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Israeli delegation to India 'lost' classified files on arms deals


Sputnik
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 16:32 UTC
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The delegation visited New Delhi intending to offer new arms deals to India, which is already using Israeli military equipment such as the Spice-2000 "smart" glide bombs that were used by the Indian Air Force in its air raid against an alleged terrorist camp in Pakistani territory in February.

The Israeli national security advisor's delegation lost documents containing classified information on prospective arms deals when embarking on its trip to India in January, Haaretz newspaper reported. An aide to National Security Advisor (NSA) Meir Ben Shabbat reportedly left the documents in a restaurant where the NSA's delegation had dined prior to their departure to India.
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Best of the Web: The incorrigible hypocrisy of conservatives on US foreign policy

Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 16:20 UTC
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Last week a Wall Street Journal editorial revealed the incorrigible hypocrisy with which conservatives have long suffered. Conservatives, of course, have long suffered this malady with respect to domestic policy given their ardent devotion to Social Security, Medicare, foreign aid, and other welfare-state programs even while decrying the left's devotion to socialism. But this particular WSJ editorial revealed the incorrigible conservative hypocrisy with respect to foreign policy.

The editorial was entitled "Putin Pulls a Syria in Venezuela." The opening sentence is comical: "Vladimir Putin has made a career of intervening abroad and seeing if the world lets him get away with it."

Why is that sentence funny? Because it also describes ever single U.S. president for the last 100 years! Every president from Woodrow Wilson through today has made a career of intervening abroad and seeing if the world lets him get away with it. Indeed, the central feature of the U.S. government for the last 100 years has been and continues to be empire and foreign interventionism.
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The level of Brexit desperation rising as the betrayal of the people deepens

Tom Luongo
Gold Goats 'n Guns
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 15:55 UTC
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British parliament is now worse than a joke. And they have no one to blame but themselves.

As I watch the desperation of these people, obviously loyal to the European Union first and their constituents a distant fourth or fifth - after themselves, their party and any corporate lobbyists - it's clear they don't have any clue as to how to get out of the mess they've made for themselves.

Yesterday the British parliament again took over the business from the government and again was incapable of providing any direction to that government as to what kind or type of Brexit would be acceptable.

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Tucker Carlson beats CNN's entire prime time line up combined. CNN isn't taking it well

Ryan Saavedra
The Daily Wire
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 16:13 UTC
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© Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesTucker Carlson
Fox News' Tucker Carlson absolutely dominated CNN last week, beating their entire prime time line up combined in total viewers by over 1,000,000 viewers - and CNN is not handling the news well.

CNN's entire prime time line up garnered 2,474,000 total viewers compared to Carlson's 3,475,000 total viewers.

Ratings from Nielsen Media Research for 03/25-03/29:
  • FOX News Tucker Carlson: 3,475,000 total viewers; 625,000 viewers in the 25-54 age demographic
  • CNN Cooper: 810,000 total viewers; 203,000 viewers in the 25-54 age demographic
  • CNN Cuomo: 875,000 total viewers; 217,000 viewers in the 25-54 age demographic
  • CNN Lemon: 789,000 total viewers; 228,000 viewers in the 25-54 age demographic
Fox News' ratings exploded last week after Attorney General William Barr sent his letter to Congress saying that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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Erdogan disputes election results after AKP stunning loss of 3 largest cities

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:00 UTC
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© Reuters/RFIPeople walk past by AK Party billboards with pictures of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and mayoral candidate Binali Yildirim in Istanbul, Turkey
It's official, or maybe not quite - as perhaps predictably the AK partyplans to challenge the stunning defeat: Erdogan's party has lost Turkey's three largest cities, Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, to the opposition Republican People's Party, or CHP.

Ballots in the crucial local election were completely tallied on Tuesday, and the upset represents a huge setback for the president and his party amid a continued bleak and worsening economic situation.

The final results now with 100% of the ballots counted as reported by the semiofficial Anadolu news agency put opposition candidate for mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, at 48.79%, barely inching out rival AKP candidate Binali Yildrim's 48.51%. And in the capital of Ankara, CHP's Mansur Yavas won with 50.93% of the vote, compared to AKP's Mehmet Ozhaseki's 47.12%.

Shooting back against critics who point out the local races were clear and biting indictments of Erdogan's leadership amid an ailing and troubled economy, and further amid worsening relations with the United States and the West, a representative of the Turkish presidency tweeted: "They will never learn. AK Party won 44.3% and the coalition won 51.6% of the votes." Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin lashed out further as part of the statement: "Erdogan has his mandate until 2023. Stop presenting your wishful thinking as fact and analysis."
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Duterte sees China as a menacing friend, ever since US failed to deliver promised arms


RT
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:56 UTC
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Manila seeks to maintain close ties with Beijing despite any potential tensions in the disputed South China Sea, President Duterte said, emphasizing that the Philippines and China have no issues that can't be resolved politically.

"If I go to war my Navy will be crushed in a matter of minutes. If I wage a war with China, in seven minutes their missile will reach Manila," Rodrigo Duterte said Tuesday, defending his good relationship with Beijing, despite recent tensions over the presence of a large number of Chinese vessels off Thitu Island in the South China Sea.

Speaking in Malabon City the day after the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) kicked off their massive annual military exercise with the United States, Duterte stressed that Beijing also remains committed to friendly relations with Manila. The special bond, Duterte believes, flourished after China (as well as Russia) answered Manila's calls to supply the country with armaments to fight Islamist insurgency, after Washington halted military shipments over 'human rights' concerns.
China just wants to be friend with us. They gave us arms, ammunition. I went there because America failed to deliver what we ordered.
"It was only when I went there and talked to them and Russia that the Americans started to take notice," Duterte said.
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Bad Guys

Best of the Web: Theresa May just kicked the Brexit can right into Corbyn's corner: It's a trap

George Galloway
RT
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:36 UTC
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As Inspector Clouseau once said in the Pink Panther "It's so obvious that it could not possibly be a trap."

Delivered in a Peter Sellers type of French accent with his gormless naivety it was perfectly obvious to the cinema audiences that a trap was exactly what it was.

Theresa May's 11th-hour 55th minute conversion to consulting Jeremy Corbyn on the type of Brexit Britain should finally enjoy is so obvious it must be a trap.

Not that Corbyn had any choice but to accept the prime minister's invitation to negotiate with her in the name of "national unity." Britain IS in a jam, but not one of the famously horticultural allotment-tending leader of the opposition's making. Just days away from the bumpy exit which, even its supporters (like me), cannot deny a WTO departure from the European Union would be, a terror (no exaggeration). Having to hold European Parliamentary elections (in which I would be a candidate), the Brexit camp would sweep with a huge majority, adding a new complication to the prime minister (and the leader of the opposition's) pickle. This, and an increasingly belligerent Brussels elite shrilly insulting us, something had to be done.

Comment: "May is done..." and yet, she's still PM.

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Best of the Web: Reality check: CNN's claim that Trump has been unwilling to confront Putin is total bulls**t

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 19:57 UTC
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© Sputnik / Sergey GuneevDonald Trump and Vladimir Putin
Fareed Zakaria is a veteran Putin conspiracy theorist. And you can assume he feels this obsession has helped further his career, especially at CNN.

Back in 2017, he made a pseudo-documentary on Russia's president, titled "The most powerful man in the world," which was widely pilloried. Indeed, the Kremlin labeled it "hysterical" and "odious," and dismissed it as "often complete fiction."

Russia expert Dominic Basulto summed it up as "what slick propaganda for the masses looks like in the digital era." Further pointing out how Zakaria failed to disclose his own "Russian collusion" as a host at the 2016 St Petersburg Economic Forum. An appearance which didn't go very well for the CNN anchor.

Over the past couple of years, Zakaria has been one of the loudest voices pushing the "Trump/Russia" hoax. But, instead of accepting reality after Robert Mueller's report kiboshed the yarn, he doubled down. And his latest video is unhinged.
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Confirmed: War whore Bolton torpedoed Hanoi Summit

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Sun, 31 Mar 2019 15:16 UTC
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© ReutersBolton (far left) with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney at a meeting with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un and his delegation in Vietnam on Feb 28, 2019.
An explosive report by Reuters confirms that John Bolton sabotaged the denuclearization talks between Kim Jong un and Donald Trump in Hanoi in February. According to a March 29 exclusive by journalists Lesley Wroughton and David Brunnstrom:
"Donald Trump handed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a piece of paper" demanding that Kim surrender all of his "nuclear weapons and bomb fuel to the United States." Trump also added a number of unrelated demands including "fully dismantling" all "chemical and biological warfare program(s).... and ballistic missiles, launchers, and associated facilities." Trump surprised Kim by demanding complete, unilateral disarmament in exchange for a flimsy promise to lift economic sanctions sometime in the future. Naturally, Kim rejected the offer.

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Ecuador president implicated in financial scandal, blames Wikileaks, threatens Assange with expulsion from embassy

Elizabeth Vos
Consortium News
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 14:13 UTC
Julian Assange
Julian Assang's health has declined rapidly as his illegal incarceration drags on.
Ecuador's president is threatening to soon decide on Julian Assange's refuge after his government falsely accused WikiLeaks of publishing files about a scandal that threatens to bring the president down.

Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno said Tuesday he would decide "in the short term" the fate of Julian Assange after claiming that WikiLeaks had "repeatedly violated" the terms of Assange's asylum in Ecuador's London embassy by commenting on a scandal linking a Panamanian investment company with Moreno and his family.

Those conditions, or protocol, were imposed by Ecuador on Assange in March 2018 and bar him from commenting publicly on political matters in exchange for being allowed to remain a refugee in the embassy. Assange never agreed to the protocol, which contradicts international refugee law guaranteeing freedom of expression.
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