Moldova’s president says talks with Putin were a breakthrough

MOSCOW, October 31. /TASS/. Moldova’s President Igor Dodon believes that his Wednesday meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin was a breakthrough.

"It is my second official visit to Russia. It is a breakthrough, primarily thanks to the decisions we made today," Dodon said in an exclusive interview with TASS First Deputy Director General Mikhail Gusman.

"They are the decisions that have been long awaited by citizens of the Republic of Moldova," he said.

According to Dodon, decisions were related to four practical fields.

"First, it is export. As you know, our manufacturers have begun to return to the Russian market in the past eighteen months, thanks to adopted agreements. Today, we agreed that some goods, namely vegetables and fruit, canned fruit and vegetables along with wine products, will be exempt from duties for six months starting from January 1, 2019 so that these goods can get to the Russian market," Dodon said.

"The second decision was about Moldovan citizens. More than 500,000 of our citizens work in Russia. Of those, about 200,000 have somehow breached migration requirements. We have agreed that in the coming months, amnesty will be announced under Articles 26 and 27 of Russia’s migration legislation," the Moldovan president said.

"We have agreed to consider that the year of 2019 should be declared as Moldova’s Year in Russia, while 2020 as Russia’s Year in the Republic of Moldova," he said.

"Apart from that, I asked to increase the number of state-funded places for guys from Moldova who are eager to study in Russia. I was told that the request would be considered," Dodon said.

"And finally, I put forward a proposal that the Russian side would view a possibility to fund infrastructure projects bridging the left and right banks [of the Dniester River]. For example, why not repair the road connecting Chisinau and Tiraspol? Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin] said that the idea was interesting and they were ready to tackle it," the Moldovan president concluded.

http://tass.com/world/1028813

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Federal judges order Ohio to allow purged voters back in

CINCINNATI (AP) — Federal judges on Wednesday ordered Ohio to allow voters who had been purged for not voting over a six-year period to participate in this year's election.

A divided 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel granted an emergency motion sought by voting-rights groups. The ruling overturned in part an Oct. 10 ruling by a federal judge that said voters haven't been illegally purged from Ohio's rolls.

Plaintiffs led by the A. Philip Randolph Institute in June lost their broader challenge to Ohio's election administration process as unconstitutional when the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of Ohio's practices.

But they continued to challenge the confirmation notices the state sent to voters that set off the process of removing them from county voter rolls after not voting in three federal elections or taking other voting-related actions. They said the letters were too vague on letting recipients know the consequences of not responding.

"Plaintiffs have a reasonable, and perhaps even greater, likelihood of success on the merits of their claim that defendant's confirmation notice did not adequately advise registrants of the consequences of failure to respond, as the NVRA (National Voting Rights Act) requires," the court ruled Wednesday.

Judges Julia Smith Gibbons and Eric Clay formed the majority. Judge Eugene Siler Jr. disagreed, saying the plaintiff claims were "all speculation."

Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted said he wouldn't fight the order, to avoid "an unnecessary source of contention with election only five days away." Ohio's procedures will eventually be upheld again, he said, and the state is committed to making it "easy to vote and hard to cheat."

Husted is running for lieutenant governor on a ticket with Attorney General Mike DeWine, who is in a tight race for Democratic gubernatorial nominee Richard Cordray.

The voting-rights groups said that some elections in Ohio, traditionally a swing state, have been settled by small margins, and that turning away potentially thousands of voters could alter outcomes.

"The court's decision will allow more Ohio voters to have their voices heard next Tuesday," attorney Stuart Naifeh of the Demos organization said via email. "Every vote counts, including those cast by voters who may not have been engaged in the political process in recent years. … In today's ruling, the court recognized that the right to vote is too important to allow states to take it away without giving voters meaningful notice."

Partisan fights over ballot access have been playing out around the country. Democrats have accused Republicans of trying to suppress votes from minorities and poorer people who tend to vote for Democrats. Republicans have argued that they are trying to promote ballot integrity and prevent voter fraud.

The 6th Circuit panel found there wasn't an emergency need to block "purges," and that it could consider that part of the appeal later.

Husted said after the Supreme Court ruling in June that no more voters would be removed before the Nov. 6 election.

https://www.10tv.com/article/federal-judges-order-ohio-allow-purged-voters-back

Oxfam's 'Aid For Sex' Scam Exposed

23 Feb 2018

Oxfam. I’m wondering if I should warn this is not for the faint of heart, or say don’t read on an empty stomach. If so, hereby. I know I found it hard.

The first and foremost thing the BBC last week felt its audience should know about the sleaziest scandal to come out of Britain in quite some time -and that’s saying something- is that an actress had turned her back on the aid organization. Your news in bite-size pre-chewed headlines.

While a guy who ‘served’ Oxfam in Bosnia claims it’s nobody’s business if he visited the local hookers in his spare time. The head office even specifically refuses to ban staff from doing that. Not violating a staff member’s civil liberties trumps a question like what drives desperate women -girls- into prostitution that same staff member pays for with money donated to aid desperate people.

Someone at the Dutch Oxfam/Novib office complained that his British colleagues should have provided more information, sooner, because now his branch suffers from the scandal (fewer donations). A branch that knew about it at least as far back as 2012, and passed on the info to the Dutch Foreign Ministry and Accounting Office. Who looked at potential -financial- damage in their country, found none, and located a carpet to sweep it under.

The only right choice for us, and our governments, would seem to be to cancel all donations to Oxfam, because apparently nobody connected to the organization is able to figure out who the actual victims are here. They instead portray themselves as the victims.

Of all people, its own chief executive feels a need, when responding to accusations of child sex abuse concerning his organization, to paint himself -and Oxfam- as victims. ‘Anything we say is being manipulated. We’ve been savaged’ . How does that guy hold on to that job?

Charities like Oxfam receive donations to help those people who have fallen victim to the conditions that exist where they live, be they manmade or due to natural disaster. Obviously, if Oxfam cannot (will not) even correctly identify these victims, it has no reason to exist.

Of course Oxfam announces more internal investigations when these accusations come out, but it’s too late. They’ve hush-hushed all previous such investigations, and there’s no reason to believe that won’t happen again. Oxfam has covered up the issues for a long time, likely decades, and if they can no longer cover things up -like now-, they try and make things look like incidents, stand-alone occurrences. This is a pattern.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-22/oxfams-aid-sex-scam-exposed

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