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Trump pens fiery letter to Pelosi, and to history

Gregg Re
Fox News
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 16:43 UTC
Trump Pelosi
© Reuters/James Lawler Duggan/Jonathan ErnstSpeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi • President Donald Trump
President Trump, in a blistering, no-holds-barred six-page letter Tuesday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., lambasted the Democrats' impeachment inquiry as an "open war on American Democracy," writing that she has violated her oath of office and "cheapened the importance of the very ugly word, impeachment!"

"Everyone, you included, knows what is really happening," Trump said, just a day before House Democrats were expected to vote to impeach him. "Your chosen candidate lost the election in 2016, in an Electoral College landslide (306-227), and you and your party have never recovered from this defeat. So you have spent three straight years attempting to overturn the will of the American people and nullify their votes. You view democracy as your enemy!"
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FISA Court slams FBI: 'Misconduct... calls into question' every warrant FBI ever got

Christopher Bedford
The Federalist
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 16:24 UTC
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© White House(L-R) James Comey, FBI Dep. Director Sean Joyce, President Obama in 2013
Set deadline for reform, stops shy of suggesting punishment

The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court harshly rebuked the FBI in a Tuesday afternoon order, saying FBI misconduct in applying for warrants against Trump campaign official Carter Page calls all past warrant applications into question, and setting a fast-approaching deadline to fix the system.

The order was issued in response to an inspector general report that found the FBI failed to include exculpatory evidence in its four successful applications for surveillance warrants on U.S. citizen, former Naval officer, and then-Trump campaign official Carter Page. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) is a secret court set up in 1978 to grant U.S. intelligence agencies warrants to spy on suspected spies from other countries, or, literally, to surveil foreign intelligence.

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Russia's new 5gen supersonic stealth Su-57 fighter jets ace all objectives during trials in Syria


RT
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 10:24 UTC
Russia Su-57 5gen
© Sputnik / Vladimir Astapkovich
The testing of Russia's most advanced combat aircraft has yielded superb results, a senior military official has revealed, as the stealth aircraft enters its mass-production phase.

The jets "have successfully accomplished all of their tasks" during trials in Syria, Chief of General Staff General Valery Gerasimov told a group of foreign military attachés on Wednesday.

Gerasimov said that the campaign against militants in Syria has provided a "new impetus for further improvement" of all types of weaponry, including airborne. He added that the Air Force has taken delivery of 139 warplanes of various designs this year.

The Su-57s flew their first combat missions in Syria last year. They are already in mass production and the Air Force is set to commission 76 brand new fighters by 2028.

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Newspaper

Scaremongering? Refugee crisis over Kashmir could dwarf all others - Imran Khan


RT
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 02:14 UTC
Pakistan's Ghauri missile
© Reuters / Mian KhursheedPakistan's Ghauri nuclear-capable missile .
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that India's tough new policies in Kashmir risk creating a severe refugee crisis that could then create a domino effect, even leading to a full-blown war with Islamabad.

Khan made his remarks while opening the UN-sponsored Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday.

He warned that if India tries to change the demography of its Muslim-majority Kashmir region, it will trigger "another refugee crisis that would dwarf other crises." From there on, the ensuing chaos and tensions could spiral into an open conflict between India and Pakistan, he warned.

Comment: There are very few Muslim refugees from India to Pakistan during recent decades. Recent Citizenship Amendment Act is aimed at addressing the immigrants from Bangladesh to India.

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Snakes in Suits

Family emergency keeps Jerry Nadler out of impeachment hearing

Virginia Kruta
Daily Caller
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 12:18 UTC
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© Alex Wong/Getty Images
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler missed Tuesday's impeachment hearing in the Rules Committee due to a family emergency.

According to a report from Politico, Nadler went home to New York to handle a family emergency — the details of which were not initially disclosed — and was expected to return to Washington either late Tuesday or early Wednesday morning.

Comment: Who is really ill?

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Gaza in 2020: How easily the world deletes Palestinian suffering

David Hearst
Middle East Eye
Fri, 13 Dec 2019 01:47 UTC
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© Agence France-PresseA man holds the hand of Maria al-Gazali, a 14-month-old Palestinian baby, as her body lies on a stretcher at a hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza on 5 May 2019. She died during an Israeli air strike
I would like you to try an exercise. Google the words "family of eight killed" and you will be given several options - one in Sonora, Mexico, another in Pike, Ohio, yet another in Mendocino County, California.

But Google's massive memory seems to have suffered amnesia over what took place just one month ago in Deir al-Balah, Gaza.

To recap, because you, too, may have forgotten: on 14 November, an Israeli pilot dropped a one-tonne JDAM bomb on a building where eight members of one family were sleeping. Five of them were children. Two of them were infants.
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Newspaper

Pakistan's former military ruler Musharraf sentenced to death for high treason


RFE/RL
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 08:24 UTC
Pervez Musharraf
Pervez Musharraf (file photo)
A Pakistani court has handed a death sentence to former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf on treason charges for suspending the country's constitution 12 years ago.

The 76-year-old ex-strongman is now living in exile in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.).

The special court in Islamabad announced the verdict on December 17 with a 2-1 majority.

Musharraf, who ruled Pakistan between 1999 and 2008, is the first military ruler to stand trial in Pakistan for overruling the constitution.

In a video statement issued from his hospital bed earlier this month, Musharraf described the case against him as "baseless."

Comment: RT reports:
"The decision given by special court about General Pervez Musharraf, Retired, has been received with a lot of pain and anguish by [the] rank and file of Pakistan Armed Forces," it said.

The distinguished military man, "who has served the country for over 40 years, [who] fought wars for the defense of the country, can surely never be a traitor," the statement continued, adding that "[the] Armed Forces of Pakistan expect that justice will be dispensed in line with [the] Constitution of [the] Islamic Republic of Pakistan."


He is a divisive figure in Pakistani history. Critics call him a military dictator who may have facilitated the assassination in 2007 of his political opponent, Benazir Bhutto. Supporters see him as a venerable veteran who stood up to foreign and domestic threats and boosted Pakistan's international profile.
In Benazir Bhutto - A Warning To Us All Joe Quinn writes:
In 1998 Benazir went into self-imposed exile in Dubai where she remained until she returned to Pakistan on 18 October 2007 after reaching an understanding with CIA-asset President Musharraf, who took power in a military coup in 1999.

[...]

As the PPP party leader announced her death, the Pakistani people knew instantly where to look for the culprits as they erupted into shouts of "Musharraf is a dog". Let's not forget who his masters are.
Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: What's The Problem With Nationalism?

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Bad Guys

Ukrainian oligarch paid $700,000 to husband of a house judiciary committee Democrat

Chrissy Clark
The Federalist
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:00 UTC
Mucarsel-Powell
Robert Powell, the husband of Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Fla., reportedly took $700,000 from a Ukrainian oligarch named Igor Kolomoisky. Mucarsel-Powell sits on the House Judiciary Committee, the committee that drafted two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump for his alleged abuse of power with regards to Ukraine.

In 2018, the Daily Beast reported that a number of businesses linked to Kolomoisky hired Powell as an attorney. One of those firms paid Powell at least $700,000 over two years, according to public records.

The Miami Herald reported Powell was working for companies tied to Kolomoisky for 10 years. Powell made most of his money in the two years leading up to his wife's election in 2018.

Kolomoisky has been accused of contract killings and embezzlement in the past. Yet, in 2018 when Mucarsel-Powell was running for her seat, she did not see her husband's work as relevant to her campaign.

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Alarm Clock

4-month countdown to NATO's largest exercise in 25 years, Normandy Four meeting, and another false-flag in Syria?

Russell Bentley
russelltexasbentley.com
Sat, 14 Dec 2019 22:44 UTC
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U.S. AND UKROP FLAGS FLYING BELOW PRAVY SEKTOR NAZI FLAG IN UKRAINE 2019
It's all starting to make sense. All of a sudden, I get the picture. See right through the scam. Which ain't that hard to do, if you've been paying attention, which I have been. Paying attention is what you do when your life depends on it, as mine does, as those of my family and friends here do, and maybe, just maybe, as yours do too. So pay attention. These are dangerous times.

Let's connect the following dots - The punk Zelensky's smug, almost arrogant attitude at the recent Normandy Four meeting and his subsequent reneging on the agreement. Reliable info about another imminent false flag chemical attack by the White Helmets in Syria which may happen any day now. Again. Republican shit-hook Senator Cory Gardener's "SMART ACT" to designate Russia as a "State Sponsor of Terrorism", and "Russian-supported armed forces in the Donbas region of Ukraine as Foreign Terrorist Organizations" within the next three months. The largest NATO exercise in 25 years, "Defender Europe 20" with 60,000 soldiers (including 20,000 US soldiers to be shipped in) to begin in April 2020. Four months from now.

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Footprints

Former Belarusian police officer says he was involved in killing of President Lukashenko critics


RFE/RL
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 22:58 UTC
Viktar Hanchar Anatol Krasouski
For years, activists have highlighted the cases of opposition leader Viktar Hanchar (left) and businessman Anatol Krasouski, who both disappeared in 1999.
A former officer with a Belarusian police special unit said he participated in the murder of opposition activists and that he was now seeking political asylum in an unnamed European country.

The comments by Yury Harauski, made in an interview with Deutsche Welle published on December 16, added fuel to long-standing accusations that security forces overseen by President Alyaksandr Lukashenka were involved in the disappearance of opposition leader Viktar Hanchar, businessman Anatol Krasouski, and two other men in 1999 and 2000.

Harauski told the publication that in the late 1990s he served in a division of Belarus's Interior Ministry called the Special Rapid Response Unit (SOPR).
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