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June 13, 2023
Trump’s Legal Team Prepares Motion to Dismiss Jack Smith’s Case Citing Breach of Attorney Client Privilege
Gateway Pundit
Trump’s legal team is preparing to file a motion to dismiss Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case citing prosecutorial misconduct.
Trump’s lawyers will ask Judge Aileen Cannon to unseal Obama-appointed Judge Beryl Howell’s order obliterating Trump’s attorney-client privilege with his lawyer Eric Corcoran.
Via RealClearInvestigations reporter Paul Sperry: Insiders say Trump’s new legal team preparing to file motion to dismiss case citing prosecutorial misconduct & will ask Judge Cannon to unseal Obama-appointed Judge Howell’s order breaching attorney-client privilege between Corcoran and Trump and declare notes inadmissable.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, was first assigned to oversee Jack Smith’s classified documents case and January 6 case against Trump.
Judge Beryl Howell ruled against Trump at every turn!
In fact, Judge Howell previously ordered Trump’s lawyer Evan Corcoran to testify before a grand jury in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into classified documents stored at Mar-a-Lago.
Judge Howell flipped Trump’s own lawyer Eric Corcoran into a witness when she obliterated Trump’s attorney client privilege in a ruling.
Howell ruled DOJ prosecutors ‘met the threshold for the crime-fraud exception’ for Trump’s attorney.
Jack Smith used Eric Corcoran’s notes against Trump.
According to the indictment reviewed by The Gateway Pundit, Jack Smith used notes memorialized by Trump’s lawyer against the former president.
Trump’s privileged conversations with his lawyer about the boxes of documents stored at Mar-a-Lago was used to charge Trump with conspiracy to obstruct (count 32), withholding a document or record (count 33), corruptly concealing a document or record (count 34) and false statements (count 37).
Trump’s attorneys Jim Trusty and John Rowley stepped down on Friday after Trump was indicted by a Florida grand jury.
President Trump will be arraigned at a federal court in Miami on Tuesday.
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Via https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/developing-trumps-legal-team-preparing-motion-dismiss-jack/
Announcing the International Center for 9-11 Justice
OffGuardian
To the 9/11 truth community and the world:
It is with great hope and a deep commitment to achieving truth and justice regarding the events of 9/11 that we are announcing the launch of the International Center for 9/11 Justice.
The Center is a new iteration of the former International Center for 9/11 Studies, founded in 2008 by attorney James Gourley. It is being relaunched in partnership with two other cornerstone organizations of the 9/11 truth movement: the Journal of 9/11 Studies and the 9/11 Consensus Panel.
The goal of the newly formed International Center for 9/11 Justice is to organize, preserve, and present the best 9/11 research of the past two decades, conduct groundbreaking new research, and provide renewed direction, energy, and unity to the worldwide pursuit of 9/11 justice as it moves into its third decade.
As we all know, 9/11 was a turning point in our history. Present-day developments — including perpetual war and colossal military spending, the continued curtailment of civil liberties, far-reaching digital surveillance, and an increasingly propagandistic news media — flow largely from that turning point, which makes getting to the bottom of what happened that day more urgent than ever.
In addition to conducting research and carrying out educational activities, the Center will spearhead all types of initiatives aimed at raising mass public awareness and sparking broad-based demand for justice for the millions of people affected by 9/11.
Chief among those initiatives right now is helping the family of British 9/11 victim Geoff Campbell open a new inquest into his death in the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The Campbell family submitted a petition for a new inquest to the UK attorney general in August 2021 and nearly two years later is still awaiting a determination. If the inquest goes forward, it will be the first ever real government investigation into the events of 9/11.
The Center’s other major initiative in the short term is producing the feature-length documentary Peace, War and 9/11, set for release in September 2023. The documentary features the late Dr. Graeme MacQueen — a widely beloved leader in the 9/11 truth movement who in his final months was instrumental in building the new Center — presenting his analysis of 9/11 and the related 2001 anthrax attacks.
We were moved to form this organization following the passing of eminent 9/11 scholar Dr. David Ray Griffin late last year. As we contemplated where the 9/11 truth movement stood, we had a shared sense that the best evidence of the movement needed to be consolidated, that more potentially game-changing research needed to be undertaken, and that new impetus needed to be instilled in order for the pursuit of 9/11 justice to continue forward.
We invite you to visit the Center’s website at IC911.org, to subscribe to our email list, and to please make a generous donation or become a monthly giver today so that the Center can take flight. Your generosity will support the research, education, and action needed to catalyze a global 9/11 awakening.
Our dear friend Graeme MacQueen once said:
The story of 9/11 is not over yet. It’s up to us to construct a humane ending to this story — an ending which has justice and truth in it. That’s our job, and let’s do it.”
Onward toward truth and justice,
Ted Walter, Executive Director
James Gourley, Founder
David Chandler, Board Member
Marilyn Langlois, Board Member
Piers Robinson, Board Member
Kevin Ryan, Board Member
Elizabeth Woodworth, Board Member
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Via https://off-guardian.org/2023/06/13/announcing-the-international-center-for-9-11-justice/
Michael Parenti on Hidden History
Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader
By Michael Parenti
City Lights 2007
Book Review
Contrary Notions is the first book I’ve read by Parenti (who turns 90 this year) addressing the new millennium. It contains chapters summarizing extensive documentary evidence that the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections were rigged, along with the 2002 and 2006 midterms. Parenti is particularly scathing about the role of touch screen computers that consistently altered votes to Republican in long time Democratic districts.
It also singles out the failure of the Department of Homeland Security (formed after 9-11) and the Red Cross to provide emergency relief after hurricane Katrina. I was particularly shocked to learn of all the private aid FEMA (the DHS branch responsible for emergency relief) turned away
Three Walmart trailer trucks loaded with food and waterA caravan of doctors and nurses from Ohio1000 doctors along with medical supplies from CubaOne billion barrels of gasoline, water purification plants, 50 tons of food and water, plus $5 million from Venezuela*Parenti’s section on Clinton’s war on Yugoslavia begins with the economic war against the country that started under Bush senior (1991-92) and continued under Clinton with the installation of the overt Nazi Frank Tudjman (whose overt Serbian ethnic cleansing was never reported in the Western media). Clinton simultaneously backed the heroin running Kosovo Liberation Army (previously on the US Terrorist Watchlist) in their efforts to cleanse the majority Albanian province of Kosova of all non-Albanian ethnicities.
The systematic bombing of 16 Yugoslavia radio and TV outlets was accompanied by systematic demonization (by the State Department and Western media) of the Yugoslavia’s largest ethnic group (the Serbs). The latter were repeatedly scapegoated for atrocities committed by the Croats, Bosnia’s fundamentalist Muslim government and the KLA, as well as for the refugee crisis triggered by the NATO bombing of Kosovo.
Slobodan Milosovic, Yugoslavia’s democratically elected president, was misportrayed as a bloodthirsty nationalist although he and his wife had long compaigned against ethnic nationalism and supremacy.** Charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court, he died in custody of a heart attack. The ICC eventually exonerated him when the evidence justifying his arrest (mass graves, genocide, etc) never materialized.
The book also includes an excellent chapter on working class history, which highlights
The fact that the US War Department kept records on Lincoln’s assassination for 60 yearsThe omission of armed revolts by farmers, slaves and Native Americans from most history textsThe suppressed history of the invasion of the Soviet Union by British, French and US (numbering 40,000) troops in 1918-20The role of Britain in aiding and abetting Hitler’s invasion of Czechoslovakia, after which they immediately transferred all the Czech gold held by the Bank of England to the Third Reich.There’s also a great on the hidden history of the US war on Iraq.
*They eventually agreed to accept aid from 50 other countries, including the Dominican Republic, Holland, India, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia, Thailand and Germany.
**Ironically (thanks to Milosevic), Serbia is the only multi-ethnic country left in the former Yugoslavia.
June 12, 2023
Experts ‘Astounded’ After FDA Rejects Request to Add Health Risks to COVID Vaccine Labels
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had the opportunity to improve COVID-19 vaccine labeling — but according to a team of medical and public health experts, the agency refused to make the changes.
In an op-ed published last week in The Hill, Peter Doshi, Ph.D.,* Linda Wastila, Ph.D., and Kim Witczak wrote that the FDA rejected their petition to make changes to FDA-approved labels for the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, even though the labels, they said, are “obsolete, misleading and out of touch with regulators elsewhere.”
The trio were among a team of nine experts from the Coalition Advocating for Adequately Labeled Medicines (CAALM) who submitted a citizen petition to the FDA on Jan. 31.
Writing in The Hill, the three said their petition tried to fix the issues with the labels “by asking the FDA to make critical changes to official product labels,” that would reflect the vaccines’ lack of prevention of transmission or infection and risks pertaining to safety, efficacy and adverse events.
The petitioners argued that “Incomplete, inaccurate, or misleading labeling of any medical product can negatively impact the health and safety of Americans, with global ramifications considering the international importance of FDA decisions.”
However, in a 33-page response letter delivered on April 18, the FDA “denied almost every single request” except for one.
Two of the petitioners who spoke with The Defender said they were “astounded” by the FDA’s response, which they characterized as an example of “masterful doublespeak.”
Referencing the FDA’s claims that vaccines do not need to prevent transmission or illness, Wastila, professor and chair in geriatric pharmacotherapy at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, said:
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“The majority of Americans believe that they are receiving a product that prevents infection and transmission. This is the message they trust. So, they go out and get vaccinated and boosted to protect grandma, to travel safely, to get back to normal. To do the right thing.”
Witczak, a drug safety advocate and president of Woody Matters, a nonprofit advocacy group, told The Defender the agency’s response “was laced with hypocrisy and dismissive statements towards safety issues raised in petition,” but “shined a light into how the FDA leadership views safety and efficacy of the mRNA COVID vaccines.”
She also cited the timing of the FDA’s response, which came on the same day the original COVID-19 vaccines were replaced by the bivalent vaccines under the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization (EUA).
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‘FDA’s double standard harms patients’
In the FDA’s response, Peter Marks, M.D., Ph.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said the agency had “carefully reviewed the Petition” and decided to grant “one of your requests, related to revisions to the labeling for one vaccine to describe updated clinical trial data regarding the vaccine.”
“However,” Marks added, “we conclude that the Petition does not contain facts demonstrating any reasonable grounds for the other requested actions.”
The one request the FDA granted was to add the results from the randomized trials of the bivalent COVID-19 boosters to the product labels for these vaccines. However, the FDA agreed to do this only in the case of Pfizer’s vaccine.
For Moderna, the FDA said it was unable to because the agency “has not conducted an evaluation of the data.”
“Yet somehow, the agency seems to have no issue with authorizing and recommending this booster, which it began doing last August,” the three petitioners wrote in The Hill.
“The FDA’s double standard — failing to warn about potential harms, while simultaneously doing nothing to stop a sister agency from making unproven claims of benefit — harms patients and undermines the public’s trust in governmental institutions established to act in their interest,” they added.
FDA dismissed safety, efficacy concerns
Citing public statements by President Joe Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, the FDA, Pfizer and Moderna, the petitioners argued there is a “widespread (but inaccurate) notion that efficacy against infection and transmission have been established by substantial evidence, and that these vaccines contribute to herd immunity.”
Referencing several FDA memos and documents, they noted that in December 2020, when the FDA granted EUAs for the COVID-19 vaccines, it “made clear that the clinical trials were not designed to evaluate — and data collected did not demonstrate — an effect against SARS-CoV-2 transmission.”
In their op-ed, they said they asked the FDA to “clarify in labeling that there isn’t substantial evidence that mRNA vaccines reduce viral transmission.”
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The petitioners noted that the CDC’s website continues to claim the COVID-19 vaccines are effective at “limiting the spread of the virus.”
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‘Real clinical trial is happening in the real world, in real time’
In their petition to the FDA, Doshi, Wastila and Witczak also noted that while a Pfizer Phase 2/3 randomized trial in pregnant women began in February 2021 and was completed in July 2022, no results have been published.
“Pregnant women were excluded from the original clinical trials,” they wrote in the petition, referencing a June 2021 New England Journal of Medicine editorial urgently calling for trials among this population.
The petitioners also noted that “before results were available” from this trial, “the CDC and professional societies … recommended all pregnant women get vaccinated.”
However, the trial itself, originally designed to enroll 4,000 women, “inexplicably stopped” at 349 participants.
The petitioners also referenced studies finding decreased sperm concentration (from the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine), heavy menstrual bleeding and detection of vaccine mRNA in breast milk.
Commenting on this in their op-ed, they wrote:
“Federal law requires that product labeling lists adverse reactions that recipients may potentially experience [if] ‘there is some basis to believe there is a causal relationship.’”
The petitioners also called on the FDA to include “a clear statement that Pfizer vaccine efficacy wanes” two months after the second dose, according to data from the Pfizer Phase 3 randomized trial.
Current labeling makes no mention of this data, they said, even though these results were available as early as April 2021 and publicly disclosed in July 2021.
And they asked the FDA to revise COVID-19 vaccine product labels to include multi-inflammatory syndrome (MIS) in children, pulmonary embolism (from the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine), sudden cardiac death and neuropathic and autonomic disorders in the labeling for the COVID-19 vaccines.
They cited “a dramatic increase in reports to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System” (VAERS) and postmarketing studies that have found an increase in MIS in children, increased occurrence of pulmonary embolism, increased incidence of sudden cardiac death, and increased incidence of neuropathic and autonomic disorders.
Historically, VAERS has been shown to report only 1% of vaccine adverse events.
The petitioners also called for “frequency data for clinical and subclinical myocarditis” to be added to the labeling of the COVID-19 vaccines, noting that “Current labeling provides no information on the frequency of myocarditis or pericarditis.”
Such labeling “should contain a range of rates that have been reported in the literature, and should stratify estimates by risk factors (notably, age and sex),” the petitioners argued, citing several studies and an FDA analysis.
The FDA rejected all these requests, arguing that causality had not been “definitively established” for each of these conditions.
But the FDA isn’t following its own rules, the petitioners wrote:
“In refusing to add these adverse events to the label, the FDA invokes the strictest of standards (demonstrating causality), contradicting federal law that calls for using the ‘some basis to believe’ standard.”
In addition to allegedly violating federal law, the petitioners argued the FDA failed to follow the lead of regulators elsewhere, including in Europe and Japan.
For instance, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) now advises that heavy menstrual bleeding is a potential side effect of the COVID-19 vaccines.
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“If other foreign regulators put a warning on the label in their country, the FDA should be alerting the public,” Witczak told The Defender. “The public was assured that safety surveillance information was being shared between countries.”
Writing in The Hill, the petitioners said that another one of their requests rejected by the FDA pertained to warnings about “the documented risk of sudden death, even though myocarditis is now a well-recognized side effect, particularly among young men,” despite citing “multiple autopsy studies on lethal vaccination-associated myocarditis.”
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*Doshi is Associate Editor of the British Journal of Medicine.
Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-covid-vaccine-labels-health-risks/
US Occupation forces open fire on civilians in north-east Syria
Archive photo of US airdrop in north-east Syria
Vanessa Beeley US Occupation forces open fire on civilians in north-east SyriaSunday 11th June – Hasaka, north-east Syria – US kills and injures civilians while carrying out an airdrop in the surrounding countryside of Hasaka in US-occupied north-east Syria.
Local sources have reported that US occupation warplanes carried out a ‘massive airdrop’ operation in collaboration with their Kurdish Contra proxies who have ethnically cleansed much of the north-east on behalf of the US alliance of regime change merchants.
The airdrop was in the village of Salham, south-east of Al Shadadi, to the south of Hasaka town and close to the Syria-Iraqi border. The operation was accompanied by US aggression against civilians – heavy and indiscriminate shooting of local homes and lands to deter civilian presence.
The US occupation ground forces and SDF militants cordoned off the village and opened fire on the people who attempted to escape. At least one civilian was killed in the hail of bullets and many others injured.
This is not the first attack of its kind against the local Syrian population. In October 2022 one civilian was killed during a similar exercise. In December 2021 dozens of civilians were kidnapped during such an airdrop and local sources informed Syrian media outlets that these operations were cover for the transfer of ISIS terrorists to US bases in Iraq and Syria – there they receive training and weapons to facilitate attacks on Syrian military positions and civilian infrastructure.
Since the earthquake tragedy on 6th February, ISIS has carried out two major attacks on civilians harvesting truffles to the east of Homs in central Syria. Many civilians were killed in these attacks but many were also kidnapped. It is believed that the US and its proxy forces are kidnapping these civilians in order to force them to work for the US cartel in Syria.
When I visited a deserted US base close to Manbij in central Syria in 2018 we found makeshift schoolrooms and piles of abandoned children’s books and teaching material in English. No children were ever located that would have been held in the base so the question remains – where are they? Where are the civilians that have been routinely kidnapped during the US and US proxy occupation of the area? Why is nobody asking this question in the UN? (rhetorical question)
Many of these US occupation crimes go unacknowledged in Western media because the information release is tightly controlled by the US and Kurdish separatist militias.
There have been many protests locally about Kurdish separatist policies towards the local population that include murder, kidnap, mass displacement and theft of resources, property or belongings in collaboration with the US allied troops unlawfully on the ground.
The Cradle – Earlier this week, the SDF imposed a siege on the government-controlled areas near the northeastern city of Qamishli, detaining 150 Syrian officers and soldiers, according to the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar.
Some reports suggest the SDF siege near Qamishli is related to the ongoing operation by the Syrian army on two Aleppo neighborhoods, Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh. These neighborhoods have been under the control of the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG), an ally of the SDF, since 2012.
The SDF is also constantly vacillating between negotiations with Damascus to re-unify the north-east with the rest of Syria under the control of the Syrian forces and government or flipping back to being a US lackey when the ‘men in black’ arrive from Washington bearing gifts and promises of an ‘autonomous region’.
With the prospect of normalisation between Turkiye and Syria looming large on the horizon, the Kurds have a choice to make – to isolate themselves alongside an estimated 2000 US troops on the ground in the north-east as the Russian and Syrian forces gather in and around Deir Ezzor or to genuinely come to an agreement with Damascus that may include their militias incorporation into the Syrian Arab Army ranks.
Via https://beeley.substack.com/p/us-occupation-forces-open-fire-on
Trump Indictment: FBI Veteran Raises Red Flags Over ‘Abnormal’ Mar-a-Lago Raid
© AP Photo / Terry Renna
Sputnik International
A senior FBI official charged with executing the raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago last year has raised a red flag about “abnormalities” and apparent violations in the Justice Department’s handling of the case.
Former Assistant Director of the FBI’s Washington Field Office (WFO) Steven D’Antuono has reached out to the US Congress citing concerns and frustration with the manner President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice arranged the August 2022 raid of former President Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago home.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan unveiled the damning testimony earlier this week and sent a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding answers.
First, D’Antuono, who had two decades of FBI experience, drew attention to the fact that the bureau’s headquarters made the decision to assign the execution of the search warrant in Trump’s Miami residence to… the Washington Field Office. As per D’Antuono, it looked strange given that the search occurred in the territory of the Miami Field Office, which should have been assigned with the task under the bureau’s rules.>
Second, the DoJ failed to assign a US Attorney’s Office to the investigative matter of that magnitude which was “unusual” as per the FBI veteran. This triggered D’Antuono’s deep concerns as it was “out of the ordinary.” He noted that he “never got a good answer” from DoJ with regard to this decision.
Third, the FBI did not first seek content to effectuate the search. D’Antuono recalled that at the meeting between FBI and DoJ officials, the Department of Justice pushed the bureau to execute the search warrant as quickly as possible. Referring to his experience, the FBI veteran underscored that the agency should have sought consent to search the premises prior to the raid. D’Antuono suggested that either AG Garland or FBI Director Christopher Wray made the decision to seek a search warrant despite “opposition” from the agents working on the case in the WFO. D’Antuono pointed out that “there was a good likelihood that [Trump’s legal team] could have given consent.”
Fourth, the FBI refused to wait for Trump’s attorney to be present before the raid, as per D’Antuono. The bureau veteran claimed that the FBI sought to exclude Trump’s lawyers from the search, which again sounded an alarm for the senior officer.The FBI veteran’s testimony has prompted US Republican lawmakers to make a repeated request for bureau documents and information concerning the raid. In his latest letter to AG Garland, Jordan pointed out that a previous request regarding the matter was rejected by the Department of Justice.
The alleged expose of DoJ misconduct during the August raid comes after the department indicted Republican presidential candidate Trump earlier this week, charging him with 37 counts including the mishandling of classified materials. The charges further include obstruction of justice, destruction or falsification of records, conspiracy and false statements, as well as one charge under the Espionage Act.
“The Department [of Justice] will indict President Donald Trump, despite declining to indict former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her mishandling of classified information and failing to indict President Biden for his mishandling of classified information,” Jordan wrote. “The indictment creates, at the minimum, a serious appearance of a double standard and a miscarriage of justice.”
The latest row between House Republicans and the DoJ erupted amid the congressional investigation into the apparent “preferential treatment” of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, who has been probed for tax crimes since at least 2018. The House GOP is also presently looking into an uncorroborated report about Joe Biden receiving a $5 million bribe, which has recently been provided by the FBI to lawmakers.
[…]Via https://sputnikglobe.com/20230611/trump-indictment-fbi-veteran-raises-red-flags-over-abnormal-mar-a-lago-raid-1111061994.htmlThe 1974 CIA Coup in the United States
Aletho News
American corporate propaganda and schools teach that Richard Nixon was a corrupt, horrible President. This is because he was popular with the American people and took actions to benefit them, at the expense of the Deep State. During his five years in the White House Americans saw a reduction of involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union, deep cuts in military spending and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. In 1969, Nixon upset the Pentagon by ordering bio-weapon labs closed and all stockpiles destroyed. Nixon ended American involvement in Vietnam combat in 1973 and the military draft that same year. His visit to China in 1972 eventually led to diplomatic relations.
Nixon engaged in intense negotiations with Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev that led to agreements for increased trade and two landmark arms control treaties: SALT I, the first comprehensive limitation pact signed by the two superpowers, and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which ended the nuclear arms race. Nixon and Brezhnev proclaimed a new era of “peaceful coexistence” and reduced military spending. Nixon worked with Congress to slash military spending 25%!
There was massive opposition to these efforts from corporate America and the Pentagon. Nixon rose to power as a loyal member of the Deep State, but went rogue once he reached the top. He told friends that he didn’t trust the CIA, thought their intelligence was poor, and that the CIA was involved in the Kennedy assassination. Nixon was a Quaker from a modest background who served in the Navy during World War II. He had served in the US House of Representatives, the US Senate, and eight years as Vice President. He knew how Washington worked! Nixon got things done so was popular with the American people and would easily win reelection in 1972, giving him more four years to dismantle the Deep State. As a result, Nixon was ousted in a 1974 CIA coup.
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Via https://alethonews.com/2023/06/12/the-1974-cia-coup-in-the-united-states/
Ex-Pakistani PM claims US plotted against him after Russia deal
RT
Imran Khan has said he rebuffed US pressure to condemn Moscow amid its operation in Ukraine
Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan, who was arrested last month on corruption charges, has claimed in a wide-ranging interview with Newsweek published on Saturday that the United States exerted diplomatic pressure to remove him from office last year.
Speaking to the US publication, Khan said he visited Russia on the same day that Moscow launched its military operation in Ukraine in February 2022 – and that while he didn’t agree with the motives behind the offensive, he refused calls to condemn the action, so as to not jeopardize a trade agreement.
The US “wanted us, through the United Nations, to condemn Russia,” said Khan, who explained that his government had arranged an agreement to import “cheap oil” and wheat from Moscow. “If we condemn them right now, what about the impact it’s going to have on our population?”
Khan added that, after a meeting in early March of 2022 between Pakistani and US diplomats, he was informed that unless he was removed as prime minister, there would be “consequences.”
“Next day, there’s the no-confidence motion tables in the National Assembly,” Khan said. “And before that, we see that the American Embassy is meeting our parliamentarians, our backbenchers.” He added that he was “puzzled” as to why the US would “object to a deal.”
The US has said there is “no truth” to Khan’s repeated claims of a Washington-backed conspiracy against him.
Khan has been accused of an array of charges, ranging from corruption to sedition, since he was ousted from power last April after losing a no-confidence vote. He denies all accusations of wrongdoing.
Khan, a former cricket star, has accused what he referred to as Pakistan’s “undemocratic” military chief as being behind his May arrest, which sparked a wave of protests among his supporters. He is accused by the authorities of exchanging political favors for cash while in office.
Charges against Khan have inflamed what was already a precarious political balancing act in Islamabad, as the country of 231 million people grapples with soaring food prices, an extended economic crisis, and extremist violence. Discussions with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over an economic bailout have also stagnated amid the political rancor.
Earlier this week, Khan was named by Pakistani police in connection to a case against unidentified gunmen following the murder of a lawyer who was investigating sedition charges against the former premier.
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Via https://www.rt.com/news/577855-pakistan-khan-us-conspiracy/
Child Labor Common in US as Washington Fails to Take Action
Image from a campaign against child labor, 2023. | Photo: Twitter/ @ircstnbranch
NewsletterThe United States has seen a 69 percent increase in children employed in violation of child labor laws since 2018, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
Children are our future, and they need to be taken good care of in any society. However, in the United States, child labor is common as the country fails to take real actions to protect its young.
As World Day Against Child Labor falls on Monday, the United States, the only country in the world that has not ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, should seriously examine its problem of rampant child labor and take action to protect the children.
CHILD LABOR COMMON IN U.S.The United States has seen a 69 percent increase in children employed in violation of child labor laws since 2018, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Farming is a sector where child labor runs rampant.
Estimates by the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs suggested that there are approximately 500,000 child farm workers in the United States. Many of them start working as young as age 8, and 72-hour work weeks — more than 10 hours per day — are not uncommon.
Furthermore, a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office suggested that 100,000 child farm workers are injured on the job every year and that children account for 20 percent of farming fatalities.
Today is World Day Against Child Labor! Join us in advocating for Social Justice for All and demanding an end to child labor!
#WorldDayAgainstChildLabor #SocialJusticeForAll #EndChildLabour #ChildrenDeserveBetter #EducationForAll #NoChildLabour#ILO pic.twitter.com/6VxsLGWQDI
— #TheAfricanDream (@CharlesTembo12) June 12, 2023
Child labor is also not uncommon in other industries. For example, a recent federal investigation into Guatemalan children working in the United States in violation of child labor laws has expanded to include meatpacking and produce companies that have allegedly hired underage migrants in at least 11 U.S. states.
As the problem of child labor plagues the country, some lawmakers are seeking to loosen child labor laws instead of taking much-needed actions to enhance protection of the children.
Lawmakers in several U.S. states are embracing legislation to let children work in more hazardous occupations, for more hours on school nights and in expanded roles, including serving alcohol in bars and restaurants as young as 14, said a report by The Associated Press.
“The consequences are potentially disastrous,” Reid Maki, director of the Child Labor Coalition, which advocates against exploitative labor policies, was quoted as saying. “You can’t balance a perceived labor shortage on the backs of teen workers.”
A total of 10 U.S. states have considered bills to loosen child labor restrictions in the last two years, said a report from the World Socialist Web Site.
SYSTEMIC OPPRESSION AGAINST CHILDRENDespite the appalling situation, child labor issues seem the elephant in the room for U.S. legislators and politicians. Though the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) was passed in 1938 in the United States, it did not ban child labor in the country.
Under U.S. labor law, children above 12 can work unlimited hours on farms of any size with parental permission, as long as they do not miss school, and those above age 16 working in agriculture can do jobs experts deem particularly hazardous. There is no minimum age for children to work on small farms or family farms.
Some may argue that U.S. child labor in agriculture is legally protected under the FLSA. Nonetheless, despite rapid technological and automation advancements, and mounting evidence of occupational hazards, the act has remained essentially unchanged since its adoption in 1938.
Besides, punishment for child labor violations stipulated by the FLSA is so trivial that some employers may have deliberately chosen to take risks.
Under the act, a packaging and hygiene company with an annual revenue of over US$450 million was merely fined US$1.5 million for illegally hiring over 100 child laborers, without any criminal charge.
“In the U.S. system, oftentimes the monetary risk for labor rights violations is relatively small so it might be seen as a cost of doing business,” Dieter Waizenegger, executive director of SOC Investment Group, was quoted by Reuters as saying.
The systemic oppression against children leads to the ironic fact that in the United States, a self-proclaimed “beacon of human rights,” you have to be 21 years old to buy cigarettes, but only 12 years old to work on a tobacco farm with parental consent.
A LINGERING PROBLEM FOR U.S.Child labor has been a lingering problem for the United States as the country is reluctant to take concrete actions to protect the children.
Forms of child labor, including indentured servitude and child slavery, have existed throughout American history, and the number of child laborers across the country peaked in the early decades of the 20th century, according to The University of Iowa Labor Center.
With parents’ consent, children are allowed to be legally employed in many fields. Parents’ right to take advantage of the productive capacity of their children is long recognized in the country. Children are more the property of their parents worth exploiting than a vulnerable group that ought to be protected.
The lack of commitment to end child labor is not confined to U.S. borders. Among all members of the International Labor Organization, the United States has ratified fewer conventions than most other countries.
The unwillingness to rectify the convention is “an epic failure on the part of our country,” said Rebecca London, an associate professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, together with Catherine Ramstetter, founder of Successful Healthy Children.
A harmless cup of joe? #Starbucks #Nestle #Childlabor pic.twitter.com/vYkHYFBz4N
— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) March 1, 2020
June 11, 2023
Yet another case of China placing country dangerously close to US and Canadian warships
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By Tony Seed
A statement on the incident from US Indo-Pacific Command says the Chinese ship “executed maneuvers in an unsafe manner” in the presence of US and Canadian warships during a “routine south to north Taiwan Strait transit” by the naval forces of those nations, coming as close as 150 yards from the American vessel.
The reader may well ask: what is a Chinese navy vessel doing in the Taiwan Strait, right where US and Canadian warships are peacefully conducting routine navigation exercises? Exercises they cannot conduct off the coast of British Columbia or the state of Washington?
It seems that China has somehow brilliantly managed to place its country immediately adjacent to the Taiwan Strait, and is now only 100 miles from Taiwan itself. This narrow channel of water was the only space the US and Canadian navies were given practice and to travel through, placing them dangerously close to Chinese warships, and to the country of China.
China has yet to issue a formal apology for menacing the US navy with the unsafe maneuverings of both its battleship and its geographical location.
The Canadian warship accompanying USS Chung-Hoon was HMCS Montréal, normally based in Halifax on the Atlantic Ocean. It is joined on Operation Projection by the Naval Replenishment Unit Asterix. The sphere of operations of Projection includes the Middle East and West Africa, according to DND. On May 4, the warships were in the Red Sea.
Montreal conveniently carried a Global news reporter embedded on board since May 25, one Mackenzie Gray, apparently to provide a neutral third party witness to US “innocent passage” and Chinese aggression. “Global News has seen Chinese warships shadowing the Canadian vessel on multiple occasions during its transit,” he reported excitedly. In a military operation, Mr Gray was flown all the way from Canada to capture these moments for the TV viewers in Canada.
“We are willing to work together. Separate nations as one group”.
-LCdr Scott Colbourne, #HMCSMontréal #OpPROJECTION #WeTheNavy: @Gray_Mackenzie
— Royal Canadian Navy (@RoyalCanNavy) June 8, 2023
Amidst its understandable hysteria, Global let it slip that “The Chinese told both the Canadian and American ships over radio systems that they are entering Chinese territory, despite the joint mission taking place in internationally recognized waters, according to Mountford,” commander of Montreal.
Noting in its statement that it was acting “in accordance with international law” at the time of the incident, US Indo-Pacific Command says that its transit “demonstrates the combined U.S.-Canadian commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” adding that the US military “flies, sails, and operates safely and responsibly anywhere international law allows.”
Canada’s defence minister Anita Anand, from a security summit in Singapore with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, echoed the American commander. She bravely declared neither Canada nor its allies would be deterred from sailing in international waters. “Canada will continue to sail where international law allows, including the Strait, the South China Sea. And really, our overall goal is to increase the peace and stability of this region. And that’s why we are going to continue to see more of Canada in this region as set out in our Indo-Pacific strategy. We’ve already seen unsafe intercepts and we have addressed those appropriately with China in terms of our RCAF pilots. Actors in this region must engage responsibly, and that’s the bottom line.” Free and open, safe and responsible, according to the American vocabulary, is evidently only when the territory is under NATO control.
Which is of course true. These are international waters after all, and the Chinese navy should therefore stay out of the way of US military and NATO vessels traveling through them, just as the US navy would stay out of the way of Chinese military forces traveling a few miles off the coast of California or transiting between the islands of Hawaii. The US is only asking for the same freedom of navigation it would afford anyone else. Why the US also officially states that the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Northwest Passage are also international waters and not part of the sovereign seas of Canada!
We saw another incident of China’s aggressive and dangerous terrestrial placement on the 26th of May, when a US spy plane was buzzed by a Chinese fighter jet during peaceful surveillance operations over the South China Sea. A statement by US Indo-Pacific Command called the incident “an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver” which interrupted the “safe and routine operations” of the spy plane.
What the hell is going on here? What is a Chinese fighter jet doing all the way over in the South China Sea?
Independent blogger Caitlin Johnstone, who first raised these questions, writes:
Obviously Chinese fighter jets have no business operating in that region, especially when their movements endanger the US spy planes who are flying their peaceful missions there. But as with the Taiwan Strait, the imperialist aggressions of the Chinese Communist Party have been so expansionist in nature that the South China Sea now sits immediately adjacent to mainland China.
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