Input: No bombshells about the Clinton Foundation or brain tumors. Instead, Assange and some of his WikiLeaks colleagues used the press conference to make a pitch for donations and to note the remarkable quantity of the site’s work—10 million documents published, containing more than 10 billion words, which the group claims is “more secret documents than the rest of the world’s media combined.” With legions of Trump supporters and Clinton haters feeling deceived, Stone claimed that Assange had never promised a big reveal." Not at all what he said," Stone wrote in an email to The Daily Beast, adding that journalists had engaged in "wishful thinking." Stone had already seemed to tamp down expectations ahead of the press conference, which was streamed live at 4 a.m. Eastern time.

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Input: Europol Director Rob Wainwright speaks on the fight against terror at the Europol headquarters in The Hague. The Islamic State group has honed the ability to launch global attacks and is set to focus more on Europe following the Paris massacre, the chief of EU police agency Europol says. Rob Wainwright told a news conference that "the so-called Islamic State had developed a new combat-style capability to carry out a campaign of large-scale terrorist attacks on a global stage — with a particular focus in Europe". Mr Wainwright was unveiling the findings of a new Europol report on changes in how the jihadist group operates, coinciding with the launch of the agency's new counterterrorism centre in The Hague.

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Input: So the banks agreed to lend him tens of millions more in exchange for Trump temporarily ceding control over his multibillion-dollar empire and accepting a budget of $ 450,000 a month for personal expenditures. In August, New Jersey regulators prepared a report totaling Trump’s debt at $ 3.4 billion, writing that “a complete financial collapse of the Trump Organization was not out of the question.” In September, Trump informed his bankers that he would not be paying the $ 1.1 million in interest due and asked that they defer $ 245 million of future loan payments. Once again, the banks could do little but agree. The shuttle business was put up for sale, as was his $ 29 million yacht, the Trump Princess.

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Input: Ms Olszewski did not respond to the BBC's questions. In a statement, Mossack Fonseca said:" Your allegations that we provide structures supposedly designed to hide the identity of the real owners, are completely unsupported and false." We do not provide beneficiary services to deceive banks. It is difficult, not to say impossible, not to provide banks with the identity of final beneficiaries and the origin of funds." The data also contain secret offshore companies linked to the families and associates of Egypt's former President, Hosni Mubarak, former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and Syria's President Bashar al-Assad.

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Input: (The CIJA, which does n’t publicly identify witnesses, refused to acknowledge this.) “They spent three days here, asking me in very great detail about the work I did, details about how the meetings would go,” he said. They also photographed the smuggled papers, and Barakat promised them that he’d supply the originals if the case went to trial. As Barakat and I spoke through a video feed, he lifted up a heap of files, which are usually kept in a secure facility. “These are the meeting minutes for the Central Crisis Management Cell,” he said.

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Input: President Barack Obama authorised the covert arming programme in April 2013, after more than a year of debate inside the administration about the wisdom of using the CIA to train rebels trying to oust Assad. The decision was made in part to try to gain control of a chaotic situation in which Arab countries were funnelling arms into Syria for various rebel groups with little coordination. The Qataris had paid to smuggle shipments of Chinese-made FN-6 shoulder-fired weapons over the border from Turkey, and Saudi Arabia sent thousands of Kalashnikovs and millions of rounds of ammunition it had bought, sometimes with the CIA's help. By late 2013, the CIA was working directly with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other nations to arm and train small groups of rebels and send them across the border into Syria. The specific motives behind the November shooting at the Amman police training facility remain uncertain, and it is unclear when the FBI will officially conclude its investigation.

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Input: (CNN) Afghanistan had a record number of civilian casualties last year due to Taliban suicide attacks and a fierce battle for the northern city of Kunduz. The country’s deteriorating security situation has led hundreds of thousands of people to flee, seeking refuge in neighboring countries or Europe. (Boston Globe) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised new measures to counter gun smuggling and stiffen Canada’s already tough gun laws. The move comes in response to increasing numbers of handguns and assault weapons in Canadian cities. (William Marsden) Two blood-building drugs could boost brain development and IQ levels in premature babies, according to a first-of-its-kind study.

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Input: The Communist Party of Russia, which evolved from its Soviet predecessor, is among the political forces represented in Russia's new parliament. The party’s leader, Gennady Zyuganov, complained to the president that the Communists had suffered from increased and unfair competition during the campaigning, resulting in them gaining a smaller share of seats. “The political system that has 77 parties and 14 running for the parliament prevents normal dialogue, which is bad, in my opinion,” he said. In April 2005, President Vladimir Putin called the USSR’s collapse “the major geopolitical disaster of the [last] century” in a public address to the Russian parliament. This quote was circulated by the international mass media that claimed that it revealed the Kremlin’s alleged plans to return to socialism.

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Input: The source said that vice president met with former Israeli President Shimon Peres as planned, adding that Biden was in a secure location and therefore did not need to change course. (Scene of Jaffa stabbing. Credit: United Hatzalah)Later Tuesday evening, Hamas welcomed the string of terror attacks against Israelis that occurred within hours of each other in Jaffa, Petah Tikva and Jerusalem. The Palestinian terror group said the attacks proved that the current wave of Palestinian violence has not desisted and that attempts to thwart it have not succeeded. Hours earlier, three Israelis were wounded in two separate terror attacks that occurred within minutes of each other in Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv suburb of Petah Tikva. Scene of stabbing attack in Petah TikvaIn the attack in Jerusalem, two Israeli police officers were wounded by an Arab gunman targeting the security forces outside the Damascus Gate of the Old City. MDA paramedics said that both of the victims were seriously wounded in the attack. The two wounded officers were evacuated for hospitalization. Police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said that the suspect fired at police officers, wounding one.

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Input: Your order to then-Attorney General Eric Holder to let Gen. David Petraeus off easy created a noxious – and demoralizing – precedent in the national security community indicating that, whatever the pains taken at lower levels to prevent compromise of duly classified information, top officials are almost never held accountable for disregarding well-established rules. These are some of the reasons we are so concerned that this is precisely the direction in which you seem to be leaning on the Clinton email issue. In our view, the sole legitimate reason for disclosing classified information springs from the only “oath” we all took – “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.” When, for example, Edward Snowden saw the U.S. government grossly violating our Fourth Amendment right to be “secure” against warrantless “searches and seizures,” he gave more weight to that oath (ethicists call it a supervening value) than to the promise he had made not to disclose information that could harm U.S. national security. Possibly Still Worse Ahead You might give some thought, Mr. President, to a potentially messy side of this.

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Input: Our nation’s Founders elected not to restrict the Constitution’s fundamental guarantees to just one generation. Instead, they aimed to “establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” They took account of future generations by establishing an enduring guide to those principles most relevant to our nation’s fundamental challenges, including those arising centuries after the Constitution’s signing. Our nation’s outsized role in causing dangerous climate change presents such a fundamental problem. Though we comprise less than 5 percent of the world population, cumulative fossil fuel emissions from the United States exceed 25 percent of the world total, far outstripping contributions from China, Russia, Germany, or Britain.

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Input: While some may have a genuine need for asylum from war, Mr Niinistö believes current international agreements allow for too many to seek refuge while simply looking for an easier life He added: ' We have to ask ourselves whether we aim to protect Europe's values and people, and those who are truly in acute danger or inflexibly stick to the letter of our international obligations with no regard for the consequences. ' Last week the Finnish interior ministry announced that around 20,000 of the 32,000 asylum applications Finland received last year would likely be rejected and those people expelled. Helsinki is also in diplomatic negotiations with neighbouring Russia to stop more migrants from entering Finland via the Arctic region. It emerged earlier this week, that Finland's centrist Prime Minister Juha Sipila had backtracked from plans to house asylum seekers at his country house for security reasons.

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Input: Assange’s alliance with Donald Trump looks, on the face of it, like one of the most unusual political alliances in recent history. The players in this dangerous alliance may share a fondness for the conservative patriarchy of Vladimir Putin’s Russia but, for Assange, Trump is part of his calculations to escape his room in the Ecuadorian Embassy in Knightsbridge. A presidential pardon may stop him facing jail in the US (though no charges have been brought against him there so far), but it wo n’t stop his extradition to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations. Assange’s political influence only remains because too many on the left have made half a decade’s worth of excuses for him. For a brief moment, Julian Assange looked like the future.

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Input: Washington (CNN) President Barack Obama offered one of his sharpest denunciations of Donald Trump to date Tuesday, declaring the Republican nominee entirely unfit to serve as president and lambasting Republicans for sticking by their nominee. The strong rebuke in the White House East Room came after Trump's criticism of the family of a slain Muslim US soldier, along with comments that displayed apparent confusion related to the Russian incursion into Ukraine." The Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president," Obama said at a White House news conference with the Prime Minister of Singapore." He keeps on proving it."

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Input: It can also operate up to 1,000 centrifuges at its mountain facility at Fordow-but these can not be used to enrich uranium. Plutonium production: Iran has agreed to reconfigure its heavy water reactor at Arak, so that it will only produce a tiny amount of plutonium as a by-product of power generation, and will not build any more heavy water reactors for 15 years. Inspections: International monitors will be able to carry out a comprehensive programme of inspection of Iran's nuclear facilities. Sanctions: All EU and US energy, economic and financial sanctions, and most UN sanctions, will be lifted on the day Iran shows it has complied with the main parts of the deal.

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Input: Jody Avirgan: More and more from Donald Trump, as he’s dropping in the polls — which I suspect is not much of a coincidence — we’re hearing talk of a rigged election. Trump has suggested that the election will be rigged. He’s urged his supporters to monitor polling sites; he’s suggested even that the polls are rigged. This morning, Monday morning, he tweeted, “Of course there is widespread voter fraud happening on and before election day.” There’s a lot to tease out here about the specific charges and about the long-term corrosive effect of sowing distrust in our electoral system. And I’ve got some data and some facts that will hopefully give us some context, but I also want to start with a basic question of definitions because I think there are some different definitions floating around of what the word rigged means.

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Input: State facilities, McLemore said, have “adequate” HIV testing, care and linkage to outside clinics. Human Rights Watch interviewed more than 100 people, including workers in not-for-profit medicine, the criminal justice system, and 27 former inmates. The report recommends continuing to reducing mandatory minimum sentences, testing for all inmates who enter parish jails for HIV, and transferring those with HIV to state prisons with “adequate” services. As of 2012, the Louisiana sentencing commission found more than 60% of jail admissions were because of mandatory minimum sentencing requirements. Statewide, non-violent drug crimes account for more than 36% of inmates housed in local jails, and 13.8% of people in state prisons.

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Input: German bomber pledged allegiance to IS Germany is reeling from another "lone wolf" attack. This one, carried out by a rejected Syrian asylum seeker occurred outside a bar in Ansbach, wounded 15 people-many seriously. The 27-year old man left a video on his mobile phone pledging allegiance to Islamic State's leader Abu Bakr al-Bagdaid. He had been ordered to leave Syria for Bulgaria, where he first applied for asylum a fortnight ago.

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Input: Then on Monday, the Shadow Brokers released on Tumblr a series of files it claimed had been taken from the Equation Group. In a bizarre post written in broken English, the hackers said they had released 60 percent of the material they had and would release the additional 40 percent if they were paid 1 million bitcoin (currently worth more than $ 500 million). Forbes reported that its sources were saying the bitcoin auction was likely just an attempt to gain media attention. Here is what the hacking group said in its release of the files: Q: Why I want auction files, why send bitcoin?

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Input: We have more gun retailers in America than we do supermarkets, more than 55,000 of them. We're talking nearly four times the number of McDonald's. Nobody knows how many guns that equals, but in 2013, U.S. gun manufacturers rolled out 10,844,792 guns, and we imported an additional 5,539,539. The numbers were equally astounding the year before, and the year before that, and the year before that. By law, the system must remain intricate, thorny, and all but impenetrable.

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Input: “There are many currents that seek to divide communities. Instead, we have to come together. We need to stand up and form strategies against those who espouse extremist ideologies and recruit others to engage in violent acts in our communities on their behalf. We want to mentor our young people, educate parents, identify solutions, and form closer relationships between refugees and Idahoans who have been here for generations.” Protecting Muslims against ‘bias’

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Input: Trump has reportedly been feeling “boxed in” and “controlled” by the few people around him who actually know something about politics. Advice from these professionals to tone it down must be responsible for his slide in the polls, he seems to believe. So he has hired as chief executive of his campaign a man named Stephen Bannon, who will not only let Trump be Trump but also encourage him to be even Trumpier. Bannon runs Breitbart News, a website that creates its own ultranationalist far-right reality — one that often bears little resemblance to the world as it really is. As I write, the site is claiming that Hillary Clinton has some serious undisclosed health problem (her doctor says she is just fine), that one of Clinton’s aides has “very clear ties” to radical Islam (which is totally untrue) and that Clinton herself has “clear ties” to Russian President Vladimir Putin (when in fact it is Trump who often reveals his man-crush on the Russian leader).

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Input: In the current year, we are spending $ 548 billion – a cut of 10% in real inflation-adjusted dollars. This reduction was done through what is known as the sequester, or automatic defense budget cuts. Under the budget agreement, defense took half of the cuts – even though it makes up only one-sixth of the budget. To fix this problem, Trump said that as soon as he takes office he will work to end the sequester: As soon as I take office, I will ask Congress to fully eliminate the defense sequester and will submit a new budget to rebuild our military.

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Input: But all the state-owned Russian companies with Trump's staff and friends on their payroll are only operated through blessing from Putin's inner-circle. And in the past few years, Putin has quietly funnelled millions of dollars to politicians who might destabilize the West and be friendlier toward Russia. That includes an $ 11.7 million loan from a Kremlin-controlled bank to the party of France's far-right Marine Le Pen. In Greece, Putin's government is suspected of funding the Golden Dawn, one of Europe's most violent far-right parties. This is something American officials are actively watching.

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Input: It is fundamentally anti-democratic … and contributes to an already caustic political environment. Facing the end of his second term, The Washington Post reports that Obama will bypass Congress and seek a United Nations Security Council Resolution that “would call for an end to nuclear testing” on the 20th anniversary of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The Senate voted to reject ratification of the nuclear test ban treaty on Oct. 13, 1999. It did so for sound reasons. For example, the treaty does not define what constitutes a nuclear weapons test.

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Input: Rich’s family has expressly rejected suggestions that his killing is linked to the DNC hack and emails. “Some are attempting to politicize this horrible tragedy, and in their attempts to do so, are actually causing more harm than good and impeding on the ability for law enforcement to properly do their job,” Rich family spokesman Brad Bauman told Business Insider. Green Party representative Scott McLarty said that the Green Party had no comment on the matter, saying that it deserves to be investigated if evidence emerges that Rich’s murder was indeed politically motivated. Yet while Assange has come under criticism, the impact he has had on politics is undeniable. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) was forced to resign as chairwoman of the DNC after the leak, as Sanders supporters seized on evidence that the national party had been working against their candidate all along.

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Input: A cafe is engulfed in flames as English fans were targeted while drinking on the terrace of cafe on the streets of Marseille last night A chair is hurled at riot police officers as violence between warring supporters continues into the night on the streets of Marseille THE BATTLE OF MARSEILLE: ENGLAND FANS CLASH AT FRANCE ' 98 The sight of drunken England fans scuffling, brawling and posturing in front of lines of French police is a reminder of a hooligan culture the FA hoped had been stamped out. But despite more than 1,800 banning orders being handed out to repeat offenders prior to this summer's tournament, the dark side of English football raised its ugly head again. Battle of Marseille: England fans clashed with police and local gangs after a match against Tunisia during France ' 98 World Cup Many supporters will remember the last time England's fans clashed with French police-a brawl that ended with 25 arrested and unsavoury footage broadcast by the world's media.

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Input: He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who were n’t captured.” July 17, 2015, Family Leadership Summit in Iowa. Trump was referring to Senator John McCain, a former Navy pilot who was tortured during his five-and-a-half years as a POW during the Vietnam war. 3. “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.” August 7, 2015, CNN interview about Megyn Kelly, one of Fox News’ moderators in the first Republican debate.

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Input: (Adriana Usero / The Washington Post) I was the duty officer on the October 1962 evening when the cable arrived at my upstate New York military post raising our alert status. Elsewhere, B-52s went on airborne alert for strikes within the Soviet Union, and plans were developed for a strike on Cuba. It was a crisis brought on by the discovery of Russian attempts to place nuclear missiles in Cuba. Thirteen days on the brink of nuclear war.

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Input: In a widely panned speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) annual meeting on Monday, Clinton pledged her undying loyalty to Israel, promised to go to war with Iran if necessary, and implied the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement was anti-Semitic. The speech was interpreted as an attempt to move to the right of Trump on Israel. Perhaps nothing sums up Clinton’s foreign policy better than a recent photo of her warmly hugging George W. Bush at Nancy Reagan’s funeral — an almost too-perfect metaphor for Clinton’s embrace of neocon policies. And as the picture makes clear, the war hawks are just as happy to cuddle her back.

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Input: “If they were not supportive of us, we would n’t be here today,” he says. But this also was n’t something Facebook imposed on WhatsApp. This is a decision WhatsApp made on its own, before it was acquired. By the time Facebook paid billions of dollars for the company, the transformation was already under way. No Backdoor

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Input: Updated standards, passed in 2010, are being treated more like suggestions than requirements. (Joe Heim) -- Cause for concern: MS-13 is making a comeback in the streets of D.C. An 18-year -old man, arrested in a series of what police describe as random robberies and assaults in Northwest Washington, might be linked to the Central American gang, which has been mostly active in the suburbs. “Federal law enforcement officials have said MS-13 — considered one of the most dangerous groups linked to murders, prostitution and drug trafficking — has begun to reassert itself after years of relative quiet,” Peter Hermann reports. -- Metro police arrested a man for allegedly exposing himself to a woman on an Orange Line train and attempting to force her to perform a sex act.

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Input: It is possible to argue that Russia is just behaving as great powers often do. States try to manipulate opinion beyond their borders. Barack Obama recently attempted to sway the British public to reject Brexit; we do n’t just broadcast the Voice of America to expose the world to jazz. Russia does this, too. It has a website and television network, Russia Today.

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Input: He printed out the lyrics to "The Snake," an old soul hit from Al Wilson. The song is about a snake, half frozen from the cold, that asks a woman to be let inside. The woman takes pity on the animal and holds it to her bosom, upon which the snake bites and poisons her. Trump reads the lyrics aloud passionately, as if he were auditioning for a role." Oh, shut up silly woman," he says, imitating the snake:" You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in."

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Input: Prohibitionist drug policies have had serious adverse consequences in the US, too. “The USA is perhaps the best documented but not the only country with clear racial biases in policing, arrests, and sentencing,” the commissioners write. “In the USA in 2014, African American men were more than five times more likely than white people to be incarcerated for drug offences in their lifetime, although there is no significant difference in rates of drug use among these populations. The impact of this bias on communities of people of colour is inter-generational and socially and economically devastating.” The commission cites examples of countries and US states that have moved down the decriminalisation road.

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Input: Related: Sanders Closes the Gap on Clinton – and Cleans Up Against the GOP But for a long time it has been obvious that the soft spot in his armor has been foreign policy and national security. He stumbled again on those topics during Thursday night’s two-hour debate. Or as James Hohmann of The Washington Post observed, Sanders “sounded out of his depth on foreign policy during his first mano-a-mano debate with Hillary Clinton.” Max Fisher at Vox — in what was ultimately a defense of Sanders — described just how poorly the candidate fared on foreign policy questions: “now that he's a much more serious candidate, you'd like to think he would have given even just a few minutes ' thought to his potential future leading the foreign policy of the most powerful country in human history.

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Input: Talmudists were held responsible for Germany's defeat and for every disadvantage that resulted from that defeat. The New York Times of August 7, 1933, published the Talmudists ' declaration of their "holy war" against Germany in a three-column report of Mr. Untermeyer's address to the nation from the Columbia Broadcasting Company's studio on the night of his arrival home from Europe. Mr. Untermeyer, among other things, stated:" ... holy war ... in which we are embarked .. it is a war which must be waged unremittingly ... the Jews are the aristocrats of the world ... the economic boycott against all German goods, shipping and services ... boycott is our only really effective weapon ... bring the German people to their senses by destroying their export trade on which their very existence depends ... we shall force them to learn ... it is not sufficient that you buy no goods in Germany ... you must refuse to deal with any merchant or shopkeeper who sells any German-made goods ... we will drive the last nail in the coffin ... "That statement was made on August 7, 1933, when not a hair on the head of a Talmudist in Germany had been touched. Germany was plunged into a depression difficult to describe in a few words, Germany's export business suddenly ending as if by magic. Talmudists hoped that way to stop Germans from continuing to talk about why they lost the war.

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Input: Citing Donald Trump’s controversial call to his supporters to challenge voters at the polls, a leading civil rights group is urging international election monitors to beef up their efforts to observe this November’s U.S. presidential contest. It’s the latest reflection of deep concern among voting rights advocates about potential voter intimidation and suppression this fall. In a letter sent Saturday, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights asked the Warsaw, Poland-based Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to “greatly expand” its U.S. election monitoring program. Related: Trump Poll-Watching Plan Stirs Voter Intimidation Fears

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Input: And what is to stop any future airline passenger, similarly unarmed, from pretending that he or she has a real device strapped to them? For Egypt's battered tourism industry, that has yet to recover from the October airline bombing, this hijack is a further blow it can ill afford. The hijacker's surrender came shortly after several people were seen fleeing the aircraft. One-apparently a crew member-escaped by climbing out of the aircraft's cockpit window. Throughout the morning, people had been seen leaving the aircraft after appearing to have been released.

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Input: On Friday, Eichenwald described it as “a major attack on Newsweek.” Later in the afternoon, Eichenwald tweeted, “Lots of IP addresses involved. Main ones from Russia.” In an e-mail to Ars, Impoco reiterated that the publication is "still investigating” and that investigators have “nothing definitive. As with any DDoS attack, there are a lot of IP addresses, but the main ones are Russian.” He said it remains too early to say what significance, if any, comes from the large number of Russian IPs. The IPs involved in a DDoS rarely say much about the parties perpetrating the attack, because the addresses are usually connected to computers that have been hacked and are participating in the assault without the end users’ knowledge.

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Input: Japan and Russia will set up a working group that includes Japanese firms with cutting-edge technology to improve living conditions in Russian cities by upgrading public transport and waste disposal facilities, sources close to the matter said. The move comes as the two countries work on an eight-point economic cooperation package Prime Minister Shinzo Abe proposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin in May. The package is believed to be part of Tokyo’s efforts to make progress on resolving a decades-old territorial dispute over Russian-held, Japanese-claimed islands off Hokkaido when the leaders hold their next summit in December, in Japan.

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Input: Ukrainians have chosen a Crimean Tatar singer and her song 1944, about mass deportation of Tatars under Josef Stalin The last Ukraine entry to the Eurovision song contest was a jolly, forgettable pop song called Tick Tock in which Mariya Yaremchuk urged her lover to “kiss and kiss me till I drop”. This year’s is, it’s fair to say, something of a gear change. On Sunday Ukraine chose a song about Joseph Stalin’s mass deportation in 1944 of about 240,000 Crimean Tatars, a horrific chapter that the nation’s parliament has described as tantamount to genocide.

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Input: Thereafter, Clinton, by her own telling, “spent … literally years trying to get the Israelis to finally apologize to the Turks on the flotilla. ”61 In the summer of 2014, Israel engaged in a massive military operation designed to weaken the destructive capacity of Hamas terrorists who were launching more than 100 potentially deadly missiles per day from Gaza, deep into Israel. Before long, Israel discovered that Hamas, in recent years, had constructed a massive network of at least 60 underground missile storage-and-transport tunnels throughout Gaza. A number of those tunnels extended, underground, into Israeli territory — for the purpose of facilitating terror attacks, murders, and kidnappings against unsuspecting Israeli citizens. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Hamas had spent between $ 1 million and $ 10 million to build each of those tunnels, using as many as 350 truckloads of cement and other supplies per tunnel.62

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Input: JUST WATCHED Police remove pipeline protesters Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Police remove pipeline protesters 01:20 A shrug of indifference Ten miles west of the protests, a man who doesn't want to be named, for fear of retribution, admits he looks forward to the pipeline. It'll mean fewer trucks barreling down these rural highways and fewer trains flying down the tracks. Back at Cannon Ball, however, Carl Bruce, 52, isn't afraid to say his piece.

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Input: As if all this wasn't enough bad news for Mrs. Clinton in one week, the FBI learned last week from the convicted international hacker, who calls himself Guccifer, that he knows how the Russians came to possess Mrs. Clinton's emails; and it is because she stored, received and sent them from her personal, secret, non-secure server. Mrs. Clinton has not been confronted publicly and asked for an explanation of her thoughts about the confluence of these events, but she has been asked if the FBI has reached out to her. It may seem counter-intuitive, but in white collar criminal cases, the FBI gives the targets of its investigations an opportunity to come in and explain why the target should not be indicted. This is treacherous ground for any target, even a smart lawyer like Mrs. Clinton. She does not know what the feds know about her.

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Input: General Ali Abdullah Ayyoub, Assad’s chief of general staff, visited the frontlines near Aleppo on Monday to inspect the troops’ preparations. At least 250,000 people have been killed across Syria during the five-year conflict, with some monitoring groups claiming the death toll may be double that. UN investigators yesterday announced that more than 700 doctors and medical workers had been killed during the conflict, many of them in airstrikes. “As civilian casualties mount, the number of medical facilities and staff decreases, limiting access to medical care even further,” Paulo Pinheiro, head of a commission of inquiry into the Syrian conflict, told the UN Human Rights Council. “With each attack, terrorised survivors are left more vulnerable.

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Input: Obama was speaking following an hours-long meeting with Castro at the Palace of the Revolution in Old Havana, his third meeting with the Cuban leader since work began to reopen diplomatic ties to the island. Castro, making a statement before the reporters ' questions, said that work toward improving economic conditions in his country was progressing. But he added that a longstanding trade embargo prevents a full restoration of ties." Much more could be done if the U.S. blockade could be lifted," Castro said." The most recent measures adopted by his administration are positive but insufficient."

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Input: “The world is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of international religious freedom, a crisis that continues to create millions of victims; a crisis that undermines liberty, prosperity and peace; a crisis that poses a direct challenge to the US interests in the Middle East, Russia, China and sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere,” Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., who authored the bill, said in a statement. There have been increasing calls in recent years in northern European countries for an end to circumcision and ritual slaughter, spurred in part by anti-Muslim hostility, US government and European Jewish officials have said. The bill’s tier system for how well or poorly countries protect religious freedom would be similar to the one used in the annual State Department report on human trafficking. That report is influential, and countries seeking the good graces of the United States strive to improve their ranking by cracking down on the practice. Smith is the chairman of the House subcommittee on human rights, and as a co-chairman of the Helsinki Committee, the congressional panel that monitors human rights overseas, has made the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe a focus.

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Input: Access to all health care services, including mental health, dental, and vision. Include everyone, period. No restrictions based on pre-existing illness, employment, immigration status, age, or any other category. Eliminate the cancer of health insurance, which adds costs while reducing access to health care. End overcharging for prescription drugs by using bulk purchasing negotiations.

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Input: Tomorrow it could be us,” he said. Speaking in Tampa later on Wednesday, Rubio warned that giving credence to foreign hacks against U.S. officials could be “an invitation to chaos and havoc.” “Just think about this: Do we really want to be a country where foreign leaders or foreign intelligence agencies can blackmail our elected officials and say to them that unless you do what we want you to do, we’re gon na release emails from your campaign manager, your wife, your daughter, your son, and we’re gon na embarrass you. So unless you wanna be embarrassed you better do what we want you to do. Is that what we want?” Rubio asked.

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Input: Now, some of this is politics. But the determination by many of Trump’s voters to whitewash the man in order to vote for him is astounding. An alternative universe has been constructed where Trump’s worst sins never happened, where anyone who refuses to back the lifelong big-government statist with a historic penchant for dishonesty is a traitor to conservatism. Some of the thinkers I most admire fall into this category — people who construct their own Fantasy Trump with whom to fall in love. These are the people who suggest that Trump must talk more about judges and Obamacare and the specifics of Clinton’s Egypt policy.

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Input: Here are more than a dozen people, places and issues Trump has claimed to be damaged or corrupted beyond repair -- by anyone other than himself: American cities "We have a situation where we have our inner cities, African-Americans, Hispanics are living in hell because it's so dangerous," he said during the first presidential debate." You walk down the street, you get shot." The immigration system

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Input: According to Engadget, Tuesday's data dump was just a sample of what the hacker allegedly managed to steal. Politico reported that a person familiar with the documents claimed they appeared to be from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which was hacked over the summer. Screenshots of the documents reveal how much banks donated to Democratic lawmakers and how much the banks received from the 2008 bailout bill called Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)." It looks like big banks and corporations agreed to donate to the Democrats a certain percentage of the allocated TARP funds," Guccifer 2.0 wrote. Guccifer 2.0 ended the post with a message to Wikileaks and Julian Assange.

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Input: One escapee told CSW that while he was detained, he met a prisoner who was sent to the camp simply because he had spent a month in China studying the Bible." A policy of guilt by association applies, meaning that the relatives of Christians are also detained regardless of whether they share the Christian belief," the report says." Even North Koreans who have escaped to China, and who are or become Christians, are often repatriated and subsequently imprisoned in a political prison camp." Despite intense persecution, there are 121 religious facilities in North Korea, the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights says, including 64 Buddhist temples, 52 Cheondoist temples, three Protestant churches, a Catholic cathedral and a Russian Orthodox church. All five churches are in the capital, Pyongyang, however, and analysts suggest that they may function primarily to improve North Korea's image with the international community, rather than as free houses of worship.

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Input: Taken together, her responses to questions from FBI investigators reveal a high-level government executive who apparently had little grasp of the nuances and complexities around the nation’s classification system — a blind spot that helped allow classified communications to pass through her private email server. Story Continued Below While Clinton is clear that she never had any intention to mishandle classified documents, a fact that FBI Director James Comey noted as a factor in his decision not to recommend any charges against the former secretary of state, answers she gave to FBI agents during a July 2 interview are likely to reinforce the Republican campaign talking point that she lied to cover up her own recklessness with government secrets. Comey declared in his early July press conference that Clinton had been “extremely careless” in her handling of government secrets during her tenure as secretary of state, a description laid out more thoroughly in the FBI’s release. The newly-released documents do not include transcripts of Clinton’s interview but are instead summaries of the bureau’s investigation and meeting with the former secretary of state, essentially the long-form justification for Comey’s recommendation against pressing charges.

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Input: Some analysts think the period between now and January, when a new United States president will take office, is a time when raids on east Aleppo may intensify, believing US President Barack Obama will be reluctant to confront Russia militarily before he steps down. On Friday, though, the US rejected the idea that the pause in the air assault on eastern Aleppo has provided much relief to civilians, accusing the Syrian government of using starvation as a weapon of war. The AFP news agency, quoting a US official, said that "the [Syrian] regime has rejected UN requests to deliver aid to eastern Aleppo-using starvation as a weapon of war". Close shave for Russian and US jets A Russian fighter jet flew dangerously close to a US fighter jet over eastern Syria, US defence officials said on Friday, highlighting the risks of a serious mishap in the increasingly crowded airspace.

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Input: Who congratulated himself on Republican Convention TV ratings, even though those for his closing speech were lower than for John McCain's. Who congratulated himself by disseminating a video showing how much of that speech's total running time was taken up … by applause. Who congratulated himself on having "the world's greatest memory," then three weeks later testified in a deposition he had no memory of saying that. A man who proposed a wall along the Mexican border to keep out undocumented immigrants; proposed mass deportation of undocumented immigrants; proposed a smaller wall and fewer deportations during a taped television interview that played at the same moment he was giving a speech in Phoenix insisting on a larger wall and more deportations. A man who has proposed immediately expelling at least two to three million undocumented immigrants, even though this would be like trying to evacuate the city of Chicago in one day; proposed immediately expelling any others not convicted — but merely accused — of a crime.

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Input: WASHINGTON — Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton addressed questions Wednesday on issues from the Iraq War and veterans’ health to Clinton’s email use and Trump’s statements about Vladimir Putin and sexual assault in the military, during an NBC forum. One audience member asked Trump: “As president, what specifically would you do to support all victims of sexual assault in the military?” Trump agreed it’s “a massive problem,” and something should be done. “And the best thing we can do is set up a court system in the military.

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Input: Concerns about the damage being done to Britain’s oil and gas industry has led the British prime minister, David Cameron, to pledge £ 250 m to Aberdeen. About 70,000 jobs direct and indirect jobs have been lost around the UK due to the crude price slump. Shell has already promised to cut 10,500 more jobs worldwide once the BG deal is consummated on 15 February. Some job cuts could come in Aberdeen. Meanwhile, hopes were raised last week that Russia and Saudi Arabia may agree at a meeting next month to hold back oil production in an attempt to push up energy prices.

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Input: While a forensics team searched the area, police set up roadblocks to find the terrorists. ”Roughly one hour later, Rosenfeld said, Border Police officers arrested two suspects matching the description of the assailants, but after extensive questioning, both young men were released without charges. “Police are continuing to search for the terrorists involved in the attack and hope to make arrests soon,” he said later in the day. Shortly after the attack, Shaare Zedek Medical Center spokeswoman Shoham Ruvio said both victims were in stable condition and expected to survive. “They are stable and conscious,” said Ruvio. “One, 86 years old, was stabbed in the back three times and is in the intensive care unit. The second victim, 82, was also stabbed multiple times and is in the department for heart surgery. She does n’t need surgery, but is being closely monitored due to a preexisting heart condition. ”Meanwhile, Rosenfeld said, security has been heightened throughout the capital, and will continue at elevated levels throughout the holiday. “All public areas will have additional police units deployed and nothing will be left to chance, as the city observes Remembrance Day and Independence Day,” he said. Last October, the Armon Hanatziv / East Talpiot neighborhood made international headlines after two terrorists from Jebl Mukaber stormed an Egged bus and stabbed and shot four victims to death before being killed by police. To stymie the deadly violence between the Arab and Jewish communities, police temporarily set up a concrete wall and checkpoint around Jebl Mukaber, which was soon taken down amid protests by human rights groups. Near the scene of Tuesday’s attack, a cross-section of residents expressed shock and indignation that the assailants preyed on women in their 80s. Meir Shahar, 67, a longtime resident of Armon Hanatziv/ East Talpiot said young Arab residents from Jebl Mukaber have long intimidated and terrorized Jews living in his neighborhood, but said he was stunned that defenseless elderly women were stabbed in the back. “These are old women!” he said with clear revulsion. “What did they do that they should be stabbed? You fight with an army, you fight with grown men – you do n’t fight with old women!” Moreover, Shahar said many Arab residents from Jebl Mukaber work in menial jobs throughout the neighborhood or routinely visit the area, making daily interaction with Jewish residents unavoidable. “All the people from there come to the promenade, to our post office, to our supermarkets and to our hospitals – to every place there – and nobody says ‘You are Arab, why are you coming here?’” he said. “The Jewish people in this area are with these people all the time, and it is known that a lot of the people who live there are connected with Hamas. They are not peaceful people, and the [Jewish residents] are afraid.

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Input: There, he produced a glowing documentary on the life of socialist revolutionary Eugene Debs, who was jailed for espionage during the Red Scare and hailed by the Bolsheviks as “America’s greatest Marxist.” This subversive hero of Sanders, denounced even by liberal Democrats as a “traitor,” bashed “the barons of Wall Street” and hailed the “triumphant” Bolshevik revolution in Russia. “Those Russian comrades of ours have made greater sacrifices, have suffered more, and have shed more heroic blood than any like number of men and women anywhere on Earth,” Debs proclaimed. “They have laid the foundation of the first real democracy that ever drew the breath of life in this world.” In a 1918 speech in Canton, Ohio, Debs reaffirmed his solidarity with Lenin and Trotsky, despite clear evidence of their violent plunder and treachery.

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Input: "For months, we have been asking the FBI to examine links between the Trump campaign and illegal Russian efforts to affect our election, including interviewing Trump advisor Roger Stone," they said." In light of this new evidence — and these exceptional circumstances — we call on the FBI to fully investigate and explain to the American people what steps it is taking to disrupt this ongoing criminal activity." Earlier this week Stone said that “I do have a back-channel communication with Assange,” referring to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose organization has been dropping documents online from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, and has been unloading documents from other Democrats as well. U.S. intelligence agencies last week declared that a connection exists between Russia and allegedly hacked documents leaked by WikiLeaks and others. Authors:

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Input: Gunmen killed at least 38 people at site, the same day terrorists lashed out brutally in France and bombed a mosque in Kuwait. Hide Caption 1 of 14 Photos: Terrorist attack in Tunisia Tunisian police patrol the beach in front of the Riu Imperial Marhaba Hotel on June 27. Hide Caption 2 of 14 Photos: Terrorist attack in Tunisia A Tunisian forensics expert inspects the beach on June 27. Hide Caption 3 of 14 Photos: Terrorist attack in Tunisia A young woman lays flowers at the scene of a shooting on June 27. Hide Caption 4 of 14 Photos: Terrorist attack in Tunisia Tourists leave Tunisia at the Enfidha International airport a day after the attack.

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Input: Hide Caption 17 of 29 Photos: San Bernardino shooting People walk away from the scene. It is unclear how many people were at the facility at the time of the shooting. Hide Caption 18 of 29 Photos: San Bernardino shooting Police in SWAT gear secure the area. Hide Caption 19 of 29 Photos: San Bernardino shooting Two women embrace at a community center where family members were gathering to pick up people from the scene. Hide Caption 20 of 29 Photos: San Bernardino shooting People gather at the San Bernardino Golf Course.

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Input: While Vietnam has larger and longer range Russian coastal defense missiles, the EXTRA is considered highly mobile and effective against amphibious landings. It uses compact radars, so does not require a large operational footprint-also suitable for deployment on islets and reefs." When Vietnam acquired the EXTRA system, it was always thought that it would be deployed on the Spratlys ... it is the perfect weapon for that," said Siemon Wezeman, a senior arms researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). There is no sign the launchers have been recently test fired or moved. China took its first Spratlys possessions after a sea battle against Vietnam's then weak navy in 1988.

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Input: Slattery's hunch was right. His unknown opponent: The consulting firm run by Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and his deputy Rick Gates, now the campaign's liaison to the Republican National Committee. Manafort resigned last week, shortly after disclosures by The Associated Press about his firm's covert lobbying on behalf of Ukraine's pro-Russian government at the time. The U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act requires people working on behalf of foreign political leaders to disclose their efforts to the Justice Department, but neither Manafort and Gates nor U.S. lobbyists they directed did. Working on the other side, Slattery filled out the required paperwork describing contacts with Congress and State Department officials including specific phone calls and emails and the topics of their discussions.

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Input: “How things used to be.” The bond seemed to stick. Soon, Marlinspike was helping to build end-to-end encryption across all of WhatsApp, alongside Acton and Koum and a small team of WhatsApp engineers. Acton says that they got “lucky” in meeting Marlinspike and that they probably would n’t have rolled out full encryption if they had n’t. It’s part of an intriguing casualness to the way Acton and Koum discuss their seemingly earthshaking undertaking — not to mention the way Marlinspike stays largely silent.

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Input: facebook twitter email Share More Videos 1:28 Wake County school official excited to see comeback for Teaching Fellows program Pause 1:30 Governor’s School for top students could face budget cuts 0:53 Factcheck: Richard Burr claims uncommon transparency in Trump, Russia investigation 2:52 GOP's Hayes: Cooper doesn't have authority to call for special election 1:49 NAACP activists threatened with arrest while delivering letter to House speaker’s office 2:11 NAACP's Barber wants General Assembly to stop making laws 1:15 Black lawmakers call for quick redistricting 0:58 North Carolina GOP lawmaker: NC House budget plan eliminates Pre-K wait list 1:09 McKissick: Republicans circumvented Cooper's call for special session 3:17 Berger: Why Cooper's call for special session voted down Share Video Video link: Select Embed code: Select facebook facebook twitter

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Input: Advertisement But some knew much more. A handful of senior insiders at firms such as Spanish company Tecnicas Reunidas, French firm Technip and drilling giant MI-SWACO, not only actively supported bribery but pocketed their own kickbacks; US defence giant Honeywell and Australia’s Leighton Offshore agreed to hide bribes inside fraudulent contracts in Iraq; a Rolls-Royce manager negotiated a monthly kickback for leaking information from inside the British firm. Many of those revealed to have been culpable, including the wealthy Ahsani family itself, which runs Unaoil, continue to operate with impunity. The files expose the betrayal of ordinary people in the Middle East.

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Input: “Together, Russia and the Assad regime are deliberately weaponizing migration ... to break European resolve,” he told the Senate Armed Services Committee (Sen. John McCain, chairman) March 1. [9] In truth, refugees are n’t entirely fleeing ISIS; they are tragically immigrating into the very NATO countries that ironically are bombing their homeland, only to face more violence from anti-immigrant far-right nationalists. From Russia’s perspective, the U.S. and NATO have consistently violated international law by invading foreign countries in order to conduct regime change (through “color revolutions” or by military force). Insofar as Russian participation in Syria, it was by invitation from Bashar al-Assad to defend Syria against terrorists: both ISIS and so-called “moderate rebels” (a.k.a.

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Input: press why he was the only member of Vermont’ s three member Congressional delegation who had no person of color on his staff. Bernie responded that “we’re hiring the most qualified people we can.” For all of these reasons, we are sitting-in at Bernie

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Input: Go away with your market nonsense. The world needs regulation and democracy. The key to addressing climate change is to win elections and break the deadlock of corporate power. No economic, social and technological solution is possible without it (here).

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Input: Rand’s producers are the capitalists, and the parasites who leech off them are the workers. (“ The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time. The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all of their brains.”) But since the virtuous producer class amounts to a small minority, it is helpless before the majority that is able to confiscate their rightful earnings through democratic means. Democracy, by this way of thinking, poses a constant threat of enabling redistribution from the few to the many. This is the notion that undergirds the otherwise puzzling habit on the right of depicting any discussion of the distributional ramifications of policy as “class warfare.” It is likewise the spirit of a long-standing apocryphal quote, repeated by conservatives like Ronald Reagan, that “a democracy can not exist as a permanent form of government.

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Input: Syria's military declared the ceasefire over last Monday, after a weekend strike by US-led coalition warplanes on a Syrian army post killed dozens of troops. The US military did not dispute the strike, but characterized it as "unintentional" and relayed its "regret" to Syria through Russia, saying the intended target had been ISIS. Shortly after the ceasefire ended, a UN and Syrian Arab Red Crescent aid convoy was hit in an airstrike, killing about 20 people. US officials blamed Russia, while Moscow denied that Russian or Syrian warplanes were responsible. Hospitals overwhelmed

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Input: (After all, Obamacare is patterned upon Romneycare.) During the general-election Romney-Obama contest, Romney famously said that Russia “is without question our number one geopolitical foe, they fight for every cause for the world’s worst actors.” Then, Obama criticized that statement, by saying, “you do n’t call Russia our No. 1 enemy — not Al-Qaida, Russia — unless you’re still stuck in a Cold War mind warp.” But, now, as President, Obama’s own National Security Strategy 2015 refers to Russia on 17 of the 18 occasions where it employs the term “aggression,” and he does n’t refer even once to Saudi Arabia that way, even though the Saudi royal family (who control that country) have been the major funders of Al Qaeda, and though 15 of the 19 perpetrators on 9/11 were Saudis — none of them was Russian — and though 92% of the citizenry in the nation that the Saud family owns and whose ‘news’ media and clerics drum into those people’s heads the holiness of jihad, approve of ISIS (which the Saud family prohibit inside Saudi Arabiua even while supporting and funding the jihadists in Syria and elsewhere), and though the Sauds as the country’s leaders are using American weapons and training to bomb and starve-to-death Yemenis. Instead of calling the Saudi regime “aggressors,” we supply arms to them, and cooperate with them against their major oil-competitor, Russia. (For example, we arm the Saudi-funded jihadists that Russia is bombing in Syria, because Syria is a key potential pipeline route into Europe for Saudi oil and Qatari gas, to replace Russian oil and gas in Europe.

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Input: And the protesters at Trump rallies, viewed from an authoritarian's worldview, are something like a live human manifestation of those fears. According to the LA Times, the protesters included young Muslim women in headscarves, members of the Black Lives Matter movement, and members of the Fearless Undocumented Alliance, which advocates for the rights of unauthorized immigrants in the US. In other words, all representatives of what authoritarians would (probably subconsciously) consider to be threatening out-groups and the forces of frightening social change. When authoritarians worry about the ways this country is changing, and the outsiders who could alter their communities, they probably picture people who look a lot like those protesters. Therefore, authoritarians see the protesters as not just hecklers, but as representatives of a much larger and terrifying threat to the world as they know it.

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Input: About 2,000 Ukrainians rallied in central Kyiv on Sunday to demand that Russia release Savchenko, whose case has been taken up by supporters in other countries as well. On Tuesday, U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden issued a statement saying she has been unjustly imprisoned and calling on Russia to release her immediately.

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Input: Schill said State of the Union that who a member of Congress brings as a guest to the State of the Union can often be a “news strategy” to help boost a policy the lawmaker cares about and “make it come to life.” “It’s a way to try to get journalists to write about their guest and their campaign,” Schill said, adding that it also can “personalize and dramatize issues that a candidate cares about.” In 2013, Rep. Steve Stockman Steve StockmanFormer congressman indicted on conspiracy charges Ex-GOP rep blames arrest on ' deep state ' conspiracy Former Texas rep Steve Stockman facing conspiracy charge MORE (R-Texas), for example, invited outspoken musician and gun right supporter Ted Nugent to attend in anticipation of Obama's remarks on the issue of guns. And last year, Rubio invited the daughter of a Cuban activist to highlight Rubio’s opposition to Obama’s decision to ease relations with Cuba.

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Input: Just 22% of Democrats share that view; 70% of voters in Clinton's party agree with the FBI's decision. Seventy-seven percent (77%) of Republicans and 51% of unaffiliateds consider Clinton’s e-mail issue Very Important to their vote in the election, but only 23% of Democrats agree. Men and voters 40 and older are more likely than women and younger voters to disagree with the FBI’s decision not to indict Clinton. Eighty percent (80%) of voters who disagree with the FBI’s decision say the issue is Very Important to their vote, compared to just 14% who agree with the decision. When it was first disclosed in March of last year that Clinton was using a private e-mail server while secretary of State, 39% of all voters said she was deliberately trying to hide things from government oversight, but 30% did n’t think that was true.

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Input: Crimean Tatar activists reported on August 7 that armed checkpoints were being hastily erected on the annexed peninsula and large concentrations of Russian hardware massed in northern Crimea, near mainland Ukraine. On the same day, Ukraine's border-guard service said that Russian authorities had blocked all entry to Crimea by road for several hours. Ukraine got a deadly taste of what Russia's forces could do in the Donetsk region town of Ilovaysk in August 2014, when hundreds of Ukrainian troops were massacred after being surrounded, and again in February 2015 in Debaltseve, on a key highway between Donetsk and Luhansk. The battles dealt devastating blows to the Ukrainian military, in terms of human lives and morale, and bolstered the confidence of the Russia-backed separatists. Russia and the separatists, meanwhile, may have their own motives for escalating the fighting now -- and their own reasons not to take it too far.

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Input: Each were in turn arrested and jailed for their expose. Recently, several were released by order of the Turkish Judicial system, at which time the President of Turkey responded with a statement that he does not recognize the authority of the Turkish Justice Department, Judges or court rulings. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton charged her Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, with the job of securing the shipment of weapons seized by the US government, which were formerly the property of the government of Libya. Once USA and NATO had completed the disposing of the former leader of Libya, Muamar Qadafi, his government’s weapons became official US property. Clinton ordered the shipments of weapons to go from Benghazi to Iskenderun, Turkey.

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Input: A: It’s just one more of a myriad of examples of something I dubbed the “Clinton blur.” “Clinton Cash” showcases dozens of similar instances. A major foreign donor wants something from Hillary Clinton’s State Department. They funnel tens of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation and hire Bill Clinton to deliver a speech and pay an exorbitant speaking fee, and — voila! — Hillary’s State Department enacts policies that favor the foreign donor. Over and over the pattern played out.

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Input: The first U.S. LNG shipment will soon arrive in Europe, marking a new era for energy on the continent. Cheniere Energy’s newly completed Sabine Pass facility on the U.S. Gulf Coast recently sent a shipment of American liquefied natural gas, which should arrive in Portugal within a few days. “LNG coming out of the U.S. is probably the single most important thing that will transform the future LNG market,” Melissa Stark, energy managing director at Accenture, told Bloomberg. “It heralds the arrival of a global market.”

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Input: Kerry tells us that Isis is “genocidal by self-proclamation, by ideology and by actions …” as if the destruction of the Armenian people in 1915 was not – and is perfectly happy to label the dark forces of the ‘Islamic Caliphate’ as genocidal themselves – which they clearly are. But it raises another frightful question. Since we know that Isis sells Syrian and Iraqi oil to the Turks – Russian bomber pilots have seen miles of Isis oil convoys running to the horizon towards Turkey – and since Turkish journalists have been imprisoned for reporting on secret Turkish arms transfers to Islamists in Syria – the Americans are, in effect, blaming Isis for the genocide of a hundred thousand or more human beings while being too frightened to label the Armenian massacres of a million and a half souls as genocide lest it offend Isis’ sinister chums in Turkey. It’s not difficult to accuse the bad guys of genocide – Colin Powell had no problem over Darfur in 2004 – but should n’t we stand up to the real bullies who prevent us honouring the memory of those million and a half Christians who were treated just as Isis treats the Yazidis and Christians and Shia today: the Turkish government and the Turkish army and the Turkish institutes of state? And all this at a time when an increasing number of brave Turks are themselves acknowledging the Turkish genocide of 1915?

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Input: YEREVAN, Armenia — A large explosion tore through a bus in the center of the Armenian capital Sunday evening, killing two people and injuring eight. Police reportedly said afterward that initial investigations indicated the blast was likely to have been a terrorist attack. Body parts were still lying dozens of yards from the bus three hours after the explosion, which took place just before 10 p.m. local time. A large part of the roof of the bus was blown over a nearby block of apartments, falling to the ground about 75 yards from the gutted vehicle.

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Input: It’s not that I do n’t appreciate the value of theater in political communications; it’s that the habits we — the media, politicians — have gotten into, and how we talk about these issues, are so detached so often from what we need to be doing that for me to satisfy the cable news hype-fest would lead to us making worse and worse decisions over time.” As Air Force One began its descent toward Kuala Lumpur, the president mentioned the successful U.S.-led effort to stop the Ebola epidemic in West Africa as a positive example of steady, nonhysterical management of a terrifying crisis. “During the couple of months in which everybody was sure Ebola was going to destroy the Earth and there was 24/7 coverage of Ebola, if I had fed the panic or in any way strayed from ‘Here are the facts, here’s what needs to be done, here’s how we’re handling it, the likelihood of you getting Ebola is very slim, and here’s what we need to do both domestically and overseas to stamp out this epidemic,’” then “maybe people would have said ‘Obama is taking this as seriously as he needs to be.’” But feeding the panic by overreacting could have shut down travel to and from three African countries that were already cripplingly poor, in ways that might have destroyed their economies — which would likely have meant, among other things, a recurrence of Ebola. He added, “It would have also meant that we might have wasted a huge amount of resources in our public-health systems that need to be devoted to flu vaccinations and other things that actually kill people” in large numbers in America. The plane landed.

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Input: Assange, WikiLeaks’s founder and editor-in-chief, may become the nemesis who could scuttle Hillary’s bid for the White House. Certainly, there’s no love lost between them. Hillary has been pushing hard for Assange’s extradition to the United States on, ironically, espionage charges (which she escaped) and wants WikiLeaks torn off the web. In response, Assange told CNN on August 1, “We have quite a lot of material (from the DNC, the Clinton campaign and the Clinton Foundation), so I think we will stagger it in different batches when we are ready to publish each batch.” That gives all of us a not-so-subtle clue about his intentions. It’s clear he will publish information in ways that manifest as “data-driven IEDs.” They’ll be set to detonate at pivotal points during the campaign, such as prior to the debates.

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Input: Trump's promised actions against Iran would be an effective declaration of war. Minutes earlier, Trump advocated for a foreign policy that was based on three key words:" peace through strength." Trump’s remarks reference an incident days earlier when Iranian ships harassed an American Navy Patrol Ship in the Persian Gulf and nearly cause a collision with the U.S. ship. Play Facebook Twitter

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Input: We will build a Marine Corps based on 36 battalions, which the Heritage Foundation notes is the minimum needed to deal with major contingencies – we have 23 now. We will build a Navy of 350 surface ships and submarines, as recommended by the bipartisan National Defense Panel – we have 276 ships now. And we will build an Air Force of at least 1,200 fighter aircraft, which the Heritage Foundation has shown to be needed to execute current missions – we have 1,113 now. And he called for a development of a new “state of the art missile defense system,” a policy priority that has been worse than ignored by Obama and Clinton. Trump said:

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Input: The pharmaceutical giant wrote a large check to the State Department to sponsor the U.S. pavilion at the 2010 World's Fair in Shanghai. The expo was a priority early in Clinton's term for political reasons, and the former secretary of state tapped her vast donor network to foot the entire $ 60 million bill during her first year at the State Department. In 2012, Pfizer teamed up with the U.S. Agency for International Development, an arm of the State Department, for a major purchase of contraceptive drugs that were to be distributed to three million women. Executives from Pfizer have also donated heavily to Clinton's presidential campaign." Our donations and partnerships with any given entity are determined by that entity's ability to expand access to healthcare and medicines, as well as work towards preserving and furthering innovation," Sharon Castillo, spokeswoman for Pfizer, said in a statement provided to the Washington Examiner.

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Input: A separate question asked by YouGov found that 46 per cent of people wanted to ban the burkini, while just 30 per cent opposed such a measure. The French ban has been declared illegal by the country’s courts. A number of European countries have legislated to ban or restrict things associated with the Islamic faith. In 2009 the Swiss public voted in a referendum to ban the construction of Islamic mosques with minarets. In pictures: Protest against burkini bans in London

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Input: Everybody I talk to has been here years and years. Urrutia tells me about a 96-year -old guy who got robbed and beaten nearly to death in his own home; the gun trace that Urrutia did on the stolen gun is what broke the case and how they caught the assailant. He tells me about an 8-year -old girl who got killed, and a college girl who got raped, and in both cases the gun trace Urrutia did solved the crime. He tells these stories in detail, explaining why he searched one place, rather than another, and how critical these choices were, and how he agonized over them, and somewhere in the middle of the stories, his eyes well up. At first I think he's got allergies or something — he is not a person you imagine crying.

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Input: The frightening reality for the GOP is that the freight train that is Donald Trump was fueled by a large faction of self-identifying Republican voters that like Trump not only for his ideas, but for his advertised ability to somehow just make them all happen — ostensibly by fiat. It is worth asking, at least rhetorically: If the Republicans had a robust superdelegate system and a largely proportional awarding of delegates, like the Democrats, would Donald Trump be the Republicans’ nominee at this juncture of the election cycle? Would the fate of someone like Ted Cruz Ted CruzAccess to palliative care needs to stay in new health bill Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE or John Kasich, or perhaps even Marco Rubio Marco RubioOvernight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo Week ahead: Obama DHS chief to testify on Russian meddling MORE or Jeb Bush have been different? When arguing over “how democratic” the parties’ nominating processes are, and should be, it is always instructive to remember that the Framers feared direct democracy every bit as much as they did monarchical tyranny. They feared concentrations of power that would lead to “quick” or “easy” answers to complex and contested issues, whether bottom up or top down.

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Input: Environmental groups and energy experts were quick to find fault with much of what Trump said. Every U.S. president from Richard M. Nixon to George W. Bush has vowed to make the country energy-independent. Yet the United States — even after a wave of shale drilling boosted U.S. domestic output by about 4 million barrels a day — still imports about half of its petroleum needs. The prospect of eliminating imports altogether is slim, although they could be reduced substantially, as has happened during President Obama’s tenure. “Increasing domestic energy production has economic and geopolitical benefits, but strong and smart environmental protections are needed to clean up toxic waste and clean up the air we breathe, and those should n’t be partisan issues,” said Jason Bordoff, director of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.

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Input: The relevant text: Here’s one that worries me about HRC. DEATH PENALTY 19 states and the District of Columbia have banned the death penalty. 31 states, including Ohio, still have the death penalty. According to the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, since 1973, 156 people have been on death row and later set free.

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Input: The English Heritage-run site is expecting around 20,000 visitors this year. How to celebrate the summer solstice? Every year, hundreds of pagans and non-pagans congregate at Stonehenge to see the sun rise in the morning and welcome in the summer. Some pagans and druids perform a fire ritual to celebrate the occasion. This involves people with unlit candles forming a circle around a large central candle and lighting theirs off it one at a time.

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Input: Donald Trump is trying to convince voters that their votes don't count by telling them that the system is rigged. He's wrong," interim DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile said in a statement on Saturday." Voting has never been easier and more Americans are seeing Donald Trump's fear mongering for what it really is. Fear." Brazile rose to her post after embarrassing emails released by WikiLeaks forced Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz to step down as head of the DNC in July.

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Input: Lobbying: A 2015 analysis by Vox found that “at least 181 companies, individuals, and foreign governments that have given to the Clinton Foundation also lobbied the State Department when Hillary Clinton ran the place.” IBT reported that Bill Clinton was paid more than $ 2.5 million by firms that were lobbying Hillary Clinton’s department. Colombia: A 2015 IBT investigative report found that as a Clinton Foundation-linked project accepted contributions from a Colombian oil firm and its founder, Hillary Clinton did not respond to calls for her State Department to use its power to combat alleged labor abuses at the company. Clinton also switched her position to support the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, actively pushing Congress to ratify a pact she had previously pledged to oppose. Banking: In 2015, the Wall Street Journal reported that in “an unusual intervention” by a top U.S. diplomat, Secretary of State Clinton announced a legal settlement that allowed the Swiss financial behemoth UBS to turn over far fewer tax documents than were sought by the IRS in its probe of the bank. “From that point on, UBS’s engagement with the Clinton family’s charitable organization increased,” reported the Journal.

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Input: Donnie Wahlberg endorsed Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio Marco RubioOvernight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo Week ahead: Obama DHS chief to testify on Russian meddling MORE, his campaign announced Sunday. Wahlberg, a Massachusetts-born singer and actor, said in his endorsement the country needs a leader like the Florida senator. ADVERTISEMENT

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Input: After months of tedious investigation, Ortel has concluded the foundation has filed financial and tax forms that were materially misleading, incomplete and in error with the goal of enriching the Clintons and their close associates. Ortel alleges Hillary advanced an “inurement” scheme – enriching oneself through a nonprofit organization – in complicity with her husband by positioning various key associates within the Clinton Foundation structure while she served as U.S. senator from New York and subsequently as secretary of state under President Obama. “Ongoing analysis of legally required public disclosures reveals that while Mrs. Clinton served as director, the Clinton Foundation and its principal constituent elements, filed false and materially misleading tax returns with the IRS and with other governmental authorities, for multiple years,” Ortel charges in his second report on alleged Clinton Foundation mismanagement. As WND also recently reported, based on Ortel’s findings, a prominent lawyer and a top government watchdog in the nation’s capital are calling for the Clinton Foundation to be shut down. Like the reporting you see here?

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Input: “That goes to show just how reckless and careless her decision was to put that kind of highly classified information on a private server. And I think her judgment is not suited to keep this country safe,” he said. Iran said on Sunday that it had indeed Amiri had been hanged for treason. “Through his connection with the United States, Amiri gave vital information about the country to the enemy,” a spokesman for the Iranian judiciary said. In his statement in early July declaring the FBI would not recommend Clinton be indicted for her improper use of “several” private email servers, Director James Comey did say that investigators believed that because they were unsecured by government agencies, she was likely hacked.

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Input: The police quickly moved into his office, ripping out the computers and emptying the filing cabinets. After two days in a ramshackle local jail, Justo was flown to Bangkok and paraded before the media, in a press conference befitting a mafia kingpin. Still wearing shorts and flip-flops, he was flanked by four commandos holding machine guns, while a quartet of senior Royal Thai Police officers briefed the assembled reporters on the charges against him. Justo was charged with an attempt to blackmail his former employer, a little-known London-based oil-services company named PetroSaudi. But behind this seemingly mundane charge lay a much bigger story.

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Input: Hide Caption 51 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city A man fleeing the village of Bazwaya carries a white flag as he arrives at a checkpoint on November 1. Hide Caption 52 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city Iraqi forces run for cover after a mortar shell struck near the village of Bazwaya on Monday, October 31. Hide Caption 53 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city An Iraqi soldier receives treatment after being injured during clashes with ISIS fighters near Bazwaya on October 31. Hide Caption 54 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city Iraqi soldiers carry an injured comrade near Bazwaya on October 31. Hide Caption 55 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city An Iraqi soldier navigates through a shattered windshield as coalition forces advance on Bazwaya on October 31.

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Input: Whatever is faster,” Podesta replied. The staff crafted Clinton’s response tweet, which was posted later that day: “You've got it backwards: Engagement is a threat to the Castros, not a gift. Embargo has n’t worked for 50 + years. -H” The campaign also discussed ways to turn Rubio’s hardline Cuba policy against him.

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Input: — Juan Cole, Middle East historian"The latest US attack — this time on Syrian troops ostensibly surrounded by ISIS fighters — demonstrates once again why using war against terrorism fails," Bennis argues." The inability and/or unwillingness to distinguish troops from other troops, or more often, troops from civilians, remains a hallmark of the US wars in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond." Bennis says that "though unlikely," it remains "possible" that Saturday's attack on Syrian troops exposes a U.S. strategy of direct war against the government of President Bashar al-Assad. However, she says," Far more likely, it is one more piece of evidence of the inability of the US military or any other to use war against terrorism and think it will work. As is always the case, whether the ' wrong ' or the ' right ' people are killed, the ' war on terror ' continues to fail."

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Input: Thirty years after the Chernobyl tragedy [it] reveals opportunities for development. A special industrial area is to be created in compliance with all rules and regulations of radiation safety within the exclusion zone,” says the presentation. Tens of thousands of people in Ukraine, Belarus and south Russia were evacuated immediately after the 1986 accident from a wide area around the nuclear plant and places where the radioactive plume descended. A few hundred people still live in 11 semi-deserted villages close to Chernobyl. There is “about 6,000 hectares of idle land, some of which can be used for placement of electrical generation facilities, and some for energy crops”, according to the presentation.

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Input: The allegations come at a difficult time for the IOC, which is under pressure over this summer’s Rio de Janeiro Olympics amid a host of practical and political issues and locked in an ongoing battle to persuade potential bidding cities that the Games remain a worthwhile prize. The seven-figure payment from Tokyo 2020 also raises questions about the role of Dentsu, the Japanese marketing giant that has an all-encompassing sponsorship contract with the IAAF that runs until 2029, having been unilaterally extended by Diack in the final months of his presidency. The report by Wada’s independent commission, chaired by Dick Pound, detailed how the Black Tidings account was held by Ian Tan Tong Han, who was a consultant to Athlete Management and Services, a Dentsu Sport subsidiary based in Lucerne, Switzerland, that was set up to market and deliver the commercial rights granted to it by the IAAF. Computer analysis revealed that Tan had regular high-level access to IAAF officials including Lamine Diack and was “integrated into the IAAF at the executive level” and “appeared to be part of the informal governance system for the IAAF”. Tan was so close to Papa Massata Diack that in 2014 he named his newborn child Massata.

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Input: Erdogan, who narrowly escaped capture and possible death on the night of the coup, told Reuters in an interview last week that the military, NATO 'S second biggest, needed "fresh blood". The dishonorable discharges included around 40 percent of Turkey's admirals and generals. Turkey accuses U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen of masterminding the coup and has suspended or placed under investigation tens of thousands of his suspected followers, including soldiers, judges and academics. In the aftermath of the coup, media outlets, schools and universities have also been closed down." The president said that ... he would discuss with opposition parties bringing the General Staff and the MIT (intelligence agency) under the control of the presidency," the parliamentary official said.

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Input: This will not surprise close poll watchers. Previous international surveys have found Trump to be exceptionally unpopular. -- Fear of an imminent terrorist attack is one of the top concerns of people across the globe, with most expecting extremist groups will acquire weapons of mass destruction, according to a new poll conducted in eight countries. From Carol Morello:" The survey, commissioned by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), showed that many people think their governments are not doing enough to combat violent extremism. And a majority in every country polled, including the United States, overwhelmingly approved all 21 options presented to them — among them, requiring identification cards for citizens and visitors; rigorous screening of immigrants; bans on incendiary religious speech; and monitoring of phone calls, emails and social media."

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Input: “Clinton Deleted 33,000 Emails” Trump cites Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton, who in an interview with The Hill, said, “She did n’t want to be held accountable for her conduct in office.” The Hill reported, “Fitton told The Hill that he expects the government will eventually review the approximately 30,000 emails that Clinton claimed to have deleted from her server because they were personal in nature.” 40.”Clinton’s Private Emails Could Be Used as A Blackmail File for Foreign Governments” In this assertion, Trump cites Forbes’ Paul Roderick Gregory, who reported in 2016 the Russian Intelligence Community supposedly knew about Clinton’s private server since 2013. 41.

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Input: (Cliff Owen / AP) “He’s untouchable,” said a retired FBI supervisor who knows the bureau’s director. “I see him standing strong, and he’ll only resign if someone tries to force him to do something he thinks is wrong.” Former agents and federal prosecutors said they believe Comey would not have acted without good reason. “He is one of the smartest people you will find in the Department of Justice,” said a former federal prosecutor who has worked under Comey.

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Input: Washington’s message to Estonia would echo Moscow’s to Belarus: Pay for the superpower’s support, deliver what is demanded, or be abandoned. Like Putin, Trump would create his own global reality. Never mind that more Mexicans have returned to their country than have immigrated to the United States since 2009; in Trump’s world they flood across the border, mandating the construction of a wall. U.S. and Russian lies may well overlap — Trump and Putin concur that there are no Russian troops in Ukraine, even if they are still killing Ukrainians on a near-daily basis. Who will defend truth?

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Input: Acrimony within the group could undermine these efforts to rebalance the market. Phin Ziebell, of National Australia Bank, told Market Watch:" Qatar may have little reason to keep the production quota and if that happens, it might encourage other Opec members to cheat too." In addition, if the row rolls on, it may prove difficult to keep oil shipments moving along the strategically important Strait of Hormuz waterway. Oil price back above $ 50 as Arab states cut off Qatar 05 June AM

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Input: In Denmark I pay around 56 percent income tax, along with 25 percent retail tax, the highest energy taxes in the world, a veritable smorgasbord of property taxes, huge tariffs on alcohol and cars, and even a tax on air. (Soft ice cream is taxed based on its volume after the air is mixed in.) And all of these countries have problems: Norway's oil income, upon which so much of its prosperity relies, has fallen off a cliff; like the teenager who advertised a house party on Facebook, the Swedes are now somewhat dismayed that tens of thousands of refugees and economic migrants have turned up on their front lawn; and with its own modest oil revenues dwindling, Denmark is facing up to the fact that the growth of its much-vaunted welfare state is no longer economically sustainable. Believe me, get a Dane talking about the country's school system or to ask a Swede about immigration, and you will unleash a torrent of moans, gripes, and complaints that would make a New York cabbie blush. But — and it's a big "but" — all of these countries remain highly affluent, well-educated, free, democratic," happy," and relatively equal.

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Input: But the U.S. media never showed any of that, so Americans had no idea it existed, and were thus incapable of understanding why people were eager to do violence to Americans. They therefore assumed that it must be because they are primitive or inherently hateful or driven by some inscrutable religious fervor. That’s because the U.S. media, by showing only one side of the conflict, by presenting only the nationalistic viewpoint, propagandized — deceived — American viewers by making them more ignorant rather than more enlightened. As a result, when the trains of London and Madrid were attacked in 2004 and 2005 as retaliation for those countries’ participation in the invasion of Iraq, that causal connection (which even British intelligence acknowledged) was virtually never discussed because Western media outlets ensured it was unknown. The same was true of attempted attacks on the U.S.: in Times Square, the New York City subway system, an airliner over Detroit, all motivated by rage over Western violence.

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Input: Seconds later they freed him, bloodied but still breathing. In another they dug frantically for a baby, but it was too late when they got to the child. CBS News can't independently verify the videos, but they appear to show the Syrian regime's new offensive in Aleppo Province, which is backed by Russian airstrikes. Hassan Haj Ali is a rebel commander who told us his men have received weapons from the U.S. and are trying to fight off the assault." When the regime kills women and children," he said," they're telling Syrians to get out of rebel-held areas."

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Input: There are a group of distinct issues upon which cooperation is possible with Russia. Certainly Russia and the West share a common hope of stabilizing Afghanistan, and our cooperation there is not insignificant. Additionally, we have well-trodden mechanisms for reducing the dangers of military confrontation through accidental or inadvertent collisions at sea or in the air, including “hot lines” between senior military leaders. These should be exercised often. We have in the past shared a reasonable level of intelligence in fields like counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics.

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Input: It was worthy of a Homer Simpson lecture to sixth-graders. ' ' Lock her up! Lock her up, ' ' chanted his supporters. Trump also blamed Hillary Clinton for North Korea's nuclear advances, and his campaign dredged up efforts going back to the Bill Clinton administration to temper Pyongyang with incentives. In an indication of what a Trump foreign policy will look like, he spoke of what his response would be to the kind of skirmish Iran and U.S naval ships have been having in the Gulf recently. ' ' When Iran, when they circle our beautiful destroyers with their little boats, and they make gestures at our people that they shouldn't be allowed to make, they will be shot out of the water, ' ' Trump said. His supporters roared in approval.

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Input: An English supporter is bundled to the floor as local youths and football fans battle it out on the streets of Marseille last night A flare is let off as fans gather outside a pub in the Old Port, where they had spent the day drinking and chanting prior to England's opening Euro 2016 match against Russia Drunken English fans are captured hurling bottles at police and other fans during the violent clashes in the Old Port district of Marseille Drunken English football fans taunt French supporters in the Old Port area of Marseille ahead of the England's opening match in Euro 2016 England fans have blamed the heavy-handed tactics of the police for fuelling the violence.

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Input: They shouted and screamed ' Allāhu Akbar! ' The next day, the Battle of Raqqa was over," says Om Mohammad. ISIS bought the loyalty of the al-Nusra Front's Emirs and executed everyone who refused to switch sides. The Free Syrian Army's members – most of whom were soldiers who had defected from the regular army – fought until the bitter end. They knew they would be executed if they were captured by ISIS.

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Input: The United States began its war in Afghanistan in October 2001 with the objective of destroying al-Qaeda and the Taliban government that harbored the terrorist group. The war has become the longest in U.S. history, and the Taliban remains a threat to the sovereignty of Afghanistan. The U.S. military has suffered 2,384 fatalities in the war, though the yearly count has fallen dramatically, from a high of 499 in 2010 to six so far this year, according to iCasualties.org. As the United States tries to withdraw from Afghanistan, the Obama administration has requested $ 44 billion for 2017 military operations there, which includes funding for combat and shoring up the Afghan army’s fight against the Taliban and other extremist groups. While U.S. and NATO forces have largely left Afghanistan, any hopes for a complete withdrawal have proven to be false.

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Input: The U.S. Navy and other regional navies would be placed at risk in a crisis situation in the South China Sea. China would have excellent maritime domain awareness and be able to respond to the intrusion of foreign military ships and aircraft once it completed the construction of airfields, protected hangars, and fuel storage facilities. China’s J-11 multirole air superiority fighters could take off from Woody Island to conduct combat air patrols. They could extend their patrol time by landing and refueling on an airfield on one of the artificial islands. China has constructed and continues to construct helipads on its occupied features.

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Input: The Kremlin reacted with fury when a Turkish F-16 fighter shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber on the Syria-Turkey border in November. Russia has banned: The import of Turkish fruit and vegetables, poultry and salt The sale of charter holidays for Russians to Turkey Construction projects with Turkish firms in Russia unless a special exemption is granted

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