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Two EU states may end cooperation over Ukraine


RT
Sat, 09 Apr 2022 16:00 UTC
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© Getty Images/Jakub PorzyckiHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Polish PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski
Warsaw wants Hungary's Orban to back its anti-Russia position before partnership can continue.

Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, one of the top politicians of the Eastern European nation, said on Friday that cooperation with Hungary would not be possible unless Prime Minister Viktor Orban aligns himself with Kiev. Prior to the conflict in Ukraine, Poland and Hungary were staunch allies.

Kaczynski said in a radio interview that he has an "unequivocally negative" opinion of Orban's refusal to take a harder stance on Russia following the latter's military offensive on Ukraine.

"When Orban says that he cannot see what happened in Bucha, he must be advised to see an eye doctor," Kaczynski said, referring to Orban's refusal to blame Russia for the killing of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha. Russia has strongly rejected the allegations, claiming Ukrainian forces staged a "crude and cynical provocation," and has demanded a UN investigation into the incident.

Orban's Fidesz party won a resounding victory in the election last weekend, and Orban declared afterwards that his country's "alliance with Poland must be solidified as we cannot remain standing alone in this storm."

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The US intel community killed its own credibility by revealing its Ukraine policies

Scott Ritter
RT
Sat, 09 Apr 2022 19:48 UTC
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© Getty Images / Milan_Jovic
Using disinformation to thwart an enemy is one thing. Spreading it to your own public and policymakers is another

The US intelligence community has long claimed that integrity in the search for truth was its core value. In March 1992, Robert Gates, who at that time was serving as director of Central Intelligence, addressed the CIA's analytical community on the issue of politicized intelligence.
"Bourne Cockran [note: an Irish-American politician known for his oratory skills who mentored Winston Churchill]," Gates noted, "wrote to Winston Churchill in 1895 that, 'What the people really want to hear is the truth - it is the exciting thing - speak the simple truth. Twenty years later, Churchill himself wrote, 'The truth is incontrovertible; panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice may destroy it, but there it is.' Truth, insofar as we can determine it, is what our [i.e., the CIA's] work is all about."
Moreover, Gates pointed out, "because seeking truth is what we [the CIA] are all about as an institution, as professionals, and as individuals, the possibility - even the perception - that that quest may be tainted deeply troubles us, as it long has and as it should."
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US rejects Pakistan PM Imran Khan's allegations of 'conspiracy' to overthrow his govt


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Sat, 09 Apr 2022 18:32 UTC
Imran Khan
© ANI Photo/PTVPakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan addresses nation in a televised speech on Thursday, March 31, 2022.
Friday's rebuttal was the third time the US has publicly commented on Khan's allegations. Previously, it was reported that the state department had dismissed the allegation when it initially broke in late March

The US has bluntly rejected Pakistan's embattled Prime Minister Imran Khan's latest allegations of a "foreign conspiracy" plotted in Washington to overthrow his government with the help of the Opposition parties, saying there is "absolutely no truth" to these claims.

Khan has been claiming that the Opposition's no-confidence motion against him was the result of a foreign conspiracy because of his independent foreign policy and funds were being channelled from abroad to oust him from power. In an address to the nation on Friday, the 69-year-old prime minister reiterated his allegations that a senior US diplomat threatened regime change in Pakistan.

Khan has alleged that Donald Lu, assistant secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs in the Department of State was involved in the foreign conspiracy' to topple his government.

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Speaking during an address late Friday night, Khan again took aim at his political opponents, suggesting the upcoming vote is part of a conspiracy to remove him from office backed by external powers.

"I will not accept an imported government, and I am determined to vehemently agitate against it," he said, adding that he is "ready for a struggle," while urging supporters to hold protests in his favor over the weekend.

The remarks followed similar charges from the PM in recent weeks, having previously named the United States as the foreign meddler, claiming to have evidence that a senior US official told Islamabad's envoy that relations with Pakistan would improve in Khan's absence.

Pakistan's parliament will hold the no-confidence vote on Saturday, which could end Khan's term early. Though it was set to occur in March, it was postponed by the government, but the country's Supreme Court has since ruled that the PM must face the vote after all.

Khan lamented the decision but noted that he would not challenge it.

"I am disappointed by the Supreme Court verdict... It has saddened me, but we accept it," he said, adding that he had hoped the court would take the meddling claims with more gravity.

"It was a very serious allegation that a foreign country wants to topple the government through a conspiracy," Khan continued.

Should he lose the no-confidence vote, opposition parties will put forward their own candidate for PM, with Shehbaz Sharif - the younger brother of Nawaz Sharif, who served as prime minister three times prior - recently nominated for the role.
Prime Minister Kahn is not delusional. He has many examples of U.S. meddling in countries' internal politics to draw from. Pakistan's relationship with the U.S. has been fraught for a while, but it seems is principle sin is that he won't turn his back on Russia.

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Journalist Doocy and WH talking-head Psaki spar over VP Harris not wearing mask

Nicole Silverio
The Daily Caller
Sat, 09 Apr 2022 18:21 UTC
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© Screenshots/Rumble/White House press briefingFox News journalist Peter Doocy and White House spokeman Jen Psaki
Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy sparred Friday with White House press secretary Jen Psaki over Vice President Kamala Harris not wearing a mask after COVID-19 exposure.

Doocy asked if there was "a carveout" in regulations put forth by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the vice president after Harris hugged newly-confirmed Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The CDC recommends that individuals who are up to date on their COVID-19 vaccines and exposed to virus should wear a "well-fitting" mask for 10 days and get tested at least 5 days after exposure.

"You mean when she gave her a hug outside?" Psaki said.

"Yes," Doocy said.

"She was outside — " the press secretary began.
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Ex-Russian president warns sanctions on Russia will 'erode the world order'


RT
Sat, 09 Apr 2022 18:07 UTC
Dmitry Medvedev
© SputnikDmitry Medvedev at the Gorki state residence, Russia.
The sanctions imposed on Moscow will lead to the collapse of international institutions, including the UN, Medvedev claims

The unprecedented sanctions that Western nations have imposed on Russia since the start of its military offensive in Ukraine only further erode the existing system of international institutions and the authority of the UN, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned in a Telegram post on Friday.

Initially, the word 'sanctions' only applied to measures imposed by the UN Security Council, he argued, adding that everything Western nations call 'sanctions' today is nothing but unilateral restrictions that are inadmissible under international law.

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The Total War to Cancel Russia

Pepe Escobar
Strategic Culture
Fri, 08 Apr 2022 17:43 UTC
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By now it's abundantly clear that the neo-Orwellian "Two Minute Hate" Russophobic campaign launched by the Empire of Lies after the start of Operation Z is actually "24/7 Hate".

Vast swathes of NATOstan have been corralled into behaving like a Russophobic lynch mob. No dissent is tolerated. The full psyops has de facto upgraded the Empire of Lies to the status of Empire of Hate in a Total War - hybrid and otherwise - to cancel Russia.

Hate, after all, packs way more punch than mere lies, which are now veering into abject ridiculousness, as in U.S. "intelligence" resorting to - what else - lies to fight the info war against Russia.

If the propaganda overdrive has been lethally effective amidst the zombified Western masses - call it a "win" in the P.R. war - in the front where it really matters, inside Russia, it's a major fail.

Public opinion support for both Operation Z and President Putin is unprecedented. After videos of torture of Russian POWs that caused widespread revulsion, Russian civil society is even bracing for a "Long War" lasting months, not weeks, as long as the targets of the Russian High Command - actually a military secret - are met.

The stated aims are "demilitarization" and "denazification" of a future neutral Ukraine - but geopolitically reach way beyond: the aim is to turn the post-1945 European collective security arrangement upside down, forcing NATO to understand and come to terms with the concept of "indivisible security". This is an extremely complex process that will reach the next decade.

The NATOstan sphere simply cannot admit in public a series of facts that a military analyst of the caliber of Andrei Martyanov has been explaining for years. And that adds to their collective pain.

Russia can take on NATO and smash it to bits in 48 hours. It may employ advanced strategic deterrence systems unmatched across the West. Its southern axis - from the Caucasus and West Asia to Central Asia - is fully stabilized. And if the going gets really tough, Mr. Zircon can deliver his hypersonic nuclear business card with the other side not even knowing what hit it.
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Russia suspended from UN Human Rights Council for 'systematic abuses'


RFE/RL
Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:00 UTC
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© Keystone/AFP /Getty ImagesUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks remotely at the UNHRC meeting.
The UN General Assembly has voted to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council over reports of "gross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights" by invading Russian troops in Ukraine.

The resolution received 93 votes in favor, 24 against, and 58 abstentions.

The U.S.-initiated resolution adopted by the 193-member General Assembly expressed "grave concern at the ongoing human rights and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine."

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba expressed his gratitude to the UN members who voted in favor of suspending Russia from the Geneva-based 47-member council, which is the UN's leading human rights organization. The rebuke marked only the second time a country has been dismissed from the council, which was founded in 2006. Libya's suspension in 2011 was the first.

The Russian Foreign Ministry rejected the suspension, calling the move "illegal and politically motivated, aimed at ostentatiously punishing a sovereign UN member state that pursues an independent domestic and foreign policy."

But U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hailed the vote:
"A country that is perpetrating gross and systematic violations of human rights should not sit on a body whose job it is to protect those rights."



Comment: First comes the set up; then the pitch.


Comment: The UN is a glorified club - no more, no less - where bias runs extreme.
Deputy Russian Ambassador to the UN Gennady Kuzmin had urged members to vote no. He said, prior to the vote:
"What we're seeing today is an attempt by the United States to maintain its dominant position and total control. We reject the untruthful allegations against us, based on staged events and widely circulated fakes."
Ukraine's UN ambassador, Serhiy Kyslytsya responded to Russia's complaints about the proceeding, saying:
"We have heard, many times the same perverted logic of the aggressor trying to present itself as the victim."
Ukraine speaks about itself.

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Serbia claims NATO fighter jet flew under passenger plane in Russian airspace

Valius Venckunas
AeroTime
Sat, 09 Apr 2022 10:51 UTC
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An unknown fighter jet sped under an Air Serbia Airbus A330 as the aircraft was crossing Russian-Latvian border on a flight between Moscow (SVO) and Belgrade (BEG), Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic said in an interview on national television.

According to Vucic, the fighter jet flew under Air Serbia's aircraft in Russian airspace on April 6, 2022.

Vucic read out what he said was a report from a pilot on the flight: "Not far from the Russian-Latvian border, Russian Air Traffic Control sent us traffic information to warn us about an aircraft nearby. Two minutes later they asked us to visually identify the aircraft." Vucic said. "The plane in question. It was a military fighter jet. It resembled the "Phantom 15" or the Eurofighter the most, gray in color."

Comment: So it's not clear just which country or entity is responsible, just that a NATO fighter jet was probably being used:


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Alberta's chief medical officer Hinshaw tells court rights were violated for the greater good, during pandemic

Kevin Martin
Calgary Sun
Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:01 UTC
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© David Bloom /PostmediaAlberta's chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw provides an update on COVID-19 in the province during a press conference in Edmonton on Wednesday, March 23, 2022.
Alberta's chief medical officer of health acknowledged Tuesday that the measures taken to combat the COVID-19 pandemic affected individual rights.

But Dr. Deena Hinshaw told a hearing challenging her public health orders that the measures were a "last resort" necessary to protect individuals from the coronavirus and maintain the viability of the health-care system.

Under cross-examination by lawyer Leighton Grey, one of two counsel representing parties challenging the constitutionality of Hinshaw's orders, the doctor said such measures were needed when voluntary compliance didn't prevent the spread of the disease.

Comment: Who would have thought mild-mannered Canada would be leading the way in human rights violations?

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Israel's government crumbles over issue of "Jewish identity"

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Thu, 07 Apr 2022 21:46 UTC
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Knesset Member Idit Silman
Yesterday, Israeli premier Naftali Bennett's razor-thin coalition majority crumbled as coalition whip Idit Silman, also from Bennett's Yamina ("Rightwards") party, defected, leaving the coalition at 60 members out of the 120-seat parliament.

"I can no longer bear the damage to values ​​and causes that are essential and right", Silman wrote in her resignation letter to Bennett, adding that she "will not abet the harming of the Jewish identity of the State of Israel and the people of Israel."

But what is the danger to "Jewish identity" from a government headed by the most right-wing, Jewish supremacist and religious fundamentalist premier in Israel's history?
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