Venezuela to Cooperate With Russia While Developing Domestic Weapons, Maduro Says

Venezuela will continue military cooperation with Russia, China, and Iran despite its plans to develop its own armament systems, president Nicolas Maduro said on Friday.

Earlier in the day, Maduro spoke at the commemoration of the 15th anniversary of Venezuela's Strategic Command Operations, stating that the country is planning to manufacture its own arms and that a special military and scientific council is being set up for that exact purpose.

"We have everything we need to create our own system of weaponry, while continuing cooperation with Russia, China, Cuba, Iran and the entire world, we will continue receiving from them scientific, technological, weapons-related, [and] of course, strategic assistance, but we must move toward independence," Maduro said.

Russia and Venezuela have been having extremely good relations for decades, with Moscow being one of Caracas' main suppliers of weapons and military technologies.

On Monday, the United States imposed sanctions against Maduro for cooperation with Iran. According to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, "for nearly two years, corrupt officials in Tehran have worked with the illegitimate regime in Venezuela to flout the UN arms embargo."

In response, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said that Caracas considers the new US sanctions against the country's president as aggression, adding that Washington can't prevent the country from building trade and economic relations with Iran.

Several members of the international community, most notably the US, have imposed sanctions on Venezuela over recent years. Further punitive measures were enforced following the 2019 protests that saw opposition leader Juan Guaido declare himself as interim leader. Russia, China, and Turkey, among others, have supported Nicolas Maduro as Venezuela’s legitimate president.

Many of the Western sanctions have targeted Venezuela’s state-run oil and gas company Petroleos de Venezuela, and its subsidiaries, in an attempt to seize its foreign assets and prevent the firm from completing transactions.

https://sputniknews.com/latam/202009251080575987-venezuela-to-cooperate-with-russia-while-developing-domestic-weapons-maduro-says/

>>10789580

Could they be planning to FF themselves with a nuke

Try and get another 70 years of victimhood????

>>10789580

Over 8,000 infections recorded in all-time high as full lockdown takes effect

Health Ministry revises number of cases confirmed Thursday upward to 8,178; 250 yeshiva students contract virus after spending Rosh Hashanah together

The Health Ministry on Friday updated the number of new coronavirus cases recorded the previous day to a whopping 8,178, far surpassing the previous high, hours after stricter lockdown measures went into effect.

Figures released in the morning put the number of infections confirmed on Thursday at 7,527, but the processing of additional tests apparently led to 651 more cases being added to the total.

Since midnight Thursday, the Health Ministry said another 3,391 cases had been confirmed, bringing the number of infections since the pandemic began to 217,899.

The ministry also reported 11 more deaths midnight, raising the national toll to 1,412.

Of the 62,913 active cases, 708 people were in serious condition, 178 of them on ventilators. Another 253 were in moderate condition, with the rest displaying mild or no symptoms.

The record number of diagnoses came after two consecutive days where the number of new infections neared 7,000. The ministry said a particularly high 12.6 percent of the tests that came back Thursday were positive. There were 64,878 tests carried out.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/over-8000-infections-recorded-in-all-time-high-as-full-lockdown-takes-effect/

As hospitals overflow, Haifa’s Rambam transforms parking lot into virus ward

Underground facility, which can also serve as bomb shelter during times of war, ready from Thursday to take patients rejected by hospitals pushed to capacity by spiraling pandemic

As Israeli doctors confront a surge in coronavirus cases, with some patients waiting for hours in ambulances, one hospital is tackling the crisis by transforming its car park into a ward.

Wearing a white face mask and gown, Michael Halberthal expressed his frustration that his hospital in the northern city of Haifa has been pushed to take such a dramatic step.

“(It’s) extremely unfortunate that we have to get to this position,” said Halberthal, general director of the Rambam Health Care Campus.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-hospitals-overflow-as-haifas-rambam-transforms-car-park-into-virus-ward/

Donald Trump Announces Comprehensive ‘Platinum Plan’ for Black Americans

President Donald Trump announced Friday his “Platinum Plan” for black Americans at a campaign event in Atlanta, Georgia.

The plan is a mixture of economic, education, and financial investments in black communities, detailed in a two-page document released on Friday.

“Over the last 50 years black Americans have mostly voted democrat, but every day more black Americans are deciding that the old way is not working,” Trump said, noting that his opponent. former Vice President Joe Biden. was deploying the “same old tired empty slogans.”

The plan intends to create 500,000 black-owned businesses, increase access to capital investments, and add three million jobs for the black community.

The president also spoke about increasing opportunities for education and job training, including school choice.

He also committed to working on additional criminal justice reform legislation, better healthcare, and advanced financial literacy.

The president spoke freely at the event, calling out prominent black supporters by name and making jokes about Biden’s low energy.

“By the way, he’s staying in again today,” Trump said, pointing to another campaign “lid” on the day’s events.

Trump called out Biden for using his 47-year political career to ship jobs overseas, hollow out the middle class, allow foreign illegals into the country, and send men overseas to fight in foreign wars while the inner cities crumbled.

“Joe Biden cares more about the citizens of foreign countries than he does about black Americans living in our own country,” Trump said. “I will always put Americans first, and that includes, very very importantly, black Americans.”

The president also pointed to Biden’s 1994 crime bill, which instituted stiff drug penalties that affected the black community.

“No one in Washington politics today has done more to hurt black Americans than Joe Biden,” he said.

Trump also criticized Democrats for supporting the violent leftist Black Lives Matter anti-police protests that actually hurt black communities.

“Today I’m urging all black Americans to walk away from the corrupt, hateful, divisive, and very extreme — and they are going crazy — Democrat party.”

Trump referred to Biden’s infamous statement to a black interviewer that “you ain’t black” unless you vote for Biden, and another comment calling the black community “monolithic.”

“Biden believes that all black Americans have to think the same way,” Trump said, noting that “He doesn’t know black Americans like I do.”

He described Democrats as “out of touch liberal hypocrites who stereotype you, disrespect you, and sell you out.”

“Joe Biden should not be asking for your support; he should be begging for your forgiveness,” he said.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/25/donald-trump-announces-comprehensive-platinum-plan-for-black-americans/

Democrat Insider: Anti-Trump Postal Workers in GOP Neighborhoods Throw Mail-In Ballots in the Garbage

A Democrat operative says the United States Postal Service (USPS) workers who despise President Trump will sometimes help election fraudsters by throwing in the garbage mail-in ballots from Republican-heavy neighborhoods.

Last month, as Breitbart News highlighted, a Democrat operative told the New York Post‘s Jon Levine a number of stories in which insiders like him lead teams of fraudsters to commit election fraud by paying homeless voters off, taking advantage of the elderly, posing as registered voters, and printing up fake ballots.

One notable tactic, the Democrat operative said, is how insiders will use USPS workers to help sway election results, Levine reported:

“You have a postman who is a rabid anti-Trump guy and he’s working in Bedminster or some Republican stronghold … He can take those [filled-out] ballots, and knowing 95% are going to a Republican, he can just throw those in the garbage.” [Emphasis added]

In some cases, mail carriers were members of his “work crew,” and would sift ballots from the mail and hand them over to the operative. [Emphasis added]

The fraud tactic was potentially most recently used in the swing district of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, where the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Justice Department (DOJ) say mail-in ballots by members of the United States Armed Forces cast for Trump were “discarded.”

“At this point, we can confirm that a small number of military ballots were discarded,” DOJ officials said in a statement:

Investigators have recovered nine ballots at this time. Some of those ballots can be attributed to specific voters and some cannot. Of the nine ballots that were discarded and then recovered, seven were cast for presidential candidate Donald Trump. Two of the discarded ballots had been resealed inside their appropriate envelopes by Luzerne [County] elections staff prior to recovery by the FBI and the contents of those 2 ballots are unknown. [Emphasis added]

Nevada’s June primary shows huge issues with mail-in voting. In Las Vegas, Nevada, more than 223,000 mail-in ballots were deemed “undeliverable” in the election — about 17 percent of the total number of mail-in ballots sent out to voters, unsolicited.

Federal election data reveals that since 2012, about 28.4 million mail-in ballots have gone missing in each of the last four election cycles. Pew Research Center analysis finds there are potentially 24 million ineligible or inaccurate voter registrations on state voter rolls.

Recent data has not shown a compelling public health justification for mail-in voting. In Wisconsin’s April election, only 52 of more than 400,000 voters and poll workers were confirmed to have contracted the Chinese coronavirus. None of those cases were fatal. This equals an infection rate below two-hundredths of one percent.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/25/democrat-insider-anti-trump-postal-workers-in-gop-neighborhoods-throw-mail-in-ballots-in-the-garbage/

At Least 1,400 Virginia Voters Received Multiple Absentee Ballots, State Republican Officials Say

Fears over the spread of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic have prompted election officials in many US states to allow the use of absentee ballots by all registered voters in the upcoming presidential election. Democrats advocate the move, while Republicans oppose it, with President Donald Trump claiming absentee voting could lead to “voter fraud”.

At least 1,400 registered voters who requested absentee ballots in the US state of Virginia received more than one ballot, as the 2020 US presidential election is only six weeks ahead, the Republican Party of Virginia said on Friday, arguing that the Democrat's endorsement of absentee voting could “make our elections less secure”.

“We knew the Democrats many last-minute changes to our election law would make our elections less secure, but no one could imagine voters receiving two ballots,” the chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, Rich Anderson, said in a statement.

The party claimed that at least 1,000 out of 300,000 voters who requested absentee ballots in Fairfax County were mailed two ballots. In the meanwhile, 300 voters in Richmond and 100 others in Henrico reportedly received two copies as well.

Virginia GOPs slammed Governor Ralph Northam over “signing a bill to dramatically change absentee voting only 60 days prior to a Presidential election”, claiming that the error was because the Democratic governor has “provided little or no guidance” to local election officials.

The RPV complained that due to the “last-minute” signing of the absentee voting bill, “local election officials were forced to deal with setting up drop boxes for no reason other than to facilitate ballot harvesting by Democrats”.

“I insist that the Department of Elections immediately provide guidance to ensure that no additional voters received two ballots,” Anderson added. “All it takes is a simple check of the number of voter applications being processed before printing labels; once the envelopes are labelled and ready to go, simply count the envelopes before taking them to the post office and make sure the number is the same.”

The Fairfax director of the Office of Elections and General Registrar, Gary Scott, told NBC 4 Washington on Friday that voters in the county were sent a second ballot after several label printing machines jammed, resulting in a duplicate of an “entire sheet of labels”.

“Before the supervisors caught it, the people applying the labels applied them to the entire sheet of labels rather than just pulling out the ones that should have been processed,” Scott said, noting that only one ballot will be counted per voter if an extra is submitted. She urged those who received two ballots to destroy one.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202009251080575783-at-least-1400-virginia-voters-received-multiple-absentee-ballots-state-republican-officials-say/

>>10790116

THIS

>>10790297

Bakers should have foreskins