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ABC/Wapo effectively admits to poll tampering as Hillary's 'lead' shrinks

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Just yesterday we wrote about the very curious ABC / Wapo poll which seemed to show Hillary's blow-out 12-point lead from last Sunday get cut in half in a matter of just two days. But the ABC/Wapo enigma continues to grow today as their latest poll shows the presidential race has now tightened to just 2 points, which is within the margin of error. Ironically, these new results do not reflect the latest FBI bombshell as polling was concluded on October 27th and it still includes an 8-point sampling advantage for democrats.
METHODOLOGY - This ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted by landline and cellular telephone Oct. 24-27, 2016, in English and Spanish, among a random national sample of 1,148 likely voters. Results have a margin of sampling error of 3 points, including the design effect. Partisan divisions are 37-29-29 percent, Democrats-Republicans-independents.

Comment: Here are some of the latest poll results from other sources:

From the BBC:
BBC presidential poll chart
From Real Clear Politics:
Various presidential poll numbers chart
And from USA Today:
USA Todat presidential poll chart



Dominoes

Unprincipled Washington Post editors blamed Comey critics - now join them

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The Washington Post editorial page is staunchly neoconservative and early on endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. On July 7 2016 the editors pinned an editorial defending FBI chief Comey's decision to then close the Clinton email case:

Republicans attack Mr. Comey for doing his job
IF REPUBLICANS believe the FBI director is corrupt and political, they should have the gumption to say so. Instead, many have insulted James B. Comey with slimy implications and underhanded threats since Tuesday, when he announced that he would not recommend charges against Hillary Clinton relating to her use of a private email server while secretary of state.
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Comment: As the Killary email scandal grows even larger are the rats starting to jump ship?


Bullseye

Australian government seeks lifetime ban for refugees arriving by boat

collapsed boat
© Sigit Pamungkas / Reuters
A planned law will ban asylum-seekers who arrived in Australia by boat from ever entering the country, even as a tourist, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced on Sunday.

The measure will apply not only to the newcomers, but also to people who have been put in detention centers on Nauru or Manus Island since July 19, 2013.

The date was chosen because on that day, then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd proclaimed: "As of today, asylum-seekers who come here by boat without a visa will never be settled in Australia."

Info

As FBI reopens Clinton's email investigation, Congress does not have the security clearance to read emails.

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In a stunning development coming out of the FBI, the Hillary Clinton Email Investigation is being reopened. The reopening has to do with "the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation," as Rep. Jason Chaffetz tweeted. However, Chaffetz also learned from the FBI that Congress does not have the security clearance to read the emails. This shocked Chaffetz:


FBI Director Comey wrote a letter to Congress on Friday:"Although the FBI cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant, and I cannot predict how long it will take us to complete this additional work, I believe it is important to update your Committees about our efforts in light of my previous testimony."

Bullseye

Big Agriculture's wild game of monopoly endangers food diversity

Bayer
© Metropolico.org / Flickr & Carl Wycoff / Flickr
Agriculture's biggest deal ever will leave farmers and consumers paying more for less, and could accelerate a potentially catastrophic decline in the diversity of what we plant and eat.

A wave of Big Ag mergers is threatening to entrench a food system that reduces nature's edible abundance to a handful of plants on your plate.

Monsanto, the world's largest seed company, has been purchased by Bayer, the German pharma and agrochemical multinational. Bayer paid $66 billion โ€” the biggest cash buy-out in history.

The stakes could not be higher. The deal threatens to put the genetic erosion of the world's food supply on steroids, just as serious doubts are emerging about the genetically modified organism (GMO) "revolution" that began 20 years ago and the claim that US-style industrial farming will "feed the world." The risks of monoculture are well documented: more than one million people died of starvation and disease during the Irish Potato Famine (also known as the Great Famine), between 1845 and 1852. It took 168 years to find out what went wrong.

Jet5

Who's your friend? Iraqi army base comes under US airstrikes again

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Deputy Chief of the Nineveh Provincial Council Noureddin Qablan announced that the US-led coalition warplanes have launched airstrikes on on army base in Nineveh province, killing several soldiers.

"The US fighter jets hit one of the military bases of Iraqi Army's 16th Division in a region North of Mosul, and the attack left four Iraqi soldiers dead," Qablan said.

He said that the US army has confirmed the attack, calling it a "mistake".

Qablan said that it is not the first time the US warplanes hit the Iraqi army and volunteer forces (Hashd al-Shaabi) military positions, adding, "The US-led coalition has each time said that air raids were not deliberate."

Heart - Black

Syrian state media reports Western-backed terrorists firing shells with poison gas against Aleppo citizens

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© RuptlyStill from footage purporting to show aftermath of alleged gas attack in Aleppo on October 30
Poison gas was fired at a government-held area of Aleppo on Sunday, causing at least 15 people to choke, Syrian state media said. State news agency SANA reported that "shells containing poison gases" had been fired at the residential district of al-Hamdaniya.

SANA did not report any deaths, but pan-Arab Al-Mayadeen channel stated that at least one person died, while 15 others are believed to have breathing difficulties after inhaling the gas. They are now being treated at the local hospital.

RT Arabic's crew in Aleppo reports 36 cases of suffocation.

According to the channel, all the victims of the attack are civilians.

Militants reportedly used the poisonous gas in an attack on the Assad Military Academy in the Assad Suburb in western Aleppo, as a part of a broader offensive against government positions in the city which was launched on Friday.

It is not yet clear what gas was used in the attack, but Al Mayadeen claims that fighting near the academy continues.


Dig

A brief timeline of the email scandal that Killary just can't shake

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Is the teflon finally wearing thin?
It's the investigation that doesn't seem to die.

Just a few weeks ago, FBI Director James Comey replied to Congress members asking about reopening the investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server that "I haven't seen anything that would come near to that kind of situation."

The assertion seemed to bring to conclusion a case that led Comey to announce in July that Clinton had been careless but did not break any laws.

Then came Friday, and Comey's surprise announcement that the FBI would, indeed, dip back in โ€” to review a batch of emails "that appear to be pertinent" to the Clinton case, which were unearthed in an unrelated case. He said he wanted investigators to look at them "to determine whether they contain classified information."

Comment: Obviously the investigation should never have been dropped, but for it to be reopened now shows that the PTB seem to be switching sides. Is Killary being thrown under the bus by the same establishment which supported her exclusively for this whole campaign?


Flashlight

Zionist Wing of Alt-Right Pushes Huma Abedin Disinformation

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Yes, Clinton's closest confidante is of Muslim extraction, and yes, in her youth she once edited a publication promoting arguably extreme views, but that isn't the 'evidence' that links Clinton to ISIS, and it certainly isn't 'evidence' that the US
establishment 'loves Islam'.
The Jewish disinformation wing of the alt-right - headed by Ezra Levant, Mike Cernovich, Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, Breitbart and others - have been grasping at straws to portray Hillary Clinton, the Zionist neocon warmonger whose main advisors and chief financial backers are fanatic pro-Israel Jews, as "pro-Islam". The "best" evidence they've come up with is that Clinton's top aide, Huma Abedin, has a Muslim background and at one point contributed to a Muslim publication of some kind.

What they deliberately leave out of the picture - besides the fact that Clinton is surrounded by Jewish-Zionist advisors and financial backing - is that Abedin is married to Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former New York congressman who got caught up in a major "sexting" scandal years back, leading to his resignation from Congress, and who has yet again found himself in another "sexting" ignominy. Notably, Weiner is Jewish. So, if Abedin is really a "radical Muslim," then why did she marry a Jewish man (a committed - let alone 'radical' - Muslim would certainly never marry a non-Muslim) and why is she working for Hillary Clinton, a war-hawk neocon who supported every single one of America's deadly wars in the Middle East against predominately Muslim countries and who is a monomaniacal Israeli bootlicker?

Comment: This conspiracy theory that 'Abedin is an agent of Islam who will bring Sharia Law to the American Heartland' is a ruse that serves to keep Americans ignorant of the extent to which 'ISIS' and other expressions of extremist Islam are tools of US foreign policy used precisely for the purpose of making people everywhere believe that Islam is inherently evil, an evil that only 'Murika' can 'save' the world from.


Bullseye

Washington's policy to 'blame Russia' for everything is part of superior righteousness culture

US soldier selfie
© Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters
The US blame game with Russia is part of greater policy of always claiming political and moral righteousness, as well as sovereignty over entire states and even the skies, says Catherine Shakdam from the Shafaqna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies.

Representatives of the US Air Force offered apologies for an incident over Syria, in which US and Russian military jets were involved in a "near-miss" situation, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. The MoD was forced to comment on the incident, as officials "were surprised by yet another attempt from the American military command to shift the blame [to] the Russian Air Force."

RT: Russia says the incident was provoked by the US plane changing its planned flight path. Do you think it's the reason why the Pentagon sounded cautious in its description of the incident, calling it "unintentional" and even "not too dangerous?"

Catherine Shakdam: I think the US is trying to backpedal a little bit. Because it realizes that every day when it intervenes in Syria it's actually breaking international law. Because Damascus, I don't recall, actually invited anybody else except for Iran and Russia to actually engage in Syria against terrorists.

So whatever intervention the US is in fact enacting on the ground is illegal by international law standards. And I think it's something it's trying to distance itself from rather than actually trying to emphasize on this illegality that they have been, you know, going at for, it's been months now.

For me, it's just really undisputed in this culture that America has today, that it owns everything. America seems to own the sky, it seems to own countries' sovereignties. It's insanity today that whenever America does something, and if anyone has the courage, I would say, to criticize and to even challenge, then they become a criminal. And this is why I think today Russia is being targeted. It's not of course the only country to be targeted, but today it has become almost a joke, where everything from global warming to internet crashing or Hillary Clinton's emails - it's always Russia.