flag of the State of Mississippi.”
On Monday, the Conference USA board of directors voted not to hold conference championship events in Mississippi until the Confederate emblem is removed from the flag.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29348652/mississippi-st-rb-kylin-hill-vows-not-play-state-flag-changed?platform=amp
Left-Wing Shaun King: Tear Down ‘White Supremacy’ Statues of Jesus
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/22/shaun-king-tear-down-white-supremacy-statues-of-jesus/
U.N. Approves $6.5 Billion Peacekeeping Budget for Next 12 Months (breitbart, Jun 24, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/24/u-n-approves-6-5-billion-peacekeeping-budget-for-next-12-months/
“The U.N. has unanimously approved its own peacekeeping budget for the next 12 months, signing off on a $6.5 billion allocation Tuesday under an agreement reached among the globalist body’s 193 member states.
The funds will come from taxpayers around the globe as the U.N. is entirely reliant on member contributions for its operation. The peacekeeping allocation is separate from the U.N.’s three billion dollar operating budget which runs from January to December.
U.S. taxpayers contribute more to the U.N.’s regular budget than any other of the body’s members, at 22 percent, although controversy has always surrounded just how it allocates the funds:
When the U.N. was first established in 1945 as an organization deliberating peace and security matters, the regular budget was $19.39 million in nominal dollars, according to a Heritage Foundation report. In 2016, it was $5.4 billion biennially.
Experts say three-fourths of the regular budget is spent on staffing and administrative costs. The U.S. spent $639 million on the regular budget in 2019 alone, as Breitbart News reported.
The most expensive U.N. peacekeeping operations are those under way in South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, and the Central African Republic. Each leaves no change from around a billion dollars a year.
The approval of funds for the next year of peacekeeping operations comes after the U.N. claimed last December it needed an immediate injection of $29 billion of global taxpayer money as “climate change” and global conflicts put pressure on existing budgets.
In December 2017 Nikki Haley, the then United States Ambassador to the organization, announced the federal government had reduced its contribution to the U.N.’s annual budget by $285 million, as Breitbart News reported.”
Polish Filmmaker: Communist Crimes Have Been Either Forgotten or Forgiven by the West (breitbart, Jun 24, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/24/polish-filmmaker-communist-crimes-west-forgotten-forgiven/
“Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland has claimed that in the West, the media and academics have forgotten the crimes of Communism. In some cases, they have been totally forgiven.
Ms Holland’s new film Stalins’s Shadow: the Holodomor, tackles the subject of the 1933 famine in Ukraine, which many have claimed was a purposeful act by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. The film revolves around the work of Welsh journalist Gareth Jones, who was the first to expose the famine.
One of Poland’s most renowned directors, Holland has made three films about the Holocaust in the past, but in an interview with French newspaper Le Figaro, noted that communist atrocities are treated much differently.
“There have been few reports of the crimes of Communism. Unlike Nazi crimes, which entered the world consciousness, Communist crimes were forgotten, and even forgiven,” Holland told the newspaper.
“It is complicated. This comes from sympathy for the communist utopia, and also for Russia,” she said. Holland added: “It is complex because the unspoken and the simplifications of history lead to lies. It was a reason to make this film. The other was journalism.”
Holland went on to champion investigative journalism, saying: “If investigative journalism, concern for the facts and the description of reality disappear, democracy has no chance. Under Communism, many journalists served as ‘useful idiots’, out of ideological submission or out of interest.”
“The situation has gotten even worse today when the press is in a fragile economic situation. Newsrooms have less money for serious and independent journalism that requires time and resources, and the quality has dropped,” she said and claimed that some journalists have manipulated public opinion during the Wuhan coronavirus crisis.
Holland is not the only central or eastern European figure to allege the West has forgotten or forgiven the crimes of Communism.
In 2017, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán made similar allegations, saying: “Many in the West today are still making excuses for the crimes of Communism; even the European Union itself is reluctant to unequivocally condemn them.”
In recent days, the United Nations has even chosen to defend the Anarcho-Communist group Antifa, posting support for the group on one of the organisation’s Twitter accounts. After a massive public backlash, the UN removed the tweet.”
Berlin Police Raid More Islamists Accused of Coronavirus Help Fund Fraud (breitbart, Jun 24, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/24/berlin-police-raid-more-islamists-accused-coronavirus-help-fund-fraud/
“Police in the German capital of Berlin raided a radical Islamist-linked mosque after accusations that two Islamic extremists were fraudulently taking advantage of coronavirus benefits.
The raids took place at 7 am on Tuesday and saw police search the Ibrahim al-Khalil mosque in the Tempelhof district. Police also searched a shop and a private residence next to the mosque. They are all believed to be connected to the two men suspected of fraud.
“There is suspicion that the two suspects have made multiple applications for emergency coronavirus aid and some have received funds. These were made for small businesses and sole proprietorships that actually did not exist,” public prosecutor spokesman Martin Steltner told German newspaper Bild.
According to the newspaper, at least 250 law enforcement personnel were involved with the raids, including members of the State Criminal Police Office (LKA), who deal with organised crime, terrorism, and other serious offences.
The Ibrahim al-Khalil mosque is said to be one of the main gathering points for Salafist Islamist extremists in Berlin. A report from Germany’s domestic security agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), stated around 40 per cent of those who attend subscribe to radical ideologies.
“Despite the efforts to present themselves moderately, at least to the outside world, the mosque’s board of directors continues to be Salafist,” the agency’s report said.
The case is the second time radical Islamic extremists have been accused of attempting to defraud funds meant to help businesses suffering from the economic impact of the Wuhan coronavirus.
In early May, Berlin investigators raided the homes of at least five Islamists who were suspected of trying to claim coronavirus benefits fraudulently. Between them all, the fraudsters had amassed around €94,000 (£82,100/$102,000) from the German government.
The suspects were also linked to the radical Fussilet mosque which had previously been attended by Berlin Christmas Market terrorist Anis Amri who murdered a dozen people in December 2017. One of the suspects, Walid S., was said to be a close confidant of Amri.”
(Richard: They were determined to be employees of the Chinese Government but aren’t diplomats.)
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https://victorygirlsblog.com/black-madonna-defaced-netherlands/
Black Madonna Defaced in The Netherlands
by Kim Hirsch in Cultural Issues 1 Comment
It appears that someone in The Netherlands has taken up Shaun King’s crusade to destroy Christian images. Dutch residents of Breda found that a vandal painted “BLM” and perhaps a crude swastika on a mosaic reproduction of Poland’s Black Madonna of Czestochowa. Members of the local Polish community were outraged.
According to one of Breda’s Polish residents, as translated:
“Polish people are very religious. Every Sunday they go to church in Breda with hundreds. Why would you want to hurt them? We don’t know if it’s from the left or the right. But when it comes to Black Lives Matters, I don’t understand any of it. The Black Madonna has nothing to do with oppression at all.”
A local Dutch resident also spoke out:
“This is ridiculous. It’s going in the wrong direction with society. Every May, a Polish pastor holds a mass on the lawn. Poland regularly comes by to lay flowers. I don’t understand why people do this. We as a neighbourhood are proud of this monument. That’s why I keep it neat.”
Fortunately, the paint is now gone.
O?rodek Monitorowania Antypolonizmu
· Jun 23, 2020
Ruch #BlackLivesMatter sprofanowa? mozaik? Czarnej Madonny w Bredzie, która dla Polaków ?yj?cych w tym mie?cie od czasów II Wojny ?wiatowej jest jednym z najwa?niejszych punktów miasta.
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Bucon Excali
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You may be wondering why there is a Polish population in a Dutch city. You may also be wondering why the Polish Black Madonna is even there.
The monument, dedicated in 1954, is a tribute to Polish liberators who freed the city of Breda from the Nazis in 1944.
The Black Madonna also honors Gen. Stanislaw Maczek, commander of the 10th Motorized Calvary which rolled into Breda in 1944. However, because he had witnessed the devastation that WWII had left behind in Europe, he chose not to use full tank firepower in Breda. So instead, he and his troops fought house-to-house, which resulted in great loss of Polish lives. However, very few residents of Breda perished, and thus the people honored Maczek by making him an honorary citizen.
Yet Gen. Maczek did not receive any honors from his own country after WWII, since by that time the Soviets had taken over Poland. In fact, the new Communist government viewed Maczek as a traitor, and stripped him of his citizenship. Exiled from his own native land, Maczek moved to Scotland, where he worked as a bartender in a hotel.
But Maczek, who died in 1994 at age 102, wanted to be buried in Breda, the Dutch city he liberated. He now rests with his men in the Polish Military Field of Honour.
black madonna
Credit: Miho/wikimedia commons/CC BY 3.0.
So for all those reasons, the Dutch people of Breda chose to honor Gen. Stanislaw Maczek and his Polish troops with a mosaic of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa.
But isn’t it ironic that someone promoting Black Lives Matter would deface an image of a “Black” Madonna? After all, it seems to be counterintuitive, does it not? And if that person is “fighting” against what they think is “oppression,” doesn’t this monument honor liberators?
Or perhaps this “Black” Madonna isn’t black enough. No one knows exactly why the original image in Poland is black; some scholars surmise that it’s because it originated in Constantinople. There, Mary wouldn’t have been depicted as the “European mother” of the “white Jesus,” as Shaun “Talcum X” King rails about.
Or, she could be black due to age, or even smoke damage. It’s a mystery.
But you know what this is really about: Marxists, anarchists, and Black Lives Matter radicals are seeking to destroy Western Civilization. And Christianity is one of the hallmarks of that culture which brought about concepts of representational government, freedom of liberty and expression, and ultimately, the United States. These are traditions that radicals despise and wish to annihilate.
That’s why vandals defaced the Black Madonna of Breda. Expect that more symbols of the Christian faith will meet similar fates.
If you click over there is an inspiring short video of the memorial and the grounds.
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Oops: FBI says ‘noose’ not left for Bubba Wallace in this NASCAR tangle
By J.E. Dyer June 24, 2020
I sure wish they’d post an image of the darn thing so we could determine if it’s even a noose. A noose is tied with a special slip knot so the loop can be expanded to get it over the head, and will then hold (rather than flopping open) as the victim’s weight pulls on it. Other knots that create loops in the end of a rope don’t perform that way
https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/06/24/oops-fbi-says-noose-not-left-for-bubba-wallace-in-this-nascar-tangle/
(Richard: Last night on FOX there were saying that the “noose” is a loop on the rope that is used to pull down the garage door, there is one in every garage. It sounds like another fake racist attack.)
Oregon: County exempts ‘people of color’ from mandatory face mask order
By J.E. Dyer June 24, 2020
One thing we can say with confidence at this point: COVID-19 mandates issued by state and local authorities are not about public health.
If they were, they would apply equally to all humans, in categories that have nothing to do with skin color (e.g., the elderly, young children, people with special health vulnerabilities), and would apply equally to the same kinds of activity in every situation.
But in various places, they don’t apply equally. No medical or scientific explanation is given as to why they should differ arbitrarily. So clearly, there are no medical or scientific explanations. Different mandates for different people and situations, depending on skin color and/or activity, are manifestly political and not medical or scientific.
The latest example is a laughably simple one. Lincoln County, Oregon has issued rules for its face-mask mandate, and is literally exempting “people of color” from it.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/06/24/oregon-county-exempts-people-of-color-from-mandatory-face-mask-order/
Pakistan’s foreign minister warns India against attacks (abcnews, Jun 24, 2020?
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pakistans-foreign-minister-warns-india-attacks-71422245
“Pakistan’s foreign minister warned neighboring India on Wednesday to refrain from launching any attacks on his country, saying that Islamabad would respond with full force if New Delhi embarks on “any misadventure.”…”
Indonesian fishermen discover 94 Rohingya adrift at sea (abcnews, Jun 24, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/indonesian-fishermen-discover-94-rohingya-adrift-sea-71423364
“Indonesian fishermen discovered 94 hungry, weak Rohingya Muslims on a wooden boat adrift off Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh, an official said Wednesday.
The people were found by three fishermen late Monday on the rickety boat about 6 kilometers (4 miles) off the coast, local police chief Muhammad Jamil said.
He said the group of Rohingya cried out for help and jumped onto the fishermen’s boat, but its engine also stopped working on the way to shore. They remained on the boat Wednesday awaiting a decision by the local government whether to accept them…”
Eastern Libya urges Egypt to send troops if Sirte attacked (abcnews, Jun 24, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/eastern-libya-urges-egypt-send-troops-sirte-attacked-71422920
“The speaker of Libya’s east-based parliament urged Egypt on Wednesday to make good on its threat to send troops to fight rival, Turkey-backed western Libyan forces in case of their attack on the strategic city of Sirte, the Egyptian state news agency reported.
Libya has for years been split between rival administrations in the east and the west, each backed by armed groups and foreign governments.
Eastern-based forces under commander Khalifa Hifter launched an offensive in April last year to try to capture the capital, Tripoli, from the U.N.-supported government there. Hifter’s forces are backed by the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Russia, while the Tripoli-allied militias are aided by Qatar, Italy and Turkey.
After sweeping across much of the country, making their way deep into the west and fighting in the suburbs of the Libyan capital, Hifter’s forces were forced to retreat from most areas they captured in their offensive, after Tripoli-based fighters, with Turkish support, gained the upper hand in the war earlier this month.
The Tripoli forces retook the capital’s airport, all main entrance and exit points to the city and a string of key towns nearby. They threatened also to retake Sirte, the birthplace of former dictator Moammar Gadhafi who was ousted and killed in 2011. Taking Sirte could allow them to gain control of oil fields and facilities in the south that Hifter had seized earlier this year as part of his offensive on Tripoli.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi warned over the weekend that any attack on Sirte, a city on the Mediterranean coast, or the inland Jufra air base by the Tripoli forces would amount to crossing a “red line.” He said Egypt could intervene militarily to protect its western border with the oil-rich country.
The Tripoli-based government said it considered el-Sissi’s comments a “declaration of war,” while authorities in the east welcomed his support.
Aguila Saleh, speaker of the east-based House of Representatives, was quoted by Egypt’s MENA news agency as saying that an Egyptian intervention in Libya would be “legitimate … if the terrorist and armed militias crossed the red line” determined by el-Sissi.
“The Libyan people are officially asking for Egypt to interfere with military forces if the necessities of maintaining Libyan national security and Egyptian national security require this,” Saleh was quoted as saying.
El-Sissi’s threat prompted Italy, Germany and the United States to push for a cease-fire, fearing an even wider war. Arab League foreign ministers also warned against a “continuation of military action that alters existing front lines” in Libya.”
Greece slams Turkey’s actions in Aegean, eastern Med (abcnews, Jun 24, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/greece-slams-turkeys-actions-aegean-eastern-med-71424722
“Greece’s foreign minister accused Turkey on Wednesday of undermining stability and security in the eastern Mediterranean and causing problems with all of its neighbors, while also violating Greek airspace and territorial waters daily.
Nikos Dendias slammed Turkey’s actions in recent months in the Aegean Sea, which separates the two countries, saying Ankara must “abstain from its illegal gunboat diplomacy.” Dendias spoke during a visit to Greece’s northeastern border with Turkey, accompanied by European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.
NATO allies and neighbors Greece and Turkey have long had difficult relations, and the two countries have come to the brink of war three times since the 1970s. Divided over a series of issues, including territorial disputes in the Aegean, relations have become increasingly strained in recent months.
Earlier this year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared the borders with Europe were open to migrants living in Turkey who wanted to head into the European Union. Although Turkey also shares a border with EU member Bulgaria, it was only on the Greek land border crossing that tens of thousands of migrants gathered, demanding to be allowed to cross.
Dendias described the action as “the exploitation, on the part of Turkey, of the hopes of tens of thousands of civilians for a better life … misled through a disinformation campaign orchestrated by Turkish officials at the highest level.”
Dendias and Borrell toured the Kastanies border crossing in the Evros region where the migrants had gathered in late February.
“It’s very clear that we are determined to protect the external borders of the European Union and to strongly support Greece’s sovereignty,” Borrell said.
The EU foreign policy chief said his visit to Greece had been planned but had been pushed forward after recent incidents involving Turkey “in order order to show our solidarity and to show how much we share your concerns.”
Greece and Turkey are also in dispute over oil and gas exploratory drilling rights in the Mediterranean, with Greece, Cyprus and Egypt outraged at a Turkish agreement with the U.N.-recognized government in Libya laying claim to rights of a swathe of the Mediterranean that they say infringes on their sovereign rights.
Borrell said he and Dendias had discussed the deteriorating relations with Turkey and “about how we can stop the dynamics of escalation.”
Dendias said that after a brief respite while countries dealt with the coronavirus pandemic, “Turkey has once again declared that its land borders to Europe are open. At the same time, its coast guard escorts boats laden with migrants to the Greek islands. But it also persists in undermining security and stability, as well as peace, in the Eastern Mediterranean.”
The Greek minister accused Turkey of “continuously violating the sovereignty of Libya, Syria, Iraq and our EU partner, the Republic of Cyprus. It is violating almost daily Greece’s national airspace and territorial waters, including overflights of inhabited areas here in Evros and the Aegean Sea by armed warplanes.”
He said that while Greece was “open to dialogue” to resolve differences with its neighbor, “we are not prepared to discuss under duress or help legitimize Turkey’s persistent violations of legality.”
Borrell stressed the importance of good relations for all involved.
“I think this is in our interests and the interests of the European Union, Turkey and Greece to try to solve the current difficulties and improve the current relations,” he said.”
Roadside bombing kills 6 civilians in northern Afghanistan (abcnews, Jun 24, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/roadside-bombing-kills-civilians-northern-afghanistan-71421936
“A roadside bombing killed at least six Afghan civilians traveling in a rickshaw in a northern province, an official said Wednesday. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
According to the interior ministry spokesman, Tariq Arian, the bombing in Jawzjan province took place the previous evening when the rickshaw struck the roadside bomb in Mardyan district. One civilian was also wounded in the explosion.
Arian blamed Taliban insurgents for the attack. Afghanistan has seen a recent spike in violence, with most attacks claimed by the local affiliate of the Islamic State group.
In early June, IS claimed responsibility for a bombing at a mosque in Kabul that killed two people, including the prayer leader. Eight worshipers were wounded in that attack.
A week later, another prayer leader and three worshipers were killed in a bomb blast inside another mosque in Kabul. Eight other worshippers were wounded. The Taliban condemned the mosque attacks.
Also, the United States blamed IS for a horrific attack last month on a maternity hospital in the capital that killed 24 people, including two infants and several new mothers.
The Islamic State group, which reviles Shiites as heretics, has declared war on Afghanistan’s minority Shiite Muslims, but has also attacked Sunni Muslims and mosques.”
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Germany bans plastic straws, food containers, and other single-use products
by Madison Dibble, Breaking News Reporter | | June 24, 2020 10:01 AM
The German executive body voted to ban many single-use plastic products as part of its effort to reduce plastic pollution.
The Federal Cabinet’s Wednesday decision aligns Germany with goals put in place by the European Union to have each member-state cut back on plastic usage. The vote bans plastic straws, plastic food containers, single-use cutlery, plastic stirring sticks, and polystyrene cups and boxes. The ban does not take effect until July 3, 2021.
Environment Minister Svenja Schulze said she hopes that the changes will stop “throwaway culture” in Germany. She noted that 20% of the nation’s trash consists of single-use plastic items.
The drive to reduce plastic pollution has hit the United States as well. Several major cities have banned the use of plastic straws, food containers, and shopping bags to reduce their plastic consumption. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has also said he supports a nationwide ban on plastic bags.
The coronavirus pandemic has tested some anti-plastic policies as businesses became dependent on single-use items to avoid additional contact with customers. Some states, including Massachusetts, temporarily lifted their bans on plastic bags to stop customers from carrying in reusable bags from home that could transfer the virus to employees.
Note: The ban does not take effect until July 3, 2021
CBC – The Canadian government can intervene to end Meng’s extradition trial. Should it?
Extradition Act allows justice minister to intervene at any point during judicial phase
While seasoned jurists say the Canadian government has every legal right to intervene to free Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou from her extradition trial to the U.S., some experts warn such an action could have significant political ramifications.
“The question isn’t whether the [Canadian government] can, the question is whether they should,” said Toronto-based lawyer Brian Greenspan.
In 1999, the Extradition Act was amended to include a specific provision that provides the federal minister of justice the power to intervene in an extradition at any point during the judicial phase.
“The minister has the right to withdraw the authority to proceed and to end the extradition proceeding, and it’s totally at the discretion of the minister of justice,” Greenspan said.
Extradition proceedings continue in the case against Meng, who was arrested in 2018 in Vancouver on behalf of American justice officials. The United States wants to prosecute Meng for fraud, alleging she lied to banks about her company’s connections with Iran, which could possibly violate U.S. sanctions.
The issue of the Canadian government intervening in the case of Meng, the daughter of the Chinese technology giant’s founder, was raised recently by the wife of Michael Kovrig, one of two Canadians being held in China on charges of spying.
The Trudeau government has accused China of detaining Kovrig and Michael Spavor in retaliation for the arrest of Meng. Some have suggested Canada could secure their freedom if it put an end to the extradition proceedings against Meng and allowed her to return to China.
Trudeau has said his government continues to work behind the scenes to secure the release of the two Canadians but has ruled out a prisoner exchange.
Still in custody
The Office of the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, David Lametti, said in a statement Tuesday they are “well aware of the laws and processes governing” the extradition proceedings.
“As Ms. Meng’s case remains before the courts, and the Minister of Justice has a direct role in the extradition process, it would not be appropriate to comment further on this matter,” the statement said.
Former Supreme Court of Canada justice John Major said while Lametti can intervene at any time in the extradition process, it would be unusual — especially if after a prolonged court hearing, it concluded in favour of extradition.
But Major noted there may be reasons to do it, especially as Kovrig and Spavor languish in Chinese detention.
“I would hope before the attorney general intervenes, [he] would have reasons that convince Canadians he should,” Major told CBC News.
“The attorney general has to be very cautious in overruling a trial judge who has conducted a full hearing … You just want [Lametti] to act judiciously, not politically.”
‘Be very cautious’
Major said Canada is stuck in a difficult position, because if the attorney general quashes the judge’s decision in Meng’s case, the U.S. could react. Likewise, if the judge approves extradition, China could retaliate.
“It’s a delicate situation where you have the U.S. at odds with China and Canada being caught in the middle,” Major said.
Donald Abelson, director of St. Francis Xavier University’s Brian Mulroney Institute of Government, said he believes it would be “a very dangerous game for Canada to play in terms of succumbing to pressure” to intervene politically in the case.
“I don’t think that’s a game that we want to play,” said Abelson, who was also a founding director of the Canada-U.S. Institute. “It puts us in a very, very precarious position because we don’t want to be seen by the Americans as succumbing to Chinese political pressure.”
Abelson said Canada would be “tempting fate” with the U.S, particularly in the current political climate, where the Chinese government has become the focus of Donald Trump’s ire in terms of the COVID-19 pandemic and the countries’ trade war.
Abelson said Canada doesn’t want to become a “punching bag” for Washington.
Diplomatic gloves come off
David Carment, a a professor at Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, said he believes Canada’s intervention would prompt the Trump administration to use it as a rallying cry to undermine Trudeau’s leadership and his pursuit for a majority government when he calls an election.
“I think all sort of diplomatic gloves would come off in this case. The United States would come out fighting and work to undermine this current government’s mandate,” he said.
Christopher Sands, director of the Centre for Canadian Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said that the state department officials who brought the case forward against Meng would be unhappy with Canada’s decision to intervene.
Trump would likely be angry, send off a dismissive tweet or give Trudeau the cold shoulder at the next G7 meeting. But Sands doesn’t believe it would result in major policy ramifications against Canada.
“Would it be ‘Canadians are no longer allowed to cross the border?’ No. The relationship between us and Canada is too big and complex for that,” he said. “I can’t see any lasting damage.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/meng-extradition-liberal-government-intervene-1.5623991
CBC – Canada can stop Meng Wanzhou’s extradition, legal experts say, but should it?
Canadian legal experts Louise Arbour and Brian Greenspan say the federal government has the authority to intervene in Meng Wanzhou’s extradition process
CBC – Should the federal government release Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou?
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The National Center for Transgender Equality says under the new regulation, insurance companies and doctors could refuse certain medical services to transgender patients
Two-Thirds in UK Back Compulsory Military Service to Teach Values, Poll Says Amid Armed Forces Week (sputniknews, Jun 24, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/uk/202006241079709146-two-thirds-in-uk-back-compulsory-military-service-to-teach-values-poll-says-amid-armed-forces-week/
“The findings come as Britain’s top military charity, which supports soldiers and veterans in periods of hardship and crisis, has called on the public to celebrate Armed Forces Week to commemorate active and veteran military staff battling the COVID-19 pandemic with key workers.
Roughly 66 percent of UK citizens would back reintroducing the National Service in the UK due to values learned in military service, according to a new survey.
Service should be imposed on adults aged 18 and older regardless of gender or background, three-fourths of respondents said in a poll from UK armed forces charity SSAFA.
The poll also found 53 percent of Brits thought a National Service could teach discipline and respect to young adults, with 42 percent of responders stating felt it would lower crime in British society.
Over half (51 percent) believed the National Service should be completed in two years, the survey found.
41 percent of those polled also said that compulsory service would boost pride and morale in society, with 39 percent adding it would “restore lost values to society”…”
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci Indicted on War Crimes (sputniknews, Jun 24, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/military/202006241079711127-hashim-thaci-indicted-war-crimes/
“It’s just the latest scandal to engulf the highest levels of Kosovan politics – in July 2019, the nation’s Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj resigned after he was summoned by the court on suspicion of war crimes.
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and nine other former Kosovo Liberation Army militants have been indicted for war crimes by the Office of the Special Prosecutor in the Hague.
In a statement, prosecutors at the EU-backed Kosovo Specialist Chamber said Thaci et al were “responsible for nearly 100 murders”, including Kosovar Albanians, Serbs and Roma people, with political opponents also targeted – the 10 men also faces charges of torture, persecution, and forced disappearance.
?The indictment follows a lengthy investigation, and the court is convinced it can prove all the charges beyond a reasonable doubt. This certainty comes despite Thaci and another suspect, former parliamentary speaker Kadri Veseli, being accused of trying to “obstruct and undermine” the tribunal’s work via a “secret campaign to overturn the law…in an attempt to ensure that they do not face justice,” the statement said.
Thaci played a prominent role in the KLA, which despite being designated a terrorist group by the United Nations in March 1998 was secretly trained and armed by US and UK intelligence services and special forces to assassinate Serbian politicians and policemen in Kosovo, then a Serb province, and harass and intimidate Kosovo Albanians insufficiently enthusiastic about Kosovan independence.
In 2001, James Bissett, former Canadian ambassador to Yugoslavia and Albania, revealed the purpose of this strategy was explicitly to inflame and escalate tensions in order to create a pretext for Western intervention.
“The hope was that with Kosovo in flames NATO could intervene and in so doing, not only overthrow Milosevic…but more importantly, provide the aging and increasingly irrelevant military organization with a reason for its continued existence,” he explained.
This objective was confirmed by none other than Thaci himself in a 2000 BBC documentary, Moral Combat: NATO At War – he said KLA attacks were specifically carried out against Serbian authorities in order to “bring retaliation against civilians”.
“The more civilians were killed, the chances of international intervention became bigger, and the KLA of course realised that. There was this foreign diplomat who once told me, ‘Look, unless you pass the quota of five thousand deaths you’ll never have anybody permanently present in Kosovo from foreign diplomacy’,” Dug Gorani, an Albanian Kosovar negotiator unconnected to the KLA, told the same programme…”
Why Black Lives Matter Global Network’s Fundraising Bonanza Rings the Scam Alarm (sputniknews, Jun 24, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/202006241079708414-why-black-lives-matter-global-networks-fundraising-bonanza-rings-the-scam-alarm/
“Though the Black Lives Matter Global Network positions itself as a charity, its funding and spending are not transparent, while its activities appear partisan and less than peaceful, say Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel and Robert Bishop, retired corporate CPA, suspecting the entity may be involved in potential fraud and money laundering schemes.
Worldwide protests against police brutality have opened the door to a fundraising bonanza for the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement which has obtained millions of dollars amid the George Floyd protests. At the same time, however, people have started to wonder where exactly the money is going.
To add to the controversy, media speculations emerged in mid-June that over $4 million raised by employees of Apple, Google, and Microsoft had allegedly gone to a “wrong” BLM organisation.
BLM Global Network Has Never Been Registered With IRS
The confusion was predictable given that about 13 “BLM” entities can be found on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) website with most of them not correctly organised and operated, say Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel and Robert Bishop, a retired Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and business executive.
Ironically, the Black Lives Matter Global Network (BLMGN), the one that is running the Black Lives Matter website and currently raising tens of millions has never been registered with the IRS.
This circumstance prompted Candace Owens, a conservative African American activist, to allege that the Black Lives Matter Global Network is not a charity but “a full-fledged corporation that does not have any locations”. However, PolitiFact.com, a project operated by the Poynter Institute, argued in response that the entity is incorporated and “operates as a charity” having a fiscal sponsorship with the Thousand Currents.
Indeed, on 6 September 2016, the BLM founders concluded a fiscal sponsorship agreement between the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation and International Development Exchange (IDEX), a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit. (The same year IDEX was renamed Thousand Currents.) On 16 October 2017, BLMGN was registered as a “corporation” with the status “exempt” in the state of Delaware.
Still, it does not seem logical, according to Bishop: “Typically, fiscal sponsorship is used when a national disaster occurs, i.e., Hurricane Katrina, when there isn’t enough time to form a charity lawfully, and it must rely on an existing charity as its sponsor. It was never meant to be a permanent relationship like BLMGNF and Thousand Currents”, he explains.
The Black Lives Matter movement was founded by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi in 2013 and went on to prominence during the Ferguson protests in 2014-2015. Reports said that amid the Ferguson unrest, celebrities and tycoons funded the movement and bailed out protesters.
In November 2015, Politico revealed that “the biggest donors on the left” considered funding the movement and arranged a meeting with BLM leaders at the annual summit of the Democracy Alliance. It’s unclear whether any deals were struck, yet two major questions arise: first, why it took so much time for the socially active movement to properly set up an organisation; second, why they have shied away from kicking off a full-fledged charity over the past seven years given that their audience and big donors were willing to donate.
Besides this, the fiscal sponsorship agreement typically requires the sponsor to send comprehensive information to the IRS on how its partner’s donations have been spent and make “Form 990” and audits public.
Although Thousand Currents’ 2019 Consolidated Statement of Functional Expenses (page 5) describes how the non-profit spent the money during the year, the report does not detail how BLM used the $1,799,165 received from the sponsor in 2019. Neither does the charity provide any copies of fiscal sponsorship agreements with the BLM Global Network that could have shed some light on the conditions of their cooperation.
“Thousand Currents in its 2019 annual financial statements (page 7) discloses that it provides fiscal sponsorships but does not disclose the arrangements. There is no transparency to the donors”, Bishop emphasises.
The charity did not respond to a Sputnik journalist’s request for copies of fiscal sponsorship agreements with the BLM Global Network, as well as details of the latter’s financial spending in 2019.
Why is BLM Using ActBlue in Addition to Thousand Currents?
While it’s Thousand Currents who is meant to raise money for the BLM Global Network, there’s yet another tax-exempt entity doing the same job for the foundation, namely ActBlue Charities. Once a netizen pushes a donate button on Black Lives Matter’s official website, he or she is redirected to ActBlue.com, a Democratic and progressive fundraising group.
“I donated to BLM Global Network Foundation to trace the disposition of funds, and it passed through the leftist organisation ActBlue’s credit card system”, Bishop recollects. “The receipt showed a donation to BLM Global network, and the tax donation receipt was for ActBlue Charities. This is deceitful. I sent an email accusing ActBlue of diversion of funds, and it responded by disclosing that the funds were forwarded to Thousand Currents”.
According to investigative journalist John Solomon, the progressive fundraising group “takes a cut of all donations before passing it along”. Given the amount of donations intended for BLM, it appears that this partnership is quite profitable for ActBlue. One could ask as to why the BLM Global Network is using such a scheme. Additionally, the scheme does not add to the transparency of BLM’s already opaque financial operations, according to the Wall Street analyst.
“Sending money to ‘BLM’ from ActBlue through Thousand Currents likely implicates all purported organisations and others in charity solicitation frauds that cry out for policing, swiftly”, Charles Ortel opines.
However, neither the Black Lives Matter website, nor ActBlue elaborated how the funds are being transferred or how much money ActBlue sent to Thousand Currents to support purported BLM activities in 2019, in response to a Sputnik journalist’s request.
BLM Global Network’s Activities Seem Neither Peaceful Nor Charitable
The controversy surrounding BLMGN does not end here, according to Bishop and Ortel.
“My interpretation of the IRS statutes is that if BLMGN wanted to promote social justice activism, it can’t be in a charity, but a social welfare organisation 501(4)(C)”, the retired CPA says. “Even then, it is questionable since the BLM movement is, in my opinion, promoting destructive anti-social behaviour. Also, 501(4)(C) charities are prohibited from using fiscal sponsorship. Thousand Currents should have a written agreement with BLMGN to fund targeted activities”.
On the other hand, if the BLM Global Network positions itself as a “charity” it should be “strictly barred from using any BLM resource to promote or advocate against a political candidate”, emphasises Charles Ortel.
The organisation has recently kicked off a WhatMatters2020 campaign “to maximise the impact of the BLM movement by galvanising BLM supporters and allies to the polls in the 2020 US Presidential Election”.
Though the foundation does not name its preferred candidate, it is clear that it’s not the incumbent president: last Friday, the BLM Global Network’s co-founder Patrisse Cullors told CNN that Trump “not only needs to not be in office in November but he should resign now”. Does this mean that the BLM Global Network supports a Democratic candidate?
?In September 2019, the group published a statement on its website in response to the first 2020 Democratic national debate, calling upon Democratic candidates to focus on the aspirations of black voters. “Traditionally, Black folks are the Democratic Party’s most loyal constituency”, Cullors admitted in the statement. “Since 1964, no Democratic presidential candidate has captured less than 80% of our vote”.
Earlier, Cullors acknowledged in an interview with Morgan State University Professor Jared Ball in 2015 that the organisation “do[es] have an ideological frame” and that she and another founder, Alicia Garza, are “trained Marxists”. Judging from the BLM Global Network co-founder’s own words, the organisation is left-leaning and promotes a “progressive” agenda.
Bishop, meanwhile, draws attention to the fact that one of Thousand Currents’ co-directors is Susan Rosenberg, who worked with Weather Underground, a radical left-wing organisation, and was sentenced to 58 years in prison on weapons and explosives charges in 1985. Having spent 16 years in jail she was pardoned by President Bill Clinton in the last days of his tenure.
“The ‘movement’ appears wedded to tearing down the current system which, if true, is certainly not a lawful, tax-exempt purpose”, Ortel underscores. “Charities receive exemption from taxes because they, in theory, lessen the cost and burden of government. What we see so far, in the words and actions of many BLM ‘leaders’ is not peaceful, potentially charitable activity, but incendiary insurrection that should, in many cases, be prosecuted”.”
BREAKING: The Case Against General Michael Flynn Has Officially Been Dismissed
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BREAKING: The Case Against General Michael Flynn Has Officially Been Dismissed
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The criminal case against former White House National Security Advisor and General Michael Flynn has been dismissed after an order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
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In May, nearly two months ago, the Department of Justice announced it would no longer pursue the case against Flynn after new information revealed an FBI set up against him. DOJ also argued the FBI didn’t have a case and essentially made one up after coming up empty despite weeks of surveillance during the 2016 presidential transition period. Judge Emmitt Sullivan, who resided over the Flynn case, rejected DOJ’s motion to dismiss and referred the decision the the appeals court.
“Through the course of my review of General Flynn’s case, I concluded the proper and just course was to dismiss the case. I briefed Attorney General Barr on my findings, advised him on these conclusions, and he agreed,” U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri Jeffrey Jensen stated at the time.
From the motion to dismiss:
After a considered review of all the facts and circumstances of this case, including newly discovered and disclosed information appended to the defendant’s supplemental pleadings, ECF Nos. 181, 188-190,1 the Government has concluded that the interview of Mr. Flynn was untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn—a no longer justifiably predicated investigation that the FBI had, in the Bureau’s own words, prepared to close because it had yielded an “absence of any derogatory information.” Ex. 1 at 4, FBI FD-1057 “Closing Communication” Jan. 4, 2017 (emphases added). The Government is not persuaded that the January 24, 2017 interview was conducted with a legitimate investigative basis and therefore does not believe Mr. Flynn’s statements were material even if untrue. Moreover, we not believe that the Government can prove either the relevant false statements or their materiality beyond a reasonable doubt.
In December 2016 FBI agents moved to close an investigation on Flynn after finding no evidence of wrongdoing, but former FBI Intelligence Agent Peter Strzok demanded it be kept open. At the time, Strzok cited senior officials as the reason why.
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On January 5, 2017, President Obama held a meeting in the Oval Office and asked whether Flynn should be “treated differently.”
Weeks later, FBI agents showed up at the White House to interview Flynn and handwritten notes state, “What’s our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?”
This is a developing story, stay tuned for updates.
US Slaps Sanctions on Five Iranian Ship Captains Who Delivered 1.5 Mln Barrels of Oil to Venezuela (sputniknews, Jun 24, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/world/202006241079709917-us-slaps-sanctions-on-five-iranian-ship-captains-who-delivered-15-mln-barrels-of-oil-to-venezuela/
“Earlier this month, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi indicated Tehran’s readiness to go ahead with its oil shipments to Venezuela if “Caracas demands” more such supplies from Iran.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Wednesday that Washington had imposed sanctions on the captains of five Iranian tankers over oil deliveries to Venezuela.
“Today, the United States is sanctioning five Iranian ship captains who delivered around 1.5 million barrels of Iranian gasoline to Venezuela in support of the illegitimate Maduro regime”, Pompeo said.
The US secretary of state also reiterated the White House’s willingness to support Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as Washington seeks the overthrow of the South American country’s President Nicolas Maduro.
The statement comes after the US Treasury Department announced that it was slapping Venezuela-related sanctions on four companies and four oil tankers belonging to these entities over their alleged involvement in the oil trade with the Latin American country.
This followed remarks by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) chief commander Hossein Salami, who praised Iran’s resolve to send fuel tankers to Venezuela in the face of US threats to take action against Tehran and Caracas.
“We showcased our might, and our biggest display of power was the imposition of our will [on the enemies] and the sailing of [oil tankers] through high seas from the Persian Gulf towards Venezuela”, Salami told journalists earlier in June…”
‘Do Me a Favour’: New ‘Biden-Poroshenko’ Tapes Show Scale of US Meddling in Ukraine’s Politics (sputniknews, Jun 24, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/world/202006241079709986-do-me-a-favour-new-biden-poroshenko-tapes-show-scale-of-us-meddling-in-ukraines-politics/
“In May, Ukrainian MP Andrii Derkach released audio recordings allegedly proving collusion between former US Vice President Joe Biden and Ukraine’s then-President Petro Poroshenko in relation to the firing of the country’s prosecutor general, who was investigating the gas company Burisma, where Biden’s son Hunter was working.
New tapes, allegedly featuring phone conversations between presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, as well as documents showing money transfers from Burisma to Hunter Biden’s co-founded Rosemont Seneca Bohai company, were released by Ukrainian MP Andrii Derkach and former prosecutor Konstantin Kulyk on Monday.
Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, served on Burisma’s board from 2014 to 2019. The company was under a corruption-related investigation by Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who was fired from his position in 2016. It was alleged that his ousting happened under pressure from officials in the Obama administration. In May, MP Derkach released the first batch of recordings allegedly featuring conversations between Poroshenko and two US officials, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry. In the tapes, the authenticity of which remains unconfirmed, the two officials are heard pressuring the Ukrainian president to dismiss Shokin from his post, arguing that otherwise a $1 billion loan guarantee from the US to Ukraine would be withheld.
According to Kulyk, there is now evidence proving that “Burisma representatives were ready to give a bribe of $50 million” to the Ukrainian government in order to get the case against the company closed.
The former prosecutor also argued that Burisma’s owner Mykola Zlochevsky was complicit in “money laundering”, using the Ukrainian gas company and Rosemont Seneca Bohai, which is associated with Biden’s family.
“It was through Rosemont Seneca Bohai that Burisma transferred money to Biden for assistance in avoiding criminal liability”, he said during a press conference.
The revealed documents also list payments of $3.4 million from Burisma to Rosemont Seneca Bohai for “consulting services”. However, according to Kulyk, who was investigating the “theft” of “billions” from Ukraine over several years, this money was destined for the “political protection of Burisma” by then-Vice President Joe Biden.
More Revelations From Second Batch of Tapes
Derkach said that the newly released tapes only proved the level of “international corruption” and “foreign control” of Ukraine, with a person sounding “very similar” to Joe Biden asking another who is allegedly “Poroshenko” for a “favour”. The latter is also heard thanking the purported vice president for the handling of former official Oleksandr Onyshchenko, who recently told Sputnik Deutschland that he was the one who recorded the incriminating tapes. In the new recording, “Biden” is heard assuring “Poroshenko” that the FBI would not be working with Onyshchenko following his interrogation.
The two officials were also allegedly discussing throughout 2016 the nationalisation of Ukraine’s PrivatBank and how the process was opposed by its former owner, Igor Kolomoisky. They also touched upon the possible dismissal of Andriy Kobolyev from his post in the Naftogaz company. The move was strongly opposed by “Biden”, and the person sounding like “Poroshenko” is heard on the tape assuring him that this would not happen. Kobolyev is still the CEO of Naftogaz.
The Biden campaign has so far only commented on the first set of tapes, released in May, arguing that they were “heavily edited”, while Poroshenko has dismissed both sets of recordings as a “fabrication” by Russia.”
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‘Death to Whites’ Graffiti Appears on Belgian Town Hall Building (breitbart, Jun 24, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/24/death-whites-graffiti-appears-belgian-town-hall-building/
“Graffiti calling for the death of white people and insults toward police was found on the walls of the town hall of the Belgian town of Zaventem, with the local mayor connecting the statements to Black Lives Matter supporters.
The phrases “death to white people” and “fuck the police” were found written on the side of the building last weekend. Local mayor Ingrid Holemans said that she is taking the statements very seriously and that they are likely connected to the resurgence of the movement inspired by the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer.
“It’s a reaction to what happened in the United States,” Holemans said. She added: “It has to do with the death of George Floyd, the African American who died during a police intervention.”
“And now, someone in Zaventem believes that it is necessary to tag the town hall building. But that, too, is violence. And we cannot fight violence with violence,” Holemans said, according to a Monday report by Belgian news site 7sur7.
The mayor said that currently no suspects had been arrested, but she stated that those responsible would be punished and made to do community service.
“People who do this must be aware of what they are doing. This is not the way to talk about problems,” she said.
Whether or not the local police treat the act as a hate crime remains to be seen. But the incident comes just days before the mainstream media and politicians in the UK widely condemned a banner flown on Monday near a football match in Burnley stating that “white lives matter”.
Police in the UK initially stated that they were investigating the man behind the banner, allegedly a Burnley football fan named Jake Hepple. But police said on Tuesday that the incident was not a criminal matter.
“After assessing all the information available surrounding this incident, we have concluded that there are no criminal offences that have been disclosed at this time. We will continue to work with our partners at the football club and within the local authority,” Lancashire Police Chief Superintendent Russ Procter said.
Earlier this month in Paris, anti-mass migration activists Generation Identitaire dropped a similar banner at a BLM protest. Some in the BLM crowd responded by shouting “dirty Jews” at the activists.”
A Call for Kristallnacht Against Christians
Murals and stained glass windows of Jesus are a “gross form of white supremacy” and “should all come down,” says non-black leftist Shaun King.
“All murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends should also come down. They are a gross form of white supremacy. Created as tools of oppression. Racist propaganda. They should all come down.”
That was a June 22 tweet from Shaun King, and the “far-left activist,” wasn’t done.
“Yes I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down. They are a form of white supremacy. Always have been,” King tweeted. “In the Bible, when the family of Jesus wanted to hide, and blend in, guess where they went? EGYPT! Not Demark. Tear them down.”
The casual reader might wonder about this man Shaun King, so eager for a Christian Kristallnacht. As Fox News noted, King was “a surrogate for Sen. Bernie Sanders,” and introduced the Vermont socialist at a rally for his presidential bid. Bernie Sanders is big fan of Denmark, so King’s anti-Jesus tweets may be a form of socialist distancing. For their part, other groups on the left have been distancing themselves from Shaun King.
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