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Best of the Web: While other 2020 Democrats are busy pandering, Tulsi Gabbard is serving her country

Brad Polumbo
The Washington Examiner
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 22:47 UTC
tulsi gabbard military service
During her service in the military, Gabbard served first in Iraq and later in Kuwait. While in Kuwait, she became the first woman to ever receive an award of appreciation from the Kuwaiti military.
Presidential aspirant Elizabeth Warren wants you to know that she is very, very relatable. Warren, along with many other 2020 candidates, was sure to share photos of her eating corn dogs and other food with common folk at the Iowa State Fair.

Meanwhile, Kamala Harris just wished Muslims a happy holiday within hours of tweeting a video of her chomping down on a pork chop. The California Democrat was too busy pandering to notice the irony.

Add this to Cory Booker and Beto O'Rourke's cringe-worthy attempts to speak Spanish on the debate stage, and it's just another reminder that most 2020 Democrats are desperately trying to come across as relatable and in-touch — but coming up empty.

Comment: Gabbard is the first candidate in many a moon to understand what it would be to send the US to war. It forms the foundation of her politics.

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Best of the Web: The conflict in Kashmir

Israel Shamir
UNZ review
Sun, 11 Aug 2019 12:00 UTC
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Daring Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, has killed a sacred cow, called Article 370 of the Constitution, enshrining the autonomy of Kashmir. The consequences could be dire, including the fourth India-Pakistan war, but not necessarily so. It could also be a successful scheme. Apparently, Narendra Modi had been encouraged by his success in recent elections, by his decent relations with the three powerful men of our age, Trump, Putin and Netanyahu; and by the rearmament and modernisation of India's armed forces. So he decided to go for the root of the age-long Kashmir problem, instead of treating its symptoms, and terminate the special status altogether, giving the people of Kashmir the same rights as all Indian citizens have, not more, neither less.

Kashmir, a chain of pleasant green mountain valleys, was the most cherished patrimony of the Great Mughals, who embellished it with palaces and gardens. Here the Muslims and Hindus have lived together in peace and harmony. A blessed country, if there ever was one, Kashmir could flourish if this peaceful coexistence had survived. Alas, it did not. Frequent riots, separatism and imported Islamic extremism have made life difficult for everybody.

The Hindus were forced to leave Kashmir; many Muslims had left too, rather than having to serve the firebrand insurgents. Their empty, ruined or burned down houses still stick out in Srinagar and elsewhere, though many of the properties were sold for a song during the insurgency.

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Bojo claims parliament and EU "collaborators" undermining Brexit

William James
Reuters
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 21:54 UTC
Boris Johnson
© Daniel Leal-Olivas/Pool via REUTERSFILE PHOTO: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks next to Britain's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Commissioner Cressida Dick and Youth Justice Board Adviser Roy Sefa-Attakora during a roundtable on the criminal justice system at 10 Downing Street in London, Britain August 12, 2019.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday some British lawmakers hoping to block Brexit were engaged in "terrible" collaboration with the European Union by undermining London's negotiating hand and so making no deal more likely.

Hours after senior lawmakers said they would seek to prevent any attempt to ignore parliament over Brexit, Johnson used a question-and-answer session on Facebook to attack them.

"There is a terrible kind of collaboration as it were going on between those who think they can block Brexit in parliament and our European friends," Johnson, who has been hailed by the U.S. president as "Britain's Trump", said on Facebook.

"We need our European friends to compromise and the more they think that there's a chance that Brexit can be blocked in parliament, the more adamant they are in sticking to their position," Johnson said.

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If Boris Johnson wants to suspend Parliament to push through a no-deal Brexit, Speaker John Bercow says he will fight him every step of the way.

British lawmakers have a right to sit and debate whatever Johnson's plan is to take the nation out of the EU, the speaker said at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and he will do his utmost to keep Parliament in the loop.

In case of any attempt "to circumvent, to bypass or - God forbid - to close down Parliament, that is anathema to me," he said.

"I will fight with every breath in my body to stop that happening. We cannot have a situation in which Parliament is shut down. We are a democratic society and Parliament will be heard."

The British Parliament nipped in the bud a string of Brexit proposals from Johnson's predecessor Theresa May on how the divorce with the EU should happened.

Caught between the rock of the legislature and the hard place of Brussels, her cabinet ultimately collapsed, with Johnson stepping in last month.

Johnson has pledged to see Britain leave the EU before the October 31 deadline, whether with a deal with Brussels or without one. Asking the Queen to order a suspension of Parliament would allow him to enact his policy regardless of what MPs think about it.
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Project Veritas: Google whistleblower goes public on 'machine learning fairness', says 'burden lifted off my soul'


Project Veritas
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 20:03 UTC
Google whistleblower Zachary Vorhies
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A Google insider who anonymously leaked internal documents to Project Veritas made the decision to go public in an on-the-record video interview. The insider, Zachary Vorhies, decided to go public after receiving a letter from Google, and after he says Google allegedly called the police to perform a "wellness check" on him.

Along with the interview, Vorhies asked Project Veritas to publish more of the internal Google documents he had previously leaked. Said Vorhies:
I gave the documents to Project Veritas, I had been collecting the documents for over a year. And the reason why I collected these documents was because I saw something dark and nefarious going on with the company and I realized that there were going to not only tamper with the elections, but use that tampering with the elections to essentially overthrow the United States.

In June of 2019, Project Veritas published internal Google documents revealing "algorithmic unfairness." Vorhies told Project Veritas these were documents that were widely available to full-time Google employees:
These documents were available to every single employee within the company that was full-time. And so as a full-time employee at the company, I just searched for some keywords and these documents started to pop up. And so once I started finding one document and started finding keywords for other documents and I would enter that in and continue this cycle until I had a treasure trove and archive of documents that clearly spelled out the system, what they're attempting to do in very clear language.

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The 'set up' of Julian Assange and why The Guardian and New York Times should be in jail

Kit Klarenberg
Sputnik
Mon, 12 Aug 2019 20:43 UTC
Julian Assange
© AP/Matt DunhamJulian Assange
Award-winning journalist Mark Davis has exposed the extent to which The Guardian and New York Times betrayed Julian Assange in 2010, and have played a pivotal and consciously dishonest role in smearing him ever since.

Speaking at an event in Sydney, Australia 8th August, Davis recalled how he'd closely followed Assange's activities in the first half of that year in order to make a series of programmes on the WikiLeaks founder's life for Australia's Special Broadcasting Service - he ended up with so much material he was able to compile a documentary, Inside WikiLeaks.

In particular, Davis was granted intimate insight into the release of the Afghan War Logs - 90,000 US military incident and intelligence reports compiled January 2004 - December 2009. Provided to WikiLeaks by Chelsea Manning, the files offered damning and previously hidden evidence of war crimes perpetrated by Allied forces in the country, including a number of extrajudicial killings.

Publication was ostensibly to be a collaborative effort in which WikiLeaks and a number of mainstream media outlets, most prominently The Guardian and New York Times, would work in concert curating the files and preparing them for publication - The Guardian went to the extent of establishing a dedicated operations room, dubbed "the bunker", in order to facilitate the project.
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Civil disobedience in Hong Kong? US color revolution attempt...or both?

Stephen Lendman
Global Research
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC
Hong Kong protest
© ANIProtesters in Hong Kong
As the saying goes, if it walks, talks, and quacks like a duck, chances are it is one. What's been going on for months in Hong Kong has all the earmarks of a US orchestrated color revolution, aimed at destabilizing China by targeting its soft Hong Kong underbelly.

In calling for reunification of China in the early 1980s, then-leader Deng Xiaoping said Hong Kong and Macau could retain their own economic, financial and governmental systems, Taiwan as well under a "one country, two systems" arrangement.

The above would be something like what the US 10th Amendment stipulates, stating:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Each of the 50 US states has its own electoral system, governing procedures, and laws that may differ from federal ones.

China's soft underbelly in Western-oriented Hong Kong left it vulnerable to what's going on. US dirty hands likely orchestrated and manipulated pro-Western 5th column elements behind months of anti-Beijing protests.

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Insider hands DOJ 950 docs and laptop exposing Google's AI platform bias operation

Sara Carter
saraacarter.com
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC
Google algorithms
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A former Google insider claiming the company created algorithms to hide its political bias within artificial intelligence platforms - in effect targeting particular words, phrases and contexts to promote, alter, reference or manipulate perceptions of Internet content - delivered roughly 950 pages of documents to the Department of Justice's Antitrust division Friday.

The former Google insider, who has already spoken to the nonprofit organization Project Veritas, met with SaraACarter.com on several occasions last week. He was interviewed in silhouette, to conceal his identity, in group's latest film, which they say exposes bias inside the social media platform.

Several weeks prior, the insider mailed a laptop to the DOJ containing the same information delivered on Friday, they said. The former insider is choosing to remain anonymous until Project Veritas' James O'Keefe reveals his identity tomorrow (Wednesday).

He told this reporter on his recent trip to Washington D.C. that the documents he turned over to the Justice Department will provide proof that Google has been manipulating the algorithms and the evidence of how it was done, the insider said.

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'Pushback with Aaron Maté': Trump starves Venezuela, Democrats are silent

Aaron Maté
The Gray Zone
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 18:40 UTC
Ven Flag
© Reuters/Edgard Garrido
The Trump administration is intensifying its economic warfare on the people of Venezuela with a crippling embargo — and facing no resistance from the Democratic Party.

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Trump: 'Can't imagine why' anyone would relate Hong Kong protests to US meddling


RT
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 21:49 UTC
Riot police/Hong Kong
© Reuters/Tyrone SiuRiot police face off with protesters in Hong Kong, August 11, 2019.
For the life of him, US President Donald Trump can't explain why critics would associate Washington with Hong Kong's unrest, expressing bewilderment in a tweet just before sounding the alarm about a Chinese invasion of the city.

In a tweet on Tuesday afternoon, the president observed: "Many are blaming me, and the United States, for the problems going on in Hong Kong. I can't imagine why?" Answering his own question, perhaps, he followed up that missive with another tweet five minutes later, ominously warning that "Our Intelligence has informed us that the Chinese Government is moving troops to the Border with Hong Kong."

Preparations for Chinese military drills in the border town of Shenzhen, however, were reported on Monday by the Chinese Communist Party's (CPC) own media arm - the troop's movements did not require secret intelligence to divine. According to the CPC-affiliated Global Times, the large-scale movements in Shenzhen are tied to exercises, rather than an invasion. Similar drills were carried out by the city's police force earlier this month, involving some 12,000 officers.


Comment: In addition from RT,14/8/2019: Beijing denies Hong Kong port visits by two US warships
USS Green Bay/USS Lake Erie
© US.Navy/Mass Communication Specialist: 1st Class Daniel Barker/3rd Class Mackenzie P. AdamsUSS Green Bay • USS Lake Erie
China has "denied requests for port visits to Hong Kong" by the USS Lake Erie guided-missile cruiser and the USS Green Bay amphibious transport dock, Commander Nate Christensen, the deputy spokesperson for the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, said on Tuesday. Christensen did not specify why Beijing rejected the request, adding only that he expects the port visits "to continue" in the future.

Some US politicians, like Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have openly voiced their support for the protests. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said that their words serve as "powerful evidence of the country's involvement" in the unrest.

See also: China refuses US warships entry to Hong Kong ports due to interference in protests
From RT,14/8/2019: Beijing tells US: 'Don't stick your nose' in China's Hong Kong affairs
Zhang Hanhui, China's freshly appointed ambassador in Moscow, reminded that Hong Kong is Chinese and not "American" or "English." He thus cautioned foreign nations not to "stick their noses in our affairs," TASS reports.

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FBI conducts raid on Epstein's Little St. James island


RT
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 01:17 UTC
Little St. James
© File Photo Reuters/Marco BelloLittle St. James Island, one of the properties of financier Jeffrey Epstein, US Virgin Islands
FBI agents have raided the island of Little St. James, property of the financier Jeffrey Epstein, two days after his death inside a New York jail.

A group of tourists on a chartered boat off the coast of the island spotted the law enforcement on Monday and took photos and video of the raid. "We were enjoying lunch when we saw over a dozen people getting off their speedboats and landing on the island," the anonymous witness told the Daily Mail, which got the footage. "When we looked harder, we could see the FBI logo on the backs of their shirts."

The FBI has not officially commented on the raid, but its timing - two days after Epstein was found dead in the Manhattan jail after apparent suicide - has prompted questions.

Comment: Were they there to gather or suppress information? We may never know.

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