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Key pieces of evidence prove impeachment is a sham: Republican memo slams Schiff

Sara Carter
saraacarter.com
Tue, 12 Nov 2019 18:10 UTC
schiff impeachment
© AP Photo/Susan Walsh
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
A Republican memo released late Monday to GOP lawmakers outlined critical issues with the Democrats impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump and blasted Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff for a "one-sided, partisan, and fundamentally unfair hearing," process.

The memo, issued by Republican staff of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Committee of Oversight and Reform and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, points to numerous pieces of evidence from the closed door impeachment hearings. Republican's note that evidence contradicts and repudiates the Democratic narrative that Trump "jeopardized U.S. national security" when he spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July, 25.

It also reveals that there was 'no quid pro quo' to withhold any military aid from the country unless there was an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son, Hunter Biden, as suggested by Democrats.

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Snakes in Suits

Russia-bashers eat their own? Ukrainian ex-minister accuses Bellingcat of being infiltrated by...Kremlin agents?


RT
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:19 UTC
Eliot Higgins
© (L) Sputnik / Yevgeny Biyatov; (R) AFP / Tolga AKMEN
Eliot Higgins
A website obsessed with blaming Russia for everything - using Google Earth to support its airtight theories - has been infiltrated by Russian agents, according to a Ukrainian MP and former minister. But does it even make sense?

Our strange saga begins with a very level-headed Facebook post penned by Ukraine's former minister of veterans affairs and current member of parliament, Iryna Friz, who expressed deep displeasure with a recent Bellingcat 'investigation' revealing that Ukraine's Ministry of Veterans Affairs had ties to far-right figures (oh no, who could have guessed?).

In her post, Friz accused Bellingcat of regurgitating an "exclusively Russian narrative" that there are "fascists in Ukraine."
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Chess

Turkish President Erdogan says he 'can't harm relations with Russia' by ditching S-400 on Trump's demand


RT
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:06 UTC
erdogan
© (L) REUTERS / Tom Brenner; (R) Sputnik / Alexandr Galperin
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has asserted that he won't yield to US President Donald Trump's demand to stop the purchase of Russia's S-400 air defense system. The deal is too important to Ankara's friendship with Moscow.

Despite the protestations of Washington, Turkey, a NATO member, took delivery of its first shipment of the Russian-made S-400 air defense system in July. After a meeting with Erdogan on Wednesday, Trump told reporters that Ankara's "acquisition of the S-400 creates some very serious challenges for us," yet no agreement was reached on limiting or cancelling the purchase.

Erdogan said on Thursday that Trump had attempted to convince him to walk away from the deal with Moscow, but he refused. "We currently have a bilateral relationship with Russia," he told reporters upon his return to Turkey. "We cannot set aside our strategic relationship."

Comment: If Trump really was a "Russian asset" or whatever nonsense the Dems want to peddle to the public, it seems that attempting to force Erdogan to drop his S-400 deal would be antithetical to that narrative. But then again using logic to understand Trump Derangement causes one mental anguish.

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Chess

Russia considers power shift in Bolivia a coup, but will work with Anez as interim president


RT
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 17:29 UTC
Jeanine Anez
© Reuters / Carlos Garcia Rawlins
Bolivian Interim President Jeanine Anez
Events leading to Bolivian president Evo Morales leaving office had all the features of a coup d'etat, Russia's deputy foreign minister has said. But Moscow will be working with interim president Jeanine Anez until the election.

"We view everything that preceded the power shift [in Bolivia] as actions that equal a coup," Sergey Ryabkov told reporters at the BRICS summit in Brasilia.

The Deputy Foreign Minister reminded that there was no quorum in the Bolivian parliament when Anez was declared interim president.

"But it's clear that she will be perceived as the leader of Bolivia until the issue of electing a new president is settled," he said.

Evo Morales, who had been Bolivian president since 2006, announced his resignation on Sunday, after receiving an ultimatum from the country's military. The leftist leader said he had to make the move in order to pacify the heated protests and protect the country's indigenous people from persecution. He later found political asylum in Mexico and vowed to keep fighting for his return to office.

A few days later, Senate leader Jeanine Anez declared herself acting president of the country. Her candidacy was backed by the MPs, but the historic session was skipped by Morales' Movement for Socialism (MAS), which holds the majority in the parliament.
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War Whore

Audios containing details of alleged coup plan and US involvement emerge amid Bolivian crisis


Sputnik
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 17:14 UTC
bolivia protesters
© REUTERS/ KAI PFAFFENBACH
Bolivian President Evo Morales announced his resignation on 10 November after the heads of Bolivia's armed forces and police urged him to step down amid ongoing violent protest in the country which erupted in the wake of the recent presidential election.

As Evo Morales stepped down as the President of Bolivia amid ongoing anti-government protests and the military urging him to resign, a series of audio recordings which allegedly feature opposition leaders calling for a coup against him were leaked via social media, El Periodico reports.
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Bullseye

'A classic coup': Bolivia's new government is a 'military regime with no constitutional authority' - Max Blumenthal


RT
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:50 UTC
bolivian soldiers
© REUTERS/Henry Romero
The political upheaval in Bolivia is a textbook coup that was carried out through violence and intimidation, Max Blumenthal told RT. The journalist marveled that some still deny the unconstitutional nature of the power grab.

Opposition politician Jeanine Añez declared herself interim leader of Bolivia on Wednesday, after President Evo Morales was urged by his country's military chief to step down. But her legitimacy has already come into question. As the editor of the Grayzone Project pointed out, Añez is a fringe figure who garnered only 1.7 percent of the votes cast in Bolivia's last elections.

Realizing that there was no popular support, threats of violence were used to ensure that senators who opposed Añez would not be able to vote on a motion declaring her Bolivia's acting president. According to Blumenthal, politicians belonging to Evo Morales' Movement for Socialism Party, which has a majority in both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, "had guns to their heads, their families were threatened, and if they showed up they could have been arrested and killed."
There's absolutely no way that Áñez would have obtained power without the help of the Bolivian military and the police... You essentially have a right-wing dictatorship, a military regime in power now in Bolivia, with no constitutional authority.
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Star of David

Buttigieg supports Israel's missile attacks on Gaza, but condemns Palestinians when they respond

Michael Arria
Mondoweiss
Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:12 UTC
Pete Buttigieg
© Facebook
Pete Buttigieg, on keyboards. From his Facebook page, June 11.
Israel's military campaign against Gaza has entered its second day and so far it has left 24 Palestinians dead (including a 7-year-old boy) and at least 70 injured. The current round of violence began on Tuesday after Israeli strikes killed Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander Bahaa Abu el-Atta, his wife, and four others. The attack prompted retaliatory rocket fire from a number of Palestinian groups. Israel continues to attack the region. "They have one choice: to stop these attacks or absorb more and more blows. Their choice," declared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

South Bend Mayor and Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg has tweeted his support for Israel's actions and a condemnation of the rocket fire from Palestine. "I strongly condemn the rocket attacks on the citizens of southern and central Israel," the tweet reads, "Israel has a right to defend itself against acts of terror that set back any progress towards peace and will only serve to inflame the humanitarian situation in Gaza."

Comment: Buttigieg is, just like Pence and Biden, a spineless shill for the Israelis. See also:

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Magic Wand

'Defending our democracy' or Schiff show? Impeachment hearing reveals world where establishment feelings trump facts

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Wed, 13 Nov 2019 15:56 UTC
George Kent, Bill Taylor
© Reuters / Joshua Roberts
George Kent, deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs, and Ambassador Bill Taylor, November 13, 2019.
So far, the efforts to impeach President Donald Trump have revealed far more about the corruption in US foreign policy and the Washington bureaucracy than any White House wrongdoing. Nevertheless, the establishment persisted.

To hear Adam Schiff (D-California), chair of the House Intelligence Committee and the Democrats' point-man for the impeachment process, this is about no less than "defending our democracy" and stopping Trump's "abuse of power." His staff even made an ominous-looking web page laying out the "evidence."

Republicans point out, not incorrectly, that the evidence amounts to second-hand hearsay from career bureaucrats who seemed either completely uninterested in admitted Ukrainian meddling into the 2016 US presidential election; or Joe Biden's son serving on the board of a Ukrainian gas company; or Biden's public boasts about threatening Kiev in order to have a Ukrainian prosecutor fired - or eager to make excuses for all these actions, while somehow considering Trump's behavior unacceptable, beyond the pale, outside all norms, and just not the way things are done in Washington.
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Pirates

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov: Takeover of Venezuela's embassy in Brazil timed to coincide with launch of BRICS summit


RT
Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:50 UTC
Police cars are seen outside the occupied Venezuelan embassy in Brasilia, Brazil.
© Reuters / Sergio Moraes
Police cars are seen outside the occupied Venezuelan embassy in Brasilia, Brazil.
The seizure of Venezuela's embassy in Brasilia was not only an attack on the legitimate government of Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, but also an attempt to sow discord between the BRICS member states, Russia's Deputy FM told RT.

The Wednesday storming on the diplomatic mission by the supporters of US-backed Venezuelan opposition figure Juan Guaido was "planned before and timed that it coincided with the first day of BRICS summit," Sergey Ryabkov said.

It took place on the same day as the leaders of Russia, China, India and South Africa arrived to the Brazilian capital for the high-profile BRICS summit. Members of the block, which unites the world's largest emerging economics, have quite different views on the crisis in Venezuela. Moscow and Beijing are backing Maduro as the democratically-elected president, while Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro said he recognized Guaido as Venezuelan leader.

Comment: The political and economic battle lines are being drawn quite literally everywhere - because the US' interests in Wall Street, Langley and Washington have a lot to lose when their power gets challenged by the likes of BRICS:

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Propaganda

The latest false news on the Trump impeachment circus

Paul Craig Roberts
paulcraigroberts.org
Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:00 UTC
fake false news
© WSJ
As the media are all out to get Trump, there is no way to get any valid information about the so-called impeachment. But you don't have to pay too much attention to notice that the Democrats and the presstitutes are constantly changing the focus. The alleged whistleblower, who only had hearsay information, if that, has dropped out of the picture, being too compromised by his afflilations and prior meetings with Adam Schiff during which the "whistleblowing" was planned as an attack on Trump.

The Democrats and presstitutes then shifted focus to state department types who also heard second hand from "staff" about the alleged conversation containing a quid pro quo, a claim unsupported by the transcript of the telephone call or by the President of Ukraine. So now a new alleged phone call has emerged, or been invented. The acting ambassador to Ukraine, William Taylor, a sleazy State Department type, today (Nov. 13) testified that a member of his staff heard Trump in another telephone call asking Sondland about the Ukraine investigation of the Bidens. This second-hand information is described by the presstitute media as a "bombshell." God help us. It is nothing of the sort. But the presstitutes will repeat it until it is.

A person has to wonder how many members of staffs are permitted to listen to telephone conversations between heads of state. In my day it was zero.

Comment: We are witnessing political warfare and a battle of narratives of the first order - where the fate of many lie in the balance. When a fact-based history of this time in the US is finally put together, do not expect it to look kindly on the efforts of Schiff and the pathological political class who have done so much to divide the country in a sick effort to accrue money and power.

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