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Soros-linked 'dark money' group funding ad-blitz urging vulnerable Republicans to support impeachment

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© Now The End BeginsGeorge Soros • President Donald Trump
A liberal "dark money" group that received millions of dollars from George Soros's advocacy network, records show, is behind a seven-figure ad blitz urging vulnerable Republicans in swing districts to support the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.

The ads, which were scheduled to air this week on "Fox and Friends" in the Washington, D.C., market and in 13 GOP-held congressional districts, feature military veterans urging Republican representatives to "put country over politics" by holding Trump accountable for "abusing his office and risking national security for his own gain."

Each of the ads contains a disclosure stating they're paid for by "Defend American Democracy," but D.C. business registration documents reveal the group is just one of the many projects of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a dark money nonprofit that pumped $141 million into liberal causes in 2018 alone, Open Secrets reported.

Comment: Soros has been working behind the scenes to throttle Trump for quite some time:


Light Saber

Labour party adds ban on selling arms to Israel and Saudi Arabia to election platform

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© EPA-EFE/PETER POWELLLast year, Labour passed a motion strongly criticizing Israel and pledging to halt all U.K. weapon sales to the Jewish state if it rises to power
Britain's Labour Party reiterated in an elections policy manifesto its intention to stop selling weapons to Israel if it comes to power.

The reference to Israel was in a document published Thursday detailing the party's foreign and defense policies.

"We will immediately suspend the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia for use in Yemen and to Israel for arms used in violation of the human rights of Palestinian civilians, and conduct a root-and-branch reform of our arms exports regime so ministers can never again turn a blind eye to British-made weapons being used to target innocent civilians," the document stated.

Comment: There is no proof of antisemitism in the Labour party. However what this policy highlights is why Corbyn and the Labour party are targeted for such baseless and relentless smears by the establishment. Corbyn seeks to withdraw arms from those in Israel - and elsewhere - who participate in genocide, a proposal no other party has dared to do; lest they suffer the wrath of the Israeli intelligence services, and its co-conspirators:


Calculator

Here it comes: AI roll-out enables Deutsche Bank to fire over 4,000 employees, another 18,000 to follow by 2022

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'Go home, useless human'
As part of a radical $8.3 billion restructuring plan, the multinational Deutsche bank has so far axed over 4,000 jobs, with some 18,000 more staff cuts to come by 2022.

The use of artificial intelligence has "massively increased productivity" in certain sectors of the business, according to Mark Matthews, the head of operations for Deutsche's corporate and investment bank.

He told the Financial News that so far "680,000 hours of manual work" has already been saved. The bank has "used bots to process 5 million transactions in its corporate bank and perform 3.4 million checks within its investment bank."

Matthews said the headcount "will continue to go down; there's no question about that. Our model is to reduce costs and, at the same time, improve our control environment and the client experience."

Deutsche bank is pushing to "automate large parts of its back-office" via a new strategy called "Operations 4.0," as part of its $6.6 billion savings initiative over the next three years.

Comment: Banksters are leading the way, but this is quickly going to spread to other sectors.

We suspect that US Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang - contrary to the prevailing view that he was being 'chicken little' about AI and the coming jobs slaughter - is going to soon sound like his timeframe for 'the great AI replacement' was optimistic...


2 + 2 = 4

SOTT Focus: Leaked Email Proves UN Report on Poison Gas Attack by Assad Was Falsified to Justify US Attack on Syria


Comment: More confirmation that the media - in concert with corrupted international bodies - habitually produces fake news to justify war crimes and support geopolitical intrigue.


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Children in Douma who are clearly not suffering from an kind of chemical poisoning but are, instead, being used as actors in a staged scene.
A leaked email last night dramatically indicated that the UN's poison gas watchdog had butchered and censored a critical report on an alleged chemical attack in Syria. If substantiated, the revelations will be severely embarrassing for Britain, France and America, which launched a massive military strike in retaliation without waiting for proof that chemical weapons had actually been used.

Unconfirmed reports and videos, showing the corpses of adults and children foaming at the mouth in Douma, a suburb of Damascus, shocked the world in April 2018 and led to a joint Western attack on the supposed culprit, Syria, in which more than 100 missiles, including nearly 70 Tomahawk cruise missiles, were fired.

Although the reports and films could not be independently verified, as the alleged events took place in a war zone then under the control of brutal Islamist militants, Western governments, and many Western media, took them at face value.

President Donald Trump tweeted at the time: 'Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria. Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it completely inaccessible to outside world. President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price to pay. Open area immediately for medical help and verification. Another humanitarian disaster for no reason whatsoever. SICK!'


Comment: At the time, anyone with any sense and even a modicum of understanding of Western government tactics understood that the hysterical allegations by those same Western governments and their compliant media outlets that Assad had "bombed his own people" were complete and utter nonsense. Unfortunately, few people in the Western world appear to have much sense or understanding of anything other than that which they receive from their governments and media.

At this point, the bogus narrative that "Assad is a brutal dictator" has been successfully embedded in the minds of people the world over, and it is highly unlikely that this leaked information will do anything to change that narrative. That is, after all, how lies and propaganda work.


Comment: RT points out something the British Mail on Sunday omitted in the above report:
The email is consistent with what an OPCW whistleblower earlier told an expert panel by the Courage Foundation last month. It also gives credence to a scolding story in CounterPunch, which said Robert Fairweather, the chief of cabinet of then-Inspector General Ahmet Uzumcu, of being the driving force behind the alterations.

CounterPunch apparently cites the same internal email as well as claims by a whistleblower, who said Fairweather allowed three US officials to have an impact on the drafting process. The Americans pressured the OPCW into blaming the Syrian government. The organization leadership then decided it needed to include a 'smoking gun' in the final report the whistleblower said.

Fairweather is the recipient of the email, though interestingly his name was redacted by the Mail on Sunday for unclear reasons. The British newspaper, however, provided some additional details into how the preparation of the report happened. It said four increasingly censored versions of the document had been produced as OPCW management fought off dissenting voices among the scientists. The final version was released in March this year.
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Smile, Bob, you're on candid camera: Robert Fairweather, OBE
See also: The hugely important OPCW scandal keeps unfolding. Here's why no one's talking about it


Eye 1

Rudy Giuliani says he's not afraid of being indicted, labels Joe Biden a 'liar'

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'How is Biden corrupt? Let me count the ways...'
President Trump's personal attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Saturday that he is not afraid of being indicted and that he has absolutely no business interest in Ukraine.

Appearing on "America's News HQ" with host Ed Henry, Giuliani said that the "case has been really simple from the day that Joe Biden confessed to committing bribery in 2018."

"Although, he said precisely what was attributed to President Trump a year and a half later...Basically, they'll prove that he committed bribery," he said during the wide-ranging interview.

Giuliani said that the "reality is you'd have to be a fool" to think Biden "didn't know that his son was under investigation." The founder of the company Hunter Biden worked for is currently under investigation, but there is no evidence he himself is being investigated.


Comment: The whole premise of this Ukraine thing is beyond insane. Trump is accused of using political influence to lean on a foreign government to investigate criminality by the likely 2020 candidate of the opposing side.

So what?? That's not something to be the defensive about, especially as Joe Biden clearly used political influence to lean on that same foreign government to ENRICH himself!

That some Americans have been fooled into seeing only the Trump side's 'wrongdoing', ignoring the actual wrongdoing of the Democrats' side, shows you just how far gone the country is.


Eye 2

France's Defence minister announces ominous European "mission" in Middle East, slams US "disengagement"

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© REUTERS / Benoit TessierFlorence Parly
Florence Parly has insisted there is only one way to deal with the US ebb in the Gulf, and this is in no way repeating its "maximum pressure" policy of perpetual sanctions, but for Europe to engage in a separate collective mission.

French Defence Minister Florence Parly took a dig Saturday at "deliberate gradual US disengagement" in the Middle East, accusing it of failing to respond to Gulf provocations blamed on Iran. The Islamic Republic has in turn flatly denied any involvement in the recent attacks.


"When the mining of ships went unanswered, the drone got shot. When that in turn went unanswered, major oil facilities were bombed. Where does it stop? Where are the stabilisers?" Parly queried taking the floor at the annual Manama Dialogue on regional security in Bahrain.

She added it had been "on the cards for a while" but had become much more apparent in light of recent events.

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Better Earth

Best of the Web: The road toward Greater Eurasia

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© Asia TimesKazakhstan's first president has road map for 21st century: global alliance of leaders for nuclear-free world
The Astana Club is one of the most crucial annual meetings in Eurasia, alongside the Boao forum in China and the Valdai discussions in Russia. China, Russia and Kazakhstan are all at the forefront of Eurasia integration. No wonder, then, that the 5th meeting of the Astana Club had to focus on Greater Eurasia - synonymous, it may be hoped, with a "new architecture of global cooperation."

Astana Club congregates a fascinating mix of Eurasia-wide notables with Europeans and Americans. Virtually all relevant shades of the geopolitical spectrum are represented. Panels are very well structured (I moderated two of them). Discussions are frank and non-denial denials are heavily discouraged. Here is just a taste of what was discussed in Nur-Sultan, under the spectacular shallow dome designed by Norman Foster.

Great stabilizer

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Star of David

'All the king's men': Likud considers dethroning PM Netanyahu over corruption charges

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© Reuters/Ronen ZvulunIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
The political deadlock in Israel took a new twist on 21 November, when the country's Attorney General announced corruption charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in three cases. While Netanyahu has dismissed this as a "coup attempt", his rivals from opposition parties have intensified their calls for him to resign.

Two major Israeli broadcasters, Channels 12 and 13, have reported that some members of Benjamin Netanyahu's party Likud are plotting to oust the PM from his post as party leader. Neither of these channels identified either the plotters, or the sources for their reports. Sputnik could not independently verify the information.

According to reports, senior Likud lawmakers have started looking into ways to remove Netanyahu from the party's leadership since the country's Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced his indictment on corruption charges, believing that "the Netanyahu era is over".

The only way they see that this is possible is in finding a single candidate who'll enjoy the support of party members and, at the same time, be able to gather 61 votes in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, to become the new prime minister and form a government. They have 20 days to pull this off because after that the country will have to hold new elections, the third in a year, due to the inability of political forces in the country to agree on a new coalition government.

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Arrow Up

Durham probe extends to Pentagon office that contracted FBI spy Stephan Halper

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© UnknownFinance Committee Chair Senator Chuck Grassley • Stefan Halper
Justice Department prosecutor U.S. Attorney John Durham is questioning personnel connected to the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, which awarded multiple contracts to FBI informant Stephan Halper. Halper, who was informing the bureau on Trump campaign advisors, is a central figure in the FBI's original investigation into President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, SaraACarter.com has learned.

These latest developments reveal the expansive nature of what is now a Justice Department criminal probe into the FBI's investigation into the Trump campaign. The revelation also comes on the heels of DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report regarding the bureau's investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, announced to Fox News' Sean Hannity Wednesday night the lengthy investigative report will be released to the public on Dec., 9.

DOJ Attorney General William Barr, who appointed Durham, is conducting a separate investigation alongside Horowitz's probe. Both investigations are examining how U.S. intelligence agencies began investigating now debunked ties between Russia and Trump campaign personnel in the 2016 presidential election.

Multiple sources confirmed to this news site that Durham has spoken extensively with sources working in the Office of Net Assessment, as well as outside contractors, that were paid through Pentagon office.

Department of Justice officials declined to comment on Durham's probe.

Comment: Nothing in government happens by accident. Reports are missing as per calculated decisions dependent upon the secrecy levels of a particular agenda and the protection of reusable assets.


Chess

Trump prods GOP senators to hold full trial if House votes to impeach

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© Yuri GripasU.S. President Donald Trump
The White House supports a full trial for President Trump in the Senate if the House impeaches him.

White House counsel Pat Cipollone, counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, and the president's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner met with a group of GOP senators on Thursday morning to discuss impeachment strategy, according to Politico. The White House representatives told the lawmakers that Trump wants a deliberate trial and the chance to mount a defense on the merits of the case.

Trump has chosen to face a full trial despite several members of the GOP suggesting any impeachment articles brought against the president be immediately dismissed in the Senate.

In a separate meeting, Trump invited several Republican senators that are more critical of his administration to have lunch on Thursday. Among the invitees included Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, Maine Sen. Susan Collins, and eight other GOP lawmakers to discuss impeachment and lobby for a united GOP front in the Senate should the House pass articles of impeachment.


Comment: Go big or get buried? Trump is not about to 'get buried' by this mockery of one-sided justice.

From RT, 22/11/2019: Trump wants Biden to testify
"President Trump wants to have a trial in the Senate because it's clearly the only chamber where he can expect fairness and receive due process under the constitution," White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement on Thursday. "We would expect to finally hear from witnesses who actually witnessed, and possibly participated in corruption - like Adam Schiff, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and the so-called whistleblower, to name a few."

The report claims that lawmakers present at the meeting told Trump administration officials that there is no guarantee that Republicans won't break ranks if a Senate vote is held to dismiss the impeachment articles. However, a White House official cited by the outlet said the motive behind Trump's desire to have a full-fledged trial is rather to prove "just how weak [the Democrats' case] is."
Additional from RT, 22/11/2019: 'I want a Senate impeachment trial'

Trump added "the one I want to testify most is Shifty Schiff ... and what I want to know most is, why did he make up my statement?"

Trump has also slammed Schiff for conducting impeachment hearings with second- and third-hand witnesses who have thus far failed to provide concrete evidence that the president arranged a quid-pro-quo deal with Zelensky.