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Anti-Trump Minnesota state Senator Dan Schoen accused of sexual harassment


gotnews
Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:10 UTC
Senator Danny Schoen
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Multiple women are accusing anti-Trump Minnesota State Senator Dan Schoen of sexual harassment, according to the MinnPost. The allegations range from unwanted sexual touching to unsolicited sexting.

Curiously, Schoen, a Democrat, had the audacity to accuse then-candidate Donald Trump of sexual assault in October 2016:


Comment: Yet another accusation of sexual misconduct against a US senator. How many of these have a factual basis and how many are spurious political attacks? See also:

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'Cold day in hell before ICC prosecutes US for war crimes in Afghanistan'


RT
Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:13 UTC
shadow of army soldier
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The ICC prosecutor's decision to pursue a probe into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan is "completely political" and won't amount to anything, law professor Francis Boyle believes. He said it will be a "cold day in hell" before any Americans are prosecuted.

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, announced last week that her request to launch an investigation had been handed over to a pre-trial court. She said that if her request is granted, the probe will focus "upon those most responsible for the most serious crimes committed in connection with the situation in Afghanistan."

However, Francis Boyle, an international law professor at the University of Illinois, told RT that while Bensouda is likely to get approval for the investigation, the move is simply a "propaganda stunt." He added that Bensouda has no desire to go after any Americans who committed war crimes.

Comment: One would hope that Francis Boyle is wrong in his appraisal and that the ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda is sincere in her attempts to bring justice upon the US on behalf of Afghanistan. As for the final outcome, we're not holding our breath.

See also: ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda - the woman who hunts tyrants - seeks Afghanistan war crimes investigation against US

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Flashback Sen. Robert Menendez may have had sex with underage hookers in Dominican Republic: prosecutors

Dan Friedman
New York Daily News
Fri, 25 Aug 2017 12:53 UTC
Robert Menendez
© Andrew Harnik/APProsecutors said the hooker allegations against Sen. Bob Menendez 'were not so easily disprovable as the defendants suggest.' (Andrew Harnik/AP)
WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors said Monday that they aren't convinced claims U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez cavorted with underage hookers - widely seen as discredited - are false.

Lawyers for the New Jersey Democrat last week asked a federal judge to dismiss charges that the senator took bribes from a Florida eye doctor, Salomon Melgen, and in exchange used his power to do business and personal favors for him.

The defense said the case is bogus because it sprang from "easily disprovable" claims that Menendez slept with underage prostitutes while hosted by Melgen at a Dominican Republic villa.

Three women who made the prostitution allegations later recanted and said they were paid to level the charges. Neither Melgen nor Menendez was charged with soliciting underage prostitutes.

But in a motion Monday asking the judge to ignore the defense arguments, Justice Department lawyers say the hooker allegations "were not so easily disprovable as the defendants suggest."

Comment: Sexual accusations against politicians seem to be happening a lot in the US lately. But which ones are true? See also:

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Moore hit by WaPo sexual misconduct allegations

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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Moore hit by WaPo sexual misconduct allegations

Joseph Ax
Reuters
Fri, 10 Nov 2017 11:59 UTC
judge Roy Moore
© Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/File PhotoAlabama Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Roy Moore speaks with reporters as he visits the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. October 31, 2017.
A woman has accused Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Alabama, of initiating a sexual encounter with her when she was 14 years old and he was 32, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, prompting top Republicans to say he should step aside if the allegations prove true.

Moore, 70, the state's former chief judge, vehemently denied the allegations, calling them "completely false and a desperate political attack."

U.S. President Donald Trump would want Moore to step aside if the allegations against him are true, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Friday.

"Like most Americans, the president believes we cannot allow a mere allegation, in this case one from many years ago, to destroy a person's life," Sanders said.

Comment: Before anyone picks up their pitchforks, lets keep in mind the principle that a person is innocent until proven guilty. Lets also remember that the story came first from the notorious fake news outlet Washington Post. For all we know, and assuming that the woman who made the accusations is real and is telling the truth, Moore might not have even been aware at the time that she was underage, and there is no reason to think the sexual encounter was forced on her.

While in the interest of justice we welcome revelations about real sexual predators, the fact is that in politics it is way too easy to make accusations without any evidence to discredit an opponent and even destroy their career.

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Black Magic

Does Donna Brazile know who killed Seth Rich?

Daniel John Sobieski
American Thinker
Fri, 10 Nov 2017 11:54 UTC
seth rich
The real bombshell lurking in Donna Brazile's stunning interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos about her new book Hacks may be her cryptic references to murdered DNC IT staffer Seth Rich and her statement that she took the precautions one takes when one fears for their life.

So far, speculation about the unsolved murder of Seth Rich have been dismissed as right-wing conspiracy theories but Brazile's references to him in the light of all that has come out about Wikileaks, the Fusion GPS dossier, and Hillary's purchase of the DNC that rigged the primaries against Bernie Sanders, may be a key to a missing piece of this whole puzzle.

Comment: Does Brazile know? Is the sky blue?

See also:

Donna Brazile talks DNC, Crowdstrike, FBI with Tucker Carlson; Clinton campaign was "like a cult"

Hillary "blew off" Donna Brazile when she begged Clinton to find Seth Rich's killer

Brazile asked about dodgy Trump dossier BEFORE election, was told she "didn't need to know"

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Oscar

Oh, here we go: Hillary taking credit for recent Democratic wins

Matt Vespa
Townhall
Wed, 08 Nov 2017 11:31 UTC
Hillary clinton gurn
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Democrats, take a bow. You guys did well. No-you did great. That's a fact. There's no hiding it. I was wrong. Democratic candidate Ralph Northam reigned supreme over Republican Ed Gillespie and then some. Now, with that being said, it was due to a few factors. Guy outlined them in his analysis of the blue wave that came crashing down last night. First, it was to send a strong message to Trump, he animated the base to levels not seen since 2008, which was the year Obama won in a landslide win. With those figures, the GOP was going to get trashed.

Yet, do you know which person had nothing to do with it, but is attempting to take credit for it anyway: Hillary Clinton. It didn't take long for her majesty to try and bathe in the afterglow of the Democrats' wins last night in Virginia and New Jersey.

Comment: Cheatery Clinton says:
Scripture tells us: Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season, we shall reap, if we do not lose heart.
Does she mean "good" as in the following?

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UN: Yemen facing 'largest famine in the world' if Saudi blockade not lifted


Al Jazeera
Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:09 UTC
Yemen military action infographic
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Millions of people will die in Yemen, in what will be the world's worst famine crisis in decades, unless a Saudi-led military coalition ends a devastating blockade and allows aid into the country, the United Nations has warned.

The Saudi-led alliance fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen tightened its air, land and sea blockade of the country after a ballistic missile was fired on Saturday towards the Saudi capital, Riyadh.


Comment: Saudi Arabia closes Yemen's border crossings, sea ports and airports after Riyadh-targeted missile is intercepted


Since then, the country's already inflated food and fuel prices have skyrocketed, while flights delivering much-needed humanitarian aid have been prevented from landing.

After briefing the UN Security Council on Wednesday, Mark Lowcock, the UN's humanitarian chief, said the move will worsen a "catastrophic" humanitarian crisis that has pushed millions to the brink of famine and has caused a mass cholera epidemic.

Famine in Yemen

Comment: Yet another crime on the long list of misdeeds perpetrated by the Evil Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It's amazing what money and oil can let people get away with. See also:

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Saudi Prince and key Murdoch ally sells his stake in 21st Century Fox

Graham Ruddick and Dominick Rushe
Guardian
Wed, 08 Nov 2017 10:24 UTC
Alwaleed bin Talal
© ReutersMogul no more? Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
A key ally of Rupert Murdoch has sold his stake in 21st Century Fox, leaving the company more vulnerable to a rebellion by shareholders unhappy at the dominance of the Murdoch family.

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who controls the investment firm Kingdom Holding and is one of the world's richest men, at one stage owned more than 6% of Fox and has consistently backed the Murdochs in shareholder votes about the family's control of the company.

He has been a shareholder in Murdoch companies - including Fox and News Corp, the owner of the Sun, Times and Wall Street Journal - for two decades and expressed public support for the family after the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World in 2011.

Regulatory filings in New York show Prince Alwaleed reduced his stake to 4.98% in December 2015, and an analysis of Bloomberg data shows the stake has fallen to zero since the end of the last financial quarter, on 30 September.

It is not clear why he sold the stake or to whom. The sale represents the loss of an ally for the Murdochs and adds an extra twist to reports this week that Fox held talks with Disney about selling most of the company.

Comment: The Guardian saved this key piece of data for the last paragraph. But is it unreasonable to speculate that Bin Talal's sale is related to the recent 'crackdown on corruption' in Saudi Arabia? Did he smell something coming and decided to pull out of Fox preemptively? Also of interest: Bin Talal is a major shareholder of CityGroup, News Corp and Twitter. According to ZeroHedge, he also has deep ties to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

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Mainstream media "journalists" suspected of taking bribes to spread fake "Russian Collusion" news

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
Fusion GPS bank records may include the names of journalists on the take to spread fake news.
Obama Fusion GPS
The latest revelation to come out of the "Fusion GPS - Trump Dossier" scandal should surprise no one who has been following the decline of a very corrupt mainstream media.

The widened net into Fusion GPS bank records includes the names of journalists and law firms that Fusion might have paid, as it sought to defame and destroy President Trump.

Comment: Clinton's fake Russian dossier - symptomatic of bigger problem

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Was Trump really this honest?

Eric Zuesse
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sun, 05 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
Donald Trump
© Unknown
After all of the trumpeting against Donald Trump by the 'news'media and by all Democratic politicians and many Republican politicians, about his utter untrustworthiness; and after the loads of exposés that have been published, over decades, documenting Trump's psychopathic behaviors and business scams; what do we now have, adding to this unsavory if not criminal record by Mr. Trump, in the first criminal indictment, published on October 27th, by the Special Prosecutor, Robert Mueller, who is tasked to nail Trump to some prison cell for crimes committed during his Presidential campaign, after Trump's having previously racked up already such a lifetime record of alleged (and even some documented) outrages perpetrated by him?

The indictments, of Paul Manafort II and of Richard W. Gates III, make serious charges against these two men, for their allegedly laundering $75 million of income to mainly Manafort during the period from 2006 to 2015. The charges are basically tax-evasion and "a series of false and misleading statements" by them to the US Department of Justice during and after the men's subsequent work for Trump's Presidential campaign.

Comment: Why is nobody investigating Crooked Clinton's decades' long "pay for play" corruption through her infamous "Clinton Foundation"?

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