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US Congress Moves to Block Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Mysterious Fort Bragg Deaths Come After a Paratrooper Was Decapitated
[Daily Beast] As the Army Criminal Investigation Command opened a probe into the mysterious deaths of two soldiers found together in a remote training area of Fort Bragg earlier this week, grisly details have emerged about the fate of a paratrooper who went missing from the base earlier this year—only for his partial remains to wash ashore a week later.

Authorities have so far been tightlipped about the cause of death of the two men found at the North Carolina military base on Wednesday, identified as 44-year-old Army veteran Timothy Dumas and 37-year-old Army Master Sergeant William J. Lavigne II, a member of the Special Forces. The only detail released about their deaths is that it was not connected to any official training at the military site.

Dumas was previously stationed at Fort Bragg and had recently been living in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Lavigne had joined the Army in 2001 and had taken part in several Special Operations deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, the military said.
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Posted by: 3dc || 12/06/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not a whole lot but a little more on this from Army Times.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/06/2020 11:00 Comments || Top||


Prince Andrew's accuser LIED about her age
[RT] Prince Andrew’s chief accuser was a hooker who lied about her age and was paid "half a million" by disgraced businessman Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein
..A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whores sex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He is a registered sex offender and made att least 17 out-of-court settlements with former members of his stable, with some cases still ongoing. 2011 court docs reveal that 21 email addresses and phone numbers for Bill Clinton and an aide were found in Epstein's electronic black book, and that Clinton frequently flew with Epstein on his private plane between 2002 to 2005. But really, they were probably just discussing finance or politix or something. While getting massaged. Then things got serious, Jeff was tossed in the slammer in New York and then he killed himself. Really. That's what happened...
, new court papers allege, according to the Telegraph.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who is now an advocate for victims of sex trafficking, has claimed she had sex with the royal at least three times in 2001, when she was 17.

Giuffre claims this happened after she met with American financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged with procuring underage and young women for powerful clients, together with his close associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

According to the report, Sharon Churcher, the journalist who first revealed that Giuffre was among Epstein’s victims, told New York publisher Tony Lyons that Giuffre lied about her age when she met Epstein.

"She took a year off [her age]. Apparently she was 16, not 15, when she was recruited [by Epstein]. But she’d been on the game for about a year then. Epstein’s women were — he basically had hookers," the paper quoted Churcher as saying about Giuffre, citing a transcript of her conversation with Lyons.

Churcher was quoted as saying that Giuffre was "suing everybody," including Epstein’s lawyer, Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz. "The idea is that he will then pay her off. This really is blackmail," she said, adding that Giuffre would "just move on to other people" and that Epstein had "paid her off."

"She had settled with Epstein. She’d taken half a million, I think it was."

The journalist also reportedly suggested that Giuffre may have produced fake emails that were later presented as having been written by Churcher.

In a comment to the Telegraph, Giuffre’s lawyer, Chuck Cooper, said: "We are looking forward to taking Ms. Churcher’s deposition under oath."
Posted by: Fred || 12/06/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When you have $$$$ and power, any testimony is subject to change and/or adopt to the Main Stream Medias Elite support system narrative .
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/06/2020 6:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Droit du seigneur
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/06/2020 10:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Lez? Majeste!
Posted by: Jiggs B. Hayes6392 || 12/06/2020 10:24 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Press Password for Trump Rally
[Twitter]


Posted by: 3dc || 12/06/2020 00:06 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That looks like a pretty big crowd behind her in the righthand photo
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/06/2020 1:37 Comments || Top||

#2  ...well, the photos of the Biden rallies were a little sparse of real voters. Had to use CGI for a crowd and voters.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/06/2020 10:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Definitely an election steal judging from crowds at Trump vs. Biden rallies.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/06/2020 10:47 Comments || Top||

#4  And of course the press is crying like babies
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/06/2020 18:03 Comments || Top||


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Pompeo pulls visas for agents of China’s United Front ‘magic weapon’
[WashingtonExaminer] Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is revoking visas for agents of China’s United Front Work Department, a Chinese Communist Party department that orchestrates foreign influence operations.

"The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long sought to spread Marxist-Leninist ideology and exert its influence all over the world," Pompeo said in a statement Friday. "The CCP’s United Front Work Department funds and supports overseas organizations to spread propaganda and coerces and bullies those who would oppose Beijing’s policies."

The mass visa revocation marks an attempt to slap away "China's long arm" machinations to harass even Chinese Americans in the United States, following years of complaints from politicians and intelligence officials about such operations. Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping has called the United Front a "magic weapon" that is contributing to Beijing’s growing power, but controversies stemming from such efforts have deepened Western unease about China’s ambitions.

"Its coercive tactics target individuals viewed as working against CCP interests," Pompeo said. "These malign activities are intended to co-opt and coerce sub-national leaders, overseas Chinese communities, academia, and other civil society groups both in the United States and other countries in furtherance of the CCP’s authoritarian narratives and policy preferences."

The extent of those operations became more obvious to Western allies in 2017, when an Australian senator’s acceptance of travel subsidies linked to the Chinese government snowballed into a scandal over his alleged decision to warn a Chinese Australian businessman that he was being scrutinized by Australian intelligence services.

Chinese government loyalists have cultivated influence in the U.S., too. At an event last year in Hong Kong organized by the vice chairman of a self-described "patriotic united front organization," Neil Bush, the son of former President George H.W. Bush, affirmed that democracy "would not work for China, just like China’s system would not work for us." And Pompeo traveled to Wisconsin recently to warn that Chinese agents are targeting state officials and even local civic organizations.

"Beijing’s infiltration of U.S. society has been deliberate and insidious as they use every instrument of influence available to accelerate their rise at America’s expense," acting Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Marco Rubio
...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida...
, a Florida Republican, said Friday morning in a joint statement with Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the panel. "Unfortunately, the United States’s challenge with China is not unique as Beijing seeks to infiltrate and subvert other nations around the world, including our allies."

FBI officials also have uncovered a Beijing-run "Operation Foxhunt," which Chinese Communist officials use to target Chinese nationals overseas, including in the U.S. That investigation led to five arrests, while the indictment of several Chinese military researchers who committed visa fraud spurred more than 1,000 other researchers to leave the country, according to the Justice Department.

"I will continue to implement such visa restrictions to make clear that those responsible for actions that contravene the rules-based international order are not welcome in the United States," Pompeo said. "The United States calls on the [People's Republic of China] to end its use of coercion and intimidation tactics to suppress freedom of expression. The United States will continue to review its authorities to respond to these concerns."
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/06/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Over 1,000 Chinese ‘Researchers’ Leave as U.S. Targets Intellectual Property Theft
[Breitbart] Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers, speaking at the Aspen Cyber Summit on Wednesday, confirmed over 1,000 Chinese researchers have left the United States since the Trump administration has escalated its attempts to curb Chinese intellectual property theft.

"More than a thousand PLA [People’s Liberation Army] affiliated Chinese researchers left the country," Demers confirmed. "So, our prosecutions were just the beginning of that, but they allowed us to message to the Chinese government that, if you’re gonna send individuals here, you’ve got to do so honestly and you can’t do so hiding their affiliations with the PLA and Chinese military universities."

William Evanina, who heads the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, further alleged at the same event that Chinese officials were already targeting those close to former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
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Posted by: trailing wife || 12/06/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Video: Chinese Official explains why they took Trump down and laughs at USA.
Google Translate:
Dec 4
[Heavy weight: CCP infiltrating American elites] Zhai Dongsheng, deputy dean, doctoral supervisor, and professor of the School of International Relations, Renmin University of China, shamelessly flaunted the fifth column of the CCP’s development in the United States in the following video. If this deep government is not removed, American freedom and democracy will be greatly threatened. This video came out on November 30 and has been deleted by the entire mainland network. It is more than 4 minutes long. I intercepted the first two minutes. Please turn!




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