[WashingtonExaminer] The national Black Lives Matter group granted $8 million to BLM Canada to purchase a mansion in Toronto that only cost $6.3 million, according to audited financial statements obtained by the Washington Examiner.
BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors was the sole board member of the BLM Global Network Foundation when it granted the funds to BLM Canada, the records show. Cullors's spouse, Janaya Khan, served on the board of BLM Canada when the transfer was made.
"I have never witnessed a lack of governance on this scale in my nearly 20 years as a charity watchdog," CharityWatch Executive Director Laurie Styron told the Washington Examiner.
Curiously, BLM Canada disclosed in a recent report that it only requested $5 million from the national BLM group to subsidize its cash purchase of the Wildseed Centre in downtown Toronto. BLM Canada purchased the property outright in July 2021 for 8.1 million Canadian dollars, or the equivalent of $6.3 million, according to records previously reported by the Washington Examiner.
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"I have never witnessed a lack of governance on this scale in my nearly 20 years as a charity watchdog," CharityWatch Executive Director Laurie Styron told the Washington Examiner.
Laurie's never been one to closely follow Washington shadowy politics or the activities of the entitlement crowd.
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This is just ordinary elite corruption. It happens in DC all the time. BLM has outlived its usefulness, so it's being crushed. This is how DC works. As long as you're "in", you can steal as much as you want but the moment you're "out", then the investigations and lawsuits start.
All of them are guilty, and that's how they keep each other in line. Deviate and you get the hook.
[AnNahar] Faced with rising violence, Pakistain is taking a tougher line to pressure Afghanistan's Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... rulers to crack down on murderous Moslems hiding on their soil, but so far the Taliban remain reluctant to take action — trying instead to broker a peace.
Last month came a sharp deterioration in relations between the two neighbors when Pakistain carried out Arclight airstrike
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[Dawn] Pakistain has condemned "in strongest possible terms" the conviction of Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik ...chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region... by an Indian court after a "sham trial" in a "manifestly dubious and motivated case" and urged Indian authorities to stop the victimisation of the "true representatives of the Kashmiri people".
Yesterday, an Indian court convicted Malik in a terrorism-related case, filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), that carries a maximum sentence of the death penalty
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[OneIndia] Malik, whose organization JKLF was banned by the Centre, is also facing two CBI cases. These relate to the kidnapping of Rubaiya Saeed, daughter of then Union home minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, in 1989, and the killing of four IAF personnel in 1990.Separatist and terrorist Yasin Malik ...chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region... was convicted after he pleaded guilty to terror charges before a Special court of the National Investigation (NIA) agency.
Malik on Tuesday pleaded guilty to all the charges, including those under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), before a Delhi court in a case related to alleged terrorism and secessionist activities that disturbed the Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... valley in 2017.
In 2019, Malik was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with a terror funding case. Malik has without a doubt been one of the most dreaded persons in the Valley and his crimes range from killing of Indian Air Force (IAF) officials, the genocide of Kashmiri pandits, just to name a few.
While the case in which he has been convicted is just one of them, the other important case relates to the killing of the Indian Air Force (IAF) officials.
Malik, whose organization JKLF was banned by the Centre, is also facing two CBI cases. These relate to the kidnapping of Rubaiya Saeed, daughter of then Union home minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, in 1989, and the killing of four IAF personnel in 1990.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) started the paperwork but haven't done much else on May 30, 2017 against separatist and secessionist leaders, including unknown members of the Hurriyat Conference, who have been acting in connivance with active snuffies of proscribed terrorist organizations Hizbul Mujahideen ...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003... , Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) and other outfits and gangs.
The case was registered for raising, receiving and collecting funds through various illegal means, including Hawala transactions, for funding separatist and terrorist activities in J&K and for causing disruption in the Valley by way of pelting stones on the security forces, burning schools, damaging public property and waging war against India, the probe agency said in the FIR.
Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go.... , the Pakistain-based chief of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... , the front for the banned LeT, has also been named as an accused in the FIR.
Yasin Malik and ten others were chargesheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) under the Terrorist and Disruptive Act. The CBI named Yasin Malik as the main accused in both these cases.
The CBI moved the J&K high court seeking vacation of the stay and also shifting of the proceedings to Jammu. In 2009, the Srinagar bench had granted an interim stay of the trial before the special anti-terror court.
The HC held that the Srinagar bench had no jurisdiction to decide a case that is being tried in a Jammu special court. Justice Gita Mittal further held that the petitions filed by Malik and others at the Srinagar wing could not have been taken up for consideration. This particular case is one of the horrific crimes committed by Malik and the family awaits justice.
"I am hopeful I will get justice. The previous governments refused to give martyr status to my husband and treated killer Yasin Malik like Mahatma Gandhi. Pakistain must be crying over the conviction of Yasin Malik because he was their agent," late Squadron Leader Ravi Khanna's wife Nirmal Khanna told Times Now in an interview.
The JKLF is also responsible for illegal funnelling of funds for fomenting terrorism. The JKLF is actively involved in raising of funds and its distribution to Hurriyat cadres and stone-pelters to fuel unrest in Kashmir Valley as well as for subversive activities.
A total of 37 FIRs have been registered by the J&K Police against JKLF and two cases, including that of murder of IAF personnel, were registered by the CBI.
The organization was also involved in the kidnapping and killing of Ravindra Mhatre, an Indian diplomat posted the UK, in 1984. A week later, India executed Maqbool Bhat, a JKLF activist, who had been sentenced to death.
Malik has been investigated several times in the past for his role in channelising funds to create unrest and aid terror related activities in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. NIA sources say that the funding has gone both to terrorist groups and separatists as well. Money has been pumped into the Hurriyat Conference, Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, Islamic Students Front, Hizbul Mujahideen, Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... and Jamaat ul-Mujahideen.
Investigations had revealed that all these funds were routed through a Delhi based Hawala operative. It was also found that Yasin Malik had received funding of 1 lakh US dollars and the money was being carried by a lady called Shazia. The NIA says that it is probing into all these angles.
We are looking at each case since the 1995 onwards and this will help us get a better picture of the entire racket, the officer further added. In March 2019, the Union Government banned the Malik led JKLF. The outfit banned for alleged promotion of secessionist activities in J&K.
[DW] A German woman was detained last month accused of spying while reporting on the Kurdish community in northern Iraq.
A German journalist arrested and detained in Iraq last month arrived back in Germany on Friday, her lawyer told dpa news agency.
The woman was accused of espionage and supporting terrorism while reporting on the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK).
She was detained during a raid in April on a PKK camp in northern Iraq along with a Slovakian man.
WHAT WERE THE CHARGES AGAINST THE JOURNALIST?
According to change.org, an German activism website that supported the journalist's release, the two were held at the headquarters of Iraq's secret service in Baghdad.
Iraqi authorities had considered her reporting on alleged crimes against Kurds in Iraq as sympathizing with the PKK, which is banned in Iraq.
Her lawyer said she was deported from Iraq immediately upon release. The Slovakian man was also released and sent home.
A petition calling for her release distributed by change.org had received over 53,000 signatures.
"She is with her family for now," her German lawyer told dpa. The woman comes from the city of Darmstadt, located south of Frankfurt.
[IsraelTimes] The Shin Bet security agency says it has uncovered an attempt by Iranian operatives to lure Israeli academics and business people abroad.
The agency says the operatives used spoofed emails, pretending to be academics, journalists, businessmen and philanthropists.
According to the Shin Bet, the operatives attempted to gather information about the Israelis and possibly lure them abroad with the intention of kidnapping or harming them.
In some of the cases listed by the Shin Bet, the operatives invited the potential victims to a conference in Europe.
"It is a well-known method of operation of the Iranian intelligence and security bodies, headed by the Intelligence Organization of the Revolutionary Guards, Quds Force and the Ministry of Intelligence," the Shin Bet charges.
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[IsraelTimes] The Israeli military has identified a soldier’s rifle that may have killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, but says it cannot be certain unless the Paleostinians turn over the bullet for analysis, a military official says today.
The announcement marked a small sign of progress in the investigation into the death of Abu Akleh, who was fatally shot on May 11 amid festivities between Paleostinian button men and Israeli troops while covering an IDF raid.
Paleostinian officials, along with fellow journalists who were with Abu Akleh, have said Israeli troops stationed nearby killed her. The Israel Defense Forces says it cannot be determined who fired the fatal bullet without a proper analysis.
Israel has called for a joint investigation with the Paleostinians. But the Paleostinians, who have the bullet, have refused, saying they don’t trust Israel. They say they are conducting their own investigation.
The military official stresses that while the source of the shot is still unclear, "we have narrowed down the IDF weapon that might be involved in the fire exchange near Shireen."
He renews the call for the Paleostinians to release the bullet. If they do so, he says, Israel will "hopefully be able to compare the bullet to that barrel and check if there is a match." He speaks on condition of anonymity under military briefing guidelines.
[Common Dreams] "It's the standard government line: Mistakes were made but there was no wrongdoing. But if the same mistakes were being made over and over again for years, shouldn't someone have done something about it?"
No U.S. personnel will be held accountable for a March 2019 airstrike that killed scores of Syrian civilians including women and children, the Pentagon said Tuesday in announcing that an internal investigation into the massacre found that no laws of war were broken and that there was no cover-up of the incident as alleged in a New York Times exposé.
An executive summary of a classified investigation led by U.S. Army Gen. Michael Garrett stated that "no rules of engagement (ROE) or law of war (LOW) violations occurred" in connection with the March 18, 2019 strike near the Syrian town of Baghuz
...ISIS’s final stronghold, so it seems reasonable to assume that those clustering there — in the middle of the battle between ISIS on one side and the SDF and the Coalition on the other— were connected...
that, according to an initial battle assessment, killed around 70 people.
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"However, a former evaluator in the Defense Department inspector general's office who attempted to investigate the Baghuz strike said he personally witnessed Pentagon brass trying to bury reports of the bombing.
"The investigation says the reporting was delayed," Tate added. "None of the worker bees involved believe it was delayed. We believe there was no reporting."
The airstrike remained concealed from the public until the publication of a November 2021 Times investigation, which also revealed that a secretive Special Forces unit, Task Force 9, was responsible for the attack. One strike cell within the task force known as Talon Anvil reportedly killed and wounded Syrian civilians at 10 times the rate of similar units' airstrikes."
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If they have nothing to hide, then why are they hiding?
The officials' claim stands in stark contrast with what U.S. personnel quoted in the Times exposé reported seeing at the time of the attack. According to the report, U.S. troops watching real-time footage of the strike "looked on in stunned disbelief," according to an officer who was there, with one military analyst stating that "we just dropped on 50 women and children."
After the strike, civilian observers "found piles of dead women and children," according to Times reporters Dave Philipps and Eric Schmitt, who spent months investigating the attack.
"A legal officer flagged the strike as a possible war crime that required an investigation. But at nearly every step, the military made moves that concealed the catastrophic strike," the pair explained. "The death toll was downplayed. Reports were delayed, sanitized, and classified. United States-led coalition forces bulldozed the blast site. And top leaders were not notified."
Remember when Bhutto was assassinated in Pakistan, and they destroyed the evidence at the crime scene with fire hoses? Boy, destroying evidence with bulldozers just doesn't scream "we committed no war crime here." It's the sort of thing third world shitholes do.
Anyone getting the idea that people who murder children and then cover it up aren't on our side? That they are, in fact, our enemy?
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Because we're the good guys? How's that so hard to understand? We're not supposed to murder piles of women and children.
And if this was so justified and righteous, why did they immediately act like guilty criminals and go straight to the cover-up?
ISIS, we can't control. But we can control "our" side. Let's all get behind the idea that the US military shouldn't mass murder children. Crazy, I know, but how about we give it a try?
"Protecting innocent civilians is fundamental to our operational success and is a strategic and moral imperative."
-- U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
But I'm sure we'll get some blowback on this controversial statement. There's a lot of room for nuance on the murdering the innocent issue. A lot of people in this world are pro-murder of innocents, it's just that we usually expect them to be waving the star and crescent rather than the Old Glory.
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Why the fuck did we stick our noses into Syria in the first place?
What if anything did we accomplish there?
The ultimate cause of these fuck-ups is our globalists' foolish insistence on intervening into nearly every brutal civil war on the planet. When will our policymakers learn how to stay the fuck out of these hellholes?
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Never happen with the current crop of Uniparty pols. Too much MIC money to be made Billy.
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Any American that participated in military activities in Syria needs to be prosecuted and killed. This scum do not represent me or the American peoples. That scum are mercenaries for the jews industrialist . Kill them all!
U is welkom hier Boerboel, but take that type of rhetoric elswhere please.
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If "don't murder children" is something that's dead-set wrong, then I really don't know what to say.
Your argument ignores that in war civilians die. Period. It hasn't changed in 4000+ years. You also ignore that in Western Civilization they made an attempt to reduce that by drawing up rule of warfare, which you completely ignore, in that when a combatant uses civilians as shields then the one doing that is at fault not the other combatant. We don't live in your make believe world but in reality.
[AnNahar] The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that it has designated Ahmad Jalal Reda Abdallah, a Lebanese businessman and Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... "financial controller," as well as five of his associates and eight of his companies in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... and Iraq.
"This action illuminates Hizbullah’s modus operandi of using the cover of seemingly legitimate businesses to generate revenue and leverage commercial investments across a multitude of sectors to secretly fund Hizbullah and its terrorist activities. It also demonstrates how Hizbullah goes to great lengths to establish companies with opaque ownership structure in order to conceal their involvement in these businesses, and also their involvement in criminal activities such as altering of medication labels for black market pharmaceutical sales," the Treasury said in a statement.
Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian E. Nelson added that Hizbullah has built a web of businesses to "hide its activities and generate funds for its destabilizing activities, all at the expense of accountability and public safety in Lebanon and the region."
"The designation of this network demonstrates the U.S. government’s commitment to protect Lebanon’s private sector and financial system from Hizbullah’s abuse by targeting and exposing the group’s financial activities," Nelson said.
Accordingly, OFAC designated Ahmad Jalal Reda Abdallah and "his network of associates and companies" under Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, as amended, which targets "terrorists, leaders, and other officials of terrorist groups, and those providing support to acts of terrorism or persons blocked under E.O 13224."
The United States designated Hizbullah as a "Foreign Terrorist Organization" (FTO) on October 8, 1997, and as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" (SDGT) on October 31, 2001.
OFAC said Ahmad Abdallah is "a Hizbullah official and an active member of Hizbullah’s global financial network who has supported Hizbullah for decades, carrying out extensive commercial activities in various countries where the profits are transferred to Hizbullah."
"He coordinates business activities and budgets with sanctioned senior Hizbullah financial controllers such as Muhammad Qasir and Muhammad Qasim al-Bazzal. In addition to the involvement of Muhammad Qasir and Muhammad Qasim al-Bazzal, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officials have helped to facilitate financial transfers for Ahmad Abdallah’s businesses, many of which are located in Iraq and benefit Hizbullah," the Treasury added.
"Ahmad Abdallah has worked with Muhammad Qasir to pursue a business plan together to finance businesses and generate funding for Hizbullah. Ahmad Abdallah has established a multitude of businesses including medical equipment factories, insurance companies, real estate, and construction companies, which funnel at least a portion of their profits to Hizbullah. Ahmad Abdallah pursued the establishment of food companies such as Al Moukhtar Products Co. SARL, which is designated today, because he perceived those sectors as less likely to be targets of sanctions," the Treasury went on to say.
Abdallah "also used his senior employees and relatives to establish new businesses throughout the Middle East on behalf of Hizbullah," it added.
"In addition to his business ventures where profits were used to benefit Hizbullah, Ahmad Abdallah also brokered meetings with senior businessmen and politicians in Lebanon on Hizbullah’s behalf. Ahmad Abdallah has also assisted Hizbullah in recovering Adham Tabaja’s frozen funds after he was designated in 2015," the Treasury said.
It also identified "Abdallah’s network" as the individuals Hussein Kamel Attia, Joseph Ilya Haidamous, Hussein Reda Abdallah, Ali Reda Abdallah, Hussein Ahmad Jalal Abdallah and the entities United General Holding, United General Offshore, United General Services, Al Moukhtar Products Co. SARL, United General Contracting Company SARL, Focus Company SARL, Focus Media Company SAL Offshore and United International Exhibition Company SARL.
[AlAhram] Syrian authorities on Friday rejected plans by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... to return one million Syrian refugees to a "safe zone" on the border, state media reported.
Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... in early May said Ankara was aiming to encourage one million Syrian refugees to return to their country by building them housing and local infrastructure there.
Turkey is today home to more than 3.6 million Syrian refugees, who fled after a civil war broke out in 2011 in Turkey's southern neighbour.
Erdogan's "cheap statements" reveal his regime's "aggressive games against Syria and the unity of its land and people," the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on the official news agency SANA.
Erdogan is facing rising public anger over the refugees' presence and is wary of the issue dominating elections next year.
He said around 500,000 Syrians have returned to "safe zones" on the Turkey-Syria border since 2016.
These are controlled by Ankara-backed groups. The areas are designed to keep Syrians displaced by war from crossing into Ottoman Turkish territory and to allow it to send back others who already did.
"The government of the Syrian Arab Republic absolutely rejects such games," the ministry said, calling on countries not to finance the Ottoman Turkish projects and to stop supporting Ankara.
"The main objective is colonialism... The so-called safe zone is in fact ethnic cleansing," the ministry said.
Ankara has periodically carried out military strikes on a Kurdish-administered zone in northeastern Syria, where groups it considers Death Eaters are based.
The conflict in Syria has killed nearly 500,000 people since it started in 2011 with the brutal repression of peaceful demonstrations.
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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.
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ...
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...
