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WikiLeaks: Washington Post's Dana Milbank asked DNC for anti-Trump research

Peter Hasson
The Daily Caller
Tue, 08 Nov 2016 00:01 UTC
Dana Milbank
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Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank appears to have asked the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to do the majority of the research for a negative column he wrote about Donald Trump in April 2016.

Milbank's column was titled, The Ten Plagues of Trump, and featured a list of "outrageous things" said by Trump. One of the "plagues" listed by Milbank, for example, was "Blood" and centered around a quote from Trump about Megyn Kelly: "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever."

Internal DNC emails suggest Milbank's asked for — and then leaned heavily on — DNC opposition research on Trump for the article. The day before Milbank's article, DNC deputy communications director Eric Walker sent out an email to the DNC's research team. In the email — which was titled "research request: top 10 worst Trump quotes?" — Walker wrote, "Milbank doing a Passover-themed 10 plagues of Trump."


Comment: The besmudging of a sacred/historic holiday for political antics...well done Milbank. Count yourself as a plague. Dayenu!


The DNC research team worked together to come up with a list of things Milbank could use that was provided to Walker. Of the 10 "plagues" listed by Milbank, eight of them matched up with suggestions from the DNC.

By press time, Milbank had not yet replied to a list of questions from The Daily Caller about his article and whether or not he used DNC research in crafting it.

Comment: And...the DNC abundantly complied. Media's in the pocket. Who's gonna know.

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'Yemen on brink of abyss': 19 months of hell, 7,000+ killed, 37K injured, 2.1M displaced


RT
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 23:13 UTC
Yemeni woman and cart
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Yemen stands on the "brink of the abyss" following 19 months of Saudi-led military intervention, the UN and the World Health Organization warned, revealing new figures of over 7,000 dead and almost 37,000 injured.

The WHO announced Monday that at least 7,070 people had been killed and over 36,818 injured as of October 25 since Saudi Arabia began battling Houthi insurgents in March 2015. "People are dying ... the infrastructure is falling apart ... and the economy is on the brink of abyss," UN envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said in Sana'a.

The situation in Yemen is bound to deteriorate further, as more than half of the country's medical facilities have been destroyed or shut down as fighting continues. The "critical shortage" of doctors, Cheikh Ahmed warned, exacerbates a "very dangerous" health situation in a country which is suffering an outbreak of cholera cases, and in which 21 million people are in need of urgent health services. Cheikh Ahmed urged the warring parties in Yemen to "make some concessions" and allow aid in to help the local population. Over 2 million civilians have been internally displaced.

Comment: Yemen is a humanitarian crisis of epic proportion, courtesy of Saudi Arabia; supported, armed and co-hosted by USA, UK, Israel and their proxy militants. For what?

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How dare Palestinians stake claim to their historic Dead Sea Scrolls


Sputnik
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 23:06 UTC
Dead Sea Scrolls
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The scrolls are lauded by Jerusalem as one of their most important national treasures, as the 981 texts are some of the oldest surviving manuscripts of writing included in the Hebrew Bible canon.

The issue of the scrolls, found in the Qumran caves in an area currently known as the West Bank, was informally raised to Eitan Klein, a deputy director of the Israel Antiquities Authority, last month at a meeting of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

"The Palestinians were said to have raised the issue of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin or its Restitution in case of Illicit Appropriation (ICPRCP). Israel does not sit on this committee and only has observer status," the Times of Israel reported.

Israel has been having problems with UNESCO after the organization passed resolutions naming the holy sites surrounding Temple Mount as Muslim. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for consultations to protest the decision.

"This is another instance of provocation and the 'hutzpah' of the Palestinians trying to rewrite history and erase our connection to our land," Israel's envoy to the UN cultural body, Carmel Shama-Hacohen, told the Times of Israel.


Comment: This wasn't, and still isn't, Israeli land. Who's rewriting history? Who's erasing a connection to whose land?


Comment: Israel illegally seized the Dead Sea Scrolls artifacts in 1967 after it annexed and occupied East Jerusalem. The Scrolls clearly belong to the Palestinians.
Map of Qumran with insert
© www.scouserquinn.comHere's where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.


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State Department wants 5 years to review Killary emails found on Anthony Weiner's laptop


RT
Tue, 08 Nov 2016 14:01 UTC
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It could take the US State Department as long as five years to release over 31,000 Hillary Clinton-related emails, recently found by the FBI on the laptop of her aide's estranged husband. Accusations of a "political favor for Clinton" abound. The US State Department said it will be finished reviewing and releasing FBI-retrieved emails from Clinton's time as secretary of state by 2022.

US District Judge James Boasberg slammed the proposed time frame on Monday, saying he is "not satisfied with saying, 'Fine, go ahead and take five years to do this,'" Politico reported.

The proposal came under fire from Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that filed several Freedom of Information Act lawsuits against the department to force release the Clinton-related documents.

"The Obama State Department is doing a political favor for Hillary Clinton for suggesting to a federal court today that Judicial Watch wait as long as five years to see up to 31,000 new Clinton documents found by the FBI," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement on Monday.

Comment: The FBI only needed about a week make a decision on these emails, but the State Department has said it will take five years?! U.S. governmental institutions appear set on gaslighting the people of the United States. At the same time, this may very be a message to Killary. If she is granted to the office of the president, they will be holding these emails over her throughout the duration. See: Wakey Wakey! Deep State USA and the US Presidential Elections

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Wikileaks: Chelsea used Clinton Foundation money to pay for her wedding

Melissa Dykes
The Daily Sheeple
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 14:18 UTC
clinton wedding
The Wikileaks emails continue to be a treasure trove of Clinton Foundation corruption, and that includes daughter Chelsea.

In this latest revelation dated January 4, 2012, former top Bill Clinton aide and Clinton Foundation board member Doug Band warns Podesta, "Once we go down this road" in regard to Chelsea looking a little too deeply into the goings on at the foundation, after admitting a few bombshells about where the money really goes.

Apparently the 501c3 was used not only to pay for Chelsea's lavish $3 million wedding, but also for her "life for a decade," and that's in addition to Chelsea skirting taxes on money from Bill and Hillary:

Comment: Leaked emails show Chelsea's husband courted Clinton Foundation donors to raise money for hedge fund

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Newsweek calls it: 'Madam President Clinton' cover hits shelves due to 'business decision'

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 08 Nov 2016 01:17 UTC
With still over a day to go until the earliest possible result from tomorrow's presidential election, a part of the blogosphere and conservative media was up in arms over a commemorative Newsweek cover depicting "Madam President" which appeared in print as early as Saturday.
Newsweek cover - Hillary
© Newsweek
As Infowars reported, a Twitter user who works at a bookstore tweeted the images with the comment, "I work at a bookstore and we typically get magazines early and lookie what we got here." and then adds that "her Twitter account was subsequently deleted after reporter Luke Costin chastised her for "fueling Trumpists' hysteria about "rigged" #Election2016."

The website adds that "Trump supporters reacted to the images with a mixture of anger and disbelief."

We were initially skeptical: the more likely - and innocent - explanation was that Newsweek had simply prepared not one but two commemorative editions as a contingency, one in case Hillary wins, the other profiling a Trump victory, so they are ready to be distributed bright and early on Wednesday morning. And, we would expect, both editions would have already been printed and ready for pick up.
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Best of the Web: Tufts Professor: 'Vote all you want, the secret government won't change'

Jordan Michael Smith
Boston Globe
Mon, 20 Oct 2014 23:49 UTC
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The people we elect aren't the ones calling the shots, says Tufts University's Michael Glennon

The voters who put Barack Obama in office expected some big changes. From the NSA's warrantless wiretapping to Guantanamo Bay to the Patriot Act, candidate Obama was a defender of civil liberties and privacy, promising a dramatically different approach from his predecessor.

But six years into his administration, the Obama version of national security looks almost indistinguishable from the one he inherited. Guantanamo Bay remains open. The NSA has, if anything, become more aggressive in monitoring Americans. Drone strikes have escalated. Most recently it was reported that the same president who won a Nobel Prize in part for promoting nuclear disarmament is spending up to $1 trillion modernizing and revitalizing America's nuclear weapons.

Why did the face in the Oval Office change but the policies remain the same? Critics tend to focus on Obama himself, a leader who perhaps has shifted with politics to take a harder line. But Tufts University political scientist Michael J. Glennon has a more pessimistic answer: Obama couldn't have changed policies much even if he tried.
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Bad Guys

The War on Terror: American Imperialism in disguise

Graham Reinders
The Duran
Tue, 08 Nov 2016 13:30 UTC
NATO koristi vazalsku EU kao dobro pokriće za ozakonjivanje nezakonitih radnji SAD-a
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The wars the US is waging in the Middle East fulfil none of the definitions of guerrilla or "terrorist" war. The US simply calls them that so that it can deceive the American people and circumvent constitutional safeguards in order to wage wars of aggression.

For those fighting and dying there - only Death is real. For the American people, Middle East Terrorism is a total fabrication.

A standard definition of War is that it is "a conflict carried on by force of arms"

We all know the old face of war in the classical days, where two sides in different coloured uniforms lined up and charged at each other until the sun set. Whoever had the most soldiers standing at the end of the day was the winner and they took over the territory of the losers. It was all about territory and redrawing borders.

Comment: Further reading: 'The Hell that is Iraq': US may succeed in Balkanizing the country

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'The Hell that is Iraq': US may succeed in Balkanizing the country

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Tue, 08 Nov 2016 13:22 UTC
Saddam statue
© Jerome Delay/AP A statue of Saddam Hussein is pulled down for the cameras. Baghdad on 9 April 2003.
Iraq may will win the battle against ISIS, but the country may lose the war to survive. The country is more divided than ever and may soon cease to exist.

Between 1958 to 1968, Iraq rode a wave of political turbulence. First of all there was the 1958 overthrow of the Hashemite monarchy, this was followed in 1963 by the Ramadan revolution which brought the Ba'ath party to power.

This however was to be short lived as in November of that same year anti-Ba'athist Nasserists took power in a coup. However, the Ba'athists retook power in 1968 and once the violence subsided, Iraq experienced something of a renaissance.

Iraqis unfortunate enough to have a memories of the 1960s and of the 2000s will doubtless look back on the 1970s as something of a golden age in modern Iraqi history. President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr was without doubt, the most capable leader Iraq ever had.
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Dirty Donna leaked more debate questions to Killary

Derek Hunter
Daily Caller
Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:27 UTC
Donna Brazile
© ABC News
Democratic National Committee interim chairwoman Donna Brazile has already lost her contributor contract with CNN for leaking questions from a CNN town hall to the Clinton campaign. Monday night's WikiLeaks release of emails from the personal account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta reveals Brazile sent even more questions ahead of the event, one that went to Hillary Clinton, the other was asked of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

On the day before the event, Brazile sent the following under the heading "UNIONS."
Secretary Clinton, yesterday in St. Louis, you spoke at carpenters and others "who built this nation." Both you and Senator Sanders depend on big union support. President Obama pushed for a massive infrastructure bill that would mean millions of jobs for in this area. Yet many of these trade unions have locked out Blacks and other minorities for years. Will you call a meeting with them before November, and if you win, when you are president, to demand that the trade unions stop freezing Blacks and others from these good paying jobs?
The official transcript of the town hall on CNN's website has Roland Martin, one of the moderators, saying:
Secretary Clinton, yesterday you were in St. Louis, and you talked about carpenters and the rebuilding of the country, the folks who built this nation. And, both you and Senator Sanders have significant union support, yet many of the trade unions that — we walk about built the country, they've locked out black folks and other minorities for decades. Would you, even right now, and even as president, call a meeting with the trade unions and say it's time for you to open up those doors and bring in more African-Americans and Hispanics, and others be because those are high-paying jobs. And, if we keep saying rebuild America with a huge infrastructure and billions of dollars, they're the ones who are going to do it. And, black folks and others are going to be left on the outside looking in.
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