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Don't forget Joe Biden 'exposed himself' to female secret service agents too!

John Nolte
Breitbart
Thu, 04 Apr 2019 09:43 UTC
joe biden
It's not okay that Harvey Weinstein did it. It's not okay that Charlie Rose did it. But when we learned in 2014 that then-Vice President Joe Biden exposed his naked body to women in the Secret Service, the media didn't care. And the media still don't care because Orange Man Bad.

In his New York Times best-seller, The First Family Detail, award-winning investigative reporter Ronald Kessler revealed that "Biden has a habit of swimming in his pool nude. Female Secret Service agents find that offensive."

He added, "Because of Biden's lack of consideration as evidenced by that habit and his refusal to give agents advance notice of his trips back home, being assigned to his detail is considered the second worst assignment in the Secret Service after being assigned to protect Hillary Clinton."
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US senators demand details on 'nuclear power cooperation' with Saudi Arabia


Reuters
Thu, 04 Apr 2019 09:43 UTC
Secretario de Energía de Estados Unidos, Rick Perry
© Serguéi Karpujin / Reuters
U.S. senators from both parties on Tuesday asked Energy Secretary Rick Perry for details about recent approvals for companies to share nuclear energy information with Saudi Arabia, with the lawmakers expressing concern about possible development of atomic weapons.

Saudi Arabia has engaged in "many deeply troubling actions and statements that have provoked alarm in Congress," Senators Bob Menendez, a Democrat, and Marco Rubio, a Republican, told Perry in a letter, a copy of which was seen by Reuters.

The senators said Congress was beginning to reevaluate the U.S.-Saudi relationship, and they believe Washington should not be providing nuclear technology or information to Saudi Arabia now.
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Ukraine's new master: Igor Kolomoisky

Rostislav Ishchenko
The Saker
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 09:08 UTC
Igor Valeryevich Kolomoisky
Translated by Ollie Richardson and Angelina Siard
cross posted with https://www.stalkerzone.org/the-new-master-of-ukraine/
Source: https://ukraina.ru/exclusive/20190403/1023202774.html
Ukraine received a new master, irrespective of who will take the presidency.

The master is named Igor Valeryevich Kolomoisky. It is he who detailed and implemented the scenario of the first round of voting in such a way that Poroshenko - who progressed to the second round, Tymoshenko - who didn't progress, Boyko - who took fourth place, and also the oligarchical groups that place a stake on each of them, found themselves being completely dependent on Kolomoisky.

We don't know how he managed to establish control over territorial election commissions, which had to provide the counting of votes for the benefit of Yuliya Tymoshenko. But we can assume that Yuliya Tymoshenko and her headquarters gave him this control within the framework of an agreement on a joint fight against Poroshenko. Yuliya Tymoshenko's mentality and her environment did not allow either of them to assume that Kolomoisky will agree with the president (even if it is temporary). After all, it is precisely Poroshenko who took away "Ukrneft" and "Privatbank" from Kolomoisky, drove him out of the country, and seriously nibbled on his business assets. Therefore, they did not see any problem in tasking Kolomoisky with working with commissions. After all, Zelensky (who was propelled forward by Kolomoisky) succeeded to progress to the second round anyway. Kolomoisky, (according to Tymoshenko) could not come to an arrangement with Poroshenko, and nobody else could compete with Yuliya Tymoshenko in the fight for a place in the second round. Tymoshenko's HQ considered that it will only be profitable for Kolomoisky to build a derby of his candidates in the second round. Besides this, buying off commissions cost a lot, and Kolomoisky is known for paying without bargaining, while Tymoshenko got used to not spending, but earning money during political campaigns. So why not allow Kolomoisky to pay for the loyalty of the commissions? After all, he is an ally, and it's not seen that he has options for changing his partner.

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Best of the Web: How to shoot yourself in the foot: Twitter blocks French govt ad campaign in order to comply with French govt 'fake news' law


RT
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 16:24 UTC
Macron
© Reuters / Philippe Wojazer
An ad campaign launched by the French government to encourage people to register to vote has hit an embarrassing snag: Twitter won't run the ads, as the company fears they may violate the new French law targeting fake news.

The Elysee hoped to inspire citizens to register to vote in the European elections ahead of the upcoming deadline by paying for sponsored tweets promoting the hashtag #OuiJeVote (Yes, I Vote). But the seemingly innocuous ad campaign faced an unexpected hurdle: France's recently-passed anti-fake-news legislation, which places strict rules on online political campaigns. The law states that all political ads must indicate who paid for them and how much was spent.

Fearing that the ad may violate the law passed by President Emmanuel Macron's own government, Twitter refused to run the ad.

The decision stunned French lawmakers and officials.

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SOTT Focus: Solidarity, Survival and Sabotage: Timeline of The Blackouts That Tormented Venezuela

Misión Verdad
The Gray Zone
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 20:51 UTC
blackout candles
While Venezuela's government and the Chavista movement proclaimed victory over the worst blackouts to plague the country, Washington's coup masters have promised more darkness until their goals are complete.
Gray Zone editor's note: Between March 7th and 10th of 2019, Venezuela experienced the longest interruption of its electric system in the country's history. The government alleged that the blackout was the result of a sabotage directed against the central computer of the main hydroelectric power station at El Guri in Bolívar State.

If the electrical collapse was indeed the result of an outside attack, it represented the most severe escalation of hostilities since the beginning of the latest regime change campaign. The blackout significantly disrupted Venezuelan society and showed that the war against the country targeted everyone, regardless of their political affiliations.

What follows is a reconstruction of those moments of darkness, showing how the deluge of fake news and humanitarian propaganda, the interruption and recovery of the electrical services, the calls for violence and the organization of the people and their families transformed daily life into a struggle for peace and coexistence. As in the past, the Chavismo movement successfully resisted Washington's attempts to foment a civil war.

This analysis was originally published at the Venezuelan independent website Misión Verdad, and has been edited and adapted by The Grayzone
Threats of intervention and the failure of "Plan Guaidó"

On January 23 of this year, the United States and its allies recognized Juan Guaidó as "President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela", completely ignoring the Venezuelan Constitution and the more than 6 million Venezuelans who voted for Nicolas Maduro in the elections of May 20, 2018.

During the last two months, all mechanisms of economic suffocation against the country have been deployed. Everything from bank accounts to the assets of the Republic have been frozen by the U.S. government. Most glaring among these cases was the blockage of $1.2 billion in gold owned by Venezuela, located in the Bank of England, and the confiscation of CITGO, a subsidiary of PDVSA on US soil.

Comment: See? Socialism doesn't work!

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US still clinging to "regime change" fantasy by occupying Syrian lands and threatening economic warfare

Peter Ford
21st Century Wire
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
Syrian communities still living in Golan
© SputnikSyrian communities still living in Golan organise protests against Israeli occupation.
With the military situation largely frozen, the last two months have been marked mainly by developments involving the US - the ending of the ISIS caliphate in the US-controlled part of Syria, Trump's U-turn over keeping US forces in Syria, and US recognition of Israel's annexation of the Golan.

US policy

Ambassador James Jeffrey, the US special envoy for Syria, gave an under-reported press briefing on 25 March which made fairly plain the US strategy. Far from being sated with its demolition of ISIS and resigned to Assad's 'victory', the US clearly clings to its desire to remove Assad and proposes to go about that through economic warfare and by maintaining a military presence using the pretext of ensuring the 'enduring' defeat of ISIS.
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Ukraine bans all flights to Russia after opposition politicians' Moscow visit


RFE/RL
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 20:56 UTC
Yuriy Boiko, Viktor Medvedchuk, Dmitry Medvedev
© Yekaterina Shtukina (TASS)The legislation has been introduced following a meeting between Ukrainian presidential candidate Yuriy Boiko (center) and tycoon Viktor Medvedchuk (right) with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (left) and Gazprom's CEO Aleksei Miller.
The Ukrainian government has banned unscheduled flights to Russia after a recent visit to Moscow by two opposition politicians.

The action was initiated by Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, who said on April 3 that presidential candidate Yuriy Boiko and Opposition Platform -- For Life party official Viktor Medvedchuk had "used a loophole in Ukraine's legislation" to take a direct flight to Moscow last month.

Avakov said the ban would not apply to potential flights arranged for international organizations such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the United Nations, and the Red Cross.
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Russia is behind the 'creepy' Joe Biden scandal, latest conspiracy claims


RT
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 20:13 UTC
Joe Biden
© Reuters / Jonathan Ernst
If you thought the 2020 US presidential election might be a Russia-free affair, think again. The latest conspiracy taking hold online asserts that Moscow is behind the controversy over potential candidate Joe Biden's creepy past.

Social media has long been chock-full of images and videos demonstrating Biden's overly touchy-feely approach with women he came into (too much) contact with over the course of his political career.

Comment: People are so blinded by their political biases they're missing the crux of the issue, which is that Joe Biden is super creepy and at times has acted in ways that are downright pedophilic. Just like with the leaked DNC emails exposing the party's plot to make sure Hillary became the Democratic candidate, it doesn't really matter who is pushing this information into the public sphere. (For the record, it wasn't the Russians then and isn't the Russians now.) What is important is what has been exposed.

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China refutes reports of sending troops to Venezuela - It sent 65 tons of medicine


RT
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:21 UTC
china plane
© AFP / Yuri CORTEZ
Beijing has dismissed reports that it sent a cohort of soldiers to Venezuela along with a shipment of humanitarian aid.

A shipment of 65 tons of Chinese medicine reached Caracas on Friday. Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami welcomed the aid flight, and praised the "important and strategic level" of the partnership between Beijing and Caracas.

However, unconfirmed reports stated that a deployment of more than 120 Chinese People's Liberation Army soldiers accompanied the aid flight, bringing military supplies for President Nicolas Maduro's forces.

Beijing, however, denies sending troops to Venezuela. Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters on Tuesday

Comment: With Russian equipment, and Lavrov's recent comments that much of South America would be against it, likely fearing that they'd setting a precedent, at the moment, it seems unlikely Venezuela would need Chinese boots on the ground:

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'Venezuela won't become 2nd Syria': Lavrov is sure South America won't back military invasion


RT
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 20:11 UTC
Venezuela military
© Reuters / Miraflores PalaceFILE PHOTO: Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro attends a military exercise.
Tensions over Venezuela won't escalate into a new Caribbean Crisis or turn the country into "a second Syria," Russia's FM Sergey Lavrov has assured, bashing the US for treating the Western Hemisphere as its backyard.

"We don't accept the methods, with which the US is trying to improve the life of the Venezuelan people," Lavrov said in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper.

Washington has outright backed opposition leader, Juan Guaido, who declared himself interim president of Venezuela in January. It has introduced hash economic sanctions against the struggling country, preventing it from importing food and medical supplies. Top US officials also threatened with so-called "humanitarian intervention" of Venezuela in order to remove unwanted socialist leader, Nicolas Maduro, from power.

Comment: See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: US Regime Change Operation in Venezuela - This Time It's Legit?

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