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Terrorists linked to Iranian-backed Hezbollah were stockpiling bomb-making ingredients, including three tons of ammonium nitrate, in London in 2015 in what was described as a “secret British bomb factory,” the Daily Telegraph reported on June 10, 2019. The 2015 case was kept “hidden from the public” until now.
The discovery of the explosive cache back in 2015, and the subsequent decision to keep that information from the public, occurred during a period of intense public debate over the nuclear deal between the Obama administration and Iran.
“The plot was uncovered by MI5 and the Met Police just months after the UK signed up to the Iran nuclear deal.”
According to a lengthy, detailed, and highly critical December 2017 Politico report, “The Secret Backstory of How Obama Let Hezbollah Off the Hook,” the Obama administration may have derailed a “campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah” known as Project Cassandra.
originally posted by: PokeyJoe
If anybody needs any help determining if national polls these days are complete fiction or not, just check out these gems.
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... but the continuing political noise risks drowning out sirens warning of the real threat: surreptitious foreign influence in our political discourse.
... But not enough attention has been paid to foreign interests secretly enlisting American cutouts to influence our laws and policies directly. This is a serious problem that should unnerve anyone in government being lobbied on policy matters.
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My legislation, based on my oversight work, grants federal investigators new tools to access material needed to identify covert foreign influence and improve FARA compliance. It requires foreign agents to disclose their clients immediately so policy makers can evaluate their positions in light of those associations. It requires the Justice Department to craft a comprehensive FARA enforcement strategy and creates oversight mechanisms to prevent abuse of the new authorities. And it establishes a review of the Lobbying Disclosure Act exemption to determine whether and to what extent it has been abused to conceal foreign influence.
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The Mueller investigation might not have brought the legal charges that many of the president’s critics were hoping for, but it was a powerful indictment of our government’s lax FARA enforcement and our willingness to take the bait of foreign powers seeking to wreak havoc on our civic discourse
At the heart of trade agreements over the past 30 years you will find the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Yes, a Wall Street multinational corporate lobbying group actually wrote three decades of trade agreement language.
A team of business “experts” from within the U.S. CoC wrote the terms and conditions of actual trade agreements for Reagan/Reagan, Bush, Clinton/Clinton, Bush/Bush and Obama/Obama. Add it up, that’s 30 years…..
now look back to when the rust started, not coincidentally that’s 30 years ago.
All that stopped with Donald Trump.
In a recent column, entitled “You Can’t Put America First Until Washington’s Foreign Bribery Industry Has Been Shut Down,” I brought up the subject of the massive foreign bribery industry that operates in Washington. It’s an industry that puts U.S. foreign and even domestic policy up for sale to the highest bidder.
Foreign governments and political factions within some foreign states don’t just pay bribes to our politicians for favorable policy, they give money to media outlets to publish their propaganda, while pretending it’s coming from a neutral American source.
Jon Stewart lashes out at Congress over 9/11 victims fund
originally posted by: cherokeetroy
Are we ready to hear the truth about 9/11?
Jon Stewart lashes out at Congress over 9/11 victims fund
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"This is far from a ‘vigilante group’; leading the team is ex-Department of Homeland Security special agent Tim Ballard, perhaps America’s foremost human trafficking expert. "The problem in Haiti is an international crisis,” Ballard explains. “With so many children displaced or orphaned during the recent earthquake and hurricane, recruiters moved quickly to sweep these children up. And the worst part of it all is that in many cases the clients are the foreigners who’ve come here to help, the NGO workers and the so-called humanitarians.”
PURE EVIL.
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The senators want federal investigators to determine if officials at the National Institutes for Health (NIH) gave access to U.S. genomic data to for-profit companies from China, including WuXi Nextcode Genomics (WuXi) and Shenzhen BGI Technology Co. (BGI).
Grassley and Rubio also asked Joanne Chiedi, the acting inspector general (IG) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to determine if the department’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) “may be providing payments for genetic testing or analysis to U.S. entities that have domestic partnerships with WuXi, BGI, and other genomics companies with ties to the Chinese government.”
The senators noted that “WuXi was the first genetic sequencing facility in China to gain Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certification from CMS.
“We are also concerned about the potential for Chinese intelligence and security services to use Chinese information technology firms as routine and systemic espionage platforms against the United States and allies.”
The senators said the two firms have publicly touted their partnerships with Huawei in genomic analytics research and development.