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CIA-linked Peter Thiel company, Palantir, would only work with Clinton - Wikileaks


RT
Sat, 05 Nov 2016 00:11 UTC
peter thiel
© Gary Cameron / ReutersPeter Thiel has spoken in support of Republican candidate Donald Trump.
CIA-backed software company, Palantir, offered to work with Hillary Clinton's campaign - despite it's co-founder Peter Thiel's declaration of support for Donald Trump - according to an email released by WikiLeaks.

Palantir do not work with political campaigns, but in an email, Haim Saban tips off Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta to potential interest from CEO and co-founder Alex Karp.

The media mogul writes, "He was asked multiple times to work with various campaigns, but in a conversation I had with him yesterday, he stated that he would make only ONE exception: HRC," the email reads.

A search on Karp's political donations reveal a history of support for both the Republican and Democratic parties.

Podesta replies to Saban saying "Know him pretty well. Agree and will reach out. Thanks."

Comment: One of the best resources for the Wikileaks Podesta revelations: Most Damaging Wikileaks.

Hedge-fund manager Thiel funded Facebook in 2004 for 10.2% of the company, and sits on its board. 'Nuff said.

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UK military threatened and amazed by Russia's 'revolutionary' Armata tank


RT
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 00:01 UTC
Russian T-14 Armata tank
© Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation / Sputnik
Russia's Armata tank is hailed as revolutionary in a leaked internal paper from British military intelligence, in which doubts are expressed about whether the UK has what it takes to counter the Kremlin's newest armor.

The paper, which was put together after an Armata prototype was revealed to the world at the Victory Parade in Moscow on May 9, 2015, was obtained by the Sunday Telegraph.

"Without hyperbole, Armata represents the most revolutionary step change in tank design in the last half century," a senior British Army intelligence officer wrote in the five-page intelligence report, according to the newspaper.
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'Despised, exploited, enslaved': Pope Francis says govts push refugees into hands of traffickers


RT
Sun, 06 Nov 2016 21:49 UTC
Pope Francis
© Tony Gentile / Reuters Pope Francis
Pope Francis has slammed governments and institutions that never fail to find "scandalous sums" of money to save bankrupt banks, but turn a blind eye to the sufferings of migrants and refugees who often die as they attempt to cross the Mediterranean Sea.

"What happens in the world today, that when there is the bankruptcy of a bank, scandalous sums immediately appear to save it, but when this bankruptcy of humanity occurs, is there almost a thousandth of a part to save those brothers and sisters who suffer so much?" Francis asked, according to the Catholic News Agency (CNA).

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How the Clintons talked people into giving them over $3 billion in their quest for power

Matea Gold, Tom Hamburger & Anu Narayanswamy
Washington Post
Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:55 UTC
Clintons donations
© WaPo

Comment: This is a Washington Post "exposé" on the Clinton bribes donor network. It was published last year, so before the leaks revealed countless other major bribers donors such as Middle Eastern governments. This is a story of how the Clintons almost single-handedly corrupted US politics...


Over four decades of public life, Bill and Hillary Clinton have built an unrivaled global network of donors while pioneering fundraising techniques that have transformed modern politics and paved the way for them to potentially become the first husband and wife to win the White House.

The grand total raised for all of their political campaigns and their family's charitable foundation reaches at least $3 billion, according to a Washington Post investigation.

Their fundraising haul, which began with $178,000 that Bill Clinton raised for his long-shot 1974 congressional bid, is on track to expand substantially with Hillary Clinton's 2016 White House run, which has already drawn $110 million in support.

The Post identified donations from roughly 336,000 individuals, corporations, unions and foreign governments in support of their political or philanthropic endeavors — a list that includes top patrons such as Steven Spielberg and George Soros, as well as lesser-known backers who have given smaller amounts dozens of times. Not included in the count are an untold number of small donors whose names are not identified in campaign finance reports but together have given millions to the Clintons over the years.
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Get real: 'We're an indispensable nation with a lot to be proud of', says Obama


RT
Sat, 05 Nov 2016 12:15 UTC
Obama Bill Maher interview
© Real Time with Bill Maher / YouTube U.S. President Barack Obama
Humility in foreign policy "is useful trait," outgoing President Barack Obama said, adding that America is "an indispensable nation" that has "a lot to be proud of" in the world - thanks to having the most powerful military force.


Comment: America's indispensable and exceptional legacy under Obomber:

The assertion came during Obama's sit in with HBO's Real Time show host Bill Maher on Friday. The interview was focused on the president's political legacy and domestic problems, but the commander-in-chief also shared his thoughts on why the US needs a military that costs over $600 billions a year, according to Maher's count.

"The US having the most powerful military on Earth... helps up check the impulses of some other bad folks," Obama said, giving North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his country's nuclear weapons program as an example.


Comment: More like check the impulses of any leader thinking about doing anything good for their country and their people. Case in point: The truth about Gaddafi's Libya, NATO's bombing, and the Benghazi 'consulate' attack


The Pentagon stages annual military exercises with its ally, South Korea, to prepare for a possible conflict with North Korea. South Korea is the world's tenth biggest defense spender, investing about $34 billion in its military annually, compared to North Korea's estimated $10 billion. Pyongyang insists it needs nuclear weapons to deter possible military aggression from the US.
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The Clinton Foundation's $20 million off-the-books Haiti Development Fund

Isabel Vincent
New York Post
Sat, 05 Nov 2016 20:37 UTC
Bill Clinton Frank Giustra
© Getty ImagesBill Clinton seen with philanthropist Frank Giustra in Haiti.
The inner workings of a mysterious off-the-books arm of the Clinton Foundation were partially revealed in the hacked emails of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.

The little-known Haiti Development Fund, an LLC incorporated in Delaware in August 2010, was created by the Clinton Foundation with an initial endowment of $20 million from shady Canadian mining mogul Frank Giustra and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.

The Fund was supposed to supply desperately needed seed money to Haitian entrepreneurs after an earthquake devastated the country in January 2010.

But The Post found only one project that it funded with a fraction of the start-up cash.

Since the Fund is incorporated as a private entity and not a non-profit, it is not subject to the same disclosure rules as a public charity.

And the Clinton Foundation never disclosed the Fund as a "related entity" on its tax filings as required by IRS rules. It was only after the Clinton Foundation, under mounting scrutiny and media pressure, "voluntarily" decided to refile five years' worth of tax returns in 2015 that the Fund appears on the forms.
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Assad: Syrian conflict is 'between Cold War & WWIII' with no proposals for a political solution


RT
Sun, 06 Nov 2016 20:23 UTC
Bashar al-Assad
© SANA / Reuters Syria's President Bashar al-Assad
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has told the Sunday Times that the Syrian conflict can be described as something "between the Cold War and Third World War," adding that Syria is struggling and has little international support.

"We call it a world war, but it's a world war against Syria, tens of countries against us, sending those terrorists money and logistics, whereas our army is only Syrian, so we struggled," he said in the interview released on Sunday.

Assad also noted that he sees no solution in sight, because the other side has powerful allies, and they are interfering in the situation in Syria.

"If you ask me what the topics would be for a political solution, I don't know," he said. "No one has proposed anything."
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Flashback Hillary Clinton, a dead White House lawyer, and shredding documents at Arkansas' biggest law firm

Stephen Engelberg
New York Times
Fri, 04 Mar 1994 19:58 UTC
Hillary Clinton in 1992
© Scott A. Miller/ZUMA Press/NewscomHillary Clinton in 1992
An employee of the Rose Law Firm here has told a Federal grand jury that in late January he was ordered to destroy a box of documents from the files of Vincent W. Foster Jr., the White House lawyer whose suicide is under investigation by an independent counsel.

People familiar with the testimony of the employee, an in-house courier, said he had told the grand jury that he and a colleague had used a shredder in the firm's basement to destroy the papers. He testified that he had done so at the request of a clerk in the firm.

The firm's former partners include Hillary Rodham Clinton; Webster L. Hubbell, the Associate Attorney General; William H. Kennedy 3d, an associate White House counsel, and Mr. Foster, the deputy White House counsel who committed suicide in July. All left the firm to go to Washington last year.

The courier, a college student who is among several assigned to run messages and errands, told the grand jury on Feb. 16 that he did not know precisely what he had shredded but that he was certain the papers had come from Mr. Foster's files, those familiar with the account said. He testified that he had looked inside the box and saw that the papers were separated by binders marked with the initials "VWF," the firm's typical abbreviation for Mr. Foster. The box itself also bore Mr. Foster's initials, which no other employee at the Rose firm had.
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US dropped one bomb every eight minutes during first three days of Mosul offensive


Sputnik
Sun, 06 Nov 2016 19:08 UTC
Kurdish Peshmerga near Mosul
© AFP 2016/Safin HamedIraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters stand in the area near the town of Bashiqa, some 25 kilometers north east of Mosul.
During the first three days of the ongoing military operation to win the Iraqi city of Mosul back from Daesh control, the coalition carried out airstrikes at a rate of one bomb every eight minutes.

Iraqi security forces, assisted by the US-led coalition, the People's Mobilization Forces (PMF) and Kurdish fighters are currently focused on liberating Mosul, the second largest city in the country and the last bastion of Daesh militants there.

Colonel Daniel Manning, deputy director of the Combined Air Operations Center, on Friday told Military.com in a telephone conversation that the intense bombing is what makes this anti-Daesh operation stand out, especially if you take into account that each of these bombs are precision-guided weapons.

"It's a really high rate to be concentrated over one city over a prolonged period of time," he said, adding that the intensity and efficacy of airstrikes depends on many things, such as weather — storms slow down the offensive even though there are sensors helping to look through them — and determination of partner forces.

"You tend to employ more weapons when the weather is better, and when your partner forces are on the move because when they're on the move, they're finding the enemy, forcing the enemy to reveal themselves, and we're there to strike them," Manning explained.

Comment: "Precision-guided" doesn't mean civilian-casualty-free, Colonel.

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Meet the million dollar donors bankrolling Killary

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Sat, 05 Nov 2016 17:12 UTC
A few days ago the Wall Street Journal published a very powerful piece titled, The Million-Dollar Donors. What you'll see should sufficiently dash any and all fantasies that Hillary Clinton is for the average person.

Here are a few of the graphics:
HRC Donors
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