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Ukraine poll results: Zelensky, Poroshenko go to second round of elections amid charges of fraud

Paul Antonopoulos
FRN
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
Zelensky/Poroshenko
© 112 AgencyUkraine's presidential candidates: Volodymyr Zelensky, Petro Poroshenko
The comedian and rookie in politics Volodymyr Zelensky received 30.4% of the votes and moves to the second round of presidential elections in Ukraine in the lead, show the results of polls. Current President Pyotr Poroshenko came in second with 17.8% of the vote.

According to the poll organized by 112 Ukraina and NewsOne, most of the pro-Zelensky votes came from parts of the east of the country, which gave the presidential candidate 42.2% of the votes. Zelensky failed to mobilize significant support from the western part of Ukraine, gaining few votes in the area.

39 candidates participated in the presidential race. Zelensky, Poroshenko, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko were the favorites. Although officially failed to get votes to go to the second round, the candidate accuses the Federal Security Service of having defrauded the vote.

Yulia's team issued a statement in which it places the former prime minister as Zelensky's legitimate opponent, claiming she got 20.9 percent of the vote while the current president would have actually received 17.5 percent of the vote.

Comment: See also:
Right time, right place? Ukraine's election watch with its far-right monitors

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Cloud Precipitation

Trey Gowdy: CIA could stop giving Schiff information - 'he leaks like a screen door on a submarine'

Chuck Ross
The Daily Caller
Sun, 31 Mar 2019 11:33 UTC
Gowdy
© Zero HedgeFormer R-SC Representative Trey Gowdy,
Former Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy predicted Sunday that the U.S. intelligence community might stop providing information to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff because he leaks "like a screen door on a submarine."

Gowdy was asked to weigh in on Republicans' decision Thursday to call on Schiff to step down as chairman of the House panel. "Never seen that before," said Gowdy, who served on the intelligence panel before leaving Congress in January. "We never voted to remove or ask a chairperson to step down."

"Adam is a deeply partisan person. He did everything he could to make sure Hillary Clinton became president. And he's done everything he could to keep a cloud over the Trump presidency," Gowdy said of Schiff.


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Bomb

Rand Paul drops Spygate bomb on John Brennan: What did Obama know and when did he know it?

Kane
Citizen Free Press
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 06:33 UTC
RandPaul
© UnknownSenator Rand Paul (R:KY) sheds light on his mysterious tweet concerning John Brennan
'Officials must be asked under oath what Obama knew, and when' at 3:02
Exclusive - Rand Paul: 'Absolutely' James Clapper, John Brennan, Susan Rice, Others Should Testify On Spygate Role, We Will Use Subpoenas If Necessary

Citing a 'high-level source,' Rand Paul says former CIA Director John Brennan grew frustrated that no one was giving credence to the Clinton-funded dossier, so he attached it to an intelligence report, ensuring that it would be seen by President Obama and President-elect Trump.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Breitbart News exclusively on Wednesday that President Donald Trump told senators at the weekly GOP luncheon that he backs his call for an investigation into the origins of the Russia scandal "hoax" that Trump has now been cleared of by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

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Former DHS chief Jeh Johnson: US has a 'crisis' at the southern border

Adam Shaw
Fox News
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
Jeh Johnson
© 1 Former DHS chief Jeh Johnson, Shawn Thew/EPAFormer DHS chief Jeh Johnson
Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Saturday that America has a "crisis" at the southern border, and that the number of apprehensions exceed anything he encountered during his time serving under former President Barack Obama.

"By anyone's definition, by any measure, right now we have a crisis at our southern border," he said on Cavuto LIVE. "According to the commissioner of [Customs and Border Protection], there were 4,000 apprehensions in one day alone this past week, and we're on pace for 100,000 apprehensions on our southern border this month."

"That is by far a greater number than anything I saw on my watch in my three years as Secretary of Homeland Security," he said.

Johnson's remarks come after President Trump this week accused Mexico of doing nothing to stop the illegal immigration flow to the U.S. and threatened to close to southern border next week.


Comment: See also:
Trump cuts all aid programs to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador



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Chess

Juncker warns Theresa May that EU's 'patience coming to an end' over Brexit

Adam Forrest
The Independent
Sun, 31 Mar 2019 18:07 UTC
May Juncker
© Reuters / Vincent Kessler / FileTheresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker
European Commission chief says he wants parliament to make clear 'which way they want to follow now'

The EU is running out of patience with Britain over Brexit, the president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has warned. In an interview with Italian state TV, Mr Juncker said he would like MPs in the UK to be able to reach an agreement over the way forward in the coming days.

"We have had a lot of patience with our British friends but patience is coming to an end," he told RAI.

The commission president added: "So far we know what the British parliament says no to, but we don't know what it might say yes to."

Comment: Not to worry Claude. An accommodation will be found to keep the old order; your laments are just for show. Brexit will die a slow torturous death, as the elite MPs and the EU counterparts who never wanted Britain to leave the EU run out the clock.

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Pirates

Patrick Cockburn: How the Islamic State's brutal project was finally overthrown, and what might come next

Patrick Cockburn
Independent, UK
Sat, 23 Mar 2019 17:44 UTC
ISIS flag
© Alaa Al-Marjani / Reuters
Up to its dying days the self-declared Islamic State has retained the ability to top the news agenda, even as its fighters were losing their last battle for bomb-shattered villages in the deserts of eastern Syria. When their spokesman promised retaliation for the massacre of Muslims in the Christchurch mosques his threat was taken seriously.

Given the record of Isis atrocities it is not surprising that nobody can discount its ability to exact revenge through existing adherents, new converts or those using its name to spread terror. This is not just western paranoia: in Syria and Iraq people speak continually of Isis sleeper cells waiting to emerge and exact revenge.

There is a largely sterile debate about whether or not Isis - whose territory once stretched from the outskirts of Baghdad to the hills overlooking the Mediterranean - is dead and buried, as Donald Trump claims. Could it be reborn if the pressure against it is relaxed? The answer is simple enough: Isis is defeated as a state apparatus that once ruled eight million people, but it can persist as a terrorist and guerrilla organisation.

I was in Baghdad in June 2014 when Isis was advancing south towards the capital, capturing cities and towns like Tikrit and Baiji with scarcely a shot being fired. The rout of the Iraqi army seemed total and for several days there was no defensive lines between us and Isis advance patrols. As many as 1,700 Shia air force cadets were massacred amid the ruins of Saddam Hussein's old palaces on the banks of the Tigris river near Tikrit.
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NPC

MSNBC's Maddow keeps spinning Russian collusion hysteria, even as her OWN NETWORK corrects her


RT
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:45 UTC
Rachel Maddow
© Reuters / Jonathan Ernst
The post-Mueller comedown has been hard for many MSM journalists, but none more so than MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. The prime-time host continued to spin collusion hysteria, even as her own network corrected her live on air.

With Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report clearing President Trump of colluding with Russia to influence the 2016 election, the focus among anti-Trump types in the media and in Washington has now shifted to pushing for access to the full contents of the report, including its underlying evidence. Surely, they argue, there must be a speck of collusion in there somewhere.

Attorney General William Barr, who released a summary of its findings last Monday, has promised to turn over as much of the report as possible, "consistent with applicable law, regulations, and Departmental policies."
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Control Panel

Rand Paul rages on Russiagate hoax: "Officials must be asked under oath what Obama knew, and when?"

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 14:23 UTC
Obama
Citing a 'high-level source,' Rand Paul says former CIA Director John Brennan grew frustrated that no one was giving credence to the Clinton-funded dossier, so he attached it to an intelligence report, ensuring that it would be seen by President Obama and President-elect Trump.


Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Breitbart News exclusively on Wednesday that President Donald Trump told senators at the weekly GOP luncheon that he backs his call for an investigation into the origins of the Russia scandal "hoax" that Trump has now been cleared of by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Comment: Has the tide truly turned on the Russiagate hoaxers? Will Trump, Barr and others show the political will to reveal and press charges against those who have turned the US upside down for the past two years? Barring some act of God, the answer would seem to be yes - we can only hope.

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Vader

In 1999, it was Yugoslavia in the crosshairs of the imperialists. Now it's Venezuela

Neil Clark
RT
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:24 UTC
no to nato protest
© Neil Clark
To mark the 20th anniversary of the start of NATO's illegal 78-day bombardment of Yugoslavia, over 200 distinguished guests from all over the world gathered for a conference of the Belgrade Forum of the World of Equals.

The gathering titled "Never to Forget: Peace and Progress instead of Wars and Poverty" promoted genuine internationalism. Participants came from Israel AND Palestine. From Iran and Japan. From Britain, Germany, Italy, France and other NATO countries which had taken part in the bombing. From Venezuela, Cuba, Bulgaria, Greece, Brazil, Croatia, Canada and South Africa. India and Nepal, Austria and Switzerland, Ireland, Portugal, Turkey and Lebanon. From the US AND Russia. This was the real 'international community' on display.

Speaker after speaker denounced NATO's unlawful aggression, and stressed the wider significance of the military action of 20 years ago, which not only lacked a mandate from the United Nations Security Council, but was also in breach of NATO's own charter.

Eva-Maria Follmer-Mueller, president of the Mut zur Ethik Association in Switzerland, described it as "a historic turning point."
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India's 'Project Insight' in full force, searches social media for unpaid taxes


RT
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:25 UTC
indian computer workers
© REUTERS/Vivek Prakash
A new computer system, which will monitor the social media activity of people for signs that they don't pay their taxes, goes online in India on Monday. Those who like to brag about their wealth may now think twice.

The system dubbed 'Project Insight' is coming into full force on April 1, but it may be no joke for those who get flagged as tax cheats by it. Commissioned by the nation's Income Tax Department a few years ago at a cost of US$150 million, it's meant to centralize data from various sources available to the government and crunch it to identify individuals who live beyond their declared means.

The government touts the system as a highly complicated tool, using machine learning and big data analysis to create something called a "360-degree profile" of each taxpayer. Instagram pics designed to spark envy - strike that - share the joy of life and inspire followers are only part of what is meant to be analyzed.

The system is part of a wider government effort to eradicate so-called 'black money' from the economy and boost tax collection. India is estimated to have over 1.35 billion people now, but less than 70 million taxpayers filed tax returns last year. The figure includes both individuals and entities and is actually a big boost from 38 million in 2014, when the ongoing effort was launched.
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