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Iranian fuel tanker reaches Venezuelan refinery

RFE/RL
Mon, 25 May 2020 00:29 UTC

One of the Iranian vessels (right) is seen in international waters crossing the Gibraltar stretch on May 20.

An Iranian tanker carrying fuel has reached port in Venezuela amid escalating tensions between Washington and the two U.S.-sanctioned countries.

Iran's English-language Press TV reported on May 25 that the vessel, the first of five Iran has sent to the South American country, moored at El Palito, a Venezuelan port run by state oil company PDVSA.

The ship-tracking service MarineTraffic also confirmed the arrival of the tanker.

"The Iranian oil/chem Handymax tanker, FORTUNE, which loaded 43 million liters of gasoline during mid-March at Port Shahid Rajaee, Iran, has now moored at berth 2 at the refinery of El Palito, Venezuela, situated [200 kilometers] west of capital city, Caracas," tweeted TankerTrackers.com.

Putin: The peak of the spread of Covid-19 in Russia has passed. Postponed Victory Day parade will be held on June 24

Jonny Tickle
RT
Tue, 26 May 2020 17:16 UTC

President Vladimir Putin has announced that Russia's postponed Victory Day parade will take place on June 24. First planned for May 9, the 75th-anniversary celebration of Soviet victory over Nazism was canceled due to Covid-19.

According to the president, the peak of the spread of coronavirus in Russia has passed, and it is now possible to plan a victory parade.

"I order you to begin preparations for the military parade in honor of the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War in the capital of Russia, Moscow, and in other cities," he told Russia's Minister of Defence Sergey Shoigu.

June 24 will be the 75th anniversary of the first-ever victory parade, which took place on Red Square in 1945.

NY Times on Memorial Day weekend: US military celebrates white supremacism

Talia Kaplan
Fox News
Tue, 26 May 2020 16:39 UTC

As Americans reeling from coronavirus stay-at-home orders struggle to celebrate the nation's heroes on Memorial Day, The New York Times published an editorial over the weekend that claims the U.S. military celebrates white supremacy.

On Sunday, The New York Times Editorial Board published the piece titled "Why Does the U.S. Military Celebrate White Supremacy?" The editorial made the argument that it's time to rename military bases after "American heroes, not racist traitors."

Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Rath Hoffman tweeted Sunday night in response: "On a solemn day for remembering those that have given their lives for our country fighting against tyranny and subjugation, the NYT has more than a million possible stories of the ultimate sacrifice by American patriots that they could tell. But they don't."

'These are American policies': US ambassador to Germany clashes with MP who said envoy 'issued threats like a hostile power'

RT
Tue, 26 May 2020 16:50 UTC

The outgoing US ambassador to Berlin, Richard Grenell, has lashed out at a lawmaker who called out his "hostile" stance towards Germany. The envoy said he merely followed Washington's policies and defended American interests.

As the controversial envoy was about to leave his post, Andres Nick, a German lawmaker and the head of the nation's delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), took to Twitter to question Grenell's legacy.

For decades, every previous US envoy left his post as "a highly respected figure and trusted friend of Germany," the MP wrote in a scathing post, adding that Grenell was the only one to step down while "issuing threats as if he were representing a hostile power."

The Persian rug weaver has struck in the US's backyard through Venezuela

Elijah J. Magnier
ejmagnier.com
Tue, 26 May 2020 16:28 UTC

Iranian tankers were 2200 km from the US coast when the Iranian-flagged Fortune, followed by Forest, entered Venezuelan waters, challenging the US embargo and the US's threats. The Islamic Republic was broadcasting loud and clear a strong message.

The first message was dispatched to the US administration after Gulf and Arab Leaders conveyed a direct message to the Iranian leaders:

"Washington is determined to stop the Iranian tankers sailing to Venezuela". Iran responded to all messages received that "its five tankers will sail to Venezuela and if any of these tankers is intercepted, Iran will respond in the Straits of Hormuz, the Gulf of Oman or anywhere else it sees fit."

"These five tankers — the Clavel, Fortune, Petunia, Forest and Faxul — are only the beginning of the supply to Venezuela. Iran has the right to send any of its tankers anywhere in the world and any US interception will be considered an act of piracy and will trigger a direct response," said an Iranian decision-maker who revealed the Iranian response to the US administration via message-carriers.

Former Secret Service agent Gary Byrne confirms appalling Biden stories

Joaquin Flores
Fort Russ
Tue, 26 May 2020 16:12 UTC

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In a major interview with former White House Secret Service Officer, Gary J. Byrne discusses the well-known character problems, and tendency to grope, on the part of Senator Joe Biden. In this interview, he expresses his view that Tara Reade is likely telling the truth. In his years working in Washington, there were a few senators that female staff were told to avoid ever being alone in a room or elevator with. Joe Biden is one of them.

Gary J. Byrne is the author of Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate, best-selling 2016 book by a former member of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division.

Can NASA's 'Artemis Accords' spark a US-Russia alliance?

Matthew Ehret
Strategic Culture Foundation
Mon, 25 May 2020 00:00 UTC

Amidst the global chaos and confusion unleashed by COVID-19, the need for a new global security and financial architecture is becoming clearer every day. Banks tremble upon the precipice of the greatest financial meltdown in history while radical forces of the Anglo-American elite knowing only how to think in terms of "balance of power" geopolitics gear up for war with Russia and China.

The scale of chaos and death threatening humanity via the two-fold crises of economic collapse and war is beyond intolerable for anyone endowed with a brain and even a partially functioning conscience.

Since this crisis is caused in so many ways by geopolitical doctrines which presume that mankind is merely a selfish animal fighting over diminishing returns within closed systems, no solution can be found which is tainted with those very poisons killing the patient. It is for this very reason that all policy concepts which fall outside the box of "balance of power" thinking are so vitally important at this moment of history.

Sadly, since very few people who follow geopolitics with passion pay much attention to the importance of space diplomacy as a domain of "open system" cooperation for humanity, many of the exciting developments centering around the Artemis project have largely fallen "over the radar" so to speak.

Comment: See more on this widely-ignored development:

EU 'green' agenda calls for eating bugs to save the planet

Steve Watson
Summit News
Mon, 25 May 2020 00:00 UTC

Urges that environmental goals "will not happen without a shift in people's diets."

A new EU draft policy announced last week calls for "insect-based proteins" to be extensively promoted as a replacement for animal products, to save the environment.

The European Commission announced the Farm to Fork (F2F) Strategy, touting it as a "fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly" program that will focus on "increasing the availability and source of alternative proteins such as plant, microbial, marine, and insect-based proteins and meat substitutes."

The draft noted that the program "will not happen without a shift in people's diets".

"Moving to a more plant-based diet with less red and processed meat and with more fruits and vegetables will reduce not only risks of life-threatening diseases, but also the environmental impact of the food system," claims the strategy, revealed last Wednesday.

Comment: And is incorrect on ALL counts - as we've been documenting here for years.

Comment: The following is what real sustainable food production sounds like - and precisely what the buggers would have us ignorant of:

Who is performing human experiments and why?

Vladimir Odintsov
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 15 May 2020 18:25 UTC

Countries all over the world have been fighting the coronavirus pandemic for months now, which is exposing a growing number of problems in their systems and the mistakes made by the current political elites that thousands of people on the planet have already paid for with their lives. And the woes caused by the coronavirus pandemic only continue to multiply.

The United States is slipping into poverty of catastrophic proportions right before our eyes, along with many other countries, even economically developed states and rich countries in Europe and other parts of the world. The threat of famine is becoming more real, and the coronavirus has not only proven to be one of the most difficult challenges ever faced by the US, but also for countries such as Britain and a significant number of EU countries. As a result, many countries that simply do not have enough strength or resources to fight the pandemic today have been left with no other choice but to seek foreign assistance, although their traditional allies have not always been quick to answer these calls for help.

The Federal Reserve's endless money printing will cause a hyperinflationary depression

Greg Hunter
USA Watchdog
Sun, 24 May 2020 00:00 UTC

Hyperinflation during Germany's Weimar Republic

Money printing by the Fed and Congress is off the charts. The Federal Reserve doubled its balance sheet in a matter of months, and Congress is pumping out trillions of dollars in spending bills to fight the economic crisis caused by the Covid 19 lockdown. The really scary thing is not the massive money printing, but the fact that absolutely nobody seems to care about the risk to the U.S. dollar. Money manager Peter Schiff thinks he knows why, and explains,

"(Back in 2008-2009,) even Larry Kudlow was worried about what the Fed was doing, but nobody is worried about it now. The reason is they have been lulled into this false sense of complacency in that we got away with it the last time . . . and there was no negative consequence. We didn't have runaway inflation and did not have loss of confidence in the dollar. So, there was no price to be paid. . . . Since we got away with it before, they think they will get away with it again, and I think they are completely wrong. . . .All we did was inflate a bigger bubble, but now this bubble has popped, and it found the mother of all pins in the Coronavirus that put a gaping hole in it, so the air is coming out much faster. Now, they are trying to reflate this thing. We are going to suffer the consequences, not only what we are doing now, but what we did back then. . . . When is all this inflation going to move out of the stock market and into the supermarket? I am surprised this has not already happened, but I do think we are at the end of the line. . . . Here's what is going on. We are going to have this massive inflation tax. We are seeing price increases at the supermarkets."

Comment: Many economic and financial analysts are saying pretty much the same thing:

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Iranian fuel tanker reaches Venezuelan refinery

Putin: The peak of the spread of Covid-19 in Russia has passed. Postponed Victory Day parade will be held on June 24

NY Times on Memorial Day weekend: US military celebrates white supremacism

'These are American policies': US ambassador to Germany clashes with MP who said envoy 'issued threats like a hostile power'

The Persian rug weaver has struck in the US's backyard through Venezuela

Former Secret Service agent Gary Byrne confirms appalling Biden stories

Can NASA's 'Artemis Accords' spark a US-Russia alliance?

EU 'green' agenda calls for eating bugs to save the planet

Who is performing human experiments and why?

The Federal Reserve's endless money printing will cause a hyperinflationary depression

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