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Missouri Gov. calls for removal of senator who called for Trump assassination - she refuses to apologize

Sean Higgins
Washington Examiner
Fri, 18 Aug 2017 19:11 UTC
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© AP Photo/Jim SalterMissouri Republican Gov. Eric Greitens called on state lawmakers to expel state Democratic Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal for her refusal to apologize for a call to have President Trump assassinated.
Missouri Republican Gov. Eric Greitens called on state lawmakers to expel state Democratic Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal for her refusal to apologize for a call to have President Trump assassinated.

"Senator Chappelle-Nadal said she hopes the president is killed. Republicans and Democrats have called on her to resign. Her response: 'Hell no.' Last night, in an interview, she refused to apologize - twice. If she will not resign, the Senate can vote to remove her. I believe they should," Greitens said in a statement Friday.

Earlier Friday, Lt. Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, warned that if she does not resign, "I will, in my position as president of the Missouri Senate, immediately seek the expulsion pursuant to Article III Section 18 of the Missouri Constitution."

Chappelle-Nadal admitted Thursday that she posted a now-deleted comment on her private Facebook page expressing a hope that Trump "is assassinated" for his remarks regarding the racial violence in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend. The Secret Service, which must investigate all threats against a U.S. president, is investigating the matter.

Comment: "My emotions got the best of me." That's why you shouldn't be in office.

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Pyongyang warns US-South Korea drills could lead to 'uncontrollable phase of nuclear war'


RT
Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:15 UTC
South Korean and U.S. warships take part in a joint maritime exercise in the East Sea off Pohang
© ReutersSouth Korean and U.S. warships take part in a joint maritime exercise in the East Sea off Pohang.
Pyongyang has described the US-South Korea annual military drills, set to kick off on Monday, as the "most explicit expression of hostility," voicing fears that the war games, known as the Ulchi Freedom Guardian, may "evolve into actual fighting."

Some 40,000 American and South Korean troops as well as civilians, training civil defense response, will participate in the exercises.

The Ulchi-Freedom Guardian drills are designed to "enhance readiness, protect the region and maintain stability on the Korean Peninsula," the US State Department said on Friday.

"The joint exercise is the most explicit expression of hostility against us, and no one can guarantee that the exercise won't evolve into actual fighting," an editorial in the Rodong Sinmun, the North's official newspaper, said on Sunday, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.

"If the United States is lost in a fantasy that war on the peninsula is at somebody else's door far away from them across the Pacific, it is far more mistaken than ever," it noted, adding that Washington will be "adding fuel to the fire" by moving ahead with the exercises.

"The Trump group's declaration of the reckless nuclear war exercises against the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] ... is a reckless behavior driving the situation into the uncontrollable phase of a nuclear war," the editorial went on to say, as cited by CNN.

"The US should pay heed to the statement of the DPRK government that we would not rule out the use of any final means," Rodong Sinmun warned in another article, published on Wednesday.

"Reckless and wild acts of the US can accelerate its final ruin," it concluded.
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When PR and marketing get gory: Paid rioting gains momentum in US politics


Sputnik
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:58 UTC
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© Reuters/Joshua Roberts
Paid protesters are not a new phenomenon in domestic US politics; however, after things turned ugly in Charlottesville over the last weekend, the practice of hiring a political crowd as if it were a movie scene is becoming increasingly questionable.

Kristian Rouz - Multiple signs of "professional protesters" appearing at political events and rallies throughout the US have been reported in recent months, with companies specializing in hiring personnel for movie crowd scenes entering the US politics. Cases of paid protesters appearing in the streets of the US have intensified recently, especially on the left side of the political spectrum -protesting US President Donald Trump's policies has allegedly become a lucrative trade.

The recent outbreak of violence and civil unrest in Virginia and North Carolina, which resulted both in deadly clashes between far-right and left-wing extremists (Charlottesville, VA), or damages to public property and disruptions in transport infrastructure (Durham, NC), have brought into the spotlight the issue of what motivates protesters to participate.
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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: Charlottesville Mass Hysteria Bubble, Terror Strikes Barcelona


Sott.net
Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:00 UTC
Charlottesville protests
Over-dramatize much?
Who knew the US was full of neo-Nazis and fascists? Last weekend's mayhem in Charlottesville, Virginia has people up in arms about the KKK, white supremacists and neo-Nazis, an apparently 'yuge' mass movement that has launched a full ground war to take over the US and install Trump as dictator.

In an effort to prevent this horrible scenario from happening, a counter-movement (hashtag: 'The Resistance') is actively removing potentially racist statues from every city and town across the land and has resolved to "destroy the Confederacy."

Confused? You should be, because it's a complete psy-op being conducted by the usual suspects, and starring a hystericized population as willing participants.

Meanwhile, a spate of terror attacks and maybe-terror-related murders hit Europe this week, including yet another mass hit-and-run, this time in Barcelona during peak tourist season.

Join us from 12-2pm EST (4-6pm UTC / 6-8pm CET) this Sunday 20 August 2017, as we go behind the week's sea of insane headlines in search of an island of sanity.

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Media shamefully remains silent on Sen. McCain's KKK ancestry and how he put neo-Nazis in power in Ukraine

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 20 Aug 2017 15:38 UTC
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When former Republican Presidential Nominee John McCain is mentioned in the media, he is typically painted in a good light-an elderly senator and war hero battling brain cancer who has devoted the rest of his life to fighting for government healthcare and the removal of a tyrannical dictator in Syria.

McCain added even more fuel to his fire on Tuesday when he joined the mainstream media in condemning President Trump for his response to violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia. "There's no moral equivalency between racists & Americans standing up to defy hate & bigotry," McCain wrote on Twitter. "The President of the United States should say so."

McCain's words were quoted by a number of mainstream outlets, from CNBC to The Hill, which reported that the Arizona Senator was simply "pressing President Trump to make clear that there is not a 'moral equivalency' between white nationalists and the counterdemonstrators that turned out in Charlottesville."
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US wages cyberwar abroad under guise of 'activism'

Joseph Thomas
New Eastern Outlook
Sun, 20 Aug 2017 15:24 UTC
DDOS cyberattack graphic
The threat of cyberterrorism has competed for center stage in American politics with fears of "Russian hackers" disrupting everything from elections to electrical grids. And yet as US policymakers wield threats of cyberterrorism to promote a long and growing list of countermeasures and pretexts for expanding its conflict with Moscow, it is simultaneously promoting very real cyberterrorism globally.

Worst of all, it does so under the guise of "activism."

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace recently published a paper titled, "Growing Cyber Activism in Thailand."

In it, readers may have expected a detailed description of how independent local activists were using information technology to inform the public, communicate with policymakers and organize themselves more efficiently.

Instead, readers would find a list of US-funded fronts posing as "nongovernmental organizations" (NGOs) engaged in subversion, including attacks carried out against Thai government websites aimed at crippling them, the dumping of private information of ordinary citizens online and coercing policymakers into adopting their foreign-funded and directed agenda.
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Daesh surrounded in Hama: Syrian Army 'improves combat skills' with Russian aid


Sputnik
Sun, 20 Aug 2017 15:11 UTC
Syrian army troops
© Sputnik/ Mikhail Voskresenskiy
The Russian Aerospace Forces helped the Syrian Army encircle a large terrorist force near a town in Hama province. According to military expert Andrei Koshkin, Syrian forces have been improving their skills with Russian military assistance.

The Syrian Army continues to encircle a large group of Daesh militants in the town of Akerbat in eastern Hama. According to some reports, several thousand terrorists have now been trapped in the area.

Syrian forces with the support of Russian aviation have been working to cut off escape routes for the entrapped terrorists. Militants have been trying to escape in small groups in cars, buses and armored vehicles towards Deir ez-Zor.

"In order to prevent Daesh militants from escaping to Deir ez-Zor, the aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces is conducting day and night aerial reconnaissance with the use of drones. Russian warplanes have been attacking terrorists' equipment, including heavy weaponry and armored vehicles," the Russian Defense Ministry reported Friday.
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'Surrender or die': Iraq launches operation to retake Tal Afar near Mosul


RT
Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:43 UTC
Iraqi soldier
© Ahmad AL-Rubaye / AFP
Iraq's military have launched an operation to liberate the city of Tal Afar, some 80 kilometers west of Mosul, from Islamic State terrorists, the country's prime minister has announced.

"You either surrender, or die," PM Haider al-Abadi said in a televised address, as cited by Reuters.

"As we announce the start of operations to liberate Tal Afar we salute the heroic Iraqi forces who fight to bring victory, freedom and peace," Abadi added on Twitter.

About 2,000 battle-hardened militants remain in the city, according to US and Iraqi military commanders, AAP reported. Fearing the ground offensive, many of the city's residents have begun to flee the area.
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Australian Prime Minister rolls out plan to prevent vehicular terrorism in wake of Barcelona attack


RT
Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:47 UTC
Malcolm Turnbull
© ReutersAustralian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull walks with officials along a street before holding a media conference announcing Australia's national security plan to protect public places in central Sydney, Australia, August 20, 2017 .
The Australian government has prepared guidelines for businesses and communities to help minimize the risks of vehicular terrorist attacks, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced days after the latest attack left 13 dead in Barcelona.

'Australia's Strategy For Protecting Crowded Places From Terrorism' proposes measures like placing statues, bollards, and other roadblocks to protect crowded places and separating roads and pedestrian walkways on bridges. The plan has been in the making for a year since the terrorist attack in Nice, France, Turnbull told reporters in Sydney on Sunday.

"After the Nice truck attack last year I asked the counter terrorism co-ordinator... to get together with all of the state and territory police agencies, with business, with local government and make sure that we had a comprehensive strategy for protecting crowded places," Turnbull told reporters.

"What we've done with this Crowded Places strategy is we have set out a series of tools by which owners and operators of venues... are able to assess the vulnerability of their site, see how they can make it safer and know where to seek advice from police," he said.

Speaking alongside the PM, New South Wales Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said that the new guidelines give a consistent method for risk assessment and prevention for all of Australia.

Comment: Car rams into pedestrians, 3 dead, 20 injured in Melbourne, Australia

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NASA's risky plan to save us from Yellowstone supervolcano could trigger a massive eruption


SHTF
Sat, 19 Aug 2017 14:24 UTC
Yellowstone caldera
Government officials have been closely monitoring the activity in the Yellowstone caldera. However, scientists at NASA have now come up with an incredibly risky plan to save the United States from the super volcano.

A NASA scientist has spoken out about the true threat of super volcanoes and the risky methods that could be used to prevent a devastating eruption. Lying beneath the tranquil and beautiful settings of Yellowstone National Park in the US lies an enormous magma chamber, called a caldera. It's responsible for the geysers and hot springs that define the area, but for scientists at NASA, it's also one of the greatest natural threats to human civilization as we know it.

Brian Wilcox, a former member of the NASA Advisory Council on Planetary Defense, shared a report on the natural hazard that hadn't been seen outside of the agency until now. Following an article published by BBC about super volcanoes last month, a group of NASA researchers got in touch with the media to share a report previously unseen outside the space agency about the threat Yellowstone poses, and what they hypothesize could possibly be done about it.
"I was a member of the NASA Advisory Council on Planetary Defense which studied ways for NASA to defend the planet from asteroids and comets," explains Brian Wilcox of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology. "I came to the conclusion during that study that the supervolcano threat is substantially greater than the asteroid or comet threat."
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