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Boeing CEO accepts responsibility for plane crashes, admits 737 MAX 8 had faults


RT
Fri, 05 Apr 2019 10:28 UTC
Boeing 737 MAX 8
© Reuters / Lindsey Wasson
The angle of attack sensor marked on the nose of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 at the company's factory in Renton, Washington
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg has said "it's apparent" that the 737 MAX 8's MCAS maneuvering system contributed to two fatal air accidents. Investigators had long suspected the system's role in the disasters.

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 plunged into a field shortly after takeoff in March, killing all 157 people on board. Indonesian Lion Air Flight 610 nosedived into the sea last October, killing all 189 passengers and crew. Investigators noted "clear similarities" between both accidents.

"The full details of what happened in the two accidents will be issued by the government authorities in the final reports," Muilenburg said in a video posted Thursday. "It's apparent that in both flights the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, known as MCAS, activated in response to [the] erroneous angle of attack information,"he continued.

Comment: Well at least they stopped lying and owned up. Still though, when too much focus is on making money...

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Bad Guys

$7 billion in equipment 'looted' from former US base in Afghanistan

Jason Ditz
Anti War
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 12:00 UTC
Rebel weapons Syria terrorist ISIS Daesh
© Sputnik / Morad Safed
DAESH weapons seized by the SAA
The US handed over the Camp Kearney base in Paktika Province to the Afghan government in 2014, with an estimated $8 billion in equipment still inside. Today, the estimation is that about $1 billion worth of equipment is left.

So what happened between then and now that cost the site about $7 billion? Mass looting. The provincial governor says that former governors, local mayors, MPs, and commanders have all had a go at the site, and everyone has been entering the base and taking anything that isn't nailed down.

Though he didn't name names, pretty much everything was considered fair game, with military equipment stripped, vehicles stolen and sold off, and even locked containers full of weapons broken open and looted.

Comment: Previously a US commander has commented that militants in Syria should just 'keep the weapons they've lost track of'. Although it is clear that throughout the US-led wars in the Middle East, it repeatedly turns out that terrorists have massive stocks of arms and medical supplies which trace back to the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia:

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Eye 2

Ecuadorean embassy may expel Assange within 'hours to days', govt source tells WikiLeaks


RT
Fri, 05 Apr 2019 01:11 UTC
assange manning free speech truck
© Reuters / Peter Nicholls
The Ecuadorean embassy in London is set to expel Julian Assange within "hours to days", using the corruption scandal leaks as a pretext, WikiLeaks claimed, citing a high-level source in the South American country.

The government of Lenín Moreno, which has long been annoyed by Assange's prolonged stay at its embassy in the UK, will use the so-called INA Papers leak as the pretext to oust the whistleblower from the safety of the diplomatic mission, WikiLeaks said. It added that the Ecuadorean government has already worked out Assange's expulsion with UK authorities, which will result in the journalist's arrest.

Comment: According to the former Consul of Ecuador Fidel Navarez:
Not a single document referring to INA PAPERS, or the president's family, has ever been leaked or published by WikiLeaks, let alone by Julian Assange, who for more than half a year has not been its editor and who has been isolated for one year under a regime quasi-prison by the government of Ecuador.

Despite being an outrageous accusation, the farce has reached the point that the Ecuadorian National Assembly has issued a resolution to investigate Julián and encourages the government to take measures to "safeguard national interests." In short, the government seeks a false pretext to end the asylum and protection of Julian Assange.


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Pyramid

Like Libya and Syria, Venezuela is not just about oil

Andre Vltchek
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 12:00 UTC
US army oil
Yes, the latest research confirms that Venezuela is so rich in natural resources, that it could single-handedly satisfy all global demand for oil, for over 30 years. And it has much more than oil to offer, in its Orinoco basin and in other areas of the country.

But it is not all 'about oil'; actually, far from it.

Those who believe that what propels the spread of Western terror all over the world, are just some 'business interests' and legendary Western greed, are, from my point of view, missing the point.

I noticed that such individuals and analysts actually believe that 'capitalism is responsible for everything', and that it creates the culture of violence of which, both victims and victimizers, already became hostages to.

After working in all corners of the world, I am now more and more convinced that capitalism is actually the result of Western culture, which is predominantly based on expansionism, exceptionalism and aggression. It is also constructed on a deeply rooted desire to control and to dictate. Financial/monetary greed is just a by-product of this culture which has elevated its superiority to something that could be defined as religious, or even religiously fundamentalist.

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TV

Head of Russian news agency's office in Ukraine goes on 'trial for treason'


RFE/RL
Thu, 04 Apr 2019 15:40 UTC
Kirill Vyshinsky
© RIA Novosti
Editor in chief Kirill Vyshinsky at a court hearing in Kyiv on April 4.
Prosecutors have accused Kirill Vyshinsky, the head of Russia's state-run RIA Novosti's office in Ukraine, of publishing "anti-Ukrainian" articles and materials at the beginning of his treason trial in a Kyiv court.

The Podil District Court began the trial on April 4, almost a year after the 52-year-old was detained by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) amid accusations that RIA Novosti Ukraine was participating in a "hybrid information war" waged by Russia against Ukraine.

After hearing the prosecutors' indictment, the court adjourned until April 15th.

SBU officials have said Vyshinsky, who at the moment of his arrest had dual Russian-Ukrainian citizenship, received financial support from Russia via other media companies registered in Ukraine in order to disguise links between RIA Novosti Ukraine and Russian state media giant Rossia Segodnya.

Comment: Those in control in Ukraine have made it clear that free speech will not be tolerated and only propaganda that supports the Western agenda and their Ukrainian puppets will be allowed:

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Chess

Turkey's arms purchase from Russia a 'done deal'


PressTV
Wed, 03 Apr 2019 19:16 UTC
Lavrov Cavusoglu
© AFP
The handout picture, taken and released by the Turkish Foreign Ministry press office on March 29, 2019 in Antalya, shows Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu, right, and Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov shaking hands at a press conference during the seventh meeting of Turkey-Russia high-level cooperation council.
Turkey will not turn back from a major arms deal with Russia despite the US suspension of Ankara from the F-35 fighter-jet program, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Wednesday.

"The S-400 deal is a done deal and we will not step back from this," he told a think-tank forum in Washington, where he is taking part in 70th anniversary celebrations of NATO.

The United States said Monday that it was halting shipment of F-35 parts of Turkey as well as joint manufacturing work due to Ankara's purchase of the S-400 missile defense system from Russia.
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Car Black

Trump suggests car import tariffs in latest threat to Mexico over drug trafficking

Roberta Rampton
Reuters
Thu, 04 Apr 2019 19:48 UTC
trump tariff cars mexico
© Susana Gonzalez/Bloomberg
Workers walk past a vehicle frame on the production line at an assembly plant in Pesqueria, Mexico.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to eventually slap tariffs on car imports from Mexico unless it does more to stop drug trafficking, in his latest warning to America's southern neighbor to tighten border security.

After backing away from a threat this week to immediately shut the border if Mexico does not do enough to halt illegal immigration, Trump gave the country a deadline to do more to stop drugs or face tariffs.

"We're going to give them a one-year warning, and if the drugs don't stop, or largely stop, we're going to put tariffs on Mexico and products - in particular cars. The whole ballgame is cars," Trump told reporters. He also suggested that future tariffs could be linked to Mexico helping fight illegal immigration.
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Question

Did Carter Page have a more important use beyond a FISA warrant?

sundance
The Conservative Treehouse
Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
Carter Page
© Unknown
It has never made sense that U.S. Person Carter Page was an FBI witness from 2013 through to March/May 2016 and yet in October 2016, to achieve a FISA warrant, the FBI called him an agent of a foreign government. [FISA APPLICATION]
FISA ap
© unknown
It just never made any sense; perhaps, until today.

Put yourself in the mindset within the highly political small group at the DOJ and FBI who have a plan to help Hillary Clinton win the presidency.

From October 2015 through early March 2016 Fusion GPS was assembling opposition research on all the GOP candidates. However, mid-March it became obvious Donald Trump was going to win, so all other efforts were side-lined and Trump becomes the Fusion-GPS focus. Billionaire Paul Singer, a Rubio backer, drops funding for Fusion-GPS Trump research; the DNC and Clinton campaign take over the payments.

After carefully negotiating issues with the Clinton email scandal, the FBI small group has successfully announced Hillary Clinton was 'extremely careless' but not 'intentionally grossly negligent'. The team timed the whitewash to conclude prior to the conventions.
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Attention

Ecuador: INA Papers twist is a pretext to oust Assange


Defend Wikileaks
Thu, 04 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC
Moreno
© Dolores Ochoa/AP
Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno
On 26 March, WikiLeaks' Twitter account announced that President Moreno is being investigated by Ecuador's Congress for corruption, sparked by the INA Papers leak. The same tweet referenced President Moreno's attempt to surrender Assange in exchange for US debt relief, a fact that had been reported by The New York Times.

The following day, Foreign Minister Jose Valencia said that the WikiLeaks tweet was
"an absurd lie to harm the dignity of our country... we will not tolerate... inventions and insults... I cannot anticipate when and when we will take action in relation to this, but we will take action for certain."

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Footprints

US House votes withdrawal from Yemen war, Trump is expected to veto

Susannah George
KCWY 13
Thu, 04 Apr 2019 08:51 UTC
US capitol
© Martin Falbisoner/CC BY-SA 3.0/(MGN)
The House on Thursday voted to end American involvement in the Yemen war, rebuffing the Trump administration's support for the military campaign led by Saudi Arabia.

The bill now heads to President Donald Trump, who is expected to veto it. The White House says the measure raises "serious constitutional concerns," and Congress lacks the votes to override him.

By a 247-175 vote, Congress for the first time invoked the decades-old War Powers Resolution to try and stop a foreign conflict. The Senate vote was 54-46 on March 13.

"The president will have to face the reality that Congress is no longer going to ignore its constitutional obligations when it comes to foreign policy," said Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He said the humanitarian crisis in Yemen triggered by the war "demands moral leadership." The war in Yemen is in its fifth year.

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