[DHAKATRIBUNE] A little known website called Global Defense Corp has alleged that former Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and now exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She was President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia showed such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums. That is probably because Khaleda's late husband was the Pak tool who had Mujib assassinated... , her son Sajib Wazed Joy, and niece Tulip Siddiq have reportedly embezzled over $5 billion in collusion with Russian officials by artificially inflating the cost of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP).
This website should not be confused with the US based Global Defense Corp, which according to Bloomberg is a company specializing in monitoring and maintaining security system devices such as burglar and fire alarms. The website, global defense corp, has previously posted stories that appear more like blogs than news reports, that need evidence and corroboration. Such as the story on S Alam where journalists found copies of donations to Cyprus in exchange for a passport and the shell companies he used to buy apartments in Singapore.
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[REGNUM] Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on providing humanitarian aid to people who share traditional Russian spiritual and moral values. Now citizens of countries that impose "destructive neoliberal ideological attitudes" on them will have the opportunity to come to Russia and receive a residence permit without any quotas and without documents confirming knowledge of the Russian language. Clever. Continued on Page 49
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"Tourists should see clean, well-kept Russian cities..."
Paging Mr Potemkin...
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Say what you will about him. I won't argue. But he realizes that Western Europe is in a state of moral and spiritual decline, as is America. You doubt it? Walk into a church on Sunday morning and check out all the empty pews. What new faith has replaced Christianity?
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"Tourists should see clean, well-kept Russian cities..."
No LGBTQ+ lecturing school kids? No Muslims blocking streets for their prayers?
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However, in the aftermath the machinations of the Congress of Vienna sort of soured Alexander about the 'saving' part. I can certainly understand that.
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[REGNUM] The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, with 265 votes in favor, adopted in the second reading the law No. 8371 "On the protection of the constitutional order in the sphere of activity of religious organizations", which provides for the liquidation of religious organizations and communities associated with "religious centers in the aggressor country". Although the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is not directly mentioned in the document, it is obvious that it is aimed specifically at its liquidation. The decision of the Ukrainian parliament did not come as a surprise, since the day before, the man who considers himself the president of Ukraine announced “the spiritual liberation of Ukraine in the near future.”
Text taken from a V Kontakte page of Reports from the Novorossiya militia.
[VK] You know, I remember one round table on the results of the war on 08.08.08. And there the bureau chief of the German “Focus” Boris Reischuster complained that they couldn’t send a reporter to Tskhinvali from the Russian side. No one provided us with work there.
I objected, saying that a self-respecting reporter simply buys a ticket to Vladikavkaz, finds a taxi to the border at night, and there transfers to a convoy to Java. There, to a militia jeep. And then enters the city with the military. That’s what I did.
Reischuster looked at me as if I were crazy and said, “The Tbilisi Foreign Ministry would never approve such a trip.” The German journalist, who was in Russia, needed Georgia’s permission to enter South Ossetia from our side. And he then worked in Moscow for many more years.
All these "truth-tellers" needed permission from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry for ten years to visit Lugansk, Donetsk, Melitopol, Genichesk... Otherwise, how can one explain the fact that major Western media outlets have never covered the Ukrainian conflict from this side. And going without permission is a violation of journalistic ethics. By analogy, they should not have gone to occupied Sudzha either - without the approval of the Russian Foreign Ministry. But that's different. Here's all the ethics for you, in case anyone had any illusions. And yes, I myself have repeatedly ended up in different countries illegally - in Libya, Iraq, and, naturally, in Ukraine - since 2014. But the hohols opened a criminal case against me. And I am a reporter for a country at war. Unlike... Or do they still consider themselves a party to the conflict? How are the ethics there? Doesn't it itch?"
[FoxBusinessNews] The labor could be weaker than Americans realize, according to one Fed governor.
Home Depot’s former CEO is calling for the government to tell the truth, as Federal Reserve governors are warning about U.S. jobs data being inflated.
During an appearance on "The Evening Edit," Monday, Bob Nardelli suggested that the country’s jobs data is "woefully overstated," arguing that it's "about time" the government "got honest."
"You and I watch this very closely every month," Nardelli told host Elizabeth MacDonald in response to Federal Reserve Governors Michelle Bowman and Lisa Cook warning that job gains are overstated, and the labor market could be weaker than we realize.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is expected to release a sizable downward revision Wednesday, potentially lowering payroll growth by at least 600,000 jobs in the year through March.
What’s more, the Atlanta Fed cut its forecast for the third-quarter U.S. GDP to just 2%.
"There’s a lot of fanfare. They announce a number, and then they quietly adjust it a few months or weeks later," Nardelli stressed. "Now, even Goldman Sachs is talking about an adjustment between 600,000 to 1 million jobs."
According to Nardelli, the nation's largest employers last year including health care, government, hospitality and travel, will see numbers adjusted.
"Stellantis, the car manufacturer, just announced 2,500 jobs would be laid off. Manufacturing in the list I looked at was ranked 11th as far as job creation under this administration," he pointed out, "so yes, I think it's woefully overstated. And it's about time they got honest."
In response to the July jobs report showing U.S. job growth slowed to 114,000, while unemployment unexpectedly rose to the highest level in nearly three years, President Biden touted job creation under his administration.
"Since Vice President Harris and I took office, our economy has created nearly 16 million jobs, average unemployment has been lower than during any administration in 50 years, and incomes have risen faster than prices," the statement read.
Nardelli explained that "a lot of that was a bounce-back from COVID," warning that the job market is "tight," and that we will see that reflected in unemployment.
"We saw it last month. We’re going to see it go up again, Liz," he warned.
The next jobs report showing data for August will be released on September 6.
fwiw, there was a big adjustment down in 2018 and a big adjustment up in 2022
the adjusted figures are based on reconciling BLS employer data with IRS data from employers; the IRS requires employers to file this and it includes unemployment insurance data
the total number 'employed' is a problem because of judgement on how to count people who only work a few hours a month, people who are temporarily laid off, people who are on strike, people who are on maternity leave, etc.
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[ZeroHedge] A recent Wall Street Journal article titled: A Drunken Evening, a Rented Yacht: The Real Story of the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage claims a rogue Ukrainian general, Valeriy Zaluzhniy, and a small team of commandos were responsible for the September 2022 destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines. However, this report offers little new information, mostly rehashing details that surfaced over a year ago. That article’s timing and content raise questions about its intent, particularly given the complexities involved in such a high-stakes operation.
Matt Riley argues below that the operation described by the WSJ is highly improbable. His main points summarized are:
The Nord Stream operation required capabilities far beyond those of the alleged perpetrators.
The WSJ story seems more like a strategic narrative designed to distract from the real culprits and manage geopolitical tensions, with potential darker motives behind its publication.
The suggestion that Zaluzhniy, now the Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK, could be targeted in a false flag operation to further escalate tensions with Russia is particularly concerning.
The whole narrative appears to be setting the stage for a possible escalation, leveraging public perceptions to justify further conflict.
This is a detailed explanation by Matt Riley, a former Naval Marine Engineer Diving Officer and Intelligence Interrogator.
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The Russians did it , They had multi year contracts with the Europeans at very low prices compared to market prices at the time.when the pipeline blew up the could declare Force De Majuer, that would allow them out of the low priced contracts to sell at the higher market price…..
[News With Views] I love talking about the Kennedy assassination. The reason I do is because I’m fascinated by it. I’m fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it. —Bill Hicks — Comedian who died at 32 of pancreatic cancer.
The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet. —Eric Ambler — English author of thrillers.
It’s been 61 years and we still don’t have the documents on the JFK murder. CIA Director, Mike Pompeo convinced President Trump to once again withhold the information from the American public. Why?
Martin Armstrong of Armstrong Economics wrote about the secret service (SS) and how bodyguards have a history of assassinating heads of state. President Nixon refused SS agents. He had threatened the CIA by telling them he knew who killed Kennedy. Deep State intel set Nixon up for the fall and got rid of him, just like the FBI got rid of General Mike Flynn with the help of Pence and Priebus.
In Leo Hohmann’s recent Substack article, he exposed the truth regarding targets of assassins. "The three-letter agencies will not hesitate to use assassination at home or abroad against anti-war politicians who buck the system, which was designed to empower the military industrial complex."
Mike Pompeo wanted to poison Julian Assange. What did he do to deserve 12 years in prison? He had the nerve to defy, by publishing an enormous amount of "classified" — that is to say hidden — data, in Wikileaks, given to him by government-employed whistleblowers.
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed, they must rely exclusively on force. —George Orwell
In 1975 a Senate committee headed by Frank Church found that the [Central Intelligence] Agency had planned a number of assassination operations, using everything from poison to machine guns and sometimes mob hit men. —Jim Garrison
Jim Garrison was absolutely right. When Mike Pompeo was the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, he planned to kidnap and poison Julian Assange, a totally illegal and unconstitutional act by the CIA.
Assange had been given information that Samsung TVs were able to listen in to private conversations in homes when the TV was allegedly off. CIA agents then listened to recordings. Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed was published by Wikileaks on March 7, 2017. Not a good thing for the CIA. Years back, a gal at our church whose son worked for Samsung told her this was true.
Julian was already the target of investigations by the CIA, the FBI, and the departments of Defense, Justice, and State over his publication in 2010 of the government’s own communications proving its culpability in war crimes. Wikileaks’ unedited gun-camera video released on July 12, 2007, shows two Reuters journalists and numerous Iraqis killed by fire from an American chopper. It was a video called "Collateral Murder."
Yahoo! News investigation reporter, Mike Isikoff, told Democracy Now that Mike Pompeo was in a frenzy over the Vault 7 leak. Code-named "Vault 7" by WikiLeaks, it is the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency. This happened on Pompeo’s watch and his campaign against Assange went into overdrive.
Pompeo defined Wikileaks as a hostile intelligence service rather than what it was...a publisher. The CIA planned to work with the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to prepare a kidnapping and possible poisoning of Assange. Fortunately, Pompeo failed and Assange is home in Australia after being released from London’s Belmarsh prison where he spent nearly five years in solitary confinement.
So, why wouldn’t the CIA plot and carry out other assassinations? Robert Kennedy Jr. is convinced his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, was murdered by the CIA.
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We will never know the real story unless the FBI &/or the USSS has insider(s) like Assange copying documents & evidence currently being withheld / manipulated / altered who then goes public.
Still not disclosed: autopsy report, exact make & model of Crooks' weapon, exact make & model of LEO arms used against him, interviews & body cam footage of all LEOs involved, the list goes on...
* Rick Rescorla, WTC Director of Security was certain another attempt would be made on the WTC. Rick was right. He died there attempting to save others on 9/11.
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Bill Hicks also told all the teetotalers to throw their art and music away, because the people made that art and music --- to quote, "Were really high on drugs." Ha. Smart man. Maybe a lil before his time, but maybe right on time. *shrugs*
Regards to the Trump Assassination Attempt, We will never know. But that is premised on the belief in plausible deniability. *grins*
I know BBC and CNN were on prem and rolling live, someone tipped them off, as they have not been back to cover any of Trumps other events. But we will never know, unless someone from govt, an insider goes public, tells us.
[FoxNews] Enrollment drops 50,000 students but Chicago teachers want $50B for schools.
Chicago schools will be almost completely empty this week. That is by design: This year, district leaders pushed the usual start of the school year back by a week to help the city "accommodate an estimated influx of 75,000 visitors" and "[allow] time for students to attend, volunteer, and participate in the civic process of hosting the Convention."
That’s right: 320,000 students are being kept out of school so they can watch a political party talk about the importance of education. Teachers are still expected to report to work for professional development days, and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is busing teachers to Soldier Field on Thursday night to watch Harris’ acceptance speech on the big screen.
This is far from the first time Chicago students have been kept out of school for political reasons. The city’s public schools did not completely reopen from COVID-19 until late August 2021, a full year after many other districts had successfully brought students back into classrooms. The CTU, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, called reopening efforts "rooted in sexism, racism, and misogyny" in a since-deleted tweet.
Even if schools were in session this week, one wouldn’t have to look far to see the failures of union-controlled schooling. A five-minute walk away from the United Center sits William H. Brown STEM Magnet School, where English Language Arts (ELA) and math proficiency rates are under 10%.
At Robert Nathaniel Dett Elementary School, less than half a mile from the convention site, fewer than 1% of students are proficient in ELA and more than 60% are chronically absent. Just one mile north of where Harris and Walz will speak, proficiency rates at Talcott Elementary are below 30% in both key subjects. These schools are not one-off examples; reading and math proficiency rates are under 30% district wide.
Even when schools are open, many of them are mostly empty. Enrollment has declined by more than 50,000 students between 2018 and 2023, and 181 district schools were operating at less than 50% capacity last school year. Douglass High School and Manley High School were 96% and 95% empty, respectively.
Local leaders could not close the emptiest schools even if they wanted to. A 2021 state law that was applauded by CTU precludes CPS from closing down any schools until early 2025. A bill has been proposed to extend the moratorium to 2027.
Don’t worry about these schools going underused. The CTU is demanding that vacant floors of school buildings be converted into shelters for unaccompanied migrants as part of its new contract, which it is currently negotiating with CPS. The union's $50-billion slate of demands would cost taxpayers, over time, more than triple the amount the mayor proposed for the entire city's budget for 2024.
The conversion of school facilities is only one part of a long list of wants, which includes across-the-board raises not tied to performance and lower standards for teacher evaluations.
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How do they even buy a 40 of Schlitz Malt Liquor without an ID? I'm way past 21 and I still have to show one to buy a bottle of red wine.
I have to show one, and a credit card, to check into a hotel. Should our elections be less secure than the Motel 6?
Our elections are un-auditable, and they are designed to be un-auditable.
[Bee] CHICAGO, IL — According to reports, black people trying to attend the DNC were turned away in droves as Democrats required photo IDs to enter the convention.
Despite knowing that black people are not capable of obtaining photo IDs, Democrats inexplicably chose to require everyone in attendance to show identification, leaving thousands of black people unable to enter.
"I wanted to come, but everyone knows I can't get an ID," said one black man who was refused entry to the DNC. "You'd think the Democrats would be aware of this fact. This must be some type of big plan to suppress our ability to attend the convention. It's a shame. I was looking forward to being here, but acquiring an official government-issued photo ID isn't something people like me can do. At least that's what I've heard."
DNC officials offered conflicting comments on the controversy. "We would never want to discriminate," said DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison, who is also black. "We're here to stand up against the efforts of Republicans to keep the black population from voting by requiring them to show a photo ID, which is why we're gathering here in Chicago and requiring everyone who enters to show a photo ID."
At publishing time, Harrison also clarified that the DNC had built a wall around the convention area to keep out anyone it didn't want present as its leaders gave speeches about how walls are not effective in keeping out unwanted people.
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Nothing yet on the arrival of the Mitzvah Tank.
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How do they even buy a 40 of Schlitz Malt Liquor without an ID? I'm way past 21 and I still have to show one to buy a bottle of red wine.
I have to show one, and a credit card, to check into a hotel. Should our elections be less secure than the Motel 6?
Our elections are un-auditable, and they are designed to be un-auditable.
Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore took the stage at the Democratic National Convention a little after 9:30 p.m. Monday, smack dab in the middle of primetime.
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
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[Bee] CHICAGO, IL — According to reports, black people trying to attend the DNC were turned away in droves as Democrats required photo IDs to enter the convention.
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