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China, Russia to defy US sanctions over support to Venezuela


teleSUR
Mon, 10 Feb 2020 08:16 UTC
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© CancilleriaVERussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov delivers a statement during his official visit to Caracas, Venezuela.
In Beijing, the foreign ministry indicated that China is against any foreign interference in the internal affairs of Venezuela and against the application of unilateral sanctions.

The Russian government rejected on Monday the U.S. threats to impose new sanctions against several Russian companies for their cooperation with Venezuela in the oil sector.

Last week, the United States special representative for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, warned Russia that its support for Venezuela will cost them econmically as Washington is looking to sanction them.

"We classify this practice as harmful, we believe that many countries suffer because of this practice, we consider it contrary to international law," Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov told reporters Monday in regards to Washington's plans.

"The United States, especially, and several other countries, unfortunately use these trade and other restrictions very frequently against third world countries, which are illegal under international law."

Comment: See also:

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Recycle

What really happened to Ukraine's missing gold?

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 08 Feb 2020 19:00 UTC
Now that the Trump impeachment farce is finally over, vindicating the president and in the process for the first time boosting the president's approval rating higher than where Obama was at this time in his first term much to the embarrassment of Nancy Pelosi, whose impeachment gambit has backfired spectacularly (just as Nancy knew it would, and is why she delayed triggering it until a critical mass of ultra left-wing demands in Congress made it impossible for her to ignore any longer)...
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... the Democrats' great diversion from Trump's core question - did the Bidens willfully engage in, and benefit from corruption in the Ukraine, corruption which may have been enabled and facilitated by billions in taxpayer funds originating from the Obama administration no less - is over.

However, while Trump has finally moved on beyond what in retrospect was a remarkable, if failed presidential coup attempt, orchestrated by the Ukraine lobby in the US, backed by the Atlantic Council and various other "deep-state" institutions and apparatchiks, and implemented by Congressional democrats who are now watching the chances of the Democratic party winning the 2020 presidential election melt before their eyes, some long overdue questions surrounding the Bidens' involvement in Ukraine - one of the world's most corrupt nations according to the World Economic Forum - especially around the time of the 2014 presidential coup and the months immediately following, are about to be asked, and haunt Joe Biden and his son like a very angry and vengeful ghost, only this time there will be no Trump impeachment to distract from revealing the shocking answers.
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Best of the Web: For the SIXTH time, Pentagon increases number of injured US troops from Iranian airstrikes on Iraq base, this time to 109


Reuters
Mon, 10 Feb 2020 22:10 UTC
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The U.S. military is preparing to report a more than 50% jump in cases of traumatic brain injury stemming from Iran's missile attack on a base in Iraq last month, U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of an announcement, said there were over 100 cases of TBI, up from the 64 previously reported last month.

The Pentagon declined to comment, but in the past had said to expect an increase in numbers in the weeks after the attack because symptoms can take time to manifest and troops can sometimes take longer to report them.


Comment: Right.


No U.S. troops were killed or faced immediate bodily injury when Iran fired missiles at the Ain al-Asad base in Iraq in retaliation for the U.S. killing of Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike at the Baghdad airport on Jan. 3.


Comment: "Immediate bodily injury." You can smell the desperation to avoid admitting military weakness (in terms of defensive capabilities anyway) all the way from the Pentagon.


Comment: This is one heckuva brazen PR stunt they're pulling here. 6 weeks old and still ongoing...

See also: Pentagon AGAIN increases casualty numbers from Iranian airstrikes against US base in Iraq, this time to "50, as of today" - UPDATE: Now it's 64!

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Che Guevara

Flashback 'Mayor Pete's' dad was Marxist professor who lauded the Communist Manifesto

Emily Larsen
Washington Examiner
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 22:16 UTC
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Joseph Buttigieg, Mayor Pete Buttigieg's father
The father of Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg was a Marxist professor who spoke fondly of the Communist Manifesto and dedicated a significant portion of his academic career to the work of Italian Communist Party founder Antonio Gramsci, an associate of Vladimir Lenin.

Joseph Buttigieg, who died in January at the age of 71, immigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s from Malta and in 1980 joined the University of Notre Dame faculty, where he taught modern European literature and literary theory. He supported an updated version of Marxism that jettisoned some of Marx and Engel's more doctrinaire theories, though he was undoubtedly Marxist.

He was an adviser to Rethinking Marxism, an academic journal that published articles "that seek to discuss, elaborate, and/or extend Marxian theory," and a member of the editorial collective of Boundary 2, a journal of postmodern theory, literature, and culture. He spoke at many Rethinking Marxism conferences and other gatherings of prominent Marxists.
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Burka

Indian politician calls for burqa ban: Claims 'terrorists' use them to hide from police


RT
Mon, 10 Feb 2020 21:50 UTC
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© Global Look Press / ZUMAPRESS.com / Subhash Sharma
The state of Uttar Pradesh's labor minister Raghuraj Singh has called for an outright ban on women wearing burqas, suggesting that terrorists have been using them to elude authorities.

In an apparent reference to the recent violent protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) which have swept India, Singh claimed that criminals and "terrorists" were using the burqa to conceal their identities.

Comment: Modi is treading a delicate balance in India between its multitude of cultures and creeds. Singh is not helping.

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Bad Guys

Medal of Honor recipient says Vindman's own peers at Ranger School tried to get rid of him

Virginia Kruta
The Daily Caller
Sun, 09 Feb 2020 20:50 UTC
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"That's Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman to you sir!"
Medal of Honor recipient MSG Leroy Petry defended President Donald Trump's decision to fire LTC Alexander Vindman, saying that Vindman had shown he couldn't be trusted.

Petry made an appearance on Sunday morning's Fox & Friends and responded to the news that Vindman had been fired from his post on the National Security Council and escorted from the White House.

"I respect Donald Trump's actions on escorting him out of the White House because he, as a team player, he should have brought it up through the chain of command and then blown the whistle if it didn't get approved," Petry began. "So, exactly my insight is, I would fired him too, I can't trust you on my team, if you can't bring me things you don't agree with."

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Attention

Britain's Supreme Court scandal: New damning emails show UK corruption in Assange case

Jude Fleming
Medium
Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:00 UTC
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© AP/Frank AugsteinWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seen in a prison van traveling to Westminster Magistrates Court in London, Friday, Dec. 20, 2019.
Assange came awfully close to death in December. He is not out of the woods. He is currently locked up under maximum security in a British prison and ill, injured and enduring torture. He was taken from his legal refuge in Ecuador's embassy on April 11, 2019 and whisked into solitary confinement for 10 months. He has days before a crucial US Extradition case on Feb. 24th, 2020 but he is virtually in a legal, technological and communication straightjacket along with his legal team. Assange has been forced to remain in UK for 10 years under the ruse that the UK was obliged to enforce a disproportionate, now obsolete, European Arrest Warrant (EAW) from Sweden. The outcome has been a catastrophic deprivation of Assange's fundamental human rights.

He is facing a death sentence in the United States, anyway you measure it. He will never see Australian soil alive; he will be repatriated to Australia in a coffin if he first winds up in U.S. custody. There is no possibility of a fair trial there. My blog from Sept. 2018 outlines the judicial corruption in both Sweden and the UK. Since then, my hypothesis has been verified by emails publicly available on the UK's Governmental site here.

Do new emails unmask political interference and collusion up to the highest levels of UK courts, including the UK Supreme Court in the Assange matter? Yes. Is the UK Supreme Court independent of political perversion from UK authorities all the way up to the Prime Minister, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Ministry of Justice and beyond? No. The UK tipped the scales of justice against him with prejudice and overt discrimination. He is not equal under the law in the UK.
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Best of the Web: Revelations in the bubble: Trump's presidency brings to light 7 undeniable facts about the swamp

Doug "Uncola" Lynn
The Burning Platform
Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownSOTU Address: President Donald Trump • VP Mike Pence • Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Barely into the New Year, 2020 vision has brought many revelations into better focus, making several ongoing observations perfectly clear. Although there are those who've been watching the dots of The Matrix assemble into the big picture for decades now, the election of Donald Trump has increasingly exposed what was hidden in plain sight for so long.

The awakening for many Americans could be compared to that of actor Jim Carrey's character in the 1998 film The Truman Show. In that narrative, the unsuspecting star of a global reality television program came to the realization his entire worldview was formed within a bubble; a literal bubble that generated bubblevision in Carrey's character as all of those around (and above) him performed right on cue.

Truly, it feels like that now in America. The times have become surreal.
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Not just Vindman, Trump scrubs 70 Obama holdovers from the NSC

Paul Bedard
Washington Examiner
Mon, 10 Feb 2020 08:14 UTC
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© commigineews/Wiggin.com/Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump • Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman
President Trump is making good on his promises to "drain the swamp" and cut Obama-era holdovers from his staffs, especially the critical and recently controversial National Security Council. Officials confirmed that Trump and national security adviser Robert O'Brien have cut 70 positions inherited from former President Barack Obama, who had fattened the staff to 200. Many were loaners from other agencies and have been sent back. Others left government work. The NSC, which is the president's personal staff, was rocked when a "whistleblower" leveled charges that led to Trump's impeachment.

Comment: The Gateway Pundit, 9/2/2020: Major cuts to NSC
On Friday President Trump fired the two Vindman twins from their National Security Council positions in the Trump White House. This comes after Alexander Vindman admitted to working behind President Trump's back in Ukraine. Army Lt. Col Alexander Vindman was escorted off the White House grounds and dismissed from the National Security Council Friday afternoon.

O'Brien is not finished yet. The National Security Advisor is expected to announce major cuts in the NSC staff this week. CNN reported:
O'Brien has largely been downsizing the NSC by attrition and getting staffers detailed to the council from other departments to return earlier than planned to their home agencies, but one of the sources told CNN it looks like the final phase will involve more direct firings and cuts.

"So it's bloated. We're going to bring it back to a size that's manageable and efficient. And look, the folks who are there, they really need to want to serve the President," O'Brien told Fox News' Laura Ingraham Tuesday night."What I said when I came to the NSC is that I would drastically downsize it," he added. "Another week or two, I think we'll have met our goal," he said.
It is widely known that the alleged anti-Trump whistleblower Eric Ciaramella is an NSC spy in the White House. If he is still in the White House he should be the first one removed.


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Attention

Mayor Buttigieg worked with the CIA in Afghanistan as an intelligence analyst for USEUCOM, ATFC Kabul HQ, NSA, DIA

Alex Rubinstein
The Gray Zone
Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownMayor Pete Buttigieg in Afghanistan. Not necessarily a spook, but thinks like one?
While Buttigieg's campaign denies allegations he was a CIA asset, military records reveal Mayor Pete was in a unit that worked with the spy agency in Afghanistan.

After The Grayzone published an article about Pete Buttigieg's roster of endorsements from CIA veterans and coup plotters, and another about his mysterious trip to Somaliland alongside a friend who now works for a US government regime-change agency, Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign issued a public statement denying that he ever worked for the CIA.

"We hate to break the news to Twitter, but no, Pete was not in the CIA," Buttigieg's national press secretary Chris Meagher derisively told The Daily Beast, which directly referenced both Grayzone reports. "As for the Somaliland trip, it was not related to his work anywhere."

The Daily Beast article appeared in response not only to factual reporting by The Grayzone, but to a wave of allegations spread online through hashtags like #CIAPete which accused Buttigieg of being a CIA asset.
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