[OAN] The FBI released the records of murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich, which the agency had previously claimed didn’t exist. The FBI documents, released over the weekend, appear to show that an undisclosed entity either wanted to pay or actually paid a lot of money to get Seth Rich killed.
The files show that top DOJ officials met in 2018 to discuss Rich’s murder and investigators found no suspicious conduct by Rich before he died.
Rich was shot dead in front of his Washington D.C. home in 2016.
Democrats and mainstream media have baselessly dismissed Rich’s murder as a "conspiracy theory" and claimed it was a robbery, although none of his valuable items was taken. However, FBI documents appear to suggest Rich could have been a victim of foul play tied to D.C. politics.
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Meanwhile, under the watchful eye of the ever vigilant FBI, DNC IT systems maintainer Imran Awan and family abandon Falls Church used car dealership, leave Woodbridge, VA and return to Pakistan, never to be seen or heard from again.
All of this while media loses near total interest in Julian Assange. Memory hole also swallows (now terminated) Wiki-leaks stories and mysterious, long sought leaker.
Other, possibly related stories hitting warp speed in the media memory hole are Clinton 'home brew' servers, Steele dossier, Lolita Express log book, Mueller investigation, and Durham indictments.
In a city with a virtual grid of CCTV cams, Seth Rich is murdered in a spot where CCTV coverage is conveniently not available. Which brings to mind the CCTV cams at Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan which failed to catch demise of Jeffrey Epstein. These wretched CCTV's, why do they hate us ?
[Babylon Bee] Hasbro announced today an exciting new playset for kids and little innocent babies: "My First Knife Fight," to be released under its Playskool brand aimed at toddlers.
The playset features real shivs kids can use to stab each other in an innocent street fight. Including a variety of knives, from makeshift shivs made out of toothbrushes and razor blades to switchblades and kitchen knives, the playset is designed to entertain kids of all ages.
"Raise your kids right with My First Knife Fight!" says the voiceover in a new commercial for the product. "As everyone knows, all sweet and innocent children love to stab each other in a good old-fashioned knife fight. Make sure your kids have a leg up on the competition with our premium playset -- you don't want your innocent little baby on the wrong side of a butterfly knife!"
"Get My First Knife Fight today, wherever great toys for sweet precious little babies are sold!"
According to Hasbro, the playset is already wildly popular and has caused no actual violence, just innocent kids stabbing each other on playgrounds a lot "in good clean knife fighting fun."
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Well, my wife did grow up near Shanksville, PA...
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Back as a youngster, we played by breaking apart my grandmother's sewing scissors.
Big Mistake!
She called us spoiled little targets, and showed us how they did it back before the dust bowl days. For one of us, an old farrier's file, and the other a 1" wood chisel. She showed us how to sharpen the sides, and put a good grip so if we landed a good stab we could twist.
It was rough work, and not being the sharpest of edges occasionally a slash would stick in the other's skin and pull the knife out of hand.
Paid off when the school year kicked back in; we sure had the advantage over our classmates who only knew the flimsy modern knives!
[NewLinesMag] A few weeks ago, I started reading a new book. It was published last year and became popular in a short amount of time. “The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World,” written by American journalist Vincent Bevins, focuses on the Indonesian mass killings of 1965 and 1966. It describes, harrowingly, how roughly a million people were killed in an effort to destroy the country’s political left in the shadow of the Cold War. According to Bevins and many others, the method was approved and adapted by the United States, which used it in large parts of the world to crush left-wing resistance and dissent in favor of right-wing Contras and fascist dictatorships, especially in Latin America.
I read the book with no specific intention, yet in the back of my mind were the vague expectations I’d gained through numerous interactions with a particular crowd of Western leftists who unabashedly considered themselves progressive and, above all, anti-imperialists. The stated anti-imperialism naturally focuses solely and inexorably on the perceived evils wrought by U.S. foreign policy. It analyzes all post-Second World War developments through an ideological prism that, perhaps ironically, resembles the same Cold War rhetoric that the camp intends to criticize. To be clear, although Bevins faced some criticism before publication, his work was extraordinary and his research on Indonesia exceptional. There is no doubt that the mass killings that occurred in the country were not just horrifying and brutal but also often overlooked and suppressed by many Western observers.
However, it becomes problematic and sometimes even deeply hypocritical when Bevins, like many others, stencils these events in a certain way, pulling certain analogies and transposing them over an array of countries somehow caught in the Cold (tug of) War. What emerges, as a result, is a picture with a defined “bad” guy — the U.S. — and a “good” guy — the Soviet Union — which ignores that the Soviet Union, rather than a progressive and socialist utopia, was itself an empire that oppressed millions of people at home and beyond its borders.
When it comes to the Cold War, it’s almost impossible to not talk about Afghanistan. Bevins mentions it only twice, despite portraying himself as an expert on all affairs pertinent to the Cold War. In one line, Bevins writes, “In Afghanistan, Soviet troops had been trying to prop up a communist ally for nine years, Moscow’s forces retreated, the CIA-backed Islamist fundamentalists set up a fanatical theocracy, and the West stopped paying attention.”
Bevins is not alone with this tired and fallacious analysis of a decade long occupation that Afghans endured at the boots of Soviet forces. Such statements are widespread among large parts of the Western political left, probably especially in the U.S., but also among the mainstream and the far right. Recently, the CIA shared a tweet about the use of its famous Stinger missiles, stating: “The Stinger missiles supplied by the U.S. gave Afghan guerrillas, generally known as the mujahideen, the ability to destroy dreaded Mi-24D helicopter gunships deployed by the Soviets to enforce their control over Afghanistan.” The tweet caused a backlash among left-leaning ideologues, in many cases reporters, writers, or academics, who responded with the usual flawed tropes. Perhaps unbeknownst to them and unconsciously, the tropes are, rather dryly, often underpinned with the same Islamophobic and racist roots that they themselves are sworn to be opposed to, paired with conspiracy theories.
Often, it becomes obvious that many of these commentators lack even the basic knowledge of events that have plagued Afghanistan over the last four decades. Furthermore, their pretension at analyzing certain events through an ideological prism is often a cover to hide their unfamiliarity with the complexity of the topics at hand. The end product is usually a grand, Western-centric tale, once again with neatly defined lines between good and bad, evil and righteous. To put it plainly, it is not real analysis.
Thus, the ideologically based analysis suggests that the CIA funded the mujahideen, synonymous with al Qaeda, and thereby made 9/11 possible. The Afghan freedom fighters who resisted the Soviets are uniformly either Taliban or al Qaeda, two labels used interchangeably, ignoring not just the distinction between the two groups but also the fact that the Taliban were founded in the mid-1990s, half a decade after the Soviets withdrew. These freedom fighters were typically cast as scary, heavily bearded Orientals, equal to the Nicaraguan Contras. The Kabul-based, Soviet-installed Communist dictatorship was portrayed as actually nothing more than a legitimate, progressive government that was toppled by the evil imperialists.
Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept said the The Jakarta Method "provides one of the best, most informative and most illuminating histories yet of this agency and the way it has shaped the actual, rather than the propagandistic, U.S. role in the world" and documents not only how CIA-sponsored mass killings in Indonesia served as a model for "clandestine CIA interference campaigns" in myriad other countries throughout Asia and Latin America to destroy the non-Aligned Movement, but also how "the chilling success of that morally grotesque campaign led to its being barely discussed in U.S. discourse."
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Indonesia involved natives vs Chinese back then. You can tell the difference. Think of the Chinese as whitey in a police free zone in Minneapolis when the locals got rolling. Then again, the people who cast everything as racists in our society can't see racism in other societies.
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A genocide that never was: explaining the myth of anti-Chinese massacres in Indonesia, 1965–66
Robert Cribb & Charles A. Coppel
Pages 447-465 | Published online: 17 Dec 2009.
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The world, and especially thousands of Americans would have not have been been unthankful for a communist Afghanistan, sans the mullahs. Just saying.
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Oh, bollocks. The USSR was dumping thousands of weapons throughout the Third World and they hardly mention how that killed thousands millions of innocents.
[AlAhram] Fighting has erupted in the Somali capital Mogadishu, with rising tensions between the president and a host of powerful opponents spilling over in the fragile country's worst political violence in years.
The festivities came after President Mohammed Abdullahi Mohammed failed to hold scheduled elections and instead extended his mandate by two years, thrusting the long-troubled Horn of Africa nation into a fresh crisis.
WHAT IS HAPPENING?
Armed men and vehicles mounted with machine guns have taken up positions in opposition strongholds after a night of gunfire in the capital, after government troops clashed with fighters allied to the president's rivals.
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Oh dear — that poor man! Or something like that, anyway.
[Rudaw] When Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif ...Persian foreign minister, Mouthpiece of Mullahs, good friend of John Kerry and similar exemplars of Merkin values... sat down in early March with a reformist economist in Tehran for a long interview about his tenure, he hoped to set the record straight with hardliners on numerous issues.
"With this audio file and confrontation with the champion of the battlefield [Soleimani], Zarif is on the brink of political and social annihilation," IRGC outlet Farsnews said on Monday.
Zarif repeatedly told the interviewer, Saeed Laylaz, not to release the audio until after the election, fearing that what he said — including damning criticism of Iran’s infamous commander Qasem Soleimani — may jeopardize his ambition of becoming the next president of Iran.
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Javad Zarif is an alumni of San Francisco State University. His BA was in 1980 and MA in 1981.
He served with the Iran delegation to the UN beginning the next year and continued academic study with a PhD in 1988 from the U of Denver.
The Mullahs consider him impure by virtue of his long association with infidels but useful in dealing with tools like Obama, Hillary, Kerry and Biden and underlings like Susan Rice and ValJar.
But there is no way will the Mullahs allow Zarif to run for President.
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Interesting story. I didn't think at the time there would be much more than crocodile tears for the late 'Gen" coming from any quarter.
As to the other emerging details, well Zarif and Kerry are both notorious, serial liars. And after all, who would believe a US senator would side with the enemy? Then again American socialists just may simply define 'enemy' somewhat differently.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[OAN] The FBI released the records of murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich, which the agency had previously claimed didn’t exist. The FBI documents, released over the weekend, appear to show that an undisclosed entity either wanted to pay or actually paid a lot of money to get Seth Rich killed.
[Babylon Bee] Hasbro announced today an exciting new playset for kids and little innocent babies: "My First Knife Fight," to be released under its Playskool brand aimed at toddlers.
He's had little to say about MANPADS since that incident in Benghazi nearly ten years ago. 
