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Reps Devin Nunes & Jim Jordan plan to subpoena whistleblower, Hunter Biden

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Republican California Rep. Devin Nunes on Wednesday wrote a letter to House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff asking Hunter Biden and the whistleblower to be subpoenaed to appear before the committee.

"The American people understand how you have affirmatively prevented Republicans from examining serious issues directly relevant to the issues," Nunes and Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan said in the letter. "Therefore, to provide some basic level of fairness and objectivity to your 'impeachment inquiry,' we intend to subpoena the anonymous whistleblower and Hunter Biden for sworn testimony in closed-door depositions."

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Lindsey Graham launches Senate probe into Bidens' Burisma actions

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Sen. Lindsey Graham on Thursday requested State Department documents related to former Vice President Joe Biden's communications with former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

Graham, R-S.C., sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo requesting the documents to assist in answering questions regarding allegations that Joe Biden was involved in the termination of Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin in order to end an investigation into natural gas company Burisma Holdings, where his son Hunter Biden served on the board.

The senator requested all documents and communications related to Joe Biden's phone calls with Poroshenko on Feb. 11, 18 and 19, and March 22, 2016, citing media reports that they discussed previous demands to dismiss Shokin for alleged corruption before he was removed from office on March 29, 2016.

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DOJ would take halted executions to high court

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A view of the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington. A federal judge in the District of Columbia has temporarily halted the first federal execution in 16 years as a lawsuit on how the government intends to carry it out continues.
Attorney General William Barr told The Associated Press on Thursday that he would take the Trump administration's bid to restart federal executions after a 16-year hiatus to the Supreme Court if necessary.

Barr's comments came hours after a district court judge temporarily blocked the administration's plans to start executions next month. The administration is appealing the decision, and Barr said he would take the case to the high court if Thursday's ruling stands.

He said the five inmates set to be executed are a small portion of 62 death row inmates.

"There are people who would say these kinds of delays are not fair to the victims, so we can move forward with our first group," Barr said aboard a government plane to Montana, after he met with local and federal law enforcement officials in Cleveland.

Comment: See also: Trump Justice Department to resume federal executions


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Schiff brings lip-reading witnesses and angry bureaucrats into impeachment theater

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The impeachment circus remains in full swing on Capitol Hill, with the Democrats' latest star witness apparently overhearing an incriminating phone call and raging at Trump daring to set his own foreign policy agenda.

David Holmes, a low-level staffer at the US embassy in Kiev, appeared on Capitol Hill for questioning on Thursday. Holmes provided no direct evidence of a 'quid-pro-quo' arrangement between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but told lawmakers that he managed to overhear Trump demand "investigations" into Joe Biden while in a restaurant in Kiev.

Holmes claimed that on July 26, he overheard an enraged Trump shout down the phone to US Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland, demanding that Zelensky investigate the Biden family's business dealings in Ukraine. Though the call took place at an open-air cafe in the busy city, Holmes claimed he could hear Trump perfectly well on the speaker of Sondland's cell phone, and that afterwards, Sondland told him that Trump had specifically asked him to investigate the Bidens.


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Jews Impeach Trump, Trump Woos Jews

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Not all of them it seems
The impeachment farce is basically a Jewish affair, noted the Israeli daily Haaretz

The soul and engine of the impeachment is Adam Schiff, 'Shifty Schiff' in Trump's colourful expression. His name brings to mind the Jewish banking house of Schiff, top Jewish aristocracy of money and media. The second man is Greedy Goldman, or Daniel Sachs Goldman, the chief interrogator in the impeachment hearings. Sachs Goldman or Goldman Sachs, another top Jewish name and bank. The third Jew in the heart of the impeachment is infamous George Soros. Haaretz could add that the top witnesses for prosecution are also Jewish, the bizarre Gordon "Zelensky loves your ass" Sondland, or Vindman the Spy. Trump would never dare to notice this remarkable coincidence, concludes Haaretz. Only antisemites would.

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Forced compliance: Firms failing to tackle climate crisis will be delisted from stock exchange, Labour says

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John McDonnell tells bosses they must 'pull their weight' to help tackle the 'existential threat' to the planet


Companies that fail to act on the climate change they cause will be axed from the stock exchange, under radical Labour plans.

John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, pledged his government would ensure firms are "pulling their weight" to tackle the "existential threat" to the planet.

And he warned: "For those companies not taking adequate steps under Labour they will be delisted from the London Stock Exchange."

Comment: It's amazing how many of these Orwellian compliance initiatives have been put forward in regard to the 'climate emergency' as of late. It seems the controllers are upping their game in getting every last citizen, and corporation, on-board with the climate agenda. There is no escape. Deniers will be un-personed.

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Attempt to damage Russian-Serbian relations fails miserably with 3 year old unconfirmed 'espionage' story

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The video in which a "Russian intelligence officer" allegedly hands over money to his Serbian counterpart, stirring a "scandal", turned out to be several years old. In addition, as the Serbian daily Politika reported, a person alleged to be a Serbian official with the rank of an intelligence officer is not a member of Serbian security structures.

In other words, it's most likely a civilian trading business data. Earlier, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said the Military Security Agency (VBA) is dealing with a possible "espionage affair" in which "Russian spies recruit Serbian agents" and will have more information on it later during that day.

"I spoke with President Vucic, and he gave an order to the Military Security Agency to investigate the case. We do not have all the information yet, but if it turns out to be true, then it will be a serious issue and a problem for us," Brnabic told Belgrade media.

Comment: Meanwhile the real scandal: Islamic State Weapons in Yemen Traced Back to US Government: Serbia Files (part 1)


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Israel's third snap election? Gantz tells President Rivlin he can't form a government

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Israel has been stuck in political limbo amid the inability of the country's two major political forces, Prime Minister Netanyahu's Likud and Benny Gantz's Blue and White coalition, to form a governing coalition of their own, or to join forces in a grand coalition, following parliamentary elections which took place in April and September.

Opposition leader Benny Gantz has informed President Reuven Rivlin that he has failed to put together a Blue and White-led coalition to form the country's next government, Israeli media has reported.

The retired general reportedly told the president that he would now do everything possible to help create an alternative governing coalition in the coming weeks, and thanked Rivlin for his helped in the unity negotiation talks.

Comment: Sputnik reports:
"This means that under the law, starting from today and within 21 days, the decision on whom will bear the burden of forming the next government is vested in Knesset lawmakers... This is a serious challenge for the state of Israel", Rivlin said at a special ceremony in his residence in Jerusalem.

The president officially notified Knesset Speaker Yuli-Yoel Edelstein on Netanyahu and Gantz's failure, adding that now the lawmakers would be tasked with forming the government.

According to Israeli law, any member who wins a parliamentary majority during the period, which will end on 11 December, will be appointed as prime minister. If no majority is gained, the law requires that the Knesset be dissolved, and Israel will be forced to make arrangements for a third election campaign.

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Meanwhile Netanyahu is due to be indicted: AG Avichai Mandelblit: 'It is my duty by law to indict Benjamin Netanyahu'

For more on the current state of Israeli politics, check out: Gilad Atzmon: The End of Israel


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IAEA questions Iran over uranium "particles" at undeclared nuclear site

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Cornel Feruta, acting director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency attends the board of governors meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna on November 21.
The UN's nuclear watchdog has asked Iran for details on why traces of uranium were found at an undeclared site after Iranian officials failed to provided information about the discovery.

The issue has added to tensions over Iran's moves to breach a landmark 2015 deal aimed at curbing its nuclear activities.

"It is essential that Iran works with the agency to resolve this matter promptly," Cornel Feruta told the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) board of governors in Vienna on November 21.

The IAEA said in a report made public last week that its inspectors had "detected natural uranium particles of anthropogenic origin at a location in Iran not declared to the agency."

Comment: The US broke its promises regarding the JCPOA deal and its sanctions regime against Iran is as brutal as ever, so to imply Iran is in the wrong is typically absurd.

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Political hack Alex Vindman: Living proof that the Deep State exists, and is corrupt

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"That's Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman to you sir!"
Democrats and the Deep State have elevated more policy disagreements to what amounts to an attempted coup. Just listen to Alex Vindman.

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman is living, breathing, testifying proof the Deep State exists. He has shown his true colors and the agenda of the self-appointed elites who think they run this country.

Let me state categorically that I am not implying dual loyalty or questioning Vindman's patriotism or even his devotion to duty as he sees it. I'm questioning his judgment about where that duty lies and the execution of those duties as a military officer and civil servant.