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Weapons sent to Ukraine appearing on black market - Putin


RT
Thu, 27 Oct 2022 14:02 UTC
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© Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesFILE PHOTO.
Western weapons flowing into Ukraine have begun to make their way onto black markets, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with the heads of security and special services of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries on Wednesday.

The Russian leader called on the participants of the meeting to bolster cooperation in anti-terrorism efforts and noted that there were "serious challenges" posed by the emerging black arms markets in Ukraine.

Putin claimed that "cross-border criminal groups" were actively involved in smuggling weapons to other regions and that it wasn't just small firearms. "There is a persistent risk of criminals getting hold of more powerful weapons, including portable air defense systems and precision weapons."

The president's statement comes after Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, warned last month that corrupt Ukrainian officials had established channels to deliver Western-supplied weapons onto the global black market.
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Saudi Arabia 'duped' Washington on secret oil deal - media


RT
Thu, 27 Oct 2022 13:47 UTC
Mohammad Bin Salman
© Getty Images / Alex WongFILE PHOTO: Crown Prince Of Saudi Arabia Mohammad Bin Salman (right) is shown participating in a March 2018 meeting with then-US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis at the Pentagon.
President Joe Biden reportedly made his controversial July visit to Saudi Arabia, breaking a campaign promise to shun the kingdom, because his administration thought it had secured a secret deal for Riyadh to boost oil supplies. Instead, Riyadh did the opposite, leading OPEC in cutting output targets.

The production increase was supposed to come from September through the end of this year, helping to ease inflation and justify Biden's trip to Riyadh, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing interviews with unidentified US and Middle East government officials. Earlier this month, OPEC announced plans to cut production by two million barrels a day, creating more upward pressure on prices and potentially increasing the risk that the Biden-led Democratic Party will lose control of Congress in November's US midterm elections.

Several US lawmakers responded by suggesting that Washington should punish Saudi Arabia by cutting off arms sales or removing its military support for the kingdom. Biden accused Riyadh of siding with Russia in the Ukraine conflict and warned of retribution, saying, "There will be consequences."

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Roses

African leader delivers 'message' from Putin to Zelensky


RT
Thu, 27 Oct 2022 13:21 UTC
Sissoco Embalo, Vladimir Zelensky
© AP / Andrew KravchenkoSissoco Embalo and Vladimir Zelensky, Kiev, Ukraine, October 26, 2022
Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco Embalo, the president of Guinea-Bissau, claimed on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin asked him to convey a "message" to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky about the importance of "direct dialogue" between Moscow and Kiev. Embalo made this revelation at a joint press conference with Zelensky in Kiev, one day after his meeting with Putin.

"My dear brother, yesterday I was in Russia with President [Vladimir] Putin, who asked me to give you a message, to talk to you, considering that a direct dialogue is very important for our future joint actions," Embalo said.

A video of the press conference was published on Zelensky's Telegram channel, with Embalo's remarks translated into Ukrainian.

Comment: A well-intended gesture the response to which reveals the futility of trying to have meaningful dialogues with brick walls and sock puppets.

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New email reveals answer to establishment's efforts to oust Trump

Jeff Carlson and Hans Mahncke
The Epoch Times
Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:01 UTC
strzok comey mccabe
© Getty Images/Illustration by The Epoch Times(L–R) Former FBI agent Peter Strzok; former FBI Director James Comey; and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
New detail in Danchenko trial exhibits suggests that FBI intentionally targeted Trump on false Russia collusion charges.

An FBI email previously not known to the public has revealed that the bureau planned to make Igor Danchenko — the primary source for British former spy Christopher Steele's Trump dossier — a confidential human source (CHS) before it had even interviewed him.

The revelation, which was discovered as a result of special counsel John Durham's case against Danchenko, indicates that the FBI deliberately targeted 2016 presidential candidate and later President Donald Trump with claims it already knew at the time to be false.

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Pirates

Netherlands issued 91 waivers on Russia sanctions, including aluminum, food


NL Times
Mon, 24 Oct 2022 12:30 UTC
Lakhta Center Gazprom
© VladimirDrozdin / DepositPhotosThe Lakhta Center in St. Petersburg, Russia. Home to state-controlled natural gas company Gazprom. 8 Jan. 2022
The Dutch government has issued 91 waivers from sanctions against Russia since the country invaded Ukraine late in February, RTL Nieuws reports after talking to the Ministries. The ministries shielded the names of the companies involved, the value of transactions which were exempted, and the business sectors concerned, RTL Nieuws reported.

The information was "company-sensitive," according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Economic Affairs, Finance, Infrastructure, and Education are allowed to grant exemptions to sanctions to "allow a degree of flexibility in specific cases," the spokesperson affirmed.

Comment: The West bleats out propagandistic declarations of isolating Russia, ostensibly on moral grounds - 'diplomatic relations', 'humanitarian grounds' - whilst at the same time granting themselves waivers when it suits them, and hypocritically condemning other countries for doing the same.

The necessity of these waivers are a natural consequence of the inter connectivity of global trade, but they're also a result of the ideologically driven deindustrialization of the West, whose economies, without these waivers, would suffer disastrous consequences: EU wants to use the Russian assets it has stolen to finance proxy-war in Ukraine

ALso check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Dirty Nuke False-Flag? US Military on Stand-by to Fight Russian Troops in Event of 'Atrocity'

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War Whore

John Helmer: "The US signals readiness to launch nuclear strike against Russia"

John Helmer
Dances with Bears
Mon, 24 Oct 2022 00:00 UTC
General Michael ‘Erik’ Kurilla - USS West Virginia
Last week on October 19 the US Navy announced that "General Michael 'Erik' Kurilla [lead image, lower right] , commander of CENTCOM, conducted a visit aboard the USS West Virginia [top], a U.S. Navy Ohio-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine at an undisclosed location at sea in international waters in the Arabian Sea. Kurilla was joined on the USS West Virginia by Vice Admiral Brad Cooper [lower left], commander of the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet and NAVCENT."

The Fifth Fleet and the Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) are headquartered at Bahrain on the Persian Gulf. From Bahrain down the Gulf to the Masirah Island airbase, off Oman, is a flight distance of 1,047 kilometres. From Masirah to the West Virginia and its escort was within helicopter flight range.

Two days later, the Pentagon reported that "on October 21, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke by phone with Russian Minister of Defense Sergey Shoygu. Secretary Austin emphasized the importance of maintaining lines of communication amid the ongoing war against Ukraine." They spoke again on October 23, according to Austin's spokesman, because Shoigu had "requested a follow up call."
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South Africa says it's not 'bound by sanctions', rejects calls to bar Russian billionaire's superyacht

Pumza Fihlani
BBC
Wed, 26 Oct 2022 20:08 UTC
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© Getty
South Africa's government insists it will allow a Russian oligarch to dock his superyacht in Cape Town, despite calls from the city's mayor to bar it.

The vessel, which is on its way from Hong Kong, belongs to Alexei Mordashov, an ally of Russia's Vladimir Putin who has been sanctioned by the EU and US.


Comment: According to the mainstream media, everyone Russian who isn't a Western asset is an 'ally of Putin'.


The South African government says it is not bound by the sanctions.

But Cape Town's mayor says he has a "moral duty" to oppose Russia's "unjust war" and has vowed to block the yacht.


Comment: The mayor's moral duty is to do some reading about about the real reasons for Russia's just response to the West's provocations.


Comment: The US and EU are playing a dangerous game by threatening to steal assets of the world's superrich, whom they, otherwise, rely on to help keep their ailing economies afloat: EU wants to use the Russian assets it has stolen to finance proxy-war in Ukraine

See also: China surpasses US in the eyes of young Africans as having 'most positive influence' - poll

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Dominoes

South Africa snubs anti-Russia sanctions, will allow Russian billionaire's yacht to enter its ports


RT
Wed, 26 Oct 2022 19:10 UTC
Alexey Mordashov yacht
© Pavel KOROLYOV / AFPThe 142-metre luxury yacht Nord, owned by Russian tycoon Alexey Mordashov
South Africa has no intention of enforcing Western sanctions against Russian businessman Alexey Mordashov, meaning his $500 million megayacht may enter local ports, the spokesman for President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday.

Speaking to reporters, Vincent Magwenya, the spokesman for the South African leader, noted that Pretoria "has no legal obligation to abide by sanctions imposed by the US and EU," adding that the nation's authorities adhere to UN sanctions. However, referring to the Russian tycoon, Magwenya added that "currently there are no UN-imposed sanctions on the particular individual."

South Africa therefore "has no reason to prevent" the vessel's entry into its ports, he said.
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President of Guinea-Bissau visits Kiev after trip to Moscow, wants to facilitate dialogue


TASS
Wed, 26 Oct 2022 18:43 UTC
Sissoco Embalo guinea-bissau zelensky
It is reported that Sissoco Embalo visited Moscow on Tuesday and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin
President of Guinea-Bissau, Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Umaro Sissoco Embalo arrived in Kiev on Wednesday, a day after his trip to Moscow where he expressed readiness to facilitate dialogue between Russia and Ukraine.

"Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo became the first leader of an African state to visit our country after February 24. Glad to welcome you in Ukraine!" President Vladimir Zelensky blogged on his Telegram channel.


Comment: That might be because many countries in Africa have been standing firm against Western pressure and maintaining a neutral stance regarding the West's proxy war in Ukraine - note that this meeting is about promoting dialogue, not fanning the flames of war.


He also posted a video of his meeting with the president of Guinea and of talks between the delegations of the two countries led by their respective heads of state.

Comment: Notably Africa was promised some of Ukraine's grain and fertilizer but the West took it instead, and Russia was one of the few countries that tried to help them. The EU's behaved in an even more diabolical manner by actually telling Africa it shouldn't open its own fertilzer production plants because it conflicts with their nefarious green agenda.

Footage of President Embalo's meeting with Zelensky:



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Bullseye

Google caught manipulating search, buries GOP campaign sites in 83% of top Senate races

Gabriela Pariseau
FreeSpeech America
Tue, 25 Oct 2022 09:08 UTC
Google
© collectively conscious
Anti-Democracy Google is manipulating search results to bury Senate Republican candidates' campaign websites before the 2022 midterm elections. This comes on the heels of a North Carolina State University study that found that Google's Gmail marked 59.3 percent more emails from "right"-leaning candidates as spam compared to "left"-leaning candidates.

"Google must be investigated for its un-American efforts to sway the election," said L. Brent Bozell, founder and president of the Media Research Center.
"First, researchers caught Google red-handed by proving Republican campaign emails were sent to spam. Now we've uncovered Google manipulating search results to hide Republican campaign websites while promoting Democratic ones. This is all an effort by Google to help Democrats and interfere in the democratic process."
MRC Free Speech America has analyzed Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo search results for the 12 Senate races identified by RealClearPolitics as the most important to watch. Our researchers caught Google burying 10 of 12 Senate Republican Party candidates' campaign websites while highlighting their opponents campaign sites in organic search results. This stands in stark contrast to Bing and DuckDuckGo whose search results treated Republican and Democrat campaign websites more neutrally than Google.

Comment: There is 'Truth' and 'Official Truth'. It is our job to determine the difference and do something about it.

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