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Open for business: Syria renting port of Tartus to Russia for 49 years


RT
Sun, 21 Apr 2019 01:02 UTC
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© Sputnik / Dmitriy VinogradovFILE PHOTO: Russian and Syrian marines hold joint drills in Tartus, Syria.
Moscow and Damascus are set to sign a deal on renting the sea port of Tartus to Russia for trade purposes, deputy prime minister Yury Borisov announced after talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad.

"The key issue that should trigger a positive dynamic is the use of the port of Tartus," Borisov told reporters in Damascus. The agreement to rent the Mediterranean port to Russia was provisionally reached last year and the current visit "has cemented all these arrangements."

Russian businesses gaining access to Tartus will not just boost trade between the two countries but will primarily enable Syria's economy to recover, Borisov emphasized. The sides will put their signatures under the deal within the next seven days, the deputy PM promised.

Comment: It's cooperation like this that leads to wealth creation for all involved - ailing Western powers presiding over crashing economies take note:

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Top Scotland Yard detective: 'I was told to ignore 'meat rack' VIPs during pedophile probe'

Martin Beckford
Daily Mail
Tue, 23 Apr 2019 22:21 UTC
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Former Chief Inspector Howard Groves claims he was told to ignore VIPs during a paedophile probe now being investigated by the police watchdog
A Scotland Yard detective claims he was told to ignore VIPs during a paedophile probe now being investigated by the police watchdog.

Former Chief Inspector Howard Groves, who served in the murder squad during a distinguished 34-year career, was investigating a West End paedophile ring with alleged links to MPs and TV stars in the 1980s.

Detectives found that boys as young as 14 were being supplied to men in Piccadilly Circus in an area known by the boys as 'the meat rack'.

Former Chief Inspector Howard Groves claims he was told to ignore VIPs during a paedophile probe now being investigated by the police watchdog

Mr Groves, now 58, told The Mail on Sunday: 'I remember we were called to a meeting [and] told by a senior officer that if we found any establishment figures involved, the investigation would be stopped.'

Comment: It has been known for decades that high-profile figures have been involved in pedophile rings and child-rape crimes and the establishment has done its utmost to prevent investigations meanwhile it somehow 'loses' critical evidence:

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Mueller Report finally ended the 'witchhunt': Now comes the real story

Jennie Taer
saraacarter.com
Sun, 21 Apr 2019 22:07 UTC
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© Reuters/Jonathan ErnstAttorney General William Barr takes questions from the press
Attorney General William Barr stressed Thursday during his press conference that although Special counsel Robert Mueller detailed 10 "episodes" involving actions by President Trump that might have constituted obstruction of justice, neither the DOJ, nor Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein believed those actions violated the law.

Barr said based on the evidence that Trump's action had "non-corrupt motives." The redacted version of Mueller's report was released late Thursday. The very few redactions in the behemoth report show the reasons for the decisions, which were based on recommendations made by the intelligence community, DOJ and Mueller prosecutors to protect classified information, sources and methods and information pertaining to ongoing litigation.
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Israel recently helped Sri Lanka prepare for 'mega-terror attacks'


Arutz Sheva 7
Sun, 21 Apr 2019 21:47 UTC
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Sri Lankan emergency teams responding to a string of deadly bombings across the island nation were trained in part by Israel, in a special program to prepare first responders in the Sri Lankan capital to handle a variety of large-scale disasters - including multiple terror attacks.


Comment: Sri Lanka has had no terror attacks until now. It had atrocities during a civil war that lasted till 2009, but it has been outside the 'War on Terror' these last two decades. That changed today when the country received its first Random Muslim Attack(s).


Explosions were reported at eight separate locations across Sri Lanka on Sunday, most of them targeting churches or hotels during the Christian holiday of Easter.

At least 207 people were killed in the mass attacks, including some 30 foreign nationals.

Hardest hit was the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, with at least three hotels and a church bombed.

Local emergency teams called upon to conduct search and rescue missions and to treat the victims received special training from Israeli first responder teams, preparing them for a variety of scenarios - including large-scale terror attacks.

Comment: Israel, as always, has great timing.

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What a joke! Exit polls suggest comedian Volodymyr Zelensky set to win Ukrainian presidency by landslide elected


RT
Sun, 21 Apr 2019 21:29 UTC

Comment: Yes, that's how demoralized Ukrainians are by their CIA-NATO-EU puppet government...


Volodymyr Zelensky
© Reuters / Valentyn OgirenkoParty time!
Ukrainian comic Volodymyr Zelensky is set to win the presidency in a landslide victory over incumbent leader, Petro Poroshenko, exit polls show. Zelensky has already been visited by police over violating one election law.

The high turnout in the second round of the presidential election in Ukraine reveals an enthusiasm for the promise of change brought by Zelensky. He's leading with some 72-74 percent of the votes, according to the latest exit poll figures. Incumbent President Petro Poroshenko secured only around 25-28 percent of votes, suffering a crushing defeat at the hands of Zelensky.


Zelensky's team celebrated victory as soon as the first official exit polls were out, even reciting a rocket launch-like countdown. The soon-to-be president didn't waste many words, simply thanking his parents, his wife, his team and Ukrainian citizens who voted for him. He also jokingly thanked the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) for "keeping him in shape" during the campaign.

Comment: Western democrazis are lining up to congratulate him. Are they in for a surprise?

For the sake of Novorossiyans and all Ukrainians, we sure hope so.

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Condolences for Sri Lankan attack victims, condemnation for perpetrators pour in from world leaders


RT
Sun, 21 Apr 2019 20:58 UTC
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© Reuters / Dinuka LiyanawatteA statue of Virgin Mary in Colombo, Sri Lanka damaged in bomb attack on April 21, 2019.
Condolences from world leaders have been pouring in to Sri Lanka in the wake of a series of devastating attacks that hit the island nation during Easter celebrations.

Over 200 people have been killed as well as hundreds injured in what appears to be a series of eight coordinated explosions that rocked churches and luxury hotels in the Sri Lankan commercial capital of Colombo, as well as some other cities. The horrific attacks drew widespread condemnation from the leaders across the world, who also extended their sympathies to those affected by the incidents and expressed their readiness to help.

Comment: Sri Lanka's prime minister called for calm in the wake of the coordinated bombings.
The Sri Lankan PM called for strength and unity, and warned against the dissemination of fake reports, after explosions rocked several five-star hotels and Catholic churches, killing more than 160 people and injuring hundreds.

Turkey has sent a message of condolence to the victims of the attacks and condemnation for the perpetrators:
Erdogan offered Turkey's condolences to the families of victims and a speedy recovery to the hundreds of people who were injured by Sunday's bombings.


Meanwhile, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu compared the attacks to the recent shooting in New Zealand, in which a white nationalist gunned downed 50 people at two mosques in the city of Christchurch.

Pakistan has expressed its sympathy with Sri Lanka.


as well as its closest neighbor, India:
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has condemned the series of deadly explosions that rocked several Sri Lankan Catholic churches and five-star hotels on Sunday. The attacks claimed more than 150 lives.


India and Sri Lanka enjoy strong historic and cultural ties. India is home to around 70 million Tamil people, while the island of Sri Lanka has a sizeable Tamil minority. In 1987-1990, India deployed a peacekeeping force in Sri Lanka during a long-lasting conflict between Tamil insurgents and the central government.


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Mueller's report ends 'WitchHunt' but what's about to unfold is the real story

Sara Carter
SaraACarter.com
Thu, 18 Apr 2019 21:06 UTC
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Attorney General William Barr stressed Thursday during his press conference that although Special counsel Robert Mueller detailed 10 "episode" involving actions by President Trump that might have constituted obstruction of justice, neither the DOJ, nor Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein believed those actions violated the law.

Barr said based on the evidence that Trump's action had "non-corrupt motives." The redacted version of Mueller's report was released late Thursday. The very few redactions in the behemoth report show the reasons for the decisions, which were based on recommendations made by the intelligence community, DOJ and Mueller prosecutors to protect classified information, sources and methods and information pertaining to ongoing litigation.

The roughly 400 page report is what it is and now it is available for the public. After more than two years and national media consumption of every rumor possible the investigation has concluded that neither President Trump, anyone on his campaign and no American colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election.

Thank goodness. We should be celebrating. Instead, many media outlets who carried the Trump conspiracy water to thirsty 'anti-Trumpers' and angry Democrats are scouring the pages looking for anything to salvage their failed attempts at removing a duly elected president.
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Defeat in Syria has transformed into a campaign of spite

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 20 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
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The US-engineered proxy war against Syria, beginning in 2011 and the crescendo of the so-called "Arab Spring," has ended in all but absolute defeat for Washington.

Its primary goal of overthrowing the Syrian government and/or rendering the nation divided and destroyed as it has done to Libya has not only failed - but triggered a robust Russian and Iranian response giving both nations an unprecedented foothold in Syria and unprecedented influence throughout the rest of the region.

Lamenting America's defeat in Syria in the pages of Foreign Affairs is Brett McGurk - a career legal and diplomatic official in Washington whose most recent title was, "Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant." He resigned in protest over alleged plans for a US withdrawal from its illegal occupation of eastern Syria.

McGurk's lengthy complaints are full of paragraph-to-paragraph contradictions - illustrating the lack of legitimate unified purpose underpinning US policy in Syria.
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Better Earth

Odebrecht case: Numerous politicians implicated in worldwide bribery scandal


BBC News
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
Odebrecht worksite
© Getty Images
It is the corruption probe that has left politicians around the world looking over their shoulders. Prosecutors in a dozen countries are untangling a massive web of corruption that ran across a continent and further afield.

Illegal payments may have sloshed through presidential campaigns, boosted the careers of political top brass in country after country, and oiled the wheels of worldwide construction projects including motorways, gas pipelines and hydroelectric dams.

If you have never heard of a company called Odebrecht, you probably do not live in Latin America. It is a Brazilian construction giant behind venues for the 2016 Olympics, infrastructure for the 2014 World Cup and the metro system in Caracas, plus dams and airport terminals further afield.

But anti-corruption investigators caught up with the company, and it admitted paying bribes in more than half of the countries in Latin America, as well as in Angola and Mozambique in Africa.
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Attention

Mueller Report and its 'Guccifer 2.0' gaps

Daniel Lazare
Consortium News
Thu, 18 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
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© YouTubeAttorney General William Barr holding press conference on full Mueller report, April 18, 2019.
Like Team Mueller's indictment last July of Russian agents, the full report reveals questions about Wikileaks' role that much of the media has been ignoring.

As official Washington pores over the Gospel According to Saint Robert, an all-important fact about the Mueller report has gotten lost in the shuffle. Just as the Christian gospels were filled with holes, the latest version is too - particularly with regard to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.

The five pages that the special prosecutor's report devotes to WikiLeaks are essentially lifted from Mueller's indictment last July of 12 members of the Russian military intelligence agency known as the GRU. It charges that after hacking the Democratic National Committee, the GRU used a specially-created online persona known as Guccifer 2.0 to transfer a gigabyte's worth of stolen emails to WikiLeaks just as the 2016 Democratic National Convention was approaching. Four days after opening the encrypted file, the indictment says, "Organization 1 [i.e. WikiLeaks] released over 20,000 emails and other documents stolen from the DNC network by the Conspirators [i.e. the GRU]."

Mueller's report says the same thing, but with the added twist that Assange then tried to cover up the GRU's role by suggesting that murdered Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich may have been the source and by telling a congressman that the DNC email heist was an "inside job" and that he had "physical proof" that the material was not from Russian [sic Russian intelligence].

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