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Ukraine mystery: Schiff staffer made August visit for think-tank backed by Hunter Biden's old employer

Aaron Klein
Breitbart
Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:17 UTC

A staffer for Rep. Adam Schiff's House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence took a trip to Ukraine last month sponsored and organized by the Atlantic Council think tank.

The Atlantic Council is funded by and routinely works in partnership with Burisma, the natural gas company at the center of allegations regarding Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.

The Schiff staffer, Thomas Eager, is also currently one of 19 fellows at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Congressional Fellowship, a bipartisan program that says it "educates congressional staff on current events in the Eurasia region."

Eager's trip to Ukraine last month was part of the fellowship program and included nine other House employees. The bi-partisan visit, from August 24 to August 31, was billed as a "Ukraine Study Trip," and culminated in a meeting with former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

The dates of the pre-planned trip are instructive. Eager's visit to Ukraine sponsored by the Burisma-funded Atlantic Council began 12 days after the so-called whistleblower officially filed his August 12 complaint about President Donald Trump's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Satellite footage shows Chinese Navy surrounding US aircraft carrier

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ
Mon, 30 Sep 2019 12:00 UTC

Comment: Alternatively, 'Satellite footage shows US aircraft carrier all up in Chinese Navy's backyard'...

Chinese media published satellite images showing how US aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan was surrounded by five Chinese warships in the South China Sea.

The image was taken on the 23rd. From here you can see the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier very close to five other ships of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy.

Commenting on this, China Defense Ministry press secretary Ren Guoquiang said Washington had sent the aircraft carrier to the South China Sea as a sign of strength. Guoquiang assured the commitment of the Chinese military to defend Beijing's interests.

"The Chinese military will meet its obligations and tasks and firmly defend the sovereignty and security of the country", published the speech of military Sohu portal.

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Ukrainegate: 'I deserve to meet my accuser!' Trump demands 'whistleblower' and 'his source' to face him

RT
Sun, 29 Sep 2019 23:13 UTC

US President Donald Trump has demanded to meet with the whistleblower who accused him of pressuring Kiev for political gain, as well as with the actual alleged source that passed the information presented in the Ukraine complaint.

With the Ukrainegate scandal gathering pace, Trump has launched another scathing attack at one of its main peddlers, House Intel Committee chair Adam Schiff, saying that he wants to see the Democratic Senator tried for treason for his parody interpretation of Trump's call with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.

"He wrote down and read terrible things, then said it was from the mouth of the President of the United States. I want Schiff questioned at the highest level for Fraud & Treason," Trump wrote as he went on a Twitter tirade on Sunday.

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Did the Deep State plan this 'whistleblower' stink bomb all along? Sure looks like it!

Egypt is a target, again

Valery Kulikov
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC

Since September 20, Egypt's government has been facing a new challenge in the form of massive anti-government demonstrations demanding the resignation of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi both in the capital, and in such cities as Alexandria, Suez, El Mansour, and Helwan. So far, there's been two major waves of protests, but additional waves seem to be just around the corner.

The spark that ignited the fire of people's discontent was not sparked by some bearded religious man from the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization banned both in Russia and Egypt, but a young construction businessman who fled his home country to seek asylum in Spain by the name of Muhammad Ali. This individual accuses Egyptian authorities of depriving him of his claim to some 15 million dollars, with particular details of his claim remaining unclear to this date. However, the runaway entrepreneur decided to post a video on Facebook accusing Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sissi and senior military leaders of the Egyptian Armed Forces of rampant corruption. In particular, Muhammad Ali claimed that in his line of work, he witnessed constant abuse of public funds that were supposedly spent on the construction of luxury hotels, presidential palaces and the grave of the mother of President al-Sisi, who died back in 2014.

The first wave of protests broke out across Egypt on September 20, with Muhammad Ali coordinating them on various social media platforms. It was followed by yet another wave on September 27 - amplified by the fact that people were gathering for traditional Friday prayer. Although the protests have so far failed to draw large crowds, the authorities have already arrested some two thousand people.

Alleged videos/pics of Houthi's border victory: Vehicles destroyed, Saudi-led troops and officers captured

RT
Sun, 29 Sep 2019 18:38 UTC

Yemeni Houthi rebels have released footage of what they say was a victorious offensive on the border with Saudi Najran province. It shows scores of captured military troops, including what seem to be Saudi officers, and hardware.

The footage was broadcast on the Houthi-run Al Masirah TV channel on Sunday. The video features a Houthi spokesman explaining the details of the military operation, which they'd dubbed 'Victory from God,' as well as live action footage from the ground.

The offensive began a couple of days ago but is said to have been planned over several months. Three Saudi-led brigades were ultimately led into a major ambush, the spokesman claimed. The battle against the brigades - said to be some 7,000-strong in total - took place on Yemeni soil close to the border with the Saudi Arabian province of Najran.

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US State Department ramps up probe into former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton's email server

John Bowden
The Hill
Sat, 28 Sep 2019 07:54 UTC

The State Department reportedly intensified a probe into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server, contacting dozens of former aides involved in email exchanges that passed through her server.

The Washington Post reported Saturday that as many as 130 former Clinton aides have been contacted by State Department investigators in recent weeks, with many being informed that they have been found "culpable" for transmitting information that should have been classified at a higher level than it was originally sent.

Former Obama administration officials described the probe to the Post as an extraordinary investigation fueled by political animosity. But current officials speaking on the condition of anonymity told the newspaper that the probe was structured to avoid the appearance of political bias.

The probe, which reportedly reached the stage where former officials began being contacted shortly after Trump's inauguration, was described by one senior agency official to the Post as having nothing to do with President Trump's vows to investigate Clinton if elected during the 2016 election. "This has nothing to do with who is in the White House," the official said. "This is about the time it took to go through millions of emails, which is about 3½ years."

A start: Iran receives Saudi response to Gulf security coalition invite

Sputnik
Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:06 UTC

Last week, Tehran appeared to make the first step toward cooling tensions in the Persian Gulf region, proposing the creation of a broad regional coalition including Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states to ensure regional security.

Saudi Arabia has sent diplomatic messages to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani via third parties, government spokesman Ali Rabiei announced on Monday. "Messages from the Saudis were presented to Hassan Rouhani from the leaders of some countries," Rabiei said, according to the Iranian Labour News Agency.

"If Saudi Arabia is really pursuing a change of behaviour, Iran welcomes that," the spokesman noted, without specifying the messages' contents. "Part of the Hormuz peace plan is also about working with neighbours like Saudi Arabia, so Iran welcomes the process," Rabei said.

"Aside from private messages, Iran is waiting to see 'public messages" from Saudi Arabia, one of which "can become the end of the attack on Yemen," Rabei said. Tehran, he noted, is ready to do what it can to help facilitate a ceasefire in that war-torn country.

Repeating 2014, both Afghani rivals claim win in presidential election

RFE/RL
Mon, 30 Sep 2019 11:03 UTC

Afghani chief executive Abdullah Abdullah

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and the country's chief executive, Abdullah Abdullah, have both claimed victory in a weekend presidential election, a scene reminiscent of the last vote in 2014.

Though preliminary overall results aren't expected for another three weeks, Abdullah told a news conference in Kabul on September 30 that by his count, he won such a clear-cut victory in the balloting that a second-round runoff won't be needed. That followed a claim by Ghani's running mate, Amrullah Saleh, that the incumbent had won a clear first-ballot victory. "The information that we have received shows that 60 to 70 percent of people voted [for] us," Saleh was quoted by Voice of America as saying.

Neither side offered any evidence to back up their claims, raising concerns that the war-torn country is headed for a similar situation that arose from the 2014 election, where the same two candidates made competing claims of victory.

Houthi victories continue: Three Saudi Brigades annihilated in devastating offensive in Saudi Arabia

Federico Pieraccini
The Strategic Culture Foundation
Mon, 30 Sep 2019 17:55 UTC

Houthi forces

Many may have hitherto been led to believe that the Houthis were a ragtag armed force lacking in sophistication. Many, seeing the drone and missile attacks on Saudi oil plants, may have declared it to be a false-flag attack carried out by Riyadh to boost Aramco's market value; either that or it was an operation carried out by Iran or even Israel. On Saturday September 28, the Houthis put paid to such speculation by confirming what many, like myself, have been writing for months; that is, that the asymmetrical tactics of the Houthis, combined with the conventional capabilities of the Yemeni army, are capable of bringing the Saudi kingdom of Mohammed Bin Salman to its knees.

The Yemeni army's missile forces are able to carry out highly complex attacks, no doubt as a result of reconnaissance provided by the local Shia population within the Kingdom that is against the House of Saud's dictatorship. These Houthi sympathisers within Saudi Arabia helped in target identification, carried out reconnaissance within the plants, found the most vulnerable and impactful points, and passed this intelligence on to the Houthis and Yemeni army. These Yemeni forces employed locally produced means to severely degrade Saudi Arabia's crude-oil-extraction and processing plants. The deadly strikes halved oil production and threatened to continue with other targets if the Saudi-conducted genocide in Yemen did not stop.

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'Ukraine-Gate' really all about the 'Russian hack' . . . . that wasn't

Julie Kelly
American Greatness
Wed, 25 Sep 2019 17:31 UTC

President Trump asked the Ukrainian president about CrowdStrike, the politically connected cybersecurity firm that investigated the alleged Russian "hack" of the Democratic National Committee. Here's why that matters — and why it should not be ignored.

One of the animating chapters in the Trump-Russian collusion saga was the claim that Russia infiltrated the Democratic National Committee's email server in the spring of 2016. That hack, according to collusion truthers, and the subsequent release of damaging emails exchanged between top Democratic Party officials was central to Vladimir Putin's scheme to sway the presidential election in favor of Donald Trump.

But the evidence to support this widely accepted claim is sketchy at best and appears to be under appropriate scrutiny by prosecutors now examining the origins of the FBI's pre-election investigation into the Trump campaign for "colluding" with Russia.

According to the transcript of a July call between Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's newly elected president, Trump raised the issue of "CrowdStrike" and suggested Ukraine might be in possession of the "server," a reference to the DNC server.

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Puppet Masters

Ukraine mystery: Schiff staffer made August visit for think-tank backed by Hunter Biden's old employer

Satellite footage shows Chinese Navy surrounding US aircraft carrier

Ukrainegate: 'I deserve to meet my accuser!' Trump demands 'whistleblower' and 'his source' to face him

Egypt is a target, again

Alleged videos/pics of Houthi's border victory: Vehicles destroyed, Saudi-led troops and officers captured

US State Department ramps up probe into former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton's email server

A start: Iran receives Saudi response to Gulf security coalition invite

Repeating 2014, both Afghani rivals claim win in presidential election

Houthi victories continue: Three Saudi Brigades annihilated in devastating offensive in Saudi Arabia

'Ukraine-Gate' really all about the 'Russian hack' . . . . that wasn't

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