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Netanyahu's veiled threat to annex area C of the West Bank: "Trump is a big friend"

M.K.
WAFA
Sat, 06 Apr 2019 12:00 UTC

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted on Friday that he may annex Area C of the occupied West Bank, which remained under full Israeli military control following the signing of the Oslo accords in 1993 when the West Bank was broken down into Areas A (the cities under Palestinian control), B (the villages administered by the Palestinians but security in Israel's hands), and C (totally under Israeli control).

When asked by the right-wing Hebrew daily, Israel Hayoum, which advocates his political line, if he will stop short of annexing Area C with its Palestinian dwellers, Netanyahu said in the interview conducted few days before the Israeli national elections, "I promise that you will be surprised. I cannot talk about the plan, but (US President Donald) Trump is a big friend and I doubt there will ever be any bigger friend than him."

Comment: It is election time so Netanyahu is obviously out to court his voters. But while he may have Trump is his pocket, world power has and is shifting, so Netanyahu will need much more than just the US to succeed: Russia and Egypt discuss intensifying efforts to resolve Syria, Libya crises, "just solution to Palestine problem"

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Joe Biden's Wife: His constant groping made her feel "Strange and Uncomfortable"

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 06 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC

Even Joe Biden's wife found her husband's tendency to be overly physical to be strange and off-putting when they first met.

According to an excerpt from the former second lady's upcoming autobiography published in the Daily Mail, when the couple first met, "He was always holding my hand, putting his arm around me, brushing the hair from my face." She added that Joe and his "handsy" family made her feel "strange and uncomfortable" at first. As an admitted introvert, she "sometimes found all that affection draining,"

But she said she soon came to understand that it was the death of Biden's first wife Neilia and their baby daughter Naomi that made Biden and his family realize "how precious every second could be," which was displayed by "constantly touching" and "being connected to each other."

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5 big defeats for US financial interests abroad

RT
Sat, 06 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC

Donald Trump made it a banner promise of his presidency to stop the US being abused as the world's "piggybank" - but not all foreign powers seem to be cowed into submission by his assertive style of foreign economic policy.

The United States remains the world's second-biggest exporter after China, but these five cases show that it can't always get its own way - even among its allies. Is this a consequence of Trump's personal abrasiveness, a period of painful adjustment before as the giant rouses, or perhaps a harbinger that the rest of the world no longer needs America as much as it used to?

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Trump: 'Our country is full' - vows more troops to the border, visits wall in California

RT
Sat, 06 Apr 2019 19:58 UTC

Visiting the US-Mexico border in Calexico, California, President Donald Trump declared America "full" and repeated that illegal crossings constituted an emergency, vowing to send more troops to the border and build the wall.

Trump argued that many migrants crossing the border illegally are making bogus asylum claims. "It's a scam, it's a hoax. I know about hoaxes, I just went through a hoax," he said at one point, indicating 'Russiagate.'

He also said that Mexico was apprehending migrants "by the thousands," doing more in the past four days than they have ever done before, but if that does not stem the flow of migrants he is "totally willing to close the border."

The "colossal surge" in border crossings is overwhelming the US immigration system, and "we can't have that," Trump said.

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Comment: The video presents an honest and forthright validation by several agencies that the border threats are real, detention facilities are maxed out and that building a wall at the border would likely be the most effective means of deterrent and serves a vital security function.

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How Brzezinski's 'chessboard' became Brennan's Russophobia

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC

"Russia is an inalienable and organic part of Greater Europe and European civilization. Our citizens think of themselves as European. That's why Russia proposes moving towards the creation of a common economic space from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, a community referred to by Russian experts as 'the Union of Europe' which will strengthen Russia's potential in its economic pivot toward the 'New Asia.'" -Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, February 2012

The allegations of 'Russian meddling' only make sense if they're put into a broader geopolitical context. Once we realize that Washington is implementing an aggressive "containment" strategy to militarily encircle Russia and China in order to spread its tentacles across Central Asian, then we begin to understand that Russia is not the perpetrator of the hostilities and propaganda, but the victim. The Russia hacking allegations are part of a larger asymmetrical-information war that has been joined by the entire Washington political establishment. The objective is to methodically weaken an emerging rival while reinforcing US global hegemony.

Try to imagine for a minute, that the hacking claims were not part of a sinister plan by Vladimir Putin "to sow discord and division" in the United States, but were conjured up to create an external threat that would justify an aggressive response from Washington. That's what Russiagate is really all about.

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Deadly Dust: US spreads radiation and no one raises the issue

Sputnik
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 08:39 UTC

In a new book named Deadly Dust - Made in the USA: Uranium Weapons Contaminating the World German author Frieder Wagner gives a detailed account of how the US has contaminated vast territories using depleted uranium (DU) ammunition and the cover-up strategy of the military, industry and governments, as well as those in the media and politics.

Sputnik: Mr Wagner, in your book Deadly Dust - Made in the USA: Uranium Weapons Contaminating the World you talk about the use of uranium ammunition. What is especially dangerous about these weapons?

Frieder Wagner: Weapons containing uranium are produced from nuclear industry's waste (byproducts of uranium enrichment). If, for example, you want to produce a ton of natural uranium fuel rods for nuclear power plants, you get about eight tons of depleted uranium. It is a source of alpha radiation - radioactive and, moreover, very poisonous. It needs to be stored somewhere, and it is not very cheap.

Sputnik: How can it be used in weapons?

Frieder Wagner: About 30-40 years ago, military scientists made a discovery: uranium is almost twice as dense as lead. If you turn depleted uranium into a projectile and give it proper acceleration, then within a fraction of a second it will pierce through tank armor, concrete or cement.

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Ron Paul: NATO 'doesn't need to exist'

RT
Fri, 05 Apr 2019 18:42 UTC

Commenting on the 70th anniversary of NATO, former US Congressman Ron Paul told RT the alliance is actually harmful to US interests of peace and commerce, empowering only the military-industrial complex and those who want empire.

Libertarian-leaning politicians spoke up against NATO at the time of its founding in 1949, Paul (R-Texas) told RT on Friday, adding that seven decades later, the alliance "doesn't need to exist. To keep the military-industrial complex going, to keep the agitation, you always have to have an enemy."

Paul was concerned about the principle of having an international organization that not only gets the US involved everywhere around the world, but also "badgers" and pressures other countries to back US adventures in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and elsewhere.

He pointed to the looming inability of Washington to afford a global empire - the US national debt is currently $22 trillion and counting - and the growing dissatisfaction of allies with the US imposing its will and telling them what to do. "I don't think that's going to last forever. Matter of fact, I see some cracks in that already," Paul said.

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'Gravelanche': Anti-war ex-Senator and his teen campaign managers hope for a 'landslide' in 2020

RT
Thu, 04 Apr 2019 19:28 UTC

A new unlikely sensation entering the 2020 Democratic primaries could become a headache for the political establishment - and it isn't the 77-year old independent senator from Vermont.

Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) is a former senator who is even older than Bernie Sanders and more vehemently critical of US foreign policy, imperialism and the surveillance state. The 88-year-old, who served in the Senate from 1969 to 1981, openly admits he threw his hat in the ring for the sole purpose of qualifying for the debates, in order to ensure that certain issues are not neglected.

Despite being an octogenarian, Gravel is still up to his unorthodox ways, recruiting two 17-year old self-proclaimed lefties as his campaign managers. After announcing his candidacy, a fundraiser was launched to help the ex-lawmaker meet the requirements of 65,000 donors for debate eligibility.

As a senator, Gravel gained national recognition for his efforts to end the draft during the Vietnam War and entering The Pentagon Papers released by whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg into the public record.

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US nuclear strike 'most reasonable' response to a Russian invasion, says Polish ex-army chief

RT
Thu, 04 Apr 2019 14:08 UTC

War and soldiering were never far from the retired Polish army commander's mind as he talked US nuclear strikes in response to Russia's imaginary invasion and complained that NATO's eastern European buildup was not enough.

Waldemar Skrzypczak, who led Poland's Land Forces until 2009, seems to have joined the chorus of the West's most belligerent military leaders who have seized on the "Russian threat" to make their case. Speaking to Wirtualna Polska, he claimed Poland has become a bulwark against the "aggression from the East."

It is likely to become a scene of potential clashes between NATO and Russia, and this is why the alliance must realize that Poland "is an extremely important state from a strategic point of view," the high-ranked retiree insisted.

Russia is now "the greatest concern of the free world," and no army in Europe is a match for "the Russian war machine." That said, there is only one thing left that could avert the imminent danger.

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Ocasio-Cortez accused of using 'verbal blackface' during speech to black audience

RT
Sat, 06 Apr 2019 18:58 UTC

© Reuters / Lucas Jackson
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks as Rev. Al Sharpton looks on at the 2019 National Action Network National Convention.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is being accused of faking a southern accent during a speech to a black audience, a transgression that makes her very much like... Hillary Clinton, according to detractors.

Ocasio-Cortez, often referred to as AOC, spoke to the New York civil rights group National Action Network at its convention on Friday. Her speech focused on issues facing the working class, wealth inequality, looming climate-change disaster - things that could be expected from the firebrand social democrat freshman.

Comment: The critics seem to have grounds for their complaints about AOC. Two clips for comparison:

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Puppet Masters

Netanyahu's veiled threat to annex area C of the West Bank: "Trump is a big friend"

Joe Biden's Wife: His constant groping made her feel "Strange and Uncomfortable"

5 big defeats for US financial interests abroad

Trump: 'Our country is full' - vows more troops to the border, visits wall in California

How Brzezinski's 'chessboard' became Brennan's Russophobia

Deadly Dust: US spreads radiation and no one raises the issue

Ron Paul: NATO 'doesn't need to exist'

'Gravelanche': Anti-war ex-Senator and his teen campaign managers hope for a 'landslide' in 2020

US nuclear strike 'most reasonable' response to a Russian invasion, says Polish ex-army chief

Ocasio-Cortez accused of using 'verbal blackface' during speech to black audience

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