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Socialist? Bernie Sanders has 3 houses, makes millions

Adam Shaw
Fox News
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 22:14 UTC
Bernie Sanders
© Mark Kauzlarich / ReutersSen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., entered the 2020 presidential race this week promising to transform America with a left-wing vision of economic and environmental justice. But the self-described democratic socialist's high-end income, multiple houses and fondness for air travel have already opened him up to criticism that his lifestyle doesn't always match the rhetoric.

Sanders has pitched himself as a grassroots economic populist, focusing on income inequality and higher taxes for the rich.

"Our campaign is about transforming our country and creating a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice," he said.

Comment: More background on The Bern. Limousine liberal indeed.

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Labour Party defections highlight rotten state of UK democracy


craigmurray.org.uk
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:00 UTC
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The Independent Group are the cynical careerists who have put climbing the greasy poll above everything
UPDATE

So now it is eight. If you want to understand that the UK truly is not a functioning democracy, consider this. Joan Ryan is all over the MSM this morning as being the eighth defector to the Independent Group. Yet astonishingly, while she is universally reported as citing anti-semitism as the reason she is leaving, it appears not one MSM journalist has asked her about her receipt of US$1 million from the Israeli Embassy for spreading Israeli influence. Not one. Nor has any mainstream media outlet cited the fact in its reporting today. Most, of course, never even mentioned it at the time.

ORIGINAL

I have heard it argued again and again on television this last 48 hours that it is deeply undemocratic for the electorate to be offered a choice that is any more complicated than between Red Tories and Blue Tories. It is apparently unthinkable and deeply wrong that Corbyn's standard German style social democracy - which is routinely labeled "hard left" and "communist" - should be proffered to voters for them to support, or not.

Comment: Scottish National Party MP Mhairi Black was spot on when she said 'UK MPs are sociopaths who aren't held to account' - Scottish MP Mhairi Black

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Bad Guys

US' vassals may soon regret rushing to embrace Guaido

Ekaterina Blinova
Sputnik
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 18:33 UTC
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© Reuters/Carolos Garcia RawlinsJuan Guaido, President of Venezuela's National Assembly, reacts during a rally against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government and to commemorate the 61st anniversary of the end of the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez in Caracas, Venezuela January 23, 2019
The Venezuela coup attempt is not going well at all and Washington's global allies may soon regret rushing to recognise Juan Guaido as the legitimate interim president of Venezuela, French journalist and geopolitical analyst Gilbert Mercier told Sputnik.

Make no mistake, the so called Venezuela crisis has been engineered through economic sanctions and plotted in Washington for many years, Gilbert Mercier, a French journalist, geopolitical analyst, and editor-in-chief of the News Junkie Post, told Sputnik.

He recalled that Washington's 2002 coup attempt plotted by Elliott Abrams, Donald Trump's current Venezuela special envoy, failed in Venezuela.

"I cannot foresee that the US imperial push against Maduro will be successful either as long as Venezuela's military remains loyal to him, and as long as Maduro consolidate both his regional and global support," the journalist said, adding that the Venezuelan legitimate head of state "should emulate the survival tactics of the Cuban revolution through striking the right alliances, and numerous improvements of his economic management of Venezuela's socialist society".
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Chess

Hoda Muthana: Trump refuses to let 'remorseful ISIS wife from Alabama' back into US

Zachary Stieber
The Epoch Times
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 18:51 UTC
Hoda Muthana
© Hoover High SchoolHoda Muthana
The United States said on Feb. 20, that a woman who traveled to Syria from Alabama in 2014 to join the ISIS terror group won't be allowed back into the country.

In the first definitive answer on the subject, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said: "Ms. Hoda Muthana is not a U.S. citizen and will not be admitted into the United States."

"She does not have any legal basis, no valid U.S. passport, no right to a passport, nor any visa to travel to the United States," he added. "We continue to strongly advise all U.S. citizens not to travel to Syria."

The State Department hinted at Muthana's status on Tuesday, noting she might not be an American citizen.
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'Who knows what they have in mind?' Putin tells press that Russia could be cut off from global internet


RT
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 14:39 UTC
Putin
Washington's pressure campaign against Russia could hypothetically result in it being cut off from the global internet, which is why the government is making contingency plans, Vladimir Putin said.

Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, the Russian president said the ongoing confrontation with the West may result in such drastic measures as Russia being isolated by the US and its allies from the worldwide web.

"I cannot say for our partners what they have on their mind. I believe such a move would damage them immensely," Putin said when asked if this scenario was possible.

Comment: In fact, given the extreme way in which the West has been demonizing Russia, it would be no surprise to us if Putin had intelligence to suggest that the US was, indeed, planning to somehow cut Russia's internet access off from the rest of the world - which would mean the reverse as well: that the world would not have access to Russia's web-based media either.

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Chess

Fmr FBI general counsel James Baker thought Hillary should have been prosecuted in email investigation

Catherine Herridge
Fox News
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 18:28 UTC
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The FBI's top lawyer in 2016 thought Hillary Clinton and her team should have immediately realized they were mishandling "highly classified" information based on the obviously sensitive nature of the emails' contents sent through her private server. And he believed she should have been prosecuted until "pretty late" in the investigation, according to a transcript of his closed-door testimony before congressional committees last October.

Former FBI general counsel James Baker said high-level officials at the bureau were "arguing about" whether to bring charges against Clinton, "I think, up until the end" -- and he initially thought Clinton's behavior was "alarming" and "appalling."

Pursuant to the "statutes that we were considering at the time," Baker told lawmakers, it was "the nature and scope of the classified information that, to me, initially, when I looked at it, I thought these folks should know that this stuff is classified, that it was alarming what they were talking about, especially some of the most highly classified stuff."
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UK Chancellor Hammond rebukes Defense Minister Williamson's threat to China about deploying warship

Frances Perraudin
The Guardian
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 18:23 UTC
Philip Hammond
The chancellor, Philip Hammond, has said the UK's relationship with China "has not been made simpler" by the defence secretary's threat to deploy a warship to the Pacific.

In a thinly veiled rebuke to Gavin Williamson, Hammond told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that decisions about the deployment of aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth should be a matter for the national security council.

Beijing reportedly pulled out of trade talks with Hammond earlier this monthafter Williamson announced that the carrier, carrying F-35 Lightning stealth jets, would be deployed to the region on its maiden operational voyage. Beijing has been involved in a dispute over navigation rights and territorial claims in the South China Sea.
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Black Cat

Hypocrite AOC's Washington luxury apartment complex has no affordable housing units for poor people

Alana Goodman
The Washington Examiner
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 18:21 UTC
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© Graeme Jennings/Washington ExaminerRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez outside her apartment complex last week. This photograph has been altered to obscure the name of the building.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., recently moved into a luxury apartment complex in Washington, D.C. that does not offer the affordable housing units that were a key plank in the New York congresswoman's campaign platform.

Ocasio-Cortez, 29, who said in November that she was concerned about being able to afford rent in D.C., now earns a $174,000 annual salary and is living in a newly built high-rise in the city's Navy Yard area, the Washington Free Beacon reported last week.

The freshman congresswoman, a self-described socialist, campaigned on a platform to expand affordable housing, and her controversial Green New Deal proposal promises "Safe, affordable, adequate housing" for all.

But Ocasio-Cortez's new building - built by leading D.C. developer WC Smith - is part of a luxury complex whose owners specifically do not offer affordable units under Washington, D.C.'s Affordable Dwelling Units program. The Washington Examiner is not naming the building or complex.
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Chinese port bans Australian coal imports, sets quota for 2019

Meng Meng, Muyu Xu and Dominique Patton
Reuters
Thu, 21 Feb 2019 18:14 UTC
coal stockpiles
© REUTERS/Daniel Munoz/File PhotoA reclaimer places coal in stockpiles at the coal port in Newcastle, Australia, June 6, 2012
Customs at China's northern port of Dalian has banned imports of Australian coal and will cap overall coal imports from all sources to the end of 2019 at 12 million tonnes, an official at Dalian Port Group told Reuters on Thursday.

The indefinite ban on imports from top supplier Australia, effective since the start of February, comes as major ports elsewhere in China prolong clearing times for Australian coal to at least 40 days.

Australia's ties with China have deteriorated since 2017, when Canberra accused China of meddling in its domestic affairs. Tensions rose again last month after Australia rescinded the visa of a prominent Chinese businessman, just months after barring Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies from supplying equipment to its 5G broadband network.

Coal is Australia's biggest export earner and the Australian dollar tumbled more than 1 percent to as low as $0.7086 on fears the Dalian ban would hurt its already slowing economy.
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MIB

Venezuelan minister slams terrorist attack on PDVSA - 'aimed to cut oil revenue'


teleSUR
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:02 UTC
terrorist attack Venezuela PDVSA
© VTVVenezuela's oil minister Quevedo reports that there were no fatalities. However the attack was aimed at economic damage since the target was a crude oil processing plant.
The Venezuelan Minister of Popular Power of Oil and President of state-owned company Oils of Venezuela (PDVSA), Manuel Quevedo, has denounced an attack against the pumping station Orinoco 50 of PDVSA in Monagas state.

"Yesterday we listened to the war allocation by the U.S. President, and call to violence, and now we start to see that violence and terrorist attacks," stated Minister Quevedo on Tuesday. According to Minister Manuel Quevedo, "the act of sabotage did not result in human losses or injuries of any kind."

Comment: More on Venezuela's beleaguered state oil company Which Russia then takes steps to protect from US depredations:

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