34 Years Ago Today – The Tiananmen Square Massacre | The Gateway Pundit
On June 4, 1989, hundreds of innocent civilians were shot dead by the Chinese army during a bloody military operation to crush a democratic uprising in Peking’s (Beijing) Tiananmen Square.
Tanks rumbled through the Beijing streets late on June 3rd as the army moved into the square from several directions.
They opened fire randomly on the unarmed protesters.
The injured were rushed to hospital on bicycle rickshaws by frantic residents shocked by the army’s sudden and extreme response to the peaceful mass protest. –BBC
Demonstrators transport a wounded man during the military crackdown in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. (David Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)
Who can forget this brave man?
The bloodshed in Tiananmen Square has come to symbolize the triumph of the spirit over brute force. June 4th is a day we are reminded of the brutality of the communist regime in China.
Paramilitary policemen patrol around Tiananmen Square in Beijing, June 3, 2007, on the eve of the June 4 anniversary. Tiananmen Square was quiet on Monday and China’s media was silent on the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators that took place there 18 years ago to the day. (REUTERS)
In 2007 President George W. Bush dedicated the “Goddess of Democracy” dedicated to the victims of communism.
More… My brother Joe visited Tiananmen Square ten years ago and sent this photo:
Joe said the Chinese citizens he was traveling with didn’t want to talk about it. They know better.
Tax-Payer Funded $1.1 Billion U.S. Patriot Missile System in Ukraine “Likely Damaged” After Massive Russian Attack (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
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Patriot missile systems at Schwesing military airport, Germany (Source: Getty Images)
Russia claimed it destroyed a US-made Patriot missile defense system worth about $1.1 billion during a massive overnight missile attack on Kyiv Monday night, CNN reported.
Recall, on December 21, as part of President Zelenskyy’s visit to the White House, the Biden regime announced $1.85 billion in additional security assistance for Ukraine. This includes the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $1 billion – the Patriot missile battery.
The Patriot missile battery is a unique system designed to intercept incoming missiles and was delivered just last month to Ukraine by the US and its NATO allies.
Russia bombarded Ukraine with the Kinzhal hypersonic missile, an air-launched ballistic missile that’s 10 times the speed of sound.
It claimed it had obliterated the air defense system. The Russian Defense Ministry said through Telegram that “a high-precision strike by the Kinzhal hypersonic missile system in the city of Kyiv hit a US-made Patriot anti-aircraft missile system.”
However, US officials refuted the claim and told CNN that it was likely damaged but not destroyed.
A US-made Patriot air defense system was likely damaged, but not destroyed, as the result of a Russian missile barrage in and around Kyiv early Tuesday morning local time, a US official tells CNN.
The US is still assessing to what degree the system was damaged, the official said. That will determine whether the system needs to be pulled back entirely or simply repaired on the spot by Ukrainians forces.
A US National Security Council spokesperson referred CNN to the Ukrainian government for comment.
Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday that they successfully intercepted all six hypersonic missiles fired by the Russians, but the Ukrainian military declined to comment on the Russians’ claim that a Patriot system was hit. “We cannot comment on this. We’ll stay out of commenting on Russian sources,” said the Ukrainian Air Force spokesman, Yurii Ihnat.
Ukraine currently has two Patriot air defense systems in country, one donated by the US and the other donated jointly by Germany and the Netherlands. It is unclear which of those systems was potentially damaged, but taking one out of commission – even for a short period – could affect Ukraine’s ability to defend Kyiv amid intensifying Russian missile attacks.
‘Sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law,’ UN says
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The United Nations is working to mainstream sex with minors, stating in a report that relations with underage individuals can be considered consensual despite worldwide prohibitions on such acts.
“Sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law,” several U.N.-backed organizations claimed in a March report that advocates decriminalizing these acts as part of a “human rights-based approach” to laws governing sexual relations.
“The enforcement of criminal law should reflect the rights and capacity of persons under 18 years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them,” according to the report, authored by the International Committee of Jurists (ICJ) with support from UNAIDS and the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. “Pursuant to their evolving capacities and progressive autonomy, persons under 18 years of age should participate in decisions affecting them, with due regard to their age, maturity, and best interests, and with specific attention to non-discrimination guarantees.”
The U.N. report echoes the thinking of groups like the North American Man-Boy Love Association, which condones pedophilia and works to abolish age-of-consent laws. While the report stops short of calling for the legalization of sex with minors, it maintains that those under 18 years of age have the mental capacity to willingly have sex with older individuals. The report is raising red flags with experts who say the United Nations is trying to mainstream underage sex as it pushes a woke ideology that has long existed at the fringes of society.
“This document advocates for a lot of troubling ideas and bad policies,” said Grace Melton, a Trump administration appointee to the United Nations who works as an analyst for the Heritage Foundation think tank. “Not only does it suggest that minors may be mature enough to consent to sexual activity, but it also asserts that ‘criminal law may not in any way impair’ the so-called right to abortion or to ‘gender-affirming care.’”
The report, Melton added, “illustrates some of the consequences of the progressive left’s expansion of what constitutes ‘human rights.’”
Other portions of the report advocate for the mass decriminalization of sex acts. As part of this decriminalization, “consensual sexual conduct, irrespective of the type of sexual activity, the sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression of the people involved, or their marital status, may not be criminalized in any circumstances,” according to the report. “Consensual same-sex, as well as consensual different-sex sexual relations, or consensual sexual relations with or between trans, nonbinary, and other gender-diverse people, or outside marriage—whether pre-marital or extramarital—may, therefore, never be criminalized.”
Ian Seiderman, the legal and policy director at the ICJ, said in a statement that laws criminalizing sex “not only violate human rights, but the fundamental principles of criminal law themselves.”
Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter did not respond to a request for comment.
Over the past week or so there were leaked documents reported in the media showing that the Biden Administration has been lying about Ukraine’s status in the war with Russia.
The far-left Washington Post was all in on the Russia collusion lie that President Trump was somehow involved with Russia, a claim we found out was initiated by the Hillary Clinton gang and pushed by the corrupt Deep State.
So it wasn’t surprising this morning that same Washington Post claimed to have information that the leaker of the information on Ukraine was part of a group of young, charismatic, gun enthusiasts searching for companionship. Also, a minor was involved in the leak and the WaPo obtained his mother’s permission to write the story. WTH?
Now moments ago, the NY Times reports that they were at the house of the leaker but they were waiting on the Feds to come and arrest him.
HotAir reported that the NYT was at the home of the alleged leaker before the feds were:
Does anyone else get the feeling that the people who are supposed to be looking for the leaker are lagging behind the people who are reporting on it? First, the Washington Post reported on the Discord gamer-chat group where the leaked intelligence first appeared. Now the New York Times shows up at the alleged leaker’s house ahead of the feds:
The leader of a small online gaming chat group where a trove of classified U.S. intelligence documents leaked over the last few months is a 21-year-old member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The New York Times.
The national guardsman, whose name is Jack Teixeira, oversaw a private online group named Thug Shaker Central, where about 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers, came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games.
Two U.S. officials confirmed that investigators want to talk to Airman Teixeira about the leak of the government documents to the private online group. One official said Airman Teixeira might have information relevant to the investigation.
The Justice Department and FBI have narrowed the pool of potential suspects believed responsible for the disclosure of highly classified military documents on the Ukraine war, a person familiar with the investigation said Thursday.
Apparently, the family living in the house where the NYT staked out, was expecting the Feds when the NYT reporters knocked on the door.
Jack Teixeira
US Attorney General Merrick Garland confirmed the identity of the leaker on Thursday during a press conference.
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This whole story is lunacy. Who can even trust a thing our mainstream media reports today?
I have long warned of the collapse of the petrodollar reserve system that currently undergirds the global economic system.
Up until very recently, every nation on the planet coveted and hoarded U.S. dollars to settle oil transactions—all countries were required to sell and buy oil in U.S. dollars—massively driving up demand for the currency. …
Hence the term ‘global reserve currency’—the dollar was the common denominator in global energy trade.
However, due to rampant monetary printing, sustained military campaigns abroad, and the Biden administration’s absolute weakness, that system has now collapsed. …
You won’t hear these exact words in the news, yet this is exactly what has happened. …
Early last year, Russia announced that it would price oil in rubles, and Saudi Arabia also announced similar plans to move away from the U.S. dollar in favor of the Chinese yuan.
Additionally, the entire energy paradigm is shifting, as the U.S. Department of Energy announced a breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology late last year, placing additional pressure on the petrodollar and leaving the future of the entire oil industry in doubt.
What this means is that at least half the world no longer has a use for the U.S. dollar, beyond using it for legitimate foreign-exchange business transactions—guess where all those excess dollars are going to go?
They’re going to be sent here, they’re going to come back home—causing untold levels of inflation—potentially hyperinflation.
If you don’t believe this system has collapsed, take a look at these headlines and these latest developments over the last week:
Talking on the sidelines of the Russian-Indian Strategic Partnership for Development and Growth Business Forum, Babakov said,
“I think that at the BRICS [leaders’ summit], the readiness to realize this project will be announced, such works are underway.”
“The transition to settlements in national currencies is the first step. The next one is to provide the circulation of digital or any other form of a fundamentally new currency in the nearest future.”
Merco Press shared this seismic report from the World Bank:
The United States dollar status as the world’s single reserve currency will end by 2025, according to a new report by the World Bank.
“By 2025, six major emerging economies—Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, South Korea, and Russia—will account for more than half of all global growth, and the international monetary system will likely no longer be dominated by a single currency.
As economic power shifts, these successful economies will help drive growth in lower income countries through cross-border commercial and financial transactions.” the report noted.
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Gold Is About To Become “Unobtainium”?
Ok, so I have to admit something…
I’m not sure if you spell it Unobtainium or Unobtaineum since it’s a made-up word, but the point remains: there could very well be a time fast approaching where you can’t obtain Gold.
You either have it or you don’t.
Hence: un-obtain-ium.
That’s a message I’ve heard repeated by many people in recent weeks, most recently just today by Steve Quayle on Greg Hunter’s show.
I always love listening to these two chat, even though they got a little chippy at the end, with Quayle chipping back “Did you not just hear me?”
That’s ok, stress and tensions running high.
But there was a LOT in this one and I will try to summarize a couple main points.
First, Quayle points out that China has been absolutely DUMPING U.S. Treasuries in recent months, and then accelerating the sales this week.
According to Quayle, they dumped so much this week they sold them for 15 cents on the dollar just to get out.
As Bo Polny keeps warning us, a failure of the U.S. Dollar (USD) $ is coming and this is how you get a failure.
When the second largest holder of U.S. Treasuries rage quits the market and dumps them at fire sale.
Take a look at this:
Ok, so to everyone who just tuned out when I started talking about Treasuries, let me explain to you why this matters.
DISCLAIMER: no, I am not a Financial Advisor and I’m definitely not YOUR Financial Advisor. But I am a reporter and I report it like I see it. Fair and honest.
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But that also means Gold is likely about to Moonshot.
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As for that last one, that would be going from $2,000/oz to $8,000/oz.
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US President Joe Biden ordered the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines because he was unhappy with the level of support provided by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has claimed.
Hersh first accused Washington of destroying the key European energy route in an article released in February, and made more allegations in an interview with the China Daily newspaper published on Friday.
“The [US] president was afraid of Chancellor Scholz not wanting to put more guns and more arms [forward for Kiev]. That’s all. I don’t know whether that it was anger or punishment, but the net effect is that it cut off a major power source through Western Europe,” Hersh claimed.
Despite attempts by the US to deny its involvement in the Nord Stream attack, “Europe is in crisis now” and Biden will receive “a lot of criticism for what he did” in the coming months, the journalist argued.
The Pulitzer Prize winner alleged that “the people that were initially asked to do the job” of destroying the pipelines were contacted by US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan towards the end of 2021.
The initial purpose of mining Nord Stream 1 and 2, built to deliver Russian gas to Europe through Germany, was “to give the [US] president an option to say to [Russian] President Putin, ‘If you go to war [in Ukraine], we’re going to destroy the pipelines,’” Hersh claimed.
Biden himself publicly confirmed that stance but “unfortunately, those people in the Western press seemed to have forgotten,” the journalist stated.
Just under three weeks before the launch of Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine, Biden warned during a press conference on February 7 that “if Russia invades… there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.”
According to Hersh, the US leader decided to order the detonation of mines at the bottom of the Baltic Sea last September because the conflict “wasn’t going great in Ukraine” from a US perspective. There was “at best a stalemate”during that period, in what Hersh described as “the American war that President Biden was so eager to support.”
Russia’s former President Dmitry Medvedev has warned that any attempt by Germany to arrest President Vladimir Putin on the International Criminal Court’s warrant could spark World War III.
The court, which is based in The Hague in the Netherlands, concluded on March 16 that Putin had committed war crimes in his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, citing the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children.
It is the first time an arrest warrant has been issued against the leader of one of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.
Medvedev, who serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s security council and was also prime minister for eight years, said that if the German authorities attempted to arrest the Russian president on the ICC’s warrant, it would be a declaration of war.
Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev attend a ceremony at the Kremlin, on November, 4, 2016.
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“Let’s imagine—obviously this situation which will never be realized, but nevertheless let’s imagine that it was realized. The current head of the nuclear state went to a territory—say, Germany—and was arrested,” Medvedev said, according to state-run news agency RIA Novosti.
“What would that be? It would be a declaration of war on the Russian Federation,” he added.
When contacted by Newsweek, the ICC said: “The court does not comment on alleged political statements.”
Germany is one of the 30 members of NATO, along with the U.S., so Medvedev’s warning suggests that any arrest would put the military alliance at war with Russia, sparking World War III.
The former president’s remarks come a few days after Marco Buschmann, Germany’s justice minister, told the newspaper Bild that Putin would be arrested if he entered German territory.
Under the International Criminal Court warrant, its 123 member states, including Germany, would be obliged to arrest Putin and hand him over to the court.
Moscow does not recognize the ICC’s jurisdiction or extradite its nationals.
Buschmann said: “I expect the ICC to quickly contact Interpol as well as participating states and ask them to comply with the demand.
“Germany will then be obliged to arrest President Putin when he enters German territory and hand him over to the ICC.”
Newsweek has contacted Germany’s Federal Foreign Office by email for comment.
Attempts to try Putin in the ICC would have “monstrous” consequences for international law, Medvedev said on his Telegram channel on Monday.
“The ICC judges got excited in vain. Look, they say, we are brave, and we raised a hand against the largest nuclear power without c******* ourselves,” wrote Medvedev.
“Alas, gentlemen, everyone walks under God and rockets. It is quite possible to imagine the targeted use of a hypersonic ‘Onyx’ from the North Sea from a Russian ship at the Hague courthouse,” he went on, referring to a naval cruise missile.
“And the court is just a miserable international organization, not the population of a NATO country. That’s why they won’t start a war. They will be afraid. And no one will feel sorry for them. So, judges of the court, look carefully into the sky…,” Medvedev added.
Update 03/23/23 6:48 a.m. ET: This article was updated with comment from the ICC and additional information.
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published an article on Substack on Wednesday that said the CIA was instructed to come up with a cover story for the Nord Stream bombings that was fed to The New York Times and the German newspaper Die Zeit.
The cover-up story was created to shift blame from the US after Hersh’s bombshell report published on February 8 that said President Biden ordered the attack on the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines, which connect Russia to Germany. “It was a total fabrication by American intelligence that was passed along to the Germans, and aimed at discrediting your story,” Hersh was told by a source within the American intelligence community.
Hersh said that the CIA was ordered to come up with a cover story after President Biden met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington on March 3. Scholz’s visit was very brief and did not include the routine joint press briefing that usually follows a meeting between the president and another world leader. Hersh was told that his report detailing how the US took out Nord Stream was discussed by Biden and Scholz.
Hersh writes: “I was told by someone with access to diplomatic intelligence that there was a discussion of the pipeline exposé and, as a result, certain elements in the Central Intelligence Agency were asked to prepare a cover story in collaboration with German intelligence that would provide the American and German press with an alternative version for the destruction of Nord Stream 2.”
The result of the CIA’s work was published in The New York Times and Die Zeit on March 7. The New York Times report was very vague and said US officials are now claiming the Nord Stream bombings might have been carried out by a “pro-Ukrainian group.”
The Die Zeit report claimed German investigators believe it was carried out by six people using a yacht rented in Poland that was owned by two Ukrainians. Other Western media outlets published similar articles reinforcing the cover story in the following days.
Hersh said the information The New York Times received “originated with a group of CIA experts in deception and propaganda whose mission was to feed the newspaper a cover story—and to protect a president who made an unwise decision and is now lying about it.”
The cover story offers a radically different narrative than what Hersh’s February 8 report alleges. Using anonymous sourcing, Hersh reported that the Nord Stream pipelines were destroyed by explosives planted by US Navy divers in June 2022 under the cover of NATO drills in the Baltic Sea. The operation was done in coordination with Norway, and a Norwegian spy plane detonated the explosives by dropping a sonar buoy on September 26, 2022.
The last time Scholz visited Washington was on February 7, 2022. Biden vowed during a press conference that day that if Russia invaded Ukraine, he would “bring an end” to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. According to Hersh, the plot to destroy the pipelines was already underway at that time, and the plotters took Biden’s comment as a blatant threat.
On Scholz’s possible complicity in the operation, Hersh said in his new article: “At this point, it must be noted that Chancellor Scholz, whether or not he was alerted of the destruction of the pipeline in advance—still an open question—has clearly been complicit since last fall in support of the Biden Administration’s cover-up of its operation in the Baltic Sea.”
An American Army veteran who spent a year fighting in Ukraine’s Foreign Legion has defected to Russia, bringing with him tangible evidence and first-hand accounts of widespread Ukrainian Nazism and war crimes. He also says that Americans are on the ground in Ukraine, communicating directly with CIA handlers as they help coordinate attacks on Russian troops.
John McIntyre, an American southerner and US Army veteran who joined others from around the world in soliciting his services to the Ukrainian Foreign Legion has defected to Russia and described the war crimes and open Nazism he witnessed in NATO-backed Ukraine during an exclusive sit-down interview with RT in Moscow.
“When I came [to Ukraine],” McIntyre told RT, “I was really surprised. Everybody had tattoos and Nazi symbolism.”
When he was asked by the Ukrainians why he was fighting in the war as a foreigner, he told them that he was there to stand up against Russian “Nazis” and “fascists,” only to be told that “the Russians aren’t the Nazis, we are the Nazis,” by his Ukrainian comrades and other neo-fascists who poured into the fight from all over Europe.
McIntyre told RT that he personally knew foreign fighters who had committed war crimes by executing Russian prisoners and that others had committed hideous acts of torture, something he says the Ukrainians and their foreign comrades like to laugh and joke about.
“A lot of captured Russian soldiers, they’ll take and cut their genitalia with a knife and everything and cut their stomachs open, slit their throats, cut their heads off and stuff like that. Really horrible stuff,” said McIntyre.
And it isn’t just Russian soldiers who have fallen victim to Ukrainian war crimes. Civilians, McIntyre said, have been targeted by the Ukrainians in pro-Russian separatist regions like the Donbas, and civilian homes and community centers, like schools, are routinely used as shields.
While McIntyre told RT that he was acting as a “spy” against the Ukrainians the entire time he was there, it’s unclear if this is actually true, or if he became disillusioned with the Ukrainian cause after witnessing their conduct first-hand. Nevertheless, the tale of his escape to Russia is harrowing. To escape, McIntyre contacted his family and received $300, before boarding a flight from Odessa to Istanbul, and later to Moscow, fearing for his life the entire time.
McIntyre described to RT how the Ukrainians deal with spies and whistleblowers, saying that they receive a “bullet to the back of the head,” and that it’s quite a regular occurrence, as multiple fighters have simply “disappeared” after being suspected of reporting war criminals.
“And we’re supporting these guys?” McIntyre said of American and NATO involvement in the war. “And these are supposed to be our allies? And we’re supposed to put them in NATO with us? And they can’t even follow the Geneva Convention?”
Far from only supporting the Ukrainians with massive shipments of weapons and cash, McIntyre told RT that the United States has men on the ground in Ukraine, maintaining direct communications with their handlers from the CIA and other American agencies notorious for meddling in global conflict zones and unstable nations.
One of them, a US Navy intelligence officer who McIntyre fought alongside, used a satellite phone to stay in constant contact with his American bosses.
“Every day he would call his contacts and he would get information about the positions, troops movements, and so on,” McIntyre told RT.
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