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Six Democratic scandals the Big Three networks are hiding from voters

Geoffrey Dickens
NewsBusters
Tue, 16 Oct 2018 17:21 UTC
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As the midterms fast approach, there are a bunch of Democrats who find themselves embroiled in scandals and controversies. But if you only got your news from the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks, you've probably never heard about them.

The networks have been doing their best to protect Democratic midterm interests by downplaying or completely ignoring Democrats who have gotten into trouble this campaign season. MRC analysts looked at the network evening, morning and Sunday roundtable shows to see how they covered or didn't cover various 2018 Democratic scandals or gaffes.

From Texas Senate Democratic challenger Beto O'Rourke lying about his DUI arrest to DNC chair Keith Ellison being accused of domestic violence, the following is a list of Democratic controversies that the nets are keeping their audiences (for the most part) in the dark about:
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Putin discusses free-trade zone with Sisi as Russia's trade with Egypt surges 62%


RT
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 17:43 UTC
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Economic ties between Russia and Egypt are developing successfully, according to President Vladimir Putin. He met with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fatah el-Sisi in Sochi on Wednesday.

The Russian president noted sharp 62-percent growth in trade turnover between the countries, adding that "in the first six months of this year the volume of trade increased 28 percent." Putin attributed this to diversification of bilateral ties, which include "agriculture, industry, equipment and vehicles."

The president also mentioned "a large contract worth €1 billion to supply passenger cars to Egypt together with Hungarian partners."
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Bad Guys

NATO moving forward with Macedonia accession talks despite failed referendum


RFE/RL
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 16:45 UTC
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© Christian Bruna / EPA-EFENATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (left) and Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev pose during a ceremony marking NATO's decision to invite Macedonia to join, in Brussels on July 12.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has vowed to "safeguard" a name-change agreement with Macedonia after his foreign minister, who negotiated the deal, stepped down amid internal government strife.

"I am determined to do whatever I can [to] safeguard the successful conclusion of the historic...agreement," Tsipras told reporters on October 17, referring to the June deal that would see the former Yugoslav republic change its name to the Republic of North Macedonia.

The prime ministers' comments came after he accepted the resignation of Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias, who was the chief negotiator with Skopje in the landmark talks.

Greek media reported that Kotzias quit a day after a cabinet meeting in which he had a heated argument with Defense Minister Panos Kammenos over the name deal and felt he did not receive enough backing from the prime minister and other leaders.

Kammenos and his right-wing Independent Greeks party are part of the left-wing Tsipras's ruling coalition but vehemently oppose the deal with Skopje and have vowed to vote against it in parliament.

The name-change proposal has come following decades of political wrangling between Skopje and Athens that had prevented Macedonia from joining both NATO and the European Union.

Comment: NATO expansion has been one of the prime reasons for the horrible state of Western-Russian relations. But despite all the signs that it is NATO's fault - they've been the ones expanding and aggressing against Russia - they continue on, further antagonizing Russia. And yet they blame Russia. It's maddening, but there's a certain method to their madness. They want to antagonize Russia, so that they can then play innocent and blame Russia.

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Flashback Riyadh's dirty secret for bombing Yemen is targeting their vast oil reserves


Sputnik
Wed, 06 Apr 2016 16:54 UTC
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Why does Saudi Arabia continue to bomb Yemen back into the Stone Age? The crux of the matter is that Yemen has oil reserves, while Riyadh is steadily running out of the commodity, American political analyst Phil Butler explains. According to American political analyst and researcher Phil Butler, the US-backed Saudi Arabian war against Yemen is neither about the longstanding sectarian strife between Sunnis and Shiites, nor about the much-discussed military campaign aimed against al-Qaeda in the region.

While Western media outlets usually refer to Yemen as a "small" energy producer, the truth of the matter is the country is sitting on substantial oil and gas reserves, which Saudi Arabia and its allies want to control, Butler notes.

In addition, Yemen lies at the Bab el-Mandab, a key checkpoint for maritime transit of oil, with 3.4 million barrels of oil passing through it each day.
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Iraqi forces reportedly kill suspected ISIS organizer of Ahvaz terror attack


Sputnik
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 16:42 UTC
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A suspected organizer of the recent terror attack in the Iranian city of Ahvaz was killed by the Iraqi forces, local media reported citing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The Mehr news agency reported on Tuesday that Abu Dhoha, an "emir" of the Daesh terror group, was killed along with four other terrorists during an operation carried out by the Iraqi security forces in the province of Diyala.

Comment: See also:

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Hurricane Michael damaged 10% of American F-22 fleet - because they were sitting around waiting to be repaired

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 15:41 UTC
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Note to the wise: When a hurricane comes, move your planes out of the way. Especially your really expensive F-22 fighter planes. After all, those babies are $339 mil apiece. Got the message?

Apparently the US Air Force didn't get this message. Or, did they find themselves unable to follow the message?

The Washington Times reported Tuesday that between 17 and 20 of these top-of-the-line fighter jets were damaged, some beyond the point of repair, when Hurricane Michael slammed ashore on Mexico Beach, Florida, not far from the Tyndall Air Force Base in the same state. The Times reports that more than a dozen of the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets were damaged after being left in the path of the extremely fierce storm:
President Trump's tour Monday of devastation wrought by Hurricane Michael took him close to Florida's Tyndall Air Force Base, where more than a dozen F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets were damaged after being left in the path of the powerful storm.

The pricey fighter jets - some possibly damaged beyond repair - were caught in the widespread destruction that took at least 18 lives, flattened homes, downed trees and buckled roads from Florida to Virginia.

The decision to leave roughly $7.5 billion in aircraft in the path of a hurricane raised eyebrows, including among defense analysts who say the Pentagon's entire high-tech strategy continues to make its fighter jets vulnerable to weather and other mishaps when they are grounded for repairs.

"This becomes sort of a self-defeating cycle where we have $400 million aircraft that can't fly precisely because they are $400 million aircraft," said Dan Grazier, a defense fellow at Project on Government Oversight. "If we were buying simpler aircraft then it would be a whole lot easier for the base commander to get these aircraft up and in working order, at least more of them."
This is quite a statement. The F-22 is held to be the tip of the American air defense sword. A superb airplane (when it works), it can do things no other plane in the world can do. It boasts a radar profile the size of a marble, making it virtually undetectable by enemy radars. It is highly maneuverable with thrust-vectoring built into its engines.

Comment: Wow. And they're replacing this jet with the F-35, perhaps the crappiest fighter jet in existence. Good job, America.

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US-based mercenary boasts of running targeted assassination program in Yemen as part of Saudi coalition


RT
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:41 UTC
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© Reuters / Nasser AwadThe US is supplying weapons, intelligence & other support to the coalition, but a security contractor claims the UAE hired his mercenary company, Spear Operations Group, to kill specific enemies.
A Hungarian-Israeli security contractor based in the US, Abraham Golan, has claimed he ran a targeted assassination program in Yemen as part of the Saudi-led coalition currently waging a proxy war against Iran-backed Houthis.

The US is supplying weapons, intelligence, and other support to the coalition, but Golan's account, as told to BuzzFeed, reads like something out of a spy thriller.

Golan claims the United Arab Emirates (UAE), part of the coalition, hired his mercenary company, Spear Operations Group, to kill specific enemies, including Anssaf Ali Mayo, leader of the Yemeni political party Al-Islah, which the UAE considers a terrorist group. The Mayo assassination was ultimately unsuccessful - Mayo disappeared from Yemeni politics for a while, and the Spear crew even thought he was dead, but he is currently serving in the Yemeni government, alive and well.

The botched assassination of December 29, 2015 is seen by observers from both sides as the opening salvo in a "targeted campaign," which former UN investigator Gregory Johnsen says eventually took out 25 to 30 members of Al-Islah and other clerics.

Golan claims responsibility for several of the high-profile assassinations in Yemen, though he refuses to share which ones. Not because of remorse - he's a mercenary, after all - but because his business inhabits a legal gray area, and perhaps because he doesn't want his professional secrets getting out. Golan is trying to sell his business model to the US military.

Comment: See also:

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Report: Elizabeth Warren's great-great-great grandfather was a member of the militia that ripped Cherokee from their homes, separating Native American families

Natural News
Mike Adams
Mon, 15 Oct 2018 14:52 UTC
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If you thought digging into Brett Kavanaugh's high school yearbook revealed some bizarre history, look what internet sleuths have managed to dig up about Elizabeth Warren.

Warren, who falsely claims to be Native American (Cherokee), recently publicized a DNA test she says vindicates her claim. The DNA test showed her to be 1/1024th a combination of Colombian, Mexican and Peruvian DNA. No Native American DNA comparisons were conducted whatsoever. Furthermore, her claimed percentage of "Native American" ancestry (0.098%) is about half the level of Native American ancestry found in the average white American (0.18%).

Thus, Elizabeth Warren is no more "Indian" than any typical white woman in America.

But it gets even worse. Now, it turns out the husband of Warren's so-called great-great-great grandmother was actually a militia member who rounded up Cherokee Indians, according to historical records, separating Cherokee from their families in one of the most brutal chapters of American history.
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Smoke-filled cabin and mechanical issues force the emergency landing of Melania Trump's plane


RT
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:36 UTC
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First Lady Melania Trump's plane has been forced to return to base after smoke filled the cabin and a burning smell was reported 10 minutes after its departure from Joint Andrews Air Force Base.

According to preliminary reports, the plane had just taken off from the air base when Secret Service agents leaped up and ran to the front of the cabin. Smoke began to fill the plane, and journalists on board reported a burning smell growing stronger.

The entourage held wet towels over their faces until the plane touched down safely at the military base. Mrs. Trump was seen getting off the plane at Andrews, and appeared to be in fine health.
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Russia's latest challenge: Ukraine & the Western-backed war on the Orthodox Church

Oleg Tsarev, Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard
Stalker Zone
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 10:32 UTC
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At the beginning of next year the most serious challenge for all its thousand-year existence will be thrown at Russian civilisation. The future of the Russian world will depend on how we will react to it.

Whatever one might say, the Russian world is a world built on an imperative of truth, justice, equality of all before God, and faith - our orthodox faith, the sources of which are in Kiev. To destroy the unity of the orthodox world is to destroy the future of the Russian world. A thousand years of our Russian civilisation. For one thousand years it was tried to conquer us, to break us, to force us to our knees, to divide and pit us against each other - and it didn't work. It didn't work because Orthodoxy is the foundation of our civilisation.

According to the information that I receive from Kiev, the deputies of Filaret - the patriarch of the UOC (Ukrainian Orthodox Church) of the Kiev Patriarchate - holds active negotiations with militants from Right Sector over the capture of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. At the present time it's not even the idea about capture that is being coordinated, but concrete plans are already being developed. The situation is well understood in the Lavra, but there aren't any forces and possibilities to defend it. The Lavra will be seized over several months, specifically when the decision on the date of its capture will be made on Bankova Street (the street where the building of the Presidential Administration of Poroshenko is located).

Comment: Also see: Faith, power, money: How Western meddling is corrupting Ukraine's Orthodox Church

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