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Accusations keep piling up against #CreepyJoe - now a former Congressional aide from Connecticut

Neil Vigdor
The Hartford Courant
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 21:51 UTC
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Then-Vice President Joe Biden poses for photos with major Democratic contributors during a 2009 Greenwich fundraiser for Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., who is also pictured.
Connecticut woman says then-Vice President Joe Biden touched her inappropriately at a Greenwich fundraiser in 2009

A Connecticut woman says Joe Biden touched her inappropriately and rubbed noses with her during a 2009 political fundraiser in Greenwich when he was vice president, drawing further scrutiny to the Democrat and his history of unwanted contact with women as he ponders a presidential run

"It wasn't sexual, but he did grab me by the head," Amy Lappos told The Courant Monday. "He put his hand around my neck and pulled me in to rub noses with me. When he was pulling me in, I thought he was going to kiss me on the mouth.

Lappos posted about the alleged incident on the Facebook page of Connecticut Women in Politics Sunday in response to a similar account by former Nevada legislator Lucy Flores, which comes as Biden is considering a 2020 run for president. Flores accused Biden of kissing her on the back of her head in 2014, when she was a candidate for lieutenant governor.
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Health

Chinese military arrive in Venezuela with 65 tons of 'humanitarian supplies'

Joaquin Flores
Fort Russ News
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
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Friday, March 29th – China PLA personnel pose with members of Venezuela’s FANB
Chinese military personnel arrived along with the 65 tons of medicine and supplies delivered to Venezuela Thursday March 28th as a result of a strategic cooperation between the two countries. While the delivery of aid is one of many expected shipments, according to government officials, the arrival of Chinese military personnel was under-reported in international press.

Tareck El Aissami, in comments for TeleSur, who sits as Venezuela's Minister of Industry and National Production, for his part stressed the importance of the delivery as an exercise of sovereignty, and added that "the aggression Venezuela has experienced, the terrorist acts, the blockade and the financial persecution are unprecedented anywhere in the world."

Comment: Venezuela has not only been receiving humanitarian supplies... Russia gives US a red line in Venezuela then pulls a Syria: S-300 missile batteries now up and active near Caracas

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Snakes in Suits

UK chief whip attacks MP's "worst" behaviour and dishonesty about Brexit


BBC
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 16:00 UTC
Julian Smith
Julian Smith
The government should have made clear after the 2017 election that it would "inevitably" have to accept a closer relationship with the EU after Brexit, the Conservative chief whip has said.

In a BBC documentary, Julian Smith - who manages party discipline - is also critical of the cabinet's behaviour.

The attack comes as the cabinet is split over whether to move to a softer deal that could mean a customs union.

No 10 said the prime minister had "never used the term soft Brexit".

Several cabinet ministers have said agreeing to a customs union would break promises the Conservatives made at the 2017 election while ex-minister Steve Baker said doing so would "shatter" the party.

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Bullseye

'How does this serve US interests?' Tulsi Gabbard slams decision to sell Saudi Arabia nuclear weapons tech


RT
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 18:13 UTC
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© Reuters / Mike Segar
Tulsi Gabbard has slammed the US for allowing firms to sell Saudi Arabia nuclear tech despite its history of exporting extremism which inspires Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) and Al-Qaeda, which she says the Kingdom supports.

The Hawaiian congresswoman and Democratic presidential candidate took aim at the Kingdom's history of extremism in a Twitter video that criticized Energy Secretary Rick Perry's secret authorizations, to six US companies, allowing for the sale of nuclear power technology and assistance to Saudi Arabia, as Reuters revealed last week. Gabbard said the move is "both mind-blowing and inexplicable."

Saudi Arabia is the "primary exporter of jihadist ideology, Wahhabi Salafist ideology that is the motivation and inspiration for terrorist groups like ISIS and al Qaeda - groups that the Saudis both directly and indirectly support," Gabbard said.
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Chaos erupts after Erdogan loses capital in local elections, wins majority

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sun, 31 Mar 2019 18:05 UTC
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Update 2: Chaos erupted late on Sunday when President Erdogan's ruling AKP party was looking certain to lose control of the capital, Ankara, while both AKP and the opposition CHP party claimed victory in Istanbul in the culmination of a critical municipal vote that is testing the popularity of Turkey's executive president.

As reported by various news wires, preliminary results showed the opposition flipping the capital Ankara and surrounding areas from Erdogan's alliance, and taking control of some of Turkey's key Mediterranean coastal cities. In a stunning (or perhaps not, after all this is Turkey) to what appears to be an extreme close vote, even before the final figures were announced, Erdogan's ally and former prime minister Binali Yildirim said he won the race in Istanbul, Turkey's commercial hub, a claim rejected by the opposition, which said it won.
  • TURKEY'S BINALI YILDIRIM SAYS HE WON THE RACE IN ISTANBUL
  • TURKEY OPPOSITION'S KILICDAROGLU SAYS WON IN ISTANBUL

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Arrow Down

Mueller-Dämmerung

C.J. Hopkins
The Unz Review
Thu, 21 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
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If Nietzsche was right, and what doesn't kill us only makes us stronger, we can thank the global capitalist ruling classes, the Democratic Party, and the corporate media for four more years of Donald Trump. The long-awaited Mueller report is due any day now, or so they keep telling us. Once it is delivered, and does not prove that Trump is a Russian intelligence asset, or that he personally conspired with Vladimir Putin to steal the presidency from Hillary Clinton, well, things are liable to get a bit awkward. Given the amount of goalpost-moving and focus-shifting that has been going on, clearly, this is what everyone's expecting.

Honestly, I'm a bit surprised. I was sure they were going to go ahead and fabricate some kind of "smoking gun" evidence (like the pee-stained sheets from that Moscow hotel), or coerce one of his sleazy minions into testifying that he personally saw Trump down on his knees "colluding" Putin in the back room of a Russian sauna. After all, if you're going to accuse a sitting president of being a Russian intelligence asset, you kind of need to be able to prove it, or (a) you defeat the whole purpose of the exercise, (b) you destroy your own credibility, and (c) you present that sitting president with a powerful weapon he can use to bury you.

This is not exactly rocket science. As any seasoned badass will tell you, when you're resolving a conflict with another seasoned badass, you don't take out a gun unless you're going to use it. Taking a gun out, waving it around, and not shooting the other badass with it, is generally not a winning strategy. What often happens, if you're dumb enough to do that, is that the other badass will take your gun from you and either shoot you or beat you senseless with it.
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Bullseye

How did then CIA Director John Brennan target James Comey?

Lee Smith
Tablet
Fri, 09 Feb 2018 09:30 UTC
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© Leah Mills/ReutersFormer CIA Director John Brennan
The Russia investigation put the FBI in a bind well before Trump ever landed in the White House

Former CIA director John Brennan is having trouble keeping his Trump-Russia stories straight. On Meet the Press this past Sunday, host Chuck Todd asked MSNBC's new national security analyst about George Papadopoulos, a volunteer adviser to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and his reputed ties to Russia.

The question should have been a simple one to answer, for anyone who has been following the twists and turns of the Russiagate narrative. For over a year, press reports had proclaimed that the FBI's July 2016 investigation into the Trump campaign's Russia connections had originated with a dossier compiled by an impeccable British intelligence source who alleged that Russia had compromising material on the Republican candidate. Further, the document alleges that Trump aides had committed serious crimes in coordination with Russian officials. But the so-called Steele dossier, named for the former British spy Christopher Steele, who allegedly authored it, proved to be opposition research that the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee paid the Washington, D.C. strategic communications firm Fusion GPS millions of dollars to produce and distribute to the press.
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Calendar

Maduro announces 30-day power rationing plan to address Venezuela's blackouts


RT
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 04:25 UTC
Light/Water
© Global Look Press/Juan Carlos Hernandez/REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has approved a 30-day plan to ration power across Venezuela until its power grid is restored. Caracas blames US-backed sabotage for crippling power outages that have led to water shortages.

Maduro announced the measure on Sunday, as the Latin American country was struck by yet another wave of blackouts. By capping the energy supply, the government hopes to "balance the [power] generation process, secure the transmission process as well as service and consumption processes across the country," he said.

Emphasis has been placed on making sure that all residents have access to fresh water, he said. Maduro said that he expects school classes, called off in the wake of a major incident at the biggest hydroelectric power plant last week, to resume either on Tuesday or Wednesday.

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Document

Rand Paul offers amendment to disclose Obama's role in probing Trump campaign

Ivan Pentchoukov
The Epoch Times
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
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© Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesSenator Rand Paul (R-Ky)
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) offered an amendment on March 28, which, if approved, would reveal what role former President Barack Obama played in the investigation of the Trump campaign and the use of the debunked Steele dossier.

Paul's amendment would modify a resolution, which calls on the attorney general to release the full report by special counsel Robert Mueller to Congress and the public. The resolution passed the House by a vote of 420-0 on March 14 and is now before the Senate.

"What we need to discover, and we do not yet know, was President Obama involved? Was this done for partisan purposes? Was this done to try to elect Hillary Clinton?" Paul asked on the Senate floor.

According to a summary of Mueller's final report released by Attorney General William Barr, the special counsel did not find any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Mueller's finding raises questions about the origins of the investigation of the Trump campaign and suggests that the probe was started without evidence of wrongdoing.

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Attention

Not just spied upon, Trump was entrapped

Roger L. Simon
PJ Media
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC
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© AP/Pablo Martinez MonsivaisPresident Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump shake hands following their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016.
It's bad enough, as has been evident for some time, that Donald Trump and his campaign were being spied upon by our own government, but it's highly likely they were also subject to literal entrapment--at least a serious attempt was made.

I don't mean the entrapment of promulgating the salacious Steele dossier both to the public and the FISA court as if it were the truth. That was more of a smear to justify a phony investigation. I mean something more subtle and LeCarré-like coming from the depths of our intelligence communities. It raises once more the question of the power of such agencies in a free society, a conundrum with no easy answers but of great significance to our lives.

For all his New York rough-and-tumble, Trump was an innocent abroad when he arrived in Washington. Way back in January 2017, he was warned by old-timer Chuck Schumer that "intel officials have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you."

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