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Is Trump using the US Military for regime change in Venezuela?

Barbara Boland
The American Conservative
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:01 UTC
President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro
© Carolina Cabral/Getty ImagesPresident of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro speaks during a press conference at Miraflores Government Palace on March 12, 2020 in Caracas, Venezuela
The last month of chaotic U.S. policy towards President Nicolas Maduro should raise eyebrows.

U.S. policy towards Venezuela has been a head-spinning series of contradictions lately, with no end in sight. From placing a bounty on the heads of President Nicolas Maduro and a dozen current and former Venezuelan officials, to upping sanctions and sending the largest fleet ever to the Southern hemisphere to stop drug trafficking from Venezuela, the U.S. appears to be pursuing an inexorable path towards regime change.

But at the same time, U.S. officials have announced they don't seek a "coup" against Maduro, that the U.S. Naval deployment doesn't seek his ouster, and that the United States wants Maduro to agree to a power-sharing deal, despite the bounty they've placed on his head.

An examination of the timeline reveals the last month of U.S. policy towards Venezuela has been nothing if not chaotic.

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Former US Attorney Joe diGenova on Durham investigation: "This is a big deal. He's actually investigating the greatest crime in American history"

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 13:15 UTC
US Attorney John Durham
US Attorney John Durham
Former US Attorney Joe diGenova held another riveting interview on Monday about General Flynn's case and the Durham investigation.

About the Durham investigation, diGenova said the following at the 5:20 mark in the video below:
Remember what [US Attorney John Durham] is doing is, he is deconstructing the Mueller - Weissman inquiry. This investigation by Durham will show conclusively that the Mueller - Weissman investigation was a fraud. That it was never intended to find a crime. That it was intended to entrap the President to get an impeachment for a false statement if he gave an interview. Which of course his lawyers and lawyers like us, told him never to do, never to give that information.

So that's why it's taking time, Mary. It's taking time because he's destroying Mueller as he makes the case against Clapper, Brennan, Comey, and Sally Yates and others. This is a big deal. He's actually investigating the greatest crime in American history!

Comment: We can hardly wait until the likes of John Brennan, James Clapper - and the whole lot of them - get put in prison for the lies they perpetrated to fuel Mueller's bogus "Russiagate" investigation.

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"Another hoax": Kremlin dismisses reports of poisoning plot against Czech officials who tore down Konev monument


RT
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:21 UTC
Konev
© SputnikA monument to Soviet World War II commander, Ivan Konev, in Prague.
The Czech media has crafted a spy thriller, based on unnamed sources, that Russians were planning to poison officials behind the removal of a monument to Marshal Ivan Konev who freed Prague from the Nazis. Moscow says it's a hoax.

The report by Respekt magazine this weekend had a short and catchy title - 'A Man with Ricin' - more fitting for an action movie or a John le Carré novel than a respectable news article.

Citing anonymous sources, the newspaper claimed that three weeks ago, a diplomat from Russia landed at Vaclav Havel Airport in Prague. A car that had already been waiting for him outside swiftly delivered the man to the Russian Embassy in the Czech capital. All this time, the mysterious diplomat had a briefcase on him, in which he "was supposed to have the deadly poison ricin," the report said.
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Saudi Arabia scraps death penalty for minors, flogging in bid to 'modernize' penal code


RT
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 19:00 UTC
Riyadh
© CC BY-SA 4.0 / B.alotabyRiyadh Skyline
The kingdom of Saudi Arabia will no longer impose the death penalty on individuals who were minors at the time that they committed a crime, a Sunday statement issued by the state-backed Human Rights Commission (HRC) revealed.

The change in criminal policy indicates that any individual who was issued the death penalty as a minor will now be sent to a juvenile detention facility for a period no longer than 10 years. The kingdom in 2018 issued a decree that established a 10-year maximum sentence for minors convicted of any offense, except capital crimes, such as murder and terrorism.

It's unclear when the new changes will take effect.
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Orwellian 'memory hole' in action? Stealth removal of CNN clip supporting Biden sex assault claim proves MSM's double standards

Helen Buyniski
RT
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 18:33 UTC
biden
© Reuters / Scott Audette
A 'Larry King Live' episode that backed up a sexual assault claim against presumed Democratic nominee Joe Biden vanished from Google Play after CNN grudgingly reported on it. Have the MSM's double standards finally crushed #MeToo?

Nearly 30 years ago, the mother of Tara Reade, the former Senate staffer who accused Biden of sexual assault, called into 'Larry King Live' to ask for advice about what a staffer who's had to leave her post because of "problems" might do, besides run to the press. The call - vague, but troubling in its implications - was published in transcript form by the Intercept on Friday after a listener dug it up from CNN's archives. CNN reportedly confirmed with Reade later that night that the anonymous voice on the show seeking advice for her daughter's "problems" was indeed her mother.


Comment: See New evidence surfaces supporting the credibility of Tara Reade's allegation against Biden

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Best of the Web: Medical Martial Law: UK to send military units to 'COVID-19 outbreaks' for 'contact tracing & mass testing'... for next FOUR YEARS

Ben Spencer
Daily Mail, UK
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 18:11 UTC

Comment: ...which means this is what they're going to roll out everywhere (across NATO-stan, anyway).


Soldiers in face masks, gloves
© AFP via Getty ImagesSoldiers in glasses, face masks, plastic aprons and gloves pass items across a car.
A fleet of rapid-response testing units is being set up to help stop a resurgence of coronavirus once the lockdown is lifted, the Government's testing tsar reveals today.

Responding rapidly to outbreaks in schools, care homes and workplaces is 'absolutely crucial' to easing the restrictions, said Professor John Newton.

Scores of mobile testing units will be ready by next month as part of a contact tracing and testing programme to get Britain moving again, he told the Daily Mail.

There are already 48 mobile units in operation, run by Armed Forces staff to test key workers for coronavirus at prisons, police stations and care homes.

These units - part of a drive to hit the Government's target of conducting 100,000 tests a day by Friday - will be doubled to 96 within a few days.

Once ministers are ready to lift the lockdown, their focus will be switched to targeted outbreak control as part of a 'test, track and trace' system.

Comment: Oh NOW the prat recommends no lockdown. AFTER the country's wrecked. What a genius. Give 'im another PhD.

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WSJ: By refusing to release Russian transcripts, 'what doesn't Schiff want America to see?'

Dominick Mastrangelo
Washington Examiner
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:50 UTC
Schiff
© Boston HeraldHouse Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff
The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal accused Rep. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, of trying to hide the motives behind the impeachment effort he led against President Trump, the news outlet wrote in an editorial published Monday.
"The Trump-Russia collusion narrative collapsed a year ago with the Robert Mueller report, but the story's not over. Democrats are now trying to suppress details of how the bogus theory was promoted, led by House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff."
The editorial explained how Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee finished an investigation of election interference in April 2018 and concluded that Russia did not collude with the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election.

Schiff and other Democrats objected and accused Republicans on the committee of hiding evidence. In September of that year, Congress voted to release the transcripts of the investigation's 53 witness interviews. New reports suggest Schiff is trying to block the release of those public documents, despite a mandate from Congress to do so.

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Yemen's health system has been wrecked by war, but Britain is still helping the Saudis bomb it - even during the Covid-19 pandemic

Danielle Ryan
RT
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 17:58 UTC
man injured, Yemen Saada province
© Reuters / Naif RahmaFILE PHOTO. A man injured by an air strike on a market in Yemen's Saada province receives medical attention, July 29, 2019
Ravaged by years of conflict, Yemen is facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Its health system has been decimated and many of its people are starving - but the flow of British weapons to Saudi Arabia has not stopped.

Britain's role in fueling and sustaining Riyadh's devastating bombing campaign in Yemen has always been despicable, but it becomes especially monstrous as the threat of Covid-19 looms over the war-torn country.

The UN's humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, Lise Grande, has warned the nation is in a "race against time" — and while there is currently only one confirmed case of the illness so far, the prospect of Covid-19 spreading there is a terrifying one. "The odds are stacked against us," Grande said, citing restrictive operating conditions, lack of resources and the fact that "less than 50 percent of health facilities are fully functioning." With limited testing capabilities (which may explain why there is only one confirmed case so far), Yemen has only been able to test a few thousand people and faces a shortage of ventilators and personal protective equipment.
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Tokyo Olympics to be cancelled altogether 'if COVID-19 vaccine not found soon'

Alix Culbertson
Sky News
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 17:21 UTC

Comment: Wow, maybe the One Worlders really are planning to shut down the world for years to come...


Olympic rings
Japan's head medic and its Olympic committee president are both dubious about whether Tokyo 2020 can go ahead in 2021
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics could be cancelled all together if a COVID-19 vaccine is not found soon, Japan's chief medic has warned.

In March, the International Olympics Committee (IOC) announced the Games, due to be held this July, would be postponed for a year and would still be called Tokyo 2020.

But, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to affect the world, doubts over whether the postponed Games could take place have become very real.
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Covid-19 and The Red Dawn Emails: Neocon ideologues came up with the idea to put entire population under house arrest

Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 17:39 UTC
Richard Hatchett
Dr. Richard Hatchett. He was an advisor to President George W. Bush, for whom he imagined mandatory confinement of the civilian population and now heads CEPI, the global coordination group for vaccine investment created by the Davos Forum around the Gates Foundation. He was the first to equate the Covid-19 epidemic with a "war" (sic).
The Covid-19 outbreak has so far killed more than 200,000 people and frightened billions more into panic. A panic that deprives most of them of any critical sense and pushes them to make or approve stupid political decisions. A group of personalities, Red Dawn, whose correspondence was revealed by Kaiser Health News and the New York Times website, managed to impose an apocalyptic ideology: China would have declared war on us and we could only protect ourselves by confining all civilians.

In an earlier article [1], I demonstrated how frightening statistical predictions of the number of deaths that Covid-19 would cause were made by a charlatan, Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London, who has been repeatedly contradicted by the facts over the past two decades.

I have also shown in another article [2] that the containment measures in China were not medically motivated, but politically motivated (the "Mandate from Heaven" theory). It remains to be explained where the mandatory containment of everyone as practiced in the West comes from.

I spent weeks and weeks looking at epidemiological literature, but nowhere did I find any evidence of such a measure. Never in history has an epidemic been fought in this way. Then, a corner of the veil was indirectly lifted by correspondence revealed by Kaiser Health News: this measure had been planned by the Bush administration in 2005-07.
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