Jeffrey Epstein, de ‘gesuïcideerde’
leider van een seksnetwerk met minderjarige meisjes (en incidenteel
jongens) zou volgens ex-Mossad agent Ari Ben-Menashe zijn gerekruteerd door de Mossad…… Epstein’s seksnetwerk met minderjarigen die gedwongen werden tot het hebben van seks, werd gebruikt door de Mossad om beroemdheden, maar vooral vooraanstaande politici te chanteren…..
Tot de politici en beroemdheden behoren figuren als Bill Clinton [ex-]
president van de VS en ‘beroemdheid’ prins Andrew van het Britse koningshuis, voorts worden o.a. de namen genoemd van Donald Trump en Tony Blair…… De laatste is een tot het katholicisme bekeerde schoft en oorlogsmisdadiger, die als Labour leider en premier van GB, de Labour Partij hervormde tot een
pooier van het neoliberalisme…….
Epstein werd na introductie door Robert
Maxwell als agent van de Mossad aangesteld, overigens een weinig
succesvolle, vandaar dat men besloot met de hulp van Epstein politici
en ander bekende figuren te chanteren met foto’s en video’s, gemaakt
tijdens seksfeesten waar zoals gezegd de ‘vip’s’ seks hadden met
minderjarigen…….
De schrijver van het onderstaande
artikel Paul Joseph Watson noemt het niet, maar het kan bijna niet anders dan de CIA en
wellicht nog een andere geheime dienst van de meer dan 25 geheime
diensten die de VS ‘rijk’ is, moet medeplichtig zijn aan deze zaak…… De Israëlische ex-spion die alles in de openbaarheid gooide is Ari Ben-Menashe.
Niet vreemd dus dat Epstein is vermoord en ook dat kan wel eens zijn gedaan middels een samenwerkingsverband van geheime diensten, inclusief de Mossad…… Voorts moet niet vergeten
worden dat een aantal van de genoemde figuren nog steeds een zekere
macht hebben en geld voldoende hebben om iemand te laten vermoorden
in de gevangenis…… Neem Donald Trump, als zou uitkomen dat hij
zonder enige twijfel een minderjarige heeft verkracht, kon het wel
eens over en uit zijn voor hem……. Trouwens de Britse pedo-prins Andrew die zichzelf helemaal in de nesten heeft gewerkt met zijn zogenaamde verdediging, kon ook wel eens
zijn geholpen door MI6….*
Wellicht denk je dat het allemaal onzin
is, echter vergeleken met waartoe geheime diensten als de Mossad en
de CIA in staat zijn, zijn voornoemde zaken het best te vergelijken met een theekransje……. Zo is het wel zeker dat de Mossad de dienst is die achter de beschuldiging zit dat Jeremy Corbyn antisemiet is, alleen daar deze een paar jaar geleden aankondigde een heel andere koers te gaan varen als het om de (fascistische apartheidsstaat, Ap) Israël gaat, ook zou Corbyn als premier het verdrukte Palestijnse volk steunen, zo beloofde hij…. Alsof opkomen tegen de verdrukking van een volk antisemitisch is… Gezien wat nazi-Duitsland o.a. tegen de Joden flikte tijdens WOII, is dit te zot voor woorden!!
Het volgende artikel werd eerder gepubliceerd op Summit News en werd door mij overgenomen van Zero Hedge:
Epstein
Was A Mossad Agent Used To Blackmail American Politicians, Former
Israeli Spy Claims
Jeffrey
Epstein was a Mossad asset who was used by Israeli intelligence to
blackmail American politicians, according to a former Israeli spy.
Ari
Ben-Menashe,a
former Israeli spy and alleged “handler” of Robert Maxwell, told
the authors of a new book, Epstein:
Dead Men Tell No Tales,
that Epstein ran a “complex intelligence operation” at the behest
of Mossad.
Believing
that Epstein planned to marry his daughter, Maxwell introduced him
and Ghislaine Maxwell to Ben-Menashe’s Mossad circle.
“Maxwell
sort of started liking him, and my theory is that Maxwell felt that
this guy is going for his daughter,” Ben-Menashe
said.
“He
felt that he could bless him with some work and help him out in like
a paternal [way].”
Israeli
intelligence bosses gave the green light and Epstein then became a
Mossad asset.
“They
were agents of the Israeli Intelligence Services,” said
Ben-Menashe.
When
it became clear that Epstein wasn’t very competent at doing much
else, his primary role became “blackmailing American and other
political figures.”
“Mr.
Epstein was the simple idiot who was going around providing girls to
all kinds of politicians in the United States,” said
Ben-Menashe.
“See,
fucking around is not a crime. It could be embarrassing, but it’s
not a crime. But fucking a fourteen-year-old girl is a crime. And he
was taking photos of politicians fucking fourteen-year-old girls —
if you want to get it straight. They would just blackmail people,
they would just blackmail people like that.”
There’s
also a Mossad connection to a different kind of sex offender; Harvey
Weinstein.
Weinstein reportedly hired
ex-Mossad agents to suppress allegations against him. Working for an
Israeli firm called Black Cube, these agents pressured witnesses and
tried to intimidate journalist Ronan Farrow in order to “bury the
truth” about Weinstein’s activity.
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* Zo vraag ik me nog steeds af of ‘Lady Di’ (Diana) niet in een georchestreerd ongeluk is omgekomen……..
Het
volgende schreef ik op 18 mei dit jaar, n.a.v. een artikel over Iran
en Irak en de relatie van deze landen met de VS….. Het bericht is aan m’n aandacht ontsnapt maar kwam weer ‘bovendrijven’ door de opstand die gaande is in Irak. Opvallend deze grote opstand, waarbij al honderden mensen zijn
omgekomen (veelal vermoord door veiligheidstroepen van politie en leger), waar een sjiitische regering het land regeert, ‘toevallig’
staan de sjiieten er al decennia slecht op bij de VS, zie de genocide in Jemen…… Een genocide uitgevoerd op het sjiitische deel van het volk, waarbij de VS en GB hand- en spandiensten verlenen….. Verder is een opstand gaande in Libanon, waar
de CIA op zeker de hand in heeft, daar men van Hezbollah af wil, een
sjiitische politieke en hulporganisatie….. Gegarandeerd ook dat de
Mossad de CIA meehelpt de stabiliteit van dat land te ondermijnen……
Vergeet verder niet alle smerige acties van de VS tegen Iran, zoals de illegale sancties tegen dat land……
Hier het
stuk dat ik een aantal maanden geleden schreef:
Alex
MacDonald schreef een artikel op Middle East Eye (MEE) over de
verschillende signalen uit het Witte Huis t.a.v. Iran en Irak,
terwijl de laatste 2 landen voor een behoorlijk deel op elkaar zijn
aangewezen, zo komt een groot deel van het gas dat in Irak wordt
gebruikt, uit Iran.
Pompeo
heeft Irak opgedragen de Iraanse milities in de hand te houden daar
de VS anders zonder Bagdad acties zal ondernemen tegen deze
milities……
Het
hieronder opgenomen artikel voegt nog meer onzekerheid toe aan wat er
staat te gebeuren in het Midden-Oosten, mocht de VS besluiten een
volgende illegale oorlog te beginnen, die tegen Iran…..
De
aanvallen tegen tankers vorige week werden al gezien als de volgende
false flag operatie van de VS om Iran te demoniseren en daarmee een
reden te hebben Iran aan te vallen, iets dat nog steeds zou kunnen
gebeuren, als de VS een onderzoek doet, waarbij de uitkomst van te
voren is vastgesteld: Iran is de schuldige….. (het zou bepaald de eerste
keer niet zijn dat de VS met dit bijltje hakt…)
Voorts heeft de VS laten weten dat wanneer haar troepen in Irak worden aangevallen, het zelf actie zal ondernemen, zonder de Iraakse regering daar in te kennen….. Niet vreemd dus dat verzetsgroepen die o.a. tegen IS vochten, groepen die wel en niet door Iran worden gesteund, eisen dat de VS zich volledig terugtrekt uit Irak, echter daar lijkt het nog steeds niet op (zelfs niet een aantal maanden later, dus op 8 november 2019)
Eén
ding is zeker, de Trump administratie is verdeeld over wat te doen
inzake Iran, hoewel oorlogsmisdadiger en topterrorist Bolton, een
ploert die grote invloed heeft op het psychopathische beest Trump, er
geen twijfel over laat bestaan: de VS moet Iran aanvallen en moet alleen daarvoor al in Irak blijven…… (gelukkig is de psychopathische oorlogsmisdadiger Bolton intussen afgeserveerd)
Het volgende artikel werd eerder gepubliceerd op Middle East Eye (MEE) en werd zoals gezegd geschreven door Alex MacDonald:
‘Nobody
really knows what’s going on’: Iraq caught between US and Iran again
‘This
White House does not have a clear policy on how to deal with Iraq –
they see Iraq through a lens of anti-Iran rhetoric,’ Iraqi MP tells
MEE
PMU
fighters ride in a tank near the Iraqi-Syrian border in al-Qaim, Iraq
(Reuters)
With
tensions once again ratcheting up between the US and Iran, Iraq is,
as usual, stuck in the middle.
On
Wednesday, the US announced it was withdrawing all non-essential
staff from the capital Baghdad and the Kurdish capital Erbil
following an unspecified threat from Iran-linked forces.
Iraq
has long been a battlefield for a proxy clash between US and Iranian
interests. Thousands of US troops are still based in the country,
while Iran provides financial and ideological support to a number of
armed groups and political parties.
Just
as many Iraqis were hopeful their country was pulling itself out of a
long period of bloodshed and instability, it looks like the drums of
war could be beating again.
There
is chaos in the White House over how to handle Iraq
–
Sarkawt Shams, MP
Despite
the threats from armed groups, many in Iraq viewed with incredulity
claims by the US that the threat from Iran-backed groups was enough
to warrant pulling staff from the country.
Iraqi
Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi on Tuesday told reporters that
Iraq side had not observed “movements that constitute a threat
to any side. We clarified that to the Americans – the government is
doing its duty to protect all parties.”
The
US has had personnel in Iraq in a wide array of capacities since it
invaded the country in 2003. Threats against them have been frequent
and numerous since then, particularly at the height of the
anti-occupation insurgency in the middle of the first decade of the
century. And yet, there was no pullout of staff during that period of
time.
One
Iraqi government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity
because he is not authorised to speak with the media, said that the
excuses given by the US were “not at all” being taken
seriously by Iraq.
“There
is an increase in diplomacy, an increased number of visits by foreign
affairs ministers or phone calls with them, visits by ambassadors,”
he said.
However,
apart from somewhat greater attention being paid to the news,
there was little planning going on for a possible future conflict.
“Nobody
really knows what’s going on,” the official said
“That
lack of clarity is what is driving some concerns,” he explained.
Iran-Iraq
ties
Any
conflict between Iran and the US would inevitably have a huge impact
on Iraq.
According
to the Iran-Iraq Chamber of Commerce, of $44bn Iranian non-oil
exports, around $9bn worth of goods were exported to Iraq in the year
to March, a 36 percent year on year increase, while as much as 40
percent of Iraqi electricity is thought to come from Iranian gas
plants.
Despite
renewing sanctions on Iran in November, the US has been repeatedly
forced to issue waivers to Iraq, knowing full well how reliant
the country is on the Islamic Republic.
Sarkawt
Shams, an MP with the New Generation party, told MEE that the US
decision was “immature” and based on an “inaccurate”
assessment of the threats.
“There
is chaos in the White House over how to handle Iraq,” he said.
“This White House does not have a clear policy on how to deal
with Iraq – they see Iraq through a lens of anti-Iran rhetoric.”
Shams
said that he was concerned that the US move would end up harming
relations between the two countries, which he hoped would have been
strengthened in a post-Islamic State (IS) era.
“We
were hoping that after the defeat of IS that we could shift relations
between our two countries from military to economic and trade
cooperation – that we could have the US invest in Iraq’s economy, not
just military capability,” he explained.
A
handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency on 6 April shows
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, right, meeting with Iraqi Prime
Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi in Tehran (AFP)
All
this is likely to prove a headache for Abdul Mahdi, who concluded a
visit to Turkey on Thursday.
Iraq
still does not have a defence or interior minister, more than a year
after parliamentary elections.
Reuters
quoted two Iraqi military sources as saying that US Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo had told Iraqi officials during a surprise trip
earlier this month that they would have to keep Iran-backed armed
groups in check.
“They
said if the US were attacked on Iraqi soil, it would take action to
defend itself without coordinating with Baghdad,” the source
said.
Iran-backed
groups such as Asaib Ahl al-Haq, the Badr Organisation and Kataib
Hezbollah have repeatedly called for
US troops to leave the country – as have other non-Iran-backed
groups.
During
a trip by Donald Trump to Iraq in December – a trip which stoked
further controversy as the president chose not to meet with Iraqi
officials – the former reality TV star broke with the official
US policy line that troop deployment was purely aimed at targeting IS
and said that it would also be monitoring Iran, comments which
enraged many Iraqis.
Husham
al-Hashimi, a security analyst based in Baghdad, said the controversy
had “embarrased” Abdul Mahdi, who he said was attempting to
tread “calmly and cautiously with the increased tension between
Washington and Tehran”.
“As
an Iraqi citizen from outside the government and the parties, I am
very anxious about the deterioration of the Iraqi economy,”
Hashimi told MEE. “Investors are worried because they are
scared about the collapse of the Iraqi dinar against the dollar.”
He
added that, unless US embassy officials were able to convince their
bosses in Washington otherwise, “there is a real fear no one can
stop this.”
A
‘real’ foreign policy
A
wide array of countries have
pushed for the US and Iran to tone down their rhetoric and prevent an
escalation following an attack on oil tankers in the Gulf on Monday.
Even
the normally hawkish prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu,
was quoted by Israeli Channel 13 as telling top officials to “take
steps to isolate Israel from any developments and ensure Israel is
not dragged into this escalation”.
Iraq
has suffered decades of violence and unrest, including separate wars
with both the US and Iran.
The
hope for many now is that their country can both stabilise and begin
to assert itself as an independent player in the region, and stop
being the Middle East’s battlefield.
“The
point I discuss with officials and my colleagues in parliament is
that we need to have a real Iraqi foreign policy, which we do not
have,” Shams explained.
“Iraq
needs to be careful about its relationship with two countries, the US
and Iran. Not to intervene in their conflict, but to convince both
countries that Iraq is neutral and not taking sides and to bring
business back to Iraq beyond the security industry and beyond
military companies – so far we have failed to do that, and failed to
normalise Iraq’s role in the international community.”
‘9/11 voorkennis verzwegen in officiële rapporten‘ (deze link daar de illegale oorlog van de VS tegen Afghanistan, in feite de voorloper is van die tegen Irak; zie ook de andere links in dat bericht naar 9/11)
Ter zijde zie de berichten over de leugens van Hennis-Plasschaert aangaande het aantal burgerdoden bij de Nederlandse aanval op de Iraakse stad Hawija:
Een
voormalige ‘hoge’ medewerker van de Israëlische militaire geheime dienst, Ari Ben-Menashe liet
onlangs in een interview weten dat Jeffrey Epstein en Ghislaine
Maxwell werkten voor de Israëlische geheime dienst……. Volgens deze
figuur werd het seksnetwerk van Epstein gebruikt om vooraanstaande
personen, zoals machtige politici (o.a. Bill Clinton en Tony Blair), te chanteren. Deze geheime dienst
heeft de chantage dienst opgezet en….. gebruikt!
Het
was overigens al duidelijk dat het netwerk van Epstein werd gebruikt
om vooraanstaande politici te chanteren daar zij kinderen seksueel
misbruikten, kinderen die hare kwaadaardigheid Ghislaine Maxwell ‘trash’ noemde, ofwel vuilnis waar
je mee kan doen wat je wilt…….. Vreemd genoeg hebben de reguliere
westerse massamedia vooral aandacht aan Epstein besteed, waar ze zijn
zelfmoord als zeker bestempelden, terwijl het meer dan duidelijk is
dat Epstein werd vermoord en dat moet een overheidsinstantie hebben
gedaan, of deze instantie heeft een ander de opdracht gegeven,
Epstein mocht de rechtszaal nooit bereiken, teveel belangrijke en
machtige figuren zouden van hun voedstuk donderen, neem Trump,
Clinton en ga nog maar een tijdje door…….
Ari
Ben-Menashe heeft overigens wel meer te vertellen, bijvoorbeeld dat
hij in de 80er jaren van de vorige eeuw samen met Robert Maxwell
betrokken was bij de Iran-Contra-Affaire…….. Dezelfde Maxwell
introduceerde Ben-Menashe bij Jeffrey Epstein in het midden van die
jaren 80.
Maxwell
had trouwens een heel netwerk in Israël en daar maakte ook Ariel
Sharon deel van uit, Sharon de beestachtige oorlogsmisdadiger die
verantwoordelijk was voor de massamoord in Sabra en
Shatila, het Palestijnse vluchtelingenkamp en de aangrenzende wijk in Beiroet, Libanon……
Voorafgaand aan een interview met Robert Parry in 2012 over Iran Contra en andere smerige geheime acties in de 80er jaren van de vorige eeuw, ging het huis van Ben-Menashe in Montreal in vlammen op, e.e.a. als gevolg van een aanval met een brandbom waarin een vloeistof die alleen door militairen wordt gebruikt, het is dan ook wel duidelijk dat Israël Ben-Menashe de mond wilde snoeren…….
Eén ding is zeker, de continue westerse steun voor de (nu officieel) fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël, is bepaald niet alleen ingegeven door een schuldgevoel over de holocaust……..
Lees
het volgende artikel geschreven door Whitney Webb en dat eerder
verscheen op MintPressNews en ook jij zal begrijpen dat Epstein zijn
mond moest houden, ofwel hij werd vermoord:
A
recent interview given by a former high-ranking official in Israeli
military intelligence has claimed that Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual
blackmail enterprise was an Israel intelligence operation run for the
purpose of entrapping powerful individuals and politicians in the
United States and abroad.
Since
the apparent death by suicide of Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan
prison, much has come to light about his depraved activities and
methods used to sexually abuse underage girls and entrap the rich and
powerful for the purposes of blackmail. Epstein’s ties to
intelligence, described in-depth in a recentMintPress investigative
series,
have continued to receive minimal mainstream media coverage, which
has essentially moved on from the Epstein scandal despite the fact
that his many co-conspirators remain on the loose.
For
those who have examined Epstein’s ties to intelligence, there are
clear links to both U.S. intelligence and Israeli intelligence,
leaving it somewhat open to debate as to which country’s
intelligence apparatus was closest to Epstein and most involved in
his blackmail/sex-trafficking activities. A recent interview given by
a former high-ranking official in Israeli military intelligence has
claimed that Epstein’s sexual blackmail enterprise was an Israel
intelligence operation run for the purpose of entrapping powerful
individuals and politicians in the United States and abroad.
In an
interview with
Zev Shalev, former CBS
News executive
producer and award-winning investigative journalist for Narativ,
the former senior executive for Israel’s Directorate of Military
Intelligence, Ari Ben-Menashe, claimed not only to have met Jeffrey
Epstein and his alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, back in the 1980s,
but that both Epstein and Maxwell were already working
with Israeli intelligence during that time period.
“They
found a niche”
In an
interview last
week with the independent outlet Narativ,
Ben-Menashe, who himself was involved in Iran-Contra arms deals, told
his interviewer Zev Shalev that he had been introduced to Jeffrey
Epstein by Robert Maxwell in the mid-1980s while Maxwell’s and
Ben-Menashe’s involvement with Iran-Contra was ongoing. Ben-Menashe
did not specify the year he met Epstein.
Ben-Menashe
told Shalev that “he [Maxwell] wanted us to accept him [Epstein] as
part of our group …. I’m not denying that we were at the time a
group that it was Nick Davies [Foreign Editor of the
Maxwell-Owned Daily
Mirror],
it was Maxwell, it was myself and our team from Israel, we were doing
what we were doing.” Past reporting by Seymour Hersh and
others revealed
that Maxwell,
Davies and Ben-Menashe were involved in the transfer and sale of
military equipment and weapons from Israel to Iran on behalf of
Israeli intelligence during this time period.
He
then added that Maxwell had stated during the introduction that “your
Israeli bosses have already approved” of Epstein. Shalev later
noted that Maxwell “had an extensive network in Israel at the time,
which included the then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, according to
Ben-Menashe.”
Ben-Menashe
went on to say that he had “met him [Epstein] a few times in
Maxwell’s office, that was it.” He also said he was not aware of
Epstein being involved in arms deals for anyone else he knew at the
time, but that Maxwell wanted to involve Epstein in the arms transfer
in which he, Davies and Ben-Menashe were engaged on Israel’s
behalf.
Ariel
Sharon (right) meets with Robert Maxwell in Jerusalem on Feb. 20,
1990. Photo | AP
However,
as MintPress reported
in Part
IV of
the investigative series “Inside
the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big to Fail,”
Epstein was involved with several arms dealers during this period of
time, some of whom were directly involved in Iran-Contra arms deals
between Israel and Iran. For instance, after leaving Bear Stearns in
1981, Epstein began
working in
the realms of shadow finance as a self-described “financial bounty
hunter,” where he would both hunt down and hide money for powerful
people. One of these powerful individuals was Adnan Khashoggi, a
Saudi arms dealer with close ties to both Israeli and U.S.
intelligence and one of the main brokers of Iran-Contra arms deals
between Israel and Iran. Epstein would later forge a business
relationship with a CIA front company involved in another aspect of
Iran-Contra, the airline Southern Air Transport, on behalf of Leslie
Wexner’s company, The Limited.
During
this period, it is also known that Epstein became well acquainted
with the British arms dealer Sir Douglas Leese, who collaborated with
Khashoggi on at least one British-Saudi arms deal in the 1980s.
Leese would
later introduce Epstein
to Steven Hoffenberg, calling Epstein a “genius” and describing
his lack of morals during that introduction. Thus, there are
indications that Epstein was involved with Middle Eastern arms deals,
including some related to Iran-Contra, during this period. In
addition, Epstein would later claim (and then subsequently deny)
having worked for the CIA during this period.
After
having been introduced to Epstein, Ben-Menashe claimed that neither
he nor Davies were impressed with Epstein and considered him “not
very competent.” He added that Ghislaine Maxwell had “fallen for”
Epstein and that he believed that the romantic relationship between
his daughter and Epstein led Robert Maxwell to work to bring the
latter into the “family business” — i.e., Maxwell’s dealings
with Israeli intelligence. This information is very revealing, given
that the narrative, until now at least, has been that Ghislaine
Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein did not meet and begin their relationship
until after Robert Maxwell’s death in 1991, after which Ghislaine
moved to New York.
Ben-Menashe
says that well after the introduction, though again he does not
specify what year, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein began a
sexual blackmail operation with the purpose of extorting U.S.
political and public figures on behalf of Israeli military
intelligence. He stated:
In
this case what really happened, my take on it, in the later thing, is
that these guys were seen as agents. They weren’t really competent
to do very much. And so they found a niche for themselves —
blackmailing American and other political figures.”
He
then confirmed, when prompted, that they were blackmailing Americans
on behalf of Israeli intelligence.
In
response to his statement, Zev Shalev replied, “But, you know,
for most people it’s hard for them to think of Israel as being …
blackmailing their leaders in the United States, it’s a very …”
at which point, Ben-Menashe interrupted and the following exchange
took place:
Ari
Ben-Menashe: You’re kidding? [laughs]…. It was
quite their M.O. Sleeping around is not a crime, it may be
embarrassing, but it’s not a crime, but sleeping with underage
girls is a crime.
Shalev: It
was a crime in 2000 as well, but they let him off that…
Ben-Menashe: And
that it is [why] always so he [Epstein] made sure these girls were
underage.
In
addition, when Shalev asked Ben-Menashe about the
relationship between
Jeffrey Epstein and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak,
Ben-Menashe stated “After a while, you know, what Mr. Epstein was
doing was collecting intelligence on people in the United States. And
so if you want to go to the U.S. if you’re a high-profile
politician you want to know information about people.” Ben-Menashe
subsequently stated that Barak was obtaining compromising information
(i.e., blackmail) that Epstein had acquired on powerful people in the
United States.
PROMIS,
sex, and blackmail
If
Robert Maxwell did recruit Epstein and bring him into the “family
business” and the world of Israeli intelligence, as Ben-Menashe has
claimed, it provides supporting evidence for information provided
to MintPress by a former U.S. intelligence official,
who chose to remain anonymous in light of the sensitivity of the
claim.
This
source, who has direct knowledge of the unauthorized use of PROMIS to
support covert U.S. and Israeli intelligence projects,
told MintPress that
“some of the proceeds from the illicit sales of PROMIS were made
available to Jeffrey Epstein for use in compromising targets of
political blackmail.” As was noted in a Mintpress series
on the Epstein scandal,
much of Epstein’s funding also came from Ohio billionaire Leslie
Wexner, who has documented ties to both organized crime and U.S. and
Israeli intelligence.
After
the PROMIS software was stolen from its rightful owner and developer,
Inslaw Inc., through the collusion of both U.S. and Israeli
officials, it was marketed mainly by two men: Earl Brian, a close
aide to Ronald Reagan, later U.S. envoy to Iran and close friend of
Israeli spymaster Rafi Eitan; and Robert Maxwell. Brian sold the
bugged software through his company, Hadron Inc., while Maxwell sold
it through an Israeli company he acquired called Degem. Before and
following Maxwell’s acquisition of Degem, the company was a
known front for
Mossad operations and Mossad operatives in Latin America often posed
as Degem employees.
With
Maxwell — Epstein’s alleged recruiter and father of Epstein’s
alleged madam — having been one of the main salespeople involved in
selling PROMIS software on behalf of intelligence, he would have been
in a key position to furnish Epstein’s nascent sexual blackmail
operation with the proceeds from the sale of PROMIS.
This
link between Epstein’s sexual blackmail operation and the PROMIS
software scandal is notable given that the illicit use of PROMIS by
U.S. and Israeli intelligence has been for blackmail purposes on U.S.
public figures and politicians, as was described in a
recent MintPress report.
Can
an ex-spy be trusted?
When
dealing in the world of deception and intrigue that defines
intelligence operations, it is often difficult to determine whether
any individual linked to an intelligence agency is telling the truth.
Indeed, in the United States, there are examplesof
elected intelligence officials committing perjury and lying to
Congress on
several occasions with
no consequences, and of intelligence officials feeding politically
motivated and untrue information to agency assets in the media.
So,
are Ari Ben-Menashe’s claims regarding Epstein and the Maxwells
trustworthy? In addition to the aforementioned, corroborating
information for his claims, a review of Ben-Menashe’s
post-intelligence career suggests this is the case.
Ari
Ben Menashe arrives at Harare International Airport, in Zimbabwe,
Feb. 22, 2002. Photo | AP
Prior
to his arrest in November 1989, Ben-Menashe was a high-ranking
officer in a special unit of Israeli military intelligence. He
would later
claim that
his arrest for attempting to sell American-made weapons to Iran was
politically motivated, as he had threatened to expose what the U.S.
government had done with the stolen PROMIS software if the U.S. did
not cease providing Saddam Hussein’s Iraq with chemical weapons.
Ben-Menashe was later
acquitted when
a U.S. court determined that his involvement in the attempted sale of
military equipment to Iran was done on behalf of the Israeli state.
After
his arrest, Ben-Menashe was visited in prison by Robert Parry, the
former Newsweek contributor
and Associated
Press reporter
who would later found and run Consortium
News until
his recent passing last year. Parry remembered
that,
during that interview, “Ben-Menashe offered me startling new
information about the Iran-Contra scandal, which I thought that I
knew quite well.”
Israel’s
government immediately began to attack Ben-Menashe’s credibility
following his interview with Parry, and claimed that Ben-Menashe had
never worked for Israeli intelligence. When Parry soon found
evidence that
Ben-Menashe had indeed served in Israeli military intelligence,
Israel’s government was then forced to admit that he had worked for
military intelligence, but only as a “low-level translator.”
Yet, the
documentation Parry
had uncovered described Ben-Menashe as having served in “key
positions” and performed “complex and sensitive assignments.”
A
year later, Ben-Menashe would be interviewed by another journalist,
Seymour Hersh. It would be Ben-Menashe who first revealed to Hersh
secrets about Israel’s nuclear program and the fact that British
media mogul Robert Maxwell was an Israeli spy, revelations that Hersh
would not only independently corroborate but include in his book The
Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign
Policy.
Hersh was then sued by Robert Maxwell and the Maxwell-owned Mirror
Group for libel. The case was later
settled in
Hersh’s favor, as the claims Hersh had made were true and not
libelous. As a result, the Mirror Group paid Hersh for damages,
covered his legal costs, and issued him a formal apology.
After
Ben-Menashe’s interviews by Hersh and Parry, Israel’s government
was apparently concerned enough about what Ben-Menashe would tell
congressional investigators that it attempted
to kidnap him and
bring him back to Israel to face state charges, much like Israeli
intelligence had done to Israel’s nuclear-weapons whistleblower
Mordechai Vanunu. The plan was foiled largely thanks to Parry.
Parry,
who broke many key stories related to the Iran-Contra scandal in the
1980s and beyond, was tipped off by a U.S. intelligence source about
a joint U.S.-Israel plan to have Ben-Menashe first be denied entry to
the United States on his planned trip to give congressional
testimony. Per the plan, Ben-Menashe would be denied entry to the
U.S. in Los Angeles and then be deported to Israel, where he would
have stood trial for “exposing state secrets.” Parry called
Ben-Menashe and convinced him to delay his flight until he secured a
guarantee for safe passage from the U.S. government.
Ben-Menashe
subsequently gave a
sworn statement to
the House Judiciary Committee that mostly focused on U.S.-Israel
collusion regarding the theft and creation of a “backdoor” into
the PROMIS software. Ben-Menashe offered to name names and provide
corroborating evidence for several of his claims if he was offered
immunity by the committee, which, for whatever reason. declined that
request.
Prior
to the conclusion of the Hersh “libel” trial, which would later
uphold Ben-Menashe’s claims regarding Robert Maxwell’s Mossad
activities as true, there was a concerted effort in the U.S. press to
downplay Ben-Menashe’s credibility. For instance, Newsweek —
in an article on Ben-Menashe entitled “One
Man, Many Tales”
— claimed that “inconsistencies may undermine Ben-Menashe’s
testimony in the British courtroom proceedings,” citing
inconsistencies from sources in Israel’s government and Israeli
intelligence as well as Ben-Menashe’s
ex-wife and
Israeli journalist Shmuel (or Samuel) Segev, a former
IDF colonel.
It goes without saying that such sources had much to gain from any
effort to discredit Ben-Menashe’s claims.
According
to Parry, this media campaign, which employed American journalists
with close
ties to
Israel’s government and intelligence agencies, was very successful
“in marginalizing Ben-Menashe by 1993, at least in the eyes of the
Washington Establishment.” After a years-long media campaign to
discredit Ben-Menashe, “the Israelis seemed to view him as a
declining threat, best left alone. He was able to pick up the pieces
of his life, creating a second act as an international political
consultant and businessman arranging sales of grain.” The effort to
marginalize Ben-Menashe has continued well into recent years, with
mainstream news outlets still referring to him as a “self-described
ex-Israeli spy”
— despite the well-documented fact that Ben-Menashe worked for
Israeli intelligence — as a means of downplaying his claims
regarding his time in Israel’s intelligence service.
After
the conclusion of the Hersh libel trial, Ben-Menashe became an
international political consultant who “surrounded his far-flung
business activities in secrecy and got involved with some
controversial international figures, such as Zimbabwe’s leader
Robert Mugabe,” and “conducted
his international consulting business … in a wide variety of global
hotspots, including conflict zones,” according to Parry. In
addition to Mugabe, Ben-Menashe has
also recently come underfirefor
his consulting work on behalf of Sudan’s military junta and
Venezuelan opposition politician Henri Falcón.
Ben-Menashe
has also maintained ties to several different intelligence services
and eventually
became a
controversial whistleblower whose information led
to the arrest of
the former head of Canada’s Security Intelligence Review Committee,
Arthur Porter.
As
far as his character is concerned, Parry
noted that
Ben-Menashe could often be “his own worst enemy” and that, even
though Parry considered his information regarding Iran-Contra and
PROMIS reliable and noted that much of it was later corroborated, he
“often compound[ed] his media problem by treating journalists in a
high-handed manner, either due to his suspicions of them or his
arrogance.”
Bill
Hamilton, the original developer of the PROMIS software and head of
Inslaw Inc., also found Ben-Menashe’s claims regarding the illicit
use of PROMIS by U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies to be
credible, though he expressed doubts about Ben-Menashe’s
character.
Hamilton
told MintPress the following about Ben-Menashe:
Ari
Ben Menashe was the first source to tell us reliable information
about the role of Rafi Eitan and Israeli intelligence vis-a-vis
PROMIS but, in the end, of course, he was a clandestine services-type
guy whose official duties include the ability and willingness to lie,
cheat, and steal.”
A
threat revived
While
Ben-Menashe may have been viewed as a “declining threat” after
the early 1990s, his plans to meet with Robert Parry of Consortium
News years
later in 2012 to discuss Iran-Contra and other covert dealings of the
1980s appeared to change that. Right before he planned to travel from
Canada to the United States to meet with Parry and “finally prove”
the truthfulness of his past claims, a
fire-bomb was thrown into
his Montreal home, destroying it.
Air Ben-Menashe surveys
the damage to his home after it was mysteriously firebombed. Photos |
Robert Parry
Though
Canadian media referred
to the
incendiary device as a “molotov cocktail,” Consortium
News reported that
“the arson squad’s initial assessment is said to be that the
flammable agent was beyond the sort of accelerant used by common
criminals,” leading to speculation that the accelerant was
military-grade.
Had
it not been for the bomb, the origins of which Canadian police failed
to determine, Ben-Menashe would have traveled to the U.S. alongside a
“senior Israeli intelligence figure” to be interviewed by Parry.
The other intelligence-linked individual, according
to Parry,
“concluded that the attack was meant as a message from Israeli
authorities to stay silent about the historical events that he was
expected to discuss.”
Though
neither Ben-Menashe nor Parry directly blamed Israel’s government
for the destruction of Ben-Menashe’s home, Parry
noted that
the bombing did succeed in “intimidating Ben-Menashe, shutting down
possible new disclosures of Israeli misconduct from the other
intelligence veteran, and destroying records that would have helped
Ben-Menashe prove whatever statements he might make.”
While
Ben-Menashe’s post-intelligence associations with controversial
governments and individuals have given plenty of fodder to the still
thriving media campaign to discredit his claims about covert
U.S.-Israel operations in the 1980s, there remain troubling
indications that the Israeli government sees his information on
decades-old events as a threat.
Now,
with the major efforts by powerful Americans and Israelis to distance
themselves from Jeffrey Epstein and other figures associated with his
depraved sex trafficking operation, Ben-Menashe may soon again find
his reputation — and perhaps more — under fire.
Feature
photo | Graphic by Claudio Cabrera
Whitney
Webb is
a MintPress News journalist based in Chile. She has contributed to
several independent media outlets including Global Research,
EcoWatch, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others.
She has made several radio and television appearances and is the 2019
winner of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in
Journalism.
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Tijdens en vlak na de
Twin Towers aanslagen, werden een aantal Israëlische mannen
gearresteerd die feestvierden met de WTC ramp op de achtergrond. Het
was duidelijk dat ze feestvierden n.a.v. de aanvallen op de Twin
Towers….. Volgens eigen zeggen waren zij Mossad agenten die werden
uitgezonden om de vernieling van het WTC te filmen, zo verklaarden ze
later op de Israëlische tv…… Zonder enig onderzoek werden de
mannen vrijgelaten en mochten ze zelfs terugreizen naar Israël…….
Paul
Craig Roberts, de schrijver van het Information Clearing House artikel dat hieronder is opgenomen, schrijft verder over de ‘daders’
en haalt intussen al bekende zaken aan, als dat deze daders
onmogelijk de vliegtuigen in de Twin Towers kunnen hebben gevlogen,
een zaak die zelfs geroutineerde piloten naar eigen zeggen niet
kunnen (de daders zouden een paar vlieglessen hebben gehad in kleine
vliegtuigjes). Het is dan ook duidelijk dat de zogenaamde daders
werden begeleid door of geheime diensten van de VS en/of Israël, dit
om de false flag operatie, die 9/11 was, te verhullen…. Overigens werden de vliegtuigen volgens een aantal deskundigen op afstand bediend….
Ook
genoemd door Roberts de aanval op het Pentagon, daar moeten diverse
camera’s beelden hebben opgenomen van wat er werkelijk gebeurde, deze beelden
worden al 18 jaar lang door de FBI afgeschermd voor het publiek en de
politiek. Iedereen met meer dan 2 hersencellen kan zien dat er nooit
een vliegtuig in het Pentagon kan zijn gevlogen, daarvoor was de
schade veel te gering (en dat is nog maar 1 van de redenen die
aangeven dat het geen vliegtuig kan zijn geweest, maar waarschijnlijk
een raket van de VS…..)
Nog een
vreemde zaak, de telefoontjes uit het vliegtuig dat in
Pennsylvania zou zijn neergestort: in die tijd was het nog
onmogelijk om met een mobiele telefoon vanuit een vliegtuig te bellen met het
thuisfront…
Roberts betoogt terecht dat wanneer een handjevol terroristen de VS zo hebben kunnen misleiden (als men het publiek wil doen geloven), Rusland zelfs al ten tijde van de Sovjet-Unie de VS en West-Europa zonder veel moeite kon hebben weggevaagd……
Zoals dik is bewezen sinds 11 september 2001 is het neerhalen van de Twin Towers middels vliegtuigen een onmogelijke zaak, daarnaast hebben deskundigen de resten van heftige springstoffen teruggevonden in de puinhopen van 9/11……
Hoeveel bewijs heb je nog nodig om in te zien dat 9/11 een door de VS overheid gecontroleerde aanslag was…… Roberts noemt nog een aantal zaken, die duidelijk maken dat 9/11 een door de VS (waarschijnlijk met hulp van Israël) opgezette zaak is….. Bush en Cheney zouden hebben geweigerd te getuigen voor de 9/11 commissie…… De leidende figuren van deze commissie stellen zelfs dat ze tot bepaalde zaken geen toegang hadden, dat men werd voorgelogen en dat het de opzet was dat de commissie zou falen……
Het gaat zelfs zover dat de VS overheid zelf de leugen heeft gelanceerd dat de gebouwen door een kernwapen dan wel een gericht-energiewapen (o.a. laser en deeltjesstralen) werden neergehaald om degenen die niet geloven in de officiële lezing in een belachelijk daglicht te stellen en daarmee de aandacht af te leiden van de werkelijke reden van instorting van de gebouwen……
Lees het
volgende artikel en zegt het voort! De aanslagen zijn nu 18 jaar
geleden, daarbij kwamen volgens zeggen 3.000 mensen om het leven,
als reactie daarop heeft de VS alleen in Irak al meer dan 1,5 miljoen
mensen vermoord (met hulp van andere NAVO-lidstaten), in Afghanistan
zouden dit er rond de 500.000 zijn (al houdt het westen veel lagere
aantallen aan….). Als reactie daarop hebben we ‘islamterreur’ op de
straten van Europa en zijn er enorme vluchtelingenstromen
opgang gekomen, voorts zijn onze privacyrechten zo goed als helemaal
uitgekleed (al is dat laatste ook de duidelijke opzet van de 9/11
aanvallen, zie de bevoegdheden en de enorme geldstromen die de geheime diensten erbij kregen na 9/11…..)
Some
of the Many Things Most Americans Never Heard About 9/11
By
Paul Craig Roberts
September
14, 2019 “Information
Clearing House”
– The “Dancing Israelis” who turned out to be Israeli Mossad
agents caught filming and celebrating the destruction of the twin
towers. Arrested by police and released without investigation, they
were not mentioned in the 911 Commission Report. Later on
Israeli TV they said they were sent to New York to film the
destruction of the twin towers. Allegedly, there was no
advance warning of the event, but obviously the Israelis knew.
The
alleged fundamentalist orthodox fanatical Muslims who were prepared
to die to be martyrs, but who drank, drugged, and lived with
strippers and prostitutes in Florida. They were the patsies paraded
through flight schools and left a highly visible public record. They
all flunked out and could not even fly small planes, but performed
miraculous flight feats in their attacks on the WTC towers and
Pentagon that military and civilian airline pilots say are beyond
their own skills. These Saudi Arabians were being operated
by US or Israeli intelligence to create a record to serve as a
parallel patsy operation that could be used to cover up the false
flag attack.
Numerous
video cameras recorded whatever exploded at the Pentagon, but the FBI
has refused to release them for 18 years. Clearly, the videos do not
support the official story.
About
half of the alleged hijackers have been found alive and well and deny
that they had ever left their countries.
In
2001 no cell phone calls were possible from aircraft at the altitudes
from which calls were reported.
The
airliners that allegedly hit the twin towers were flimsy compared to
the steel and concrete of the towers. The airliners would
have smashed against the structure and fallen to the street below.
Pre-knowledge
of 9/11 was widespread. The stocks of the two allegedly
hijacked airlines were sold short prior to the event, resulting in
large profits when the stocks fell in response to the hijackings. The
short-sellers were swept under the carpet and not investigated.
FBI
director Robert Mueller was instrumental in covering up for the false
official story of 9/11, a story that has zero evidence in its behalf.
If
a handful of young men with no intelligence service or government
support can defeat the entire national security state of the United
States and all of its NATO and Israeli allies and successfully attack
with devastating results both New York and the Pentagon itself—the
very symbol of American military supremacy—the Soviet Union could
have wiped out the US and all of Europe without detection. Don’t
you wonder how we survived the Soviet Union when the “Great
American Superpower” was so easily defeated by a handful of young
Saudi Arabians?
Four
hijacked airliners are alleged hijacked, all at airports served by an
Israeli security company.
All four airliners allegedly crash. Two
into the WTC towers, one into a field in Pennsylvania, and one into
the Pentagon. Yet no airliner debris exists. The
Pentagon’s lawn is not even scratched.
The
President of the United States refuses to testify before the 9/11
Commission unless he is accompanied by his handler, Vice President
Cheney. Both refuse to testify under oath. The 9/11
Commission is oh-so-respectful to the distinguished president and
vice president.
One
member of the 9/11 Commission, a US Senator, resigned from the
Commission, saying that “the fix is in.” After the
Commission report was issued, the Commission chairman, vice chairman,
and legal counsel wrote books in which they said that information was
withheld from the Commission, that the Commission was lied to and
considered referring the false testimony to the Justice (sic)
Department for prosecution, and that “the Commission was set up to
fail.” And not a peep from the controlled pressitute
media whose only function is to deliver the controlled explanations
that the ruling oligarchs want planted into Americans’ minds.
Tenants
of the WTC buildings reported constant noises, floors sealed off,
service disruptions and that the excuse was the installation of fiber
optic cable. If the buildings faced condemnation as reported because
of asbestos fireproofing, who would go to the expense of installing
fiber optic cable to upgrade the Internet capability of condemned
buildings?
Scientists
have found reacted and unreacted nano-thermite and other elements
used in controlled demolition. They have proved the
existence of these elements. They have samples from the
WTC dust left which they have offered to scientists and governments
for testing in order to prove or disprove their own findings. No
takers.
Instead,
we have the appearance of nonsensical claims that the WTC buildings
were brought down by a directed energy weapon and by nuclear
bombs. These are preposterous allegations, the purpose of
which is the deliberate creation of disinformation in order to focus
attention away from the false official story and bury it in
disagreements about what caused the buildings to fail.
I
have checked with weapons specialists who are critics of US
government foreign policy and who monitor every development in weapon
systems in the US and Russia. This is what they tell me: “I
can confidently state that no direct energy weapon, capable of
demolishing such a structure at the Twin Towers, existed in 2001, nor
does it exist today.”
Another
reported that there are lab tests of directed energy in Russia but no
deployed weapon. He suggested that people who believe in this fantasy
story should explain the safe source of high energy that the alleged
weapon used, and how it was moved on site and removed without
detection. Moreover, a directed energy burst would show on
detectors which monitor the electromagnetic spectrum. No
such evidence exists. Since no such weapon has ever been tested to
bring down skyscrapers, why would the government take the risk of
using such a weapon for the first time in a public scenario where who
knows what could go wrong and explanations would have to be
given? And why reveal to foreign powers the existence of
such a weapon? Controlled demolition is an old and
familiar technology that works. And it did.
I
could go on and on.
As
I wrote in a previous column, when Americans fell for the 9/11
deception, they lost their country, and peoples in seven countries
lost their lives, limbs, and families.
Let op,
vanwege kritiek op Israël, wordt dit bericht volkomen onterecht weggezet als zijnde antisemitisch……
De
fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël heeft haar illegale muur op
Palestijns grondgebied stiekem volgehangen met camera’s waaraan
gezichtsherkenningsoftware is toegevoegd, de firma die Israël daarbij
heeft geholpen is Microsoft…… Afgelopen juni maakte Microsoft
een miljoenen investering in AnyVision, een Israëlische
gezichtsherkenningsfirma, die wordt geleid door een ex-Mossad
medewerker, die ook werkzaam was voor de Israëlische legerstaf, ofwel
een ordinaire terrorist…….
Microsoft
heeft 6 ‘ethische veiligheden’ ingebouwd voor haar
gezichtsherkenningsprogramma, echter onder de bezetting van
Palestijnse gebieden door Israël en haar apartheidsregime is er geen
ethische waarde die in acht kan worden genomen, door wie dan ook!!
Samenwerken met zo’n regime maakt je onderdeel van de bloedige
Israëlische apartheidspolitiek tegen de Palestijnen……
Het smerige cliché dat westerse landen als Nederland al meer dan 20 jaar maken, is dat kritiek op Israël het vredesproces zou frustreren, terwijl het juist Israël is dat telkens weer het vredesproces frustreert……
Microsoft
moet al van te voren hebben geweten waar het aan begon, zo heeft
AnyVision kortgeleden haar investeringsprogramma aangepast, zodat
Microsoft ‘niet in de problemen kan komen’ (dat komt het toch wel
zoals nu blijkt, logisch immers het gaat hier om hulp aan het Israëlische leger dat zich keer op keer te buiten gaat aan mensenrechtenschendingen, etnische zuivering,
oorlogsmisdaden en massamoorden…)
Met deze
spionage activiteit laat Israël geheel ten overvloede nog eens zien
dat het een fascistische apartheidsstaat is…..
Echter
niet alleen om het voorgaande zou je de petitie van Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) moeten tekenen, maar ook om Microsoft te laten weten dat
het zich overal ter wereld weg moet houden van gezichtsherkenning en
andere ‘beveiligingsapparatuur’ waarmee staten als Israël en
dictaturen (en zelfs zogenaamde democratische landen) de bevolking of een deel van de bevolking in de gaten houdt (zeker als dat deel al vervolgd wordt zoals de Palestijnen door Israël)…… Met dergelijke apparatuur kunnen politiestaten of andere dictaturen het inhumane regime zonder al te veel moeite handhaven…… In China maakt de politie al gebruik van gezichtsherkenningsapparatuur en in Duitsland is men bezig met een proef ……..
Vergeet niet dat het naziregime in Duitsland dolblij was geweest met deze technieken voorafgaand en tijdens WOII, niet voor niets ontwikkelden zij video……
Eén ding is zeker: met gezichtsherkenningsapparatuur wordt het recht op privacy nog verder afgebroken (al was er al niet veel van over….)…. Gelukkig is er veel tegenstand tegen dit soort apparatuur, zo heeft technologiestad San Francisco heel verstandig gezichtsherkenningsapparatuur verboden!
(protest tegen gezichtsherkenningsapparatuur in Duitsland)
Lees en
teken de petitie ajb, de meesten van ons gebruiken software (en soms
zelfs hardware) van Microsoft, een leger van gebruikers dat Microsoft
de wacht aan mag, kan en moet zeggen!! Zegt het voort!!
Microsoft’s
dirty surveillance secret in Israel
All
across the West Bank there is a network of secret cameras hooked up
to cutting-edge facial recognition software. It tracks every
Palestinian face it can find, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The
Israeli Defense Forces’ surprise partner in this Orwellian
surveillance system? Microsoft.
This
June, Microsoft made a massive multi-million dollar investment in
AnyVision, an Israeli facial recognition company led by former Mossad
and Israeli defense staff – even though Microsoft had just
committed to follow six ethical “principles to guide Microsoft’s
facial recognition work.”
A
description of one of these principles:
“We
will not deploy our facial recognition technology in those
surveillance scenarios where we believe there are inadequate
safeguards to protect democratic freedoms and human rights.”
Under
Israel’s apartheid system, there can never be adequate “safeguards”
to protect the freedoms and human rights of Palestinians.
And
there is NOTHING ETHICAL about creating a dystopian system to watch
over an imprisoned people.
If
Microsoft wants to claim that it’s an ethical leader in Artificial
Intelligence, and continue to position itself as a trustworthy family
brand, then CEO Satya Nadella must act immediately.
There’s
strong evidence Microsoft knew their investment with AnyVision was
unethical but went ahead anyway.
Bloomberg
reports that the facial recognition company AnyVision stopped its
investment round to get in line with Microsoft’s ethical standards,
which almost certainly means Microsoft was scrutinizing their
projects.
It
would be hard for Microsoft NOT to have known the Israeli Defense
Forces were going to benefit from the investment: former Mossad chief
Tamir Pardo heads the AnyVision advisory board, and the president of
the company is Amir Kain, former head of the Defense Ministry’s
security department.
It’s
bad enough that Palestinians endure long waits at checkpoints, live
segregated from Jews, and are treated like criminals while trying to
get to work or visit family. Now their every move will be monitored
with Microsoft’s help.
Many
of us use Microsoft’s products at work, home and play – and as
consumers and citizens, we have a huge ability to shape the
perception of Microsoft’s brand.
If they want us all to buy that they’re an ethical leader in
Artificial Intelligence, they need to immediately ditch AnyVision.
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Voice for Peace is a national membership organization inspired by
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Gisteren maakten autoriteiten bekend dat Jeffrey Epstein zichzelf inderdaad heeft gesuïcideerd. (een te verwachten reactie)
Caitlin
Johnstone stelt in een artikel met de kop ‘Jeffrey Epstein overlijdt
aan ‘suïcide”, dat Epstein, de organisator en exploitant van een
kindermisbruiknetwerk, werd gesuïcideerd….. Waarmee ze overigens ontkent dat eerdere beweringen over Epstein kloppen, beweringen waarin men stelt dat hij nooit de rechtbank mocht bereiken, eenvoudig daar er te veel
hooggeplaatste en/of machtige figuren waren verbonden met dit
misbruiknetwerk, figuren als Donald Trump en Bill Clinton……… Johnstone stelt dat deze zaak nooit de echt machtigen zou hebben getroffen, daar ‘het moeras het moeras beschermt…’
Voorts komt Johnstone terug op hardnekkige geruchten dat Epstein een band zou hebben met de moorddadige Israëlische geheime dienst Mossad….. Mossad zou gegevens hebben ontvangen van Epstein waarmee men politici zou kunnen chanteren die seksuele contacten hadden met kinderen…. Een verhaal dat zo maar zou kunnen kloppen, gezien de geschiedenis van deze geheime dienst, waarbij deze zaak nog maar klein grut is………
Epstein
werd ‘gesuïcideerd’ terwijl hij onder intensief suïcide toezicht
stond, een toezicht dat volgens Johnstone maar de vraag is, daar enkelen dat ontkennen……. Echter het zou zonder meer een schande zijn als dit niet het geval was, zeker na alle ophef op de eerste suïcide poging…… Ofwel wat mij betreft is het duidelijk dat Epstein werd vermoord, zelfs al zou hij de hand
aan zichzelf hebben geslagen, immers suïcide zou na het eerdere incident onmogelijk moeten zijn geweest, een incident waarover de autoriteiten stelden dat Epstein een suïcide poging zou hebben begaan…… Ingewijden stellen daarover dat hij verwondingen had die hij onmogelijk bij zichzelf zou hebben kunnen aangebracht, kortom na dat ‘incident’ zou een ‘tweede suïcidepoging’ onmogelijk moeten zijn geweest…….
De consequentie van deze moord uh ‘suïcidepoging’ voor de gevangenis
waar dit gebeurde: 3 schorsingen, tijdens het lopende onderzoek……
Gegarandeerd dat uit onderzoek zal blijken dat gevangenispersoneel
niets te verwijten valt, of de zaak zou tot nog veel meer
maatschappelijke ophef moeten leiden, in dat geval zouden de 3
personeelsleden (inclusief de directeur) wellicht op straat worden
geschopt……….
Lees ook
de eerdere berichten over deze zaak van mijn hand, de links daartoe vindt je onder
het volgende artikel:
Disappointing
everyone yet surprising no one, accused sex trafficker
and alleged billionaire
Jeffrey Epstein has “committed” “suicide”. Details are
muddled and conflicting, with CNN reporting that
Epstein “was taken from New York’s Metropolitan Correctional
Center at 3:30 a.m. Saturday in cardiac arrest and died at an area
hospital” and the New
York Timesreporting that
“Mr. Epstein hung himself and his body was found this morning at
roughly 7:30.”
Some
reports claim
that Epstein has been on suicide watch due
to a prior alleged suicide attempt three weeks ago when he was found
unconscious with bruising on his neck, others deny
it.
If he wasn’t it’s weird because he obviously should have been,
and if he was it’s weird because it failed. Prisons vary greatly in
how they implement suicide watch protocol, but at bare minimum it
should mean that unsafe objects have been removed from the prisoner’s
cell and monitoring has been greatly increased. Stockton
University criminal justice professor Christine Tartaro told
CNN in
an interview on the subject in 2017 that on suicide watch “there
should be constant, one-on-one eyes on (suicidal) inmates.”
Following
Epstein’s arrest last month on federal sex trafficking
charges, many
people predicted that
exactly this would happen, some half-jokingly and some not. This is
because, as Whitney Webb of Mint
Press News documented
in a recent
article titled
“Mega Group, Maxwells and Mossad: The Spy Story at the Heart of the
Jeffrey Epstein Scandal”, Epstein appears to have been involved in
a complex Mossad-tied sexual blackmail operation and had close ties
with many powerful people, including Donald Trump and the Clintons.
The narrative that the Clintons have a penchant for “suiciding”
their enemies was already
a viral idea in
right-wing conspiracy circles, and many of the early prognostications
of Epstein’s fate came from that side of the political aisle.
But
those voicing skepticism about Epstein’s death today come from all
across the political spectrum, from left to right and from fringe to
mainstream.
“People
close to Epstein fear he was murdered… as Epstein told authorities
someone tried to kill him in a previous incident weeks earlier. He
was described as being in good spirits in recent days,” claimsThe
Washington Post‘s Carol
Leonnig.
Bill
Clinton, Donald Trump, various billionaire wall st. goons, hollywood
elites and royal family creeps breathe a sigh of relief. He happens
to have dirt on every powerful scumbag alive, how mighty
convenient!” tweetedSecular
Talk‘s
Kyle Kulinski.
“If
Epstein’s death is still under investigation, and no one can
explain yet how he killed himself, why is mainstream media reporting
it definitively as a suicide? Even the FBI is calling it an ‘apparent
suicide’,” tweeted journalist
Max Blumenthal.
“How
was Epstein not on the most intensive suicide watch protocol
available???” tweeted journalist
Michael Tracey.
“Scandalous.
I supervised jail suicide investigations at DOJ. Experts will tell
you that it’s essentially always true that jail inmate suicides are
preventable, so when one happens it represents a majorfailure
on the part of the jail,” tweeted human
rights lawyer Sam Bagenstos.
“Something
about this whole situation stinks,” legal analyst Rikki
Klieman told
CBS today.
“What you have is someone who attempted suicide and now is on a
suicide watch, and in the midst of the suicide watch manages to
commit suicide? There are gonna be heads that will roll from the
Bureau of Prisons looking at the [Metropolitan Correctional Center],
because this is the type of situation where you do not know if it’s
a suicide or you do not know if it is something else.”
“A guy who had information that would have destroyed rich and powerful men’s lives ends up dead in his jail cell. How predictably…Russian”.
Others,
of course, have been bleating about Russia for no reason.
“A
guy who had information that would have destroyed rich and powerful
men’s lives ends up dead in his jail cell. How
predictably…Russian,” tweeted MSNBC’s
Joe Scarborough to thousands of retweets and tens of thousands of
likes.
This
story is nuts. I personally am
on record disagreeing
with those on both sides of the aisle who’ve been claiming that the
Epstein scandal was going to lead to mass arrests of extremely
powerful people in Washington, because the swamp protects itself. We
see that today clearer than ever. Whatever happened in that prison
cell today, it made some nasty swamp monsters very happy.
“Jeffrey
Epstein’s suicide ends the criminal case against him because no one
else was charged in the indictment,” tweeted former
federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti, adding,
“Epstein’s death means that there won’t be a public trial or
other proceedings that could reveal evidence of his wrongdoing.
Evidence collected via grand jury subpoena won’t be released to the
public.”
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In de VS
lopen regelmatig Israëlische spionnen tegen de lamp, zelfs tijdens de aanvallen van 9/11 op het WTC….*, echter in
tegenstelling tot andere spionnen worden zij met zijden handschoenen
aangepakt, als ze al worden aangepakt en niet direct op het vliegtuig
worden gezet, althans als men de zaak ernstig genoeg acht………
Berichten
over dit soort zaken bereiken de reguliere massamedia niet eens, laat
staan dat de (onderzoeks-) journalisten van die media deze zaken uitpluizen, dit in tegenstelling tot
de alternatieve media die wel over dergelijke zaken berichten (en met meestal
‘enige mate van ontevredenheid’, om het maar zacht te zeggen….)
Lees het
volgende artikel van Philip Giraldi, eerder geplaatst op de American
Herald Tribune en verbaas je over alle figuren die gebruik hebben
gemaakt van de smerige diensten die Epstein aanbood en waarbij
gasten stiekem werden gefilmd terwijl ze minderjarigen misbruikten,
materiaal waar geheime diensten als de Mossad van kwijlen (chantage
>> doen wat in het belang is van de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël)……. Zo valt op dat Bill Clinton
wel erg vaak gebruik heeft gemaakt van de Lolita Expres, zoals het
privé vliegtuig van Epstein wordt genoemd……. Een woordvoerder
van Clinton liet vorige week weten dat Clinton van niets wist, maar
dat soort ontkenningen hebben we eerder al gehoord uit de mond van deze oorlogsmisdadiger en viespeuk……. Ook de claim van een woordvoerder van Trump dat deze niets van kindermisbruik wist, wordt in het volgende artikel onderuitgehaald……
The
extent of Israeli spying directed against the United States is a huge
story that is only
rarely addressed in
the mainstream media. The Jewish state regularly tops the list for
ostensibly friendly countries that aggressively conduct espionage
against the U.S. and Jewish American Jonathan Pollard, who was
imprisoned in 1987 for spying for Israel, is now regarded as the most
damaging spy in the history of the United States.
Last
week I
wrote about
how Israeli spies operating more-or-less freely in the U.S. are
rarely interfered with, much less arrested and prosecuted, because
there is an unwillingness on the part of upper echelons of government
to do so. I cited the case of Arnon Milchan, a billionaire Hollywood
movie producer who had a secret life that included stealing
restricted technology in the United States to enable development of
Israel’s nuclear weapons program, something that was very much
against U.S. interests. Milchan was involved in a number of other
thefts as well as arms sales on behalf of the Jewish state, so much
so that his work as a movie producer was actually reported to be less
lucrative than his work as a spy and black-market arms merchant, for
which he operated on a commission basis.
That
Milchan has never been arrested by the United States government or
even questioned about his illegal activity, which was well known to
the authorities, is just one more manifestation of the effectiveness
of Jewish power in Washington, but a far more compelling case
involving possible espionage with major political manifestations has
just re-surfaced. I am referring to Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire
Wall Street “financier” who has been arrested and charged with
operating a “vast” network of underage girls for sex, operating
out of his mansions in New York City and Florida as well as his
private island in the Caribbean, referred to by visitors as “Orgy
Island.” Among other high-value associates, it is claimed that
Epstein was particularly close to Bill Clinton, who flew dozens of
times on Epstein’s private 727.
*(Alex
Acosta (L) Jeffrey Epstein (R))
Epstein was
arrested on July 8th after
indictment by a federal grand jury in New York. It was more than a
decade after Alexander Acosta, the top federal prosecutor in Miami,
who is now President Trump’s secretary of labor, accepted a plea
bargain involving similar allegations regarding pedophilia that
was not shared with the accusers prior to being finalized in court.
There were reportedly hundreds of victims, some 35 of whom were
identified, but Acosta deliberately denied the two actual plaintiffs
their day in court to testify before sentencing.
Acosta’s
intervention meant that Epstein avoided both a public trial and a
possible federal prison sentence, instead serving only 13 months of
an 18-month sentence in the almost-no-security Palm Beach County Jail
on charges of soliciting prostitution in Florida. While in custody,
he was permitted to leave jail for sixteen hours six days a week to
work in his office.
Epstein’s
crimes were carried out in his $56 million Manhattan
mansion and
in his oceanside villa in Palm Beach Florida. Both residences were
equipped with hidden cameras and microphones in the bedrooms, which
Epstein reportedly used to record sexual encounters between his
high-profile guests and his underage girls, many of whom came from
poor backgrounds, who were recruited by procurers to engage in what
was euphemistically described as “massages” for money. Epstein
apparently hardly made any effort to conceal what he was up to: his
airplane was called the “Lolita Express.”
The
Democrats are calling for an investigation of the Epstein affair, as
well as the resignation of Acosta, but they might well wind up
regretting their demands. Trump, the real target of the Acosta fury,
apparently did not know about the details of the plea bargain that
ended the Epstein court case. Bill and Hillary Clinton were, however,
very close associates of Epstein. Bill, who flew on the “Lolita
Express” at
least 26 times,
could plausibly be implicated in the pedophilia given his track
record and relative lack of conventional morals. On many of the
trips, Bill refused Secret Service escorts, who would have been
witnesses of any misbehavior. On one
lengthy trip to
Africa in 2002, Bill and Jeffrey were accompanied by accused
pedophile actor Kevin Spacey and a number of young girls, scantily
clad “employees” identified only as “massage.” Epstein was
also a major contributor to the Clinton Foundation and was present at
the wedding of Chelsea Clinton in 2010.
With
an election year coming up, the Democrats would hardly want the
public to be reminded of Bill’s exploits, but one has to wonder
where and how deep the investigation might go. There is also a
possible Donald Trump angle. Though Donald may not have been a
frequent flyer on the “Lolita Express,” he certainly moved in the
same circles as the Clintons and Epstein in New York and Palm Beach,
plus he is by his own words roughly as amoral as Bill Clinton. In
June 2016, one Katie
Johnson filed
lawsuit in New York claiming she had been repeatedly raped by Trump
at an Epstein gathering in 1993 when she was 13 years old. In a
2002 New
York Magazineinterview Trump
said “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy… he’s
a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful
women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No
doubt about it – Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
Selective
inquiries into wrongdoing to include intense finger pointing are the
name of the game in Washington, and the affaire Epstein also has all
the hallmarks of a major espionage case, possibly tied to Israel.
Unless Epstein is an extremely sick pedophile who enjoys watching
films of other men screwing twelve-year-old girls the whole filming
procedure smacks of a sophisticated intelligence service compiling
material to blackmail prominent politicians and other public figures.
Those blackmailed would undoubtedly in most cases cooperate with the
foreign government involved to avoid a major scandal. It is called
recruiting “agents of influence.” That is how intelligence
agencies work and it is what they do.
That
Epstein was perceived as being intelligence-linked was made clear in
Acosta’s comments when
being cleared by the Trump transition team. He was asked “Is the
Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?”
… “Acosta had explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the
day he’d had just one meeting on the Epstein case. He’d cut the
non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein’s attorneys because he had
‘been told’ to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. ‘I
was told Epstein belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone.’”
Questions
about Epstein’s wealth also suggest a connection with a secretive
government agency with deep pockets. The
New York Timesreports
that “Exactly
what his money management operation did was cloaked in secrecy, as
were most of the names of whomever he did it for. He claimed to work
for a number of billionaires, but the only known major client was
Leslie Wexner, the billionaire founder of several retail chains,
including The Limited.”
But
whose intelligence service? CIA and the Russian FSB services are
obvious candidates, but they would have no particular motive to
acquire an agent like Epstein. That leaves Israel, which would have
been eager to have a stable of high-level agents of influence in
Europe and the United States. Epstein’s contact with the Israeli
intelligence service may have plausibly come through his associations
with Ghislaine Maxwell, who allegedly served as his key procurer of
young girls. Ghislaine is the daughter
of Robert Maxwell,
who died or possibly was assassinated in mysterious circumstances in
1991. Maxwell was an Anglo-Jewish businessman, very cosmopolitan in
profile, like Epstein, a multi-millionaire who was very controversial
with what were regarded as ongoing ties to Mossad. After his death,
he was given a state funeral by Israel in which six serving and
former heads of Israeli intelligence listened while Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir eulogized:
“He has done more for Israel than can today be said”
*(Trump
(left) with Robert Maxwell (right) at an event.)
Epstein
kept a black
book identifying
many of his social contacts, which is now in the hands of
investigators. It included fourteen personal phone numbers belonging
to Donald Trump, including ex-wife Ivana, daughter Ivanka and current
wife Melania. It also included Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia, Tony
Blair, Jon Huntsman, Senator Ted Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, David
Koch, Ehud Barak, Alan Dershowitz, John Kerry, George Mitchell, David
Rockefeller, Richard Branson, Michael Bloomfield, Dustin Hoffman,
Queen Elizabeth, Saudi King Salman and Edward de Rothschild.
Mossad
would have exploited Epstein’s contacts, arranging their
cooperation by having Epstein wining and dining them while flying
them off to exotic locations, providing them with women and
entertainment. If they refused to cooperate, it would be time for
blackmail, photos and videos of the sex with underage women.
It
will be very interesting to see just how far and how deep the
investigation into Epstein and his activities goes. One can expect
that efforts will be made to protect top politicians like Clinton and
Trump and to avoid any examination of a possible Israeli role. That
is the normal practice, witness the 9/11 Report and the Mueller
investigation, both of which eschewed any inquiry into what Israel
might have been up to. But this time, if it was indeed an Israeli
operation, it might prove difficult to cover up the story since the
pedophile aspect of it has unleashed considerable public anger from
all across the political spectrum. Senator
Chuck Schumer,
self-described as Israel’s “protector” in the Senate, is loudly
calling for the resignation of Acosta. He just might change his tune
if it turns out that Israel is a major part of the story.
*(Top
image: Left photo: Jeffrey Epstein and his partner, Ghislaine
Maxwell, with Donald and Melania Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2000. Right
photo: Ghislaine Maxwell at Chelsea Clinton’s wedding. Credit:
Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)
Nils
Melzer, speciaal VN rapporteur martelen (en andere wrede inhumane
behandelingen van gevangenen) heeft moeite met de rechter die over de
uitzetting van Julian Assange gaat, daar zij banden heeft met groepen
die belang hebben bij de uitlevering van Assange aan de VS (zoals je
weet een land waar al lang geen recht meer wordt gedaan)……..
Rechter Lady
Emma Arbuthnot zou als elke rechter
onafhankelijk moeten zijn, maar is dat zoals de meeste
rechters niet. In dit geval gaat e.e.a. nog verder: deze rechter
heeft meerdere banden met mensen en groepen die tegen Wikileaks zijn
en zoals je weet Wikileaks is opgezet door Assange……..
Arbuthnot weigert terug te treden en stelt simpelweg dat ze onafhankelijk is…… Elke rechter die echt onafhankelijk is, zou terugtreden nadat dergelijke feiten bekend zouden zijn geworden in een zaak als deze, sterker nog zelfs al bij dit soort beschuldigingen….. Alleen dat is al een teken aan de wand: Assange zal en moet uitgeleverd worden aan de verenging van terreurstaten, aangeduid als VS……
In
het volgende artikel gaat de schrijver, Tom Coburg, dieper in op de
banden van de rechter met derden die haar onafhankelijkheid zonder
meer aantasten. Het artikel verscheen eerder op The Canary:
UN
Rapporteur questions Assange judge’s role as more conflict of
interest evidence emerges
A
search of WikiLeaks suggests
one of the judges overseeing Julian
Assange‘s
pre-extradition hearings may be compromised via family and business
links to the UK intelligence and defence establishment. An earlier
article in The
Canary highlighted some
of those links.
Now Nils
Melzer,
the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment, has also raised this “conflict
of interest” issue:
In UK courts #Assange is insulted a ‘narcissist‘; jailed for seeking asylum; facing US extradition for journalism; prosecuted by CPS known to have instigated his persecution; under a judge with known conflict of interest; under a Govt having prejudged him. http://bit.ly/2Xjvlna
Assange judge refuses to step down, despite evidence of intelligence and defence links | The Canary
Questions over extradition impartiality
thecanary.co
It
now seems that further evidence from WikiLeaks may
add to these concerns. Although the judge – Lady Emma Arbuthnot –
acts independently, there are family links, past and present, to
people and organisations diametrically opposed to the publishing work
of WikiLeaks.
For example, some files show family business and intelligence
connections with a secret meeting with Israeli intelligence (Mossad);
a meeting about the UK’s nuclear deterrent; and UK defence spending
for the Afghan conflict.
Direct
family links
The
Canary reported that
Baron James Arbuthnot, the husband of
the judge – Lady Emma Arbuthnot – is a member of
the advisory board of the prestigious Royal United Services Institute
for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI).
He’s
also chair of
the advisory board of the UK division of multinational defence and
security systems manufacturer, Thales.
Prior
to his elevation to
the House of Lords in October 2015, Arbuthnot was a Tory MP for 28
years. He was also chair of
the Defence Select Committee between 2005 and 2014.
The
company you keep
Lord
Arbuthnot is listed as
a senior consultant to SC Security. Until 2017,
he was also a director. His co-directors were Lord Alex Carlile and
former MI6 head Sir John Scarlett, both of whom remain active in
the company.
In
October 2013, Carlile argued that
the publication of whistleblower Edward
Snowden‘s
revelations about mass surveillance “amounted to a criminal act”.
Carlile also oversaw UK
anti-terrorism laws and supported the
introduction of the ‘Snoopers’
Charter’.
Scarlett
was on a panel of experts that oversaw a
report, arguing that the security and intelligence agencies should
retain powers to “collect bulk communications data”, as warned of
by Edward Snowden. And as chair of the government’s Joint
Intelligence Committee (JIC),
he was responsible for
the compilation of the ‘dodgy dossier’ on Saddam Hussein’s WMD
(Weapons of Mass Destruction). This dossier provided an excuse for
the US and its allies to invade Iraq.
Now
more evidence emerges
WikiLeaks’ work
has included exposing
war crimes committed
during the Iraq War. It also provided
assistance to
Snowden when trying to escape US authorities.
But
a detailed search of the WikiLeaks databases
also reveals numerous files relating to Thales, RUSI, Scarlett,
Carlile and to Lord Arbuthnot himself:
On
RUSI, it revealed 478
files, with one 2009 classified US cable revealing MoD
plans to increase spending for the Afghan conflict.
It revealed around
30 files about John Scarlett, including a
secret US cable on a 2006 meeting with a Mossad chief on Lebanon,
Syria and Iran.
On
Lord Carlile, it revealed 22
files, including a
restricted US Congress report on terrorism.
A WikiLeaks search
on James Arbuthnot reveals 62 files (mostly covering the Afghan
conflict). One file that mentions him is a US secret cable on a
meeting of “experts”, chaired by
Arbuthnot, on the renewal of the UK strategic nuclear deterrent.
Conflict
of interest
Lady
Arbuthnot is presiding
over the initial extradition proceedings of Assange. These includedan
application by Assange to cancel his arrest warrant in February 2018.
That application was denied and
she followed up with a detailed
explanation of
her decision.
The
Canary contacted
Lady Arbuthnot and Lord Arbuthnot for comment. At the time of
publication, there was no response.
In
April 2019, Liam Walker, a lawyer working with Assange’s legal
team, raised the
matter of Lady Arbuthnot’s apparent conflict of interest in a court
hearing presided by Judge Michael Snow.
Referring to an earlier hearing, presided over by Lady Arbuthnot,
Walkertold the
judge his client had been:
subjected
to a tribunal that was clearly conflicted in its ability to judge Mr
Assange impartially.
In
an extensive interview with US journalist Chris Hedges, Melzer
referred to that conflict of interest and to a “file” lodged with
the court that provided the details:
But
despite Walker’s objection to the court, Lady
Arbuthnot continued to
rule on Assange matters.
As The
Canary also emphasised,
hundreds of citizens face similar class bias via the justice system
every single day. Likewise, thanks
to cut-backs,
the prison conditions they experience, including lack of legal aid
and poor access to lawyers and documents, are the norm.
Arguably,
no legal case should be allowed to continue where the potential for
bias by the overseeing judge or magistrate has been identified. And
in this particular case, the evidence of a conflict of interest seems
to be mounting.
Het
uitvoerige 9/11 rapport, n.a.v. de aanslagen in 2001 laat veel vragen open, vragen als waarom
werden een fiks aantal zaken niet onderzocht, terwijl ze wel degelijk
heel belangrijk waren (en zijn) voor het onderzoek naar die aanslagen. Niet alleen werd Saoedi-Arabië afgeschermd
terwijl het grootste deel van de ‘daders’uit dat land
kwam, maar ook een groep Israëlische mannen die met
de Twin Towers brandend op de achtergrond feest vierden en elkaar
‘high fives gaven’, waarbij het geheel werd gefilmd…….
‘Daders’:
dus degenen die de vliegtuigen zouden hebben gevlogen, waar het volgens
deskundigen onmogelijk is voor slecht opgeleide piloten om een
vliegtuig een gebouw in te vliegen als op de manier die werd gebruikt op 11 september 2001 met de Twin Towers….. Bovendien is het meer dan duidelijk
dat de torens en gebouw 7 van het WTC werden ondermijnd met
explosieven, vliegtuigen zouden onmogelijk het instorten van deze
gebouwen kunnen veroorzaken, zo stelt intussen een heel leger aan
deskundigen……
E.e.a.
kan maar tot 1 conclusie leiden: de geheime diensten van de VS hebben
meegewerkt aan deze aanslagen….. Niet voor niets dat de VS de
grootste baat had bij het instorten van de Twin Towers en gebouw 7
van het WTC……. Ten eerste had men weer een vijand nodig voor het
militair-industrieel complex, een vijand die er niet meer was met het verdwijnen van de
Sovjet-Unie, tien jaar eerder….. Ten tweede dacht men hiermee een excuus te hebben om
Irak aan te vallen, de wens van de psychopathische Bush administratie….. Ten derde verdween een groot deel van de schulden van de VS. Ten
vierde kon men het instorten van de beurs (die al gaande was voor
9/11) afwentelen op een terreuraanslag. Ten vijfde kwamen met de
aanslagen van 9/11 enorme kapitalen vrij voor de geheime diensten van
de VS., bovendien werden de bevoegdheden van die diensten fiks
uitgebreid ten koste van de privacy van burgers…….. Ook Israël, de ‘grote’ bondgenoot van de VS, had baat bij de aanslagen, zoals Palestijnenslachter Natanyahu zelf opmerkte….. Mensen er
zijn nog meer redenen, zoals het oppompen van de populariteit van Bush, die
op een dieptepunt was beland, maar de hiervoor genoemde redenen zijn wel de
belangrijkste.
Echter vergeet niet dat Israël naast het hieraan voorgaande, belang had bij de ‘war on terror’ die begon met de 9/11 aanslagen en waarbij een aantal vijanden van Israël het doelwit werden van VS terreur, want zo moet je de ongebreidelde agressie (o.a. in de vorm van illegale oorlogen) van de VS zien….. Niet voor niets dat de Bush administratie alles op alles zette om Irak, een vijand van Israël, de aanslagen in de schoenen te schuiven (zo zou Saddam Hoessein Al Qaida, NB een terreurgroep die tot zijn grootste vijanden behoorde, hebben ondersteund bij de aanslagen). De Bush administratie begon de illegale oorlog in 2003 uiteindelijk op basis van de leugens over massavernietigingswapens, een oorlog die intussen aan meer dan 1,5 miljoen Irakezen het leven heeft gekost…….
Lees het
volgende ontluisterende artikel, ook al was veel eerder bekend, de feiten
tellen dubbel zo zwaar…… Het artikel werd geschreven door Philip
Giraldi, eerder gepubliceerd op Unz Review en door mij
overgenomen van Information Clearing House:
Israel’s
Role In 9/11
FBI
evidence supports prior knowledge or complicity
By
Philip Giraldi
June
03, 2019 “Information
Clearing House” – The tale of 9/11 will just not
go away, largely because it is clear to anyone who reads the lengthy
9/11 Commission Report that many issues that should have been subject
to inquiry were ignored for what would appear to be political
reasons. The George W. Bush Administration quite obviously did not
want to assume any blame for what had happened and that bias also
extended to providing cover for U.S. “allies,” most particularly
Saudi Arabia and Israel. Those who have sought the truth about 9/11
have been persistent in their attempts to find out information that
was suppressed but they have been blocked repeatedly in spite of
numerous FOIA requests.
Now,
eighteen years after the event, there has been something like a
breakthrough, penetrating the wall of silence erected by the
government. FBI reports on the possible Israeli role in 9/11 were
released on May 7th and
they serve to support speculation by myself and other former
intelligence officers that Israel, at a minimum, had detailed prior
knowledge of what was to take place. More than that, Israeli
intelligence officers working in the United States might well have
enabled certain aspects of the conspiracy.
To
recount some of what is already
known and suspected,
one should first examine the 2016 release of a heavily edited
and redacted
28 pages long
annex to the 9/11 Commission Report that explored the Saudi Arabian
role in the terrorist attack . The section concluded that the Saudi
government may have played a direct role in 9/11 by assisting two of
the hijackers, including a dry run exercise intended to learn how to
get into a plane’s cockpit. There was also considerable evidence
suggesting that wealthy Saudis and even members of the Royal Family
had been supporting and funding al-Qaeda.
But
far exceeding the Saudi role is the involvement of the Israeli
intelligence service Mossad, which was not subject to any serious
inquiry or investigation by U.S. intelligence or police agencies.
Israel, in spite of obvious involvement in 9/11, was not included in
the 9/11 Commission Report despite the existence of an enormous
Israeli intelligence operation freely working in the United States
that was known to the FBI. Some of those Mossad officers were notably
filmed celebrating as the Twin Towers were burning and collapsing.
In
the year 2001 Israel was running a massive spying operation through a
number of cover companies in New Jersey, Florida and also on the west
coast that served as spying mechanisms for Mossad officers. The
effort was supported by the Mossad Station in Washington D.C. and
included a large number of volunteers, the so-called “art students”
who traveled around the U.S. selling various products at malls and
outdoor markets. The FBI was aware of the numerous Israeli students
who were routinely overstaying their visas and some in the Bureau
certainly believed that they were assisting their country’s
intelligence service in some way, but it proved difficult to actually
link the students to undercover operations, so they were regarded as
a minor nuisance and were normally left to the tender mercies of the
inspectors at the Bureau of Customs and Immigration.
American
law enforcement was also painfully aware that the Israelis were
running more sophisticated intelligence operations inside the United
States, many of which were focused on Washington’s military
capabilities and intentions. Some specialized intelligence units
concentrated on obtaining military and dual use technology. It was
also known that Israeli spies had penetrated the phone systems of the
U.S. government, to include those at the White House.
In
its annual classified counterespionage review, the FBI invariably
places Israel at the top for “friendly” countries that spy on the
U.S. In fact, the pre-9/11 Bureau did its best to stay on top of the
problem, but it rarely received any political support from the
Justice Department and White House if an espionage case involved
Israelis. By one estimate, more than 100 such cases were not
prosecuted for political reasons. Any Israeli caught in flagrante
would most often be quietly deported and most Americans who were
helping Israel were let off with a slap on the wrist.
But
the hands-off attitude towards Israel shifted dramatically when, on
September 11, 2001, a New Jersey housewife saw something from the
window of her apartment building, which overlooked the World Trade
Center. She watched as the buildings burned and crumbled but also
noted something strange. Three young men were kneeling on the roof of
a white transit van parked by the water’s edge, making a movie in
which they featured themselves high fiving and laughing in front of
the catastrophic scene unfolding behind them. The woman wrote down
the license plate number of the van and called the police, who
responded quickly and soon both the local force and the FBI began
looking for the vehicle, which was subsequently seen by other
witnesses in various locations along the New Jersey waterfront, its
occupants “celebrating and filming.”
The
license plate number revealed that the van belonged to a New Jersey
registered company called Urban Moving Systems. At 4 p.m. the vehicle
was spotted and pulled over. Five men between the ages of 22 and 27
years old emerged and were detained at gunpoint and handcuffed. They
were all Israelis. One of them had $4,700 in cash hidden in his sock
and another had two foreign passports. Bomb sniffing dogs reacted to
the smell of explosives in the van, which had very little actual
moving equipment inside.
According
to the initial police report, the driver identified as Sivan
Kurzberg, stated “We are Israeli. We are not your problem. Your
problems are our problems. The Palestinians are the problem.” The
four other passengers were Sivan’s brother Paul, Yaron Shmuel, Oded
Ellner and Omer Marmari. The men were detained at the Bergen County
jail in New Jersey before being transferred the FBI’s Foreign
Counterintelligence Section, which handles allegations of spying.
After
the arrest, the FBI obtained a warrant to search Urban Moving
System’s Weehawken, N.J., offices. Papers and computers were
seized. The company owner Dominick Suter, also an Israeli, answered
FBI questions but when a follow-up interview was set up a few days
later it was learned that he had fled the country for Israel, putting
both his business and home up for sale. The office space and
warehouse were abandoned. It was later learned that Suter has been
associated with at least fourteen businesses in the United States,
mostly in New Jersey and New York but also in Florida. Suter and his
wife Omit Levinson Suter were the owners of 1 Stop Cleaner located in
Wellington Florida and Dominick was also associated with Basia
McDonnell, described as a Polish “holocaust survivor,” as a
business partner in yet another business called Value Ad. Florida was
a main focus for the Israeli intelligence operation in the U.S. that
was directed against Arabs.
The
five Israelis were among 140 Israelis arrested after 9/11, most of
whom had military backgrounds, including some who were trained in
“intelligence.” The five were held in Brooklyn, initially on
charges relating to visa fraud. FBI interrogators questioned them for
more than two months. Several were held in solitary confinement so
they could not communicate with each other and two of them were given
repeated polygraph exams, which they failed when claiming that they
were nothing more than students working summer jobs. The two men that
the FBI focused on most intensively were believed to be Mossad staff
officers and the other three were volunteers helping with
surveillance.
The
Israelis were not exactly cooperative, but the FBI concluded from
documents obtained at their office in Weehawken that they were
targeting Arabs in New York and New Jersey, most particularly in the
Paterson N.J. area, which has the second largest Muslim population in
the U.S.
They were particularly interested in local groups possibly
linked to Hamas and Hezbollah as well as in charities that might be
used for fund raising. The FBI also concluded that the Israelis had
actually monitored the activities of at least two of the 9/11
hijackers.
To
be sure, working on an intelligence operation does not necessarily
imply participation in either the planning or execution of something
like 9/11, but there are Israeli fingerprints all over the place,
with cover companies and intelligence personnel often intersecting
with locations frequented by the hijackers.
Apart
from the interrogations of the five men from Weehawken, the U.S.
government has apparently never sought to find out what else the
Israelis might have known or were up to in September 2011. There are
a lot of dots that might well have been connected once upon a time,
but the trail has grown cold. Police records in New Jersey and New
York where the men were held have disappeared and FBI interrogation
reports have been inaccessible. Media coverage of the case also died,
though the five were referred to in the press as the “dancing
Israelis” and by some, more disparagingly, as the “dancing
Shlomos.”
Inevitably,
the George W. Bush White House intervened. After 71 days in
detention, the five Israelis were released from prison by Attorney
General John Ashcroft, put on a plane, and deported. Two of the men
later spoke about their unpleasant experience in America on an
Israeli talk show, one explaining that their filming the fall of the
Twin Towers was to “document the event.” In 2004 the five men
sued the United States government for damages, alleging “that their
detention was illegal and that their civil rights were violated,
suffering racial slurs, physical violence, religious discrimination,
rough interrogations, deprivation of sleep, and many other offenses.”
They were represented by Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, who in the previous
year had founded the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center which seeks to
bankrupt groups that Israel considers to be “terrorists.” Shurat
HaDin is closely tied to the Israeli government.
Now
it is just possible that the Urban Moving Israelis were indeed
uninvolved in 9/11 but nevertheless working for Mossad, which the
Israeli government even subsequently admitted, but the
new evidence suggests that
the Israelis almost certainly had considerable prior knowledge and
were likely involved in what developed. The new information reveals
that minutes after the first plane struck the World Trade Center,
five Israelis had taken up position in the parking lot of the Doric
Apartment Complex in Union City, New Jersey, where they took pictures
and filmed the attacks while also celebrating the fall of the towers
and “high fiving.” One
eyewitnessinterviewed
by the Bureau had seen the Israelis’ van circling the building
parking at 8:00 a.m. that day, more than 40 minutes prior to the
attack, indicating prior knowledge of what was about to happen.
The photo reproductions were obtained via a FOIA request made by a
private citizen and
are of poor quality, deliberately made so by the FBI to conceal faces
and other details. They constitute only 14 of over seventy photos
taken by the Israelis. Nevertheless, they clearly demonstrate that a
celebration was going on. One photo, intriguingly, shows Sivan
Kurzberg holding a lit lighter in front of the Manhattan Skyline on
September 10th,
one day before 9/11. It was apparently taken at the Doric Complex on
a reconnoitering visit made on that day and suggests that Kurzberg
was simulating the attack on the towers on the following day.
Why
would the Israelis do it? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
described 9/11 initially as “a good thing.” He was later quoted
as saying somewhat
more expansively “We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the
attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in
Iraq.” To be sure, 9/11 was a gift to Israel and it is a gift that
keeps on giving. America is at war in a number of Muslim countries
and its troops blanket the Middle East, to include a base in Israel
dedicated to the defense of that country. It is all a result of the
Global War on Terror and the GWOT started with 9/11. And just maybe
it was a fire that was ignited by Israel.
Philip
Giraldi is a former counter-terrorism specialist and military
intelligence officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) and a columnist and television commentator who is Executive
Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax
deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023)
that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle
East. Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org, address
is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email
is inform@cnionline.org.
This
article was originally published by “Unz
Review“-
Voor meer berichten over de 9/11 aanslagen, klik op het label 911, direct onder dit bericht. Let
wel: na een aantal berichten wordt het laatst gelezen bericht telkens
herhaald, dan onder dat laatst gelezen bericht even opnieuw op het label 911 klikken, enz. enz.
Het is
inmiddels 8 jaar geleden dat Osama bin Laden werd vermoord (2 mei 2011) door VS
commando’s. Seymour Hersh legt in zijn nieuwe boek ‘The Killing of Osama Bin Laden’, uit dat bin Laden,
niet n.a.v. inlichtingen verzamelende VS geheime diensten werd
gevonden, maar dat een tip van een Pakistaanse officier de VS aan de verblijfplaats van bin Laden hielp……
Daarna
werd Pakistan te verstaan gegeven dat ze hadden mee te werken aan de
ontvoering of moord op bin Laden, anders….. En meehelpen deden de Pakistaanse autoriteiten,
er werd zelfs een commandopost van de VS ingericht in de buurt van
het huis waar bin Laden verbleef…..
De radar
van Pakistan zou de eerste 3 VS helikopters met commando’s niet
hebben kunnen ontdekken, terwijl deze apparatuur van hoge kwaliteit door de VS aan Pakistan geschonken, deze helikopters wel moet hebben
gezien, ofwel men heeft in Pakistan de radarbeelden met opzet
genegeerd (onder druk van de VS)….. Nadat één van de helikopters
in brand vloog, werd er een nieuwe en grotere helikopter ingevlogen,
ook die ‘werd niet ontdekt’ door de Pakistaanse autoriteiten…..
Het
moorddadig werk van de VS militairen duurde veel langer dan voorzien,
mede door de helikopter die in brand vloog, ‘toch was de duur van
e.e.a. te kort’ voor de Pakistaanse politie en leger om de woning van
bin Landen te bereiken….
Er
werden eerder al leugens ontdekt over de dood van bin Laden, leugens
door de VS verspreidt, leugens die dan ook een paar keer werden aangepast…… Zo zou bin Laden in eerste instantie bewapend zijn
geweest en had men hem daardoor wel moeten vermoorden, later zou de
reden daarvoor de aanwezigheid zijn geweest van 2 gewapende vrouwen,
een verhaal dat ook maar kort standhield, uiteindelijk moet
geconcludeerd worden dat Osama bin Laden moedwillig en met een enorm
aantal schoten werd vermoord….. (niet voor niets dat men geen foto’s van het lijk toonde, daar dit wel eens tot zware publieke verontwaardiging had kunnen leiden…)
Het is dan ook zonder meer duidelijk dat bin Laden niet gevangen mocht worden genomen, Obama en zijn minister van BuZa, destijds Hillary Clinton, hadden van meet af aan de opzet bin Laden te vermoorden…… Veronderstel dat bin Laden tijdens een proces een boekje open had gedaan over wat de VS wat betreft 9/11 op haar kerfstok had staan…..
De hierna volgende tekst en video komen van Brasscheck TV, verbaas
je mee tijdens het volgende gesprek met Seymour Hersh, de video duurt 1 uur, maar dat is de tijd meer dan waard! (zijdelings komt ook het meer dan kromme VS beleid t.a.v. Syrië ter sprake):
THE
KILLING OSAMA FRAUD
SEYMOUR
HERSH EXPLAINS WHAT TOTAL BS
THE OFFICIAL STORY IS
“ALL
THE OFFICIAL STORIES DISINTEGRATED”
May
2 is the anniversary of the reported killing of Osama bin Laden.
Seymour
Hersh explains what total BS the official story is.
“All
the official stories disintegrated.”
Brasscheck
pointed this out the week that it happened, but it’s good to have
confirmation from a veteran investigative reporter confirm our early
analysis.
Lots
of good background on how the US got in bed with the ISI (the
Pakistani intelligence agency.)
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PS: bin Laden zou de grote bedenker van 9/11 zijn geweest, echter intussen is meer dan duidelijk dat m.n. geheime diensten uit de VS (met hulp van de Israëlische geheime dienst Mossad) de grote bedenkers waren en dat zij de regie voerden over het opblazen van de Twin Towers en een ander deel van het WTC…….. Nogmaals: het is onmogelijk deze schade aan te richten met 2 vliegtuigen, zo hebben meerdere echte deskundigen geconcludeerd……. Uiteraard had men een aantal arabieren met de pest aan de VS de idee gegeven dat zij de werkelijke daders waren…… In dit soort zaken moet je altijd kijken naar wie het meeste baat heeft bij een dergelijke aanslag en dat was de VS!! Zo was dit ‘ten voordele van de enorme schuld’ van de VS, op 11 september 2001 verdwenen een fiks aantal documenten over deze enorme schuld, documenten die in één van de torens werden bewaard. Daarnaast werken de opvolgende VS regeringen altijd nauw samen met het militair-industrieel complex en dat complex had een nieuwe vijand nodig nadat de Sovjet-Unie was verdwenen……. Verder hebben de geheime diensten fiks garen gesponnen bij de aanslagen, hun bevoegdheden werden uitgebreid naar een onzalig niveau dat alleen bij een dictatuur past, natuurlijk aangevuld met een veel groter budget…… Om een achterlijk gezegde te gebruiken: een win win situatie…….. (en ach, de naar schatting 3.000 slachtoffers in de Twin Towers zijn alweer vergeten en zijn al bijna duizendvoudig gewroken in de illegale oorlogen die de VS na 9/11 begon, waarbij ruim meer dan 2,5 miljoen voornamelijk moslims werden vermoord…..)
