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Whistleblower and DNC contractor visited Obama WH - must be investigated

Sara Carter
SaraACarter.com
Fri, 08 Nov 2019 18:26 UTC
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A controversial whistleblower who allegedly reported second-hand on President Donald Trump's private conversation with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Obama White House on numerous occasions, according to Obama era visitor logs obtained by Judicial Watch.

Last week Real Clear Investigation's first reported the whistleblower's name. It is allegedly CIA officer Eric Ciaramella. His name, however, has been floating around Washington D.C. since the leak of Trump's phone call. It was considered an 'open secret' until reporter Paul Sperry published his article. Ciaramella has never openly stated that he is the whistleblower and most news outlets are not reporting his name publicly.

He was detailed to the National Security Counsel during the Obama Administration in 2015 and was allegedly sent back to the CIA in 2017, after a number of people within the Trump White House suspected him of leaking information to the press, according to several sources that spoke with SaraACarter.com.

Further, the detailed visitor logs reveal that a Ukrainian expert Alexandra Chalupa, a contractor that was hired by the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 election, visited the White House 27 times.

Chalupa allegedly coordinated with the Ukrainians to investigate then candidate Trump and his former campaign manager Paul Manafort. Manafort was forced out of his short tenure as campaign manager for Trump when stories circulated regarding business dealings with Ukrainian officials. Manafort was later investigated and convicted by a jury on much lesser charges than originally set forth by Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation. He was given 47 months in prison for basically failing to pay appropriate taxes and committing bank fraud.

Comment: See also: It's amazing how many non-scandals have exploded into major media affairs just because Trump. Meanwhile, the very real examples of corruption and dirty tricks - which have been standard operating procedure in U.S. politics for decades - rarely get media attention. For example, no one is pointing out the degree to which the United States interfered in the affairs of Ukraine before and during the Maidan revolution. That was the real scandal.

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Western sanctions on Syria only hurt the people in order to push regime change agenda - Assad


RT
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 14:52 UTC
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© RTSyrian President Bashar Assad.
The sanctions the US and Europe placed on Damascus serve a single goal: to pit people against the government and make them uphold the West's agenda, Syrian President Bashar Assad told RT in an exclusive interview.

The restrictions the EU and the US imposed against Syria initially targeted ordinary Syrians so that they would blame the government for their woes and eventually rebel, President Assad told RT's Afshin Rattansi. Now, as the West has kept renewing the sanctions year by year for almost a decade, they serve another goal: to punish Syrians for refusing to bow to the pressure, the president said.

"Those people were expected to rise against their government during the different stages of the war but they did not. They were supposed to support the terrorists - the 'moderate rebels' and 'angels' of White Helmets - but the people did not and stood with their government. So, they have to suffer. They have to pay the price and learn their lesson that they should stand with the agenda [of the West]."

Comment: Meanwhile the US strategically positions itself near Syria's oil wells: U.S. Didn't 'Withdraw' From Syria - It Redeployed, And Now Controls 75% of The Country's Oil

See also: Starvation sanctions are worse than overt warfare

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Ex- ambassador Yovanovitch lies under oath: Communicated with Dem staffer on 'delicate' issue after 'whistleblower' complaint, emails show

Gregg Re
Fox News
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 17:54 UTC
Marie Yovanovitch
© J. Scott Applewhite/Associated PressFormer U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch (center).
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, a key witness in House Democrats' impeachment inquiry, communicated via her personal email account with a Democratic congressional staffer concerning a "quite delicate" and "time-sensitive" matter -- just two days after the whistleblower complaint that kickstarted the inquiry was filed, and a month before the complaint became public, emails obtained Thursday by Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight show.

The emails appear to contradict Yovanovitch's deposition on Capitol Hill last month, in which she told U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., about an email she received Aug. 14 from the staffer, Laura Carey -- but indicated under oath that she never responded to it.

The communication came "from the Foreign Affairs Committee," and "they wanted me to come in and talk about, I guess, the circumstances of my departure" in May as ambassador to Ukraine, Yovanovitch testified, describing Carey's initial email. "I alerted the State Department, because I'm still an employee, and so, matters are generally handled through the State Department."

Comment: Ms. Yavonvitch was recalled by the Trump administration for blatant interference in internal Ukrainian politics. She also initiated monitoring of many pro-Trump and or right-wing media reporters.


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'Nonsense': Tory & Labour bash each other over secret spending plans, social media users tired of whole circus


RT
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 18:05 UTC
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The UK's biggest political parties are locked in a war of words over each other's spending plans - despite both refusing to reveal the details of their own budget projections to the public.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid claimed analysis carried out by his Conservative party showed that if Labour got into government, they would embark on a £1.2 trillion public spending spree. He has refused, however, to reveal his own spending plans if the Tories are returned to government in the December 12 election.

Labour's John McDonnell swiftly dismissed the alleged spending projection as "fake news" - but his party has similarly repeatedly refused to reveal its actual figures.

Politicians from both parties appeared on TV on Sunday to condemn their rivals for their allegedly disastrous spending plans, without giving ground on what the final figure is for their own party.

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Washington-based Organization of American States 'deteriorated', ceased to be inter-American - Argentina's president-elect


RTT
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 13:37 UTC
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© Martin Bernetti / AFPProtesters hold signs depicting US President Donald Trump and the head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November 30, 2018.
The chief regional bloc in the Americas has grown too dependent on the US, while the "interventionist" IMF shares the blame for Argentina's economic crisis, the nation's President-elect Alberto Fernandez told RT.

Fernandez sat down for an interview with former leader of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, on his show Conversation with Correa, aired on RT Spanish.

Correa asked Fernandez what he thinks about the role of the regional bloc, the Organization of American States (OAS), whose HQ is located in Washington, DC. "I've always asked myself: why must our countries resolve domestic conflicts through Washington?"

Fernandez agreed that it is a problem, saying that he "does not understand many of the decisions made by" the organization's current chief, Luis Almagro. "The OAS has deteriorated indeed," he said.

Comment: US controlled fronts are being replace by multilateral and equitable organisation all over the planet, and thanks in large part to Russia and China:

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Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff says up to 600 US troops will remain in Syria


Sputnik
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 17:50 UTC
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US President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of US military from Syria amid Turkey's operation against Kurdish forces in the northeast of the country. At the same time, the United States said it would remain in the oil-producing areas in the east of the country and would help local Kurds to control them.

Up to 600 US military staff will remain in Syria, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley told broadcaster ABC.

"Less than a thousand, somewhere around 500, maybe even 600," Milley said when asked about the number of the US troops in Syria. "There are still Daesh fighters in the region. And unless pressure is maintained, unless attention is maintained on that group, then there is a very real possibility that conditions could be set for a reemergence of Daesh," Milley said, adding that "the footprint will be small, but the objective will remain the same: the enduring defeat of Daesh."


Comment: They're not there to defeat Daesh. Syria, Russia, Iran, Iraq and Hezbollah can do that on their own.

Milley also said the Americans would be in Afghanistan for years to come (no surprise there):
In an ABC interview broadcast on November 10, Milley noted that, after the September 11 attacks in 2001, the original reason U.S. forces went into Afghanistan was to make sure that the country never again would be a haven for extremists who would attack the United States.

"That mission is not yet complete," the general said. "In order for that mission to be successful the government of Afghanistan, the Afghan security forces, are going to have to be able to sustain their own internal security to prevent terrorists using their territory to attack other countries, especially the United States."

There are some 14,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, as well as thousands of European forces participating in the NATO-led Resolute Support mission.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said it is time for the United States to pull back from its role in various conflicts around the globe, including in Syria.

Milley said U.S. troops will remain in the Middle Eastern country "for a significant amount of time because it's in our national interest to be there to help out."
The mission will never be complete, because it's impossible to make sure any country could never conceivably be used as a haven for extremists.

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ABC & CBS News facing firestorm of criticsim over response to Epstein leak video

Joseph A. Wulfsohn
Fox News
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 17:35 UTC
Ashley Bianco, Any Robach, Epstein leak video
ABC News and CBS News are both facing a firestorm of criticism over their response to a leaked video featuring ABC anchor Amy Robach complaining that the network had spiked an interview with a prominent accuser of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Earlier this week, reports circulated that ABC had identified the employee suspected of leaking the Robach video to controversial watchdog group Project Veritas. According to the reports, ABC executives informed their counterparts at CBS, where the staffer had recently been hired, of their suspicions and the employee soon lost her job.

However, on Friday, ousted CBS staffer Ashley Bianco publicly denied that she was the leaker. At almost the exact same moment, Project Veritas published a note from the alleged "ABC insider" it claimed was behind the leak.

Bianco, a former producer on ABC's "Good Morning America" who joined "CBS This Morning" last month, said she was fired by CBS after the network received a call from ABC informing her new boss that she once had access to the leaked video.

Comment: MSM execs part of 'network of people' that covered for Epstein - Project Veritas founder to RT
"They're fine airing the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, or [President Donald] Trump, or anybody else, but when it comes to Bill Clinton and some of these folks who are mentioned by Amy in this hot mic tape, they say they just didn't have enough corroboration," O'Keefe said, recalling that Robach had specifically mentioned that "we had [Bill] Clinton. I'm not sure how ABC News defines corroboration when it comes to credible witnesses talking about sexual assault."


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Low-intensity fighting continues as Ukrainian military & Donbass representatives begin new disengagement attempt


RT
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 17:38 UTC
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© Reuters / Oleksandr KlymenkoMembers of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission watch Ukrainian servicemen in Donetsk Region, Ukraine on November 9, 2019.
Ukrainian troops and militias in the eastern breakaway republics have begun a new round of disengagement, yet sporadic clashes continue. If the process succeeds, a Normandy Four meeting to settle the conflict will take place.

The militaries of Ukraine and the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) have been withdrawing from their positions around the village of Petrovskoye since Saturday. The process is being observed by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), as well as the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination (JCCC) on ceasefire and stabilization of the demarcation line.

The DPR representatives said their troops left their positions around the village on Saturday. Their Ukrainian adversaries have promised that the withdrawal will take around three days.

Comment: There's not much hope that an agreement will be reached so long as the neonazi Ukro-crazies still hold so much sway over the government. So long has the Right Sektor and other violent groups are receiving overt and covert aid from the U.S., President Zelensky doesn't have much say in the matter.

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Jewish Democratic congressman Andy Levin visits West Bank and blasts treatment of Palestinians


Times of Israel
Thu, 07 Nov 2019 06:59 UTC
Andy Levin says he was enraged at sight of water supply to illegal Jewish outpost, as Palestinian villagers remain without access
Andy Levin
© AP Photo/Carolyn KasterRep.-elect Andy Levin, D-Mich, arrives for member-elect briefings on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018
A Democratic congressman from Michigan has criticized Israel for its treatment of Palestinians following a tour of the West Bank earlier this week.

Rep. Andy Levin said Wednesday he was enraged by the situation in Susya, where Palestinian villagers are denied water access, while Jewish settlers nearby are granted government-supplied amenities.

"Yesterday, I traveled to the southern West Bank, including the Palestinian village of Susya, which the Israeli government has destroyed twice and currently denies access to water," he wrote. "Yet we watched the government utility, right before our eyes, lay in pipes right across the village's land to deliver tap water to an illegal Israeli outpost nearby." He did not name the outpost.

Comment: We don't know whether Mr Levin changed his mind about Israel after his recent visit, but the country's practices against the native Palestinians are definitely apartheidist. See,

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Russia to deploy advanced weapons 'no other country has', US says it "must address" this

Tom O'Connor
Newsweek
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 13:19 UTC
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Russian President Vladimir Putin praised his country's recent military achievements, including the development of state-of-the-art weapons that the U.S. military told Newsweek it now must match.

Addressing a promotion and award ceremony on Wednesday for officers and prosecutors at the Grand Kremlin Palace, Putin offered his congratulations for those being recognized for accomplishments "critical to the state." Of the utmost important tasks, he explained, are "to reliably protect Russia and our fellow citizens from external and domestic threats, to clearly anticipate potential risks and challenges and to improve their performance gradually and consistently."

"Your key priority is the development of the Russian Armed Forces," Putin said. "Our army and navy have proved their high readiness, yet we intend to build up our defense capability and to deploy hypersonic, laser and other cutting-edge weapons which no other country has."

"However, this is not a reason for threatening anyone," he added. "On the contrary, we are ready to do our best to promote the disarmament process with the help of these novel weapons, which have been created exclusively to guarantee our security in the face of growing threats to our country."

Comment: Both strategically and technologically, the US and its lackeys are lagging way behind, which is why they're having to resort to playing dirty:

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