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Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who signed the sanctions waiver last week to pave the way for the deal, stressed the funds could only be used for humanitarian purposes.

Raisi was somewhat coy when pressed if the funds would be used for something other than humanitarian needs.

“Humanitarian means whatever the Iranian people needs, so this money will be budgeted for those needs and the needs of the Iranian people will be decided and determined by the Iranian government,” he told the broadcast network.

Of course. Iran broke the agreement made in 2015 the following year in October/November 2016 by testing ballistic missiles capable of carrying nukes. And again the following March... this a clear violation. But then again, they refused Inspectors at their Nuclear sites unilaterally in 2015 and 2017.

 Don't forget how many times they have disconnected the cameras placed in those facilities as per IAEA's request.

US NEWS

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InfoWars Host Owen Shroyer Sentenced to 60 Days Prison over Capitol Riot

InfoWars host Owen Shroyer was sentence to 60 days in federal prison on Tuesday over the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, despite not stepping foot inside the Capitol building itself.

“I was not a part of any larger plan for illegal activity or violence that day,” Shroyer said at his sentencing hearing Tuesday morning. Still, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Shroyer to 60 days in prison.
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“Shroyer helped create January 6,” federal prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memorandum. “The government respectfully requests that this Court sentence him to 120 days of incarceration, 12 months of supervised release, 60 hours of community service, and $500 in restitution.”

“In the months prior to January 6, Shroyer spread election disinformation paired with violent rhetoric to hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of viewers,” the government added.

In response to the government’s sentencing memorandum, Shroyer’s attorneys argued the government was infringing on Shroyer’s First Amendment right to free speech.
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“The Government’s sentencing memorandum is a shocking effort to criminalize dissent and warrants a stiff rebuke from this Court. Mr. Shroyer has every right to believe, and to assert to this very day, that the 2020 election was stolen,” they added.

Shroyer’s prosecution over the events of January 6, 2021, stems from a previous plea agreement Shroyer reached with federal prosecutors in 2019.

Enrique Tarrio: Feds Tried to ‘Coerce Me’ into Implicating Donald Trump

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio claimed federal prosecutors tried to “coerce” him into implicating former President Donald Trump in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

Last week, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Tarrio to a record-high 22 years in prison despite not being in Washington, DC, on January 6.

“I don’t know what instructions I would give somebody at that point … I’m not speaking. I have no function. So there was no communication,” Tarrio said in a phone interview with the Washington Post.

Tarrio revealed that federal prosecutors tried to “coerce” him into implicating Trump during a phone interview from the D.C. jail.

“I was looking and seeking what the plea offer would look like, right?” Tarrio told the Washington Post. “They didn’t want to give me a number. I need a number. To me, the most important thing is when I get home to my family.”
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Instead, Tarrio said, the prosecutors asked him what role then-President Donald Trump played in getting the Proud Boys to attack the Capitol. He said the prosecutors, accompanied by FBI agents in the Miami jail where Tarrio was being held at the time, showed him messages that he exchanged with a second person, who in turn was connected to a third person who was connected to Trump. Tarrio said he told the investigators that he didn’t know the third person. He refused to name the people who prosecutors said allegedly connected him to Trump.

“They weren’t trying to get the truth,” Tarrio continued. “They were trying to coerce me into signing something that’s not true.”

Tarrio said, “there was never an open-ended question after” federal prosecutors tried to implicate Trump.

Watchdog Memo: ‘Irregularities’ Found in DOJ Investigation
of ‘F—ing Spy Chief of China,’ Biden Associate Patrick Ho

The Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation and prosecution of CEFC China Energy Co. boss and Biden family associate Patrick Ho displayed “irregularities,” including concealing known connections between the Chinese Communist Party-linked entity and the Bidens, and communication between Hunter Biden and the FBI agents involved in Ho’s case, according to a memo by the Heritage Foundation Oversight Project.

Ho, infamously referred to as “the f** spy chief of China” by Hunter Biden, was arrested in November, 2017, and convicted in December, 2018, in the Southern District of New York and sentenced to 3 years in prison for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and money laundering. Ho’s first phone call upon his arrest was to Hunter Biden, who was allegedly providing legal services to him at the time.

Now, a memo by the Heritage Foundation obtained exclusively by Breitbart News alleges that since Ho’s conviction, “significant evidence has emerged identifying concerning irregularities with the DOJ investigation and prosecution,” including that “DOJ was aware of connections between the Biden family and CEFC at least as early as 2017 and that they acted to conceal this information from the public,” as well as “contacts between Hunter Biden and FBI agents related to Ho’s arrest,” and “a leak of investigatory information in the Ho case.”

The memo cites the fact that Ho was under FISA surveillance during a period where he was in “regular communication” with CEFC and the Biden family, which would indicate the FBI and DOJ had knowledge of their business arrangements in at least 2017, and probably in 2016.

The memo also cites evidence that the DOJ redacted mentions of the Biden family — specifically, Hunter Biden — in the evidence presented at Ho’s 2018 trial. For instance, Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Richenthal requested redactions of an email presented in the case for the purpose of avoiding a “political dimension”— which was eventually revealed on Hunter Biden’s “laptop from Hell.”

Another point made in the Heritage memo is how Hunter Biden was afforded attorney-client privilege as Ho’s legal representation, despite being a direct witness in the case. Hunter was also asked on the day of Ho’s arrest by another of Ho’s attorneys to “find the names [sic] FBI agents you spoke with, that would be helpful.”

Democrat AG Bypasses D.C. Crime Surge to Probe Conservative Leonard Leo

Washington, DC, Attorney General Brian Schwalb (D) is bypassing the district’s skyrocketing crime to exhaust his office’s resources on investigating the Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo.

Late last month, Politico reported that Schwalb’s office had launched an investigation into Leo, who was influential in the nominations of all of former President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court justices.

“Washington D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb is investigating judicial activist Leonard Leo and his network of nonprofit groups, according to a person with direct knowledge of the probe,” Politico detailed. “The scope of the investigation is unclear.”

News of the investigation into Leo comes as D.C. crime surges, wreaking havoc on communities and residents living in the nation’s capital.

Year-to-date crime statistics, as of September 12, show there have been 190 homicides in D.C. so far this year — up nearly 30 percent compared to the same period last year. Likewise, sex crimes are up six percent, assaults with dangerous weapons have increased three percent, and robberies have skyrocketed by 69 percent compared to last year.

Overall, there have been 1,000 more violent crime incidents across D.C. — up almost 40 percent — so far this year compared to 2022.

Yesterday we learned about how the Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen commented on how he could not enforce NM Governor's concealed carry ban. Now there's another official backing him up.

New Mexico’s Democrat AG Will Not ‘Defend’ Governor’s Concealed Carry Ban

New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez (D) released a letter Tuesday making clear he will not “defend” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s (D) ban on concealed and open carry.

When Torrez says he will not “defend” the ban, he specifically states that he will not argue in favor of the ban in the two lawsuits that have already been filed against it.

Breitbart News reported that one lawsuit was filed by the National Association for Gun Rights and the other by Gun Owners of America.

KOB4 noted that Torrez is concerned that Grisham’s order focused on law-abiding concealed carriers rather than criminals.

Torrez wrote, “Given that only responsible gun owners are likely to abide, much less recognize your ban, it is unclear how this action will lead to a measurable decline in gun violence in our community … The data do not support the conclusion that gun violence in our community is attributable to otherwise law-abiding citizens exercising their constitutional right to carry firearms for protection outside the home.”

He also criticized Grisham’s decision to push the ban under the guise of a “public health emergency,” writing, “I believe it is unwise to stretch the definition of a ‘public health emergency’ to encompass something that is fundamentally a public safety issue.”

Emphasis is mine.

EUROPEAN NEWS

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‘Call of History’ — EU Chief Calls for Ukraine
to Join Bloc During State of Union Speech

In her yearly State of the Union address, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen invoked the “call of history” while advocating for the enlargement of the EU and throwing her full support behind Ukraine joining the globalist bloc.

“History is on the move,” von der Leyen told parliamentarians in Strasbourg on Wednesday as she argued for the cause of expanding the borders of the EU eastward once again, proclaiming that “the future of Ukraine is in our Union.”

“In a world where size and weight matters, it is clearly in Europe’s strategic and security interests to complete our Union,” she said, adding that the Commission also backs the entry of Moldova and the Western Balkans joining the bloc.

While her counterpart, European Council President Charles Michel, said last month that Ukraine would join the Union by the end of the decade, von der Leyen made no such time commitment.

But something "funny" also took place during that address.

‘Bored to Death’: European Commissioner
Does Her Knitting During Major EU Speech

EU Chief Von der Leyen may have been speaking of destiny, Ukraine, and the “call of history” at her State of the Union speech on Wednesday, but at least one commissioner saw the grand occasion as a chance to catch up on her crafts.

The incongruous sight of Europe’s Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson clicking away with her needles during a landmark speech in the Parliamentary hemicycle prompted bemused reactions online.

Brexit leader and former long-serving member of the European Parliament Nigel Farage was among those offering his take, remarking: “Even Ursula von der Leyen’s own EU Commissioners are bored to death with what she has to say!”.
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During the speech, European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen — Germany’s former scandal-hit defence minister — spoke of drawing Ukraine into the European Union. This, she said, was the “call of history” and the bloc would be “at Ukraine’s side every step of the way. For as long as it takes”.

While Commissioner Johansson took to social media after the speech to signal her support for the migration pact discussed in the speech, she did not make reference to her self-amusement in the chamber. Nevertheless, knitting it part of the political identity of the Swedish politician: she grabbed headlines in 2021 for knitting through another Von der Leyen speech and tweeted in 2020 that she’d knitted gift socks for her colleagues.

At least that isn't a crime like the one committed by former Speaker of the House Nanci Pelosi by tearing up a printed copy of Trump's speech, which should have been sent to the National Archives instead.

Zelensky Warns Ukrainians in Europe
Could Act ‘Unpredictably’ if Western Aid Is Cut

Don’t push Ukrainians into a corner by cutting Western support for the war or else the millions of refugees who have presently “behaved well” in Europe may start to act unpredictably, President Zelensky has said.

Speaking to a British centre-left-leaning news magazine, the Ukrainian President has made remarks that may to some ears sound like a threat, or at least a dire warning, as he spoke of the possible negative consequences for European nations if they reduced the donations and aid given to his country. While the interview with the Economist largely paraphrases Zelensky’s words — as a non-native speaker his English can be a little convoluted — the meaning appears from their writing to be clear, as the magazine warns curtailing aid would “create risks for the West in its own backyard”.

“There is no way of predicting how the millions of Ukrainian refugees in European countries would react to their country being abandoned”, Zelensky is reported to have intoned, saying while they are grateful for the asylum they had been given during the war and had “behaved well” so far, this could apparently not be guaranteed to continue.

In perhaps some of the darkest words Zelensky has had for his European allies during the war, the magazine reports he told them: “…it would not be a ‘good story’ for Europe if it were to ‘drive these people into a corner’.”

The comments came in the context of a discussion on how to end the war sooner, and Zelensky’s intuition of “a change of mood” in Western leaders away from bottomless support as long as it will take as the counteroffensive falters. “I see that he or she is not here, not with us”, he said of the new attitude towards Ukraine he claims to have detected.

 Why did he say that? Is he blackmailing Western Europe now?
I'd get the idea of telling Russia something like that as a warning to Russian troops but not if Zelensky is addressing his own allies.

Putin Claims British Spies Orchestrated
Ukrainian Attack on Russian Nuclear Facility

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the United Kingdom of trying to provoke Moscow into a nuclear conflict, claiming that Britain was behind a Ukrainian military attack on a Russian atomic facility.

Speaking from Vladivostok ahead of an expected meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, Putin claimed that Russia had captured members of a Ukrainian special forces team allegedly tasked with waging an attack on the power lines supporting an undisclosed nuclear facility. The Russian leader went on to claim that once captured, the Ukrainian “saboteurs” revealed that their plan was orchestrated by British intelligence agents.

Speaking of the UK government, Putin said according to The Times of London: “Do they understand what they are playing with?”

“Are they trying to provoke us into retaliating against Ukrainian atomic power stations? Does the British prime minister know what his secret services are doing in Ukraine?”

The Russian strongman went on to assert that the UK of “underestimating” the potential geo-political fallout if such an attack was seen to fruition, although he did suggest that the alleged mission could have been ordered by Washington without Prime Minister Rishi Sunak being made aware.

Although Putin did not provide details about the supposedly foiled plot or indeed the location of the facility in question, there have been increased warnings — including from the United Nations — that the Zaporozhzhia nuclear station could come under fire and that there have been several explosions recorded in the area in previous weeks.

Crisis: 5,000 Migrants on 100 Boats in One Day to Italian Island

The Italian Red Cross sounded the alarm Wednesday about humanitarian conditions on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa after more than 5,000 people in more than 100 different migrant boats arrived in one day with smugglers in north Africa taking advantage of calm seas to set off.

At least one baby died near shore as a boat capsized, state radio said.

Dozens of new arrivals crouched on the rocky jetties of Lampedusa´s port, while others sheltered in the shade of a nearby camping ground as the island´s lone migrant welcome center, which has a capacity of around 400, overflowed with more than 6,000 people.

“Days ago there were more than 4,000 people and we were talking about a record, today we are talking about a record of landings,” the Red Cross’ national director Rosario Valastro said in a social media post. The issue isn’t a competition about records, he said, but about finding solutions to an emergency.
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Lampedusa´s former mayor, Giusi Nicolini, who has long advocated for migrants, said so many people had arrived it seemed impossible to even count them all. In a social media post, she thanked the guests and owners of a nearby campground for providing water and more to one group who found shade by the road.
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So far this year, more than 115,000 people have arrived by boat, nearly double the 63,000 in the same period last year or the 41,000 in 2021, according to interior ministry statistics.

Guinea, Ivory Coast and Tunisia round out the top nationalities so far this year.

ASIAN NEWS

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Justin Trudeau’s G20 Disaster: Scolded by Narendra Modi
Stranded in India by Faulty Plane

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi scolded Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the G20 summit in New Delhi, India, on Sunday because Canada allows Sikh groups to promote what Modi described as “secessionism.”

After defending Canada’s commitment to freedom of expression, Trudeau found himself stuck in India due to “technical issues” with his plane.

The Indian government released a statement about Modi’s conversation with Trudeau regarding Sikh demonstrations, a persistent sticking point in relations between India and Canada.

According to the statement, Modi told Trudeau that Sikh demonstrators in Canada are “promoting secessionism and inciting violence against Indian diplomats, damaging diplomatic premises and threatening the Indian community in Canada and their places of worship.”

Modi added that strained relations between Canada and India could not be improved unless Trudeau’s government takes steps to rein in the Sikh secessionists, also known as the “Khalistan movement.”

Modi warned Trudeau that the Khalistan movement has links to organized crime, drugs, and human trafficking, which should be Canadian security concerns as much as they are Indian concerns.