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Pelosi's harassment response set women back 'decades', says Dem lawmaker

Kyle Cheney
Politico
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 19:17 UTC
Nancy Pelosi
© John Shinkle/POLITICOHouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has been criticized over the comments she made during an appearance on "Meet the Press" on Nov. 26.
A Democratic congresswoman laced into Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday, suggesting the top House Democrat "set women back and - quite frankly, our party back - decades" by failing to more forcefully confront allegations of sexual harassment by veteran Democratic Rep. John Conyers.

Speaking to reporters at the Capitol, Rep. Kathleen Rice of New York said Pelosi's appearance on "Meet the Press" on Sunday - when she raised questions about the accounts of Conyers' accusers and described the Michigan Democrat as an "icon" - ceded the party's moral high ground on sexual harassment issues, especially because one of Conyers' accusers is bound by a nondisclosure agreement.

"I think that her comments on Sunday set women back and - quite frankly, our party back - decades," said Rice, who is advocating for legislation that would expose a slew of hidden, taxpayer-funded settlements for sexual harassment by lawmakers and aides.

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Iraqi spies infiltrate ISIS 'sleeper cells' to prevent terror attacks, says minister

Patrick Cockbur
The Independant
Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:28 UTC
Baghdad security
© EPAAn Iraqi soldier guards a popular market in al-Gomhouria Street in central Baghdad


Exclusive: In an interview with The Independent, Iraq's Interior Minister says the government sometimes lets ISIS bomb a target and then releases fake casualty numbers, in order to protect informants.

Violence in Iraq has fallen to its lowest level since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, as ISIS loses its base areas and its bombing attacks are thwarted by informers and double agents. A senior Iraqi security official says that intelligence about potential ISIS attacks has improved to the point that government forces can monitor a bomb from construction to detonation, allowing it to explode after evacuating civilians so ISIS does not know that its bomb-making networks have been penetrated.

"We have people who work with ISIS who agree to work with us," said Interior Minister Qasim al-Araji in an interview with The Independent in Baghdad. "ISIS does not know this and we make sure our informant is not exposed." Sometimes security forces even pay for the car that transports a bomb to Baghdad and allow it blow up in a place which ISIS has targeted. "We ask people to move and make an official statement with a false number of casualties," he says.

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US Congresswoman walks out of Dem meeting, says Franken and Conyers sexual harassment cases were not seriously addressed

Loretta Brown
Townhall
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 12:04 UTC
Congresswoman Kathleen Rice
Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY) exhibited mounting frustration Wednesday with the inaction on Capitol Hill in light of the recent sexual allegations. She has called for the resignation of both Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) and Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and even walked out of the House Democrats' morning conference meeting saying harassment wasn't being addressed seriously. "I don't have time for meetings that aren't real," she told reporters.


Comment: On the sexual harassment allegations against Rep. Conyers: And on Al Franken's case:

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Clinton Foundation understated support from firm hired by Russian nuclear company

John Solomon and Alison Spann
The Hill
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 18:42 UTC
Clinton foundation
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The Clinton Foundation's donor disclosure site vastly understated support that the Clinton Global Initiative received from APCO Worldwide, a global communications firm that lobbied on behalf of Russia's state-owned nuclear company.

The site, created to detect conflicts of interest for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton because of her family's various charitable efforts, shows APCO gave between $25,000 and $50,000 over the last decade.

But according to interviews and internal documents reviewed by The Hill, APCO was much more generous and provided hundreds of thousands of dollars in pro-bono services and in-kind contributions to the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) between 2008 and 2016.

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Court sides with Trump's choice of Mulvaney in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fight


The Hill
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 11:50 UTC
Leandra English
© Gateway PunditLeandra English
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a lawsuit from an official who claims that she, and not President Trump appointee Mick Mulvaney, is the rightful director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

Judge Timothy Kelly of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia refused to grant Leandra English a restraining order to bar Mulvaney from serving as the CFPB's acting director.

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Flashlight

Trump tweets that NBC host Joe Scarborough should be investigated for 'mysterious' death of intern

Christina Laila
Gateway Pundit
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 11:28 UTC
FBI i Ministarstvo pravosuđa nisu mogli dokazati veze Trumpovih suradnika s Rusijom
© AP Foto / Evan Vucci
President Trump unleashed on fake news Wednesday morning after it was announced NBC fired Matt Lauer.

Lauer bit the dust after a woman filed a complaint alleging sexual misconduct. It is not an isolated incident.


Comment: Ironic: Matt Lauer, who leaked Trump's 'access Hollywood' tape, fired over sexual harassment


President Trump couldn't resist the opportunity to respond to the news.

The Republican president challenged NBC to fire its top executives for posting fake news.

Comment: This might be interesting if the following report had any truth to it:

White House infighting? Roger Stone claims Jared Kushner is leaking information to fake news anchor Joe Scarborough

See also: White House chief of staff John Kelly's losing battle with Trump's Twitter feed

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Hypocrisy: The Liberal media's tolerance for Elizabeth Warren's fake news

Brent Bozell
Townhall
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 00:01 UTC
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
The network news divisions boast about how much they care about the truth and then rage against President Trump when he calls them makers of "fake news." But when it comes to the politicians they adore, especially those they wish would run for president, the truth takes a back seat.

Exhibit A right now is Elizabeth Warren, who falsely claimed in a professional directory to be descended from Cherokee Indians, so as to be listed as a minority when she was hired as a professor. When Trump makes fun of her by calling her "Pocahontas," the networks get oh so upset and call it a "racial slur." But they don't seem to care one iota about how American Indians feel regarding white people who take on a fake minority identity.

The story broke during Warren's 2012 campaign against then-Sen. Scott Brown in Massachusetts. In May, liberal writer Garance Franke-Ruta summarized for The Atlantic: "the progressive consumer advocate has been unable to point to evidence of Native heritage except for an unsubstantiated thirdhand report that she might be 1/32 Cherokee. Even if it could be proven, it wouldn't qualify her to be a member of a tribe." So a Senate candidate was committed a race-based fraud. CBS broadcast programs touched the story once.

Comment: Given the growing acceptance of transracialism, instead of claiming she is 1/32 Cherokee, Warren may find it more acceptable to say she identifies as 1/32 Cherokee. No one could argue with that. Rock solid.

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Ironic: Matt Lauer, who leaked Trump's 'access Hollywood' tape, fired over sexual harassment

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:59 UTC
Matt Lauer


Another massive hypocrite exposed

Matt Lauer being fired over allegations of sexual harassment is laced with irony given that Lauer is suspected to have played a key role in leaking the infamous Hollywood Access tape that was used to demonize Donald Trump as an abuser of women.

NBC announced it was terminating Lauer's contract following "a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace."

The network also revealed that it was "also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident."

Comment: You can read here about the 'Access Hollywood' leaked tape.

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White House chief of staff John Kelly's losing battle with Trump's Twitter feed

Annie Karni
Politico
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 19:14 UTC
Trump and Kelly
© Chris Kleponis/picture-alliance/dpa/AP ImagesWhite House chief of staff John Kelly (right) does not try to manage President Donald Trump's Twitter feed, even though presidential tweets sometimes short-circuit the smoothly running operation Kelly is trying to build.
When John Kelly accepted the position of White House chief of staff last July, he framed his main function as imposing order, including instituting a formal process for the documents and news articles that reached the Resolute Desk.

But President Donald Trump's increasingly incendiary Twitter feed, which remains outside Kelly's control, has short-circuited that attempt at creating a functional system for controlling the flow of information into the Oval Office.

Twitter has allowed the president to continue accessing fringe websites and viewing racist videos simply by scanning his "mentions," according to two former aides who have observed how he uses the site. Trump doesn't use the direct-message function on the website, which would allow people he follows to privately share links with him - but he often looks at tweets that mention his handle, and picks up links and videos there.

Comment: It's a brave new world as the current President is using social media as no previous administration has. Perhaps what Trump posts is not PC, but it's unarguable that his tweets bring him closer to the public than press conferences and official statements ever could. See also:

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Nikki Haley spooks the UN: North Korea missile launch 'brings us closer to war' (video)


abc7
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:40 UTC
nikki haley UN
© Stephanie Keith/Getty ImagesNikki Haley speaking at a U.N. meeting in New York City, Sept. 4, 2017.
Washington -- U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Wednesday that North Korea's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile that some observers believe could reach Washington and the entire U.S. Eastern Seaboard "brings us closer" to a war the U.S. doesn't seek.

Haley, speaking at an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, said that if war comes as a result of further acts of "aggression" like Tuesday's launch, "make no mistake the North Korean regime will be utterly destroyed."

"The dictator of North Korea made a decision yesterday that brings us closer to war, not farther from it," Haley said. "We have never sought war with North Korea and still today we do not seek it."


Comment: The current 'dialogue' between the US and North Korea goes something like this: "You will be destroyed!" "No, you will be destroyed more!", and so on. However, the fact is that a war would represent too much to lose and too little to gain for both parties - so at this point in time it is still highly unlikely.

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