11:47 AM 8/23/2020 - "A liar with 'no principles'"
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Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., left, speaks alongside House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Sen.Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., right, outside of the headquarters of the United States Postal Service in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 18, 2020.  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters packed the streets of Minsk on Sunday as the army waded into Belarus’ political crisis, warning that it, not the police, would respond to any opposition unrest near the city’s national memorials.Demonstrations have been held in the capital and other Belarusian towns since Aug. 9, when an election which protesters describe as rigged granted veteran leader Alexander Lukashenko a sixth term in office. The streets of Minsk turned red and white as a flood of demonstrators carried flags symbolising their opposition to Lukashenko, demanding he quit after 26 years in power and new elections be held, videos showed. They marched towards a monument that was surrounded by a chain of security service members clad in military uniform, a Reuters witness said. The defence ministry said it had now taken over responsibility for the protection of such memorials, and that any unrest near them would elicit a response from the army. Describing the protesters as “fascists” and writing the majority of its statement in capital letters, the defence ministry said the memorials, specifically to victims of the World War Two, were holy sites that must not be desecrated. “WE CATEGORICALLY WARN: ANY VIOLATION OF PEACE AND ORDER IN SUCH PLACES – YOU WILL HAVE THE ARMY TO DEAL WITH NOW, NOT THE POLICE.” In a statement the Belarus interior ministry warned that any unsanctioned protests were considered illegal and said 22 people had been arrested the previous day, when smaller-scale protests took place across 55 towns and cities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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An Israeli woman uses her phone in front of a building in Herzliya that housed the NSO Group intelligence firm, August 28, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP/File)
The Israeli government officially mediated the sale of spyware made by private firm NSO Group to a number of Gulf nations to help them in surveillance of opposition figures, in deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars over the past few years, the Haaretz daily reported on Sunday.
Contracts were reportedly signed with Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the emirates of Abu Dhabi and Ras Al-Khaimah. The report said Israel prohibited NSO from working with Qatar, an ally of Iran. A product sold in Europe for $10 million can be sold in the Gulf for ten times that, an individual familiar with the financials of NSO told the newspaper. The report said that representatives of the Israeli government participated in some meetings between intelligence officials from Arab states and executives from NSO. Some of those meetings were said to have been held in Israel.
According to the report, the Israeli company only worked with governments and official organizations, but did not distinguish between democracies and dictatorships and had little sway over how the technology was used.
The company was said to have a team dedicated to sales in the Gulf, whose members all had foreign passports to ease travel. The report said each country was given a code name based on a car manufacturer beginning with the first letter of the countrys name: Saudi Arabia was Subaru, Bahrain was BMW and Jordan was Jaguar.
The report said that in NSOs latest iteration of its hacking software, Pegasus 3, simply supplying the program with the phone number of the device one wants to hack usually allows the operator access to the device within several hours, with no action required by the targeted user.
Additionally, the report said NSO can fully control its software remotely, and shut it down or examine the intelligence being collected by its clients in real time.
Pegasus allows agents to effectively take control of a phone, surreptitiously controlling its cameras and microphones from remote servers and vacuuming up personal data and geolocations.
The company was said to have shut down the use of its software in Mexico after it was used against journalists, but the report said no such action had been taken in any of the Gulf states.
NSO is said to have also hired former Israeli security officers to help with the analysis of the Gulf information, separate to the phone hacking, as regimes were said to be struggling to make sense of the volume of data.
Unidentified employees told Haaretz that although the company has claimed it carefully regulates use of its software to only allow the tracking of criminals and suspected terrorists, there were no actual checks on its use.
According to the report, the software is designed to self-destruct if it detects the device it has been installed on has crossed a border into Israel, Iran, Russia, China or the United States.
Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 29, 2011. (AP /Virginia Mayo, File)
NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio denied any connection to the incident. The report pointed out that the companys compliance rules differ from country to country, allowing the possibility that a Saudi dissident could be labeled a terrorist. Earlier this month, Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced a deal to normalize relations, bringing ties into the open that had been conducted in the shadows for many years.
A 2019 Amnesty International report found that UAE authorities subjected detainees, including foreign nationals, to arbitrary arrest and detention, torture and enforced disappearance.
A Human Rights Watch report for 2019 found that UAE authorities have launched a sustained assault on freedom of expression and association since 2011. The UAE arbitrarily detains and forcibly disappears individuals who criticize the authorities within the UAEs borders.
In response to the Haaretz reported NSO issued a statement denying the claims made.
The claims in the article are false and untrue. We are very proud of our technology, which each and every day helps to foil terror and prevent serious crime and pedophilia around the world, while we fully meet our compliance and human rights policy, which is unprecedented in the world, the statement read.
Last month a US judge ruled that a lawsuit brought by WhatsApp against NSO Group can go ahead, meaning the Israeli spyware firm could be compelled to reveal information about its clients and practices, the Guardian reported.
This February 19, 2014, photo, shows WhatsApp and Facebook app icons on a smartphone in New York (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)
The lawsuit said the Pegasus software developed by NSO was designed to be remotely installed to hijack devices using the Android, iOS, and BlackBerry operating systems. NSO Group has previously claimed that it only licenses its software to governments for fighting crime and terror and that it investigates credible allegations of misuse, but activists argue the technology has been instead used for human rights abuses.
Agencies contributed to this report.
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FBI posts anti-Semitic text 'The Protocol of the Elders of Zion' on TwitterAfter backlash, FBI says file of text that claims that the Jews plan to take over the world was uploaded automatically under the Freedom of Information Act and "regrets" the distress it might have caused.
Without providing context, an official FBI Twitter account shared a link to a copy on the bureau's website of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an infamous and classic anti-Semitic text.
The fabrication, which was shown to be plagiarized from several earlier sources, was first published in Russia in 1903, translated into multiple languages and disseminated internationally in the early part of the 20th century. The Twitter post about the text, whose author is unknown and which scapegoats Jews such as baselessly claiming there's a Jewish plan for world domination, ignited a backlash. Historian Simon Schama tweeted "that this has to be done right away! Appalling not have explanatory context " The FBI file shared on Twitter includes reports from the FBI classifying the book as false, a 1964 report from the Senate Judiciary Committee, in which they label the text as "fabricated" and "crude and vicious nonsense," and several letters to former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover about a resurgence of the text. It also contains a letter from a so-called confidential informant who sent Hoover the Protocols and other inflammatory content about a baseless Jewish Communist conspiracy in 1949 and Hoover's polite note thanking said informant. In a statement, the FBI said that the file was posted in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) "Earlier today, FOIA materials were posted to the FBI's Vault and FOIA Twitter account via an automated process without further outlining the context of the documents. We regret that this release may have inadvertently caused distress among the communities we serve," said the bureau. The FBI makes records requested by three or more requesters available to the public by posting on the "Vault," the FBI's electronic FOIA reading room located on the FBI's website. As per standard procedure for FOIA, these materials became available for release and were posted automatically. The FBI's FOIA Twitter account (@FBIRecordsVault) is automated and automatically tweets new Vault posts as they are published on the Vault website. New posts added to the Vault will appear on the Vault's "Recently Added" page. An automated system monitors that page via an RSS feed and feeds links to new FOIA releases onto the @FBIRecordsVault Twitter account. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A new documentary draws comparisons between Donald Trump and a pair of despotic world leaders, with some top psychologists comparing the president to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
As The Daily Beast reported, the yet-to-be-released feature film, #Unfit, uses interviews with a number of psychologists and prominent critics of the president who probe his mental state and what they see as tyrannical tendencies. That includes Justin Frank, a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and author of books on the minds of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. As the report noted, Frank did not mince words when it came to his assessment of Trump. Trump is a sociopath. A sadist. A con artist. A racist. A misogynist. A sexist in general, Frank said. And I think it is a problem. Fellow psychological expert John Gartner shared a similar assessment, saying that he shares qualities with autocrats like Mussolini and Hitler. Gartners claim that theyre cut from the same cloth is bolstered by other historians and mental health professionals who draw direct links between Trumps MO and those of 1930s fascists who exploited and magnified existing economic fears, prejudices, and discontent to seize power and then systematically neuter institutions that might challenge him, the report from The Daily Beast noted. This is not the first time that critics have drawn comparisons between Trump and authoritarian leaders. Many of his more vocal opponents have struck the president for what appeared to be admiration of other world leaders with authoritarian tendencies. Many have seized on statements from Trump floating the idea of remaining in his office beyond two terms, which would be a violation of the U.S. Constitution. As The Inquisitr reported, Rep. James Clyburn has raised a similar concern, saying he believes Trump may refuse to leave office if he loses to Joe Biden in November. I feel very strongly that he is Mussolini, Putin is Hitler, said Clyburn. The film #Unfit is the latest project from psychiatric or psychological experts that calls into question Trumps mental state and fitness to hold office. Yale University psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee has led many of these efforts, speaking out against what she sees as dangerous tendencies from Trump and signs of potential cognitive decline. These statements have generated controversy in the medical community, where it has traditionally been frowned upon to speak publicly and offer a potential diagnosis about a person who is not a patient. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Steve Bannons arrest on charges that he defrauded donors to a right-wing immigration group for $1 million marks the end of a political erathe era when a Trumpian admixture of economic populism and nativist immigration policy looked as if it could, as Bannon once put it to me, deliver the Republican Party a hammerlock on the Electoral College.
At the time he made this assessment, in the days after Trumps 2016 victory, it seemed entirely plausible that Bannon, Donald Trumps campaign chairman and future chief strategist, was right. Before Trump, the GOP had imagined its future lay in purging its racist fringe and soft-pedaling its brand of laissez-faire economics to a diversifying nation that had spurned the 2012 Republican ticket of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. The Republican Party autopsy conducted in 2013 after their loss warned that the GOP risked falling into oblivion if it didnt present a more welcoming face to immigrants, minorities, and young people. Trump, of course, egged on by Bannon, instead offered a turbocharged anti-immigrant nationalism that promised to revive working-class fortunes, a message that resonated particularly among Rust Belt voters whod previously voted Democratic. He was certain that Republican Party leaders would recognize this. What Reince [Priebus] and Paul Ryan realize now, Bannon told me after the election, is that our message was the right one and that its gonna deliver Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania to the Republican Party for a generation. This was the Trump hammerlock. Even after Bannon left the White House in 2017, he held fast to his belief that a politics of hard-edged nationalism could deliver the right politician the presidency. Resentful of his ousterIm sick of playing wet nurse to a 71-year-old man, he griped of TrumpBannon began fitting himself for the role of political leader. Upon leaving the White House, he tried to marshal a slate of nationalist candidates, including Alabama Senate hopeful Roy Moore, who would rout the GOP establishment and carry Trumpism beyond Trump. Bannons fantasy never came to fruition. Instead, as often happened, his indiscretion became his undoing. After the author Michael Wolff quoted Bannon disparaging members of Trumps family, Trump angrily ostracized him from the Republican Party. This included pressuring Rebekah Mercer, a major Trump donor and backer of Breitbart News, to oust Bannon from his position atop the conservative publication. To do this, Bannon swallowed his pride and began making boosterish appearances on Fox News to loudly advocate for the same president whod publicly destroyed his standing in Republican politics and even issued a White House press release saying that Bannon had lost his mind. To regain relevance, Bannon became active in anti-immigrant organizations like We Build the Wall, whose leaders were indicted by federal prosecutors on Thursday, and anti-China groups like the Committee on the Present Danger (Bannon was arrested aboard a 150-foot yacht belonging to Chinese billionaire tycoon-in-exile Guo Wengui). But Bannon was no more effective in bringing about the policies Trump had campaigned on than Trump was. The supposed purpose of We Build the Wall was to build a privately funded barrier at the U.S.-Mexico borderthe one that Trump had promised to erect in 2016 (and make Mexico pay for) but failed to do as president. Just as Trump sold a bill of goods to his followers, prosecutors allege that Bannon and the leaders of We Build the Wall were essentially grifters who raised $25 million by preying on the nativist political desires of donors. The defendants defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalizing on their interest in funding a border wall to raise millions of dollars, under the false pretense that all of that money would be spent on construction, U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said in a statement. The idea that Bannon and a group of right-wing extremists would actually build a border wall was ridiculous on its face. Last month, ProPublica discovered that a three-mile section of wall the group erected too close to the Rio Grande had already begun to erode and was in danger of falling down. The true purpose of the project, as Trump himself seemed to discern, was to bring attention, acclaim, and money to its sponsors in a way that would attract the presidents notice and help Bannon to rehabilitate his tattered image. I havent been dealing with him for a very long period of time, Trump told reporters on Thursday. [I] dont know anything about the project at all ... I dont like that project. I thought it was being done for showboating reasons. The symbolism of Bannons grand political project ending in his indictment and arrest is timely, if nothing else. Precisely four years ago, hed just taken command of Trumps sputtering, left-for-dead presidential campaign and was about to steer it to the greatest upset in U.S. political history. Although hes avoided indictment, Trumps path hasnt been much smoother. He survived impeachment, but he hasnt delivered a border wall, middle-class prosperity, or an American condition that can be considered anything like great again. It takes just a glance at the pollsTrump is behind in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvaniato see that the electoral lock Bannon envisioned, like so much else, is a fiction and that Trumps political career, like that of his former strategist, could be about to draw to a close. Read next: What Happens If the President Tests Positive for Coronavirus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Senate Intelligence Committee should be applauded for releasing the fifth and final volume on their investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. With over 200 witness interviews and roughly one million documents reviewed, the nearly 1000-page report documents in detail the comprehensive campaign conducted by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his proxies to seek influence within the Trump campaign, help President Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election, and amplify polarization and division within American society.
Far from a hoax, as the president so often claimed, the report reveals how the Trump campaign willingly engaged with Russian operatives implementing the influence effort
Far from a hoax, as the president so often claimed, the report reveals how the Trump campaign willingly engaged with Russian operatives implementing the influence effort. For instance, the report exposes interactions and information exchanged between Russian intelligence officer Konstantin Kilimnik and then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. According to the report, campaign figures presented attractive targets for foreign influence, creating notable counterintelligence vulnerabilities. (Manafort was later convicted of tax and bank fraud.)The bipartisan tone of the majority of the report, released by a committee chaired by Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, should be welcomed by all Americans who want our elected leaders to protect American sovereignty. National security should never be a partisan issue.
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Tragically, however, some of the most egregious practices from the 2016 presidential campaign and documented by the Senate investigation are repeating themselves in the 2020 presidential campaign. Once again, President Vladimir Putin wants Trump to win and appears to be seeking to undermine the legitimacy of our election. Just like in 2016, Putin has deployed his conventional media, his social media operations and his intelligence assets to pursue these objectives.Most shockingly, Trump and his allies have decided to again play right along. Because waiting for criminal investigations or more congressional hearings will be too late, it will be up to American voters to decide when and how cooperation with foreign actors during a presidential election crosses the line. Trump activities to date are not appropriate. Instead of criticizing this behavior, however, Trump and his allies are amplifying and promoting Russian disinformation online. Perhaps most amazingly, Trump is circulating to his 85 million Twitter followers material provided by foreign actors designed to discredit Biden. Derkach the pro-Russia Ukrainian oligarch is reportedly providing these slanderous materials to Republicans, including Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa. Johnson and Grassley have also defended the use of material from former Ukrainian diplomat Andriy Telizhenko, who is working with Rudy Guilani to spread a discrediting anti-Biden narrative. In fact, Johnson commented directly in an interview about his new investigation of U.S. intelligence activities during the Obama era, I would think it would certainly help Donald Trump win reelection and certainly be pretty good evidence about not voting for Vice President Biden. Following public pressure and increasing tensions, the Senators released a statement publicly denying participating in the Russian disinformation campaign. Yet, it all feels like a replay of Nataliya Veselnitskayas mission to Trump headquarters in the summer of 2016 to provide dirt on then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton only now, all in the open. Amidst a patchwork of responses from the U.S. government and social media companies, many analysts and non-governmental organizations have become more skillful in tracking and aggressively countering disinformation operations. But exposure alone does not deter adversaries, nor does it stop the evolution of their tactics. Furthermore, divisions on race, religion, and immigration in the United States have only deepened in the past year. With China, Iran, and Venezuela now in the disinformation game, our current presidential election is, in some ways, already more chaotic than 2016. After revelations about Russian interference in 2016, including the targeting of elections systems in all 50 states, American leaders concerned with defending our sovereignty and protecting our national security should have established a bipartisan commission as they did after September 11, 2001 to investigate all dimensions of external influence, including the Obama administrations response. Trump opposed such a commission. Subsequently, Robert Muellers team at the Department of Justice was assigned the narrower assignment of investigating criminal activity, which they discovered along with at least 140 contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian nationals. Both Russians and Americans were indicted, some of whom are in jail today. But Muellers focus on criminal activity ignored counterintelligence threats that developed during 2016. This final volume from the Senate Intelligence Committee has documented in greater detail the counterintelligence threats at stake. Now, the American voters must decide what is fair and honorable in political competition and what is not. It is wrong to solicit, let alone use, help from a foreign government to win an election. It is especially wrong to seek such assistance from an adversary like Russia, and to do so in a presidential election. We dont need Putins help in choosing our president. We, the American voters, can do that on our own. Trumps campaign encouraged Putins help in 2016 and celebrated that assistance when it arrived, especially materials that were stolen by Russian intelligence officers and published by WikiLeaks. Putin violated American sovereignty stealing private property, and then using it to help Trump and hurt Clinton. When asked about these facts at a July 2018 press conference in Helsinki while standing next to Putin, Trump denied the findings of his of our own intelligence community, and instead defended the Russian autocrat. Trump has since remained loyal to Putin, not once criticizing him in public, and often undermining policies from his own administration to contain and deter Putins belligerent behavior abroad. Trump has refused to pledge that he will not accept foreign help this fall. When asked last year about accepting dirt from a foreign government on his electoral opponents, Trump bluntly stated, I think I'd take it." In contrast, Biden has affirmed that his campaign will not use information or accept assistance provided by foreign actors, an act that our Stanford research team urged all presidential candidates take in our 2019 report on the integrity of U.S. elections. In addition, Biden has assured Americans that he would retaliate in response to any foreign interference. Trump and Bidens contrasting positions on Russian interference in American elections are clear. Whether voters care about these differences, however, is not as obvious. On Election Day, we will find out.
Michael McFaul is the director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of "From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putins Russia." He served as Special Assistant to the President at the National Security Council and as U.S. Ambassador to Russia in the Obama administration.
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NEW YORK CITY Rats became less of a daily complaint for New Yorkers as they first hunkered down for the coronavirus, 311 data shows.
But the city's rodents couldn't squirm out of attention for long complaints are swarming back to pre-pandemic levels and officials recently warned piling trash could provide a "welcome mat for the rats."
"Now, this is like rat city because of too much garbage in the street," said Congressman Adriano Espaillat recently.
Rodent complaints to 311 took a dip in March the month COVID-19 officially arrived in New York City and the state went into lockdown according to data.
Operators logged 1,611 total complaints compared to 2,395 in March last year, data shows. Complaints dipped further in April 1,575 compared to 2,800 the year before.
There weren't necessarily fewer rats. Inside Edition in May filmed rats swarming over Manhattan streets and garbage cans. And experts told MarketWatch that people likely had bigger worries in the pandemic than rodents.
Sure enough, complaints steadily climbed as New Yorkers emerged out of widespread isolation into welcoming warm weather.
They reached 3,006 in July, roughly the same number as that month last year, according to 311 data.
Rodent complaints include rat sightings, mouse sightings, conditions that attract rodents and signs of rodents.
Here's a comparison of complaints that were listed simply as "rat sightings" between 2019 and so far in 2020:
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#BIOLOGICALWEAPONS DO NOT HAVE TO BE HIGHLY LETHAL OR CONTAGIOUS. HITLER THOUGHT THAT THE #BIOLOGICALWARFARE SHOULD BE WAGED MOSTLY FOR THE ECONOMIC PURPOSES (& PSY-OP INTIMIDATION, OF COURSE). AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IS GOING ON, OTHER SIGNS POINT TO THE NAZI LABS ORIGINS ALSO. pic.twitter.com/ZjEBfgGO9W
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Michael Novakhov on Twitter from Michael_Novakhov (4 sites): mikenov on Twitter: #BIOLOGICALWEAPONS DO NOT HAVE TO BE HIGHLY LETHAL OR CONTAGIOUS. HITLER THOUGHT THAT THE #BIOLOGICALWARFARE SHOULD BE WAGED MOSTLY FOR THE ECONOMIC PURPOSES (& PSY-OP dlvr.it/Rf5kK5
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Michael Novakhov SharedNewsLinks: 2:49 PM 8/21/2020 #BIOLOGICALWEAPONS DO NOT HAVE TO BE HIGHLY LETHAL OR CONTAGIOUS. HITLER THOUGHT THAT THE #BIOLOGICALWARFARE SHOULD BE WAGED MOSTLY FOR THE ECONOMIC PURPOSES (& PSY-OP INTIMIDATION, OF COURSE). dlvr.it/Rf5kKs
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Humans are not the only species facing a potential threat from SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, according to a new study ... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3:53 PM 8/21/2020 - #BIOLOGICALWEAPONS DO NOT HAVE TO BE HIGHLY LETHAL OR CONTAGIOUS. HITLER THOUGHT THAT THE #BIOLOGICALWARFARE SHOULD BE WAGED MOSTLY FOR THE ECONOMIC PURPOSES (& PSY-OP INTIMIDATION, OF COURSE). AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IS GOING ON, OTHER SIGNS POINT TO THE NAZI LABS ORIGINS ALSO. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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