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No more anchor babies? Trump vows to nullify birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants with executive order


RT
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 14:28 UTC
baby in stroller
© Reuters / Hannah McKay
President Donald Trump said that the US Constitution does not guarantee the right to citizenship to everyone born in the country and doubled down on his promise to end the practice.

Trump wrote in a Twitter post:
So-called Birthright Citizenship, which costs our Country billions of dollars and is very unfair to our citizens, will be ended one way or the other. It is not covered by the 14th Amendment because of the words 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof.' Many legal scholars agree.....
In a follow-up tweet, Trump referenced former Democratic Senator Harry Reid's 1993 calim that "no sane country" would award birthright citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants, and vowed that the issue will be "settled by the United States Supreme Court."

Comment: Anchor baby population in U.S. exceeds one year of American births

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Syrian FM sends letters to UN concerning Israeli attempts to 'Judaize' the stolen Golan Heights


Sputnik
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 10:42 UTC
Syria flag
© REUTERS / Ammar Awad
The Syrian Foreign Ministry has sent two letters to the UN chief and the UN Security Council president urging them to take measures against Israel over holding the municipal election in several villages in the disputed Golan Heights populated by Druze Arabs, SANA reported on Tuesday.

According to the Syrian state-run SANA news agency, Damascus has accused Israel of imposing "Judaization" on "Syrians living in the occupied Syrian territories."

According to media reports, hundreds of Druze Arabs tried to block the entrance to the polling place in Majdal Shams, a town with the largest Druze community in the area, earlier in the day. Israeli police used tear gas to disperse the crowd in order the clear a path for voters. The police later confirmed that they used "special means" to disperse hundreds of protesters.

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Julia Ioffe forced to apologize after claiming Trump 'radicalizes more people than ISIS'


RT
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 10:42 UTC
Julia Ioffe CNN
© CNN
Persistently anti-Trump journalist and CNN commentator Julia Ioffe has apologized after dramatically claiming on air that the US president has "radicalized" more people than the Islamic State terrorist group.

Ioffe, who writes columns for the Washington Post and is a correspondent for GQ Magazine, made the jaw-dropping claim during a CNN panel discussion on the massacre at a synagogue in Pennsylvania last week.

"I think this president, one of the things that he really launched his presidential run on is talking about Islamic radicalization - and this president has radicalized so many more people than ISIS ever did," Ioffe said during the discussion to some raised eyebrows.
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Bellingcat & Atlantic Council actively promoted ISIS recruiter as 'Syria expert'


Sputnik
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 10:10 UTC
ISIS Daesh
© Flickr/ Day Donaldson
New information has come to light regarding the identity of the person behind the @ShamiWitness Twitter account, a conduit for Daesh messaging and recruitment that was heralded for its expertise on the Syria conflict by foreign policy thought leaders in the Beltway and beyond.

Among the most prominent proponents of the ShamiWitness account were Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat and the Atlantic Council, who is known for telling his online opponents to "suck" his genitals; Charles Lister of the Middle East Institute, who contends that al-Qaeda "has really got it right" in Syria; Oz Katerji, a former Bellingcat team member and former Vice News journalist with a penchant for Lebanese porn stars; Michael Weiss, a CNN analyst that previously organized an anti-Islam rally in New York City; Danny Gold, another Vice News journalist famous for puff pieces about his pop culture discussions with al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria (Jabhat al-Nusra); Washington Post Beirut Bureau Chief Liz Sly, a fake news pusher and lauder of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman; and Israeli think tank analyst and Israel Defense Forces reservist Elizabeth Tsurkov, who is known for making wild claims about the Syrian government forcing citizens to appear on RT and Sputnik News with threats of torture.

Comment: Mint Press News reports more on the relationship between Bellingcat, the Atlantic Council and ShamiWitness:
A new report has exposed the past collaboration of Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat and influential neo-conservatives with the "most influential Twitter account" of the terror group Daesh, also known as the Islamic State (ISIL, ISIS). That collaboration helped promote the account, which posted under the Twitter handle @shamiwitness, as an "expert" on foreign jihadists while also helping to promote the account's pro-Daesh messaging.

However, instead of being an "expert," the account was run by an Indian marketing executive living in Bangalore by the name of Mehdi Biswas. Biswas used the account to help recruit foreign extremists and lead them to Syria - where they participated in the slaughter of religious minorities, among other atrocities.

The explosive report, written and self-published by journalist Mark Ames, extensively details how Western accounts and figures closely associated with influential government-funded think tanks helped to elevate the ShamiWitness account from "a cretinous troll" into a credible "ISIS expert" who was subsequently promoted by Middle East correspondents from The New York Times and other mainstream publications.

At the height of his popularity, the ShamiWitness account - which was voluntarily deleted in 2014 by its owner after a Channel 4 News exposé - had over 17,000 followers and was followed by two-thirds of foreign jihadists with a presence on Twitter. When Twitter would ban an extremist's account, ShamiWitness was key to promoting the new account created to replace the banned one. ShamiWitness also helped guide foreign extremists to battlefields in Syria and actively recruited individuals to join Daesh through his social media accounts, according to a report published earlier this year by George Washington University.
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Yanis Varoufakis claims Soros demanded he be sacked in 2015 phone call to Tsipras

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:26 UTC
Yanis Varoufakis
© Roman PonsYanis Varoufakis
With billionaire 'philanthropist' George Soros making enemies and influencing people all around the world, a little more from his sordid puppetmastery background was exposed this week as his successful efforts to have a finance minister of a European Union nation fired have been put under the spotlight of awkward conspiracy fact.

Infamous former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis claimed on Monday that it was Soros who demanded that he was sacked from the Greek government in 2015.

As KeepTalkingGreece.com reports, in an interview with private Skai TV, the former minister and founder of DiEM25 said George Soros phoned Alexis Tsipras in July 2015 and demanded that he be sacked.
"Soros has picked up the phone about me only one time. When he contacted Tsipras in July 2015 and demanded my expulsion," Varoufakis said.
He added that his "contact" with Soros was limited to this one phone call.
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FBI investigating claim woman offered money to fake assault allegations against Mueller


RT
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:03 UTC
mueller
© Mike Blake / Reuters
The FBI is looking into claims that women have been asked to make false accusations of sexual harassment against Special Counsel Robert Mueller in exchange for money - but all may not be as it seems.

The alleged scheme aimed at Mueller, who has been investigating unproven ties between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia, came to the attention of his office after several journalists and news outlets, including RT, were contacted by a woman claiming that she had been approached by a man offering money if she would fabricate claims against him.

Peter Carr, a spokesperson for Mueller, said the reports had been "immediately referred" to the FBI, who are now investigating. The unidentified woman told journalists that a man with a British accent, who supposedly worked for Republican commentator Jack Burkman, offered her $20,000 and to have her credit card debt paid off if she would come forward with the allegations.

The woman claimed she worked briefly with Mueller when she was a paralegal in 1974. She said that she was told the details could not be discussed on the phone but was asked to download the Signal app, which is "more secure."Using that app, the man reportedly asked her to "make accusations of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment" and even to "sign a sworn affidavit to that effect."
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Civilian deaths not enough to scrap Britain's arms sales to Riyadh, but Khashoggi probe may be


RT
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 08:56 UTC
starving yemen boy
© Reuters / Khaled AbdullahA malnourished boy cries as he sits on a bed in a malnutrition treatment center in Sanaa, Yemen
The UK's Middle East minister seems unfazed by civilian suffering in Yemen, saying that ending Britain's arms sales to Saudi Arabia won't help, but that the probe into the Khashoggi death may influence Britain's support of Riyadh.

When Alistair Burt responded to calls from the Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam, and the Oxford Research Group for the UK to end arms sales to Saudi Arabia, the minister completely dismissed the argument that doing so would help the situation in the war-torn country.

"Ending arms sales wouldn't do that," he told the House of Commons on Tuesday.

But fellow MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle of the Labour party wasn't having it. "Can we just not be honest? We are party to this war. We have decided to cosy up to a regime that dismembers its own civilians in consulates of NATO allies," he said.
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Record spending makes 2018 US midterms 'most expensive ever'


RT
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:46 UTC
dollar
© Reuters / Marcos Brindicci
Democrats are pouring record amounts of money into congressional midterm elections this year, hoping to gain control of the House and the Senate, with the GOP close behind. But will big spending translate to ballot box victory?

Democrats are pinning their hopes on a "Blue Wave" that would give them control of both the House and the Senate and ensure deadlock in Washington for the next two years of Donald Trump's presidency. Trump has sought to counter that by holding campaign rallies like in 2016 and urging his supporters to put more Republicans in Congress. Whatever the final outcome, the election will certainly cost a lot of green.

"A wave of money is surging toward Election Day, much of it coming from the wealthiest donors targeting this year's most competitive races," Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, said Monday.

CRP projections show more than $5.2 billion in spending this election cycle, in what they say will be the most expensive midterms ever. No prior midterm has ever cost more than $4.2 billion, even adjusted for inflation.
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Russian constitutional court rules controversial land-swap with Chechnya illegal


RFE/RL
Tue, 30 Oct 2018 03:27 UTC
Chechnya land-swap deal protest
People attend a protest against the land-swap deal agreed by the heads of the Russian regions of Ingushetia and Chechnya in the Ingushetian capital of Magas on October 8.
The Constitutional Court in Russia's Ingushetia region has ruled that a law designed to support a controversial border agreement with neighboring Chechnya is illegal.

The October 30 ruling adds to the uncertainty over the fate of the deal, which mandated land swaps between the two North Caucasus republics and has prompted angry protests in Ingushetia.

On its website, the court said that the law was illegal because "it changes the territory of the Republic of Ingushetia," something it said required approval by referendum.
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Russia answers aggressive NATO drills with live missile drills outside Norway


RT
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 03:16 UTC
missile drills
© Global Look Press / Russian Defence Ministry
Moscow is to hold missile drills in international waters outside Norway, where NATO is hosting massive war games of its own involving 50,000 troops, making it the largest exercise since the end of the Cold War era.

The Russian military will hold the live missile firing drills on November 1-3, amid the ongoing Trident Juncture 2018 NATO exercise. The war games kicked off last week and will go on until November 7, with over 50,000 personnel, some 10,000 vehicles, 250 aircraft and 65 ships participating.

The naval area Moscow has picked for the missile tests overlaps with the zone where the Trident Juncture participants perform maritime and air operations. The Russians will "operate in the international waters and they have notified us in a normal way," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said.

Comment: As reported in this Russian TV discussion about NATO's 'exercises', the scenario they drilled for was Russia 'invading and annexing Norway':


Interesting detail about this series of 'exercises': Europeans play the role of 'the enemy', and US marines 'win' the war by saving the host country from foreign invasion.

Oh, and everyone there pretends the whole show has nothing to do with Russia, even though it's just across the border from Norway...




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