veteranstoday--2020-09-18--The Magic of Sarah Cooper: Trump ‘Aces’ Neurological Test (pupils respond to light…eventually)

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veteranstoday--2020-09-19--GAMMA RADIATION IN AMERICA 2020.11

GAMMA RADIATION IN AMERICA 2020.11

Summer time one hour radiation count highs annualized – so far .
Hold onto your hats , people .
These are really nasty one hour CPMs , annualized .
These are the Highest Total Gamma readings in 10 years of recorded data .
Yes , there is an official record .
That ’ s 8,589,504 official Total Gamma Radiation readings taken by a division of the government over 10 years .
No publicity at all .
I wonder who the intended audiences were and currently are .
Hmm , wonder who the Perps work for , too , don ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 15 , 2020 , there has been Zero publicity .
Gamma radiation in America increased steadily over the past 10 years and is well past the Kill you level .
How much more Gamma radiation have you absorbed today ?
If the government routinely gets a hold of your body upon death they remove your Anus and eyeballs for radio-logical analysis .
These body parts give maximum and minimum absorbed radiation measurements .
Your stolen body parts are then used as a natural born animal Dosimeter .
As a result the Feds know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America .
It only takes a few minutes to steal these body parts from a cadaver .
After all , who is going to check ?
Certainly not you ; you ’ re very DEAD .
The recent High Radiation events this summer ( 2020 ) were started near Moscow with a nuclear reactor 30 Miles outside of town under Russian Dictator Putin ’ s control .
A radioactive cloud was released .
The RadCloud immediately headed West for hundreds of miles / kilometers , across Russia and Europe to the States .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ not take long for the giant RadCloud to head across the Atlantic Ocean and park over the North Eastern United States .
No warnings were issued by Federal authorities , though that IS their Job .
I have no idea why the RadCloud “ parked ” .
It could have been caught in a natural weather circulation above the North Eastern United States .
Local American reactor owners could have seen an opportunity to purge some of their built up Rad and blame it on the Russkies .
Theoretically the NRC distributed their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Weapons Labs would launch “ sniffer ” planes to collect Rad samples .
Not a word has been released .
Within days the Nuke Weapons Lab knew not only what country did it .
They would also know the mine ( s ) that produced the Uranium .
Who or what country did it ?
Does anybody think it was Trump ’ s pal Putin or local sold out rich guy nuke operators ?
Make no mistake about it the Perps will be found .
President Trump should demand their arrest .
Will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Putin ?
Don ’ t have a clue ; that ’ s above my pay grade .
The unusual and dangerous RadCloud was “ parked ” over the North Eastern United States .
That I know of , Not One , None , Zero , Zilch of the expensive TV Weather Caster operations “ noticed ” the RadCloud .
I do not know why the lethal RadCloud did not move for weeks .
Rad readings are still elevated 15cpm from a summer time ( annualized ) high of 131,654,040cpm recorded in Raleigh , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ terms of Highly Radioactive America , the Gamma radiation has declined to an annual rate of 80 Million Counts a year at Portsmouth , Maine and 90 Million Counts a year in Raleigh , North Carolina .
Both towns host old , embrittled , most likely leaking nuker power plants .
No mystery there .
Except , these terror monsters are gushing Gamma radiation ; not just leaking a few Gammas .
two billion , five hundred fifty-seven million , two hundred ninety-six thousand , one hundred sixty cpm forty-three billion , eight @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thousand , nine hundred twenty-two cpm .
NUMBER OF TIMES LARGER NOW THAN IN 2010 .
The Gamma radiation now is 10.9254 Times Larger than when measured FOR THE YEAR 2010 .
That is 3,896 elapsed days , or 93,504 Hours .
Gamma radiation in the wild escaped from nuclear reactors and detonated nuclear weapons .
At the surface of the Earth there are no other sources .
Gamma radiation is and always has been incompatible with life on this planet .
How much Gamma radiation is it ?
It is more than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thing on Earth .
The only question is : How much Gamma radiation have YOU absorbed ?
… Today ?
… from 10 years ago ?
1 .
The Radiation charts and graphs of the EPA .
Individual queries can be built at the EPA RadNet Query Builder 2 .
The EPA based reporting of NETC dot com , an LLC .
3 .
These stations ’ Radiation equals Total Gamma Radiation .
Gamma Radiation Monitors are reporting publicly at all these locations .
CPM .
“ Although we can ’ t see @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or hear it we can measure radiation and observe its effects .
One way to measure radiation which the United States Environmental Protection Agency [ EPA ] has chosen to use on its radiation websites is in Counts Per Minute or CPM .
Each Count is One Radioactive Decay.
” Quote from the ‘ Your Radiation This Week ’ Apr 3 , 2015 4 .
Radiation destruction of chitin , IAEA , by Ershov , B.G .
; Sukhov , N.L .
; Nud ’ ga , L.A. ; Baklagina , Yu.G .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , G.A .
( Institute of Physical Chemistry , Moscow ( Russian Federation ) 5 .
“ Plutonium Air ” by Dr Paolo Scampa , AIPRI Blog , Aug 19 , 2016 6 .
“ Radioactive Fertilizer , ” AIPRI by Dr Paolo Scampa , September 23 , 2016 , AIPRI : Les engrais radioactifs , 7 .
“ Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world , study finds , ” By ABBY GOODNOUGH OCT. 19 , 2016 , 8 .
EPA Proposal Allows Radiation Exposure in Drinking Water Equivalent to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( 45 ) years later , the Nuclear States officially raise the amounts of “ permitted radiation levels ” by hundreds and sometimes thousands of times to maintain the utter and absolute dominance of the Nuclear State over everything , everywhere , for all time .
No tolerance is given.
” 9 .
“ Baghdad ” by Dr. Paolo Scampa , AIPRI , Saturday 12 November 2016 10 .
“ News Release , New Aerial Survey Identifies More Than 100 Million Dead Trees in California , ” USDA Office of Communications , “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trees since 2010 to over 102 million , ” 11 .
Caribou herd in Alaska suffering from mysterious decline , November 30 , 2016 , Noel Kirkpatrick , MNN Mother Nature Network , “ The Central Arctic caribou herd in Alaska is experiencing a “ steep decline ” in its population , and scientists are researching the reasons why ( ) .
” 12 .
“ Facing a Dying Nation , ” a line from the 1979 Tribal Rock Musical HAIR .
A scene with “ Facing a Dying Nation ” starring Treat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The character Pfc .
Berger is KIA in Vietnam in 1968 .
13 .
It is Eugen Wigner ’ s name as a Verb .
It ’ s about all things Wignerized .
See Notes on Your Radiation This Week No .
69 and 70 14. sie·vert , ˈsēvərt/ , noun Physics , noun : sievert ; plural noun : sieverts ; symbol : Sv , the SI unit of dose equivalent ( the biological effect of ionizing radiation ) , equal to an effective dose of a joule of energy per kilogram @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 15 .
Eco Health Alliance interactive map of killer viruses – map 16 .
“ In [ a ] first , government and Tepco found liable for Fukushima disaster , ” by Daisuke Kikuchi , “ Maebashi , Gunma Pref .
In first , government and Tepco found liable for Fukushima disaster , ” 17 .
Uranium Stocks , “ Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy , in Blow to Nuclear Power , ” Wednesday , March 29 , 2017 , at 10:04 PM , “ Westinghouse Electric Company , which helped drive the development @ @ @ @ @ @ @ itself , filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday , casting a shadow over the global nuclear industry .
18 .
Black Star shows tracks of Alpha particles in an Apes lung much like yours .
Plutonium particle in lung tissue : “ The black star in the middle of this picture shows the tracks made by alpha rays emitted from a particle of plutonium-239 in the lung tissue of an ape .
The alpha rays do not travel very far , but once inside the body , they can penetrate more than 10,000 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of alpha tracks ( magnified 500 times ) occurred over a 48-hour period ” ( Robert Del Tredici , At Work in the Fields of the Bomb [ 1987 ] , plate 39 ) .
19 19 .
“ De la guerre nucléaire ” Maurice , E. ANDRE , nuclear officer ( NBCR or nuclear , biological , chemical and radiological exclusive function ) Captain Commander , retired .
Addendum by Dr. Paolo Scampa .
20 .
University of Arkansas disposes of wastewater 21 .
Banner picture by the NY Times .
Fire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Date 2017.7 November 18 , 2017 , VeteransToday .
Here .
23 .
30-year-old radioactive dead tree at Chernobyl .
Very dead .
Very radioactive , like millions of others there and around the world .
https : //outoftheboxscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Chernobyl-Dead-Trees-Photo-By-Beatrice-Lundborg 24 .
Amusing Planet , VIP observers watching the spectacle during Operation Greenhouse at Enewetak Atoll , 1951. http : //www.amusingplanet.com/2008/07/how-to-watch-nuclear-explosion.html 25 .
Al Gore Lied , The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) lowers the Boom on Al Gore ’ s Big Lie that the humble , beneficial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ https : //www.veteranstoday.com/2013/06/28/al-gore-lied/ 26 .
Did you ever think how much Rad U235 or Rad Plutonium 239 is vaporized in a detonation of a nuclear weapon ?
Bob Nichols , June 11 , 2017 .
Very little , actually .
https : //yourradiationthisweek.org/2017/06/11/did-you-ever-think-how-much-rad-u235-or-rad-plutonium-239-is-vaporized-in-a-detonation-of-a-nuclear-weapon/ 27 .
CPM or Counts per Minute is the radiation measuring system used by RadNet , a directorate of the EPA .
28 .
See the Wind flow !
“ This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US.
” FERNANDA VIÉGAS MARTIN WATTENBERG , See @ @ @ @ @ @ @ http : //hint.fm/wind/ 29 .
MILLION A WEEK CLUB No 6 – California ’ s Boosted Fires , By Bob Nichols , December 2017 https : //www.veteranstoday.com/2017/12/30/million-a-week-club-no-6-californias-boosted-fires 30 .
YOUR RADIATION THIS WEEK – Nichols on Nuclear – Library of Articles https : //yourradiationthisweek.org/nichols-on-nuclear-library-of-articles/ 31 .
Actual Beta radiation collected by RadNet in 2006 was 7,380,489,546.384977 CPM for Washington , D.C. See RadNet .
Same address as Note No .
1 .
32 .
Satellite view of annual Uranium boosted fires in California in November 2018. https : //earth.nullschool.net/ # current/chem/surface/level/overlay=cosc/orthographic=-122.46,39.53,3000https : //earth.nullschool.net/ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Radiological and Health Impacts , http : //www.oecd-nea.org/rp/pubs/2003/3508-chernobyl.pdf “ However , one year after the accident a storm resuspended deposited radioactivity in the exclusion zone [ around the smashed reactor , ] and the radioactivity of air in the exclusion zone in the Pripiat city increased by a factor of 1,000 and reached 300 Bq.m.-3 .
Fires in the forests have also lead to the increases of radioactivity.
” “ In 1992 , in the vicinity of the exclusion zone , radiation due to forest fires reached 20 Bq.m-3 for beta emitters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Monitoring stations far from these zones registered some peaks of radioactivity .
”

Summer time Rads Unusual Event
Summer time one hour radiation count highs annualized – so far. Hold onto your hats, people. These are really nasty one hour CPMs, annualized.
131,654,040 CPMs/Year Raleigh, North Carolina July 28, 2020
119,784,240 CPMs/Year Portland, Maine August 11, 2020
Huge reported one month increase at Raleigh, North Carolina annualized: 51,967,285cpm.
131,654,040cpm – 79,686,755cpm = 51,967,285cpm One Month Incr Raleigh
These are the Highest Total Gamma readings in 10 years of recorded data. Yes, there is an official record.
That’s 8,589,504 official Total Gamma Radiation readings taken by a division of the government over 10 years.
No publicity at all. I wonder who the intended audiences were and currently are. Hmm, wonder who the Perps work for, too, don’t you?
To date, September 15, 2020, there has been Zero publicity. Gamma radiation in America increased steadily over the past 10 years and is well past the Kill you level. How much more Gamma radiation have you absorbed today?
If the government routinely gets a hold of your body upon death they remove your Anus and eyeballs for radio-logical analysis. These body parts give maximum and minimum absorbed radiation measurements.
Your stolen body parts are then used as a natural born animal Dosimeter. As a result the Feds know exactly the level of radiation poisoning in America.
It only takes a few minutes to steal these body parts from a cadaver. After all, who is going to check? Certainly not you; you’re very DEAD.
More Summer time Rad Events
The recent High Radiation events this summer (2020) were started near Moscow with a nuclear reactor 30 Miles outside of town under Russian Dictator Putin’s control.
A radioactive cloud was released. The RadCloud immediately headed West for hundreds of miles / kilometers, across Russia and Europe to the States. So the story goes.
It did not take long for the giant RadCloud to head across the Atlantic Ocean and park over the North Eastern United States. No warnings were issued by Federal authorities, though that IS their Job.
I have no idea why the RadCloud “parked”. It could have been caught in a natural weather circulation above the North Eastern United States.
Local American reactor owners could have seen an opportunity to purge some of their built up Rad and blame it on the Russkies.
Theoretically the NRC distributed their classified notifications. Secondly, the Nuclear Weapons Labs would launch “sniffer” planes to collect Rad samples. Not a word has been released.
Within days the Nuke Weapons Lab knew not only what country did it. They would also know the mine(s) that produced the Uranium.
Who or what country did it?
Does anybody think it was Trump’s pal Putin or local sold out rich guy nuke operators?
Make no mistake about it the Perps will be found. President Trump should demand their arrest. Will he do that and stand up to Putin? Don’t have a clue; that’s above my pay grade.
The unusual and dangerous RadCloud was “parked” over the North Eastern United States. That I know of, Not One, None, Zero, Zilch of the expensive TV Weather Caster operations “noticed” the RadCloud.
I do not know why the lethal RadCloud did not move for weeks. Rad readings are still elevated 15cpm from a summer time (annualized) high of 131,654,040cpm recorded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Of course, in terms of Highly Radioactive America, the Gamma radiation has declined to an annual rate of 80 Million Counts a year at Portsmouth, Maine and 90 Million Counts a year in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Both towns host old, embrittled, most likely leaking nuker power plants. No mystery there. Except, these terror monsters are gushing Gamma radiation; not just leaking a few Gammas.
GAMMA RADIATION IN AMERICA 2020-11
Jan 1, 2020 to August 31, 2020 Radioactive Gammas Measured by surface mounted Monitors: 2,557,296,160cpm, or
two billion, five hundred fifty-seven million, two hundred ninety-six thousand, one hundred sixty cpm
NEW TOTAL January 1, 2010 TO August 31, 2020: 43,870,933,922cpm.
forty-three billion, eight hundred seventy million, nine hundred thirty-three thousand, nine hundred twenty-two cpm.
NUMBER OF TIMES LARGER NOW THAN IN 2010.
The Gamma radiation now is 10.9254 Times Larger than when measured FOR THE YEAR 2010. That is 3,896 elapsed days, or 93,504 Hours.
Gamma radiation in the wild escaped from nuclear reactors and detonated nuclear weapons.
At the surface of the Earth there are no other sources.
Gamma radiation is and always has been incompatible with life on this planet.
How much Gamma radiation is it? It is more than enough Gamma radiation to kill every living thing on Earth.
The only question is: How much Gamma radiation have YOU absorbed? … Today? … from 10 years ago?
Sources, Notes and Recommended Readings
1. The Radiation charts and graphs of the EPA. Individual queries can be built at the EPA RadNet Query Builder
2. The EPA based reporting of NETC dot com, an LLC.
3. These stations’ Radiation equals Total Gamma Radiation. Gamma Radiation Monitors are reporting publicly at all these locations. CPM. “Although we can’t see it, taste it, smell it or hear it we can measure radiation and observe its effects. One way to measure radiation which the United States Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] has chosen to use on its radiation websites is in Counts Per Minute or CPM. Each Count is One Radioactive Decay.” Quote from the ‘Your Radiation This Week’ Apr 3, 2015
4. Radiation destruction of chitin, IAEA, by Ershov, B.G.; Sukhov, N.L.; Nud’ga, L.A.; Baklagina, Yu.G.; Kozhevnikova, L.G.; Petropavlovskii, G.A. (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Moscow (Russian Federation)
5. “Plutonium Air” by Dr Paolo Scampa, AIPRI Blog, Aug 19, 2016
6. “Radioactive Fertilizer,” AIPRI by Dr Paolo Scampa, September 23, 2016, AIPRI: Les engrais radioactifs,
7. “Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world, study finds,” By ABBY GOODNOUGH OCT. 19, 2016,
8. EPA Proposal Allows Radiation Exposure in Drinking Water Equivalent to 250 Chest X-Rays a Year
“Forty-five (45) years later, the Nuclear States officially raise the amounts of “permitted radiation levels” by hundreds and sometimes thousands of times to maintain the utter and absolute dominance of the Nuclear State over everything, everywhere, for all time. No tolerance is given.”
9. “Baghdad” by Dr. Paolo Scampa, AIPRI, Saturday 12 November 2016
10. “News Release, New Aerial Survey Identifies More Than 100 Million Dead Trees in California, ” USDA Office of Communications, “This brings the total number of dead trees since 2010 to over 102 million,”
11. Caribou herd in Alaska suffering from mysterious decline, November 30, 2016, Noel Kirkpatrick, MNN Mother Nature Network, “The Central Arctic caribou herd in Alaska is experiencing a “steep decline” in its population, and scientists are researching the reasons why () .”
12. “Facing a Dying Nation,” a line from the 1979 Tribal Rock Musical HAIR. A scene with “Facing a Dying Nation” starring Treat Williams from the movie is here: The character Pfc. Berger is KIA in Vietnam in 1968.
13. It is Eugen Wigner’s name as a Verb. It’s about all things Wignerized. See Notes on Your Radiation This Week No. 69 and 70
14. sie·vert, ˈsēvərt/, noun Physics, noun: sievert; plural noun: sieverts; symbol: Sv, the SI unit of dose equivalent (the biological effect of ionizing radiation), equal to an effective dose of a joule of energy per kilogram of recipient mass. Google: Sievert
15. Eco Health Alliance interactive map of killer viruses – map
16. “In [a] first, government and Tepco found liable for Fukushima disaster,” by Daisuke Kikuchi, “Maebashi, Gunma Pref. In first, government and Tepco found liable for Fukushima disaster,”
17. Uranium Stocks, “Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power,” Wednesday, March 29, 2017, at 10:04 PM, “Westinghouse Electric Company, which helped drive the development of nuclear energy and the electric grid itself, filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, casting a shadow over the global nuclear industry.
18. Black Star shows tracks of Alpha particles in an Apes lung much like yours. Plutonium particle in lung tissue: “The black star in the middle of this picture shows the tracks made by alpha rays emitted from a particle of plutonium-239 in the lung tissue of an ape. The alpha rays do not travel very far, but once inside the body, they can penetrate more than 10,000 cells within their range. This set of alpha tracks (magnified 500 times) occurred over a 48-hour period” (Robert Del Tredici, At Work in the Fields of the Bomb [1987], plate 39). 19
19. “De la guerre nucléaire” Maurice, E. ANDRE, nuclear officer (NBCR or nuclear, biological, chemical and radiological exclusive function) Captain Commander, retired. Addendum by Dr. Paolo Scampa.
20. University of Arkansas disposes of wastewater
21. Banner picture by the NY Times. Fire
22. Total Gamma Radiation – Year to Date 2017.7 November 18, 2017, VeteransToday. Here.
23. 30-year-old radioactive dead tree at Chernobyl. Very dead. Very radioactive, like millions of others there and around the world. https://outoftheboxscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Chernobyl-Dead-Trees-Photo-By-Beatrice-Lundborg
24. Amusing Planet, VIP observers watching the spectacle during Operation Greenhouse at Enewetak Atoll, 1951. http://www.amusingplanet.com/2008/07/how-to-watch-nuclear-explosion.html
25. Al Gore Lied, The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) lowers the Boom on Al Gore’s Big Lie that the humble, beneficial gas – CO2 – causes global warming https://www.veteranstodayarchives.com/2013/06/28/al-gore-lied/
26. Did you ever think how much Rad U235 or Rad Plutonium 239 is vaporized in a detonation of a nuclear weapon? Bob Nichols, June 11, 2017. Very little, actually. https://yourradiationthisweek.org/2017/06/11/did-you-ever-think-how-much-rad-u235-or-rad-plutonium-239-is-vaporized-in-a-detonation-of-a-nuclear-weapon/
27. CPM or Counts per Minute is the radiation measuring system used by RadNet, a directorate of the EPA.
28. See the Wind flow! “This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US.” FERNANDA VIÉGAS MARTIN WATTENBERG, See the moving map showing the wind. http://hint.fm/wind/
29. MILLION A WEEK CLUB No 6 – California’s Boosted Fires, By Bob Nichols, December 2017 https://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/12/30/million-a-week-club-no-6-californias-boosted-fires
30. YOUR RADIATION THIS WEEK – Nichols on Nuclear – Library of Articles https://yourradiationthisweek.org/nichols-on-nuclear-library-of-articles/
31. Actual Beta radiation collected by RadNet in 2006 was 7,380,489,546.384977 CPM for Washington, D.C. See RadNet. Same address as Note No. 1.
32. Satellite view of annual Uranium boosted fires in California in November 2018.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/surface/level/overlay=cosc/orthographic=-122.46,39.53,3000https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/surface/level/overlay=cosc/orthographic=-122.46,39.53,3000
33. Chernobyl: Assessment of Radiological and Health Impacts, http://www.oecd-nea.org/rp/pubs/2003/3508-chernobyl.pdf “However, one year after the accident a storm resuspended deposited radioactivity in the exclusion zone [around the smashed reactor,] and the radioactivity of air in the exclusion zone in the Pripiat city increased by a factor of 1,000 and reached 300 Bq.m.-3. Fires in the forests have also lead to the increases of radioactivity.”
“In 1992, in the vicinity of the exclusion zone, radiation due to forest fires reached 20 Bq.m-3 for beta emitters and 70 mBq.m-3 from plutonium isotopes. Monitoring stations far from these zones registered some peaks of radioactivity.”
GAMMA RADIATION IN AMERICA – CONCLUSION


veteranstoday--2020-09-20--France Says US Claim Hezbollah to Nuke Europe with Lawn Fertilizer ‘Fucking Stupid’

France has rejected allegations by a senior US State Department official that the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has stored chemicals that can be used to make explosives in the European country , emphasizing that there is no evidence to substantiate such claims .
“ To our knowledge , there is nothing tangible to confirm such an allegation in France today , ” French Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Agnes von der Muhll told reporters in Paris on Friday .
“ Any activity committed by a foreign organization on our territory would be sanctioned by the French authorities with the greatest firmness , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the State Department coordinator for counter-terrorism , claimed on Thursday that Hezbollah has moved ammonium nitrate from Belgium to France , Greece , Italy , Spain and Switzerland in recent years , and is suspected to still be storing the material throughout Europe .
The US senior official made the remarks in an online forum hosted by the American Jewish Committee , which has appealed to countries in Europe and elsewhere to impose bans on the Lebanese resistance movement .
Sales , without offering evidence , went on to allege that Washington believes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nitrate around Europe in first aid kits with cold packs that contain the compound .
The United States believes these supplies are still in place throughout Europe , possibly in Greece , Italy and Spain , he said .
The US has designated Hezbollah resistance movement as a foreign terrorist organization since 1997 , and has slapped several rounds of sanctions against the group .
The US Treasury Department said in a statement on Thursday that it had imposed sanctions on Sultan Khalifah As ’ ad , who the Treasury described as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Arch Consulting and Meamar Construction , two Lebanon-based , after accusing them of being linked to the Lebanese resistance movement .
On May 16 , 2018 , the United States and its partners in the Terrorist Financing and Targeting Center ( TFTC ) , which includes Saudi Arabia , Bahrain , Kuwait , Oman , Qatar and the United Arab Emirates , imposed sanctions on Hezbollah leadership , targeting its Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem .

France has rejected allegations by a senior US State Department official that the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has stored chemicals that can be used to make explosives in the European country, emphasizing that there is no evidence to substantiate such claims.
“To our knowledge, there is nothing tangible to confirm such an allegation in France today,” French Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Agnes von der Muhll told reporters in Paris on Friday.
“Any activity committed by a foreign organization on our territory would be sanctioned by the French authorities with the greatest firmness,” he added.
Nathan Sales, the State Department coordinator for counter-terrorism, claimed on Thursday that Hezbollah has moved ammonium nitrate from Belgium to France, Greece, Italy, Spain and Switzerland in recent years, and is suspected to still be storing the material throughout Europe.
Hezbollah calls US sanctions on Lebanon ‘act of aggression’ Lebanese Hezbollah’s Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem says US sanctions on Lebanon are an act of aggression and a failed attempt to “bring Lebanon to its knees.”
The US senior official made the remarks in an online forum hosted by the American Jewish Committee, which has appealed to countries in Europe and elsewhere to impose bans on the Lebanese resistance movement.
Sales, without offering evidence, went on to allege that Washington believes that Hezbollah has since 2012 transported ammonium nitrate around Europe in first aid kits with cold packs that contain the compound.
The United States believes these supplies are still in place throughout Europe, possibly in Greece, Italy and Spain, he said.
The US has designated Hezbollah resistance movement as a foreign terrorist organization since 1997, and has slapped several rounds of sanctions against the group.
US cannot disarm Lebanon’s Hezbollah through sanctions: Russian ambassador to Beirut The Russian ambassador to Beirut says US officials are under the illusion that they can disarm the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement through sanctions.
The US Treasury Department said in a statement on Thursday that it had imposed sanctions on Sultan Khalifah As’ad, who the Treasury described as a senior Hezbollah Executive Council official, besides Arch Consulting and Meamar Construction, two Lebanon-based, after accusing them of being linked to the Lebanese resistance movement.
On May 16, 2018, the United States and its partners in the Terrorist Financing and Targeting Center (TFTC), which includes Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, imposed sanctions on Hezbollah leadership, targeting its Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem.


veteranstoday--2020-09-19--NEO: Is Russia Preparing for ‘First Strike’ from ‘Best Friend Trump’?

Donald Trump has announced he will contest the presidential election if he loses , a bizarre statement from someone who may well have taken on a “ life ’ s work ” few might guess .
Trump , the virtual “ stepchild ” of “ Red Baiter ” Roy Cohn , a man whose hatred of Russia was notorious , may well not be the friend of Russia that so many in the Pentagon and US agencies believe .
Trump may well plan to destroy Russia and has certainly moved toward doing exactly that .
Let us look at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who built Donald Trump from a failed slumlord to a Hitleresque political predator .
“ My cousin Roy Marcus Cohn—counsel to Senator Joe McCarthy , consigliere to Mafia bosses , mentor to Donald Trump—had almost no principles .
He smeared Jews even though he was Jewish .
He tarred Democrats even though he was a Democrat .
He persecuted gay people even though he was gay .
Yet throughout his life , he held fast to one certainty : Russia and America were enemies .
Roy often told me the Kremlin blamed the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prosper , so Russian leaders were bent on destroying our democracy .
If Roy had lived another 30 years , I ’ m sure he ’ d be pleased to learn that his protégé was elected president .
But I am equally sure Roy would be appalled by Trump ’ s obsequious devotion to ex-KGB officer Vladimir Putin .
In his nasal tone , Roy would warn that Putin follows the Soviet playbook by interfering with elections in Western Europe ; invading sovereign nations such as Ukraine ; and assassinating dissidents and journalists.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ashamed of Trump , based on the view that Trump is a Russian puppet .
What if Trump is playing a “ double game , ” something that would play well with profilers citing Trump ’ s false air of superiority and intense personal insecurity which he continually overcompensates for ?
Profiling Trump as a frightened child is rudimentary .
The tendency to lash out , to betray is there and betrayal doesn ’ t work without trust and friendship to destroy .
Trump ’ s overt “ warming ” to Russia may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Roy Cohn ’ s ambitions of destroying Russia , were one to follow this tack .
But what has Trump done to prepare for a first strike on Russia ?
Here , on the GOP platform , Republicans brag about Trump ordering the killing of Russian military contractors : • In 2017 , President Trump approved the sale of lethal weapons to Ukraine addressing the country ’ s vulnerability to Russian-backed separatists in its eastern provinces .
• Under the Trump Administration , Russian mercenaries and other pro-Syrian regime forces attacking US troops @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US has increased troops and its military capability in Eastern Europe and dramatically increased training and drills with its NATO partners .
• In 2018 , the US Department of Defense increased its spending as part of the European Deterrence Initiative by $ 1.4 billion dollars .
• Due to pressure from President Trump , US ’ NATO allies have increased defense expenditures by five percent .
Beyond that is page upon page of sanctions , arms sales to Ukraine , troop deployments to Russia ’ s borders , massive military exercises aimed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ might consider America ’ s arms buildup , bankrupting America , leaving its military economically unsustainable , which fits into the “ first strike ” scenario .
The assumption then , the US is a failed hegemon that can only hold onto power by destroying Russia in its death throes .
We have seen American military aircraft deployed to Estonia , and a full-blown attempt by the US under Trump to move against Belarus despite overt denials .
Belarus has been the “ golden fleece ” of nations targeted by Trump ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russia have been the cancelled treaties .
The most threatening of all is the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987 .
Then we have the Open Skies Treaty .
Russia is years from deploying its newest surveillance satellites , and the Open Skies Treaty was vital to protecting Russia against a NATO first strike .
Without the Open Skies Treaty , the theory of Mutually Assured Destruction ( MAD ) is not realistic .
Were one to assume Trump represents a nihilistic cabal intent on an agenda of global entropy , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the pattern of scrapped treaties begins to make sense .
It does not take a genius to see these key factors here : • The announced deployment of deniable small nuclear weapons to NATO and the Middle East by Trump • The planned deployment on Russia ’ s borders of the new “ thousand-mile cannon ” being developed by the US Army and a bevy of drone swarm and hypersonic weapons which can ’ t easily be defended against .
“ There is no more “ end of history ” optimism in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sense of durable US hegemony either that seemed so permanent in the 1990s .
Unfortunately , history tells us that such shifts in the global balance of power are fraught with danger , as the fading hegemon has an incentive to resort to extreme , reckless measures to preserve that hegemony .
What makes the current situation unprecedented is this being the first hegemonic transition of the nuclear age .
In the past , nuclear deterrence existed only in the context of relatively stable bipolar and then unipolar systems .
Does nuclear deterrence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a multipolar system experiencing a hegemonic transition ?
International relations theory has no answer to that question , but the US national security establishment appears to think that it doesn ’ t , particularly in an era of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence , drone and missile swarms , hypersonic delivery vehicles , and possibly even directed energy weapons .
Crash US programs in developing all of the above , far beyond anything that might be termed reasonable defensive sufficiency under conditions of the US spending far more on defense than anyone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the possibility of long-term plans to prevail in the new round of great power competition through not only covert action and “ hybrid warfare ” , but also , if an opportunity arises , through good old fashioned strategic first strike which need no longer be delivered using nuclear weapons .
The point of Cold War-era nuclear arms treaties was not to limit the number of nuclear warheads for its own sake .
Rather , it was to deprive the two superpowers of their ability to launch a disarming and decapitating strike which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could only be launched using nuclear weapons .
That is still the case today , but may not be by 2030 should the US complete its planned rearmament with a large array of land- , air- , and sea-based long-range stealthy and hypersonic weapons .
Even the US Army , with its plans for “ 1,000-mile cannon ” is once again getting into the game of strategic strike , to speak nothing of land-based hypersonic missiles .
And strategic strike using non-nuclear warheads is a novel scenario in which the old “ mutually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Combined with the explosive growth of US anti-ballistic missile programs , if the rest of the world stands still , by 2030 US decisionmakers might find themselves tempted to launch such a strategic strike against even a major nuclear weapons state like Russia or China , to say nothing of mid-level powers like Iran or North Korea , particularly if they have no nuclear deterrent to begin with.
” Thus , we are faced with an assessment challenge , do we accept the superficial rhetoric of social media and the press , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and ignore overwhelming evidence that tells us we are in dangerous times ?
Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues .
He ’ s a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today , especially for the online magazine “ New Eastern Outlook.
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First published 18 September 2020
Donald Trump has announced he will contest the presidential election if he loses, a bizarre statement from someone who may well have taken on a “life’s work” few might guess. Trump, the virtual “stepchild” of “Red Baiter” Roy Cohn, a man whose hatred of Russia was notorious, may well not be the friend of Russia that so many in the Pentagon and US agencies believe.
Trump may well plan to destroy Russia and has certainly moved toward doing exactly that. Let us look at the truth about Roy Cohn, the man who built Donald Trump from a failed slumlord to a Hitleresque political predator.
From Politico by Roy Cohn’s cousin, author David L. Marcus:
“My cousin Roy Marcus Cohn—counsel to Senator Joe McCarthy, consigliere to Mafia bosses, mentor to Donald Trump—had almost no principles. He smeared Jews even though he was Jewish. He tarred Democrats even though he was a Democrat. He persecuted gay people even though he was gay.
Yet throughout his life, he held fast to one certainty: Russia and America were enemies. Roy often told me the Kremlin blamed the US for Russia’s failure to prosper, so Russian leaders were bent on destroying our democracy.
If Roy had lived another 30 years, I’m sure he’d be pleased to learn that his protégé was elected president. But I am equally sure Roy would be appalled by Trump’s obsequious devotion to ex-KGB officer Vladimir Putin. In his nasal tone, Roy would warn that Putin follows the Soviet playbook by interfering with elections in Western Europe; invading sovereign nations such as Ukraine; and assassinating dissidents and journalists.”
Marcus asserts that Cohn would be ashamed of Trump, based on the view that Trump is a Russian puppet. What if Trump is playing a “double game,” something that would play well with profilers citing Trump’s false air of superiority and intense personal insecurity which he continually overcompensates for? Profiling Trump as a frightened child is rudimentary.
The tendency to lash out, to betray is there and betrayal doesn’t work without trust and friendship to destroy. Trump’s overt “warming” to Russia may well be setting the stage to complete Roy Cohn’s ambitions of destroying Russia, were one to follow this tack.
First Strike
But what has Trump done to prepare for a first strike on Russia? Here, on the GOP platform, Republicans brag about Trump ordering the killing of Russian military contractors:
In 2017, President Trump approved the sale of lethal weapons to Ukraine addressing the country’s vulnerability to Russian-backed separatists in its eastern provinces.
Under the Trump Administration, Russian mercenaries and other pro-Syrian regime forces attacking US troops in Syria were killed.
The US has increased troops and its military capability in Eastern Europe and dramatically increased training and drills with its NATO partners.
In 2018, the US Department of Defense increased its spending as part of the European Deterrence Initiative by $1.4 billion dollars.
Due to pressure from President Trump, US’ NATO allies have increased defense expenditures by five percent.
Beyond that is page upon page of sanctions, arms sales to Ukraine, troop deployments to Russia’s borders, massive military exercises aimed at Russia and more.
Then one might consider America’s arms buildup, bankrupting America, leaving its military economically unsustainable, which fits into the “first strike” scenario.
The assumption then, the US is a failed hegemon that can only hold onto power by destroying Russia in its death throes.
We have seen American military aircraft deployed to Estonia, and a full-blown attempt by the US under Trump to move against Belarus despite overt denials. Belarus has been the “golden fleece” of nations targeted by Trump’s real backers.
The real moves against Russia have been the cancelled treaties. The most threatening of all is the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987.
Then we have the Open Skies Treaty. Russia is years from deploying its newest surveillance satellites, and the Open Skies Treaty was vital to protecting Russia against a NATO first strike.
Without the Open Skies Treaty, the theory of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) is not realistic. Were one to assume Trump represents a nihilistic cabal intent on an agenda of global entropy, which evidence from the last four years supports, the pattern of scrapped treaties begins to make sense.
It does not take a genius to see these key factors here:
The announced deployment of deniable small nuclear weapons to NATO and the Middle East by Trump
The planned deployment on Russia’s borders of the new “thousand-mile cannon” being developed by the US Army and a bevy of drone swarm and hypersonic weapons which can’t easily be defended against.
From South Front:
“There is no more “end of history” optimism in the air, nor is there a sense of durable US hegemony either that seemed so permanent in the 1990s. Unfortunately, history tells us that such shifts in the global balance of power are fraught with danger, as the fading hegemon has an incentive to resort to extreme, reckless measures to preserve that hegemony. What makes the current situation unprecedented is this being the first hegemonic transition of the nuclear age. In the past, nuclear deterrence existed only in the context of relatively stable bipolar and then unipolar systems. Does nuclear deterrence mutually assured destruction still work under conditions of a multipolar system experiencing a hegemonic transition?
International relations theory has no answer to that question, but the US national security establishment appears to think that it doesn’t, particularly in an era of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, drone and missile swarms, hypersonic delivery vehicles, and possibly even directed energy weapons. Crash US programs in developing all of the above, far beyond anything that might be termed reasonable defensive sufficiency under conditions of the US spending far more on defense than anyone else in the world, do raise the possibility of long-term plans to prevail in the new round of great power competition through not only covert action and “hybrid warfare”, but also, if an opportunity arises, through good old fashioned strategic first strike which need no longer be delivered using nuclear weapons.
The point of Cold War-era nuclear arms treaties was not to limit the number of nuclear warheads for its own sake. Rather, it was to deprive the two superpowers of their ability to launch a disarming and decapitating strike which, given technologies of the era, could only be launched using nuclear weapons. That is still the case today, but may not be by 2030 should the US complete its planned rearmament with a large array of land-, air-, and sea-based long-range stealthy and hypersonic weapons. Even the US Army, with its plans for “1,000-mile cannon” is once again getting into the game of strategic strike, to speak nothing of land-based hypersonic missiles. And strategic strike using non-nuclear warheads is a novel scenario in which the old “mutually assured destruction” calculations may not apply. Combined with the explosive growth of US anti-ballistic missile programs, if the rest of the world stands still, by 2030 US decisionmakers might find themselves tempted to launch such a strategic strike against even a major nuclear weapons state like Russia or China, to say nothing of mid-level powers like Iran or North Korea, particularly if they have no nuclear deterrent to begin with.”
Conclusion
Thus, we are faced with an assessment challenge, do we accept the superficial rhetoric of social media and the press, assumed safely to be agenda driven, and ignore overwhelming evidence that tells us we are in dangerous times?
Do we assume that the powers that unleashed Hitler against Russia in 1941 not only exist but rule the west? Do we also assume that they consider their work unfinished?
Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues. He’s a senior editor and chairman of the board of VT, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”
Related article:
Trump Preparing For War With Russia While USA Burns?
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veteranstoday--2020-09-19--Trumpster in the Dumpster: 350 Pounds of Stacked Shit Takes a Dive (poll blocker decked)

Trumpsters blocking access to polls for early voting run afoul.
“I throw hands” (enjoy)
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veteranstoday--2020-09-19--Putin: We can now safely obliterate the United States, thanks to Trump – Bolton

RT/Moscow : The US pullout from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was a threat to Russia ’ s security and risked “ zeroing ” its nuclear arsenals , prompting Moscow to design unparalleled hypersonic projectiles , President Vladimir Putin said .
Moscow , which claims primacy in the worldwide race to develop the ultra-fast weapons systems , faced an urgency to maintain strategic parity with its near-peer opponent Washington , the Russian president recalled on Saturday .
“ The US withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty [ ABM Treaty ] in 2002 forced Russia to start developing hypersonic weapons , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ video link to Gerbert Yefremov , a renowned engineer who played a lead role in designing an array of sensitive missile systems for the Russian military .
Signed back in 1972 , the ABM Treaty was instrumental in helping keep the equilibrium between Russian and American nuclear deterrents , until the 2002 pullout threatened to dramatically tilt the balance .
No longer bound by the pact , the US rushed to deploy its ballistic missile shields , including close to Russian borders .
From Canada , December 2019 : Moscow could not stand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Putin continued .
Russia also had to catch up with its prime rival on nearly every track , from building nuclear weapons to designing long-range bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles .
According to Putin , the need to play catch-up has always put the country “ in a very difficult and even dangerous situation.
” On certain occasions , “ we were threatened but had nothing to respond , ” he admitted .
READ MORE : ‘ More intimidating than a nuke ’ : Chinese media heap praise on Russia ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Yefremov ’ s contribution in creating hypersonic weapons , likening it to the Soviet nuclear program of the 1950s and 1960s .
The modern-day advances in hypersonic technology turn the tide in Russia ’ s favor , Putin said .
“ Right now , for the first time in our modern history , Russia possesses the most modern types of weapons , which are many times superior in strength , power , speed and accuracy to previous and existing ones , ” he explained .
Russia claims to be the first nation to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Avangard glide vehicle .
Other projectiles , like the Kinzhal ( Dagger ) cruise missile and the Zircon anti-ship missile , are undergoing trials or said to be in the works .
In addition , the Russian military industry is on its way to designing an interceptor missile that will be able to shoot down adversary ultra-speed munitions .
As part of the effort , it has recently rolled out a radar station designed to track over a thousand fast-moving targets , including those that are hypersonic .
ALSO ON RT.COM ‘ We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russia will be able to counter hypersonic weapons once other states develop them , Putin pledges

RT/Moscow: The US pullout from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was a threat to Russia’s security and risked “zeroing” its nuclear arsenals, prompting Moscow to design unparalleled hypersonic projectiles, President Vladimir Putin said. Moscow, which claims primacy in the worldwide race to develop the ultra-fast weapons systems, faced an urgency to maintain strategic parity with its near-peer opponent Washington, the Russian president recalled on Saturday.
“The US withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty [ABM Treaty] in 2002 forced Russia to start developing hypersonic weapons,” Putin said while speaking over a video link to Gerbert Yefremov, a renowned engineer who played a lead role in designing an array of sensitive missile systems for the Russian military.
https://twitter.com/TheArabSource/status/1307314901355028480?s=20
Signed back in 1972, the ABM Treaty was instrumental in helping keep the equilibrium between Russian and American nuclear deterrents, until the 2002 pullout threatened to dramatically tilt the balance. No longer bound by the pact, the US rushed to deploy its ballistic missile shields, including close to Russian borders. From Canada, December 2019:
Moscow could not stand back and watch the new threat emerge, Putin continued.
We had to create these weapons in response to the US deployment of a strategic missile defense system, which in the future would be capable of virtually neutralizing, zeroing out all our nuclear potential. https://twitter.com/RUSexercises/status/1307319170518794243?s=20
Russia also had to catch up with its prime rival on nearly every track, from building nuclear weapons to designing long-range bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Putin's words have been distorted in our #MSM as an aggression towards US. But #Putin outlines how the West has pushed #Russia to invent these systems b/c US has provoked nuclear tension with 2002 pull out from ABM treaty. — Oliver Stone (@TheOliverStone) March 6, 2018
According to Putin, the need to play catch-up has always put the country “in a very difficult and even dangerous situation.” On certain occasions, “we were threatened but had nothing to respond,” he admitted.
READ MORE: ‘More intimidating than a nuke’: Chinese media heap praise on Russia’s highly advanced Avangard missile system
He praised Yefremov’s contribution in creating hypersonic weapons, likening it to the Soviet nuclear program of the 1950s and 1960s.
For our country today, the embodiment of your concepts is undoubtedly comparable to implementing USSR’s nuclear and missile projects, which were carried out by outstanding Soviet scientists [Igor] Kurchatov and [Sergey] Korolev.
The modern-day advances in hypersonic technology turn the tide in Russia’s favor, Putin said. “Right now, for the first time in our modern history, Russia possesses the most modern types of weapons, which are many times superior in strength, power, speed and accuracy to previous and existing ones,” he explained.
US withdrawal from ABM treaty & anti-missile system in Europe ["iranian threat"] gives Russia the self-defense right to break #INF treaty pic.twitter.com/lSug6jhaOf — I can't breathe (@KenartsTheKing) October 22, 2016
Russia claims to be the first nation to have fielded a hypersonic weapon, the Avangard glide vehicle. Other projectiles, like the Kinzhal (Dagger) cruise missile and the Zircon anti-ship missile, are undergoing trials or said to be in the works.
In addition, the Russian military industry is on its way to designing an interceptor missile that will be able to shoot down adversary ultra-speed munitions. As part of the effort, it has recently rolled out a radar station designed to track over a thousand fast-moving targets, including those that are hypersonic.
ALSO ON RT.COM‘We’ll PLEASANTLY SURPRISE them’: Russia will be able to counter hypersonic weapons once other states develop them, Putin pledges


veteranstoday--2020-09-19--Trump’s Fraud Deposition, Why Wasn’t He Jailed? (amazing video)

Mother Jones : During the 2016 campaign , Donald Trump was burdened with lawsuits that accused him and his Trump University of defrauding students who had paid thousands of dollars to learn the supposed secrets of Trump ’ s financial success .
Though the Trump U controversy raised questions about Trump ’ s fitness for office , he managed to score two legal victories in the case as it proceeded .
He won a postponement in the trial until after Election Day , and he managed to seal the video of a six-hour deposition he gave in the case .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ reports of Trump on the stand in a federal civil fraud case or be able to watch this footage of Trump being questioned concerning allegations of fraud .
But Mother Jones has now obtained the full video of Trump ’ s deposition , and though the written transcript of the session was released in June 2016 , the video version includes several exchanges that likely would not have played well for Trump had they become public when he was chasing votes .
Trump sat for this deposition in Trump Tower on December 10 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ parrying with the lawyer for the plaintiffs , Jason Forge , over various issues , including false statements made by Trump University employees , and Trump ’ s own memory .
Trump at one point griped , “ It ’ s the most ridiculous lawsuit I ’ ve ever seen.
” He claimed not to remember having boasted that he possessed one of the best memories in the world and repeatedly said he could not recall matters related to the case .
He downplayed false and misleading statements presented by Trump University instructors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to label them “ false.
” He even disavowed a passage from one of his own books in which he had assailed educational institutions for committing “ fraud.
” Had the video deposition been released during the campaign , it may have yielded ammo for anti-Trump ads .
At the start of the deposition , Trump ’ s attorney , Daniel Petrocelli , said he and Trump did not want the transcript “ getting into the hands of the media.
” Regarding the video , they succeeded .

Mother Jones: During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump was burdened with lawsuits that accused him and his Trump University of defrauding students who had paid thousands of dollars to learn the supposed secrets of Trump’s financial success.
Though the Trump U controversy raised questions about Trump’s fitness for office, he managed to score two legal victories in the case as it proceeded. He won a postponement in the trial until after Election Day, and he managed to seal the video of a six-hour deposition he gave in the case.
Trump's Fraud Deposition, Why Wasn't He Jailed? (amazing video) – Mother Jones: During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump was burdened with lawsuits that accused him and his Trump University of defrauding students who had paid thousands of dollars to learn the supposed secrets of… pic.twitter.com/Rl9cv6e1N7 — VeteransToday (@veteranstoday) September 19, 2020
That meant voters would not see news reports of Trump on the stand in a federal civil fraud case or be able to watch this footage of Trump being questioned concerning allegations of fraud. But Mother Jones has now obtained the full video of Trump’s deposition, and though the written transcript of the session was released in June 2016, the video version includes several exchanges that likely would not have played well for Trump had they become public when he was chasing votes.
DEADLINE TRUMP!@realdonaldTrump now has deadlines to provide a DNA sample & to sit for a deposition in my case. Latest letter from the mighty @kaplanrobbie, @JoshuaMatz8 & Matthew Craig to Trump's lawyers.https://t.co/QBMSSYqWNN pic.twitter.com/zcBdNPP36E — E. Jean Carroll (@ejeancarroll) August 10, 2020 Trump sat for this deposition in Trump Tower on December 10, 2015. The video shows him parrying with the lawyer for the plaintiffs, Jason Forge, over various issues, including false statements made by Trump University employees, and Trump’s own memory. Trump at one point griped, “It’s the most ridiculous lawsuit I’ve ever seen.” When he was asked during the deposition about claiming to have the world’s best memory, Trump replied, “I don’t remember that.” https://t.co/seNwwxwKAL — The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 19, 2020 He claimed not to remember having boasted that he possessed one of the best memories in the world and repeatedly said he could not recall matters related to the case. He downplayed false and misleading statements presented by Trump University instructors as merely “hyperbole,” refusing to label them “false.” Eric Trump seeks to delay deposition by N.Y. Attorney General until after election https://t.co/07SRfKqNJ8 — Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) September 17, 2020 He even disavowed a passage from one of his own books in which he had assailed educational institutions for committing “fraud.” Had the video deposition been released during the campaign, it may have yielded ammo for anti-Trump ads. At the start of the deposition, Trump’s attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, said he and Trump did not want the transcript “getting into the hands of the media.” Regarding the video, they succeeded. read more.. Donald Trump Wanted to Keep This Video Deposition Secret. We Got a Copy.


veteranstoday--2020-09-20--The passing of Stephen F. Cohen, a scholar we should admire

It is sad to announce that Stephen F. Cohen has passed away at the age of 81 .
He had lung cancer .
Cohen was actually one of the leading scholars who had the intellectual courage to say uncomfortable things—things that the mass social media didn ’ t want to hear about Russia and Vladimir Putin .
Without a doubt , Cohen was one of the finest minds when it comes to issues related to Russia and the United States .
Cohen also was not the type of academic who would perpetuate nonsense about Russia without checking his sources and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s why the Neocons in America didn ’ t like him .
Cohen was a contrarian .
As such , he doesn ’ t care about what the mass media establishment and puppets of the New World Order establishment .
Cohen was a tenured professor at Princeton and New York University , and what seemed to matter to him was an accurate description of what was taking place in the political landscape .
That was one reason why he took on flaming Neocon Max Boot and put him on a frying pan .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ threaten Iran , North Korea , Syria , and indeed Russia .
When Trump was only attacking Iran , Syria , and North Korea .
Boot was somewhat happy .
But he was hoping that Trump would eventually take on Russia .
Boot declared then : “ The striking thing to me is though he is willing to threaten North Korea , he is willing to threaten Iran , he never threatens Russia .
And that ’ s why a lot of intelligence officials think that there is something highly suspect in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1 ] Cohen destroyed the poor Neocon .
Cohen responded : “ I have no idea what Mr .
Boot is talking about .
He wants Trump to threaten Russia ?
Why would we threaten Russia ?
” Boot cut Cohen off and , like a fire-breathing dragon , inserted angrily : “ Because they are attacking us !
Russia is attacking us , Mr Cohen !
Russia is attacking us right now , according to Trump ’ s own director of national intelligence !
” Because he had no serious argument , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crazy things like Cohen was simply an apologist for Russia .
Boot had another chance to produce serious arguments , but since he is living in an imaginary world , he again could not remember what elementary logic actually is .
Here was his response : “ You just denied being an apologist for Russia .
You are apologizing for Russia as we speak.
” Boot ’ s logic is pretty straightforward : Cohen was an apologist for Russia ?
Why ?
Because he was an apologist for Russia .
How ?
Well @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It is just plain dumb .
And these people want to tell us all that they are the smartest people who will determine the fate of US foreign policy !
Cohen had to grab Boot by the balls and tell him to simply shut up : “ ‘ Will you let me finish ?
You don ’ t know what I am going to say , ’ Cohen said after a pause .
Then he argued that the US and Russia have been meddling in each other ’ s affairs since after the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sent troops to get involved in the Russian civil war , he reminded .
The alleged Russian meddling ‘ is not an attack , it is not 9/11 , it is not Pearl Harbor .
It is not Russian paratroopers descending on Washington , ’ he said .
“ ‘ I think that Mr Boot would have been happy if Trump had waterboarded Putin at the summit and made him confess , ’ Cohen said .
‘ Trump carried out an act of diplomacy fully consistent with the history of American presidency .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ it , then judge.
’ ” I don ’ t necessarily agree with Tucker Carlson , but I was simply glad that he took Boot to the shredder as well .
In any event , Cohen had my respect .
He declared in 2016 during an interview with Tavis Smiley : “ The orthodox , consensual , political media establishment view is that only Putin is to blame .
We are completely innocent .
We never did a single thing in the 25 years since the end of the Soviet Union to bring @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t true .
But if we try to discuss it…then comes the cries , ‘ Puppet of the Kremlin , agent of Putin.
’ ” Cohen again declared : “ This guy [ Putin ] gives more interviews , more speeches , it ’ s all available in English ” and “ no one paid any attention to what Putin said.
” Absolutely correct .
John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago said almost the same thing back in 2014 .
Mearsheimer even argued that “ the Ukraine crisis ” is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” [ 2 ] Russia indeed does not want to have a war .
In fact , Russian officials have repeatedly reached out to the United States .
But the Neoconservatives , warmongers and ethnic cleansers in Washington and elsewhere want to see blood in the West again .
The Middle East isn ’ t enough .
They have to drink the blood of the Goyim in order to quench their thirst .
• [ 2 ] John J. Mearsheimer , “ Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West ’ s Fault , @ @ @ @ @ @ @

[ Editor’s Note: Thanks Jonas for picking this up. I was shocked that I had not seen anything in my news streams yesterday, as Saturday is a normal working day for us, as is Sunday.
But I just googled “Stephen F. Cohen dies with little news coverage” (meanie me)…and all the biggies from the NY Times down are missing in action on his death. Maybe they used Ginsburg’s passing as cover for ignoring him.
In the Intel biz, we call this getting the concrete treatment, i.e., our fake media gets instructions to treat the event as in “Stephen who?” This is how the enemies of the Republic always treat their strong adversaries.
Cohen always looked in good health, but lung cancer is a big killer of men, especially those who volunteered for an early and expensive death by smoking, often leaving an impoverished wife to ‘lead’ the family.
VT is very conscious of this fact of life because, as our old people go down, frankly the pickings are slim in terms of replacing them, both in talent and interest. They just don’t have the deep backgrounds, and so many are psychologically defeated in their thinking that raging against the corruption storm is a fool’s errand.
They feel such efforts are best left for idiots to pursue, while the ‘rational’ folks focus on grabbing and holding on to the good life. But they are wrong, because in looking away due to lack of courage, they have written that as the fitting epitaph on their gravestones.
I can’t remember Cohen ever having any contact with VT. He did not need help in getting his message out. One of the weaknesses of the ‘resistance’ is this feeling of competition for attention and not wanting to be seen as one of many.
These are the types of people who, if they see you at an event across the room, they nod to say hello but never walk over to chat about “what have you been up to”. We do this all the time online, as we are looking for updated information including critique on what we are doing.
But people like Cohen are never really gone, as their body of work is their monument. We live in a world now that could be divided into three groups, the real, the ‘doesn’t matter’ (because they are not going to do anything), and the fakes.
An ancient Chinese general left a great way to describe this, “I hope I live long enough to see the bodies of my enemies float down the river before me”.
If anyone sees a Mearshimer obit on Cohen please send it to us …Jim W. Dean ]
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It is sad to announce that Stephen F. Cohen has passed away at the age of 81. He had lung cancer.
Cohen was actually one of the leading scholars who had the intellectual courage to say uncomfortable things—things that the mass social media didn’t want to hear about Russia and Vladimir Putin. Without a doubt, Cohen was one of the finest minds when it comes to issues related to Russia and the United States.
Cohen also was not the type of academic who would perpetuate nonsense about Russia without checking his sources and without serious scholarly examination. That’s why the Neocons in America didn’t like him. Cohen was a contrarian. As such, he doesn’t care about what the mass media establishment and puppets of the New World Order establishment.
Cohen was a tenured professor at Princeton and New York University, and what seemed to matter to him was an accurate description of what was taking place in the political landscape. That was one reason why he took on flaming Neocon Max Boot and put him on a frying pan.
According to Boot, America has to threaten Iran, North Korea, Syria, and indeed Russia. When Trump was only attacking Iran, Syria, and North Korea. Boot was somewhat happy. But he was hoping that Trump would eventually take on Russia. Boot declared then:
“The striking thing to me is though he is willing to threaten North Korea, he is willing to threaten Iran, he never threatens Russia. And that’s why a lot of intelligence officials think that there is something highly suspect in the relationship between Putin and Trump.”[1]
Cohen destroyed the poor Neocon. Cohen responded: “I have no idea what Mr. Boot is talking about. He wants Trump to threaten Russia? Why would we threaten Russia?” Boot cut Cohen off and, like a fire-breathing dragon, inserted angrily: “Because they are attacking us! Russia is attacking us, Mr Cohen! Russia is attacking us right now, according to Trump’s own director of national intelligence!”
Because he had no serious argument, Boot ended up with name-calling, saying crazy things like Cohen was simply an apologist for Russia. Boot had another chance to produce serious arguments, but since he is living in an imaginary world, he again could not remember what elementary logic actually is. Here was his response: “You just denied being an apologist for Russia. You are apologizing for Russia as we speak.”
Boot’s logic is pretty straightforward: Cohen was an apologist for Russia? Why? Because he was an apologist for Russia. How? Well, he was just an apologist. It is just plain dumb. And these people want to tell us all that they are the smartest people who will determine the fate of US foreign policy!
Cohen had to grab Boot by the balls and tell him to simply shut up:
“‘Will you let me finish? You don’t know what I am going to say,’ Cohen said after a pause. Then he argued that the US and Russia have been meddling in each other’s affairs since after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. The US actually sent troops to get involved in the Russian civil war, he reminded. The alleged Russian meddling ‘is not an attack, it is not 9/11, it is not Pearl Harbor. It is not Russian paratroopers descending on Washington,’ he said.
“‘I think that Mr Boot would have been happy if Trump had waterboarded Putin at the summit and made him confess,’ Cohen said. ‘Trump carried out an act of diplomacy fully consistent with the history of American presidency. Let us see what comes out of it, then judge.’”
I don’t necessarily agree with Tucker Carlson, but I was simply glad that he took Boot to the shredder as well.
In any event, Cohen had my respect. He declared in 2016 during an interview with Tavis Smiley:
“The orthodox, consensual, political media establishment view is that only Putin is to blame. We are completely innocent. We never did a single thing in the 25 years since the end of the Soviet Union to bring about a cold war. That isn’t true. But if we try to discuss it…then comes the cries, ‘Puppet of the Kremlin, agent of Putin.’”
Cohen again declared: “This guy [Putin] gives more interviews, more speeches, it’s all available in English” and “no one paid any attention to what Putin said.” Absolutely correct. John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago said almost the same thing back in 2014. Mearsheimer even argued that “the Ukraine crisis” is actually “the West’s fault.”[2]
Russia indeed does not want to have a war. In fact, Russian officials have repeatedly reached out to the United States. But the Neoconservatives, warmongers and ethnic cleansers in Washington and elsewhere want to see blood in the West again. The Middle East isn’t enough. They have to drink the blood of the Goyim in order to quench their thirst.


veteranstoday--2020-09-22--120,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Discovered in Saudi Arabia

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veteranstoday--2020-09-22--Syria to file lawsuit against Trump for plotting murder of President Assad

The Syrian Bar Association decided to file a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump , after he admitted his intention to assassinate Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad .
In a special statement to Al-Watan , the head of the Lawyers Syndicate , Al-Firas Faris , explained that the feasibility of filing the lawsuit and its usefulness from the national , legal and media aspects will be studied , and what benefit will be achieved , without it being a mere spontaneous or arbitrary idea or for the media review only , as he put it .
, Indicating that the Syndicate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sake of review , but rather to achieve benefit , even if a position is recorded .
He added : If we reach a conviction to file a lawsuit , a group of distinguished lawyers will be asked to prepare the idea .
With regard to the place of filing the lawsuit in the event that the Bar Council agreed to file it , Fares confirmed that this issue will be part of the study without mentioning other details on the subject .
Trump revealed , Tuesday , September 15 , in an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that he had discussed targeting al-Assad with former Defense Secretary Mattis who was against it .
An informed source confirmed that the file of the assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani had been prepared by the Israeli intelligence service , and was handed over to President Trump personally .
The source said that the first person responsible for preparing this file is Yossi Cohen , who , before taking over the Mossad administration , was responsible for the Iran file , specifically the Revolutionary Guard in particular , and during his assumption of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ developed a device that was able to penetrate the Revolutionary Guard ’ s communications network , and used this breach to pursue The hero martyr Imad Mughniyeh .

In a special statement to Al-Watan, the head of the Lawyers Syndicate, Al-Firas Faris, explained that the feasibility of filing the lawsuit and its usefulness from the national, legal and media aspects will be studied, and what benefit will be achieved, without it being a mere spontaneous or arbitrary idea or for the media review only, as he put it. , Indicating that the Syndicate will not do work just for the sake of review, but rather to achieve benefit, even if a position is recorded.
With regard to the place of filing the lawsuit in the event that the Bar Council agreed to file it, Fares confirmed that this issue will be part of the study without mentioning other details on the subject.
Trump revealed, Tuesday, September 15, in an interview with “Fox News”, that he had discussed targeting al-Assad with former Defense Secretary Mattis who was against it.
Arno Develay and VT’s Dr Najm al Ahmad, former Minister of Justice, Syria (photo by VT Damascus)Mufti, Arno and Nahed, Photo by VT DamascusArno and President of the Bar Al Firas Fares Photo by VT Damascus
Soleimani Killing
An informed source confirmed that the file of the assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani had been prepared by the Israeli intelligence service, and was handed over to President Trump personally.
The source said that the first person responsible for preparing this file is Yossi Cohen, who, before taking over the Mossad administration, was responsible for the Iran file, specifically the Revolutionary Guard in particular, and during his assumption of responsibility for the Iran file, he developed a device that was able to penetrate the Revolutionary Guard’s communications network, and used this breach to pursue The hero martyr Imad Mughniyeh.