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Ex-president Walesa vows to mend Poland-Russia ties: 'Warsaw is closer to Moscow than to Washington'

RT
Sun, 09 Feb 2020 19:38 UTC

It is imperative to improve Russia-Poland relations, outlive the troubled past and move forward, ex-president Lech Walesa has said, adding that only a "third party" benefits from the discord.

While the relationship between Poland and Russia wasn't particularly warm throughout recent decades, it can be unfrozen if both sides do their part, Walesa told Russia's Sobesednik weekly.

"Even now, these relations can be made good," the former president said.

When we quarrel, only third parties win. Warsaw was always closer to Moscow than to Washington.

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Committee chairmen say redacted footnotes contradict statements claimed in IG report on FBI's Trump surveillance

Petr Svab
The Epoch Times
Fri, 07 Feb 2020 19:08 UTC

© Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) during a Senate Judiciary hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 22, 2019.

The chairmen of two U.S. Senate committees are disputing claims made by an FBI official to the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General (OIG), saying the claims are contradicted by four classified footnotes in a recent OIG report that delved into FBI's surveillance of Trump 2016 presidential campaign aides.

The report, released Dec. 9, 2019, found "17 significant errors or omissions" in a surveillance warrant and its three renewals the FBI took out on one of the aides, Carter Page, under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in 2016 and 2017 (pdf).

The senators, Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) of the Senate Finance Committee and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, asked Attorney General William Barr to declassify the footnotes, which have been mostly redacted in the public version of the OIG report.

The senators have access to the unredacted version.

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Buttigieg skirts anti-corruption laws by campaigning with 'dark money' group

Donald Shaw
Sludge
Fri, 07 Feb 2020 17:46 UTC

Despite ban on coordination between PACs and campaign, Pete Buttigieg appeared at an event hosted by a "dark money" affiliate of a super PAC that is backing him.

After appearing to attempt to dodge an anti-corruption regulation earlier in the week, the campaign of South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg has again tested the limits of campaign finance law.

Buttigieg spoke at an event on Thursday in Merrimack, New Hampshire, that was organized, at least in part, by VoteVets Action Fund, the "dark money" affiliate of VoteVets PAC, which has spent more than $1.4 million on television and digital ads to boost Buttigieg's candidacy.

'We have a racist society from top to bottom': Sanders interrupts candidates fighting over who has more of the black vote

Mary Margaret Olohan
Daily Caller
Fri, 07 Feb 2020 22:19 UTC

2020 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders said Friday that "we have a racist society from top to bottom."

The Vermont senator spoke Friday evening at ABC's Democratic debate in New Hampshire, where he discussed racism in the United States as former Vice President Joe Biden and billionaire Tom Steyer argued over who has more support from black voters.

"We have a racist society from top to bottom," Sanders said, adding that this "racist society" is "impacting health care, housing, criminal justice, education — you name it."

Comment: It's rather mind-boggling that Sanders and other Democratic candidates feel it's a winning strategy to continually tell the American people that they're racist.

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Lessons from Iowa

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Sat, 08 Feb 2020 19:00 UTC

In case you missed this week's insanity in Iowa (and if you did, good for you!), here is the entire debacle in one ridiculously long run-on sentence:

The Iowa Democratic Party thought it would be a really swell idea to set the tone of the Democratic primary season by using their first-in-the-nation, widely touted, closely watched caucuses as a testing ground for a new election result reporting app called Shadow created by a shadowy organization called Acronym funded by a Silicon Valley billionaire known for online false flag operations in American elections and staffed by old hands of the Obama and Clinton campaigns, and which "glitched" (because of course) leading to "irregularities" in reporting and an overnight delay as the results were manually re-tabulated (giving the internet peanut gallery a chance to marvel at the Iowa Democrats' version of a coin toss) and, eventually, to the declaration (in spite of massive lingering inconsistencies in the data) that, in complete opposition to all polling so far, Pete "#MayorCheat" Buttigieg was in fact the Iowan people's choice for the Democratic presidential nominee . . . at least until they learned basic biographical details about him.

Or, more simply: the Iowa Democratic caucuses was a sh*tshow this year. It's almost enough to make me feel sorry for all those credulous souls who still believe in the holy sacrament of voting.

. . . Almost.

Although no one — not even the most fluoride-addled, election-participating statist — can deny that this past week has been a failure of epic proportions, we should not lose sight of the fact that this fiasco can also be instructive. After all, it teaches us something about the system that purports to rule over the 300 million+ citizens of the United States. And, more importantly, it teaches us something about the political process itself that, one way or another, defines the world that we all live in.

So, allow me to present five important lessons from the Iowa caucuses that (SIGH) absolutely no one will learn.

US oil sanctions on Iran push India into massive supply deal with Russia

Shishir Upadhyaya
RT
Sun, 09 Feb 2020 03:26 UTC

Escalating US pressure on Iran, including sanctions targeting Iranian oil exports, may have had an unexpected consequence - pushing India to diversify its energy supplies by shifting from Tehran to Moscow as a major oil supplier.

State-owned oil refiner Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has just signed a contract with Russia's Rosneft for the supply of up to 2 million tons of oil by the end of 2020. The meeting took place on the sidelines of India's largest weapons fair, DefExpo, currently going on in Lucknow.

"This is just the beginning," Indian Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan told reporters after meeting with Rosneft chairman Igor Sechin in New Delhi on Wednesday.

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DNC completely lost public trust in its primary process the very first day

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium.com
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00 UTC

After a 2016 presidential primary race riddled with scandals, all of which worked against Bernie Sanders to the advantage of anointed establishment favorite Hillary Clinton, the 2020 Democratic presidential primary elections officially began with a massive scandal working against Bernie Sanders to the advantage of an establishment favorite.

The 2020 Iowa caucuses turned out to have been designed to depend on the use of a new, untested app with extensive ties to establishment insiders and to the Pete Buttigieg campaign, and because of problems using this app as of this writing we are still waiting on the full results of the election. The Iowa Democratic Party has bizarrely released a partial result with 62 percent of 99 counties reporting, which just so happens to have favored the campaign of a Mr Peter Buttigeig, who in the sample came out on top in delegates despite coming in second in votes.

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Report: At least 2 US troops killed, several wounded in Afghanistan firefight - UPDATES

Howard Altman, Shawn Snow
Military Times
Sat, 08 Feb 2020 00:00 UTC

Numerous U.S troops were killed Saturday during a firefight in Afghanistan, according to the New York Times.

A military source, speaking to Military Times on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk to the media, said at least two members of the 7th Special Forces Group — operating in eastern Afghanistan — were killed and several others wounded.

U.S. officials told Military Times they could not immediately confirm reports about casualties. However, an official did say that the U.S. and Afghan forces conducting an operation in Nangarhar Province were engaged by direct fire on Saturday, according Col. Sonny Leggett, a spokesman for U.S. Forces-Afghanistan.

"We are assessing the situation and will provide further updates as they become available," he said in an emailed statement Saturday.

Comment: UPDATE: RT, 8/2/2020: US, Afghan forces under 'direct fire'

"A combined US and Afghan force conducting an operation in Nangarhar Province was engaged by direct fire on February 8," Col. Sonny Leggett, spokesperson for US forces in Afghanistan, announced. "We are assessing the situation and will provide further updates as they become available."

There's also a possibility that it was an insider attack. Mubariz Khadem, a senior security official in Nangarhar, told Reuters that US and Afghan forces clashed. The so called "green-on-blue" attacks used to be frequent during 18 years of American presence in the country, but have not taken place recently.

UPDATE: RT, 9/2/2020: 2 US troops killed, 6 injured by 'individual in Afghan uniform'

At least two US service members were killed and six others injured after an individual in "Afghan uniform" armed with a machine gun opened fire on a joint patrol in Afghanistan, the US military has confirmed.

The incident took place in Nangarhar province earlier on Saturday as a combined US and Afghan force was returning from a "key-leader engagement."

The wounded service members are receiving medical treatment at a US facility, Colonel Sonny Leggett added, sharing no details of their condition."We are still collecting information and the cause or motive behind the attack is unknown at this time." No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Update 11 Feb 2020

The two soldiers the Pentagon admits were killed have been named:

On Sunday, the Pentagon identified the two Americans killed as Sgt. 1st Class Javier Jaguar Gutierrez, 28, of San Antonio, Texas, and Sgt. 1st Class Antonio Rey Rodriguez, 28, of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Both soldiers, who were assigned to 3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), were posthumously promoted after the attack.

House Cleaning: Trump ousts key impeachment figures Sondland, Vindman

Alex Pappas
Fox News
Sat, 08 Feb 2020 18:29 UTC

Ambassador Sondland recalled hours after Lt. Col. Vindman was escorted out of the White House.

U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, who testified about President Trump's Ukraine dealings during the House impeachment hearings, said Friday he had been recalled from his overseas position, hours after a National Security Council aide who testified against the president was also fired.

"I was advised today that the president intends to recall me effective immediately as United States ambassador to the European Union," Sondland said.

Sondland's recall follows the dismissal of another impeachment witness, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who was fired by the National Security Council and escorted off of the White House grounds on Friday.

Israel admits arming anti-Assad Syrian 'rebels'. That was a big mistake

Daniel J. Levy
Haaretz
Sun, 03 Feb 2019 19:59 UTC

© Reuters
A fighter from the Free Syrian Army's Al Rahman legion carries a weapon as he walks towards his position on the front line against the forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in a Damascus suburb

For the first time on the record, a senior official confirmed Israel's secret unconventional war in Syria, aimed at preventing Iranian encroachment. But what did Israel gain from exposing its 'anti-intervention' lie after so many years of denial?

In his final days as the Israel Defense Forces' Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Gadi Eisenkot confirmed, on the record, that Israel had directly supported anti-Assad Syrian rebel factions in the Golan Heights by arming them.

This revelation marks a direct break from Israel's previous media policy on such matters. Until now, Israel has insisted it has only provided humanitarian aid to civilians (through field hospitals on the Golan Heights and in permanent healthcare facilities in northern Israel), and has consistently denied or refused to comment on any other assistance.

In short, none other than Israel's most (until recently) senior serving soldier has admitted that up until his statement, his country's officially stated position on the Syrian civil war was built on the lie of non-intervention.

Comment: This article was published almost exactly one year ago. What a change since then. Syria has regained two-thirds of its territory, and with Russian support, is well on the way to pushing Turkey's terrorist proxies out of Idlib. Unfortunately, the US is still squatting in the resource-rich north-east of the country and at the Al-Tanf border crossing with Iraq, but (probably on Russia's advice) Idlib must be dealt with first. Regaining the illegally-occupied Golan Heights is a distant goal still, but it's unlikely Syria will give up on it. All in all, not the picture Israel was hoping for a year ago.

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Puppet Masters

Ex-president Walesa vows to mend Poland-Russia ties: 'Warsaw is closer to Moscow than to Washington'

Committee chairmen say redacted footnotes contradict statements claimed in IG report on FBI's Trump surveillance

Buttigieg skirts anti-corruption laws by campaigning with 'dark money' group

'We have a racist society from top to bottom': Sanders interrupts candidates fighting over who has more of the black vote

Lessons from Iowa

US oil sanctions on Iran push India into massive supply deal with Russia

DNC completely lost public trust in its primary process the very first day

Report: At least 2 US troops killed, several wounded in Afghanistan firefight - UPDATES

House Cleaning: Trump ousts key impeachment figures Sondland, Vindman

Israel admits arming anti-Assad Syrian 'rebels'. That was a big mistake

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