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'What could go wrong?' Former FBI assistant director suggests bipartisan committee 'vet candidates' to prevent another Trump


RT
Thu, 01 Oct 2020 20:16 UTC
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Frank Figliuzzi, former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence, says a President Trump "can't happen again," so a "bipartisan committee," rather than voters, should "vet" and approve future candidates.

Figliuzzi, who worked under Robert Mueller at the FBI, made it clear during a Thursday appearance on MSNBC he buys into conspiracy theories about Donald Trump being influenced by the Russian government, calling him "the most vulnerable president in history."

Vaguely mentioning various business dealings the president had previously had with foreign companies, the current NBC News national security contributor said the US needs to have a "national discussion" to avoid another Trump.

"We've got to have a national discussion about how we vet a presidential candidate. We screwed this up," he said.

The NBC contributor suggests a "bipartisan committee" that would require tax returns and personal financial information to be handed over before a candidate can be approved. "We got this wrong, and this can't happen again," he said of Trump.


Comment: If Trump was the 'most vulnerable' he wouldn't still be Prez! If he truly is, then he is assuredly the most 'clean' of recent occupiers of the Oval Office. Tax returns remain the standing assault. Everything else thrown at Trump by the Democratic party has melted into a puddle. Their feet? Soaking wet last time we checked!

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Biden & Dems slammed as hypocrites for resuming in-person canvassing despite criticizing Trump for doing so during Covid-19


RT
Fri, 02 Oct 2020 00:39 UTC
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Joe Biden's campaign is facing criticism for now focusing on in-person canvassing after spending months avoiding it and criticizing Donald Trump's campaign for holding events during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Biden campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon said Thursday:
"We're now expanding on our strategy in a targeted way that puts the safety of communities first and foremost and helps us mobilize voters who are harder to reach by phone now that we're in the final stretch."
The strategy will focus on multiple swing states with several hundred volunteers canvassing in states like Nevada, Michigan, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania.

She is one of many Biden campaign and Democrat Party officials whose past comments are now revealing a 'flip-flop' of sorts on the issue of in-person campaigning in 2020, which the Trump campaign has been doing for months.

Comment: Hypocritters! We should expect logic and equality in an otherwise controversial, contested and nasty presidential campaign? Dream on!

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Meet the Biden-supporting general deploying military grade information warfare tools against Trump supporters


Revolver News
Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:00 UTC
McCrystal
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General Stanley McChrystal
General Stanley McChrystal delighted the left and the war-loving neoconservatives today by joining his name to the ranks of military-industrial complex "national security" professionals supporting Joe Biden.

This development should not be surprising. While Trump enjoys overwhelming support from the military rank and file, the brass has been largely corrupted for some time. As the President himself pointed out, many of the generals and national security bigwigs have their fortunes tied to the continuation of precisely the never-ending war policies that Trump successfully ran against in 2016.
General Stanley McChrystal is a certified military brass swamp creature deep in the bowels of the military-industrial complex. His specific business ventures are disturbing, even by swamp standards. According to a Fox News report, General McChrystal was involved in a venture that aimed to redeploy information warfare tools-originally designed to combat ISIS-against Trump supporters. From Fox News:

Comment: A McChrystal conspiracy in the offing...? Rolling Stone magazine called McChrystal "The Runaway General" and others deem him a psychopath.

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Blame Kadyrov? Chechen boss asks Navalny why he wasn't accused of poisoning, instead of 'ridiculous' accusations against Putin

Johnny Tickle
RT
Sat, 03 Oct 2020 15:26 UTC
Kadyrov
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Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov
Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has told opposition figure Alexey Navalny to blame him for his alleged poisoning, claiming that it is "more convincing and plausible" than the accusation thrown at Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Writing on Telegram, Kadyrov accused Navalny of blaming Putin "without any evidence." The opposition figure told German magazine Der Spiegel that he believes Putin organized the alleged Novichok attack, saying that he has "no other explanation for what happened." According to Kadyrov, this accusation is "ridiculous."
"Thanks to Putin, there's a tolerant attitude toward the opposition in the country...If there were an eccentric head of state, all the radical opposition scum would have been thrown out of the country long ago with far-fetched excuses."
According to Kadyrov, Navalny is:
"a toy in the hands of those who want the collapse of Russia. Why didn't you name me, Kadyrov, as the culprit or the customer [of the poisoning], to make it more convincing and plausible? At least it wouldn't look as ridiculous."
Following the opposition figure's interview with Der Spiegel, Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin called him a "shameless scoundrel," declaring that Putin had saved his life.

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Facebook, Twitter, Google CEOs will testify before U.S. Senate committee

David Shepardson, Nandita Bose
Reuters
Fri, 02 Oct 2020 07:09 UTC
Twitter/Facebook/Google
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The chief executives of Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet-owned Google have agreed to voluntarily testify at a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee on Oct. 28 about a key law protecting internet companies.

Facebook and Twitter confirmed on Friday that their CEOs, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, respectively, will appear, while a source said that Google's Sundar Pichai will appear. That came a day after the committee unanimously voted to approve a plan to subpoena the three CEOs to appear before the panel.

Twitter's Dorsey tweeted on Friday that the hearing "must be constructive & focused on what matters most to the American people: how we work together to protect elections."

The CEOs are to appear virtually.

In addition to discussions on reforming the law called Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects internet companies from liability over content posted by users, the hearing will bring up issues about consumer privacy and media consolidation.

Republican President Donald Trump has made holding tech companies accountable for allegedly stifling conservative voices a theme of his administration. As a result, calls for a reform of Section 230 have been intensifying ahead of the Nov. 3 elections, but there is little chance of approval by Congress this year.

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Arrest of Hamas co-founder by Israeli security forces denounced as attempt to undermine Palestinian reconciliation


RT
Fri, 02 Oct 2020 17:40 UTC
Sheikh Hassan Youssef
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Sheikh Hassan Youssef
Israeli security forces have arrested senior Hamas leader Hassan Youssef. The two rival Palestinian groups, Hamas and Fatah, have both condemned the move as being politically-charged and a bid to ruin their reconciliation talks.

Youssef was taken at his home in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Friday morning. While Israeli authorities have not provided any official information about the move, local media reported that the Hamas co-founder was detained over alleged "renewed" activity by the group.

After helping to found Hamas in the late 1980s, Youssef was repeatedly arrested by the Israeli authorities and spent years behind bars. Hamas has always maintained he was only involved in its political activities, and not associated with its military wing. His arrest was condemned by both Hamas and its rival, Fatah. Hamas claimed the arrest was a politically-motivated move, designed to destabilize the ongoing reconciliation process between the two groups.
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Israeli tourism minister resigns to protest Netanyahu lockdown policies


Yahoo! News
Sat, 03 Oct 2020 17:46 UTC
Asaf Zamir Israel tourism minister
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Asaf Zamir, Israel's Tourism Minister
Israel's tourism minister resigned from the fractious government Friday, saying he doesn't have an "ounce of trust" in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and accusing him of putting his personal and legal issues ahead of the response to the coronavirus crisis.

Asaf Zamir is a member of the centrist Blue and White Party, which battled Netanyahu's right-wing Likud in three stalemated elections in under a year before forming an emergency government with it in May to combat the pandemic.

Israel went into a second nationwide lockdown last month and is now grappling with one of the worst outbreaks in the world on a per capita basis. The emergency government has been roiled by infighting and has faced widespread criticism over its confusing and often contradictory response to the pandemic.

Comment: 'Pandemic' or no, the Palestinians continue to suffer:

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Ex-Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko hospitalized with Covid-19, diagnosed with 'bilateral pneumonia'

Jonny Tickle
RT
Sat, 03 Oct 2020 17:35 UTC
Poroshenko

Former Ukrainian President and current lawmaker Petro Poroshenko speaks during a rally in central Kyiv on December 8, 2019.
As Ukraine struggles with a surge in Covid-19 cases, ex-President Petro Poroshenko has been hospitalized with the virus, according to his wife Marina. One of their daughters has also been admitted to hospital for the same reason.

"Despite the fact that my husband has bilateral pneumonia, he has a strong will," Marina Poroshenko wrote on the Facebook page of the former head of state's political party, European Solidarity.

Petro Poroshenko, who ran the country from 2014 to 2019, was diagnosed with Covid-19 at the end of September, and his condition has since deteriorated. The 55-year-old ex president has diabetes, and therefore could be more vulnerable to the virus.

Comment: Ukraine's response to the virus has indeed been chaotic, a product of decades of corruption. Will Russia generously offer Ukraine their Sputnik vaccine?

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John Pilger: Assange 'forced' those behind war crimes 'to look in the mirror,' now faces revenge


RT
Sat, 03 Oct 2020 17:07 UTC
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John Pilger and 'Going Undground' host Afshin Rattansi
Assange exposed Western hypocrisy and discovered "too much truth," so his trial became a form of "revenge," journalist and filmmaker John Pilger told RT's Going Underground.

The main part of the extradition trial of Julian Assange came to a conclusion this week, and a decision is now expected to be announced in early January. Pilger, a long-time supporter of the WikiLeaks founder, closely monitored the proceedings, which were barely covered in the Western media despite the serious repercussions for journalism that a ruling to extradite Assange would entail.

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The insanity of elite-defined "sustainability"

Peter Koenig
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
sustainability
"Only the Dead Have Seen the End of War" - Plato.
This wisdom is as valid today as it was 2,500 years ago. Wars go on and on. They are exactly the anti-dote of sustainability. They may be the only "sustainability" modern mankind knows - endless destruction, killing, shameless exploitation of Mother Earth and its sentient beings, including humans.

Yes, we are hellbent towards "sustainably", destroying our planet and all its living beings, with wars and conflicts and shameless exploitation of Mother Earth - and the people who have peacefully inhabited her lands for thousands of years.

All for greed, and more greed. Greed and destruction are certainly "unsustainable" features of our western "civilization". Not to worry, in the grand scheme of things, Mother Earth will survive. She will cleanse herself by shaking and shedding off the destroyers, the annihilators - mankind. Only the brave will survive. Indigenous people, who have abstained from abject consumerism and instead worshipped Mother Earth and expressed their gratitude to her daily gifts. There are not many such societies left on our planet.


Comment: Some non-indigenous people who have a respect for the planet - but who aren't caught up in the ideological nonsense and/or "climate crisis" lies - may see a new day too; we can only hope.


In the meantime, we lie about the sustainability we live in. We lie to ourselves and to the public at large around us. We make believe sustainability is our cause - and we use the term freely and constantly. Most of us don't even know what it is supposed to mean. "Sustainability" and "sustainable" anything and everything have become slogans; or household words.

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