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Russia's MENA presence intensifies: Industrial zone in Egypt to launch within 2 years


TASS
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:36 UTC
New Suez Canal
© Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters
A cargo ship passes through the New Suez Canal in Ismailia, Egypt
The Russian Industrial Zone in Egypt will be launched in late 2020 - early 2021, Head of the Suez Canal Authority Mohab Mamish told TASS.

According to him, the industrial zone will be "launched by the end of 2020 - beginning of 2021."

According to Mamish, enterprises manufacturing agricultural machinery that is in demand in the Egyptian market will be located in the Russian industrial zone. According to him, such products will be in demand not only in the Egyptian market, but also in the markets of other African countries, as well as the Middle East and Europe.

Press service of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia said earlier that the first eight companies would sign an agreement on participation in the Russian industrial zone in Egypt on February 19. According to the report, the Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said that the first portfolio of eight agreements of intent with interested companies would be signed by Russian Export Center as part of the planned "Presentation of the export potential of the Russian industrial zones in Egypt" on February 19, 2019.

Comment: See also:

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Stop

Germany resists UK pressure to resume arm sales to Saudi regime

Patrick Wintour
The Guardian
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 17:25 UTC
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Jeremy Hunt and Heiko Maas in Berlin on Wednesday.
Germany has rejected a plea by the UK foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to resume arms sales to Saudi Arabia, denying that its embargo weakens Europe's credibility or harms the European defence industry.


Comment: Because supplying arms to dictatorships is the best way to strengthen European credibility...


At a joint press conference with the German foreign minister, Heiko Maas, Hunt was told his plea for a resumption of arms sales made in a leaked letter had been rejected for the moment.

Maas said any future decision would be "dependent on developments in the Yemen conflict and whether what was agreed in the Stockholm peace talks are implemented".

The two sides in the Yemen civil war met in Sweden last December to start a process of confidence building, including a limited ceasefire in the Red Sea port of Hodeidah. The UN special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, has not yet set a date for the resumption of the main talks, and few expect a settlement for many months.

Hunt raised the issue with Maas in talks that had been expected to be dominated by Brexit. At the joint press conference in Berlin, he ruled out imposing an arms sales embargo in the UK.
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Black Magic

Neocon Bolton threatens Nicaragua, Venezuelan military


Sputnik
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:13 UTC
walrus

John Bolton
Earlier, the hawkish Trump advisor was mocked by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova over his claims about "consequences" for those who seek to "destroy Venezuela's democratic institutions," with Zakharova implying that Bolton should look in the mirror.

US National Security Adviser John Bolton has issued a fresh series of menacing tweets against Washington's adversaries in Latin America, including a message targeting the Venezuelan military and a threat against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.

The first two tweets concentrate on Venezuela, with Bolton warning that "any actions by the Venezuelan military to condone or instigate violence" against civilians bringing humanitarian aid into Venezuela would "not be forgotten," and stressing that "leaders still have time to make the right choice."



The tweets followed the Venezuelan military's announcement on Tuesday that it would be "on alert" against forces engaging in "violations" of Venezuela's territorial integrity amid plans by opposition-backed groups to bring Western humanitarian aid into Venezuela.

Comment: After a nuclear war, the only lifeforms left on earth will be the cockroaches and the neocons. But that's a redundancy.

See also: It's back to the Iran-Contra days under Trump

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Wolf

McCabe trying to play bystander, pin talk of removing Trump all on Rosenstein

Brian Cates
The Epoch Times
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:33 UTC
McCabe 60 minutes interview
© Screenshot/CBS
Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe gives an interview to CBS' "60 Minutes."
Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe went "all in" against current Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein during an interview with CBS News's Scott Pelley on the network's "60 Minutes" show on the night of Feb. 17.

During the interview, McCabe desperately attempted to sell Pelley and CBS's audience on the idea that it was really Rosenstein who was doing all the talking about removing President Donald Trump using the 25th Amendment and wearing a wire to record him.

McCabe claimed he just wanted to do a good hard-nosed, old-fashioned investigation of the president for supposed collusion with Russia; it was Rosenstein who kept engaging in all this wild bugging and soft coup talk.

There are several problems with that narrative, however.

Comment: Cate's timeline has some weight. But what or whom to believe? There's an awful lot of smoke being thrown up around the 'wire' issue. On the other hand, McCabe track record is looking pretty sketchy.

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Bad Guys

It's back to the Iran-Contra days under Trump


Strategic Culture
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:47 UTC
Elliot Abrams
© Illustrated | Alex Wong/Getty Images
Showing that he is adopting the neoconservative playbook every day he remains in office, Donald Trump handed the neocons a major win when he appointed Iran-contra scandal felon Elliott Abrams as his special envoy on Venezuela. Abrams pleaded guilty in 1991 to two counts of withholding information on the secret sale of US weapons for cash to help illegally supply weapons to the Nicaraguan right-wing contras, who were battling against the government of President Daniel Ortega. Abrams would have headed to a federal prison, but President George H. W. Bush, an unindicted co-conspirator in the scandal, issued pardons to Abrams and his five fellow conspirators - former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, and former Central Intelligence Agency officials Alan Fiers, Duane "Dewey" Clarridge, and Clair George - on Christmas Eve 1991, during the final weeks of Bush's lame duck administration.

Abrams escaped being charged with more serious crimes by Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh because he cut a last-minute deal with federal prosecutors. Trump, who has made no secret of his disdain for cooperating federal witnesses, would have normally called Abrams a "rat," a gangster term meaning informant. The man who helped engineer the pardons for Abrams and his five convicted friends was none other than Bush's Attorney General, William Barr, who has just been sworn in as Trump's Attorney General. Trump, who is always decrying the presence of the "deep state" that thwarts his very move, has become the chief guardian of that entity.
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Light Saber

Russia to deploy newest weapons against command centers that threaten Russia


TASS
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 06:37 UTC
zakharova
© Vladimir Gerdo/TASS
Russian Foreign Ministry's official spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said earlier that the North Atlantic Alliance earlier talked about Russia's news weapons with irony
The North Atlantic Alliance is now nervous about Russian President Vladimir Putin's statement that new types of weapons may be used against command centers where decisions are made to use missiles that threaten Russia, Russian Foreign Ministry's official spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on her Facebook account on Wednesday.

NATO earlier spoke about Russia's new weapons in an ironic manner, Zakharova noted. "One year ago Western partners all said that 'Russian cartoons' about new types of weapons should not be feared, that the Kremlin is bluffing. And now everybody suddenly 'realized' what is 'in focus' and even started to 'understand' what the camera is attached to?" she added.

Comment: Russia had already proven itself to be a force to be reckoned with, but NATO's arrogance blinds it to reality: And check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Putin The World To Rights: Russia's New Nuclear Weapons And The End of 'Unipolarity'

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Arrow Down

Expansive AZ Senate Bill 1475: You may soon have to give your DNA to the state and pay $250

Bree Burkitt
AZ central
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 00:00 UTC
Arizona State Capitol Building
A bill would require anyone who needs fingerprints from the state to give their DNA: Parent school volunteers, teachers, real estate agents, etc. Alyssa Williams, Arizona Republic

Arizona could soon be one of the first states to maintain a massive statewide DNA database.

And if the proposed legislation passes, many people - from parent school volunteers and teachers to real estate agents and foster parents - will have no choice but to give up their DNA.

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Bad Guys

Who benefits from turning Europe into a potential nuclear battlefield?

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:00 UTC
arming plane with nukes
The United States and its NATO partners are attempting to make the case for Washington's decision to abandon the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.

Claims that the Russian Federation has been violating the treaty have yet to be substantiated with anything resembling credible evidence. Also missing is any rational explanation as to why Russia would develop or deploy nuclear weapons capable of launching a nuclear strike on Europe without warning - a scenario the INF Treaty was created to deter.

Bloomberg in its article, "Nuclear Fears Haunt Leaders With U.S.-Russian Arms Pact's Demise," would claim:
Jens Stoltenberg, NATO's top civilian, cited recent Russian deployments and evoked a Cold War-style threat of nuclear destruction at a global conference of security and defense officials this weekend in Munich, the baroque German metropolis that's one of Europe's richest cities.

"These missiles are mobile, easy to hide and nuclear-capable," Stoltenberg said. "They can reach European cities, like Munich, with little warning."
Stoltenberg, the rest of NATO, Washington, and the many media organizations that work for and answer to both have failed categorically to explain why Russia would ever use nuclear-capable missiles against cities "like Munich, with little warning."
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Cow Skull

The choice is simple: Stand up to US' phony global cold war - or face decades of destructive conflict

Ken Livingstone
RT
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:06 UTC
flag painting
© Global Look Press / Maik Blume
For forty-five years, following the end of WWII, the world was locked into a US-led hostile Cold War against the Soviet Union.

We know now, following the release of virtually all Soviet government documents, that Joseph Stalin had no intention of launching a conflict with the West. In fact, in his meeting with American President Franklin Roosevelt, at the Yalta Conference, he asked for a $6 billion loan to enable him to rebuild the Soviet economy which had been devastated by Nazi invasion.

The idea that the Soviet Union could pose a threat to the US was nonsense. At the end of WWII, around 50 percent of the world's economy was in the US. The Soviet Union would finally get up to ten percent by 1950.

Roosevelt had planned a working relationship with Stalin but tragically his death saw vice president Harry Truman become commander-in-chief.
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Radar

Testing the waters: US naval destroyer enters Black Sea - Russia sends out missile corvette in response

Joaquin Flores
Fort Russ News
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:00 UTC
US Naval destroyer
Twitter users have published pictures of the US destroyer USS Donald Cook, which last night entered the waters of the Black Sea.

The shot shows how the ship passes through the Turkish Bosphorus. As stated, it will conduct "routine operations" in the region. According to the Ukrainian Naval Forces, the American destroyer will arrive in the port of Odessa on February 25, writes the Russian language version of RT .
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