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Presidential 'selection': Poll shows Americans are increasingly concerned about election rigging

Jake Sherman and Steven Shepard
Politico
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 06:45 UTC
trump
© AP
Donald Trump calls the process rigged, and has said the media is colluding with Hillary Clinton to throw the presidential race in her favor.
The American electorate has turned deeply skeptical about the integrity of the nation's election apparatus, with 41 percent of voters saying November's election could be "stolen" from Donald Trump due to widespread voter fraud.

The new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll -- conducted among 1,999 registered voters Oct. 13 through Oct. 15 -- shows that Trump's repeated warnings about a "rigged" election are having effect: 73 percent of Republicans think the election could be swiped from him. Just 17 percent of Democrats agree with the prospect of massive fraud at the ballot box.

The public sentiment is beginning to reflect Trump's campaign message. Over the last week, the GOP nominee has intensified his criticism of the U.S. electoral system, much to the chagrin of elected Republicans, who think it threatens the peaceful transfer of power. Trump calls the process rigged, and has said the media is colluding with Hillary Clinton to throw the presidential race in her favor.


Comment: WikiLeaks confirmed mainstream media works directly with Hillary, DNC


Comment: Blaming the Trump campaign for concerns about election fraud is missing the point, the fact is that there is substantial evidence pointing to election rigging in favor of Clinton:

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Footprints

Zero hour attack yet to be announced: ISIL's families reach terrorist-held region in Hasaka Province after leaving Mosul


Fars News Agency
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 23:07 UTC
fleeing mosul
Local sources in Nineveh disclosed that the families of the ISIL terrorists that have left Mosul in Iraq just arrived in the town of Merkedeh in Syria's Hasaka province.

"ISIL's families, including over 25 foreign families, escorted by military convoys reached the town of Merkedeh today," a local source said.

The source also said that the ISIL has evacuated the families of its militants from Mosul as the Zero hour for the final large-scale offensive on the city by Iraq's joint military forces is approaching.

Earlier on Sunday, local sources in Nineveh province disclosed that the ISIL terrorist group has brought to a halt all activities of its security offices in the city of Mosul.
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Baghdad car bomb kills 10 in explosion targeting Shia soldiers


PressTV
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 16:11 UTC
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© AFP
Iraqi security forces inspect the site of a bombing in Baghdad on October 16, 2016.
A bomb planted in a car has exploded in an area to the south of the Iraqi capital, killing at least ten people and injuring 25 others. The bombing occurred when a convoy of volunteer Shia fighters was passing by in the al-Yusefiyah district 15 kilometers south of Baghdad. The victims included the Shia fighters as well as police forces and civilians nearby.

In a separate development, a gas cylinder has exploded in a central district in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, injuring at least four people. The sound of the explosion, which occurred in the al-Salehiyah district of Baghdad, initially led to speculations that another terrorist attack had been carried out in the Iraqi capital, where such bombings have become a routine feature of daily life, particularly over the past weeks. Later reports, however, clarified that the explosion was merely from a gas cylinder.

The residents of Baghdad have seen such terrorist bombings almost since the US invaded their country in 2003. The loss of life and property damage have occurred almost daily. Just on Sunday, a massive explosion targeted a mourning procession in Baghdad, killing at least six people. A day earlier, a similar incident had claimed the lives of over 50 people in al-Sha'ab district of the Iraqi capital. The Takfiri Daesh terrorist group said it was behind that bombing.

Iraq has been the scene of a campaign of terror by Daesh. Last week, at least nine people lost their lives after a bomber set off his explosives in the east of the Iraqi capital. The Takfiri group unleashed its campaign of death and destruction against the country in 2014, seizing the northern city of Mosul and declaring it as its so-called headquarters. A large and multi-faceted operation is due to liberate the city.
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Heart - Black

13yo girl, brother killed in latest rebel shelling of W Aleppo (GRAPHIC)


RT
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:50 UTC
rebels shell aleppo
© RT
A series of deadly mortar attacks rocked the government-controlled areas of Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least three people and injuring 23 others. RT spoke with survivors as rescuers dug through rubble to recover the body of a 13-year-old girl.


It took a total of six hours to recover the body of the young girl, named Sarah, who died inside her apartment - despite staying home from school in an effort to remain safe.

"Her father told her and her brother not to go to school because there was heavy shelling going on. So they stayed home, and then the rocket hit [the apartment]," Sarah's neighbor and friend, Ahmad, told RT's Murad Gazdiev.

Sarah's 20-year-old brother died in the same room.

Overcome with grief, Sarah's father had to be restrained following the realization that both his children had been killed.
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Stop

UK Islamic boarding school for girls has been ordered to shut down 'after pupil exposed its extremist beliefs'


RT
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:46 UTC
Jamia al Hudaa Residential College in Nottingham
© The Sun
According to reports Jamia Al-Hudaa Residential College for Girls in Nottingham has been ordered to close down by the Department for Education
An Islamic boarding school for girls in the UK has been ordered to close its doors after a former student claimed pupils were being taught extremist beliefs there.

Aliyah Saleem blew the whistle on Jamia al Hudaa Residential College in Nottingham two years ago, claiming students were being taught strict sharia-style rules.

Speaking to RT, Saleem said she was told "homosexuality was diseased," gay men should be executed, music was the voice of the devil and men should be allowed to beat their wives.

She says she was expelled from the school in 2011 for owning a disposable camera.
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War-weary Libyans dealing with persistent chaos miss life under Kadhafi

Rim Taher
France 24
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:06 UTC
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi addresses African parliamentarians during a meeting in Tripoli
Five years after an uprising killed Libya's Moamer Kadhafi, residents in the chaos-wracked country's capital joke they have grown to miss the longtime dictator as the frustrations of daily life mount.

Those living in the capital say they are exhausted by power cuts, price hikes and a lack of cash flow as rival authorities and militias battle for control of the fragmented oil-rich country.

"I hate to say it but our life was better under the previous regime," says Fayza al-Naas, a 42-year-old pharmacist, referring to Kadhafi's more than four decades of rule.

Today, "we wait for hours outside banks to beg cashiers to give us some of our own money. Everything is three times more expensive."

Comment: NATO Slaughter: James and Joanne Moriarty expose the truth about what happened in Libya

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Info

Thousands rally in Budapest after top political newspaper shut down for 'falling readership'


RT
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 14:54 UTC
Hungary freedom of speech rally
© Attila Kisbenedek / AFP
A man holds a banner reading "I'm migrant also in my homeland! Boycott against this political system!" during a protest by journalists of Hungary's biggest opposition newspaper Nepszabadsag and their supporters in Budapest on October 16, 2016.
Thousands of people have rallied for freedom of speech in the Hungarian capital, Budapest. They were voicing their outrage at the sudden suspension of leading leftist newspaper Nepszabadsag (People's Freedom).

Some 2,000-3,000 people participated in the rally on Sunday, according to AFP. However, the Budapest Beacon, an online left-wing news source put the figure at 10,000-15,000 people.

"They are stealing our freedom!" the demonstrators were shouting. The protesters also held banners, saying "Our nation is in the stranglehold of politician criminals. Get out!" and "Stop the dictatorship of Fidesz", the ruling party headed by Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

"After they [the government] purchase every newspaper, every media outlet, they put their own people everywhere and manipulate the whole thing," protester Lajos Vig told AP. "It's impossible to hear anything, to hear a true word from these [remaining] newspapers."

Comment: This is a confusing situation at the moment because a "leading" leftist newspaper closing down due to "falling readership" is contradictory.

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Fire

Four injured, several missing as fire engulfs factory of German chemical manufacturer BASF


RT
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:27 UTC
BASF fire lampertheim germany
© mariusmischke / Instagram
Fire and smoke have engulfed the premises belonging to German company BASF, the world's largest chemicals manufacturer, in the town of Lampertheim, local media report. Four company workers were reportedly injured in the incident.
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Pistol

German police report several schools across country received shooting threats


RT
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 09:26 UTC
german police car
© Axel Schmidt / Reuters
Several schools across Germany have received emails containing shooting threats, local media reports citing police authorities. All messages are said to have similar content.

At least three grammar schools in the eastern German city of Leipzig have received shooting threats via email, MDR broadcaster reported on Monday. In Neue Nikolaischule, the threats have prompted students to barricade themselves in a classroom and call the police.

In Magdeburg, the second-largest city in the region of Saxony-Anhalt, two schools have received shooting email threats as well and have been searched by police. Officers have also secured the entrances to the buildings, MDR reported.
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Heart - Black

Former model officer charged with molesting 12 y.o. girl

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 08:46 UTC
Matthew Lance Vassar

Matthew Lance Vassar
Former Perry, Oklahoma, Police Officer Matthew Lance Vassar had been called a model cop — as Perry City Manager Mary Rupp explained, "he's been a good officer, he's been productive and efficient ... so, from our standpoint, he's been a good employee for the City of Perry."

But that description comes as Vassar, who abruptly resigned, has been arrested and charged for 'lewd acts with a child' — the ongoing molestation of a girl, now 12 years old, who says she "had been touched inappropriately" by the cop multiple times over the last three years.

The unnamed victim "said during each incident she had her clothes on," according to News 9, but when she spoke with investigators she "described it hurting real bad."

Court documents also describe how the child victim must have been absolutely terrified, and had told a friend about the abuse but was reluctant to come forward because she "had witnessed Vassar being violent [and] was scared of Vassar."
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