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#21646

>>17694062 Carter Page blinking in code?

>>17694074, >>17694075 8kun Chat with Jim Watkins 10-14-22

>>17694077 LCN Headlines 014 – Burnt Hair Edition

>>17694078 Arizona AG asks FBI, IRS to investigate election integrity watchdog True the Vote

>>17694104 Anons you just need an android simulator

>>17694127 Jim's merch site

>>17694150 @DEFCONWSALERTS: NATO to begin nuclear drills on Monday. This is an annual exercise

>>17694154 Florida State University Receives 51 New Defibrillators - Encourages the Campus Community to Get "Regular Heart Screenings"

>>17694176 Igor Danchenko Trial: Technofog: “Auten’s testimony was an admission of how little they did, ignoring both travel records and phone records.”

>>17694209 I feel really good about the Authenticator (vid on how it is used and more from Jim Watkins)

>>17694211 FBI paid known fabricator and drunkard Igor Danchenko hundreds of thousands of dollars for information that was incorporated into at least 25 U.S. intelligence reports, according to new court exhibits

>>17694212 Paul Sperry: CALL TO DIG on Jen Boone's role in the Russiagate scandal

>>17694213 Documents and testimony, yet they continue to cover for FBI officials, pretending they were hoodwinked when in fact they know they went along with Danchenko's lies

>>17694215 Donald Trump Jr.: If Uncle Fester and Richard Levine Had A Baby

>>17694216, >>17694217, >>17694218 Paul Sperry: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Jan. 6 Committee

>>17694224 The Plot continues to thicken. @greggphillips has been friends with and taking guidance and direction from Paul Manafort for forty + years.

>>17694225 Blowing all other hashtags out of the water is #PresidentTrump. Not #Trump or #DonaldTrump. PRESIDENT TRUMP.

>>17694227 Trump’s letter today to the J6 “business meeting” he mentions TTV and now the Az AG is calling the FBI and IRS

>>17694233, >>17694238, >>17694240, >>17694241, >>17694244, >>17694245, >>17694254, >>17694259, >>17694261, >>17694262 Trump response to J6 Committee subpoena vote 14 pages PDF

>>17694236 Is the J6 Committee Decision to Subpoena Trump About to Backfire?

>>17694264 DOJ Moves to Purge Trump's Special Master From Mar-a-Lago Investigation

>>17694221 Here We Go… GOP US Senate Candidate’s Name Omitted from Ballots in Illinois County

>>17694231 Eugene Yu, founder and CEO of Konnech, Inc. charged with grand theft by embezzlement

>>17694232, >>17694239 Military Medical Martial Law

>>17694242 Explosive Testimony From Doctors in New Film — The Real Anthony Fauci

>>17694257 Durham trial: Mueller declined to investigate Clinton ally linked to Danchenko

>>17694268 Herschel Walker WON the #GASenDebate tonight by holding Warnock accountable

>>17694269 Overreacting to COVID Caused Huge Learning Loss and Inflation, Not the Pandemic Itself

>>17694279 #21646

#21645

>>17693933 Jim will be on tonight about 9 pm. After he finishes Revolution.radio.

>>17693941, >>17693944, >>17694006 Pedo Peter strikes again , secret service running protection for him SICK. Joe Biden Creeps on Little Girl at California Stop – Gets Handsy as She Cringes – And Once Again the Fake News Media Ignores this Fondler

>>17693964, >>17693971 Anon opines: Nunes on Durham trial

>>17693973 Durham giraffe comms

>>17693979 Inmate sentenced to 24 years for brutal murder of leader of international child porn ring in Michigan prison

>>17693993 Purchase of Billions of COVID Vaccines for a Few Hundred Million People Called the 'Biggest Corruption Scandal in the History of Mankind'

>>17693997 PEDO BUN 14 October 22

>>17693998 We have three things issued at 1:29 aka Q-watch time:

>>17693999 Bill Rice is the first, and ONLY journalist to have even a shred of interest that a media company was permanently banned from Twitter, PayPal, and Patreon

>>17694000 Thirteen state AGs have sent a letter to Merrick Garland blasting the American Medical Association's call to "investigate and prosecute" critics of radical gender surgeries for minors.

>>17694004 [Forwarded from ULTRA Pepe Lives Matter 🐸 (Pepe Lives Matter)] The FBI met with Danchenko for three years while he was a confidential human source for the FBI.

>>17694008 Koori court elder and footy umpire faces child sex abuse charges

>>17694010 PayPal apologizes for policy notice saying users could face $2,500 fines for misinformation

>>17694014 [Forwarded from ULTRA Pepe Lives Matter 🐸 (Pepe Lives Matter)] Kash on the FBI's one million dollar bounty:

>>17694021 [Forwarded from Jim Watkins] You have a cellphone?

>>17694035 Los Angeles prosecutors accused the CEO of Michigan-based Konnech, an election software company, of being involved in a “massive” data breach affecting several thousand victims—including minors.

>>17694042 #21645

#21644

>>17693787 Kim Dotcom: Because when Elon started talking about PEACE, Ukraine put him on a kill list that’s run by the Ukrainian Gestapo (SBU)

>>17693792 Jim Watkins: The authentication system preserves your anonymity.

>>17693794 Kamala Harris on Politicians Who Bus Illegals to Dem Cities: ‘Dereliction of Duty’

>>17693796, >>17693861 At least 269 educators arrested on child sex crimes in first 9 months of this year

>>17693798 NYC congressional candidate Mike Itkis released an online porn video starring himself

>>17693800 Malone: Higher Levels Of Inoculation Against Covid-19 Increase Chance of Death While Infected With Virus

>>17693802 Calling all Great British nurses can you please get in touch with John O Looney bringing hundreds of nurses together to make a stand

>>17693804 Three days ago, TIME said the walls were closing in on Truth Social Today, Truth Social hit #1 in the Google Play store.

>>17693870 Kevin MorrisHunter Biden's LAWYER sent threatening texts to member of right wing group Marco Polo

>>17693811 Sex, Blackmail, and Video Tape: Lauren Boebert's Challenger Adam Frisch Stepped in it Big Time

>>17693812 Judge dismisses one count in Danchenko trial on allegedly lying to FBI, insufficient evidence cited

>>17693814 "Western Mercenaries are killing Slavic Orthodox people"

>>17693815, >>17693859, >>17693868 Omar Ashmawy, Head of Congressional Ethics Office Arrested, Charged with DUI After Crashing Car Into House

>>17693817 City of Atlanta Commissioner of Watershed Management Jo Ann Macrina convicted for accepting bribes

>>17693836 The Foreign Minister of Ukraine was pranked by a fake US Ambassador. revealed that Ukraine was behind several terrorist attacks

>>17693837 31,470 Deaths After COVID Vaccines Reported to VAERS, Including 26 Following New Boosters

>>17693835, >>17693842, >>17693851 FACEBOOK is listening to you 24/7/365. Literally

>>17693838, >>17693856 Warnock & Walker Debate; anons reports Walker is crushing Warnock

>>17693849 US Dept of Defense authorizes $725 million moar to Ukraine

>>17693850 Boeing Outsourcing More U.S. Jobs to India While Making Billions from Taxpayer-Funded Defense Contracts

>>17693863 What if pain is more than just a mere alarm bell? What if pain is in itself a form of protection?

>>17693864 Konnech: Los Angeles Superior Court judge ordered Yu to remain in home confinement in LA, bond of $500,000 District attorney's office launched its investigation due to a tip from Gregg Phillips

>>17693866 ElectionWiz: Congress shoveling billions into Ukraine while the Pentagon suggests our soldiers should go on welfare if they're struggling with rising costs

>>17693867 Election Activists File Demand For Emergency Review Of Machines In Georgia

>>17693873 Joe Biden pictured at a Taco shop yesterday, next to a sign reading "Vampiro"

>>17693909 #21644

#21644

>>17693787 Kim Dotcom: Because when Elon started talking about PEACE, Ukraine put him on a kill list that’s run by the Ukrainian Gestapo (SBU)

>>17693792 Jim Watkins: The authentication system preserves your anonymity.

>>17693794 Kamala Harris on Politicians Who Bus Illegals to Dem Cities: ‘Dereliction of Duty’

>>17693796, >>17693861 At least 269 educators arrested on child sex crimes in first 9 months of this year

>>17693798 NYC congressional candidate Mike Itkis released an online porn video starring himself

>>17693800 Malone: Higher Levels Of Inoculation Against Covid-19 Increase Chance of Death While Infected With Virus

>>17693802 Calling all Great British nurses can you please get in touch with John O Looney bringing hundreds of nurses together to make a stand

>>17693804 Three days ago, TIME said the walls were closing in on Truth Social Today, Truth Social hit #1 in the Google Play store.

>>17693870 Kevin MorrisHunter Biden's LAWYER sent threatening texts to member of right wing group Marco Polo

>>17693811 Sex, Blackmail, and Video Tape: Lauren Boebert's Challenger Adam Frisch Stepped in it Big Time

>>17693812 Judge dismisses one count in Danchenko trial on allegedly lying to FBI, insufficient evidence cited

>>17693814 "Western Mercenaries are killing Slavic Orthodox people"

>>17693815, >>17693859, >>17693868 Omar Ashmawy, Head of Congressional Ethics Office Arrested, Charged with DUI After Crashing Car Into House

>>17693817 City of Atlanta Commissioner of Watershed Management Jo Ann Macrina convicted for accepting bribes

>>17693836 The Foreign Minister of Ukraine was pranked by a fake US Ambassador. revealed that Ukraine was behind several terrorist attacks

>>17693837 31,470 Deaths After COVID Vaccines Reported to VAERS, Including 26 Following New Boosters

>>17693835, >>17693842, >>17693851 FACEBOOK is listening to you 24/7/365. Literally

>>17693838, >>17693856 Warnock & Walker Debate; anons reports Walker is crushing Warnock

>>17693849 US Dept of Defense authorizes $725 million moar to Ukraine

>>17693850 Boeing Outsourcing More U.S. Jobs to India While Making Billions from Taxpayer-Funded Defense Contracts

>>17693863 What if pain is more than just a mere alarm bell? What if pain is in itself a form of protection?

>>17693864 Konnech: Los Angeles Superior Court judge ordered Yu to remain in home confinement in LA, bond of $500,000 District attorney's office launched its investigation due to a tip from Gregg Phillips

>>17693866 ElectionWiz: Congress shoveling billions into Ukraine while the Pentagon suggests our soldiers should go on welfare if they're struggling with rising costs

>>17693867 Election Activists File Demand For Emergency Review Of Machines In Georgia

>>17693873 Joe Biden pictured at a Taco shop yesterday, next to a sign reading "Vampiro"

>>17693909 #21644

Previously Collected

>>17693383 #21641, >>17693544 #21642, >>17693777 #21643

>>17692785 #21638, >>17692995 #21639, >>17693208 #21640

>>17692105 #21635, >>17692367 #21636, >>17692579 #21637

>>17682994 #21532, >>17683837 #21633, >>17691920 #21634

>>17474548 Q Research Notables #15: High Five

General Notable Pins: https://ghostbin.com/14ehq

TripCode feed: https://8kun.top/qresearch/tripcode.xml

Aggregators: https://qnotables.com | https://anontimes.com | https://qresear.ch | https://qproofs.com

DOUGH

https://fullchan.net/?9563ec3f85773a80#GqyEpyerC6tVUVmM4XrMV5DtVrDDVk9QenUYoUVEN7WN

>>17694284

OUT-

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Unleashing Communism/Socialism into the World; Case Study of South Africa

I am unable to post in the South African bread so I am doing it here. The following posts will demonstrate how communism/socialism was unleashed into the world and it is only the tip of the iceberg.

Some background for those who do not follow the South Africa bread.

Is it not intriguing that the release of Nelson Mandela, the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the USSR happened around the same time? The ANC, a terrorist organization, was trained in Russia, East Germany and Cuba however they would typically go into exile in London, UK, and not to the countries they were trained in. When did the world start supporting Nelson Mandela and the ANC? It was a major concert held in Britain in 1988 which was televised all over the world with famous actors and artists on stage, https://youtu.be/lTtg7QZPRRE [Whoopi Goldburg, Richard Gere, among others].

Tony Hollingsworth’s website at https://tonyhollingsworth.com/ states, “Tony has over 30 years of experience working with companies, governments and foundations at the intersection of communications, media and popular culture. His credits range from, conceiving and producing the global media campaign that reached [600 million] and re-positioned Nelson Mandela from “black terrorist leader” to “black leader” to, consulting for the US White House on a public campaign in a response to 9/11.” He can also explain in his own words how he accomplished this feat with regard to Mandela at https://youtu.be/xuyeqMD01Cc [embedded]

Tony even stated in the video, https://youtu.be/llJRpBPNCOE, at 6:00; “Most of the world knew very little. He’d [Mandela] been in prison for 25 years at that point in time. So he didn’t know what he looked like, we didn’t know what he sounded like. What we were backing was the man that had given the speech at the Rivonia Trial [1960s]… And that’s all you had on him, I mean in terms of we talk about photographs. There were no photographs of this man.”

“Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, the AAM [Anti-Apartheid Movement] president and a former priest in southern Africa, gave his approval after he, Hollingsworth and Terry had met to discuss the event. “I told Trevor that the first thing we had to do to get Mandela’s release was to stop the world’s television and press referring to him as a ‘black terrorist leader’.” https://listencampaign.com/node/165

For the 1994 election, “Eighty [80] million ballots had already been printed in England at considerable expense” https://ourconstitution.constitutionhill.org.za/the-shell-house-massacre-and-the-road-to-the-ifps-participation-in-the-election/ (South Africa had a total population of about 40 million people.) Why print the ballots in England? South Africa was first world at the time – the first heart transplant was done there.

This rabbit trail started with the first article I will post below. Take note; the former South African President, Jacob Zuma was an intelligence operative in the ANC when they were still regarded as terrorists. “'Zuma's self-survival rooted in being ex-ANC intelligence operative'”, https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/zumas-self-survival-rooted-in-being-ex-anc-intelligence-operative-11636924

>>17694298

>“Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, the AAM [Anti-Apartheid Movement] president and a former priest in southern Africa, gave his approval after he, Hollingsworth and Terry had met to discuss the event. “I told Trevor that the first thing we had to do to get Mandela’s release was to stop the world’s television and press referring to him as a ‘black terrorist leader’.” https://listencampaign.com/node/165

The first concert was such a success that they had a second in 1990 where Bishop Trevor Huddleston made a speech…

“ARCHBISHOP TREVOR HUDDLESTON:SPEECH [LIVE 1990]” – Also ““Bishop Trevor Huddleston. Pervert who preyed on the Poor””

https://youtu.be/EFYTT3RxSK8

“The Late Archbishop Trevor Huddleston's speech, given at the 1990 Nelson Mandela:An International tribute to free South Africa concert. At Wembley stadium,London.”

https://africaunauthorised.com/pervert-or-protector-of-the-poor/

But in the hubris of Huddleston’s birth-centenary, a dirty secret trickled out. In probing the Jimmy Saville affair, ‘Private Eye’ Magazine also requested information regarding allegations against Huddleston. They unearthed a report meant to be frozen until 2069 revealing Huddleston as a child molester.

A police investigation followed and a report was sent by the then Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Robert Mark to the Director of Public Prosecutions recommending prosecution on four counts of gross indecency. The report stated the charges ‘can be supported by the evidence obtained’. Sir Norman Skelhorn, the DPP decided not to prosecute.

Years later Sam Silkin a former Labour Attorney General stated the prosecution was suppressed because it “… would have ruined his career and influence”. Clearly the lives and welfare of underprivileged children were of secondary importance when it came to protecting the public persona of an important man who happened to be a paedophile.

>>17694297

>>17694280 (lb/pb)

How does one post a rumble link here?

Gives me an error every time.

Will an anon clue an anon in?

>>17694301

click the embed,

click the embeb IFRAME URL

post like a yt

https://rumble.com/embed/v1ldbii/?pub=4

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>>17694304

>>17694301

click the embed,

click the embeb IFRAME URL

post like a yt

>>17694298

Even Klaus Schwab stated this…

“Davos 1999 - Nelson Mandela” – World Economic Forum

https://youtu.be/vN6FBVeSuJA

“Nelson Mandela addresses the participants of the World Economic Forum's 1999 Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, and looks back on his struggle against apartheid and tenure as president of South Africa.”

3:39 – Klaus Schwab (KS) states; “The World Economic Forum takes great pride in having accompanied you and all South African, our friends, over the last decade. The late 80s and early 90s, we were searching for ANC officials living in exile camps and integrated some already at the time into our community… Let me say to these that South Africa holds a powerhouse of young people and young talents whom we have met here and in your country over the last decade. Young well-educated and dynamic politicians are ready to continue your work and the private sector is nurturing new entrepreneurs who can drive the South African region to a prosperous future.”

>>17694298

>This rabbit trail started with the first article I will post below. Take note; the former South African President, Jacob Zuma was an intelligence operative in the ANC when they were still regarded as terrorists. “'Zuma's self-survival rooted in being ex-ANC intelligence operative'”, https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/zumas-self-survival-rooted-in-being-ex-anc-intelligence-operative-11636924

“‘Dodgy’ diamond dealer pledges R500k for Jacob Zuma” – “prosecution of advocate Billy Downer and News24 journalist Karyn Maughan"

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/breaking-louis-liebenberg-jacob-zuma-11-october/

11-10-2022 15:47

Louis Liebenberg is reportedly so close with Jacob Zuma, he gifted him two Nguni cows and has been to Nkandla

Former president Jacob Zuma certainly has some friends in high places: Gauteng diamond dealer Louis Liebenberg has pledged R500 000 to fund his private prosecution of advocate Billy Downer and News24 journalist Karyn Maughan.

Here’s some background: Zuma opened a criminal case against Downer, the lead prosecutor in his arms deal corruption trial, claiming he leaked his medical records to Maughan. The High Court in Pietermaritzburg has postponed the matter to February 2023. Both Maughan and Downer, however, have approached the courts, to have the charges he has brought against them dismissed as an abuse of process. The matter will be heard on 8 and 9 December 2022.

ZUMA’S FRIENDSHIP WITH LIEBENBERG

According to reports, Louis Liebenberg deposited the funds into the the trust account of his own attorney, Walter Niedinger. This was revealed in an affidavit filed in response to Downer’s application that Jacob Zuma deposit R1 million to fund his defence.

Liebenberg is believed to enjoy a friendship with the former president. The businessman even gifted Zuma with two Nguni cows and has reportedly visited his Nkandla homestead on several occasions – and we know that honour isn’t extended to just anyone.

Surprisingly (or maybe not), Liebenberg, who has made his fortune in the mining industry, has been labelled a conman by some. Several Facebook groups have been set up, allegedly exposing the Northern Cape resident as a fraud. It’s believed he has been part of several Ponzi schemes, which have illegally taken money from investors.

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>>17694298

“‘Foreign intelligence’ interference in corruption prosecution, claims Jacob Zuma” – Billy Downer,etc.

https://www.biznews.com/briefs/2021/05/25/jacob-zuma-prosecution

25th May 2021

Former president Jacob Zuma claims that ‘foreign intelligence agencies’ may have interfered in his corruption prosecution.

In his ‘special plea’ challenging the right of prosecutor Billy Downer to try him for Arms Deal-related corruption and racketeering, Zuma claimed he had ‘come across information’ that former Scorpions boss Leonard McCarthy was an operative for America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and was handled by an agent called André Pienaar.

He said Pienaar, who he said was code-named Luciano, was responsible for getting McCarthy his job at the World Bank.

‘I fear that Mr Downer SC has covered up McCarthy’s despicable conduct in manipulating my trial for political and intelligence reasons,’ Zuma stated, adding that sources had provided information that McCarthy had regular and unlawful contact with foreign intelligence agencies ‘during his investigation of me’.

According to him, the Spy Tapes recordings that prompted then-acting National Prosecuting Authority boss Mokotedi Mpshe to unlawfully drop the corruption case against him in April 2009 ‘prove that McCarthy had received gifts from America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and had discussed, without any authorisation to do so, my case’. These gifts, he later stated, were Christmas presents.

Zuma claimed Downer knew about McCarthy’s ‘criminal conduct which undoubtedly tainted the prosecution’ but did not refer to any specific evidence that proved this.

OAN on the manufactured war in the Ukraine

https://rumble.com/embed/v1lenq4/?pub=14cde1

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>>17694321

“Zuma demands acquittal – accuses NPA of working with CIA against him”

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/zuma-demands-acquittal-accuses-npa-of-working-with-cia-against-him/

10 Jun 2021

Demands inquiry into the involvement of foreign agencies in his corruption case, arguing the NPA itself isn't qualified to prosecute him.

Corruption-accused former president Jacob Zuma wants the court to probe his claims of “prosecutorial abuses,” among them that the state had been collaborating with foreign intelligence agencies – like the US’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) – in his prosecution over the arms deal.

Last month, the embattled Zuma brought a special plea for the recusal of the lead prosecutor in the case, state advocate Billy Downer SC and for his own acquittal. In the papers, his claims include that the state had been working with foreign intelligence agencies on his investigation. He suggested Downer had been part of a cover up.

Downer has since flatly denied knowing anything about foreign intelligence involvement in the state’s replying papers. But Zuma isn’t backing down and in his latest filings has called for an evidential inquiry.

“I am convinced this prosecution is an attack on my role as a political leader which has always intended and continues to intend to complete the efforts of the apartheid security system to which I was one of the prime security targets,” he said in the new papers filed.

He wants an inquiry “into the extent of involvement of foreign intelligence agencies in my prosecution and more particularly in my political role – which it appears had to be neutralised by a number of acts of clear violations.”

“At the hearing of this application, I will seek an order that an evidentiary hearing be conducted on the issues relating to whether evidence of political and intelligence meddling has undermined the state’s duty to conduct a fair and impartial hearing.”

Mass Shooting Happens, Raleigh Police Violate Your 2nd Amendment Rights

https://youtu.be/aWSNCu14UvQ

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>>17694321

>Leonard McCarthy was an operative for America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and was handled by an agent called André Pienaar.

Remember Andre/Andries Pienaar posts in the 5th South Africa bread

Final Andre Pienaar Bun

>>13900374 South African at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider – Part 1

>>13900380 South African at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider – Part 2

>>13900382 South African at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider – Part 3

>>13908297 André Pienaar Biography

>>13908317 Sample from Pienaar's blog for reference

>>13956493 André Pienaar Remarks on the Space Investment Landscape at America’s Future Series Space Innovation Summit

“Liam Fox resignation exposes Tory links to US radical right” – More South Africa Connections (Part 2) dated 15 Oct 2011 at https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/oct/15/liam-fox-resignation-exposes-tories

Werritty, the group's UK director, was funded by a raft of powerful businessmen including Michael Hintze, one of the Tories biggest financial backers whose hedge fund, CQS, has investments in companies that have contracts with the Ministry of Defence; Poju Zabludowicz, chairman of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, who chairs a US munitions company; and the Good Governance Group, a private security firm set up by a South African businessman, Andries Pienaar, who also has an investment firm, C5 Capital, focused on the defence sector.

“South African at centre of bid for Pentagon data cloud linked to Kremlin insider” dated December 13, 2018, at https://www.somtribune.com/2018/12/13/south-african-at-centre-of-bid-for-pentagon-data-cloud-linked-to-kremlin-insider/

While South African, Andre Pienaar, founder of C5 Capital and exposed as the mysterious “Luciano” in the leaked “Zuma spy tapes” saga, is involved in a bid for the Jedi Pentagon Project – a cyber-cloud that will store highly sensitive data including US nuclear codes – he has also been linked to Ukrainian-born Russian oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg [>>16473779 Viktor Vekselberg Bun], who has close links to the Kremlin.

Former South African intelligence agent, Andre Pienaar, has been cited in an extensive investigation by BBC journalists into bids for the Pentagon’s $R10 billion Jedi Contract project aimed at storing sensitive military and other information on a single cloud.

Pienaar was exposed in court transcripts in the Zuma “spy tapes” saga as the mysterious “Luciano” who allegedly leaked illegal National Intelligence Agency recordings of conversations between then Scorpions boss, Leonard McCarthy, and former NPA boss, Bulelani Ngcuka.

The leak ultimately led to the initial withdrawal of charges of fraud and corruption against former President Jacob Zuma.

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>>17694298

“Spy tapes: McCarthy, ‘Billy the Kid’ [Billy Downer] and me” – Part 1

https://mg.co.za/article/2014-10-02-lessons-in-accountability-on-spy-tapes/

2 Oct 2014

The Democratic Alliance may have shot itself in the foot by forcing the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to release the controversial spy tapes, but they have done everyone else a favour – including me. I feature, you see. There I am in the notes about extracts of telephone intercepts provided to the NPA by the then National Intelligence Agency.

In black and white it is noted: “04/06/08: Billy to Sam Sole. And Billy really refuses to disclose anything critical … “

“Billy” is Billy Downer, chief prosecutor in the Schabir Shaik trial and the corresponding corruption case against then deputy president Jacob Zuma, which was abandoned in April 2009 on the strength of what was contained in the intercepted conversation between NPA officials and people in then-president Thabo Mbeki’s camp.

Elsewhere in the spy tapes transcripts Billy is referred to as “the Kid”, perhaps because of his crack-shot prosecutorial aim.

In the internal notes of the NPA, there were two more alleged interceptions recorded between Downer and me, neither of which, apparently, disclosed anything serious that could be pinned on “Billy the Kid”.

Improper behavior

The situation was very different, however, with Downer’s superior, then Scorpions boss Leonard McCarthy. In 2009 the conversations, recorded by crime intelligence and leaked to Jacob Zuma’s lawyer Michael Hulley, were played, on a selected basis, to the NPA to show that McCarthy had behaved improperly.

Transcripts of some of those conversations were then disclosed when the then acting national director of public prosecutions, Mokotedi Mpshe, announced the decision to terminate the Zuma case.

Mpshe cited these extracts as evidence of collusion between McCarthy and the former prosecutions boss, Bulelani Ngcuka, to manipulate the prosecutorial process before and after the Polokwane elections in December 2007 that removed Mbeki as ANC president in favour of Zuma.

The DA has sought a judicial review of Mpshe’s decision, believing that the evidence disclosed concerning McCarthy’s actions did not invalidate the case against Zuma.

To make its case, the DA demanded access to the full recordings on which Mpshe based his decision, as well as records of internal NPA discussions that led up to his bombshell announcement.

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>>17694331

“Spy tapes: McCarthy, ‘Billy the Kid’ [Billy Downer] and me” – Part 2

https://mg.co.za/article/2014-10-02-lessons-in-accountability-on-spy-tapes/

2 Oct 2014

Eventual handover

Zuma resisted this disclosure to the point of abusing the court process. Finally, a few weeks ago, the material was handed over.

It is not clear why Zuma fought so hard to keep the transcripts secret – except for the most cynical reason that, without access to the very material on which Mpshe based his decision, the DA could not practically pursue its review.

By and large the fuller extracts strengthen Zuma’s case that there was a conspiracy against him by the Mbeki administration, and thereby perhaps complicate the DA’s task.

It is not possible to give more than a sense of the conversations (the full papers are online at mg.co.za/spytapes [https://serve.mg.co.za/content/documents/2013/08/29/npacorrespondencekeyexcerptslongversion.pdf]) but they show how truly embedded McCarthy was in the Mbeki camp.

The extracts, which run from November 2007 until April 2008, feature regular conversations between McCarthy and Ngcuka, who had resigned as prosecutions head in 2004 as the Zuma fight-back team began to take aim at him.

Mbeki’s political interests

They show how McCarthy and some of his key lieutenants had adopted Mbeki’s political interests as their own. And McCarthy was prepared to use his position to advance those interests. He repeatedly discussed the issue of the timing of a decision to lay new charges against Zuma with Ngcuka, who appeared to act as a proxy and cut-out for informal, and therefore deniable, communication with Mbeki.

At issue was how the timing of such an announcement might impact on the voting delegates: wake them up to the dangers of electing a deeply flawed candidate, or harden sympathy for Zuma.

McCarthy discussed the run-up to and aftermath of Mbeki’s defeat at Polokwane in overtly political terms, not only with Ngcuka, but with other Mbeki acolytes, such as businessman Mzi Khumalo – at one time confessing that, after Mbeki’s defeat, his wife said: “You look like you lost your mother.”

They show how, in private, McCarthy could refer to Judge Ian Farlam as “that cunt” merely for ruling against him in the Supreme Court of Appeal case regarding the contested search and seizure warrants executed against Zuma.

The disclosures go wider than the transcripts, including notes of meetings between senior NPA executive Willie Hofmeyr and Hulley, at which Hulley first put on the table what the Zuma camp had in its possession.

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“Spy tapes: McCarthy, ‘Billy the Kid’ [Billy Downer] and me” – Part 3

https://mg.co.za/article/2014-10-02-lessons-in-accountability-on-spy-tapes/

2 Oct 2014

Startling interceptions

It includes references to some other startling interceptions that were never, in the end, provided to the NPA, including alleged conversations with presidency officials about the leaking of Kate Zuma’s suicide note at a time that would do maximum damage to Zuma before Polokwane.

Zuma’s Mozambican-born wife Kate committed suicide in 2000 and left a note excoriating Zuma.

The presidency at the time denied allegations it had been involved in the leaks. And therein lies the value of these disclosures.

They show the unvarnished truth about the exercise of power and the politicisation of state bureaucracy – then and now.

There is an unbroken thread linking McCarthy’s crass partisanship with the ongoing destruction of any culture of bureaucratic independence. That thread finds expression in the “orgy of kowtowing” that characterised the hapless mid-level yes-men in the Nkandla saga to the endless shenanigans around the leadership of the NPA; from the cynical manipulation of a visa application for the Dalai Lama to the removal of the previous minister of energy and his director general for not getting it on with Rosatom, the Russian nuclear power company.

Decision made in anger

To the DA’s advantage, the disclosures suggest Mpshe took his decision in anger after listening to the tapes, and cast around later for legal arguments to bolster his position –without clearly evaluating the key question as to whether McCarthy’s frolics impacted on Zuma’s right to a fair trial.

Mpshe’s expression of shock was either naive or disingenuous – after all, he owed his own elevation to the removal of his predecessor, Vusi Pikoli, precisely because Pikoli resisted such political dictates.

The lessons from the spy tapes are:

• That it is not that McCarthy is a boorish apparatchik – it is that the exercise of power produces and promotes boorish apparatchiks;

• That behind every solemn public assertion of procedural rectitude a myriad private channels of intimate and messy congress play out between politicians and officials – channels that they use to screw the rest of us and, at times, each other;

• That accountability is easily side-stepped if we have regard only for form rather than content, such as the lamentable Seriti commission; and

• That we must grasp every opportunity for accountability with imagination and ruthlessness, and fight to protect the remaining institutions and cultures that guard independent oversight – such as the courts, the public protector and, yes, the media.

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>It is not possible to give more than a sense of the conversations (the full papers are online at mg.co.za/spytapes [https://serve.mg.co.za/content/documents/2013/08/29/npacorrespondencekeyexcerptslongversion.pdf]) but they show how truly embedded McCarthy was in the Mbeki camp.

“internal National Prosecuting Authority [NPA] correspondence in response to the spy tape “oral representations””

https://serve.mg.co.za/content/documents/2013/08/29/npacorrespondencekeyexcerptslongversion.pdf

Below is an excerpts

It is interesting that Brett Kebble (who was assassinated) is also mentioned.

• Kebble, Mphogo and Bul (and LM [Leonard McCarthy]) met in 2003 before the announcement re JZ and SS;

• Kebble was JZ man – he complained that he was extorted by Saki Makozoma;

• __Saki threatened Kebble that he would use the scorpions to take him to the cleaners if

Saki was not made the president of SA – Mbeki president of ANC and Phumzile deputy

pres of SA__;

• Kebble should change sides – 7 hour conversation;

–Selebi was not charged to assist at Polokwane. TM [Thabo Mbeki] was behind everything with Bul [Bulelani Ngcuka] and LM [Leonard McCarthy]

supporting him. There are also other powers (International – Luciano) and private sector

that pulled strings.–

From the oral representations which you have made and the further material which you

have showed to Mr Hofmeyr and Adv Mzinyathi, I am able to glean the following main

salient features:

• It is alleged that the Head of the DSO at the time, Adv McCarthy conspired with various

others including the erstwhile National Director Adv Ngcuka to support former President

Mbeki’s bid for re-¬‐election as President of the ANC. In the process he is alleged to have

manipulated the timing of the 2007 decision to prosecute your client.

• –Adv McCarthy is alleged to have abused his position by instructing or allowing certain

erstwhile employees of the DSO to gather intelligence regarding your client which

culminated in the production of the so-¬‐called “Browse Mole” report.–

• –Adv McCarthy is alleged to have had improper communications with a member of the

media and an alleged foreign intelligence operative regarding your client’s case.–

1.Adv McCarthy is a friend to Mr Ngcuka and they were in contact from time to time.

6.He thought it unlikely that Mr Saki Macozoma will have approached the late Mr

Brett Kebble in 2003 and asked the latter to offer him a job at R3 million per annum as he

intended to succeed Mr Mbeki. He believed it unlikely that Mr Macozoma would have

mentioned to Mr Kebble that Mr Ngcuka’s wife was to be appointed Deputy President and

that Mr Zuma was going to leave politics. Mr Ngcuka pointed out that they only became

aware for the first time that his wife was going to be appointed Deputy President in 2005. He was aware that other people were being touted, including Mr Cyril Ramaphosa to avail

themselves for the position of President.

7. Mr Ngcuka confirmed that he did have a meeting with Mr Brett Kebble regarding his

case. He says the meeting took place at a restaurant in Pretoria and that Mr Gerrie Nel had

by prior arrangement with him recorded the meeting at a remote venue. He says Mr Nel

should still have the tape

(xix) Does he know of any contact that Adv McCarthy had with the then President before

and after the Polokwane Conference and what was discussed between them?

Answer: __He knows of no contact before Polokwane, but after Polokwane Adv McCarthy

asked him to arrange a meeting with Mr Mbeki. That was around the 22nd December 2007,

to ask for his release from his contract in order to take up a position with the World Bank.

Given that Mr Ngcuka had a better chance of meeting the President, Adv Mc Carthy had

requested him to facilitate a meeting with Mr Mbeki for this purpose. It had been a

requirement by the World Bank that both the President and the Minister of Finance approve

Adv Mc Carthy’s departure from the NPA and his appointment by the Bank. Adv Mc Carthy

had requested him to facilitate the meeting with the President because he had been

unsuccessful in his own attempts to meet Mr Mbeki.__

Did he organise the job for Adv McCarthy at the World Bank?

Answer: He recommended him for the World Bank job. He was one of Adv McCarthy’s

referees.

Why did he do so?

Answer: It is good for the country and for Adv Mc Carthy. Adv Mc Carthy wanted the job

and Mr Ngcuka believed he qualified for it because of his integrity and competence.

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>It is interesting that Brett Kebble (who was assassinated) is also mentioned

“The shocking story behind the murder of Brett Kebble”

https://youtu.be/KM0-YV7w8Wc

https://krugersdorpnews.co.za/247063/shocking-story-behind-murder-brett-kebble/

October 21, 2014

“204” means a full and permanent indemnity from prosecution in exchange for truthful testimony.

Genre: Docu-drama

Running time: 110 min

Starring: Mikey Schultz, Nigel McGurk, Faizal “Kappie” Smith

Age restriction: NBA

Brett Kebble was a charismatic South African businessman whose meteoric rise to fame and fortune in the mining world was followed by a startling fall from grace. His life ultimately ended in a hail of bullets on a road in northern Johannesburg in 2005. But the story behind his death is so bizarre that it could come straight out of a mystery thriller.

In this documentary, the three self-confessed killers, as well as Jackie Selebi, Glen Agliotti, Piet Byleveld, and the Kebble family, are interviewed, exploring a fascinating tale of greed, corruption, fraud, and murder. Exclusive first-hand accounts of the murder are included, and the belly of South Africa’s dark underworld is revealed.

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>Adv McCarthy is alleged to have abused his position by instructing or allowing certain erstwhile employees of the DSO to gather intelligence regarding your client which culminated in the production of the so-¬‐called “Browse Mole” report

“Browse Mole report a ‘mixture of fact and fiction’”

https://mg.co.za/article/2008-07-03-browse-mole-report-a-mixture-of-fact-and-fiction/

3 Jul 2008

Suspended head of the National Prosecuting Authority Vusi Pikoli had a feeling that the first version of the Special Browse Mole Report would cause trouble but didn’t do anything about it immediately because he was advised to ”file” it and his department already had a heavy workload.

”It was one of those documents that you wish you have never seen. I had this gut feel about this document, that this was going to cause trouble,” he said in Johannesburg on Thursday at the Ginwala commission of inquiry into his fitness to hold office.

The report was handed to him in March or April 2006 by former Directorate of Special Operations (DSO) head Leonard McCarthy.

McCarthy told him that a Swiss judge had spoken to him about a person involved in money laundering who had made several trips in and out of South Africa. However, McCarthy had said it was still a work in progress.

At the time the DSO was busy with high profile investigations and dealing with matters relating to the Khampepe Commission into the dispute over whether the DSO, an investigative unit, should stay in the Justice and Constitutional Development Department or be moved to the South African Police Service.

”We were rather stressed out,” he said.

McCarthy said that because he was so busy, there was no harm in filing it away because he was going to give him a final report.

Although it already contained a number of conclusions ”on the face of it”, Pikoli considered it a ”mixture of fact and fiction”.

”As I said I did not really apply my mind to it,” he said. ”I did not study it, I flipped through it.”

The report contained allegations of a foreign funded operation to bring African National Congress president Jacob Zuma to power.

One of the ”high profile” investigations that the DSO was working on was a corruption case against Zuma. The other was a corruption case against police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi.

–When he read the final version in June/July he became angry and thought that ”if there was a time that Mr McCarthy was going to leave the DSO, it was going to be that time”.—

–It had clearly been produced by someone who had contact with ”old apartheid structures of intelligence”, he said, and not a single member of the DSO had the capacity to produce it.—

”I told Mr McCarthy that this document shall enjoy no status in the DSO and that there should be no further work on this report.”

–He believed it was clearly an intelligence report, and not the mandate of the DSO, although it had some elements of organised crime in it.—

H then met the directors general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and of the South African Secret Service and between them they decided to work together to find out who the source was.

He also discovered they had already independently received some of the information in the report.

He said intelligence director general Manala Manzini was not telling the truth when he testified that he had said ”I have a hot potato”, because he believed the document had no status with the DSO.

Pikoli said he gave the department’s full support and cooperation during this investigation, contrary to Manzini’s testimony that they received none.

He said the only dispute they had with the NIA was over an accusation by them that a DSO employee had leaked the report, but, without proof from the NIA, they could not act on it.

Pikoli was suspended on September 23 last year on the grounds of a breakdown in relations with Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Brigitte Mabandla and that he did not fully appreciate maters of national security.

He believes it is because of the Selebi investigation. – Sapa

Oversight of FBI and DOJ: Testimony by FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok

https://youtu.be/AP96roY1sI4

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>Selebi was not charged to assist at Polokwane. TM [Thabo Mbeki] was behind everything with Bul [Bulelani Ngcuka] and LM [Leonard McCarthy] supporting him. There are also other powers (International – Luciano) and private sector that pulled strings

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>He believes it is because of the Selebi investigation.

“Selebi lashes ex-NPA bosses over 'plot'”

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=https%3a%2f%2fwww.security.co.za%2fnews%2f12238&d=4778989019726626&mkt=fr-FR&setlang=en-US&w=MisV7SZbdm19O61KzRw9LD8xigwrM-U5

Date: 15 Apr 2009

Jackie Selebi has relaunched his attack on the ex-prosecuting bosses blamed for the withdrawal of the Jacob Zuma corruption case - accusing both Bulelani Ngcuka and Leonard McCarthy of orchestrating a plot against him. Days after the National Prosecuting Authority controversially withdrew all charges against Zuma on the basis of tape-recorded conversations between McCarthy and Ngcuka discussing the timing of Zuma's recharging, National Police Commissioner Selebi has reiterated his belief that Ngcuka was the NPA's puppet master. Pointing out that acting prosecuting head Mokotedi Mpshe had vehemently denied that the NPA had "been improperly influenced by Bulelani Ngcuka or anyone else in the decision to prosecute (Selebi)", Selebi said it was "significant" that Mpshe's decision to withdraw all charges against Zuma "relied solely on the fact that Ngcuka was indeed controlling the DSO (Directorate of Special Operations)." Selebi has pointed out that he had previously claimed Ngcuka was "still actively controlling senior members of the Scorpions and in particular (McCarthy)". While denying that the case against Selebi had been initiated out of any political motive, Scorpions investigator Andrew Leask this week shied away from disavowing Selebi's claims that Ngcuka was inappropriately involved in his prosecution. Leask has instead stated that the NPA had no knowledge of any such involvement. The lead Selebi investigator was last week forced to admit that the NPA - who has previously insisted that it was prepared to put Selebi on trial today - was in fact not ready to do so. Leask did so as part of the NPA's application, which was due to be heard in the Johannesburg High Court today and which Selebi and his legal team are fiercely opposing, for the postponement of its corruption and defeating-the-ends-of-justice case against the police boss. In court documents, Leask maintains the NPA needed to postpone its case against Selebi because of its ongoing documents dispute with his lawyers and the alleged failure of the SA Police Service to co-operate with its investigation. Selebi insists these reasons are smokescreens aimed at saving the NPA the embarrassment of putting him on trial without having a prima facie case for him to answer. The police boss maintains he wants to go on trial. He has also stated under oath that he is prepared to walk away from his documents battle with the State, which he has won, if doing so would allow him to face his accusers earlier. He maintains that delaying his trial would result in irreparable personal and professional prejudice to him. According to Selebi, "My employment contract with the SAPS is valid until the June 30, 2009. All indications are that my contract will not be renewed if this matter is not concluded prior to June 30, 2009." By Karyn Maughan The Star 14/04/09e3

10 13 2022 Cruz 4

https://youtu.be/tZVXpijb5Kc

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>According to him, the Spy Tapes recordings that prompted then-acting National Prosecuting Authority boss Mokotedi Mpshe to unlawfully drop the corruption case against him in April 2009 ‘prove that McCarthy had received gifts from America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and had discussed, without any authorisation to do so, my case’. These gifts, he later stated, were Christmas presents.

“Mokotedi Mpshe’s Zuma tapes affidavit: It’s all about Leonard McCarthy” – Part 1

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2015-07-01-mokotedi-mpshes-zuma-tapes-affidavit-its-all-about-leonard-mccarthy/

01 Jul 2015

On Tuesday, several days late, former Acting NPA Head Mokotedi Mpshe – who shouldn’t be confused with all the other former acting NPA heads – finally filed a supplementary affidavit in response to claims made by the DA in its submission.

Mpshe’s papers begin to explain, in more detail, exactly what happened when the decision to charge Zuma was made. Mpshe’s version really matters, not just because he was in charge of the NPA overall at the time (albeit only in the way that someone who is not the president could be) but because he took the formal decision in the end to withdraw the charges.

At this point it’s pertinent to back up a bit. In 2007, before the ANC’s Polokwane Conference, there was a great deal of speculation about how and when the NPA would charge Zuma. That he would be charged was more or less a foregone conclusion; the conviction of Schabir Shaik for paying him money corruptly compelled Zuma to be charged for receiving that money. What was not known was the timing: would it happen before Polokwane, at a time when the NPA appeared to be firmly under the grip of then-President Thabo Mbeki, who was running against Zuma for the ANC leadership?

What has been apparent since 2009 is that the Scorpions head at the time, Leonard McCarthy, was the main player in the manipulation of the timing of the charges – the ‘Zuma Spy Tapes’, which revealed he had been discussing the timing with former NPA Head Bulelani Ngcuka, told us that.

Now, Mpshe goes into far more detail about what he knew, and what McCarthy actually did.

Perhaps most importantly, he says he had no idea that McCarthy had been talking to Ngcuka about all of this. He also didn’t know that McCarthy was having similar discussions with then-Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils as well. Both Ngcuka and Kasrils were surely allies of Mbeki at the time. Mpshe appears to be suggesting that he was blindsided, or undermined by McCarthy.

Mpshe goes into detail about McCarthy saying to him that he wanted to delay the charging of Zuma until after Polokwane, because “[h]e believed that if Zuma were to be charged before the Polokwane Conference, it would destabilise the DSO (the Scorpions), the NPA and the country”. But, despite that dark warning, Mpshe still believed the charges should be lodged, for the simple reason that the prosecution team was ready.

However, he states quite categorically that McCarthy had the legal authority to lodge the charges, and yet he did not (at one point, there was significant legal debate about the actual powers of the National Director of Public Prosecutions, and about whether the NDPP can actually institute charges, or only review charges lodged by their deputies). Mpshe goes on to say that “[b]ecause it was his decision to make, I felt it was important for me to support his decisions”. In other words, he was the boss, but couldn’t make the decision himself; however, being a good boss, decided to back McCarthy in public anyway.

Nonetheless, two paragraphs later, Mpshe’s frustration with McCarthy is laid bare. “Had I known what McCarthy’s true motivation was, I would never have supported his decision to postpone the prosecution,” he writes. Clearly, there is a sense of betrayal that remains. The anger Mpshe felt towards McCarthy when he made the announcement that he was dropping the charges; that “my sense of justice has been offended” back in 2009, still rankles.

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TS don't cater too stupid

Choose a sensible handle.

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“Mokotedi Mpshe’s Zuma tapes affidavit: It’s all about Leonard McCarthy” – Part 2

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2015-07-01-mokotedi-mpshes-zuma-tapes-affidavit-its-all-about-leonard-mccarthy/

01 Jul 2015

Mpshe also points out that in the end, Zuma was charged without his input. It may be a fine legal point, but he maintains that “[w]hen it came to the actual decision to prosecute Zuma, McCarthy did not consult me.” He adds: “When McCarthy phoned to tell me that he was moving on finalising the prosecution, he did not do so to obtain my permission.”

Certainly one gets the feeling that Mpshe had very little control. Perhaps nursing this particular grievance for so long has helped him sleep at night, between jobs as a peripatetic acting judge, which is surely the most he can hope for now. (The appointment of acting judges is in the gift of the Justice Minister; a permanent appointment requires a public hearing, and it’s fairly easy to predict how that would go.)

Mpshe also says that at one point he met with then-Justice Minister Brigitte Mabandla, who agreed with McCarthy, as “[s]he was convinced that the NPA would be perceived as targeting Zuma ahead of the Polokwane Conference”. But, he says, he wasn’t going to be seen to be acting at her behest, as this decision was not up to her (interestingly, this point became vital during the Ginwala Inquiry into the fitness for office of Vusi Pikoli, where Mabandla tried to stop Pikoli from charging Jackie Selebi).

Mpshe’s papers make for interesting reading, and do shed some light on what exactly happened. Even if parts of them may well prove to be contradictory, and don’t actually do anything to help his legacy.

That said, like all the other papers lodged by the NPA, these don’t address what is surely the central issue: was there enough evidence against Zuma to go to court? It’s a point the DA is currently hammering home.

A lawyer could easily argue that the NPA, and Mpshe, have to stick to the issue at hand, which is the DA contention that it was wrong to withdraw the charges simply because there was manipulation in the timing of when Zuma was charged. It may be viewed as such a weak point on which to drop the charges that it is unlikely to stick.

And that takes us back to the original decision to withdraw the charges in the first place. [“In 2009, two weeks before the ballot for South Africa’s third democratically elected president – which Zuma won – the NPA dropped the charges against him in an announcement made by its acting head, Mokotedi Mpshe.” https://www.corruptionwatch.org.za/spy-tapes-saga-the-latest/]

Ask yourself: What would have happened to the Zuma case if Zuma had not won at Polokwane, and had not been able to use the might of the ANC to force Mpshe to do what he did? Even if Mbeki had somehow been removed from the picture, would he have faced those corruption charges? After a High Court, the Supreme Court of Appeal and the Constitutional Court all said that Shaik had paid him the money corruptly?

And if the answer to that is yes, what does that tell us about Mpshe’s decision? DM

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With my story I was referring to Joe Allens speech, this sums it up, he might just wanna stop talking

Kek

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The fox guarding the henhouse… It was South Africa, and now the world.

Leonard F. McCarthy Biography – “LFMcCarthy Associates, Inc., a District of Columbia Corporation”

https://youtu.be/B5pD9Yny0f8

https://www.lfmccarthyassoc.com/biographical

Leonard F. McCarthy has been in the business of risk management, litigation, and anti-corruption for more than twenty years.

Following the Volcker Panel Report of 2007, then World Bank Group President Robert Zoellick appointed McCarthy as Integrity Vice President in May 2008. He reported to the Bank’s President and was accountable to its Audit Committee.

The Integrity Vice-Presidency (INT) anchors the World Bank’s mission of directing economic development and eradicating poverty, by ensuring that funds are used for the intended purpose.

INT’s mandate is to investigate, litigate and prevent instances of fraud and corruption in Bank-supported investment and lending activities, including its International Finance Corporation (IFC), as well as to address evidence of significant fraud or corruption involving World Bank staff.

McCarthy has brought about important operational and organizational changes in INT that have increased the World Bank’s capacity to mitigate the cost of fraud and corruption in 1800 large projects in 172 client countries. With McCarthy’s leadership, INT has finalized more than 1500 investigations, sanctions, forensic audits, compliance assessments and advisory engagements in infrastructure finance, the energy and natural resource sectors, as well as consulting engineering and manufacturing, amongst others.

In 2009, McCarthy paved the way for the World Bank’s first negotiated settlement, enabling the institution to deal more expediently with companies that admit wrongdoing. Under McCarthy’s management, the World Bank launched the International Corruption Hunters Alliance (ICHA), and also brokered a landmark cross-debarment agreement with other multilateral development banks, resulting in the cross-debarment of 600 entities to date.

McCarthy’s strategic vision for INT led to the establishment of critical new functions in the business, including a forensic accounting section, preventive services unit, and a compliance office. The forensic accounting unit performs vital audits of the Bank’s main development projects, thereby mitigating integrity risk. The preventive services unit integrates insights gained from investigations as precautions into World Bank operations. The integrity compliance office monitors sanctioned entities, so companies can clean up their environment, and helps to restore them to good standing.

As Vice President for Integrity, McCarthy served on the World Bank’s Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) management panel and played a crucial role in steering the Bank’s Governance and Anti-corruption (GAC) Agenda.

In sum, he has transformed the Bank’s Integrity Vice-Presidency into a flagship global function, through working arrangements and agreements with the U.S Justice Department, the U.K Serious Fraud Office, the European Anti-Fraud Office, the United Nations Agencies, other Multilateral Development Banks and Interpol.

In prior professional life, McCarthy was appointed by former President Nelson Mandela as a director of public prosecutions in 1998, after which he took over as Director for the Office of Serious Economic Offences in June 2000. He then became Head of South Africa’s Directorate of Special Operations (DSO [the Scorpions]) in 2003, overseeing crime analysis, investigation, prosecution, asset forfeiture and civil litigation. During his tenure, the DSO secured convictions in major pursuits involving corporate wrongdoing, grand corruption, organized crime, and urban terrorism; and interdicted record amounts of proceeds of crime, financial assets, drugs and other contraband.

McCarthy also chairs the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Anti-Corruption & Transparency and participates in the Volcker Alliance. Admitted as an advocate in 1992, he holds the BA, B-Juris and LLB degrees.

He is the founder and president of LFMcCarthy Associates, Inc., an integrity risk management company based in Washington, D.C. as of July 2017.

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>INT’s mandate is to investigate, litigate and prevent instances of fraud and corruption in Bank-supported investment and lending activities, including its International Finance Corporation (IFC), as well as to address evidence of significant fraud or corruption involving World Bank staff.

And guess what he investigated?… Now the country is experiencing the worst rolling blackouts.

“DA complaint on Hitachi to land on ex-Scorpions boss McCarthy’s desk” – Investigating Eskom 2015

https://www.news24.com/News24/DA-complaint-on-Hitachi-to-land-on-ex-Scorpions-boss-McCarthys-desk-20151001

01 Oct 2015

The former head of the Scorpions, Advocate Leonard McCarthy, would be responsible for taking up the Democratic Alliance’s complaint to the World Bank, it was confirmed today.

McCarthy is now the World Bank’s vice-president for integrity in Washington, and investigates allegations of fraud and corruption in projects funded by the bank.

Although the bank did not confirm receiving the DA’s complaint that the ANC had benefited from contracts to build the Medupi and Kusile power stations, it said that the vice-president for integrity would be the office to deal with it.

The bank granted a loan to Eskom in 2010 for the construction of the two power stations.

The DA yesterday laid the complaint, calling on the bank to investigate allegations that the ANC, through its investment company Chancellor House, allegedly benefited from a tender for the construction of the two stations. It is alleged that the Japanese company Hitachi Power Europe, to whom a tender to provide boilers for the power stations was awarded, made payments to Chancellor House in exchange for political influence in the awarding of government contracts.

McCarthy was among those who were accused of a “political conspiracy” against President Jacob Zuma due to the timing of corruption charges against the president.

His name is mentioned in the so-called spy tapes, which intercepted conversations between McCarthy and Advocate Bulelani Ngcuka, former head of the National Prosecuting Authority.

Spokesperson for the World Bank in South Africa, Zandile Ratshitanga said today: “If the World Bank office in South Africa were to receive a complaint by the DA to investigate Hitachi activities at Medupi Power Station, this would be forwarded to the bank’s vice-presidency for integrity, who investigates allegations of fraud, corruption, coercion, collusion, and obstructive practices related [to] World Bank Group-financed projects.”

Ratshitanga added: “The unit would take up the issue and liaise directly with the complaining party. To ensure the independence of the [unit’s] activities, the vice-president for integrity reports directly to the president of the World Bank Group.”

Ratshitanga emphasised that the World Bank “did not finance the Hitachi contract because financing was already available from other lenders”.

The bank, however, in a statement of 2010 punted the loan to Eskom as “the bank’s first major lending engagement with South Africa since the fall of apartheid 16 years ago and aims to benefit the poor directly, through jobs created as the economy bounces back from the global financial crisis and through additional power capacity to expand access to electricity”.

In the complaint, DA leader Mmusi Maimane also asked the bank to insist on financial restitution from the ANC, which he alleges “benefited” from the transaction.

Weeks before the World Bank granted the loan, former DA leader Helen Zille also warned of this “benefit” to the ANC.

The ANC this week distanced itself from the Hitachi allegations.

Professor Pierre de Vos, a constitutional expert at the University of Cape Town, said that questions could arise about a possible conflict of interest for McCarthy.

“There can be a perception of a conflict of interest when a person who was close to the political party [ANC], now has to investigate a complaint implicating that party. Questions will be raised over how fair such an investigation can be.”

–Eskom awarded a tender for the construction of boilers at the two power stations to Hitachi Power Europe, with the ANC’s Chancellor House investment arm as black empowerment partner.

Maimane now claims the World Bank through the loan was “effectively bankrolling the ANC through their share in Hitachi via Chancellor House”.–

“In light of recent developments we believe the World Bank should invoke its power to demand financial restitution, in this case from the ANC, in cases where loans were employed to fund fraudulent, corrupt, collusive, coercive or obstructive practices,” he said in a statement.

McCarthy was appointed at the World Bank in 2008.

>>17694368

>Joe Allen held a speech about forthcoming tech (eugenics)

https://thepalmierireport.com/joe-allen-transhumanism-is-the-issue-of-our-age/

https://joebot.substack.com/p/why-transhumanism-is-the-issue-of

Karen Kingston explaining the bioweapon jab patents. 👍👍👍👍👍

Watch Lindell-TV2 Live 24/7 | Frank Speech the Home of Free Speech

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>>17694329

imagine the toilet accidents the following day. he will need aides with spare suits and underwear following him around.

>>17694375

I've been digging on the author. His name is Billy Briggs.

https://twitter.com/billybriggs/

extreme left winger and activist/journalist.

all round wanker.

>>17694391

tyvm for checkin in

if you drop em I'll bake em

o7

>>17694400

testing

>>17694406

ICYMI This bread is full of shills, my estimate about 50%

True knowledge needs no stinking rating of an education system, the knowledge is reward of itself

>>17694415

got em

very much appreciated

o7

>>17694365

>Case In Point

bfb42f never had to learn a damn thing.

>>17694415

This is LAST CALL

CUT OFF 150

Final

#21647

>>17694288 Saudi Arabia announces $400 million

>>17694289 Brad Raffensperger opened an investigation into Warnocks church over the evictions

>>17694291, >>17694293 IT WAS ALL STAGED! Pelosi Brought in Daughter, Camera Crew to US Capitol Before the Riot, Son-in-Law Was Set Up Outside to Film

>>17694294 CEO of election software firm Konnech charged with grand theft by embezzlement

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>>17694301, >>17694304, >>17694306, >>17694308, >>17694350 Trump's epic response to J6 committee plus how to embed a rumble video

>>17694307 Violent gangs in Haiti could pose similar threat to US as MS-13

>>17694312 Arizona AG Mark Brnovich asks FBI, IRS to investigate election integrity watchdog True the Vote

>>17694313 Saudi claim that Biden asked to delay oil cuts by one month raises election influence concerns

>>17694327, >>17694332, >>17694340 RE Nunes on Durham trial. He thinks someone is not letting Durham bring the charges that should be brought

>>17694354 Oversight of FBI and DOJ: Testimony by FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok (July 12, 2018)

>>17694362 Polk Sheriff on Cruz verdict

>>17694384 Israeli electrical engineer Simon Yanowitz shows micron-scale images of the “self-assembling structures” in the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech “vaccine” vials

>>17694393 Liquid baby formula recall

>>17694394 Ben Stevens, Former Alaska Senate President, Dies at Age 63

>>17694402 Far-Left Politico Admits Election Machines are Vulnerable to Hacks

>>17694411 Case Report of a Pro-Vaccine Researcher Suggests mRNA Vaccine Might Worsen Lymphoma Cancer

>>17694420 Gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A likely signals the birth of a new black hole

>>17694422 Mauna Loa Volcano

>>17694427 Is NATO Going Nuclear?

>>17694428 Biden Sneaks Up Behind Girl, Grabs Her

>>17694429 Babylon Bee: Warning Signs That You Are A Fascist

>>17694431 Pour Yourself a Drink, Patriot—the Democrat Party Is Crumbling

>>17694432 Cure progressive senile dementias. "The gray Tsunami''

#21647

Fresh Bread

>>17694426

>>17694426

>>17694426