Over 180 people injured in Algeria's protests

According to the TSA Algerie portal, around 800,000 people took part in protests across the country against Abdelaziz Bouteflika who announced earlier he will be running for president again

The number of people injured in Friday's protests in Algeria has grown to 183, Algeria Press Service (APS) reported on Saturday citing the ministry of health, population and hospital reform.

Earlier reports said that one person was killed and 63 others injures in protests.

According to the TSA Algerie portal, around 800,000 people took part in protests across the country against Abdelaziz Bouteflika who announced earlier his intention to run for president again. Bouteflika, aged 81, has already served as Algeria's president for four consecutive terms, since 1999. His health deteriorated in 2013 when he suffered a stroke. On Saturday Al Mayadeen TV channel reported that Bouteflika was hospitalized in Switzerland and is in critical condition.

http://tass.com/world/1047213

Romania Becomes The Latest Country To Want Its Gold Back

Business Review, Bucharest, Romania

Parliament leaders want Romanian gold reserves brought home

BUCHAREST, Romania — Chamber of Deputies President Liviu Dragnea and Socia Democratic Party Sen. Serban Nicolae have proposed a bill to force the National Bank to store 95 percent of Romania’s gold reserves in the country.

The bill is meant to change the law that establishes the National’s Bank statute. According to the document, the reason for this demand is that gold stored abroad produces only additional costs with storage. The bill also wants to eliminate the word “international” from the terminology used by the National Bank in “international gold reserves.”

Romania’s gold reserves, 103.7 tons, are stored in three countries, according to the National Bank officials. Three years ago, the institution announced that 60 percent of the gold reserves were stored abroad. The situation has not changed — 61 tons of the gold are stored at the Bank of England, more than 40 tons are kept at the Bank of Romania in Bucharest, and fewer than five tons are stored at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland. …

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http://business-review.eu/news/liviu-dragnea-demands-the-national-bank-to-bring-back-the-gold-reserves-stored-abroad-197298

Feds Seize $2.6 Million in Drugs at Arizona Border

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized approximately 360 pounds of methamphetamine and 2,900 of marijuana on Wednesday during two vehicle inspections at the Arizona border with Mexico. The alleged seizures resulted in the arrests of two Mexican nationals and seizure of more than $2.6 million in drugs.

The first seizure took place when CBP officers assigned to the Port of Nogales Mariposa commercial lane contacted a 35-year-old Mexican national driving a tractor-trailer as he attempted to cross into the United States from Nogales, Sonora. Officers sent the driver to a secondary inspection area where a K-9 detection team began a search of the contents of the trailer. The K-9 alerted to the presence of a scent it has been trained to detect leading CBP officers to discover 190 bundles of marijuana concealed within a shipment of charcoal. The weight of the marijuana registered at more than 2,900 pounds with a value of approximately $1.5 million.

The second incident took place when CBP officers assigned to the same commercial facility contacted a 48-year-old Mexican national as he attempted to enter the U.S. in a tractor-trailer from Mexico. Officers referred the driver to a secondary inspection station where a closer examination of the empty trailer could be conducted. CBP officers deployed a K-9 team inside the trailer. The dog alerted to the possible presence of drugs which it has been trained to detect, according to CBP officials. A subsequent search utilizing the CBP K-9 produced more than 300 packages containing a substance believed to be methamphetamine concealed within the floor compartment of the trailer. The total weight of the methamphetamine came out to 360 pounds with an estimated value of $1.1 million.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control, and protection of our nation’s borders at and between official ports of entry, according to a media statement released by Customs and Border Protection media relations section.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/03/03/feds-seize-2-6-million-in-drugs-at-arizona-border/

Liberals Call for John Wayne’s Name to Be Removed from Airport

Last week, we reported that liberals were outraged over a newly-surfaced 1971 interview in which actor John Wayne made controversial comments about race and homosexuality. Now, liberals have launched a campaign calling for Wayne’s name to be removed from a Southern California airport over the comments.

Fox News reported that reporter Michael Hilzik just wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times in which he called for the Orange County airport to be renamed.

“Orange County today is such an economically and ethnically diverse community that it’s hard to justify asking any member of that community to board planes at an airport named after an outspoken racist and homophobe, with his strutting statue occupying a central niche in front of the concourse,” Hilzik wrote.

https://www.tmn.today/2019/03/liberals-john-wayne-name-removed-airport/?utm_campaign=TPINewsletter332019Sunday&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=1d09840caddec138a6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI

Kushner’s new ideas are Netanyahu’s old ones

Kushner’s new ideas are not different from Netanyahu’s old ones. The inexperienced US president’s son-in-law, with poor charisma, who, as a result of family connections, jumped to the top of the American leadership hierarchy and took over a handful of the most complex foreign policy files (the Palestinian issue and US-Saudi relations) has moved a step ahead in the “deal of the century”, according to his interview with Sky News Arabia in which he said he was getting closer to revealing its details.

The four main components of the deal are: freedom, respect, dignity and security, but for Kushner, freedom does not mean getting liberated from the occupation and exercising the right to self-determination and national independence. To Kushner, freedom only means freedom of movement, goods and worship. He keeps referring to the uniqueness and creativity that characterise his plan, but his plan has not come up with anything new, they are ideas and initiatives that have been discussed in the circles of Israeli right-wing as final status solutions for the Palestinian issue. They are all ideas that reflect American positions adopted by previous Republican and Democratic administrations.

The most recent and dangerous statement made by Kushner was when he talked about setting the borders. He did not mention the two-state solution and he did not refer to the right of the Palestinians to self-determination and the establishment of an independent, viable and sovereign state. He considered the long-term goal of setting the borders would mean getting rid of them, which can only be interpreted as an offer to establish a Palestinian entity, less than a state and more than a self-rule. This is the same term-long used by Netanyahu and Israeli right-wing leaders in their definition of a two-state solution and their vision for a future Palestinian state.

We are now closer to understanding Trump’s position on the Palestinian state project. Kushner’s recent clarifications confirmed our worst fears: The United States is finishing off the national project with its three pillars: refugee return, self-determination and independent statehood, and Jerusalem as the capital of this state.

Washington has taken Jerusalem out of the negotiations by recognising the city as the capital of Israel and moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to it. The US targeted the refugee file through two parallel tracks: dismantling UNRWA and redefining who a refugee is. It has given a green light to settlement expansion in all areas of Jerusalem and the West Bank. It adopted the economic peace theory launched by Netanyahu in the 1990s which was later adopted by Tony Blair and General Dayton and became the core of what Friedman called “Fayyadism” in reference to former Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad.

Today, Kushner comes up with the theory of setting the borders without linking them to an end of the occupation or the establishment of a Palestinian state, as if the man is trying to define the borders of a local self-rule which will soon disappear. To him, such borders are not international borders and should not be regarded as such.

Kushner is touring rich capitals in the region, and has put Turkey on the list for his current tour. The man is looking for funds for a plan he refuses to reveal; it’s like asking buyers to pay for goods they don’t know anything about. This is a clear disregard to all leaders in the region he is meeting. The man is asking Arab and Islamic countries to fund a deal that calls for keeping Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa Mosque and Islamic and Christian sanctities under Israeli control and sovereignty, resting assured that the ghost of the Iranian threat will enable him to pass the most serious deal that has ever been presented to Palestinians and Arabs.

But the good news amid this rubble of bad news is that no one out of all those who met with Kushner or those yet to meet him would dare to stand in front of the cameras to announce that they will support a deal that is filled with all these political and ideological concessions. The young envoy will also not find one Palestinian who can accept his offer or go along with it, or show an understanding of it.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190302-kushners-new-ideas-are-netanyahus-old-ones/

Netanyahu: Israel And Russia Will Work To Remove All Foreign Forces From Syria

Israel and Russia will work through a joint group to remove all foreign forces from Syria, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on March 3 at the weekly cabinet meeting.

“President Putin and I also agreed on a shared goal – the removal from Syria of the foreign forces that came in after the civil war erupted … We agreed to set up a joint task force which, together with others, will work to advance towards this goal,” Reuters quoted the Israeli PM as saying.

Despite the agreement with Russia, Netanyahu stressed that his country will continue to work against Iranian forces in Syria. Israel carried out hundreds of airstrikes on the war-torn country in the last eight years under this pretext.

“I made it unequivocally clear that Israel will not allow Iranian military entrenchment in Syria, and I made unequivocally clear that we will continue to militarily act against it,” Netanyahu told his cabinet, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Last week, Netanyahu visited Moscow and held extensive talks on Syria with President Vladimir Putin. This was the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders had since the downing of the Russian intelligence plane over Syria in September.

Following the meeting, Putin revealed that the two countries are working to establish a working group with the aim of normalizing the situation in Syria after the defeat of the terrorists there.

“The idea is that with all interested parties, first of all, of course, the leadership of the Syrian Arab Republic, it may be the opposition, these are countries of the region, everyone who is involved in this conflict,” Putin said back then.

While Tel Aviv sees the withdrawal of Iranian forces from Syria as a top priority, Moscow and Damascus consider the presence of Iranian personnel in the country as a legal move because they are deployed under request from the Syrian government.

Furthermore, Damascus and Teheran are being engaged in a deep military technological cooperation. This means that the joint group is not likely achieve the withdrawal of all or at least any foreign forces. On the other hand, the group may become a useful tool to de-escalate the situation between powers involved in the conflict and to start working on some compromise decision on the settlement of the conflict.

https://southfront.org/netanyahu-israel-and-russia-will-work-to-remove-all-foreign-forces-from-syria/

Another Tech Founder Dies From “Addiction-Related” Causes

Another young tech executive has died of addiction-related issues.

35-year-old Square co-founder Tristan O’Tierney, the developer of the company’s original mobile app, has died in Ocala, Fla. of “addiction-related” causes, according to Business Insider. The family is still waiting for an official cause of death.

His follows the death of Vine and HQ Trivia co-founder Colin Kroll, who passed away in December in his New York City apartment at the age of 34. Kroll was found after his girlfriend called police to do a wellness check. They reportedly found an envelope containing a mysterious white powdery substance near the body.

O’Tierney joined Square in February 2009 and built the original iPhone app as the head developer. He was the third co-founder of Square alongside Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey. Before that, O’Tierney had worked at companies like VMware, Apple, and Yahoo. He left Square in 2013. He died on Feb. 23. Memorial services will be held in San Francisco in the next two to three weeks.

“Tristan was part of Square’s founding story and we are deeply saddened by his passing. Our thoughts are with his family and friends,” a Square spokesperson told BI.

Since leaving Square, he has focused on freelance app development, worked as Director of Mobile for Voteraide, and pursued photography. He spent time traveling and doing photography both as a hobby and as a freelancer.

At the time of his death, he was enrolled in a three-month rehab program in Ocala.

https://governmentslaves.news/2019/03/03/another-tech-founder-dies-from-addiction-related-causes/

Mossad chief, Sudanese spy chief met in Munich to discuss Bashir's ouster: Report

The head of Mossad met his Sudanese counterpart in Germany last month as part of a secret plan by Saudi Arabia, Egypt and UAE to oust President Omar al-Bashir, the London-based Middle East Eye has reported.

Salah Gosh, the head of Sudan's National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), met with Mossad chief Yossi Cohen on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on February 15-17, it cited a senior Sudanese military source as saying.

The meeting was arranged by Egyptian intermediaries with the backing of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the leading online news outlet added.

According to the source, the three Arab countries consider Salah as “their man” to replace Bashir and put an end to his three-decade rule in Sudan.

“There is a consensus that Bashir will go within the ruling party and the army,” said the source, “The battle is about who is coming after.”

“Gosh has strong links with the Saudis, the Emiratis and the Egyptians. They want Bashir out, and they want their man in his place,” the source added.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/03/02/589946/Sudan-Israel-Mossad

FRAUDS EXPOSED: AOC found thru Casting Call! 5 Dems recruited-Political equivalent of Spice Girls

That’s right #AlexandriaOccasionalCortex is a fraud! She was found like a Hollywood Casting Call. And the other Radicals were recruited precisely because of their ethnicity and skin color. And they say Republicans are racist? I expose the evil group behind these MANUFACTURED CANDIDATES… #IlhanOmar #RashidaTliab #JoshBernsteinShow

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/frauds-exposed-aoc-found-thru-casting-call-5-dems-recruited-political-equivalent-of-spice-girls/

Senior Commander: US Transferring ISIL to Afghanistan with Arabs' Petro-Dollars

Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Army's Air Force Brigadier General Ali Shadmani warned China, Russia and other regional states of the US attempts to relocate the ISIL terrorists to Afghanistan.

"The enemy is today attempting to continue the same ISIL plot implemented in Iraq and Syria in Afghanistan and this will harm China, Russia and all the regional states," General Shadmani said in an interview with the Persian-language Tasnim news agency on Saturday.

He noted that certain Arab rulers are supporting the US financially and logistically to transfer the ISIL to Afghanistan, saying that they are making their last-ditch efforts to attain their goals but they will not because the ISIL's body has collapsed.

In relevant remarks late in January, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei expressed deep regret over the massacre of the Afghan people in terrorist attacks, blaming the US for the tragedies by transferring the ISIL terrorists to Afghanistan to guarantee its presence in the region.

"The US goal of transferring the ISIL terrorists to Afghanistan is justification of its continued deployment in the region and establishment of security for the Zionist regime," Ayatollah Khamenei said, addressing the Iranian seminaries in Tehran.

"The same hands which used the ISIL as a tool to oppress and commit crimes against the people in Syria and Iraq by its creation, is today after transferring the ISIL to Afghanistan after sustaining defeat in those regions, and the recent massacres are actually the start of this plot," he added.

Ayatollah Khamenei said that the US-backed terrorists don’t differentiate between the Shiites and Sunnis, and added, "The US wants this region not to see good days and wants the regional governments and nations to be busy with their own affairs so that they don’t think of opposing the evil agent of arrogant powers that is Zionism."

He described the United States' other goal of creation of insecurity as justification of its presence in the region, and said, "The Americans, themselves, are the main cause for insecurity in Afghanistan and the killings in this region since 20 years ago under the name of religion were carried out, directly or indirectly, by the US agents, and they are now after guaranteeing their presence by fomenting insecurity and attaining their political and economic objectives."

Earlier on December 26, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani warned President Ashraf Ghani of ISIL's relocation to Afghanistan.

"Enemies of the security and tranquility of the region in an organized move are after fomenting insecurity at the shared borders to transfer the defeated ISIL terrorists to Afghanistan and support the spread of Takfiri terrorism in the country to ignite the flames of war, bloodshed and insecurity in the region once again," Shamkhani said during a meeting with the Afghan president in Kabul.

He cautioned that ignoring the threat could end up in re-experiencing the bitter incidents which happened in Iraq and Syria.

Shamkhani also described the US forces' withdrawal from Afghanistan as a golden opportunity to strengthen the Asian country's defense and military capabilities, and said, "The regional nations are counting each moment for a full withdrawal of the US forces as their deployment has resulted in nothing, but war and insecurity."

https://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13971211000910