SECRET PAKISTAN CABLE DOCUMENTS U.S. PRESSURE TO REMOVE IMRAN KHAN

arnott · 2023-08-09T21:20:42+00:00

They like to spread Democracy everywhere.

arnott · 2023-08-09T16:20:31+00:00

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“All will be forgiven,” said a U.S. diplomat, if the no-confidence vote against Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan succeeds.

THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT encouraged the Pakistani government in a March 7, 2022, meeting to remove Imran Khan as prime minister over his neutrality on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to a classified Pakistani government document obtained by The Intercept.

The meeting, between the Pakistani ambassador to the United States and two State Department officials, has been the subject of intense scrutiny, controversy, and speculation in Pakistan over the past year and a half, as supporters of Khan and his military and civilian opponents jockeyed for power. The political struggle escalated on August 5 when Khan was sentenced to three years in prison on corruption charges and taken into custody for the second time since his ouster. Khan’s defenders dismiss the charges as baseless. The sentence also blocks Khan, Pakistan’s most popular politician, from contesting elections expected in Pakistan later this year.

arnott · 2023-08-08T19:08:35+00:00

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"The [taxpayer-funded] study is a roadmap on “how to censor people using secret methods so that they wouldn't know they're being censored, so that it wouldn't generate an outrage cycle..”"

While acknowledging more research needed to be done, the researchers concluded their “framework” was one “that can be adopted in the near term without requiring large-scale censorship or major advances in cognitive psychology and machine learning.”

They also acknowledged their work was furthered by two taxpayer-funded grants from the National Science Foundation.

arnott · 2023-08-07T14:29:28+00:00

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Grim story—NYT Baghdad bureau chief fired for trying to do right, pay locals more than the pathetic daily budget, amid general US media/activist abandonment of Iraqis after we collapsed their country.

arnott · 2023-08-06T18:17:10+00:00

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Michael Tracey knew it would be widely denied that prominent liberals floated an Electoral College coup in 2016, which is why he contemporaneously saved a bunch of examples.

Alright, one more. This might've been the most celebrated New York Times op-ed of December 2016, when the Electoral College subversion scheme was really gaining elite momentum. Anyone who tries to tell you this stuff didn't happen is lying

arnott · 2023-08-06T14:05:41+00:00

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The world has been counting on the intelligence community to call out anything untoward about the response to COVID. Of course, that won’t happen, because they’re the ones who planned it.

A detached review of the evidence leads to a chilling answer—though in hindsight, perhaps the only one that was ever really possible. Quite simply, the reason the western intelligence community never stepped in to stop this illiberalism is that virtually all the most illiberal aspects of the response to COVID lead directly back to the western intelligence community itself.

arnott · 2023-08-05T01:06:25+00:00

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Over the past three months, the number of reporters with access to the White House dropped by 31%. There are now 442 fewer reporters with a coveted “hard pass”—the result of new rules announced in May that took effect Tuesday.

The Daily Signal’s Fred Lucas was among the reporters slated to lose his White House press credentials, although he was given a 10-day extension “to submit the required materials.” The White House now requires reporters to obtain press credentials from Congress or the Supreme Court to fulfill its new requirement; Lucas is currently awaiting a decision on his applications to the other branches.

arnott · 2023-08-04T23:05:55+00:00

A majority of Americans have now had enough of financing the war in Ukraine.🇺🇦

Plus: the rotted legacy of Dianne Feinstein, terminating with her corruptly clinging to power.

And: corporate media's arousal over Jack Smith:

https://rumble.com/v34q12a-system-update-124.html?mref=7ju1&mrefc=13

arnott · 2023-08-03T15:54:00+00:00

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Brooks is not the first commentator to make this observation about the drastic shift in the socioeconomic makeup of news reporters that has taken place from previous generations to now.

“The class factor in journalism gets overlooked,” journalist Glenn Greenwald said on the Jimmy Dore Show in 2021. “Thirty or forty years ago, fifty years ago, journalists really were outsiders. That’s why they all had unions; they made shit money, they came from like working class families. They hated the elite. They hated bankers and politicians. It was kind of like a boss-employee relationship — they hated them and wanted to throw rocks at them and take them down pegs.”

arnott · 2023-08-02T20:50:09+00:00

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Hunter Biden diversion agreement just docketed in Delaware: paragraph 15 has the global immunity stitch-up. The same DOJ is locking up Biden's chief political rival.

arnott · 2023-08-02T00:01:12+00:00

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X Corp., the parent company of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, on Monday, sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate, alleging the group — “masquerading” as a legitimate research firm — illegally obtained data and used it in a “scare campaign” to deter advertisers from the platform.

arnott · 2023-08-01T15:40:29+00:00

Fool's gold:

France boasts the 4th largest gold reserves, with 2,436 tons, yet not a single gold mine within its borders.

Mali, a former colony of France, has 860 gold mines and produces 50 tons of gold per year, but doesn't have any gold reserves in its banks.

Fascinating...isn’t it? 🤔

arnott · 2023-08-01T15:00:46+00:00

From tweet:

In France, one in three light bulbs is powered by uranium from Niger. Whereas, 80% of people in Niger do not have access to electricity.

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Military coup in Niger

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The (pro-Russian) coup leaders in Niger stopped the export of uranium and gold to France with immediate effect.

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France threatens

The United States threatens

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Count to ten until ISIS miraculously appears in Niger

arnott · 2023-08-01T15:00:37+00:00

LOL.

arnott · 2023-07-31T01:54:54+00:00

Update:

BREAKING: BIDEN DOJ BLINKS - FILES NEW LETTER ALLOWING DEVON ARCHER TO TESTIFY TOMORROW

They felt the pressure

arnott · 2023-07-30T16:32:41+00:00

Summary:

The DOJ is trying to arrest Devon Archer ahead of his bombshell testimony Monday about Joe Biden’s involvement in his son Hunter’s Ukraine business when he was VP. US attorney in the SDNY Damian Williams issued a menacing letter yesterday - Saturday - telling Judge Abrams to order Archer to go to jail immediately to serve a one year sentence for his fraud conviction.

arnott · 2023-07-29T00:45:31+00:00

Biden doesn’t want to admit he has any rivals to the Democratic nomination.

This is the reason.

arnott · 2023-07-28T14:01:10+00:00

Summary:

From RFK Jr's tweet:

Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection. But not me.

Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days. After 88-days of no response and after several follow-ups by our campaign, the Biden Administration just denied our request. Secretary Mayorkas: "I have determined that Secret Service protection for Robert F Kennedy Jr is not warranted at this time." Our campaign's request included a 67-page report from the world's leading protection firm, detailing unique and well established security and safety risks aside from commonplace death threats.

arnott · 2023-07-28T12:22:32+00:00

Glenn Greenwald: Hunter Biden’s Sweetheart Plea Deal Falls Apart, Dems & DHS Secretary Call for Domestic War on Terror, & Mitch McConnell Embodies Gerontocracy.

Tonight, a truly rare event took place at the federal courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware. The judge presiding over Hunter Biden's criminal case involving allegations of tax fraud and gun charges, Judge Maryellen Noreika, expressed significant doubt about whether the plea deal given to the president's son was fair and reasonable. Specifically, she questioned whether the plea bargain offered to Hunter Biden by the DOJ was excessively generous to Hunter Biden, the defendant. As a result, she gave the prosecutors and Hunter's lawyers two weeks to attempt to rewrite the plea deal in a way that was both clear and fair enough that she could confidently ratify it.

Judge Noreika seemed shocked by the extremely broad scope of the immunity that the plea deal would have bestowed on Hunter, specifically barring future prosecutions, prosecutions in other cases such as one investigating whether one Hunter failed to register as a foreign agent for paid work performed on behalf of foreign governments. When the two sides could not even agree on what the deal meant in terms of the scope of this immunity, the prosecutor suddenly declared that the immunity they gave to Hunter was very limited while Hunter's lawyers made clear that they had been led to believe it was very broad and Hunter's lawyers asserting that he would not plead guilty without this broad immunity for future prosecutions, the judge threatened to reject the deal entirely, which would mean there'd be no plea bargain agreement and the criminal case would continue, presumably to trial. So at least for now, the plea deal is on hold.

As the two IRS whistleblowers who worked for years on Hunter's case have been risking their careers to emphatically warn the public, the president's son seems to have been the beneficiary of very unusual interference on the part of sectors of the DOJ that were designed to protect him from more serious prosecutions, meaning to protect not only Hunter from the prospect of greater punishments for the crimes he committed but also protect his father from the risk of more revelations from additional criminal proceedings.

arnott · 2023-07-28T10:59:02+00:00

Glenn Greenwald: Hunter Biden’s Sweetheart Plea Deal Falls Apart, Dems & DHS Secretary Call for Domestic War on Terror, & Mitch McConnell Embodies Gerontocracy.

Tonight, a truly rare event took place at the federal courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware. The judge presiding over Hunter Biden's criminal case involving allegations of tax fraud and gun charges, Judge Maryellen Noreika, expressed significant doubt about whether the plea deal given to the president's son was fair and reasonable. Specifically, she questioned whether the plea bargain offered to Hunter Biden by the DOJ was excessively generous to Hunter Biden, the defendant. As a result, she gave the prosecutors and Hunter's lawyers two weeks to attempt to rewrite the plea deal in a way that was both clear and fair enough that she could confidently ratify it.

Judge Noreika seemed shocked by the extremely broad scope of the immunity that the plea deal would have bestowed on Hunter, specifically barring future prosecutions, prosecutions in other cases such as one investigating whether one Hunter failed to register as a foreign agent for paid work performed on behalf of foreign governments. When the two sides could not even agree on what the deal meant in terms of the scope of this immunity, the prosecutor suddenly declared that the immunity they gave to Hunter was very limited while Hunter's lawyers made clear that they had been led to believe it was very broad and Hunter's lawyers asserting that he would not plead guilty without this broad immunity for future prosecutions, the judge threatened to reject the deal entirely, which would mean there'd be no plea bargain agreement and the criminal case would continue, presumably to trial. So at least for now, the plea deal is on hold.

As the two IRS whistleblowers who worked for years on Hunter's case have been risking their careers to emphatically warn the public, the president's son seems to have been the beneficiary of very unusual interference on the part of sectors of the DOJ that were designed to protect him from more serious prosecutions, meaning to protect not only Hunter from the prospect of greater punishments for the crimes he committed but also protect his father from the risk of more revelations from additional criminal proceedings.

arnott · 2023-07-26T18:00:54+00:00

Yes, eligible people cannot run for office, they need to get the approval of DNC first.

arnott