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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard slams Killary remarks as 'demeaning' in latest appearance on 'The View'


ABC News
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 18:21 UTC
Gabbard supporters
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Democratic Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard greets supporters after filing her declaration of candidacy papers to appear on the 2020 New Hampshire primary election ballot at the State House in Concord, New Hampshire, Nov. 5, 2019.
In her third appearance on the show this year, Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, appeared on The View Wednesday fighting back against those who have questioned her loyalty, calling the comments made against her "demeaning."
"It's offensive to me as a soldier, as an American, as a member of congress, as a veteran, and frankly as a woman, to be so demeaned in this way," Gabbard told the hosts. "I am a patriot, I love our country ... I have dedicated almost my entire adult life to protecting the safety, security and freedom of all Americans in this country."
Last month, Gabbard engaged in a tussle with former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who told David Plouffe on "Campaign HQ", a podcast run by the 2008 Obama campaign manager, that a female 2020 candidate was a "favorite of the Russians" and is being "groomed" by Republicans for a third-party run.

Comment: Tulsi caving to pressure on the impeachment question? How sad. As for the screeching leftist hen party that is The View, it's a shame that she feels she has to appear there to have to get her message out.

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Trump Jr. outs CIA whistleblower on Twitter - MSM meltdown ensues

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 18:07 UTC
Donald Trump, Jr.
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Donald Trump, Jr.
Drama ensued on Wednesday after Donald Trump Jr. tweeted a Breitbart News article which contained the name of the alleged Trump-Ukraine whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella.

The article, written by Breitbart senior investigative reporter New York Times bestselling author and Aaron Klein, details how Ciaramella was central to the Obama administration's Ukraine policy - including the eventual signing of a $1 billion US loan guarantee after former VP Joe Biden pressured them into firing the guy investigating an energy company paying his son to sit on their board, Burisma Holdings.

Comment: Wonder if Eric Ciaramella really understood what he'd signed on for when he agreed to front this hare-brained scheme.

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ICYMI: Comrade Cummings? Election season launches Russian stooge blame game - UK edition!


RT
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:04 UTC
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It's election season in the UK, and that can mean only one thing - it's time to win some votes by making accusations of Russian stoogery, and all sides are at it.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson's top political adviser Dominic Cummings has been accused of shady links to Moscow, mainly because he spent some time in Russia over 20 years ago. These days, that's all it takes.

Here's ICYMI's guide to the other Russian stooges to keep your eye on this election season, UK edition.


Comment: "You're a Russian agent!" "No, YOU'RE a Russian agent!" UK politics in a nutshell.

Just this morning, Comrade Johnson called out Comrade Corbyn and Labour for "siding with Putin": "Come with us, a government that believes Britain should stand tall in the world. Or go with Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party who sided with Putin when Russia ordered poisonings on the streets of Salisbury."



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MSM execs part of 'network of people' that covered for Epstein - Project Veritas founder to RT


RT
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:08 UTC
Project Veritas James O'Keefe
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ABC and other mainstream media outlets refused to cover accusations against sex predator Jeffrey Epstein because "a network of people" that includes their executives were implicated, James O'Keefe of Project Veritas told RT.

The Disney-owned network has doubled down on its insistence that anchor Amy Robach's story on Epstein three years ago lacked "enough corroboration" and thus wasn't aired. This was after Project Veritas released a "hot mic" video of Robach slamming the decision to quash the story.

The conservative filmmaker told RT on Tuesday that he believes ABC's refusal to budge from that explanation backs up Robach's claim that "a network of people" - including the executives running her channel - are "covering up for this" because they are somehow "implicated."


Comment: Here's that bombshell Project Veritas report again:



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'Crushing blow to freedoms:' Israel's top court greenlights deportation of Human Rights Watch director

Bel Trew
The Independent
Tue, 05 Nov 2019 17:04 UTC
Omar Shakir
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Omar Shakir
Israel's top court has ordered the expulsion of Human Rights Watch's country director in a landmark case rights groups have called "a crushing blow to freedoms".

Omar Shakir, a US citizen and the watchdog's director for Israel and the Palestinian territories, was accused of supporting boycotts of the country based in part on pro-Palestinian comments he had made in the past.

In July, Mr Shakir lodged an appeal with the Supreme Court against an earlier court decision to revoke his work and residency permit and issue a deportation order.

The lower court initially argued that previous statements Mr Shakir made as a student and his Human Rights Watch (HRW) activities on Israel's West Bank settlements amounted to support for the pro-Palestinian "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions" (BDS) movement.
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'Ban things I don't like': Elizabeth Warren slams Twitter's new ban on political ads after urging Facebook to censor opponents


RT
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:09 UTC
Elizabeth Warren
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Democratic 2020 hopeful Elizabeth Warren can't seem to make up her mind on the correct course for big tech, first attacking Facebook's ad policies as too lax, then Twitter's as too strict. Perhaps they should make her CEO.

Senator Warren (D-Massachusetts), who has vowed to break up tech giants she deems too large or powerful, took to Twitter on Tuesday to denounce the platform's upcoming policy change banning all political ads, arguing the new rule helps the spread of misinformation about climate change.

"Twitter's new ad policy will allow fossil fuel companies to buy ads defending themselves and spreading misleading info - but won't allow organizations fighting the climate crisis to buy ads holding those companies accountable," Warren tweeted, adding: "We need accountability."
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Warmongers: Video shows US weapons arriving in Yemen despite objections of Congress


Sputnik
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:50 UTC
US weapons in Yemen
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Newly obtained video footage shows that a shipment of US-made heavy weapons arrived in Yemen last week despite efforts by American lawmakers to prevent such arms transfers, CNN reported on Wednesday.

The footage shows an Oshkosh armoured vehicle and other US-made military hardware being unloaded from a ship under the cover of darkness in the early morning hours at the port in the southern city of Aden, CNN reported.

The vessel, identified as the Saudi-registered Bahri Hofuf, is known to have stopped at the Port City of Jeddah on September 17 before sailing on to Port Sudan the following day, the report said, citing port documents, tracking data, and whistleblower accounts.


Comment: Well, what do you expect from the US - that it'll stop arming terrorist groups, proxy armies and mercenaries - when there is so much money to be made and chaos to be engendered - just because of some resolution by Congress???

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Gorbachev: West hijacked Cold War victory but never cared how Russians feel about it


RT
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:49 UTC
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Moscow put enormous effort to end the Cold War, but the reward was frustrating - the West declared itself the only victor and neglected the Russians' perception of it, Mikhail Gorbachev admitted.

"The end of the Cold War was our common victory, but western politicians, and especially the US, declared themselves victors" Gorbachev told in a sit-down with Germany's Die Welt newspaper as he recalled the 1989 collapse of the Berlin wall - a milestone symbolic event that spelled end of the decades-long East-West divide and set hopes high about the future of their ties.

Laying groundwork for future cracks between Moscow and Western capitals, American and European leaders have never thought of "how it will be perceived in Russia," Gorbachev asserted, adding that Russians "have done so much to end the Cold War and the arms race."

Likewise, they also failed to anticipate how it will "affect politics and relations between Russia and the West," he lamented.
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India to ask Moscow to speed up delivery of S-400 systems during defense minister's visit to Russia - report


RT
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:44 UTC
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© REUTERS/Vitaly Nevar
New Delhi will press Moscow to expedite the delivery of advanced S-400 anti-aircraft systems, according to Indian media. The request coincides with Defense Minister Rajnath Singh's 3-day visit to Russia.

India's acquisition of the high-tech military hardware is expected to be a top agenda item for Singh, who arrived in Moscow on Tuesday. India is set to procure five S-400s batteries as part of a $5.4bn deal.

A source familiar with the matter told the Times of India that New Delhi had been late to make its first payment for the systems, delaying delivery by several months. Russia has signaled that it will still try to stick to the original delivery schedule, but New Delhi hopes to expedite the process even further, the source said.

Singh will likely visit S-400 production facilities in St. Petersburg on Thursday - perhaps a reflection of New Delhi's impatience to receive the weapons. Upon arriving in Moscow, Singh addressed CEOs from the Russian defense industry and inaugurated the India-Russia Defense Industry Cooperation Conference.The new conference aims to promote technology transfer and investment between India and Russia's defense industries.

Washington has been vehemently opposed to the S-400 deal, and attempted to pressure New Delhi to drop the contract. However, India did not give in, and even worked with Moscow to develop a payment mechanism that could bypass US sanctions against Russian weapon sales.
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'Step in the wrong direction': US fumes as Iran expands uranium enrichment beyond nuclear deal limits


RT
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:40 UTC
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Washington is up in arms over Tehran's decision to further scale back its commitments under the same nuclear deal that the US singlehandedly demolished last year, accusing Iran of "extorting" the international community.

The US State Department came out swinging after Iran's atomic energy authority confirmed it would begin enriching uranium at a five-percent level at its Fordow plant starting on Wednesday, continuing past the 3.67-percent cap set out by the nuclear deal, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
"Resuming uranium enrichment at this previously clandestine site is only the latest Iranian attempt to extort the international community."
The stepped-up enrichment activity - which would see uranium gas injected into Fordow's centrifuges - is part of an Iranian countermeasure to Washington's abrogation of the nuclear accord last year. As with other steps it has taken away from the deal, Tehran insists Wednesday's move is reversible, saying the ball is now in Europe's court to resist a raft of crippling secondary sanctions imposed by Washington.
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