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Trump orders 'extreme vetting' escalation in response to Manhattan terrorist attack


RT.com
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 14:40 UTC
The Donald
The Donald has ordered DHS to make life even more unbearable for air passengers traveling to the USA. Good, no one should bother going there anyway


President Donald Trump has tweeted in reaction to the terrorist attack in Manhattan, "I have just ordered Homeland Security to step up our already Extreme Vetting Program. Being politically correct is fine, but not for this!"
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UK parliament sexual harassment scandal: MP's staffer reported assault four times but was 'ignored by authorities'

Joe Watts
The Independent, UK
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:50 UTC
Mark Garnier
© Press AssociationUnder Secretary of State for International Trade Mark Garnier has admitted making his secretary buy sex toys and calling her 'sugar t**s'
The Westminster sexual harassment scandal has deepened after it was claimed authorities in Parliament failed to deal with an assault allegation made by a woman working for an MP - despite her reporting it four times.

The female staffer who suffered the alleged sexual assault confided it to another MP, who on Monday exposed the situation during a House of Commons debate.

A different MP said instances of sexually inappropriate behaviour towards young workers had been disregarded by the authorities, while a senior backbencher claimed attempts to strengthen protections for Commons workers had been blocked by political parties.

Minister Mark Garnier, who has already admitted asking his secretary to buy sex toys and to referring to her as "sugar t*ts", looked set to lose his job after Theresa May refused to say she had confidence in him.
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Lavrov: US should probe Manafort's 'Ukrainian trail' rather than blaming Russia


RT
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:34 UTC
Manafort
© CNN.comPaul Manafort
Months-long efforts of US investigators to find alleged Russian collusion with President Donald Trump's campaign have led to the discovery of a "Ukrainian trail," Russia's FM Sergey Lavrov said, suggesting Washington should now investigate Kiev's role.

"They have now found a Ukrainian trail in connection with Mr. Manafort and one of his employees. I suppose a Ukrainian trail should be investigated through Ukraine. [Kiev authorities] also have [things] to say about their standpoint during the US presidential campaign," Lavrov told the media Tuesday.

The US investigators "have been working for many months... looking for a Russian trail." Instead, their efforts "resulted" in the indictment of two former Trump campaign members in connection with their alleged dealings with a former president of Ukraine, Russia's foreign minister pointed out.

Earlier this week, a federal grand jury indicted Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager for Donald Trump, and his former business associate Richard Gates on a number of counts regarding Ukrainian lobbying in the US. The two individuals, who inter alia are suspected of having received payments from the party of ex-Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovich, have no apparent direct connection to Russia.


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Eye 1

New York attack suspect: Who is Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov?

Peter Martinez
CBSNews.com
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 14:25 UTC
Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov
Diminutive and pathetic Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, feeling powerless and impotent in his own life, decided that running people over in NYC would make him feel better or achieve something. He was wrong on both counts
Details are emerging about the man who deliberately plowed down pedestrians in New York City in what authorities described as an act of terror. At least eight people died and at least 13 people, including the suspect, were injured.
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Vatican to host conference on nuclear disarmament - Pope Francis: 'humanity risks suicide' with nuclear confrontation between US and N. Korea

Nicole Winfield
ABC News
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 14:12 UTC
pope francis nuclear weapons
Pope Francis warned Monday that "humanity risks suicide" with the increased threat of nuclear confrontation between the U.S. and North Korea - a threat that will dominate a Vatican conference gathering 11 Nobel peace laureates, top U.N. and NATO officials and ambassadors from key countries.

The Vatican announced details of the Nov. 10-11 conference Monday, saying it was part of the Vatican's longstanding effort to promote a nuclear weapons-free world. Vatican spokesman Greg Burke denied that the conference, first reported by La Repubblica newspaper, represented a mediation effort by Francis.

The pope has already urged Washington and Pyongyang to step back from the brink of war and accept mediation efforts by others, telling reporters in April that "a good part of humanity" would be destroyed if tensions on the Korean peninsula escalated.

On Monday, Francis visited staff of the Vatican office organizing the conference and warned that "humanity risks suicide" with nuclear war, Flaminia Giovanelli, undersecretary in the office, told Vatican Radio.
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Alarm Clock

Best of the Web: Hungary Warns Europe Is in Danger as Leak Reveals Soros Network's List of 'Reliable Allies' in EU Parliament

Jack Montgomery
Breitbart
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 13:11 UTC
Creepy George Soros
Creepy George Soros
Leaked documents listing hundreds of EU parliament members that the George Soros network considers "reliable allies" should raise alarm bells across Europe, says Hungary.

The list, which includes 226 MEPs including former President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz, seven vice-presidents, and a number of committee heads, coordinators, and quaestors, was circulated within the billionaire open borders campaigner's Open Society Foundations group, and revealed by DCLeaks.

"If this report threatened only Hungary, it wouldn't be a problem. The Hungarian government has grown accustomed to countering the groundless accusations and false information used by the proponents of this radical open society agenda. But this time it's not just Hungary. It endangers the future of Europe as a whole," warned Dr. Zoltán Kovács, Hungary's secretary of state for Public Diplomacy.

The government spokesman questioned how Soros was able to meet with President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker with "no transparent agenda for their closed-door meeting", and pointed out how EU proposals to redistribute quotas of migrants across the EU are eerily familiar to Soros's own self-published plan for dealing with the crisis.
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Celebrating Balfour is a calculated insult to Palestinians

David Cronin
Middle East Eye
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 13:01 UTC
netanyahu may downing street
© REUTERS/Neil HallBritain's Prime Minister Theresa May and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pose for photographs outside number 10 Downing Street in London, Britain February 6 2017
Theresa May is among a long line of British leaders since Balfour who in celebrating his infamous declaration expresses gung-ho support for Israel

Theresa May will deliver a calculated insult to the Palestinian people this week. Her promise to commemorate "with pride" the Balfour Declaration's centenary indicates that the British government is becoming more gung-ho in its support for Israeli aggression.

Assurances given to human rights advocates by Foreign Office staff that the anniversary would be marked solemnly, rather than celebrated, have been nullified by Downing Street.

What exactly is May proud about?

Imperial sponsor

On 2 November 1917, Arthur James Balfour, then foreign secretary, gave the green light for an act of large-scale larceny. Through his declaration to the Zionist Federation, Britain ultimately became the imperial sponsor of a Jewish state that would be formed in Palestine by expelling its indigenous people en masse.

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More than a pointed insult to Palestinians, this is a concerted effort to prop up the ideological basis of the current world order, which is dying. Israel is as much British as it is American and 'Jewish'. It's a modern Western 'crusade' in the Middle East. The most successful one in the history of European/Western imperial efforts in fact.

Listen to British foreign secretary Boris Johnson explain that "British values found a home in Israel":


Israel's fate is tied to the fate of the US as world hegemon and the UK's as key enabler. So when powerful interests begin boycotting the US dollar in earnest, that's when we'll see effective boycotting of Israel, forcing regime change there and then, maybe, peace.

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Bizarro Earth

Endless war: US to vote on whether to continue supporting Saudi led war on Yemen

Stephen Kinzer
Information Clearing House
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 12:00 UTC
American USA flag in rubble
© Bob Strong/Reuters
Wars that the United States is waging around the world undermine our security by turning entire populations against us and diverting our attention and resources away from urgent needs at home. No, the opposite is true: the United States faces serious threats, and can only protect itself by confronting them wherever they emerge. This debate has divided Americans for more than a century. Congress may soon have a rare opportunity to take one side or the other.

The battleground is Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East. For nearly three years, Yemen has been under relentless attack from the region's richest country, Saudi Arabia. Saudi bombing has created what the United Nations calls "the largest humanitarian crisis in the world." More than half the population is hungry. Cholera is raging and may afflict 1 million people by the end of this year. A child dies from preventable causes every ten minutes. Saudi forces have blockaded Yemen's main port, so almost no humanitarian aid can reach the victims.


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Mr. Potato

Tom Steyer circus side-show: Totally anti-Trump, totally unhinged, totally ineffective

Cheryl K. Chumley
The Washington Times
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:38 UTC
Tom Steyer trump impeachment
© Associated Press/Jeff ChiuTom Steyer speaks at a rally calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump in San Francisco, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017.
President Donald Trump took to Twitter to blast millionaire Democrat and megadonor Tom Steyer as "wacky & totally unhinged" for spending big on an impeachment campaign against the commander-in-chief.

"Totally unhinged" might be a bit of an understatement. Add spendthrift to that list - wacky, unhinged and totally wasteful, too.

In case you've not heard, Steyer's taken his publicly expressed distaste for Trump to TV Land, where he's spending millions on an ad campaign aimed at taking down the president - or, as California Rep. Maxine Waters might put it, taking out the president. More specifically, Steyer calls for impeachment, and pronto.

Why?

Oh the usual. Trump's an obstructionist, Trump's a war-monger, Trump was rude to somebody's sister, yada yada and so on.
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Star of David

Israel secretly hired U.S. law firm to fight BDS in Europe, North America

Chaim Levinson and Barak Ravid
If Americans Knew
Mon, 30 Oct 2017 14:38 UTC
US lawyer Israeli Lobby
© Sidley AustinImage from website of U.S. law firm Sidley Austin, secretly hired by Israel to fight the boycott of Israel. Israel has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past two years and calls the activities "diplomatically extremely sensitive."
The Israeli government has been secretly using a U.S. law firm to help it fight the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement in Europe, North America and elsewhere, according to documents obtained by Haaretz.

The government has hired the Chicago-based firm Sidley Austin to prepare legal opinions and handle court proceedings. The Justice Ministry and the Strategic Affairs Ministry have declined to reveal the nature of these activities, for which the state has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past two years. The ministries call the activities "diplomatically extremely sensitive."

About two years ago, the security cabinet made the Strategic Affairs Ministry responsible for coordinating the fight against "delegitimization" and earmarked major resources for these efforts. The Strategic Affairs Ministry transfers some of the money to the Foreign Ministry in various places worldwide and some money has been given to Jewish organizations overseas for public relations work on campuses and elsewhere.
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