Anonymous ID: fd4fff May 18, 2023, 3:44 p.m. No.18868503   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8658 >>8837 >>9069 >>9173 >>9245

Inte’l Economic Forum Russia – Islamic World kicks off with participation of Syria

 

With the participation of Syria, the 14th International Economic Forum, ‘Russia – Islamic World: Kazan Forum’ 2023, was launched on Thursday in the Russian city of Kazan .

 

“I welcome you on the occasion of the opening of the 14th International Economic Forum in Kazan,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a message , adding that the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan warmly welcomes guests from many countries and affirms its position as a reliable and sought-after place for large-scale business activities.

 

Putin said that Russia traditionally enjoys close relations with Islamic countries on a bilateral basis and within the framework of interaction with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, stressing that these relations are based on partnership and respect for each other’s sovereignty and civilizational identity.

 

Putin said that Islamic countries are actively developing today and gaining tangible achievements in trade, the financial sector, innovation, and scientific and applied research, and Russia is open to the largest possible commercial and humanitarian cooperation with them.

 

https://sana.sy/en/?p=308846

Anonymous ID: fd4fff May 18, 2023, 3:44 p.m. No.18868510   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8658 >>8837 >>9025 >>9069 >>9173 >>9245

Former AG Barr: Durham report clears Trump, investigation an 'abomination'

 

"Both the press and the FBI abandoned any semblance of professionalism and took up the cause with a vengeance," Barr added.

 

Former Attorney General Bill Barr excoriated the FBI in the aftermath of Special Counsel John Durham's report, which revealed that the bureau began its investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign without predicating evidence.

 

"I think the real story here—from the FBI’s perspective—is what an abomination this was, this so-called investigation. If it wasn’t a witch hunt, it’s a damn good imitation of one," Barr said on Fox News this week. The investigation, he said, was "one of the greatest injustices done to a presidential candidate and a president."

 

The report largely addressed the origins of the FBI's "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation, during which agents sought potential links between Trump, his campaign officials, and the Russian government.

 

"Neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation," Durham wrote. Moreover, he further highlighted that key intelligence officials such as FBI Director James Comey and CIA Director John Brennan were aware of the Clinton campaign's plan to fabricate a story about Trump-Russia collusion as early as August of 2016.

 

"Both the press and the FBI abandoned any semblance of professionalism and took up the cause with a vengeance," Barr added.

 

The former attorney general broke with Trump following the 2020 presidential election and does not intend to support him in 2024, though he conceded that the report's findings would benefit Trump in the short term.

 

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/former-ag-barr-durham-report-clears-trump-investigation-abomination

Anonymous ID: fd4fff May 18, 2023, 3:47 p.m. No.18868516   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8658 >>8837 >>9069 >>9173 >>9245

Assad Arrives To Red Carpet Treatment In Saudi Arabia, Historic 1st Since War Began

 

These are images that Washington never wanted world to behold, following more than a decade-long regime change proxy war aimed at Damascus…

 

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has in a historic visit arrived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Thursday in his presidential plane.

 

The Syrian head of state, long under severe US sanctions, triumphantly exited the plane in what many supporters are calling a 'victorious' moment - with one regional commentator remarking "the Lion has landed".

 

This year's summit in Jeddah, set to begin Friday, will witness Syria's formal readmittance to the 22-member Arab League after a 12-year suspension

 

In November 2011 the Arab League kicked Syria out of the organization, citing the crackdown by Damascus on opposition protests, but which immediately turned into an armed insurrection. Syria had maintained the move was "illegal and a violation of the organization’s charter."

 

The Biden administration has meanwhile been urging regional allies to not pursue normalization with Assad. Despite this, UAE was the first to do so - and as of March Saudi Arabia and Syria agreed to reopen their respective embassies after more than a decade.

 

Even Saudi media has done a dramatic about-face on Assad…

 

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These are images that Washington never wanted world to behold, following more than a decade-long regime change proxy war aimed at Damascus…

 

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has in a historic visit arrived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Thursday in his presidential plane.

 

The Syrian head of state, long under severe US sanctions, triumphantly exited the plane in what many supporters are calling a 'victorious' moment - with one regional commentator remarking "the Lion has landed".

 

This year's summit in Jeddah, set to begin Friday, will witness Syria's formal readmittance to the 22-member Arab League after a 12-year suspension

 

In November 2011 the Arab League kicked Syria out of the organization, citing the crackdown by Damascus on opposition protests, but which immediately turned into an armed insurrection. Syria had maintained the move was "illegal and a violation of the organization’s charter."

 

The Biden administration has meanwhile been urging regional allies to not pursue normalization with Assad. Despite this, UAE was the first to do so - and as of March Saudi Arabia and Syria agreed to reopen their respective embassies after more than a decade.

 

Even Saudi media has done a dramatic about-face on Assad…

 

It must be recalled that Saudi Arabia worked "hand and glove" (in the words of then Vice President Biden years ago) with the US and NATO countries to train, equip, and fund hardline jihadist insurgents who waged war against the Syrian state and its people…

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/assads-arrives-red-carpet-treatment-saudi-arabia-historic-1st-war-began

Anonymous ID: fd4fff May 18, 2023, 3:49 p.m. No.18868520   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8982 >>9022 >>9086 >>9173 >>9245

Railcar carrying 30 tons of explosive chemical pellets arrives at destination empty — officials say railcar 'leak' may be to blame

 

A railway carrying 30 tons of explosive chemicals arrived at its final destination empty, according to KQED.

 

The train car was loaded in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on April 12 with 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, which is often used to make explosives, matches, and fertilizers. In this instance, the chemicals on the train car belonged to Dyno Nobel, a commercial explosives firm.

 

After a two-week-long trip to California that made several stops, the railcar previously loaded with the chemicals was found empty.

 

While the shipment went missing in April, the explosives company filed a short incident report to the federal National Response Center on May 10. Dyno Nobel stated that it suspects the chemicals fell from the train car when moving from the main track to a rail siding. It added that the shipment was transported in pellet form in a covered hopper railcar, similar to cars used to haul coal.

 

A spokesperson for the company told KQED, “The railcar was sealed when it left the Cheyenne facility, and the seals were still intact when it arrived in Saltdale. The initial assessment is that a leak through the bottom gate on the railcar may have developed in transit.” Dyno Nobel noted that it had “limited control” over its shipment while it was transported by Union Pacific.

 

A spokesperson for the Federal Railroad Administration believes that one of the gates on the hopper car may not have been closed properly.

 

The railcar is on its way back to Wyoming to be inspected. The incident is being investigated by the Federal Railroad Administration, the California Public Utilities Commission, Union Pacific, and Dyno Nobel.

 

On Thursday, Dyno Nobel announced that it had been awarded the Union Pacific Railroad’s 2022 Chemical Transportation Safety Pinnacle Award.

 

“This award recognizes companies with zero Non-Accident Releases for shipments of regulated hazardous material moving in tank cars in 2022,” the firm wrote on its Twitter account.

 

https://www.theblaze.com/news/railcar-carrying-30-tons-of-explosive-chemical-pellets-arrives-at-destination-empty-officials-say-railcar-leak-may-be-to-blame

Anonymous ID: fd4fff May 18, 2023, 3:55 p.m. No.18868544   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8658 >>8837 >>9069 >>9173 >>9245

Former President Of The New York Building And Construction Trades Council And 10 Other Union Officials Sentenced For Accepting Bribes And Illegal Payments

 

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-president-new-york-building-and-construction-trades-council-and-10-other-0

Anonymous ID: fd4fff May 18, 2023, 4 p.m. No.18868560   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8630 >>8658 >>8837 >>9069 >>9173 >>9245

Dirty FBI Revokes Security Clearances of Whistleblowers Before Congressional Testimony – But 51 Signatories of Bogus Hunter Biden Laptop Letter Still Have There’s

 

The House Weaponization Committee held a hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill. Three government whistleblowers from the FBI testified before Congress on Thursday morning.

 

On Wednesday Chris Wray’s FBI revoked the security clearances of three agents who espoused questioned the aggressive tactics by the FBI in targeting Trump supporters , conservatives, and pro-Life Americans, according to a letter the FBI sent the subcommittee on Wednesday.

 

FBI agents Marcus Allen, Garrett O’Boyle, and Steve Friend had already been suspended for questioning the agency’s handling of the January 6 case and stating their beliefs that the FBI has been weaponized against conservatives.

 

Democrats on the Committee ran interference for the FBI. The Democrat members were openly hostile to the witnesses and attacking them continuously.

 

At the end of the Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) asked witness and FBI whistleblower Garrett O’Boyle if he would advise his colleagues to come forward. Agent O’Boyle offered this dire assessment.

 

Garrett O’Boyle: I would tell them first to pray about it long and hard. And I would tell them I could take it to Congress for them, or I could put them in touch with Congress, but I would advise them not to do it… The FBI will crush you. This government will crush you and your family if you try to expose the truth about things that they are doing that are wrong.

 

The FBi took O’Boyle’s income and his security clearance after he spoke out about the FBI targeting parents at school board meetings.

 

But guess who have not had their security clearances revoked?

 

During the second presidential debate in 2020, Joe Biden and hack reporter Kristen Welker teamed up against President Trump.

 

At one point, Joe Biden interrupted Welker for his planned response to the Hunter Biden Laptop from Hell scandal. Joe Biden told the audience 50 intelligence leaders signed a letter saying the laptop was “Russian propaganda.”

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/__trashed-82/

Anonymous ID: fd4fff May 18, 2023, 4:04 p.m. No.18868576   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Politician and TV personality’s son is arrested and marched through the streets in handcuffs for allegedly selling drugs on the dark web

 

Mark Chikarovski, 37, arrested on Thursday

He allegedly sold drugs on the dark web

 

The son of a former NSW Liberal leader has been arrested after he allegedly sold drugs on the dark web in exchange for cryptocurrency.

Mark Chikarovski, 37, was marched out of an apartment in Bondi Junction, in Sydney's east, by police in handcuffs on Thursday.

He is the son of Kerry Chikarovski who was the state's Liberal leader from 1999 to 2002.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12100827/Former-NSW-Liberal-leader-Kerry-Chikarovskis-son-arrested-drug-allegations.html

Anonymous ID: fd4fff May 18, 2023, 5:12 p.m. No.18868826   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8837 >>8848 >>9069 >>9173 >>9245

Rubio Publishes Vast COVID-19 Report: ‘Beijing Hid the Truth’

 

A new report by Sen. Marco Rubio concludes that “a serious biosafety incident” in China most likely caused the coronavirus pandemic. But the exhaustive study, which took two years to complete and includes vast translations of original Chinese language source material, reaches another, perhaps more troubling, verdict: They knew.

 

The document obtained early by RealClearPolitics paints a picture of a Chinese Communist Party so eager to make advancements in bioscientific research that officials in Beijing willfully and repeatedly ignored known safety shortcomings at the Wuhan Institute of Virology as early as July 2019. Then, once the pandemic that would eventually kill 7 million people started, they launched a “cover-up.”

 

Chinese officials have consistently called the lab leak hypothesis a lie, insisting that the theory is politically motivated and has no scientific basis. The Rubio report details, however, that as early as February 2020 China had launched a comprehensive effort to strengthen biosafety measures at the Wuhan lab and facilities around the country through new, stricter regulations.

 

“Just as Beijing was denying the possibility that COVID-19 came from a lab on the world stage,” according to the document authored by the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, “it was warning its own officials of such risks and rolling out new measures to prevent lab accidents.” Additionally, as China downplayed the danger, or even took steps to hide it and its origin from the world, they were quietly moving to protect themselves.

 

Scientists associated with the People’s Liberation Army filed a patent for a COVID-19 vaccine in February of 2020. According to research methodology reviewed by Rubio, they began work four months earlier in November of 2019. Beijing did not alert the World Health Organization of the outbreak of a virus “of unknown etiology” until January of 2020.

 

“The implications are impossible to ignore,” Rubio said in a statement. “Beijing hid the truth. This report reinforces the need to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable.”

 

The White House has repeatedly voiced frustration with China for its lack of transparency, and early in his tenure, President Biden ordered the director of national intelligence to conduct a 90-day inquiry into the origins of the virus. The intelligence community, however, was divided on the question when they turned in their findings in August of 2021, concluding that “a more definitive explanation” of the origin of the virus would “most likely” not be possible without cooperation from China.

 

The administration, as well as the World Health Organization, have repeatedly called on China to share health data from the early days of the pandemic that would further scientific investigation into the COVID-19 origins. The Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did upload some data related to samples taken at the nearby Wuhan wet market to the global virus database but removed it shortly afterward.

 

A classified report by the Department of Energy, which oversees numerous biological research labs in the U.S., concluded “with low confidence” in February of this year that the virus most likely came from the lab in Wuhan.

 

Until that assessment was made public, Republican lawmakers including Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton were widely derided for spreading misinformation when they entertained the possibility that the pandemic could’ve begun anywhere other than the animal “wet market” in Wuhan. The Washington Post, for instance, reported in February of 2020 that Cotton was spreading a “debunked” and “fringe” “conspiracy theory.”

 

Behind the scenes that month, Chinese officials were implementing new directives governing research facilities with the stated goal being to “earnestly advance the biosecurity of the state, and further strengthen the biosafety management of laboratories.”

 

https://www.realclearwire.com/articles/2023/05/17/rubio_publishes_vast_covid-19_report_beijing_hid_the_truth.html

 

“A COMPLEX AND GRAVE SITUATION”

A POLITICAL CHRONOLOGY OF THE

SARS-COV-2 OUTBREAK

https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/4f6bb786-504e-443d-8904-974dafc1cd0e/CD3BC3317D197A25E9FF01EBFB869357.rubio-covid-origins-report-final.pdf

Anonymous ID: fd4fff May 18, 2023, 5:51 p.m. No.18869017   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>18868982 Railcar carrying 30 tons of explosive chemical pellets arrives at destination empty

>>18868982 Department of Justice contracting w/Dyno Nobel for explosives and explosive supplies in Jan.- April of this year.