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Rep. Cawthorn says 'establishment' targeting him with 'coordinated drip campaign'

Joseph Lord
The Epoch Times
Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:01 UTC
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© Courtesy of the Committee on Arrangements for the 2020 Republican National Committee via Getty ImagesIn this screenshot from the Republican National Convention’s livestream of the 2020 Republican National Convention, North Carolina congressional nominee Madison Cawthorn addresses the virtual convention on Aug. 26, 2020.
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) is accusing certain people of targeting him with a "coordinated drip campaign" in an effort to undermine his bid to seek reelection this year.

"They're going to drop an attack article every one or two days just to try and kill us with a death by 1,000 cuts, and that is really their main strategy," Cawthorn said in an April 26 statement on Instagram.

Cawthorn, 26, has been facing backlash over several controversies, including being detained by police in North Carolina over possessing a loaded gun at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport earlier on April 26.

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British FM Liz Truss says a 'Global NATO' needs to arm Taiwan, like Ukraine


RT
Thu, 28 Apr 2022 01:03 UTC
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© Olivier Matthys / Pool via APBritish Foreign Secretary Liz Truss at NATO headquarters in Brussels, January 24, 2022.
The world order created after the Second World War and the Cold War isn't working anymore, so the West needs "a global NATO" to pursue geopolitics anew, UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss argued, in a major foreign policy speech on Wednesday. Truss also urged the US-led bloc to send more "heavy weapons, tanks" and airplanes to Ukraine, and said China would face the same treatment as Russia if it doesn't "play by the rules."

"My vision is a world where free nations are assertive and in the ascendant. Where freedom and democracy are strengthened through a network of economic and security partnerships," Truss said in a speech at a Mansion House banquet in London.

Dubbing this arrangement "the Network of Liberty," Truss argued it was necessary because the economic and security structures developed after 1945 - such as the UN Security Council - "have been bent out of shape so far, they have enabled rather than contained aggression."

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The Madeleine Albright I Knew

Joe Lauria
Consortium News
Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00 UTC
The Consortium News editor-in-chief covered Madeleine Albright, who died on March 23, on a daily basis between 1993 and 1997 when she was the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Here are some of his recollections.

Madeleine Albright
Security Council President Madeleine Albright, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nov.15, 1994. (UN Photo/Evan Schneider)
Every ambassador who represents the United States at the United Nations is arguably regarded by default as the most powerful person at the U.N. It has nothing to do with the individual qualities of the American diplomat, but of the pre-eminent position the U.S. plays in the world and at the U.N.

As a correspondent based at U.N. Headquarters in New York for a quarter century from 1990 to 2015, I covered every U.S. ambassador, from the career civil servant Thomas Pickering, to the right-wing ideologue John Bolton, to the liberal interventionist Samatha Power to Madeleine Albright, who died last month and was memorialized on Wednesday.

All of them to one degree or another used U.S. clout at the U.N. to push America's aggressive foreign policy in the world. Albright was among the most aggressive. She was in the forefront of America's push for war in the Balkans and continued aggression on Iraq.

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Who's aiming to eventually own everything, including you?

Dr. Joseph Mercola
mercola.com
Tue, 26 Apr 2022 00:00 UTC
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The 45-minute video above, "Monopoly — Follow the Money," provides a comprehensive overview of who really owns the world. As it turns out, the vast majority of the world's assets are owned by just two investment firms — BlackRock and the Vanguard Group.

Combined, they have ownership in nearly 90% of all S&P 500 firms,1 and through their investment holdings they secretly wield monopoly control over all industries. In short, the idea that there is competition in the marketplace is a clever illusion.

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Moldova rejects Kiev's offer to help 'capture' Transnistria, President of Transnistria blames recent terror attacks on Ukraine


RT
Wed, 27 Apr 2022 21:31 UTC
Tiraspol, Transnistria
© Getty Images / Leisa Tyler / FileThe city council with a statue of Lenin in Tiraspol, the capital city of Transnistria
Moldova has turned down the "offer" to capture its breakaway region of Transnistria by force floated by Kiev, stating that it seeks to reintegrate the self-proclaimed republic only through political means.

"The settlement of the Transnistrian issue can be achieved by political means and only on the basis of a peaceful solution, excluding military and other forcible actions, as well as on the basis of the principles of democratization and demilitarization of the region, [and] respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Moldova," the country's office for reintegration told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

The statement came in response to remarks made by Alexey Arestovich, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The official suggested the country was capable of "capturing" Transnistria should Chisinau formally request Kiev's help in conquering the breakaway region.
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US claims Russia has deployed trained dolphins at Black Sea naval base

Lauren Aratani
The Guardian
Thu, 28 Apr 2022 01:14 UTC
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© Raymond Roig/AFP/Getty ImagesRussia has a history of training dolphins for military purposes.
Russia has deployed trained military dolphins at its naval base in the Black Sea - possibly to protect its fleet from an underwater attack - according to new analysis of satellite images.

The US Naval Institute (USNI) reviewed satellite imagery of the naval base at Sevastopol harbor, and concluded that two dolphin pens were moved to the base in February at the start of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

Russia has a history of training dolphins for military purposes, using the aquatic mammal to retrieve objects or deter enemy divers.

Comment: Regarding the 'spy whale', Caitlin Johnstone reported at the time:
Why is the Russian military writing "Equipment of St. Petersburg" in English on the garments of its aquatic special ops forces, you may ask? If there were indeed a secret beluga espionage squad assembled by Russian intelligence services, would they not perhaps avoid writing the home address of the whales on their harnesses altogether, and maybe, you know, not let them run free in the wild?


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Poland's PM admits Russia sanctions don't work, despite this EU working 'intensively' on sixth round of sanctions


RT
Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:10 UTC
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© The Cradle
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Wednesday noted Russia's success in resisting Western sanctions, expressing his regrets about the fact.

"So far, we see that Russia, unfortunately, is coping well with the sanctions," he told reporters, adding that in order to "correct" the situation, Warsaw would work on developing new penalties.

Moscow has confirmed the failure of the plans by 'unfriendly' nations to "strangle Russia economically."

Comment: It's not exactly clear what they intend to do, particularly because experts from around the world have already admitted that Europe has no alternative to Russia's gas and oil, although one can expect that the establishment are getting desperate and will resort to even dirtier tactics than simply arming neo-Nazi's.

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Russia nearly doubled its income from energy sales to the EU during wartime, study shows


RFE/RL
Thu, 28 Apr 2022 21:06 UTC
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Moscow continues to benefit from Europe's energy dependence on Russian oil despite a reduction in sales due to sanctions imposed to pressure it to end its war against Ukraine, according to experts with a Finland-based research organization.

New research by the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) released on April 28 shows that Russia has nearly doubled its revenues from sales of fossil fuels to the EU during the two months of war in Ukraine.

Soaring prices have more than compensated Russia for the loss in sales volume due to sanctions, the research shows.

Researchers at CREA also say new sanctions promise to drive up prices even more, nullifying efforts to prevent Russian President Vladimir Putin from using energy to pressure the EU and to finance the war against Ukraine.

Since the start of the war, Russia has sold 46 billion euros worth of energy resources to the European Union, and the figure continues to rise. This is about twice as much as the amount of sales in the same period in 2021, according to CREA.

Even though there was a decline in the volume of sales, the increase in the price of oil brought Moscow about 63 billion euros ($66 billion) on the energy exported on ships and through pipelines since the invasion was launched on February 24.

According to CREA, the volume of Russian oil imported by the EU fell by 20 percent and coal by 40 percent. However, gas imports grew, and Germany remains the main buyer. During the two months of the war, it imported energy products worth 9 billion euros.
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Poland still buying Russian gas - via Germany - Polish households left without gas due to sanctions


RT
Thu, 28 Apr 2022 21:00 UTC
Russian gas pipeline
Poland continues to buy Russian natural gas from Germany via reverse flows, after its direct supplies were suspended due to non-payment in rubles, Russia's energy giant Gazprom said on Thursday.

"This week Poland refused to pay for the Russian gas with the new terms, in rubles. It was grandly announced that they no longer needed Russian gas and would not buy it any more. But in fact Poland keeps buying Russian gas after the direct supply was halted. It now buys the gas from Germany, and it comes back to Poland with the reverse flow via the Yamal-Europe pipeline," Gazprom's official representative Sergey Kupriyanov said.

On Wednesday, Gazprom announced a complete halt of gas exports to Poland as Warsaw had failed to pay for its fuel in rubles in line with a new payment mechanism launched earlier this month. According to Gazprom, supplies will not resume until Warsaw complies with the new terms. Deliveries to Bulgaria were also halted, for the same reason.

Poland raised its bid for reverse gas supplies from Germany fivefold on Wednesday, data from the German operator of the gas transmission network Gascade showed.

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Poland's Deputy Minister of the Interior and Administration Paweł Szefernaker said on Thursday that several dozen municipalities, were left without liquefied gas because of sanctions imposed by Warsaw on Russian energy giant Novatek.

"At the moment, we are trying to find ways to solve this problem and resume gas supplies to areas where blue fuel was supplied by a Russian company that fell under sanctions," Szefernaker said as quoted by media.

He explained that after the introduction of sanctions, Novatek's subsidiary Novatek Green Energy suspended gas supplies to several dozen Polish municipalities.

The ministry could not inform the regional authorities about the sanctions in advance, since "decisions to include firms on the list of enterprises covered by sanctions were made behind closed doors," Szefernaker reportedly said.

To restore the gas supply, authorities intend to seize the infrastructure owned by the Russian firm. According to Deputy Interior Minister Maciej Wonsik, a group of experts is preparing materials for the prime minister so that he can "issues a decision on the basis of the law on crisis management that Polish companies take over the gas infrastructure and supply gas to these communes."

Wonsik added: "Of course, it is strange that this infrastructure is in the hands of a Russian firm."


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US will keep supporting Taiwan's 'asymmetric' defense efforts, Antony Blinken says

Robert Delaney, Joshua Cartwright
South China Morning Post
Wed, 27 Apr 2022 05:27 UTC
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© XinhuaUS Secretary of State Antony Blinkin
The US government will support Taiwan's efforts to build "asymmetric" defence capabilities meant to deter an attack by mainland China's military, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told lawmakers on Tuesday, amid questions from members of both parties about US President Joe Biden's resolve on the issue.

Speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Blinken said the administration was
"determined to make sure that [Taiwan] has all necessary means to defend itself against any potential aggression, including unilateral action by China, to disrupt the status quo that's been in place now for many decades. We're focused on helping them think about how to strengthen asymmetric capabilities ... as a deterrent."
There has been heightened concern about a possible attack on Taiwan by Beijing's military since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, and the mainland stepped up fighter jet sorties near the island even before the war began.
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