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'EU queen' Ursula preaches transparency while doing secret deals with Big Pharma

Rachel Marsden
RT
Fri, 16 May 2025 12:46 UTC
Ursula von der Leyen
© Thierry Monasse/Getty ImagesPresident of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.
Well, this is awkward. How many times has Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission president and unelected de facto ruler of the EU, delivered sermons about transparency like she's the high priestess of some kind of parallel Brussels Vatican? And now the EU's own top court has called her out in a ruling for neglecting to practice what she preaches.

Back in 2023, during her State of the European Union address, doing her finest impression of someone elected by the actual public, von der Leyen declared the need to douse any and all sketchiness in sunlight in order to "not allow any autocracy's Trojan horses to attack our democracies from within."

"Transparency should characterize the work of all the members of the Commission and of their cabinets," she said as far back as 2019. "I have asked commissioners...to engage more and be more transparent," she proclaimed in a speech to EU parliamentarians last year. Transparency and accountability also figured prominently in her bid for reappointment by the EU's ruling elites last year.
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Ukraine wasted $770 million on bogus arms deals


RT
Fri, 16 May 2025 10:28 UTC
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© Jose Colon/Anadolu/Getty ImagesUkraine soldiers
Unreliable foreign contractors and rampant corruption were behind the losses, the report claims.

Ukraine has wasted $770 million on attempts to buy weapons from dubious sources, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

The paper's investigation, based on court filings, leaked government documents, and interviews with officials, has offered a glimpse into Kiev's frenzy to procure arms following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022.

Officials often had to pay "large amounts in advance to little-known companies for materiel that to this day has never arrived," the paper said. It cited an example of a nondescript gun shop in Arizona, whose owner received an up-front payment of €17.1 million ($19.1 mn) for a deal worth €49 million.

The promised arms, however, never came. Ukraine won an arbitration trial but has yet to recover money, the FT says.

Ukraine has spent between $6 billion and $8 billion annually from its own state budget on arms since the start of hostilities, documents reviewed by the Financial Times show. Of that, $770 million in advance payments went to brokers who failed to deliver.

Comment: Which comes first: Declaration of war or arms procurement?

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Ukraine admits to losing third F-16


RT
Fri, 16 May 2025 07:01 UTC
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© Getty ImagesF-16 fighter jet
Kiev said "an emergency occurred" on board the US-designed jet.

The Ukrainian military has confirmed the loss of another US-designed F-16 fighter jet as it was repelling a Russian strike. This marks the third such incident since Kiev started receiving the advanced warplanes from the West.

According to the Ukrainian Air Force, all communication with the jet was lost at approximately 3:30am on Friday while it was carrying out a defensive combat mission. No data was provided regarding the location of the crash.

Officials said that the unnamed pilot had "destroyed three aerial targets and was engaging a fourth using the aircraft's cannon when an onboard emergency occurred." The pilot steered the jet away from populated areas and ejected; he was later picked up by a rescue team in satisfactory condition.

A commission has been appointed to investigate the circumstances of the incident, the air force added.

The Russian Defense Ministry has yet to comment.
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Ukrainian negotiator made 'fantasy' claim that Russia plans to attack NATO state


RT
Fri, 16 May 2025 16:35 UTC
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© Ramil Sitdikov/SputnikMoscow delegation at the talks with Kiev's representatives • Dolmabahce Palace • Istanbul, Turkey • May 16, 2025
The Russian delegation reportedly laughed off a remark by a Kiev official that Moscow intends to invade Poland in 2030.

A member of the Ukrainian delegation claimed during peace talks on Friday that Moscow is planning to attack Poland in 2030, a source present at the Istanbul negotiations has told RT.

The Russian side reportedly burst into laughter at the Ukrainian delegate's claim, with Medinsky saying: "Let's not turn these negotiations into a fantasy novel."

The episode unfolded on Friday during the first direct talks between Moscow and Kiev in three years. The negotiations, originally scheduled in Türkiye for Thursday, were postponed after Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky failed to appoint a delegation until late that evening, following a conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara. The team was headed by Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov.

The Russian delegation was led by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, who headed Moscow's negotiating team three years ago. Kiev unilaterally withdrew from those talks in May of 2022.

Comment: Delusions determine the present thus the future. The only reality is truth.

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Zelensky treats peace talks as 'political show' - ex-Ukrainian diplomat


RT
Thu, 15 May 2025 22:44 UTC
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© Global Look Press/Ukrainian President's Office/fileUkraine leader Vladimir Zelensky
Kiev is ready to derail negotiations with Russia, Andrey Telizhenko.

Vladimir Zelensky is looking to make a "political show" out of the expected peace talks with Russia in Istanbul, even if it means disrupting the negotiations, former Ukrainian diplomat Andrey Telizhenko has told RT.

Russian chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky said he would be waiting for the Ukrainian team starting at 10am local time on Friday for the first direct talks since 2022. During a visit to Ankara on Thursday, Zelensky criticized what he described as the "low-level" composition of the Russian delegation, but nevertheless promised to send his own negotiators to Istanbul.

Telizhenko told RT that Zelensky has been relying on France and the UK for weapons and financial aid because he "does not listen to Washington anymore." If the Ukrainian leader secures more support from the West, he "may agree and move forward with the negotiations, or he may sabotage them," the ex-diplomat said, expressing doubts that real talks could 'ever happen'. "This is just a political show, not diplomacy," he said. "Zelensky is not thinking about Ukrainians. He is trying to play this game for himself," Telizhenko argued.

Comment: The actor has written the script. It is a tragedy. Exit stage left.

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Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya

Courtney Kube, Carol E. Lee and Gordon Lubold
NBC News
Fri, 16 May 2025 16:43 UTC
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© Bashar Taleb / AFP - Getty ImagesPalestinians carry their belongings as they flee Gaza City on Friday
The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, five people with knowledge of the effort told NBC News.

The plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libya's leadership, two people with direct knowledge of the plans and a former U.S. official said.

In exchange for the resettling of Palestinians, the administration would potentially release to Libya billions of dollars of funds that the U.S. froze more than a decade ago, those three people said.

No final agreement has been reached, and Israel has been kept informed of the administration's discussions, the same three sources said.

The State Department and the National Security Council did not respond to multiple requests for comment before this article was published. After publication, a spokesperson told NBC News, "these reports are untrue."
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Trump says ex-FBI Director James Comey's '86 47' post called for his 'assassination'

Diana Glebova
NY Post
Fri, 16 May 2025 16:40 UTC
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President Trump slammed his former FBI director, James Comey, for posting a coded photo that he said called for his assassination.

"He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant ... That meant 'assassination,'" Trump said in an interview with Bret Baier on Friday.

Comey had posted a picture Thursday of seashells formed in the shape of "86 47" — a message that could be interpreted as "eliminating" him, since he's the 47th president.

One Webster's Dictionary definition of "eighty-six" says the term means "to get rid of." In the restaurant and bar industry, the phrase is used to indicate to staff that a menu item has run out, or that a customer is banned.

"Cool shell formation on my beach walk," Comey had captioned the photo on Instagram.
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Rep. LaMonica McIver repeatedly ignores journalist questions about assaulting ICE agents: Criminal investigation looms

Jordan Conradson
The Gateway Pundit
Thu, 15 May 2025 21:47 UTC
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Rep. Lamonica McIver repeatedly ignores questions after assaulting federal agents and storming the ICE facility at Delaney Hall Detention Center
Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver, who infamously body rammed federal agents at the Delaney Hall Detention Center last week when she and her Democrat colleagues stormed the ICE facility, ignored questions from The Gateway Pundit multiple times throughout the day on Thursday.

McIver, who has come within the scope of a federal investigation announced by US Attorney Alina Habba this week, was fittingly sporting a prison orange suit as she faces potential felony charges.

Democratic New Jersey Congressmen LaMonica McIver, Bonnie Watson Coleman, and Robert Menendez stormed into the facility in Newark, New Jersey, where aliens are being housed, without following protocols. A rowdy confrontation with police then ensued.
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Kash Patel announces FBI ditching DC headquarters, relocating 1,500 agents around the country

Steven Nelson
New York Post
Fri, 16 May 2025 21:10 UTC
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FBI Director Kash Patel announced Friday that the bureau is leaving its longtime DC headquarters in the J. Edgar Hoover Building and transferring 1,500 employees to locations around the country.

"This FBI is leaving the [J. Edgar] Hoover Building because this building is unsafe for our workforce," Patel told Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo in an interview set to air on Fox News Channel's "Sunday Morning Futures."

"We want the American men and women to know if you're going to come work at the premier law enforcement agency in the world, we're going to give you a building that's commensurate with that, and that's not this place," the FBI chief added.

Comment: Putting investigators where crime actually happens. What a novel idea. Not that DC isn't full of crime too, but they don't need 11,000 people in one area. Added bonus: anyone there just for the DC grift will quit.

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MAHA Chief Medical Advisor demands mRNA COVID jab moratorium

Jon Fleetwood
ZeroHedge
Fri, 16 May 2025 14:45 UTC
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British cardiologist and author Dr. Aseem Malhotra, the newly appointed Chief Medical Advisor to the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative, says there is "overwhelming evidence" to ban the COVID-19 mRNA shots.

Dr. Malhotra is a former U.K. government and long-time ally of MAHA leaders like HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) and NIH head Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.

He's campaigned for taxes on sugary drinks, worked to lower the amount of Brits taking statins unnecessarily, and worked with government leaders to remove ultraprocessed foods from hospitals and schools, per The Daily Mail.

Though Malhotra is not formally employed by the federal government, he will serve as a leading voice of the movement and work closely with grassroots groups to advance its policy agenda.
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