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Neocon Bolton threatens Nicaragua, Venezuelan military

Sputnik
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:13 UTC

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

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

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.

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

Strategic Culture
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:47 UTC

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.

Russia to deploy newest weapons against command centers that threaten Russia

TASS
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 06:37 UTC

© 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'

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

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.

Comment: See also:

Who benefits from turning Europe into a potential nuclear battlefield?

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:00 UTC

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."

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

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.

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

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 .

Putin's Address to the Nation: Sovereignty, coexistence with the West, and what self-defense will mean

RT
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 20:44 UTC

Comment: RT has put out a set of articles highlighting different aspects of Putin's Address to the Nation. In it he has clearly articulating Russia's current thinking regarding its place in the world and what it means to defend that place.

Sovereign Russia is a given

The world's largest country will forever stay independent or it will cease to exist, but this core idea is what makes Russia differ from others, Vladimir Putin said in his annual address.

"Russia was and will be a sovereign and independent state. It is an axiom, it will either be such or it won't exist at all," Putin stated in the 2019 keynote speech. He said other countries can afford being dependent, but Russia cannot.

Russia can't exist as a state if it is not sovereign.

Other countries should take this into account when engaging Moscow, the President noted. "Building ties with us is to find common solutions, including to the most complicated issues, not to dictate conditions," according to Putin.

Trump accused of seeking to sell US nuclear 'secrets' to Saudis

RT
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 05:19 UTC

House Democrats have launched a probe into the Trump administration's alleged attempt to transfer 'sensitive' US nuclear technologies to Saudi Arabia. The company implicated has already found a couple of usual suspects to blame.

White House staff members are reportedly fast-tracking "the transfer of highly sensitive US nuclear technology" to Saudi Arabia without the necessary congressional review, possibly running afoul of the Atomic Energy Act and potentially allowing the Saudis to build a nuclear bomb, according to an interim staff report by Committee on Oversight and Reform chair Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland), which cites "multiple whistleblowers" as the source of the information. The Committee has opened an investigation into the allegations.

The report implicates the President's adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, former national security adviser Mike Flynn, and Trump fundraiser Thomas Barrack in a project backed by "strong private commercial interests" to develop "dozens of nuclear power plants" through a private US company called IP3 International under the so-called "Trump Middle East Marshall Plan."

Comment: RT also reports:

Iran slams US 'hypocrisy' over potential sale of nuclear secrets to Saudi Arabia

Iran's Twitter-savvy FM Javid Zarif took to his favored medium to call out US hypocrisy, noting how Washington's ostensible concerns over human rights and nuclear proliferation disappear when it comes to Saudi Arabia.

House Democrats aren't the only ones up in arms over the White House's alleged attempt to fast-track 'sensitive' US nuclear technologies to Saudi Arabia, as Iran's Foreign Minister made clear in his Tweet on Wednesday.

"Day by day it becomes clearer to the world what was always clear to us," Zarif wrote.
Neither human rights nor a nuclear program have been the real concern of the US. First a dismembered journalist [Jamal Khashoggi]; now illicit sale of nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia fully expose US hypocrisy.
Trump heavily criticized and eventually canceled the Iran nuclear deal (known as the JCPOA) last year. Yet, members of his administration have reportedly been all too eager to bypass necessary congressional review and potentially provide Saudi Arabia with the information it needs to build a nuclear weapon, flagrantly violating the Atomic Energy Act in the process.

Zarif's Tweet also references how, despite endlessly accusing its enemies of human rights violations, the administration was quick to look the other way when it came to its Saudi ally's likely role in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last October.

Khashoggi, an outspoken critic of the Saudi ruling family, was killed and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2. Turkish authorities and the UN have concluded that the murder was perpetrated by Saudi officials. Responding to calls to punish Riyadh in the wake of the murder, Trump reminded critics that the Saudi kingdom is "a very good ally of ours" who has "been funding a lot of things." Despite voicing outrage over the killing, Trump announced that the US, alongside a number of other states, would continue providing the Saudis with arms as planned.

So while Trump's prattling on about the 'threat' of North Korea's nukes and punishing Iran with sanctions, some in the US administration are looking to (potentially) arm some of the world's proudest sadists?

And check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: The Russia Collusion Ruse: Why the US Deep State Hates Russia, Not Trump

Ehret an idiot beyond belief

smertzasmert

.. .. are wheel barrel sales are up too?

Jibrish

I doubt any pureblood would object to the "vaccinated" being masked, but if they (the "vaccinated") still feel unsafe then maybe their problem is...

HashAttack2

I said this would happen...now they are looking to mandate companies with less that 100 employees...shits getting real, people[Link]

Bezel Bub

it's all a lie ! :O

cracker

Puppet Masters

Neocon Bolton threatens Nicaragua, Venezuelan military

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

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

Russia to deploy newest weapons against command centers that threaten Russia

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

Who benefits from turning Europe into a potential nuclear battlefield?

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

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

Putin's Address to the Nation: Sovereignty, coexistence with the West, and what self-defense will mean

Trump accused of seeking to sell US nuclear 'secrets' to Saudis

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