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Democrats are lying about Republican tax plan, says Washington Post fact-checker

Pete Kasperowicz
Washington Examiner
Fri, 03 Nov 2017 12:30 UTC
Trump Tax plan 2017
The Washington Post's fact-checker said Thursday that Democrats aren't telling the truth when they say the Republican tax plan would raise taxes on most middle-class families.

In an early Thursday morning story, fact-checker Glenn Kessler gave Democrats four Pinocchios for making that claim. According to the Post, four Pinocchios are reserved for claims that are "whoppers."
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Magic Wand

Donna Brazile confesses: Trump and Bernie were right, DNC rigged nomination for Hillary from the start


The Hill
Thu, 02 Nov 2017 12:47 UTC
Donna Brazile
© NewstargetDonna Brazile
Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) interim chairwoman Donna Brazile writes in a new book that it "broke my heart" when she discovered evidence that she said showed Hillary Clinton's campaign fixed the Democratic nomination system in her favor.

In an excerpt from "Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns that Put Donald Trump in the White House" that was provided to Politico, Brazile explains how she was tasked with investigating the DNC after hacked emails suggested the Clinton campaign fixed the nomination.

"By September 7, the day I called Bernie, I had found my proof and it broke my heart," Brazile wrote, referring to Clinton's challenger, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

Comment: Senator Elizabeth Waren has had something to say about this:
Senator Elizabeth Warren said she agreed with the suggestion, after a report claimed that Ms Clinton had controlled multiple aspects of the party's infrastructure.

Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair Donna Brazile wrote in a report for the Politico that Ms Clinton's campaign had assumed control of key fundraising aspects of the party before she went on to defeat Bernie Sanders.

The DNC seeks to elect Democrats nationwide, not just to the White House.

The report seemed to bolster critiques from Sanders supporters who have long argued the Democratic establishment undermined their insurgent candidate in favour of Ms Clinton, who had built deep ties within the party over her years in politics.

In an interview with Ms Warren, who like Mr Sanders represents the party's farther-left progressive wing, CNN's Jake Tapper asked point-blank if the Massachusetts Democrat agreed "with the notion that it was rigged".

"Yes", Ms Warren replied.
Can we call Hillary Clinton a cheater already?

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Pirates

Prominent Democratic senator confirms: Hillary Clinton 'rigged' presidential nomination process

Jeremy B White
Independent
Fri, 03 Nov 2017 06:22 UTC
Elizabeth Warren & Bernie
© REUTERS/Yuri GripasSenator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders promote universal healthcare in Washington on September 13, 2017
Senator Elizabeth Warren said she agreed with the suggestion, after a report claimed that Ms Clinton had controlled multiple aspects of the party's infrastructure.

Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair Donna Brazile wrote in a report for the Politico that Ms Clinton's campaign had assumed control of key fundraising aspects of the party before she went on to defeat Bernie Sanders.

The DNC seeks to elect Democrats nationwide, not just to the White House.

The report seemed to bolster critiques from Sanders supporters who have long argued the Democratic establishment undermined their insurgent candidate in favour of Ms Clinton, who had built deep ties within the party over her years in politics.

In an interview with Ms Warren, who like Mr Sanders represents the party's farther-left progressive wing, CNN's Jake Tapper asked point-blank if the Massachusetts Democrat agreed "with the notion that it was rigged".

Comment: See also:

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Magic Hat

Zero evidence, but... DOJ mystery source tells WSJ it 'knows of six Russian government officials involved in DNC hack'


RT
Fri, 03 Nov 2017 09:01 UTC
Department of Justice
© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Just days after the Mueller investigation came up short on Kremlin involvement in the US presidential election, a source in the Department of Justice says the names of the Russians who hacked the DNC computers are known, according to The Wall Street Journal.

In yet another effort to make a connection between the Kremlin and Hillary Clinton's loss in the November 2016 US presidential elections, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Justice Department "has identified more than six members of the Russian government involved in hacking the Democratic National Committee's computers and swiping sensitive information." The leaked materials divulged a mountain of unsavory information related to the Clinton campaign.


Comment: Oh yeah? And how would they know that? Did they sign "Hacked by _____?" And who is this mysterious anonymous "source" of the Department of Justice? Does it even exist or is the WSJ making stuff up again?


Although relations between the world's two preeminent nuclear powers hang in the balance over the charges, the accusations about "Russian meddling" in the US democratic process come without the outlet offering any evidence to support the claims. This much was admitted by the authors of the WSJ article early in the report.

"US intelligence agencies have attributed the attack to Russian intelligence services, but haven't provided detailed information about how they concluded those services were responsible, or any details about the individuals allegedly involved," authors Aruna Viswanatha and Del Quentin Wilber wrote.

Comment: Again, no evidence - but when has the lack of it ever stopped the US media (and the US establishment in general) from a good round of Russian-bashing?

In the Absence of Evidence of Russian Collusion and 'Hacking', Congress Makes It Up

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Caesar

Putin did it! Establishment claims Russia interfered with Brexit

Neil Clark
Sputnik News
Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:45 UTC
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© Ray Tang / Global Look Press
Just when you thought the anti-Russian conspiracy theories couldn't possibly get any loopier, they just did.

The Kremlin has already been accused of helping to put Donald Trump in the White House - and interfering in elections across the "free world"; now it seems those darned Russkies are to blame for Brexit too!

Putin Ate My Hamster

Writing his usual "Putin did it" column for the Observer on October 21, pro-war hack Nick Cohen, argues it would be unrealistic to believe Russia didn't interfere with Brexit, because it's interfered in the electoral processes of other western countries.

"On the rare occasions it bothers to discuss the subject, the British state says 'it can't happen here,' even though 'it' is happening everywhere else," he writes.

There's only one tiny problem with Nick's thesis. There's simply no evidence that "it" is happening everywhere else. In fact, no concrete evidence has yet been produced to show that Russia has interfered with any election anywhere.

France? The head of French Intelligence admitted that a hack of Macron campaign data before this year's presidential election was "so generic and simple it could have been done by anyone."

Germany? Even the hawkish Washington Post said there was no Russian involvement.

Comment: It is simply mind-boggling to see how far the "Russia did it!" blame-game continues to spread. While it started out as a funny meme to "blame Putin" for all the ills of the world, Western politicians don't seem to get the joke; or indeed, get the fact that it IS A JOKE. And the joke has ceased to be funny. Even the most mainstream Western citizen at this point must be asking, "How stupid do they think we are?"

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Brick Wall

Trump insists NY terrorist helped 23 others move to US, pushes to end migration lottery


RT
Fri, 03 Nov 2017 11:06 UTC
Trump
© Sputnik News


US President Donald Trump is invoking Tuesday's terrorist attack in Manhattan to pass the RAISE Act, which would terminate the Diversity Visa Program.

Central to that effort is President Trump's claim that suspected terrorist Sayfullo Saipov brought 23 Uzbeks with him under the Diversity Visa Program after he immigrated to the US in 2010. Trump referred to this as "chain migration."

In an interview to Fox News' Laura Ingraham on Thursday, Trump linked the Manhattan attack to "chain migration" and reiterated his claim that Saipov was connected to another 23 people brought into the US.


Comment: While it is probably true that US immigration policy is in need of reform, people should not fool themselves into thinking that the cause of terrorist attacks in the US and Europe is open borders. Ultimately, terrorism is carried out by extremist groups that would have become extinct by now if they had not received covert support from the Gulf States, most notably Saudi Arabia, as well as from Israel and NATO countries. These extremists are nowadays used as a weapon to wage war, with Syria as the most recent example of a target. ISIS headchoppers were cultivated and taken into that country in the hope that they would topple Assad. Those same headchoppers then travelled to Europe to carry out terrorist attacks on civilian targets. Sayfullo Saipov himself, while not connected to ISIS as far as we know, is said to be a sympathizer - if we are to believe the authorities, that is.

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Bullseye

Iran's Foreign Minister: CIA document about 9/11 is "fake news"


Sputnik
Fri, 03 Nov 2017 12:37 UTC
9/11
© AP Photo/ Marty Lederhandler
Iran's Foreign Minister has tweeted a scathing response to a document released by the CIA which had originated with the terrorist network al-Qaeda, which claims that Tehran supported the group before the deadly terror attacks on the US in September 2001.

In a tweet on Thursday, Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said that by accusing the Islamic Republic, Washington is trying to "whitewash" the US allies' role in the 9/11 attacks.

Zarif's remarks came after the CIA published about 47,000 classified documents, including an al-Qaeda report which, in particular, claimed that "anyone who wants to strike America, Iran is ready to support him and help him with their frank and clear rhetoric."

Comment: Good to see Iran's Foreign Minister calling it like it is. Indeed, in CIA docs on Bin Laden: Why were they released (and how Osama learned to see the West with disdain), the author speculates that the true motive behind the release of the CIA docs is to publicly tarnish Iran with Al Qaeda ties.

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Light Saber

Good for them: Serbia rejects US calls to cut ties with Russia


Press TV
Fri, 03 Nov 2017 10:52 UTC
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic
© AFPSerbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic


Serbia has rejected calls by the United States to choose to have relations either with Russia or the West, saying Belgrade prefers to keep balanced ties with Russia, China, and the West at the same time.

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Thursday that his country would act based on "what is in our own best interest."

"What we do not want is that someone pulls our own chair from under us... what is important is to see what is in our own best interest," Dacic told Reuters.

He made the remarks in response to calls made earlier this month by a senior US diplomat, who said Serbia "cannot sit on two chairs at the same time."

Comment: Where have we heard a similar logic to Mr Yee's in the past? Oh yes...



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Георгиевская ленточка

Memo for Mrs Nuland: Ukraine is being gripped by a new Maidan - but the western cameras and cookies are absent

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Thu, 02 Nov 2017 10:27 UTC
Ukraine neonazi


The 2013/2014 Maidan was a 'who's who' of the neo-con/liberal elite. Today's events are like a 'who's he?' of the Ukrainian far-right.

The past several weeks have seen eerily familiar sights return to the infamous Maidan in central Kiev. However, while in the winter of 2013/2014, international camera crews descended on Kiev to video and photograph the violence, today, there are more angry demonstrators and camped out agitators than international journalists.

However, an anonymous journalist working with famed independent journalist Graham Phillips, who most prominently brought intentional audiences front-line footage from the war on Donbass, has filmed the following reportage documenting what can only be called Maidan 2.0.


The phrase, "the more things change-the more they stay the same", very much comes to mind.

Comment: The whole Ukranian "color revolution" has collapsed under its own weight and has revealed itself to be the farse it always was. But what did people expect if it was an uprising artificially stimulated by the West (yes, with cookies and cameras, among other things) for the sole purpose of antagonizing Russia? And how could it have turned out if not horribly when their leaders were corrupt at best, neo-fascists and neo-nazis at worst? Can people blame the Eastern side of the country for wanting to become independent? Isn't Crimea much better off now that it has gone back to Russia?

We recommend Oliver Stone's excellent documentary on the topic: Ukraine on Fire.



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Jet4

UN: Over 1/4 of civilian deaths in Mosul caused by US-led coalition airstrikes


RT
Fri, 03 Nov 2017 03:56 UTC
General view of the destruction in Mosul's Old City
© Ahmad Al-RubayeGeneral view of the destruction in Mosul's Old City
More than one in four civilian casualties during the fighting in Islamic State-occupied Mosul were caused by the US-led coalition's airstrikes, a UN report has found. The international community should investigate and pay compensation, it said.

At least 2,521 civilians were killed and 1,673 wounded as the US-led coalition spearheaded the operation to recapture Mosul, which rocked Islamic State's (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) so-called "capital" and its surroundings for over nine months. These figures should be considered as an "absolute minimum," a new report on the "liberation," issued by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the UN assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) on Thursday stated.

Comment: It remains to be seen whether any compensation comes to the people of Mosul, but even the concept itself is truly psychopathic. Loss of life or severe injury cannot be erased by cash bribes after the fact. The people of Mosul are unlikely to see any true justice, whether there's "compensation" or not. See also:

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