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Are US Intelligence agencies and/or George Soros trying to undermine Zelenskiy?

Gordon M. Hahn
gordonhahn.com
Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:02 UTC
zelensky

Propaganda? Ukraine President Zelensky supposedly meeting with Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of Russia's Security Council

Comment: The majority of corroborating links in the article below are in either Ukrainian or Russian. Adequate translations may be read by entering the page link into Google Translate, which will produce a corresponding page link in the target language. They are well worth the read.


A few weeks ago Radio Svoboda, the Ukrainian-language branch of the U.S. government-financed Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty (RFERL) published a video and article claiming that Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy had met secretly with Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of Russia's Security Council, headed by President Vladimir Putin under the Russian Constitution. This was a curious event. Zelenskiy, which the U.S. government officially backs, is an embattled political figure. His popularity has been nosediving, and he is under a flood of criticism and resistance from all sides: from moderates and democrats for failing to bring the peace he promised to Donbass or significantly tackle corruption and the country's powerful oligarchs and bureaucrats; from the same oligarchs and bureaucrats for promising to tackle corruption; from nationalists, ultranationalists, and neofascists for attempting to bring peace to Donbass and lifting Kiev's 20-year ban on the sale of land. This last measure is also opposed by some moderate democrats and the Ukrainian left. He has attempted to separate himself from oligarch Igor Kolomoiskii and former President Petro Poroshenko (themselves bitter oppoenents) under mounting pressure from the Donald Trump Administration to clamp down on Kolomoiskii and to investigate the Burisma scandal and the Bidens' and other democrats' involvement with and cover up.
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Bad Guys

Pompeo warns US will 'self-defense-to-death' anyone who attacks them in Iraq - while military closes bases after recent attack


Sputnik
Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:16 UTC
pompeo
© JOHANNES SIMON / GETTY IMAGES
US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo in a phone call with Iraq's Prime Minister Adil Abd al-Mahdi warned that Washington will take more actions to defend coalition troops in the Middle Eastern country, State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said in a readout on Monday.

"Secretary Pompeo reiterated that the Government of Iraq must defend Coalition personnel supporting the Iraqi government's efforts to defeat ISIS," Ortagus said, in reference to the Daesh terror group. "Secretary Pompeo noted that America will not tolerate attacks and threats to American lives and will take additional action as necessary in self-defence."

Ortagus noted that the phone call took place on Sunday.

The spokesperson added that Pompeo also stressed that those responsible for these attacks must be held accountable.

Comment: Pompeo borrowing a page from the IDF's hasbara handbook. Occupation armies get attacked. Rightfully so, and legally. The Americans are the illegal aggressors here. There's a simple solution: get out, go home.

But then there's this:
"As a result of the success of Iraqi Security Forces in their fight against Daesh, the Coalition is re-positioning troops from a few smaller bases," the coalition said as quoted by CNN. "These bases remain under Iraqi control and we will continue our advising partnership for the permanent defeat of Daesh from other Iraqi military bases."
At least it's a start.

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Cardboard Box

FBI's Russia collusion case fell apart in first month of Trump presidency, memos show

John Solomon
Just The News
Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:40 UTC
Robert Mueller
The piecemeal release of FBI files in the Russia collusion investigation has masked an essential fact: James Comey's G-men had substantially debunked the theory that Donald Trump's campaign conspired with Moscow by the time the 45th president was settling into the Oval Office, according to declassified memos, court filings and interviews.

And that means a nascent presidency and an entire nation were put through two more years of lacerating debate over an issue that was mostly resolved in January 2017 inside the bureau's own evidence files. The proof is now sitting in plain view.

In rapid fire sequence in January 2017, U.S. officials:
  • received multiple warnings about the credibility of informant Christopher Steele and his dossier;
  • affirmed key targets of the FBI counterintelligence investigation made exculpatory statements denying collusion to undercover sources;
  • concluded retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, Trump's first national security adviser, was not engaged in collusion with the Russians.
The latter revelation has mostly escaped much notice, contained in a single sentence in a once-sealed court motion filed by Flynn defense attorney Sidney Powell that requested what is known as Brady material, or evidence of innocence.
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Star of David

Slippery Bibi using premiership, coronavirus emergency to evade corruption trial - Israeli lawyer


Sputnik
Mon, 16 Mar 2020 16:41 UTC
netanyahu coronavirus speech
© Reuters / Pool
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he delivers a speech at his Jerusalem office, regarding the new measures that will be taken to fight the coronavirus, March 14, 2020.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trial has been postponed because of restrictions imposed to contain the spread of the coronavirus, which has seen more than 200 infected across the country. The PM will now need to appear in court on 24 May.

The 70-year-old PM is facing charges of fraud and breach of trust in a series of graft probes that include buying positive press and receiving illegal gifts from a rich donor.

Managing the Unmanageable:

Regardless of when the trial takes place, Eyal Rosovsky, one of Israel's leading litigators who represented former PM Ehud Olmert in his own legal battles some five years ago, believes a prime minister cannot juggle between his job and a court case.
"Even if he doesn't have to sit in court all day long, the fact that he will be getting constant updates on governmental meetings during his hearings seems unreasonable to me. It is almost a full time job because he will also need to get prepared and sit down with his attorneys. So in practical terms, what one should do [in such a case] is to focus solely on the trial, not serve as the prime minister".
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MIB

Spygate source Stefan Halper: Was he working for Hillary Clinton's campaign?

Margot Cleveland
The Federalist
Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:17 UTC
Stefan Halper
© The Bill Walton Show / YouTube
Stefan Halper
It's long been known that Stefan Halper served as a confidential human source (CHS) for the FBI. Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuse, while not identifying Halper by name, added many details concerning his extensive role in spying on the Trump campaign: Halper secretly recorded several conversations with Trump campaign advisors Carter Page and George Papadopoulos and, more troublingly, the FBI tasked Halper to tape an extensive conversation with Sam Clovis — a co-chair of the Trump presidential campaign.

Publicly available information on government contracts also reveal that Halper received hundreds of thousands of dollars for four projects he completed for the Department of Defense's Office of Net Assessments. As part of his oversight responsibilities as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley has raised concerns about the merits of those contracts and further questioned whether Halper "used any taxpayer money in his attempt to recruit Trump campaign officials as sources."

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Stock Down

The global economy catches Coronavirus: The Fed, the virus, and inequality

Nomi Prins
TomDispatch
Thu, 12 Mar 2020 08:00 UTC
global economy
Whether you're invested in the stock market or not, you've likely noticed that it's been on a roller coaster lately. The White House and most of the D.C. Beltway crowd tend to equate the performance of the stock market with that of the broader economy. To President Trump's extreme chagrin, $3.18 trillion in stock market value vaporized during the last week of February. Stock markets around the world also fell dramatically. When all was said and done, $6 trillion had been at least temporarily erased from them. It was the worst week for the markets since the financial crisis of 2008 and it would only get worse from there.

In the wake of that, the Federal Reserve kicked into gear. By the first week of March, after high-level coordination among the Group of Seven (G-7) countries and their financial elites, the Fed acted as it largely had since the financial crisis, but with more intensity, giving the markets a brief shot in the arm.

In a move that Wall Street and the White House had clamored for, the Fed cut the level of interest rates by half a percentage point. The markets reacted by doing exactly the opposite of what the Fed hoped and, after having briefly soared, the Dow then tanked nearly 1,000 points that day. The next day, it rose 1,173 points (also partially attributed to Wall Street's embrace of Joe Biden's Super Tuesday results), only to plunge again soon after. Then, this Monday, within a few minutes of opening, the markets dropped more than 7%, triggering a halt in trading.

Dizzy yet? Okay. Let's take a step back.

Comment: See: Markets plunge in worst fall since 2008 crisis - and the reasons why as well as...



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TV

Buffoon Biden: Compilation of pathological public lies and plagiarism going back decades

Jimmy Dore
Sott.net
Mon, 16 Mar 2020 00:00 UTC
Joe Biden
Overwhelming signs of dementia, stupidity, incessant lies and lacking any kind of moral conviction whatsoever - are only some of the most recent indications that not only would Joe Biden make a horrible president (even if presidents have very limited power anyway), but that the Dems have absolutely no one else they are confident would fill the top spot for puppet-in-chief.

To back up the awful picture we already have of Biden, Jimmy Dore has put together a compilation of Biden's Big Lies about himself. Given the fact that he was publicly caught out in those lies (which included plagiarism) so many years ago, its a wonder that he is now running for president - never mind still in politics!


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Stock Down

'Global recession likely': Dow futures plunge 1,000 points despite Fed's zero interest rate and worldwide financial injections

Rob McLean
CNN
Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:33 UTC
stock plunge
Global stock markets plunged Monday as investors were unnerved by drastic action from the US Federal Reserve to cushion the blow from coronavirus and as data showed the outbreak has caused an unprecedented economic collapse in China.

Markets were battered across Asia, with Australia's benchmark index crashing nearly 10% in its worst day on record. In Europe, London's FTSE 100 (UKX) fell 7% in early trading, while France's CAC 40 (CAC40) and Germany's DAX (DAX) dropped roughly 9%.

US markets were poised to suffer heavy losses. Dow (INDU) futures were last down 1,041 points, or about 4.5%. S&P 500 (SPX) futures slumped 4.8%, while Nasdaq (COMP) futures shed 4.5%. There are now more than 3,000 cases of the novel coronavirus in the United States, according to government agencies and the CDC.

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Dollar Gold

Judge approves settlement allowing Hunter Biden's finances to remain under wraps

Brent Scher and Collin Anderson
The Washington Free Beacon
Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:50 UTC
Hunter Biden
© Getty Images
Hunter Biden
The settlement agreement reached between Hunter Biden and the Arkansas mother of his child earlier this week was approved by the court on Thursday, allowing the former vice president's son to avoid appearing in court and keep his highly scrutinized financial situation under wraps.

The redacted court order filed Thursday mandates that Biden begin making monthly child support payments to Lunden Alexis Roberts on April 1, pay for the child's health insurance, and reimburse Roberts for legal costs of the case. All financial information, including both the amount Biden has already paid to Roberts and the amount of his future payments, is redacted from the publicly released order.

The settlement comes after a nearly yearlong legal fight between Biden and Roberts, who filed suit last summer asking the court for an order declaring Biden to be the father of their child and for child support. After months of avoiding service of the lawsuit, Biden agreed to undergo a paternity test and was declared the father by the court.

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Bullseye

'Will CNN call him xenophobic now?' Biden says Covid-19 is like 'attack from abroad' after Trump pilloried for 'foreign virus'


RT
Mon, 16 Mar 2020 04:35 UTC
sanders and biden
© REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Joe Biden has raised quite a few eyebrows after he compared the coronavirus outbreak in the US with "being attacked from abroad," prompting many to wonder if he is to be held to the same standard by liberal media as Donald Trump.

The first one-on-one debate between former VP Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders was largely overshadowed by the coronavirus crisis raging in the US, with both Democratic candidates unloading heavily on US President Donald Trump for his handling of the pandemic within the country's shores.

While the two have clashed over Sander's Medicare for All proposal, Biden took a conciliatory tone at the Vermont independent, saying that he "agrees with Bernie" in principle on how to deal with the health scare.
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