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M.N. The World is ruled by the comedians posing as the rulers. Is that right, Donald? Welcome the newcomer!
Comedian set to win first round of Ukraine presidential vote | One America News Network
M.N. This is the simplest and quite doubtful impression. It is much more complex, with the allusions to Breivik, to Kosovo and the Balkan Wars of 1990-s. The New Abwehr can be blamed for this as well. This act has to be investigated very carefully, it might provide the valuable clues.
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"Such a Balkan obsession appeared again with Brenton Tarrant, the 28-year-old Australian who murdered 50 innocents last Friday at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Although the exact ideology which motivated Tarrant’s terrorism spree is difficult to pin down beyond a generic far-right obsession with Muslims, demographics, and immigration, his 87-page manifesto offers many hints...
Its intellectual heft is lacking – a lot of the poorly organized thoughts of the personal trainer turned mass murderer are no more than shitposting – but what shines through is how much Tarrant admires Serbs.
Tarrant wrote the names of venerable Serbian heroes in the fight against the Ottomans on the rifle magazines he used to gun down Muslims at prayer."
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FILE PHOTO: Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukrainian comic actor and candidate in the upcoming presidential election, takes part in a production of the Servant of the People television series in Kiev, Ukraine March 6, 2019. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo
March 27, 2019
By Matthias Williams and Margaryta Chornokondratenko
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainians exhausted by five years of war and decades of official corruption look set to send a comedian with no political experience into a second round run-off against the incumbent when they vote in Sunday’s presidential election.
The favorite in Sunday’s first round vote is Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a political novice who plays a fictitious Ukrainian president in a popular TV series and who, in real life, has tapped into an anti-establishment mood among voters.
Many opinion polls put the serving president, Petro Poroshenko, in second place, a result that would set up a run-off between him and Zelenskiy next month, with a hard-to-predict final outcome.
(For a graphic on ‘Ukraine presidential election’ click, https://tmsnrt.rs/2EEQ22R)
Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is also in the running and could scrape into the second round at Poroshenko’s expense.
“Zelenskiy will probably be in the second round, up against either Poroshenko or Tymoshenko, which means that it’s going to be a contest between the new and the old,” said Robert Brinkley, chair of the think tank Chatham House’s Ukraine Forum.
Ukrainians must then decide whether they are so fed up with the existing politicians “that they’ll vote in a complete novice and outsider, or will their cautious instincts … reassert themselves and they’ll say we had better go with the devil we know rather than somebody completely unknown,” he said.
With Zelenskiy’s insurgent run for the presidency, Ukraine is surfing a wave of popular anger similar to the ones that brought the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement to power in Italy and U.S. President Donald Trump to office.
Just 9 percent of Ukrainians have confidence in their national government, the lowest of any electorate in the world, a Gallup poll published in March showed. The global average was 56 percent in 2018. Just 12 percent of Ukrainian adults have confidence in the honesty of elections, while 91 percent believe corruption in their government is widespread.
“None of the three candidates suits me. And the other candidates simply will not manage to get through,” said Kiev resident Yevheniya Shmelkova. “Therefore, we are indecisive in general – should we go to the polls, or not go. No, of course, you need to go, but the result will be unpredictable.”
Western governments have much at stake in the election because they took Ukraine’s side in its conflict with Russia and have invested money — and considerable political capital — in keeping Kiev on a path of integrating with the West.
Whoever is the ultimate winner, they are unlikely to move back into Russia’s orbit, but Western officials and investors say they worry about the unpredictability that a Zelenskiy presidency is liable to bring.
Poroshenko was elected president in 2014, soon after Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region, and an armed uprising by Russian-backed separatists in east Ukraine that has killed 13,000 people and still rumbles on.
A frequent visitor to the front line wearing camouflage gear, Poroshenko has been credited with containing the conflict and standing up to Russia.
But many voters say he has failed to get to grips with corruption and poverty and that his own entourage is tainted by sleaze. An increase in gas prices pushed through under pressure from Western donors caused anger among consumers unhappy at their higher bills.
LIFE IMITATES ART
Tymoshenko has described the gas hike as “genocide”, promising to lift pensions and emphasizing her past as a revolutionary martyr imprisoned by two presidents.
Zelenskiy has promised that, if elected, he will usher in anti-corruption and other reforms and breathe new life into moribund peace talks over the fate of eastern Ukraine, now de facto controlled by separatists with Moscow’s support.
In a case of life imitating art, his campaign has been helped by the character he plays in his TV show: an everyman who becomes president accidentally, then cuts through graft and bureaucracy with plain-talking honesty. Zelenskiy has said he would introduce a bill to strip the president, lawmakers and judges of immunity from prosecution if elected.
Addressing investor fears about his inexperience, he told Reuters in an interview last month he would not allow Ukraine to default on its debt commitments to the International Monetary Fund, which has propped up the country with billions of dollars in loans in return for reforms.
(Reporting by Matthias Williams, Pavel Polityuk, Natalia Zinets, Sergei Karazy, Margaryta Chornokondratenko; Writing by Andrew Osborn and Christian Lowe; Editing by Philippa Fletcher)
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M.N.: The American people may feel proud about their Justice System: it is balanced and fair, which is confirmed by Mr. Mueller's style of conducting his historical investigation. This system is embodied by the persons for whom the integrity is unquestionable, it is the inseparable and natural part of their personalities and the professional lives. These persons are of the various and different persuasions, political and apolitical. These persons are: Mr. Comey, Mr. Mueller, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Rosenstein, and many others.
Mr. Barr, we want to see you in this number! Release the true and the original Mueller report in its entirety, after the appropriate reductions.
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WASHINGTON — Two senior U.S. officials told NBC News on Monday that the FBI is prepared to brief congressional leaders on the counterintelligence findings of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
The FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into President Donald Trump, and the letter sent to Congress on Sunday by Attorney General William Barr about the Mueller probe is silent on the question of whether investigators found that Trump or anyone around him might be compromised or influenced by Russia.
The officials said they expect the FBI to brief the so-called Gang of 8 — the leaders of the House and the Senate and the chairmen and ranking members of the intelligence committees — in closed session.
No briefing has been scheduled, a third U.S. official familiar with the matter said, but one of the officials said it could happen within the next 30 to 60 days.
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The Mueller investigation has ended, not with a bang but with a whimper. Dispirited are those who looked forward to seeing the President removed from office first by impeachment and then in leg irons.
True, the investigation was, by many measures, a redoubtable success. It painstakingly documented Russia’s criminal meddling in our election and led to the conviction of several of the president’s closest advisers and enablers. And it hardly provided the “complete and total EXONERATION” that the president claimed in a characteristically inaccurate tweet, as the report left open whether Trump obstructed justice.
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The Mueller investigation has ended, not with a bang but with a whimper. Dispirited are those who looked forward to seeing the President removed from office first by impeachment and then in leg irons.
True, the investigation was, by many measures, a redoubtable success. It painstakingly documented Russia’s criminal meddling in our election and led to the conviction of several of the president’s closest advisers and enablers. And it hardly provided the “complete and total EXONERATION” that the president claimed in a characteristically inaccurate tweet, as the report left open whether Trump obstructed justice.
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Democratic Representative Maxine Waters, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, on Tuesday answered “yes,” when asked if the German bank had begun giving records of its financial history with the president.
The committee is examining “everything” around Trump’s ties to the bank, Waters said at the Capitol.
Deutsche Bank let Trump borrow millions of dollars in the past few decades. Waters and the House Intelligence Committee, chaired by Democratic Representative Adam Schiff, have been investigating Trump’s relationship with the bank, which let Trump borrow money, in questionable ways, when other financial institutions would not.
The bank rejected requests for the records when Democrats were the minority in the House of Representatives the past two years, but began cooperating after Democrats gained the majority after the November midterm elections.
A branch of the German bank Deutsche Bank pictured with a sculpture of the 'Gutenberg' monument on February 1, 2018, in Frankfurt, Germany. The bank has started providing records of its financial dealings with President Donald Trump, Rep. Maxine Waters said. Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images
Waters’s comment on Tuesday suggested progress from early this month, when she first disclosed that the bank was cooperating with the committee requests.
“So, you have staffers that are coordinating with, I imagine, attorneys at Deutsche Bank on document production right now?” MSNBC host Chris Hayes asked Waters at the time.
“Yes, I do,” she said.
Waters also said the House Financial Services Committee began sending letters to Deutsche Bank last year and was “very concerned about money laundering.”
“We know that Deutsche Bank has had a reputation for money laundering for a long time,” Waters said, adding, “Deutsche Bank is, you know, the bank that [Trump’s] been dealing with and his family has been dealing with Deutsche Bank.”
Waters did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Newsweek on Tuesday.
Deutsche Bank spokeswoman Kerrie McHugh declined to comment to Newsweek on Tuesday but reiterated a previous statement: "Deutsche Bank is engaged in a productive dialogue with House Financial Services and Intelligence Committees to determine the best and most appropriate way of assisting them in their official oversight functions. We remain committed to providing appropriate information to all authorized investigations.”
Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser, Jared Kushner, has also been entangled with the German bank.
Last March, New York State’s Department of Financial Services reportedly requested loan information about Kushner and his family real estate business Kushner Companies from three financial institutions including Deutsche Bank. A spokeswoman for Kushner Companies at the time denied that the company received any request from the state financial services department.
Federal prosecutors in December 2017 reportedly subpoenaed Deutsche Bank for records pertaining to Kushner Companies. It was not known whether the records concerned Kushner or Mueller’s Russia investigation.
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