Bernie Sanders announces 2020 presidential bid

Bernie Sanders, who lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton in 2016, says he will run again in 2020. The 77-year-old Vermont senator enjoys great popularity among millennials for his progressive ideas.

Sanders first confirmed his plans in an interview aired on Vermont Public Radio on Monday. "I wanted to let the people of the state of Vermont know about this first," he said.

Speaking to CBS This Morning, the politician revealed that he will launch an "unprecedented" grassroots movement "to lay the groundwork for transforming the economic and political life of this country."

He promised that it will be a "very different campaign" to 2016 when the senator narrowly lost the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton.

An independent and self-described democratic socialist, Sanders has consistently taken the top spots in various polls on possible and declared Democratic Party contenders in recent weeks.

His progressive platform that focused on eliminating income inequality, ‘Medicare-for-all’ healthcare, and combating climate change solidified in the 2018 midterms, with several Democratic candidates backed by him winning congressional elections.

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https://www.rt.com/usa/451811-bernie-sanders-presidential-bid/

Roger Stone Hauled Into Court To Explain 'Death Threat' Against Judge

Roger Stone has been ordered to appear in a D.C. courtroom on Thursday to explain an Instagram photo of the judge overseeing his case next to what appear to be crosshairs - in what many interpreted as a veiled threat.

The photo of Jackson is accompanied by a caption which reads: "Through legal trickery Deep State hitman Robert Mueller has guaranteed that my upcoming show trial is before Judge Amy Berman Jackson , an Obama appointed Judge who dismissed the Benghazi charges again [sic] Hillary Clinton and incarcerated Paul Manafort prior to his conviction for any crime."

Jackson dismissed legal action against Clinton by the parents of two of the four Americans killed in the 2012 Benghazi attack, as well as a related claim that Clinton had defamed the parents by lying about them in the press.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-19/roger-stone-hauled-court-explain-death-threat-against-judge

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>>5265658

got it cheers

4 ways India is putting its own interests before Washington's

India appears to be defying every foreign policy goal relentlessly pursued by the US, stubbornly striking deals with nations Washington is trying to isolate from global trade.

Russia, Iran and now Venezuela – all among the top targets of Washington's aggressive rhetoric and sanctions – are also among the nations India has been refusing to turn its back on. The country's growing economy needs energy and its military needs hardware, and it is not allowing lucrative deals slip away to appease the superpower on the other side of the world.

Venezuelan oil

The government in Venezuela, Washington's most recent regime-change effort, has been squeezed tight by American sanctions. A country mostly dependent on oil revenues, has been hit hard as US-bound shipments were cut off.

India appears to be jumping in to pick up the slack, though: it became world number one buyer of Venezuelan crude in the first half of February, with imports up 66 percent.

That is despite a somewhat general but very clear threat issued by US National Security Advisor John Bolton, who tweeted last week that those dealing in Venezuelan oil would “not be forgotten.” The message did not name India, but included a link to an article about Venezuelan Oil Minister Manuel Quevedo's visit to India the previous day.

https://www.rt.com/news/451820-india-defies-us-interests/

Serial Pedophile Cop Arrested on 80 Counts of Sexual Abuse of Children

A serial pedophile and former sheriff's deputy was arrested this month after authorities discovered more than a decade of horrific child sexual abuse.Cascade County, MT — Sexual misconduct among police officers is an unfortunately common crime. Multiple studies have shown that hundreds of cops a year are arrested or accused of sexual misconduct. In fact, the second largest complaint against officers — second only to excessive force — is that of sexual abuse. More startling is the fact that over half of the sexual abuse instances involve children. One particularly horrific example of this abuse is made by former Clark County Sheriff’s Deputy Virgil Wolfe who was arrested this month on dozens of charges of child sex abuse.

The Cascade County Sheriff’s Office posted Wolfe’s mugshot on their Facebook page last week, noting that Wolfe had been charged with one count of incest and 80 counts of Sexual Abuse of Children. The sheriff’s office noted that the arrest involved its own deputies along with several agents from the Department of Homeland Security.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/serial-pedophile-cop-arrested-80-charges/

McCabe: Lisa Page, Peter Strzok ‘Good People Who Served This Country Well’

During an interview with NBC News’ “Today,” former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe defended former colleagues Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, saying the two are “good people who served this country well.”

Although text messages revealed the two alleged lovers bashed now-President Donald Trump, McCabe said he never saw “clear bias against the president” from them or anybody else within the FBI in the Hillary Clinton email investigation or the Russia investigation.

“Not once, not from Lisa Page, not from Pete Strzok, and not from anybody else on that team,” McCabe told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie.

“Lisa Page and Pete Strzok are good people who served this country well,” he added. “They made some poor decisions in their private lives and in terms of the communications they exchanged with each other that’s brought incredible grief and scrutiny on the FBI. I’m sure they regret that, but good people make bad decisions every day.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/02/19/mccabe-lisa-page-peter-strzok-good-people-who-served-this-country-well/

McCabe Refuses to Answer Question About Lying Under Oath, Cites ‘Ongoing Legal Issues’

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe appeared Monday on NPR’s “Morning Edition” to discuss his firing from the Bureau and the investigation into leaking information to The Wall Street Journal.

NPR host Steve Inskeep asked McCabe multiple times about the investigation and lying under oath, which McCabe dodged each time by blaming the “ongoing legal issues” that he is “handling.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/02/19/mccabe-refuses-answer-question-about-lying-under-oath-cites-ongoing-legal-issues/

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Returned To The Supreme Court Bench

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returned to the Supreme Court bench Tuesday after taking an extended leave of absence following lung cancer surgery.

The 85-year-old Justice has been "working from home" for the past several weeks, reviewing transcripts of oral arguments and Supreme Court briefs on key cases, and is expected to vote on all of the cases she "missed," according to CNN.

Ginsburg has been absent from the Court since suffering a fall in November, that led to cracked ribs and the discovery of several cancerous nodes on her lungs (the first cases she missed in more than 25 years on the bench). After recovering from the fall, Ginsburg underwent surgery at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York to remove at least two of the "cancerous nodes" in December. Doctors told media at the time that they believe they cut out all of Ginsburg's cancerous tissue, and that she was effectively cancer-free.

The Justice, who is among the Court's longest-serving members, took a seven-week leave of absence to recover, similar to absences Chief Justice William Rehnquist took when he was recovering from serious illness in 2004 and 2005. She officially returned to work at the Supreme Court on Friday, joining in with the other Justices in their regular Friday closed-door meeting.

Fox News reports that the Justice took her seat on the bench Tuesday morning "promptly at 10am," that she was wearing her "traditional lace collar," and that she "went on to ask a total of five questions to counsel on both sides of a patent law dispute, including the very first question." The case, Return Mail Inc. v. USPS, hinges on whether the Postal Service violated a patent on a system that processes returned mail items, and whether such items are patentable at all.

She returns just in time for several key cases, including a case on the "Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census," CNN reports. At the all-Court private meeting on Friday, she was part of the majority of Justices that agreed to accept the case.

Ginsburg's status was the subject of rampant speculation for weeks since her fall, particularly given that she is both the oldest member of the Court (by five years), and the most left-leaning. Liberals were obviously concerned that Ginsburg would be forced to retire – or worse, would die – during Donald Trump's presidency, allowing the Republican president to replace the most stalwartly liberal sitting Justice.

Conservatives were likewise watching Ginsburg's recovery with deep interest, similarly concerned that the Justice would not return to the bench in 2019. The Trump Administration was reportedly working with judicial policy organizations to formulate a "short list" of potential Supreme Court nominees who could replace Ginsburg if she failed to recover from both her injury and her surgery.

Ginsburg, however, has no intention of retiring any time soon. Fox News reports that Ginsburg has hired clerks to serve in her office in the court's 2019-2020 session, which begins next September. Although that may seem extreme, Ginsburg has handled worse than a lung cancer scare. She overcame cancer twice before, once in 1999 and once in 2009, and underwent surgery for a blocked artery in 2004.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/43667/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-returned-supreme-emily-zanotti

West’s crusade to impose its models and values destabilized Middle East, says Lavrov

Russia’s top diplomat stressed that Moscow has been consistently calling for overcoming the region's difficulties through political and diplomatic means

MOSCOW, February 19. /TASS/. Western efforts to impose foreign models of development on Middle Eastern states have undermined the balance that had taken centuries to establish, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in his address to the participants of the Middle East conference of the Valdai International Discussion Club.

"The Middle East, which has been enduring a period of severe tests, still holds a central place on the global agenda. Both the future of the region’s governments, international security and stability hinge on how the situation will develop there," Lavrov said in his address to the forum, read out by Russian Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Africa and Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov.

"The methods of geopolitical engineering, attempts at imposing foreign models of development and values on the people of the Middle East and North Africa, especially through the use of force, have led to the weakening or collapse of states and an unprecedented surge in international terrorism across a whole number of countries. In addition, (it) has led to a massive migration crisis, destablizing the ethno-confessional balance that had consolidated throughout the centuries," Lavrov pointed out.

Russia’s top diplomat stressed that Moscow has been consistently calling for overcoming the region's difficulties through political and diplomatic means and by fully complying with international law.

On Tuesday, Moscow ushered in the eighth Middle East conference of the Valdai International Discussion Club. During the two-day forum, the participants are expected to discuss the war on terror, rebuilding Syria, collective security in the Middle East and the future of global hydrocarbon markets.

http://tass.com/politics/1045349

EU Launches Chemical Sales Crackdown as ISIS Jihadis Flock Back to Europe

EU authorities are tightening up restrictions on chemical sales in a bid to stop returning ISIS militants from blowing up Europeans with homemade explosives.

Proposed changes to 2013 restrictions on the marketing and use of explosives precursors were introduced following a European Commission review which noted bombs cooked up by Islamists had been used in the “vast majority of terrorist attacks in the EU” including Madrid in 2004, London in 2005, Paris in 2015, Brussels in 2016, and Manchester and Parsons Green in 2017.

Under the proposals, which have still to be signed off by the EU Parliament’s plenary, Brussels will place additional restrictions on the public’s ability to buy substances such as chemical fertilisers which can be used to make explosives, and require businesses to alert authorities to “suspicious transactions”.

Counter Extremism Project senior director, Hans-Jakob Schindler, said that while authorities were “never going to be able to 100 percent prevent access”, the EU’s move to increase restrictions on the sale of chemicals was “about increasing the hurdles for terrorists to get to the stuff”.

“The guys coming from Syria and Iraq very likely have built hundreds of IEDs [improvised explosive devices] in their time there, because that was one of the preferred methods used as an equalizer against the much-better-equipped Iraqi army,” Politico reported him saying.

In a statement on the development, EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos said: “In a Europe that protects, it is indispensable to restrict criminals’ and terrorists’ access to the means they use to hurt us.

“Homemade explosives, cooked from materials bought over the counter, have been used time and time again against our citizens.

“The new EU rules against explosives precursors will ban additional chemicals, tighten rules on online sales, and further restrict access to the general public.”

Despite his regularly alluding to “a Europe that protects”, the Greek commissioner has claimed EU nations requires more than 70 million migrants from the world’s poorest regions and insists that mass migration is central to the bloc’s values.

Avramopoulos, who rejects assertions that terror attacks in Europe and open borders are linked, has previously declared that the “biggest threat” to EU nations is “the rise of populism, nationalism and xenophobia”.

A vocal proponent of authoritarian measures such as the introduction of compulsory biometric ID cards, which would allow authorities to block “terrorists and criminals” from accessing money and other services, to keep Europe safe, he admitted last year that EU citizens would likely continue to be killed in Islamist attacks “for years to come”.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/02/19/eu-chemicals-crackdown-jihadis-return/

Cabal Tried to:

Start a war with Russia by running Trident Shield on their border. This ended when Russia used its electronic warfare capabilities and shut down two NATO ships.

Then they tried to start a war Via Ukraine but Russia captured those involved in the Kersch straight incident and exposed it as a cabal op.

Endless attempts have been made in Syria via staged chemical attacks, shooting down Russian planes attacking the SAA all failed.

North Korea they tried but this also failed.

China Taiwan tensions and US China tensions but this seems to be not working too.

UK Russia Skirpal etc laughable.

Now they are trying to set it off between India and Pakistan?

Desperate times for the cabal, fast running out of options.

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>>5265605 Bernie Sanders announces 2020 presidential bid

$21 Trillion: “Missing Money” from American DoD and HUD budgets from 1998 to 2015

I’ve been going over and over in my head what "missing money" means. Let’s review.

Dr. Mark Skidmore did an analysis of the DoD and HUD budgets from 1998-2015. He and his students found that there were $21 trillion dollars in undocumentable adjustments, for a budget that started out at $271 billion in 1998 and ended at $637 billion in 2015.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States

Let’s estimate DoD official funding for that period was roughly $10 trillion. Say HUD added another $750 billion. Against that, the bean-counters had adjustments of about 200% of that. Skidmore asserts that a more normal "adjustment" number for a large organization is maybe 3%.

A "debunking" site claims this is just an accounting issue that (in part) basically doesn’t deal well with estimating the value of our Aircraft Carriers (assessing how much the USS Nimitz is worth, they claim, is an "unsupportable adjustment"). My summary of their article is reductive; I supply a link to it below.

www.metabunk.org/debunked-missing-21-trillion-6-5-trillion-2-3-trillion-journal-vouchers.t9718/

Presumably, this particular issue – accounting for military equipment and pensions – has been around for quite literally centuries. The US military has had ships, planes, and tanks on the books, and accounted for them somehow, in ways that in the past were "supportable." However in the past 20 years, the US military has suddenly become incapable of doing basic accounting. Does this make sense to you? It doesn’t make sense to me.

Furthermore, no less than the US Constitution requires accounting for expenditures, so presumably, such accounting has been a requirement of the armed forces since the founding of the Republic.

https://chimpplanet.blogspot.com/2019/02/21-trillion-missing-money-from-american.html

Macron visits cemetery where neo-Nazis scrawled swastikas on nearly 100 Jewish graves and vows to crack down on France's growing anti-Semitism crisis

Vandals have targeted 96 graves at a Jewish cemetery in Quatzenheim, France

French President Emmanuel Macron visited the burial site today, vowing to 'act'

Vandalism happened as French cities geared up for mass rallies after a series of anti-Semitic acts that have shocked the nation

French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to crack down on hate crimes after neo-Nazis scrawled swastikas on nearly 100 graves at a Jewish Cemetery.

Macron went immediately to the cemetery in Quatzenheim in the Alsace region near Germany, a few hours ahead of nationwide rallies to denounce a surge in anti-Jewish hate crimes.

'We shall act, we shall pass laws, we shall punish,' Macron told Jewish leaders while inspecting the 96 tombstones spray-painted with blue and yellow swastikas.

'Those who did this are not worthy of the Republic,' he said, later placing a white rose on a tombstone commemorating Jews deported to Germany during World War II.

Another grave bore the words 'Elsassisches Schwarzen Wolfe' ('Black Alsatian Wolves), a separatist group with links to neo-Nazis in the 1970s.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6720753/Swastikas-scrawled-headstones-Jewish-cemetery-France.html

It’s time for a NATIONAL EMERGENCY conversation about fake news media constantly spreading “hate crime” hoaxes like the phony Jussie Smollett “lynching”

How many more completely made-up tales about Trump supporters harassing, assaulting, and lynching Native American activists, Leftist female professors, and gay black actors is it going to take before American patriots finally declare a national emergency conversation about the relentless spread of fake news, and how it’s only furthering the wedge of division in our nation?

The latest fake news hoax perpetrated by “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett proves, once again, that the “resistance” is willing to say or do pretty much anything to trash Trump supporters and stir the pot of anti-white racism. Even though many gays, blacks, and women support President Donald Trump, the fake news media continues to hammer the idea that Trump supporters are just pointy hat-wearing members of the Ku Klux Klan – and, sadly, many brainless Leftists believe such drivel, even after it’s been proven false again and again.

In the case of the Jussie Smollett hoax, CNN and many other fake news outlets ran with the ridiculous narrative that Smollett was attacked and “lynched” by white, MAGA hat-wearing racists in the streets of deep-blue Chicago, who shouted at him that “this is MAGA country.” With no evidence whatsoever to back his story, which contained many contradictory details, Smollett was quickly painted as a victim of “racism,” as the mainstream media declared him to be some kind of hero.

“Is it too much to ask CNN to bring an ounce of critical evidence to claims – especially on highly socially divisive topics such as a heinous hate crime – instead of closing their eyes and parroting whatever is the story line du jour merely because of politically convenient narratives?” commented Zero Hedge in an article about the hoax.

“How many embarrassing retractions, walk-backs, corrections, and deleted articles will it take?”

For more stories about the endless stream of anti-Trump fake news coming from the mainstream media, be sure to check out Faked.news and Corruption.news.

Conservative personality Mark Dice shares hilarious video montage of fake news outlets parroting Jussie Smollett hoax

As is now abundantly clear, Smollett was not randomly attacked by white, MAGA hat-wearing racists, but rather by two black Nigerians that he appears to have hired as part of the staged hoax. But the mainstream media is nowhere to be found in correcting the record – and is actually doubling down, in many cases, on this utterly ridiculous fake news story.

http://patriotrising.com/its-time-for-a-national-emergency-conversation-about-fake-news-media-constantly-spreading-hate-crime-hoaxes-like-the-phony-jussie-smollett-lynching/

>>5266205

the kikes did it

>>5266240

rumor

>>5266294

yellow vests