‘Every 2nd Jew in Germany Wishes to Leave’: Berlin to Seek EU-wide Criminalization of Holocaust Denial

German Foreign Minister on the Legacy of the Holocaust

"For A Long Time Now, Words Have Not Been Enough"

Speeches and warnings are insufficient when it comes to anti-Semitism in Germany and Europe. We need concrete programs to counter the hatred of Jews, including better education and harsher penalties.

An Op-Ed by Heiko Maas

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas REUTERS

"Halle was my home." This is one of the saddest sentences I have heard in a long time. Max Privorozki said it, the head of Halle’s Jewish community, which only barely escaped a massacre in October. His words express the utter despair at the fact that anti-Semitism has become a part of daily life for Jews in Germany once again. Every day, Jewish citizens are openly attacked on our streets or threatened and insulted online. There were over 400 such incidents in Berlin alone over a period of six months last year – more than two per day. In light of such figures, it does not surprise me that almost every second Jew in Germany has already thought about leaving the country. But it pains me even more. We urgently need to take action so that such thoughts do not become bitter reality and large numbers of Jews do not leave Germany. It is an absolute nightmare that people of the Jewish faith no longer feel at home here in Germany – and a terrible disgrace 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz.

For a long time now, words have not been enough. The lives of dozens of people in Halle were saved by a mere wooden door. We need to do more to protect Jewish institutions and communities, not only in Germany, but all over Europe. For this purpose, we will provide the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe with 500,000 euros in 2020.

But more needs to be done. Perpetrators like the one in Halle have international contacts. They become radicalized online, across national borders. And regardless of whether the attacks are on a Jewish museum in Brussels, a kosher supermarket in Paris or a synagogue in Germany, each attack on Jewish life is an attack on Europe as a whole, our culture and our values. Anti-Semitism contradicts everything that Europe stands for: tolerance, freedom and human dignity.

It is not only because of our history that we Germans have a particular duty here. Our presidency of the Council of the European Union starts in the summer; in November we will take on the presidency of the Council of Europe; and in just a few weeks’ time, we will begin chairing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance for the first time. The fight against anti-Semitism must be at the top of the agenda at all three of these institutions.

A bit over a year ago, all EU member states pledged to develop strategies to counter anti-Semitism. Germany must be a role model in that fight. Too few member states have national commissioners for the fight against anti-Semitism, and that needs to change. We need a European network of commissioners from all member states to consolidate the fight against anti-Semitism in a European action plan. This should include criminal prosecution and better protection for Jewish institutions, as well as measures to fight anti-Semitism through education and integration.

Even before the attack in Halle, we knew that at some point, harsh words would be followed by brutal acts. We need to take steps against hate speech, as it is becoming ever more blatant – on the internet and on social media platforms. During our EU presidency, we will intensify the fight against online hate crime and disinformation campaigns. Online abuse must be subject to the full force of the law everywhere in Europe.

Nobody can be allowed to deny or play down the worst crime in human history, the Holocaust. The European Court of Human Rights spelled that out once again just a few weeks ago. We are working to ensure that all EU member states finally make it a crime to deny the Holocaust, as they have pledged to do.

And we also want to counter the dangerous lies about the Holocaust and the twisting of facts around the world. To this end, we will set up an international network of experts this year, which will develop counter-strategies: a Global Task Force Against Holocaust Denial.

A third of young Europeans say they know little or nothing about the Holocaust. And this figure is even higher among young Germans. Memories of the murders of millions of people are at risk of fading, in part because, unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer survivors are among us to tell their stories. Education about the Holocaust is thus becoming increasingly important, through both non‑digital and digital means, and from primary school to university. In our German schools abroad we are making this a priority. The Federal Agency for Civic Education should also join forces with its European counterparts to develop joint guidelines for education and information about the Holocaust.

Policymakers need to take more resolute action in the fight against anti-Semitism. But there is one thing that their actions cannot do: replace the solidarity that arises when each of us takes a stand against anti-Semitism - on the street, in the schoolyard and on the internet. Only in this way will we convince people like Max Privorozki that Germany and Europe are and will remain their home, that Jews belong here as members of our society and that we are serious when we say now, 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz: “Never Again!” 

All these things Herr Maas talks about are good things and will surely help. But they are treating the symptoms, not the illness. The basis of antisemitism is spiritual. Genuine Christians support Israel and the Jewish people wholeheartedly. Muslims, atheists, and pseudo-Christians tend to be antisemitic. For Muslims - the more devout they are, the more likely they will hate Jews. Atheists, especially those who are determined atheists, have a propensity to hate both Christians and Jews, but, interestingly, not Muslims. Pseudo-Christians, those who call themselves Christian but have no real relationship with Jesus Christ, can end up anywhere on the spectrum from hatred (like far-right extremists) to indifference, or even concern.

History is not likely to repeat itself in Germany because the anti-semitism is being driven from the people, not the government. But, as the population gets farther and farther from God, and as the Muslim population continues to grow in disproportion to the indigenous people, it may be just a matter of time before a Jew-hating government is elected in Berlin. What a terrifying thought.

What Germany needs is a revival of its Lutheran roots, without which it condemns its Jewish citizens to growing fear and hostility. Only this time, they have a place to go. Once they leave, Germany will be left without any protection from God, again.

What Can You Believe Anymore? Not So Much Apparently

In my persistent quest for the truth, I have been persuaded that

almost nothing is ever as it seems anymore.

In today's news from Dubai comes a report of a man from Kerala, India, who applied on a mechanical engineering job in the Gulf State. The email he received from his prospective employer was astonishing for its candidness. It has since gone viral:

Gulf News - Shaheen Bagh is the epicentre of ongoing mass demonstrations against India’s controversial Citizenship Amendment Act.

The act makes it more difficult for Muslims to become citizens of India:

The Shaheen Bagh protest is an ongoing 24/7 sit-in peaceful protest, led by women, that began with the passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in both houses of Parliament on 11 December 2019 and the ensuing police intervention against students at Jamia Millia Islamia who were opposing the Amendment. Mainly Muslim women, the protesters at Shaheen Bagh, since 15 December 2019, have blocked a major highway[a] in New Delhi using non-violent resistance for 43 days now as of 26 January 2020. It has now become the longest ongoing continuous protest against CAA-NRC-NPR. -Wikipedia

Abdulla S.S., 23, who had applied for a mechanical engineer’s position in Dubai said he is still reeling from the shock of the email he got from UAE-based Indian expat Jayant Gokhale in response to his job application last week.

Rs 1000 is about $14 USD; free food and tea, sweets, are a pretty tempting offer especially for an unemployed Indian. 

The question is: 'is this going on elsewhere, or is it a one-off event?'  

This week in Vancouver, the extradition trial of Meng Wanzhou, the CFO of Hauwei, and the daughter of the founder of the spectacularly successful Chinese telecom company, got underway with a couple dozen protesters at the courts to support Meng. 

It turns out that they were hired to be there and, at least some, didn't know why they were even there until the last minute. 

Some of the participants have since alleged they were paid to take part in the protest.

Ken Bonson told the Star a friend recruited her and later deposited $150 into her account. At the courthouse, a woman she had never met before named “Joey” supplied them with posters, Bonson said. After learning more about Meng and the allegations against her, Bonson said she wished she had never taken part and felt “ashamed and embarrassed.” The Star has since spoken to the friend, who denies being paid or paying anyone to take part in the protest. The man refused to go on record for an interview. He said he did not know anyone named “Joey.”

Julia Hackstaff, an actor, wrote on Facebook that she was the victim of a “filthy cheap scam.” She said someone had contacted her Sunday evening asking if she wanted to be a background performer in a production for $100. When she arrived, she said, she received ambiguous instructions to hold a sign. When reporters approached the group and started asking questions, she thought it was all part of the production but quickly realized “everything was ‘too real.’

“I left after 5 minutes of being there.” - The Star

Another reason to suspect protests.

There is no reason to suspect the greatest protest of the 21st century - the Yellow Vest protest in France that has been going on for almost a year and a half, but, it might be worth investigating anyway.

But, perhaps the most disturbing example of paid protesting has to do with indigenous people of British Columbia and Alberta being used as pawns by American environmentalists, some of whom are sponsored by David Rockefeller (The Rockefellers were founders and owners of Standard Oil), to isolate Alberta oil and gas and keep it from reaching tidewater. This ensures Americans can buy it at ultra cheap prices, and they can't take markets that might otherwise be open to American oil and gas.

A left-wing lobby group in San Francisco wired $55,000 to the bank account of an Indian chief in Northern Alberta, paying him to oppose the oilsands.

The same IRS disclosure shows Tides Foundation (started by philanthropist Drummond Pike) made 25 different payments to Canadian anti-oilsands activists in a single year, totaling well over a million dollars. And that’s just one U.S. lobby group. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund out of New York, spends $7 million a year in Canada, with an explicit campaign strategy of fomenting Aboriginal unrest, through protests and lawsuits. - Toronto Sun    Alberta's Oil Not the Only Thing That's Dirty

The Rockefellers are known as great philanthropists, and they were. However, one has to wonder how much of their philanthropy was self-serving. 

Drummond Pike, started Tides Foundation, then Tides Center, then Tides Canada. Much of Pike's work was involved in supporting progressive politicians in both Canada and the  USA:

Pike along with George Soros and other Democracy Alliance members John R. Hunting; Paul Rudd (co-founder of Adaptive Analytics); Pat Stryker; Nicholas Hanauer; ex-Clinton administration official Rob Stein; Gail Furman; real estate developer Robert Bowditch; Pioneer Hybrid International-heir and congressional candidate Scott Wallace; Susie Tompkins Buell; real estate developer Albert Dwoskin; and Taco Bell-heir Rob McKay, funded the Secretary of State Project, an American non-profit, 527 political action committee focused on electing reform-minded progressive Secretaries of State in battleground states, who typically oversee the election process. The Alliance was critical in getting California Secretary of State Debra Bowen and Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie re-elected. - Wikipedia

See also:

Talk About ‘Collusion’: How Foreign-Backed Anti-Oil Activists Infiltrated Canada’s Government   Or, how wealthy American environmentalists bought the Canadian government and destroyed Alberta's Oil Sands industry

How America is Strangling the Canadian Oil Industry, and We're Helping Them

Anti-pipeline campaign was planned, intended, and foreign-funded: Vivian Krause

'Never Again': Anti-Semitism Surges as Memories of Holocaust Fade

“Young people are the ones that have to carry the memory of our loved ones forever,” said Auschwitz survivor Sonia Klein, 94.

'Hate and silence led to murder': Auschwitz survivor's warning to the world

By Saphora Smith, NBC News

LONDON — The Holocaust.

The word conjures up images of brutality so profound that it is hard for the mind to comprehend. After the full horror of the Nazi efforts to exterminate Europe’s Jews became clear, survivors of the genocide have been persistent with their vocal refrain in humanity’s ear: “Never Again.”

But on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland, academics and Jewish groups worry that the world’s collective memory is fading even as anti-Semitic attacks grow across the United States and Europe.

There may not be any survivors left for the 80th anniversary because so many of them are dying, warns Ronald Lauder, the chairman of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation, which helped arrange for more than 100 survivors to return to the site Monday to commemorate the day.

Lauder, who is also the president of the World Jewish Congress and a former U.S. ambassador to Austria, said the rise in anti-Semitism in the U.S. and elsewhere feels eerily like 1930s Europe as fascism swept the continent.

Image: Holocaust survivors stand behind a barbed wire fence after the liberation of Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945 in Nazi-occupied Poland.Holocaust survivors behind a barbed wire fence after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945. Yad Vashem Archives / Reuters file

“It’s exactly the same type of thing, it’s the same stuff said about Jews today as was said about Jews by the Nazis in the 1930s,” he said, blaming a lack of memory of the horrors of World War II and the spread of hate speech online.

It's not the lack of memory; it's much deeper than that!

According to a 2018 survey by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (the Claims Conference), young Americans are displaying an alarming lack of knowledge about the Holocaust.

Nearly 1-in-2 millennials asked could not name a single extermination camp, where millions of Jews were systematically killed, worked to death and experimented on by Nazi doctors.

Many today also underestimated the scale of the Holocaust, and 70 percent of American adults agreed that fewer people seem to care about it today than in the past, according to the Claims Conference, a New-York based group that negotiates with the German government for compensation for Holocaust survivors.

Image: The watchtowers of former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex in Oswiecim, PolandThe watchtowers of former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex in Oswiecim, Poland. Axel Schmidt / Reuters

In total, 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, which is also known by many as the Shoah.

At Auschwitz-Birkenau alone, more than a million people are estimated to have been murdered. The vast majority were Jews transported from across Europe to be killed in its gas chambers. Tens of thousands of others, including Poles, Soviet prisoners of war and those belonging to the Roma group were also killed at the site to the west of the city of Krakow.

Sonia Klein, who was a teenager when she arrived at the Nazis’ most notorious death camp in the spring of 1943, said the most important way to honor its liberation two years later was to ensure that as many young people as possible know what happened there.

“Young people are the ones that have to carry the memory of our loved ones forever,” Klein, 94, said.

Klein, who now lives in Brooklyn, was one of thousands of skeletal prisoners forced to walk miles in freezing conditions without proper food or clothing as the Nazis evacuated the death camp in January 1945.

She survived the death march to tell the tale but it was important, she said, to remember those who didn’t. To be forgotten was to be “murdered in vain,” she said.

Image: Pictures of prisoners are displayed in the former Nazi German Auschwitz concentration camp complex in Oswiecim, PolandPictures of prisoners are displayed in the former Nazi German Auschwitz concentration camp complex in Oswiecim, Poland.Axel Schmid / Reuters

Klein was joined by historians and academics in stressing that society’s understanding of the Holocaust needed to go beyond the mastering of historical facts and emphasize the values that can stop history from repeating itself.

“In another 10 to 15 years, we won’t have almost any survivors, so we need to learn how to feed the memory of the Holocaust but also the values of fighting against this phenomena in life,” said Yossi Mekelberg, a professor of international relations at Regent’s University in London, whose parents moved to Israel after surviving the Holocaust.

“Those who play with nationalism, nativism and racism, they’re playing with fire, they’re playing with our lives.”

Amos Goldberg, a historian at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, who focuses on the Holocaust and its memory, said there needed to be more instruction in tolerance, anti-racism, democracy, free speech and human rights.

“Those are the things that have to be strengthened because anti-Semitism was on the rise more or less when they started to sink,” he said.

There is more on this story at NBCNews.

Crime Tourism - Gangs of Chilean Thieves Plundering the World

Organized break-and-enter gangs arrive as tourists

and target Canadian neighbourhoods

Paul Haber

W5 producer, CTV

TORONTO -- There is a new type of tourist coming to Canada, one that is not interested in seeing the sights this country has to offer, but in burglarizing houses, particularly in affluent neighbourhoods.

These break-and-enter artists are part of an international crime wave that police say has roots in South America, has crossed the Atlantic targeting several European countries, and is now making its way to North America. It’s a disturbing trend that international law enforcement agencies reveal is getting bigger and more organized.

In the United States, the FBI even has a name for it: “Crime Tourism.”

Police agencies in Canada, the U.S. and Europe report that most of these uninvited visitors are Chilean. They do not require a visa to enter Canada as a tourist.

W5 contacted police forces across Canada and found examples of crime tourism from coast to coast.

One of the earliest examples was in 2015, when Toronto police arrested 12 Chileans and laid over 97 charges.

In Revelstoke, B.C., RCMP arrested three Chileans who were in possession of thousands of dollars in stolen jewelry and cash.

In Montreal at least six Chileans were arrested by police. They were part of a gang, police say, stole more than $210,000 in cash and jewelry from one house alone.

In October 2019, York Regional Police, a police force which operates near Toronto, arrested three Chileans and laid more than 60 charges.

One of the biggest crime tourism busts in Canada occurred in 2018, when police in Halton Region, just west of Toronto, arrested 15 Chileans as part of an operation codenamed “Project Estruendo.” Four hundred burglaries were linked to a single crime ring.

One of those homes belonged to Caitlin Crawford. In an interview with W5 she recounted coming home to find the lock on her back door broken and the door wide open. Besides the loss of personal items, what troubles her the most is the sense of violation.

“Having strangers in our home and especially in our kids bedrooms. That part was really sickening,” said Crawford.

Det. Sgt. Paul Foley of the Halton Regional Police Service told W5 “this was by far the biggest and probably most successful” case he has worked on while leading the Criminal Investigations Bureau.

Foreign burglars “come in, they essentially parachute into the community, they’ll target different neighbourhoods across the Greater Toronto Area,” said Foley, recounting the methods used by the criminals. After they’ve burgled a home the thieves either pawn the stolen goods or mail them back to Chile.

“We were able to get evidence to suggest that they were wiring money back home. Presumably that’s from pawning out property,” said Foley.

In the end, Project Estruendo recovered $2.7 million worth of stolen goods. Fourteen Chileans were convicted of breaking-and-entering offences. Most pleaded guilty and were deported back to Chile.

Great! Canada's wonderful justice system, again! The criminals come in, rob Canadians of millions of dollars worth of goods; and when they get caught, they plead guilty and get a free flight home. They will be home a week and on their way to another country, or perhaps, even back to Canada. 

INTERNATIONAL TOURISM CRIME

Foley’s experience mirrors that of police half a world away in the Netherlands, who have been watching organized break-and-enter gangs come into Europe via Spain and then rob their way across the continent. Dutch police have established a special task force to fight the crime tourists.

Officer Nick Kenbeek took the W5 team on a tour of the suburban Amsterdam neighbourhoods that are targeted by the criminals. They are very similar to the suburban neighbourhoods surrounding Canadian cities, with residents away at work during the day when the criminals strike.

According to Kenbeek, the criminals appear to be a step ahead of law enforcement.

“We know when people are arrested by us the organized crime kicks in,” said Kenbeek. “They take the people, bring them back to Chile and new ones are flying in.”

”It’s difficult because of how transient they are. It’s difficult to monitor them within Canada,” said Det. Sgt. Foley.

DETECTING THESE CRIMINALS

The transient nature of these criminals puts the onus on the Canadian Border Services Agency to filter these would-be criminals from entering Canada in the first place.

W5 asked Public Safety Minister Bill Blair how these Chilean criminals can get into Canada, past immigration and customs officers.

In a written statement, the Office of the Minister of Public Safety said: “Government’s greatest responsibility is to keep its citizens safe. While we cannot comment on the specifics of any one case or file, we understand that the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is aware of possible South American theft groups in Canada and has developed an effective program to identify and intercept these groups to ensure the continued safety of all Canadians.”

The statement did not elaborate on what the program is, or how its effectiveness is determined.

Foley believes “there is no golden ticket that’s going to solve it. Can we stop crime tourism? I doubt we can stop crime tourism, but what I do think is if we continue to work together with all the partners we can help reduce it.”

There are few things authorities say homeowners can do to protect themselves from burglars:

When out, leave the lights or a TV on to make it look like the house is occupied.

Have a neighbour clear the snow and collect mail if you are expected to be away for a prolonged period of time.

Be a good neighbour and report any suspicious activity to local police.

And Now for Something Completely Different... Objectophilia

Woman reveals WEDDING plans with Boeing jet

she’s been dating for six years

© Michele Kobke/ Instagram

The heart wants what it wants, as Emily Dickinson once wrote. But the American poet could hardly have envisioned the case of a German woman who has revealed plans to wed “the love of her life” – a 40-ton jumbo jet.

Michele Kobke has been dating the Boeing 737-800 since she met it at Berlin’s Tegel Airport in 2014. She says was immediately attracted to the jet’s wings, winglets and thrusters when she spied it through the airport window.   

Thus a whirlwind romance was sparked that reached new heights when Kobke was allowed stand on the plane’s wing and kiss it last year. The 30-year-old hopes the relationship will really take off when the pair tie the knot at an intimate ceremony in the Netherlands in March.

“The time in the hangar was the most beautiful moment of my life and when I was with him, we enjoyed our time together, we kissed and I caressed him,” the woman gushed, according to the Mirror.  

Kobke has only met her beloved “Schatz,” meaning darling, twice since. So, to keep love-sickness grounded, she cradles plane components in bed at night. She hopes to one day move into a hangar with the aircraft so they can be together all the time. 

The German woman has very clear ideas about how she wants the couple’s special day to go. “I wouldn’t want to put on a white dress, but dress really smartly with black trousers and a black blazer,” she explained.

I want to have someone marry us and say, ‘Do you want to marry your 737-800’ and I say, ‘Yes,’ we kiss, and then I’m immortalised with him and we can be together forever.

Kobke’s peculiar relationship with the Boeing is highly unusual but it’s not unheard of. It’s an example of objectophilia, a form of romantic attraction focused on particular inanimate objects. 

Oh, good! For a minute there I thought she invented another gender.

But the saleswoman argues that her relationship with Schatz is nothing out of the ordinary. “It’s like a normal relationship, we have relaxing evenings together and when we go to bed, we cuddle and fall asleep together,” she says. Love truly knows no bounds.

I'm so glad this article stops right there!

Angelina Jolie Teams Up with BBC to Fight Fake News. Just Don’t Mention the BBC’s History, Kids

FILE PHOTO: Angelina Jolie poses as she attends the UK premiere of "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil" in London, Britain

October 9, 2019. Reuters / Peter Nicholls

Graham Dockery

The BBC has hired Angelina Jolie to teach kids how to spot fake news and make up their own minds on pressing issues. But given its own history of bias, is the BBC the right authority to lecture children on the real and the fake?

The venerable broadcaster will air a new series every Sunday at 11:30am - right after the morning cartoons – on BBC World News, and on YouTube and the BBC iPlayer in the UK. The series will use the reporting of the BBC World Service to illustrate how reporters sift fact from fiction, and help kids aged 13 and up to “distinguish the real from the false online,” in the words of BBC World Service Group Director Jamie Angus.

“I hope it will help children find the information and tools they need to make a difference on the issues that matter to them, drawing on the BBC World Service’s network of thousands of journalists and multiple language services around the world,” Jolie said in a statement this week.

Jolie’s fake-news-busting credentials check out. As some of her fellow celebrities spouted garbage about vaccines causing autism and Gwyneth Paltrow implored women to “steam clean” their vaginas, Jolie has been credited for speaking out about her own experiences with cancer, drawing attention to the disease and justifying her decision to opt for a double mastectomy using solid scientific research. This time, she’ll have to call again on those research skills – a more complicated task, given the political games the BBC used to play. 

A history of bias

The BBC has a less-than-stellar reputation in the information game. Though its coverage is undoubtedly more balanced than the hyper-partisan squawking of Fox News and MSNBC across the Atlantic, the BBC has over the years allowed itself to be used as a propaganda bullhorn by the British government.

I should mention here that this report comes from RT (Russia Today), otherwise known as VoP (Voice of Putin). Nevertheless, it's a good history lesson on how western media is manipulated, with their complicity, by western governments. 

Earlier this month, declassified government documents revealed how Her Majesty’s Government persuaded Reuters to set up a reporting service in the Middle East in the late 1960s, funding it covertly through the BBC. Officials at the government’s Information Research Department hoped the service would allow them to exert “a measure of political influence” over this politically volatile region, at the height of the Cold War.

At the time, British diplomats in the Middle East described the service in familiar language, saying it would combat the “calculated fabrications” of rival “slanted” news agencies.

Which is a valid argument. If only they were still combating the propaganda coming from the Palestinians, but they don't seem to be doing that anymore.

In 1953, the BBC was used by MI6 and the CIA to support a coup attempt against Iran’s democratically-elected Prime Minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. Even the BBC itself admits this, with a 2011 documentary describing how “Anti-Mossadegh material was repeatedly aired on the radio channel to the extent that Iranian staff at the BBC Persian radio service went on strike in protest.” The service was also accused of sending coded messages to the coup plotters in its broadcasts.

Flashing forward to present times, the BBC used unverified video footage and the assertions of US officials to finger Syrian leader Bashar Assad for allegedly gassing his own citizens in the city of Douma in 2018. Footage supposedly showing civilians being treated for sarin gas exposure in a hospital was used to justify joint British, American and French missile strikes on Syria, despite BBC Syria’s own producer describing the attack as staged, and an OPCW whistleblower accusing the chemical weapons watchdog of falsifying its report on the attack.

Later that year, BBC Russia correspondent Olga Ivshina was caught messaging a contact in Paris, desperate to prove that “Russia is behind” the ‘Yellow Vests’ protests consuming the city at the time. “The editorial board wants blood,” she told her contact, after failing to find any Russian influence in the demonstrations.

So is the BBC the best authority to lecture children on bias and impartiality? Probably not. But then again, no news outlet is completely free of slant. Perhaps kids should instead keep an old Russian proverb, popularized by Ronald Reagan, in mind: “Trust, but verify.”

Mainstream media has long-ago lost my trust. My attitude is 'Assume bias, don't trust anything they say if it lines up with political correctness, climate hysteria, Russia - Syria bashing, or anything else that justifies a world gone mad.'

Yes, I know Syria and Russia do some very awful things, but most of what they are accused of is propaganda for the sake of moving military equipment and the inventories of war, made by the countries who make the most profit from their military industries - USA, France & Britain.

Tulsi Gabbard Takes On Deep State With $50m Lawsuit Against Hilary

Defamation suit aims to stop Hillary and her ‘powerful elite friends’ from silencing patriotic Americans, Gabbard says

Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard ©  REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Suing Hillary Clinton for defamation is necessary in order to keep the former first lady and her powerful allies from smearing Americans who seek “peace and freedom” for all, Tulsi Gabbard has argued.

The Democratic presidential hopeful released a scathing statement in defense of her suit against Clinton, noting that the former secretary of state’s attempt to smear her as “the favorite of the Russians” would have far-reaching consequences if left unchallenged.

“If Hillary Clinton and her allies can successfully destroy my reputation – even though I’m a war veteran and a sitting member of Congress – then they can do it to anybody,” Gabbard wrote.

Tulsi Gabbard 🌺✔

@TulsiGabbard

My statement on defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton. http://Tulsi2020.com/lawsuit  #StandWithTulsi

Gabbard’s lawsuit, which seeks up to $50 million in damages from Clinton for insinuating that she is a “Russian asset,” is really about sending “Hillary and her powerful elite friends” a message, the Hawaiian congresswoman and Iraq war veteran noted.

Hillary Clinton and her allies want you to know that if you dare to cross them, they will destroy your reputation as well.

She added that she could not stand for Clinton’s “blatant effort to intimidate me or other patriotic Americans.”

Gabbard’s filing cites Clinton’s “long-time grudges” as the likely rationale for the character assassination, noting that the congresswoman resigned her post as vice chair of the Democratic National Committee in protest and voiced support for Clinton’s rival Bernie Sanders after it emerged that there was ample evidence to suggest that the DNC had unfairly thrown its weight behind the former first lady and New York senator.

There are two other possible reasons, both of which may apply here along with Hilary's long-term grudge. 

1. Hilary's ego is such that she may have just wanted to show-off her power.

2. Hilary represents Deep State! Tulsi is a threat to Deep State, as is anyone who attempts to bring peace where war is so much more profitable. For example: JFK, RFK, MLK.

United States House Select Committee on Assassinations

Deep State took control of the US government on Nov 22nd, 1963 with a remarkable coup and an astonishing cover-up. While not all presidents since Johnson have been Deep State, they have had enough people in positions of influence and power that they were able to keep America's war machine producing planes, vehicles, weapons, etc., etc., etc. 

That's what this farce of an impeachment hearing is about. Trump is too unpredictable, even though Deep State has controlled him to some considerable degree as with the false flag chemical weapons events in Syria.

Yes, Trump is probably guilty of all the things they accuse him of, but I called it farcical because most presidents have committed far worse atrocities than what Trump is accused of.