Input: Turkey has been one of the leading advocates of Assad’s removal since the conflict, which has resulted in more than 400,000 deaths, broke out in 2011. But Russia, a staunch Syria ally, which has intervened in the conflict at the request of Damascus, has refused to contemplate Assad’s unilateral removal unless Syrian people decide so. In an interview with French television broadcast on Wednesday night, Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated that the Syrian president would agree to develop a new, more democratic and inclusive constitution, and overhaul the political system – but only if he was allowed to stand in a future election. Read more “If the people do not vote for President Assad, there will be a democratic change of power, but without the help of armed intervention from outside and under strict international control, under UN supervision.

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Input: It also comes after several gestures by Russian President Vladimir Putin that seem to aim at defusing East-West tensions despite NATO's summit last weekend in Warsaw. There, the alliance agreed to deploy a multinational force to the Baltics and Poland and to take over a U.S.-built missile shield that Russia sees as hostile. Putin agreed to Wednesday's meeting of the NATO-Russia Council, only the second since mid-2014, while also recently allowing a U.N. resolution authorizing the EU to intercept arms shipments to Libya in the Mediterranean. Putin has talked by telephone U.S. President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Holland in recent days." BACK TO THE COLD WAR"

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Input: Her record of backing every recent U.S. military intervention is far more attractive than Trump’s intermittently blustering rhetoric to war-happy Republican hawks. As my Cato Institute colleague Christopher Preble pointed out, “Clinton supported every one of the last seven U.S. military interventions abroad, plus two others we ended up fighting.” For instance, while First Lady she pushed for U.S. intervention in the Balkans — attacking the Bosnian Serbs and then Serbia. She was an enthusiastic war advocate, explaining: “I urged him [her husband] to bomb.” Alas, Bosnia remains badly divided while Kosovo has turned into a gangster state which, according to the New York Times, is “a font of Islamic extremism and a pipeline for jihadists.” Oops. She apparently took the same position toward Iraq, backing bombing that became almost routine during her husband’s administration. He also turned a humanitarian mission in Somalia into nation-building on the cheap, threatened a military invasion of Haiti to enforce regime change, launched a lengthy occupation of the faux state of Bosnia, and expanded NATO toward Russia.

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Input: Here’s a better analogy: Beginning in 1998, former CIA Director John M. Deutch was investigated for storing highly classified documents on a personal computer connected to the internet. The Justice Department initially declined to prosecute. After a public outcry the case was reopened, and Deutch negotiated a misdemeanor plea, but he was pardoned by then-President Bill Clinton. The Petraeus and Deutch cases both included material that was highly classified, and both defendants clearly knew it. If Clinton’s case does n’t clear that bar, it would be difficult for the Obama Justice Department to explain why she merits prosecution.

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Input: Donald Trump took to Twitter Monday night to suggest that Iran executed Shahram Amiri — a nuclear scientist accused of providing the United States with information on Tehran’s nuclear program — because he was apparently referenced in emails on the private server Hillary Clinton used for official State Department business. “Many people are saying that the Iranians killed the scientist who helped the U.S. because of Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails,” Trump tweeted. Many people are saying that the Iranians killed the scientist who helped the U.S. because of Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails.

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Input: “The bill is a cruel hoax on the families of the victims,” he said. “They’re not going to find out anything more than what the general public already knows. The Saudis are not going to allow them to wander through their files or interview their top officials. At the end of the day, the victims’ families are going to be right where they are today.” Bolton blames the Obama administration for doing very little to explain to lawmakers why this bill might be well-intentioned but harmful to U.S. interests.

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Input: “If you expose people’s private information, and then the Western media publicizes it, they are going to withdraw from the Internet.” Fundamentally, WikiLeaks was supposed to be better. Assange openly said he hoped the DNC leak damaged the Clinton campaign. “There was the hope that in the wake of WikiLeaks’ emergence, a thousand WikiLeaks would bloom, in the same way that the Arab Spring was a really romantic ideal of the effect that digital communication can have on geopolitics,” says Fenster. “But the ideal of WikiLeaks as an information conduit that is stateless and can serve as a neutral technology is n’t working.

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Input: Where there was resistance, it came from the fringes. In Amsterdam protesters posted bags of marijuana to the IOC’s officials, then pelted them with eggs and tomatoes when they appeared in public. In Berlin a coalition of “anarchists, dropouts, punks, gays and lesbians, the alternatives, the stone-throwers, the fire-eaters, the grafters, the poor, the drunkards and the madmen” marched in the streets when the IOC made its final inspection of the city. The difference now is Olympic resistance has become mainstream. “What we’re seeing,” Gaffney says, is that “the more information citizens have about how the IOC works, the less likely they are to want to engage in that kind of business contract”.

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Input: Shackelford suspects the support for Trump is bigger than polls — or the visual evidence of yard signs and bumper stickers — suggest." People are scared of putting a Trump bumper sticker on their car. It'll be vandalized," he said. Qualms about Trump run deep for many Christian conservatives, though — among them Jim and Lynn Stroud, Dallasites attending their first Values Voter Summit. They backed Florida Sen. Marco Rubio in the primaries.

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Input: This would enable recreation centers, public buildings like one-stop career centers, and transportation infrastructure such as train stations, airports, and mass transit systems, to access to high-speed internet and provide free WiFi to the public. Deploy 5 G Wireless and Next Generation Wireless Systems: America’s world-leading rollout of 4 G wireless networks in the first half of this decade has been a success story for policy-makers, industry, and American consumers. The Obama Administration played a key role by repurposing spectrum and auctioning licenses, as well as by making new spectrum available for unlicensed technologies. Hillary will accelerate this progress and help foster the evolution to 5 G, small cell solutions, and other next-generation systems that can deliver faster wireless connections. Widely deployed 5 G networks, and new unlicensed and shared spectrum technologies, are essential platforms that will support the Internet of Things, smart factories, driverless cars, and much more — developments with enormous potential to create jobs and improve people’s lives.

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Input: In recent months, Trump has taken a position of appeasement toward aggressive and illegal actions by Russia under Vladimir Putin to annex Crimea and destabilize Ukraine. On most of these issues, Pence — to his great credit — has already publicly stated his opposition to Trump's views, often with clarity and strength as matters of high principle and national security. Can Pence be a party to the election of a president who has had kind word for current-day dictators like North Korea's Kim Jong-un and retweets the words of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, whose actions promoted the crimes that gave rise to the treaty that formed NATO in the first place — a treaty which Trump would violate so casually today? Does Pence want to be part of an administration whose president has repeatedly supported policies that violate core principles of American security, from endangering our allies to committing war crimes in ways that strike horror in the hearts of American commanders — even after a growing number of former intelligence officials and commanders have publicly stated that if a President Trump gave the order to commit torture, they would flat-out refuse to execute orders they consider illegal and dangerous to American troops? Throughout this campaign, Trump has tried to fan the flames of fear and bigotry against Muslims — using rhetoric so destructive to American interests and so dangerous to the safety of American troops that retired Gen. and former CIA Director David Petraeus has risen to publicly condemn politicians who promote such views.

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Input: Yahoo News photo Illustration; photos: AP, Getty Still, the FBI warning seems likely to ramp up pressure on the Department of Homeland Security to formally designate state election systems as part of the nation’s “critical infrastructure” requiring federal protection — a key step, advocates say, in forestalling the possibility of foreign government meddling in the election. Such a formal designation, which would allow state election officials to request federal assistance to protect their voting systems, “is under consideration,” a Homeland Security spokesman told Yahoo News. Federal and state election officials say that the prospect of a full-blown cyberattack that seriously disrupts the November elections is remote, but not out of the question. About 40 states use optical-scan electronic-voting machines, allowing voters to fill out their choices on paper.

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Input: For liberal activists, Mrs. Clinton’s foreign policy record compounds their concerns that she does n’t truly support their agenda. “We definitely view Hillary as pretty far right when it comes to foreign policy,” said Alli McCracken, national coordinator for the feminist anti-war group Code Pink. She said that Mrs. Clinton acts “more like a war general than a diplomat,” including supporting the Iraq invasion, the troop surge in Afghanistan, the Libya overthrow and a potential strike on Iran. “I hope that the left puts pressure on her to break away from the status quo,” said Ms. McCracken. “I hope that there is pressure put on her to not just have left-leaning domestic polices and support of women’s rights here in the U.S. but women’s rights everywhere, and that means taking military options off the table.”

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Input: MORE ends up withdrawing from the presidential race. Addressing the SALT Conference in Las Vegas, the former Speaker suggested that Democrats might have to turn to Vice President Biden to be their 2016 nominee. Republicans have long speculated that the FBI investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server could result in criminal charges, wounding her candidacy. Boehner, who resigned from Congress last fall amid an uprising from conservatives, also hammered Cruz, who was often his adversary in high-profile legislative fights." Thank God that guy from Texas didn't win "the nomination, Boehner said.

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Input: Lacy’s slate order business is, he claims, the largest in the state of California, if not the entire country, and it wreaked so much havoc on California local elections that even Orange County residents revolted with a ballot requiring slate mailers disclose. Lacy fought to have the courts void the will of Orange County’s voters, and the courts agreed, saying that putting restrictions on how badly Lacy could deceive voters violated his First Amendment rights and constituted a form of tyranny. So both lawyers whose names are on Gary Johnson’s main campaign group since 2009 are not only associated with right-wing extremists and violent nativist vigilantes, but more importantly, both of them specialize in fraudulent vote schemes that help their Republican Party clients win elections by deceiving Democratic Party voters. Lacy has been poisoning American politics since his radical-right college years when he was national chairman of the Young Americans for Freedom. In recent years, Lacy has been a major backer of anti-immigrant Minutemen groups, Islamophobia, and "birther" conspiracy-theory outfits smearing Obama as a foreign-born Muslim.

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Input: Syrians evacuated from Fuaa and Kafraya, two Shiite villages under rebel siege, are welcomed by pro-government forces as they arrive in Jibrin, on the eastern outskirts of Aleppo. Dec. 19, 2016 Syrians evacuated from Fuaa and Kafraya, two Shiite villages under rebel siege, are welcomed by pro-government forces as they arrive in Jibrin, on the eastern outskirts of Aleppo. George Ourfalian / AFP / Getty Images The Syrian government has dropped two chlorine bombs in the past month on the besieged, rebel-held city.

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Input: Supercharging American anger over illegal immigration and its consequences is the politically correct ban on openly discussing it, with even the most reasoned reservation dismissed as racism and yahooism. And political correctness generates its own quantum of anger among citizens, who think of freedom of speech and debate as central to American exceptionalism. But elite culture stigmatizes plain speaking, so that now a rapist or a murderer is a “person who committed a crime” or an “individual who was incarcerated,” says the Obama Department of Justice, or, according to the latest humbug from the Department of Education, a “justice-involved individual.” Implicit in these euphemisms is the theory that “society,” not the criminal, is to blame for crime, a long-exploded idea aimed at blurring the distinction between right and wrong. That’s what makes it so disheartening to learn that the University of California has just deemed it a politically incorrect offense to declare America a land of opportunity, so as not to stigmatize those who’ve failed to seize it. It’s disheartening not only because such a retreat from our traditional culture will hold back immigrants, but also because our long cultural unraveling already has damagingly demoralized the native-born working class in the face of economic change.

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Input: She said:" Even I had to admit maybe some rest would do me good." Clinton made her remarks in Greensboro, North Carolina, where she was speaking about her commitment to helping children and families. Clinton was making her debut appearance back on the campaign trail after a video showed her stumbling leaving a 9/11 memorial service on Sunday. Her campaign revealed she had been diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday. _ _ _

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Input: Russia will sign a contract agreeing to sell and deliver Sukhoi multi-role fighter jets to Iran sometime this year, the RIA news agency said quoting a senior official of the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation. “Iran has actually expressed its interest in the purchase of an order of Su30SM fighters, but so far the parties are only discussing the issue in negotiations. The contract will be signed this year” the Senior official said. The announcement follows recent news of Russia sending S-300 missile systems to Iran, for which the Iranian defence minister – Hassan Dehghan who is currently in Moscow – will be attending a launching ceremony dedicated to the delivering of the systems on Thursday.

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Input: "We have to make the effort to explain how we want to shape globalization in a fair way," Gabriel said. Trump has opposed the White House’s push for international trade pacts, alleging that such deals were shipping jobs overseas, and would harm the U.S. working and middle class. Trump has also often said that high duties targeting imports from countries such as China and Mexico would force companies to move production to the U.S and prevent U.S. companies from moving overseas. He also described German Chancellor Angela Merkel's open door policy towards refugees as "insane" and predicted it would cause rioting in Germany. Pope Francis also weighed in on Trump's agenda, suggesting Trump “is not Christian” because of his campaign promises to deport more immigrants and force Mexico to pay for a wall along the border.

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Input: Several people, including women and children, died trying to escape, the UNHCR said. It added that there had been reports of a big increase in the number of executions of men and older boys in Falluja refusing to fight for Isis. Other reports said a number of people attempting to depart had been executed or whipped, and one man’s leg was reportedly amputated. The Guardian has not been able to verify the reports independently. Some fear retribution by auxiliary Shia militias taking part in the campaign, some members of whom are suspicious that the civilians who have remained in the city are sympathetic to Isis.

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Input: "I consider it a backward culture." By 2002, Fortuyn’s new party, the Pim Fortuyn List, was second in the national polls. He was assassinated by a far-left activist that year but was succeeded by another charismatic populist, Geert Wilders. Wilders, who declared in July that "I do n’t want more Muslims in the Netherlands and I am proud to say that," leads the third-largest bloc in the Dutch parliament. Wilders’s party, the ironically named Party for Freedom, is consistently leading the polls ahead of the March 2017 national elections.

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Input: On just one of the days I visited the tracing center, there were 5,000 trace requests in the hopper awaiting attention. There would be about a thousand more the next day. In 2013, recognizing how important tracing is for solving crimes, and for providing intelligence regarding patterns of illegal gun trafficking, President Obama asked for more of it: He signed a memorandum demanding that all firearms recovered in the course of criminal investigations be traced. But Congress didn't give Charlie any funds, or manpower, to accommodate an influx. In fact, his budget has been flat since 2005.

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Input: Kissinger has also criticized both parties for taking an overly confrontational stance on Ukraine. “The West must understand that, to Russia, Ukraine can never be just a foreign country,” Kissinger wrote in a March 2014 Washington Post op-ed. But even Kissinger, in his op-ed, called it “incompatible with the rules of the existing world order for Russia to annex Crimea.” That is the clear position not just of the Obama administration, but also of the Republican Party platform approved in Cleveland at last week’s GOP convention. While Trump officials reportedly blocked a move to add language calling for the U.S. shipment of weapons to Ukraine’s government, the platform does include a firm passage about Putin’s aggression there.

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Input: Definitely, and we announced that we’re ready, but it’s not only about announcing, because maybe the other party will announce the same. It’s about what you are going to do on the ground. A ceasefire is about – if you want to say ceasefire, it’s not the correct word, because a ceasefire is between two armies or two countries – it’s better to say cessation of hostility, or, let’s say, stopping the operations. It’s about, first of all, stopping the fire, but it’s also about other complimentary and more important factors, preventing the terrorists from using the ceasefire or the cessation of hostility to improve their position. It’s about preventing other countries, especially Turkey, from sending more recruits, more terrorists, more armaments, or any kind of logistical support to those terrorists.

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Input: Either they really believe what they’re saying or they’re cynical and opportunistic and, in a way, you hope it’s the latter, because God forbid they actually believe some of the things that they’re saying.” Gates is among Republican elders dismayed by the way this year’s campaign is unfolding, with establishment figures such as Jeb Bush, whose father he served as director of central intelligence, failing to gain traction against mavericks with unusual prescriptions for keeping America safe. Trump suggested “closing parts of the internet” to prevent Islamic State attracting recruits, Ted Cruz pledged to “carpet bomb them into oblivion”, Chris Christie proposed flying Air Force One over disputed Chinese islands and Carly Fiorina boasted of having had “a private meeting” with Russian leader Vladimir Putin when in fact they met in a green room at a conference. Gates, promoting a new book, A Passion for Leadership, said: “One of the greatest, most appealing aspects of Ronald Reagan was his optimism about this country and about the future, and these guys all make it sound like we’re going down the drain.” All the candidates, he argued, should “try to communicate better to the American people that these are complicated, difficult problems that are going to be difficult to solve and are probably going to require some sacrifice”. The 72-year -old declined to comment on specific candidates but was pressed by interviewer Mike Allen on the prospect of Trump reaching the White House.

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Input: Image copyright Reuters Image caption These German Russians held up a placard saying:" We have the right to doubt the objectivity of the police" The demonstrators were angry after reports on the popular Russian television station Channel One that a 13-year -old girl from a Russian-immigrant family had been abducted on her way to school and gang-raped by "southern-looking" asylum-seekers. But German police say that after questioning and examination it was clear that Lisa F was not abducted and not raped. Sexual contact was not forced, say officers. Because the girl is only 13 years old prosecutors are investigating two men for child abuse.

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Input: Share on Facebook SHARE Share on Twitter TWEET Link Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes inspects construction work at the Olympic Park's Tennis Centre in December. Photo: Getty Images "We decided to do a ' stress test ' where taps and toilets were simultaneously turned on in apartments on several floors to see if the system could cope once the athletes are in-house.

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Input: After the meeting, Erdogan approved the council's decisions to keep armed forces chief Hulusi Akar and the army, navy and air force commanders in their posts, making few changes to the top brass, Erdogan's spokesman Ibrahim Kalin told reporters. 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.

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Input: The order, drafted by the Foreign Ministry and published on the official website for draft laws and regulations, prohibits supplies of aircraft fuel to North Korea except for the re-fuelling of North Korean aircraft in third countries. It also prohibits all forms of ownership of North Korean aircraft and seagoing vessels by citizens and organizations. The order also calls for tightening measures for the inspection of aircraft and seagoing vessels from North Korea on Russian territory. Russia will almost completely suspend financial relations with North Korea. The order issues instructions to “take the necessary measures to close subsidiaries, branches or representative offices of North Korean banks on the territory of the Russian Federation and joint ventures with North Korean banks, and prohibit equity participation in the ownership of North Korean banks and correspondent relations with North Korean banks within 90 days of March 2, 2016.”

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Input: Furthermore, Kasparov, who fled the Putin regime to the United States in 2013, suggested the Russians likely possess information on Trump that is at least as damaging as the revelations contained in the WikiLeaks releases have been for Hillary Clinton." I don't believe for a second that Trump was clean and they couldn't find anything," he said." More likely, they had plenty but they decided to use it privately to good effect, whether we are talking about debts or blackmail." "Putin sees in Trump an ideal counterpart," Kasparov continued." Trump shows no respect for democracy or rule of law."

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Input: When I met Mao Zedong in 1972, it was the only topic. The Soviets were breathing down Beijing’s neck, and we needed to weaken their play in Europe. Mao allied with us because we did n’t threaten China, and he knew we’d let him conduct his own affairs at home. Our shared interests today include a peaceful Korean peninsula, a non-nuclear Japan, peaceful settlement of the India-Pakistan arms race and the Kashmir dispute. But call it ideology, political calculation, emotions, a blinkered view of America’s role, whatever you like — Clinton’s treatment of China has come close to screwing it all up.

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Input: The Clinton Foundation did not sell uranium to the Russians. Clinton’s State Department approved Russia’s purchase of a company with uranium assets in the United States but it was one of 11 organizations to do so. There’s no evidence that she personally advocated for the deal, nor is there evidence that people related to the company who donated to the Clinton Foundation did so on a quid pro quo basis. Clinton deleted over 30,000 emails off her private email server without government review. Experts say that’s certainly skirting the rules and her email server in general was not allowed.

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Input: For subgroups, such as just Trump or just Clinton voters, the margin of error is higher. In the four-way race, Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson gets 10 percent and Green Party nominee Jill Stein receives 3 percent. Each is struggling to reach the 15-percent average needed in national polls recognized by the presidential debate commission be included in the first debate on Sept. 26. The poll suggests Johnson may be taking some support from younger voters that might traditionally go to a Democrat. Among those under 35 years old, Johnson is getting support from 22 percent in a four-way race, with the remainder splitting fairly evenly between Clinton and Trump, 36 percent to 33 percent.

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Input: But the prosecutors did not provide the content of those communications even though the FBI was listening in on some of them. Risen has claimed that he had multiple sources on Operation Merlin, and Sterling has always denied being involved. Jeffrey Sterling was not permitted to testify in the trial on his own behalf because he would have had to discuss Operation Merlin, which was and is still classified. He could not mention any details about it even if they were already publicly known through the Risen book. No evidence was ever produced in court demonstrating that any classified information ever passed between the two men, but Sterling, an African American, was nevertheless convicted by an all-white jury in Virginia based on “suspicion” and the presumption that “it had to be him.”

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Input: Thousands waited for more than six hours to hear Barack Obama speak in what could very well be his last visit to the battleground state as president. The sun was out, and so were the hecklers. The first two interrupted the president early in his address. Mr Obama, seemingly unfazed by it all, waited for the crowd to finish their booing before telling the hecklers with a wry grin to "get their own rally". It wasn't long before Mr Obama was interrupted again.

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Input: The US has warned Russia that it will not set up a promised military cooperation project until Syria's regime forces allow aid into besieged cities. America's secretary of state John Kerry and Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov reached a deal last week that included allowing the delivery of humanitarian aid to starving civilian areas such as Aleppo. Under the ceasefire, the US and Russia said they would set up a "Joint Implementation Centre" to share targeting information for airstrikes in Syria if the truce that took effect on Monday holds for one week. This would see the two Cold War foes fighting on the same side for the first time since World War Two.

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Input: “We have n’t seen a you-can’t -trust-these-guys tone like this since the days of Ronald Reagan,” said Stephen Sestanovich, who served in President Bill Clinton’s State Department and is the author of “Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama.” “But even that was more a systemic criticism of the Soviet Union. This is focused on Putin himself.” In a reversal of political roles, Mrs. Clinton, the Democratic candidate, is the one portraying Mr. Putin as America’s newest archenemy, whose underlings hack into her Brooklyn campaign headquarters, bomb Syrian civilians and threaten Ukraine and NATO allies in Europe. For a woman who presented a big red “reset” button to her Russian counterpart in March 2009 (with the word incorrectly translated into Russian), the change in tone was more striking than ever in her debate with Donald J. Trump. She, and the Obama White House, insist they were on the right course until Mr. Putin decided he had more to gain from reviving Cold War tensions than from a quarter-century effort to integrate with the West.

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Input: Ultimately, Overton’s tallying of the weapons rollout serves as another reminder of a fundamental institutional disconnect between what the Pentagon expects of its troops and it expects of itself. From their earliest days in uniform, Army and Marine recruits are drilled in the near sanctity of their rifles. They quickly learn that no other item of standard equipment will be more rigidly tracked in the routines of accountability and that inspections will continue throughout their careers. Rifles are to be kept properly lubricated and spotlessly clean. Rifles are to be always at hand.

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Input: Pal Kolsto and Helge Blakkisrud edited “The New Russian Nationalism” (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), which examines the survey results. Here are some of the main findings. Ethnic Russian nationalism has been growing since the fall of the Soviet Union, along with attempts by the regime to commandeer it — what Emil Pain terms “imperial nationalism.” On the one hand, Putin and his administration recognize the leading role of the ethnic Russian people in forming the Russian state. On the other, naked ethnic nationalism could provoke separatism in a multiethnic country such as the Russian Federation. Imperial nationalism offers a middle ground.

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Input: "We should never forget how Bill and Hillary Clinton handled Haiti the last time out. To all our friends in Haiti and Little Haiti, your day of justice is coming and it arrives on November 8," Trump said. In an email on May 19, 2015, Fallon advised of upcoming action in a civil lawsuit by Vice News reporter Jason Leopold that resulted in the State Department releasing tens of thousands of Clinton's emails." DOJ folks inform me there is a status hearing in this case this morning, so we could have a window into the judge's thinking about this proposed production schedule as quickly as today," Fallon, a former Justice Department spokesman, wrote. The hearing Fallon was referring to was publicly available information and covered extensively at the time by CNN, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, Politico, Vice, National Journal and The Hill, among others.

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Input: Or that some observers of the conflict contend that the Saudis are exaggerating Iran’s role, in order to justify the kingdom’s own expansionist ambitions? Even if one accepts the Saudis’ preferred narrative — that Yemen’s Houthi rebels are tools of an Iranian regime hell-bent on spreading “Persian subversion” — it’s difficult to see how America has a pressing interest in keeping one of the world’s poorest countries aligned with Riyadh instead of Tehran. By contrast, it’s easy to see how allowing the Saudis to bomb Yemeni funerals with American missiles could inspire blowback that does threaten our national security, and easier still to see how a hot conflict with Iran could take a toll on our nation’s blood and treasure. Morell is just one of many advisers Clinton has consulted with over the course of her campaign. And as Josh Rogin has noted, there is a group of intervention skeptics among her inner circle, who hope to beat back the bipartisan call for both an escalation of American involvement in the Syrian civil war and a more “muscular” approach in our dealings with Iran.

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Input: MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A territorial dispute over the Kuril Islands has prevented Russia and Japan from signing a peace treaty after World War II behind Tokyo's claims to Kunashiri, Etorofu, Shikotan islands and the Habomai group of islets dividing the Sea of Okhotsk from the Pacific Ocean. Moscow maintains that the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty transferring control of the islands to the Soviet Union stipulates Russian sovereignty over the Kurils, which Tokyo classifies as its northern territories. “We are n’t doing this and we wo n’t do this, we wo n’t give the Kuril Islands and we wo n’t beg Japan for a peace agreement,” Lavrov said during a live linkup on kp.ru. After a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier in May, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that he suggested a new approach to Kuril Islands ' dispute.

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Input: Six British nationals remain in hospital and several more have received treatment, the UK government said. FA chief executive Martin Glenn said a letter from Uefa about fans ' behaviour, was being treated with the "utmost seriousness"." We understand the potential implications of our supporters ' actions and wholly accept that every effort needs to be made by the FA to positively urge them to act in a responsible and respectful way," he said in a statement." Violent scenes like those witnessed over the weekend in Marseille have no place in football, nor society as a whole." Sanctions against Russia will be decided at a disciplinary meeting on Tuesday, Uefa said.

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Input: Over the weekend, WikiLeaks released what appeared to be transcripts from paid speeches Clinton gave to Goldman Sachs employees in 2013. Clinton’s speeches to Wall Street heavyweights have come under scrutiny throughout her presidential campaign, with her primary opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders criticizing her for accepting around $ 225,000 per speech and repeatedly calling on her to release the transcripts. Clinton has promised throughout her campaign that she will be tough on Wall Street if elected president — but the transcripts of her speeches showed a softer side of the former secretary of state in her interactions with Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein and other Wall Street executives. As The New York Times reported, in a 2013 speech hosted by Goldman Sachs, Clinton gave Blankfein advice on how to launch a hypothetical presidential campaign. “I think you would leave Goldman Sachs and start running a soup kitchen somewhere,” she told Blankfein at the time.

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Input: Edith M. Lederer, The Associated Press Russia is accusing three Turkish foundations of supplying weapons and military equipment to Islamic State extremists in Syria and says $ 1.9 million worth of explosives and industrial chemicals were smuggled across Turkey's border to extremist groups. Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said in a letter to the UN Security Council circulated Friday that Turkey is the main supplier of weapons and ammunition to IS fighters. He said the transfers are overseen by the country's National Intelligence Organization and are delivered mainly by vehicles," including as part of humanitarian convoys."

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Input: A criminal investigation was launched after the discovery of the remains of a child aged three to four, whose body bore traces of a violent death, in a charred flat on Narodnoye Opolcheniye Street in north-western Moscow, it added." According to preliminary information, the child's nanny, a citizen of one of the Central Asian states born in 1977, waited for the parents and elder child to leave the flat and then, for reasons not established, murdered the infant, set fire to the flat and left the scene," it added in the statement. Police sources told Russian news agencies that the victim had been decapitated and the head removed from the scene by the nanny. ' I am your death ' The suspect has been named by Russian media as Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, from the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan.

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Input: “Right now it’s zero degrees (Celsius) here. That should not be the case in March.” As better transport and technology becomes affordable, he said, locals are embarking on expeditions to more and more remote corners of Siberia to look for the precious and lucrative mammoth tusks, which can sell for tens of thousands of dollars and are increasingly prized by Chinese carvers given trade bans on elephant ivory. In Russia, indigenous tribes are allowed to hunt for ancient remains on their ancestral lands. “Our land is locked in by permafrost, but little by little it is revealing its secrets,” Fyodorov said.

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Input: "The market will be generally driven by global economic sentiment, which does not exactly look hopeful at the moment," said analysts at Alfa Bank. Western sanctions over the Kremlin's support for the separatist insurgency in Ukraine have all but closed access to foreign borrowing for Russia and exacerbated the crisis. Moscow's economic sanctions against Turkey over the downing of a Russian bomber at the Syrian border in November has further complicated matters. Polls and anecdotal evidence show that average Russians have begun saving on food purchases. Isolated protests have over the past few months been reported in several cities over the planned cancellation of social benefits and companies failing to pay wages on time.

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Input: When tens of millions of Egyptian workers poured into the streets in February 2011, Clinton supported Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, saying he was “looking for ways to respond to the legitimate needs of the Egyptian people,” only to later orchestrate the maintenance of power by the Egyptian military as it killed hundreds of protestors throughout 2012 and 2013. Clinton and the ruling class are not only concerned about revolution in foreign countries, but in the US as well. For this reason, Clinton has supported the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs and supports the jailing of whistle-blower Edward Snowden. Clinton’s speech, though explicitly directed against Trump, was also implicitly an attack on her competitor Bernie Sanders, who is a beneficiary of growing social opposition on account of his self-proclaimed support for “socialism.” Clinton’s speech was also aimed at convincing growing sections of the Democratic Party establishment that she remains the most reliable candidate in the primaries, and that she should not be moved aside in favor of Sanders or some other candidate. As the ruling class prepares for an intensification of the drive to war and the attack on democratic rights, Sanders remains silent.

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Input: Whether the plot is real or imagined, Moscow has cranked up its military activity in Crimea at the same time as holding a series of what it says are pre-planned war games and missile deployments in the area. Putin, who is expected to visit Crimea later this week in a show of support, convened his Security Council and canceled the next round of international talks meant to turn the shaky ceasefire in eastern Ukraine into a lasting peace. But his response-deliberately refocusing international attention back on eastern Ukraine and the lack of progress in implementing a peace deal there-suggests Putin is trying to milk the latest Crimean crisis as part of a diplomatic power play he hopes will eventually kill Western sanctions. TALKS RUN INTO SAND European talks between Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany meant to ensure the peace deal's implementation have so far run into the sand.

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Input: “Now, some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.” A Clinton campaign spokesman took to Twitter to explain that Clinton was referring to the members of the once-fringe alt-right movement who support Trump — and it’s not the first time she’s called the bigots out. “She gave an entire speech about how the alt right movement is using his campaign to advance its hate movement,” Clinton campaign press secretary Nick Merrill tweeted, referring to a speech five days prior to her “basket of deplorables” address when she accused Trump of embracing the alt-right movement. Merrill went on to explain that Clinton's estimation that "half" of Trump's supporters fall into that "basket" came from observations of the GOP nominee's rally crowds. “Obviously not everyone supporting Trump is part of the alt right, but alt right leaders are with Trump,” he added.

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Input: As noted in “Partners in Crime,” the existence of WJC LLC as a corporation or as a shell bank account has never been mentioned in any Clinton Foundation audited financial statements or IRS Tax Form 990 since the foundation’s inception in 1997. Because the WJC LLC bank account never showed up with a positive balance in banking records reported to bank regulators, the Clintons also avoided disclosing the existence of the account in their income tax filings. A search of the ICIJ database of the Panama Papers for WJC LLC produced a list of hits that included 1,011 offshore entities, 446 officers, 72 intermediaries and 143 different addresses. Among the “offshore entities” that surfaced in the search for WJC LLC was the still active WJC Investment Group Ltd., a corporation registered in the British Virgin Islands on Oct. 6, 2005, by the Singapore-based Asian wealth manager Portcullis Trustnet, that the Panama Papers list as registered in the British Virgin Island as a trust company. The ICIJ reports that about a third of the offshore entities in the Panama Papers were incorporated through Portcullis Trustnet (now Portcullis) and Commonwealth Trust Limited, two offshore service providers that were made public as part of the ICIJ’s 2013 “Offshore Leaks” exposé.

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Input: The two organizations called for Saudi Arabia, a member of the UNHRC since it was created in 2006, apart from a mandatory year-long break after two terms, to be suspended – to no avail. Saudi Arabia used its power in the council to block an outside inquiry into the campaign last month, while leading a successful resolution that placed the responsibility of investigating human rights abuses in the hands of its allies, the exiled Yemeni government. Saudi Arabia carried out 157 executions domestically last year – the highest number in two decades, and is on pace to match the number this year. Critics of the regime have often faced detention, while women do not enjoy autonomy and equal status before the law. Riyadh has repeatedly refused visits from UNHRC rapporteurs looking to investigate the justice system, incidences of torture, and discrimination.

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Input: “We know (her email server) was hacked numerous times; it’s that simple. If I were Vladimir Putin, I’d fire the head of the SVR (Russia’s foreign intelligence service) if he did n’t get a good look at Hillary’s emails when they were sitting in plain sight online.” Schindler then went on to suggest that intelligence agencies around the world, including that of Russia, China, and Iran, must know more about the email exchanges of Hillary Clinton than the American public does. If this accusation turns out to be true, Hillary Clinton could brace herself for a mountain of legal trouble coming her way. It could be the basis on which the FBI might indict Hillary Clinton under the Espionage Act.

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Input: Gray had suffered fatal injuries inside a police van where only another captive was present. As the Black Lives Matter – inspired mobs began to gather in “protest,” Baltimore’s black Democratic mayor ordered police to stand down, allowing them to destroy millions of dollars of property. The state’s black Democratic prosecutor then indicted six police officers, three of them African American, on various ludicrous charges including first-degree murder. The immediate result of Black Lives Matter’s war on law enforcement was an epidemic of crime, as police officers decided that aggressive law enforcement was dangerous to their lives and careers. Homicides in the Ferguson area and in Baltimore jumped 60 percent.

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Input: UN aid chief Stephen O'Brien has warned that Aleppo is facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Mr O'Brien, the under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told the UN Security Council Aleppo had descended into a "merciless abyss of humanitarian catastrophe unlike any we have witnessed in Syria". The US has accused Russia of taking part in strikes on civilian targets and possibly committing war crimes-charges Russia has strongly denied.

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Input: "We're going to need an army to defend us," he offered." We will give an effective call to arms if the pressure increases." He spent some time promoting WikiLeaks books — on sale, at 40 percent off — and promised to publish new leaks in the near future. Throughout the meandering presentation, the audience — including the hundreds of thousands watching Alex Jones and readers of the Drudge Report, which had promoted the event at the top of its homepage — impatiently waited for the promised blow to Clinton. “I understand there’s enormous expectation in the United States,” Assange said with a chuckle.

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Input: I will not speak with you. I can always go to China." Lorenzana said that he would ask the Philippines Congress for $ 50 m (£ 40 m) to $ 100 m a year to compensate for a hole in US military aid and said the country may contact Russia or China for new equipment." We have been allies since 1951," he said according to The Times." All we got are hand-me-downs, no new equipment.

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Input: 3/8 Litvinenko’s widow, Marina, wants an official inquiry into her husband’s death © PA 4/8 Former KGB agent Andrei Luguvoi at target practice © AP 5/8 Litvinenko's funeral took place at Highgate Cemetery in north London in December 2006 © EPA 6/8 Marina Litvinenko listens as Alex Goldfarb reads her husband's final statement in London last November © AFP / Getty Images 7/8 Russian exile, multi-millionaire property magnate, and perpetual thorn in Putin's side, Boris Berezovsky was a constant presence behind the scenes © AFP / Getty Images

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Input: Hillary, who opposed many of her husband’s actions on trade, welfare and tax cuts, is planning to raise business investment tax rates, oppose all free trade agreements, and continue Mr. Obama’s failed spending stimulus policies. Mr. Trump, who no doubt would sign the tax cut reform bill Republicans would send to his desk next year, still intends to raise U.S. trade tariffs on all imports, sending consumer prices through the roof, hurting our economy and sparking a no-win trade war. But if, as expected, the GOP keeps control of Congress in November, there is no way that any of Hillary’s tax-hikes would be enacted. Tax cuts, of course, would be dead on arrival in the Oval Office. It will be four years of political paralysis.

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Input: How is that not paying for access?” host Alisyn Camerota asked Begala. “How is it?” Begala said. “They paid money and they got to meet with the secretary of state,” Camerota said. “And who were they and what did they get? This really infuriates me,” Begala said.

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Input: 60/74 Day One Adam Peaty broke his own world record in the 100 m breaststroke heats and is favourite to win gold on Sunday Getty 61/74 Day One Adam Peaty broke his own world record in the 100 m breaststroke heats Getty 62/74 Day One Chris Froome speaks with a bruised Geraint Thomas after the men's road race PA 63/74 Day One Greg van Avermaet celebrates winning gold in the men's road race Getty 64/74 Day One Rafal Majka was caught with just two kilometres to go Getty

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Input: “It is not the refugee outflows that cause terrorism, it is terrorism, tyranny and war that create refugees,” he said. “It is clear that the Daesh (Isis) strategy is not only to set Europeans against refugees, but within Europe, to set citizen against citizen within communities, community against community within countries, and country against country in the Union.” More than 133,000 migrants have arrived in Europe by sea so far this year, according to the UNHCR, with at least 400 drowning in the attempt.

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Input: ... ' We’re going to shine the spotlight very brightly on how the Clintons made their money, ' adviser Jason Miller said. ' They were so broke when they left the White House that they could n’t pay either of their mortgages … yet they’re [now] worth a couple hundred million dollars. '" The next big opportunity to change the trajectory of the race will be next Sunday’s debate, a town-hall style event at Washington University in St. Louis. Trump spent Sunday at his Bedminster, N.J. golf club huddling with Giuliani, Christie and a handful of other advisers and family members in order to prepare for the second showdown. He has also blocked off time in his schedule this week for preparation sessions.

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Input: The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) is a United States Federal Law passed in 1970 that was designed to provide a tool for law enforcement agencies to fight organized crime. RICO allows prosecution and punishment for alleged racketeering activity that has been executed as part of an ongoing criminal enterprise. Activity considered to be racketeering may include bribery, counterfeiting, money laundering, embezzlement, illegal gambling, kidnapping, murder, drug trafficking, slavery, and a host of other nefarious business practices. James Comey and The FBI will present a recommendation to Loretta Lynch, Attorney General of the Department of Justice, that includes a cogent argument that the Clinton Foundation is an ongoing criminal enterprise engaged in money laundering and soliciting bribes in exchange for political, policy and legislative favors to individuals, corporations and even governments both foreign and domestic. Huffington Post Politics senior editor Sam Stein claims to have no idea why the post was removed, and refused to give further comment when contacted by Breitbart News.

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Input: But I’ve also seen educators fail to connect a child’s moodiness or fatigue to her homelessness and hunger. I’ve seen teachers devalue their students’ culture and language — arguing, for instance, with a child over whether the common New Orleans expression beaucoup (slang for “a lot”) is an actual word. I’ve seen them underestimate and undervalue the power of family in poor communities, assuming that low-income children come from broken homes or have unreliable parents. Our teachers, most of them hardworking and committed, ca n’t be everything to every kid. But we all pay a price for a lack of tolerance or understanding in the classroom.

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Input: Afghan mourners handle the coffin yesterday for one of the victims in the attack on the defense ministry. (AFP / Getty Images) -- A disturbing trend – > The Taliban is building bigger and more dangerous bombs, Tim Craig reports from Kabul: “Afghan security officials said Wednesday that the death toll from the attack in Kabul a day earlier had jumped to 64, with an additional 347 people injured … The attack on an Afghan intelligence training compound now ranks as one of the deadliest strikes … since the Taliban insurgency began in 2001. ... For much of the insurgency, the Taliban generally relied on relatively low-yield explosive devices, often delivered by suicide bombers or in vehicles. While such strikes have killed thousands of people in Afghanistan over the past 14 years, the impact of each attack was usually confined to a relatively small area.

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Input: With regard to percentages, 13.4 percent of Russia’s population lived in poverty in 2015 against 11.2 percent in 2014. According to a poll by Russian state-firm WCIOM, 2015 saw a huge spike in the spread of poverty in Russia. Thirty-nine percent of households indicated that they could not afford either food or buying new clothes in December 2015, compared with nearly half that figure—22 percent — the preceding year.

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Input: Tie-2. Russia Sparks a New Cold War Alexei Nikolsky / Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP What the EIU Says:" Russian airstrikes in Syria, and the shooting down of a Russian plane over the country by a Turkish F-16 in November, as well as its earlier backing for the separatist war in Ukraine, have plunged East-West relations into their chilliest state since the end of the Cold War," the group's report says." This bifurcation of global geopolitics could, if unchecked, seriously hinder a whole raft of shared policy goals – ranging from countering jihadi terrorism to combating global warming – as well as always holding the potential for escalation." What It Means:

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Input: Thus and therefore, it is possible that Hillary will lose because of this fervent anti-establishment sentiment throughout America. She is, after all, pure establishment. Mussolini and Hitler won elections via anti-establishment sentiment. Back then, people felt abused and left out of the system, similar to today. Back then, people looked for a “mad voice.”

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Input: The views expressed in this commentary are her own. (CNN) There's something of a revolution spreading across social media in the United States and beyond. You can see it in the sharp reaction after Newt Gingrich clashed with Fox News ' Megyn Kelly, accusing her of being "fascinated with sex" when she tried to ask him about women who accuse Donald Trump of grabbing them and kissing them against their will. You can see it in the curious ways in which women changed their social media profiles to include "nasty woman" after Donald Trump used the term to critique Hillary Clinton, and you can see it in the conversations in Facebook pages, where women are newly and openly venting about their encounters with sexism. You can also see it in the polls and in the increasing likelihood that Hillary Clinton will win the presidential election, propelled by a growing margin of support from women voters.

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Input: He would talk about it. Others on the campaign — Paul, Phil Griffin, Rick Gates — they were pretty open about his background.” But the operative added, “The view was that they were all in the Soviet Union at one point in time, and now they’re Ukrainian and they’re trying to get something going in their own country.” When Yanukovych finally won the presidency in 2010, he shelved his promises about adopting a more open, pro-Western government. He moved to exert increased control over the media, as well as the legislative and judicial branches of government, the latter of which prosecuted, convicted and jailed his vanquished 2010 election rival. He backed away from a commitment to the European Union, and moved closer to Russia, eventually accepting a $ 15-billion aid package from the Kremlin.

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Input: It is our responsibility to let these men live ... It is indecent if they die because of the empty vanity of their country.” He also urged that we consider the Vietnamese mother, desperately trying to shield her baby from the fire from the sky, sent by machines from a country she could barely understand. He demanded of his colleagues, on the Senate floor, to answer what gave us the right to destroy remote villages on the other side of the world, to arrogate to ourselves the power of God, the rule of life and death over others. “All this is our responsibility,” he said, “not just a nation’s responsibility but yours and mine.”

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Input: Story highlights Vice President Joe Biden plans to slam Donald Trump's foreign policy proposals He'll argue bullying is counterproductive and dangerous (CNN) Vice President Joe Biden denounced Donald Trump's proposed foreign policy on Monday, repudiating the presumptive GOP nominee's embrace of Russian President Vladimir Putin and suggesting his policies on Muslims could foster extremism." Our leadership does not spring from some inherent American magic. It never has.

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Input: And if you do n’t want to see a Hillary Clinton presidency, I encourage you to vote for him.” Cruz, who dropped his own presidential bid in May, acknowledged in his post that he struggled with his decision to support Trump, harkening back to his speech at the Republican National Convention in July when he was booed off the stage for refusing to endorse the business mogul." In Cleveland, I urged voters, ' please, do n’t stay home in November. Stand, and speak, and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket whom you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution,’” Cruz said." After many months of careful consideration, of prayer and searching my own conscience, I have decided that on Election Day, I will vote for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump.”

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Input: Also in the documents is an August 2009 communication from Hillary Clinton to her aides Abedin and Lauren Jiloty asking for the phone numbers of Declan Kelly, Clinton’s former economic envoy to Northern Ireland who is co-founder and CEO of Teneo. “The idea that the State Department would even consider a diplomatic passport for Clinton Foundation executives is beyond belief,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “These emails show various violations of national security laws and ethics rules and further confirm that Hillary and Bill Clinton are personally implicated in the Clinton Foundation pay to play scandal.” This is the eleventh set of records produced for Judicial Watch by the State Department from the non-state.gov email accounts of Huma Abedin. The documents were produced under a court order in a May 5, 2015, Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit against the State Department (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No.

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Input: “The president recognized during the course of the Arab Spring that the Middle East was consuming us,” John Brennan, who served in Obama’s first term as his chief counterterrorism adviser, told me recently. But what sealed Obama’s fatalistic view was the failure of his administration’s intervention in Libya, in 2011. That intervention was meant to prevent the country’s then-dictator, Muammar Qaddafi, from slaughtering the people of Benghazi, as he was threatening to do. Obama did not want to join the fight; he was counseled by Joe Biden and his first-term secretary of defense Robert Gates, among others, to steer clear. But a strong faction within the national-security team — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice, who was then the ambassador to the United Nations, along with Samantha Power, Ben Rhodes, and Antony Blinken, who was then Biden’s national-security adviser — lobbied hard to protect Benghazi, and prevailed.

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Input: A U.S. official involved in the investigation said that the classified information collected on the hack so far "indicated beyond a reasonable doubt that it originated in Russia." The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the timing of the release of emails "has all the hallmarks of a classic intelligence operation intended to damage a perceived adversary." The official said, however, that it may be impossible to prove definitively that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government directed the attack. The emails, released by activist group WikiLeaks at the weekend, appeared to show favoritism within the DNC for Clinton over U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who ran a close race for the nomination for the Nov. 8 election.

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Input: “Clearly, we are working with Trump in this way.” Spencer laments that Trump may have shown up too late to win over an increasingly diverse country, but too early to fully benefit from the alt-right’s emergence. A bigger, more organized alt-right could become an effective opposition movement that is catered to by politicians who need its votes to win elections. Spencer believes this may even coalesce around a more liberal set of economic ideas — nationalized health care, a higher minimum wage — but with those policies only held together by the glue of “white culture.” “We were n’t quite ready for Trump, but we need to get ready right now,” Spencer says, reprising the case he says he has been making lately to potential donors, in hopes of acquiring prestigious office space for NPI in Washington. “We need a footprint that says, ‘We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.

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Input: "He criticized a number of heads of state, government. He should stick to his file, which is important enough." In a speech in Cleveland three months before Republicans gathered there to nominate Trump, Zeid said:" Less than 150 miles away from where I speak, a front-running candidate to be president of this country declared, just a few months ago, his enthusiastic support for torture." Zeid was referring to a speech Trump gave in Ohio in November promising to restore waterboarding and introduce even harsher interrogation methods for suspected terrorists." In what may be a crucial election for leadership of this country later this year, we have seen a full-frontal attack — disguised as courageous taboo-busting — on some fundamental, hard-won tenets of decency and social cohesion that have come to be accepted by American society," Zeid said.

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Input: February 3, 2016-ISIS publishes photographs of executions of several men in Libya described as spies. All were executed in the ISIS stronghold of Sirte. On the same day, ISIS claims that fighters of its Barqah Province in Libya attacked a military checkpoint with remotely-detonated explosives, killing more than 20 soldiers. There is no independent confirmation of the attack, but there are reports of clashes between ISIS fighters and army forces in Benghazi on that day. February 4, 2016-ISIS claims an IED attack in north Sinai on a military vehicle.

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Input: But the campaign was marked by scandals and rumors of vote-rigging — at one point before the election, Yushchenko was mysteriously poisoned, paralyzing part of his face — and a popular uprising forced Yanukovych to yield the presidency to his challenger. Still smarting from that defeat, Yanukovych found Paul Manafort. Notorious in Washington and abroad as a laser-focused campaign consultant to Republican presidential candidates and foreign potentates alike, Manafort was hired to put Yanukovych and his allies through an image makeover, and it worked: In early 2006, the Party of Regions nearly doubled its representation in Parliament; if Yanukovych could bring some other parties into his coalition, he could become prime minister — and a major thorn in President Yushchenko’s side. So when Sea Breeze exercise came up for a cursory vote in summer 2006, Yanukovych was presented with a golden opportunity. Without parliamentary approval, US troops headed to pro-Russian Crimea for the routine training event would technically be invaders.

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Input: . @RepFredUpton:" I urge him to think about our country over his own candidacy and carefully consider stepping aside from the ticket.” — Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) October 8, 2016 Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo. ): “I have committed my short time in Congress to fighting for the most vulnerable in our society.

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Input: That the two are teaming up to douse Trump’s populist embers, and consolidate the establishment behind the Democratic Party, is an ironic chapter in their nine-year story. In the beginning, Obama was the focus of Clinton’s pragmatist ire. She flailed in 2007 and 2008 trying to puncture Obama’s idealistic “Change We Can Believe In” message with a cold blast of reality. “You [do n’t] promise a meeting at that high a level before you know what the intentions are” she lectured him from the establishment playbook, when he brazenly pledged to meet with Iranian and Cuban heads of state in his first year. She diminished his early opposition to the Iraq invasion as mere speechifying: “His entire campaign is based on one speech.

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Input: James R. Schlesinger, who was Secretary of Defense at the time, issued a directive to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that “any emergency order coming from the president” should be diverted to Schlesinger before any action was taken, according to James Carroll’s “House of War,” a history of the Pentagon. The directive may have been illegal, but it remained in place. Because many Republicans are boycotting Trump’s campaign, those who agree to join risk being viewed, as a former Cabinet secretary put it to me, as part of “a staff full of Ollie Norths.” (In 1987, testifying to Congress about his role in the Iran-Contra scandal, the White House aide Oliver L. North said, “If the Commander-in-Chief tells this lieutenant-colonel to go stand in the corner and sit on his head, I will do so.”) Watching Trump on the campaign trail, Timothy Naftali, the former director of the Nixon Presidential Library, said, “Trump tweets what Nixon knew not to say outside his inner circle, and we know what he said from the tapes. What Nixon would do is project onto situations the conspiracies that he would have concocted if in the same position. Nixon was convinced that the Democrats were spying on him.

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Input: The plane previously used by the American intelligence to secretly transport terror subjects to clandestine detention facilities in Europe, flew from Washington, DC over Scotland to Copenhagen, the report said. In August 2015, the Danish news website Denfri.dk filed a number of Freedom of Information requests to the government in Copenhagen, seeking the disclosure of documents concerning the alleged involvement of Denmark in a plot to arrest and extradite Snowden. On Sunday, it reported that after lengthy deliberation, it had acquired new evidence that substantiated the claim. Among the documents published by Denfri.dk are permission for the overflight and landing of the plane, which warns that it should be operated exclusively for “state purposes of [a] non-commercial nature,” and talking points for the Transport Ministry should journalists ask about the plane. There is also a batch of heavily redacted emails indicating communications between senior officials in Denmark’s police, Foreign Ministry and Justice Ministry, including Anders Herping Nielsen, a chief consultant of the Justice Ministry’s international office and its former deputy head, whose responsibility it is to decide on the extradition of people for trial in other countries.

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Input: The ransomware encrypts users’ files and requires a ransom to decrypt them, and blackmails users by threatening to send their browsing history to all their contacts. Lockdroid is currently being distributed through the “Porn ‘O’ Mania” app. Despite the City of Chicago trying to cover up the police execution of black teenager Laquan McDonald, dashcam footage was released last November, over 13 months after the shooting had taken place. Three dashcams pointing at McDonald did not record video, and audio was missing from four others. It’s unlikely that this was a coincidence.

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Input: It is an outrage. ' Another fan told MailOnline: ' It was the Russians that sparked it all off. ' A whole gang of the [Russians] came right into the middle of everything and started throwing punches. ' A supporter told MailOnline: ' There's this group of Russians who are proper mental. They threw everything at us-chairs, bottles-and they slashed us with knives.

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Input: So she damn well knows that a “born classified” document is secret “when originated.” Markings or no markings, she understands that the confidential views of foreign leaders, reports from ambassadors, and updates on arms-control talks are all state secrets. Clinton’s flimsy claim never to have handled e-mails labeled classified imploded recently when an e-mail sent June 17, 2011, became public. That morning, Clinton’s aide Jacob Sullivan informed her that a document could not reach her via a secure fax. No sweat! Clinton replied, “.

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Input: Photo: Egyptian Presidency / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images Meanwhile, repression in Egypt continues to escalate. By the government’s own admission, it has imprisoned more than 34,000 people – and sentenced huge numbers to die. Amnesty International released a report Tuesday documenting forced disappearances and torture by the el-Sisi regime, including one account of a 14-year -old who was kidnapped by government forces and raped repeatedly with a wooden stick to extract a confession. El-Sisi continues to receive $ 1.3 billion in military aid each year from the Obama administration.

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Input: PARIS-National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says the exposure of malicious software allegedly linked to his former employer may be a message from Moscow, adding a layer of intrigue to a leak that has set the information security world abuzz. Technical experts have spent the past day or so picking apart a suite of tools purported to have been stolen from the Equation Group, a powerful squad of hackers which some have tied to the NSA. The tools materialized as part of an unusual electronic auction set up by a group calling itself "Shadow Brokers," which has promised to leak more data to whoever puts in a winning bid. In a series of messages posted to Twitter, Snowden suggested the leak was the fruit of a Russian attack on an NSA malware server and could be aimed at heading off U.S. retaliation over allegations that the Kremlin was trying interfere in America's electoral process." Circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom indicates Russian responsibility," Snowden said.

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Input: His views, like those of others in this group, stem in part from the experience in Iraq, which Trump has consistently described as a major foreign policy blunder. But they are heightened by his focus on what he sees as the damaging effects of international trade on the financial standing and prestige of the United States. He twice made a point of saying he was not prepared to trigger a third world war, first in reference to Russia and Ukraine, a second time in a discussion about China’s moves in the South China Sea. He said he would “find it very, very hard” to approve sending tens of thousands of U.S. troops to fight the Islamic State, even if the generals at the Pentagon recommended it. “I would put tremendous pressure on other countries that are over there to use their troops, and I would give them tremendous air support.

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Input: A convoy of nationalists on motorbikes passed as he spoke. Such solidarity may not last. There are already opposition concerns that the restructuring of the military lacks parliamentary oversight and is going too far, with thousands of soldiers discharged, including around 40 percent of generals. WESTERN CRITICISM The extent of the purges in Turkey, which has NATO's second largest armed forces and aspires to membership of the European Union, has drawn criticism in the West.

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Input: Late Saturday, a U.S. intelligence source confirmed to CBS News the data recorders, commonly known as black boxes, have been approximately located by their pings and that recovery efforts were underway. There has been no official confirmation, and EgyptAir wouldn't confirm or deny that the black boxes have been located, Williams reports. Also Saturday, the French air accident investigation agency said smoke was detected in multiple places on the flight moments before it plummeted into the Mediterranean, but the cause of the crash that killed all 66 on board remains unclear. Egyptian Military / Handout via Reuters TV Sebastien Barthe, a spokesman for the French agency, told The Associated Press in Paris that the plane's automatic detection system sent messages indicating smoke a few minutes before the plane disappeared from radar while flying over the east Mediterranean early on Thursday morning.

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Input: They have thought and thought, in projective terms, about theoretical protesters, and now here are some real ones. This ungentleness ripples out through the crowd and into the area beyond the fence where the protesters have set up shop. One of them, Sandra Borchers, tells me that out there all was calm (she was “actually having dialogues” with Trump supporters, “back-and-forth conversations, at about this talking level”) until Trump started speaking. Then things got “violent and aggressive.” Someone threw a rock at her head. A female Trump supporter “in a pink-peachy-color T-shirt” attacked a protester, kicking and punching him.

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Input: Here’s a better analogy: Beginning in 1998, former CIA Director John M. Deutch was investigated for storing highly classified documents on a personal computer connected to the internet. The Justice Department initially declined to prosecute. After a public outcry the case was reopened, and Deutch negotiated a misdemeanor plea, but he was pardoned by then-President Bill Clinton. The Petraeus and Deutch cases both included material that was highly classified, and both defendants clearly knew it. If Clinton’s case does n’t clear that bar, it would be difficult for the Obama Justice Department to explain why she merits prosecution.

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Input: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Angela Merkel. Photograph: Kay Nietfeld / EPA Speaking in Paris, the French president, François Hollande, said he “profoundly regretted” the Brexit vote but that the EU now had to make changes. In a brief televised statement, Hollande said the vote would put Europe to the test: “To move forward, Europe can not act as before.” Mark Rutte, the prime minister of the Netherlands, which holds the EU’s rotating presidency, said the EU “has to become more relevant, deliver added value to our lives: jobs, growth, control of our external borders”.

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Input: More Arabs than Jews – by a declining margin – optimistic about two-state solution Many Arab citizens or residents of Israel appear to be losing hope that a way can be found for Israel and an independent Palestinian state to coexist peacefully. In Pew Research Center polling, the percentage of Israeli Arabs who say a peaceful, two-state solution is possible has dropped by 24 points in just two years, from 74% in 2013 to 50% in the latest survey, which was conducted in late 2014 and early 2015 (i.e., even before the wave of stabbings and other violence in Israel and the West Bank in late 2015). The new poll finds that about three-in-ten Israeli Arabs (30%) think a peaceful two-state solution is not possible, while 20% say they do not know or do not take a position either way. As of the time of the survey, Israeli Jews were less optimistic than Israeli Arabs about the possibility of a two-state solution.

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Input: Sen. 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 (R-Fla.) said he will not discuss any leaked documents published by WikiLeaks and is calling on the rest of his party to ignore them as well. ADVERTISEMENT "As our intelligence agencies have said, these leaks are an effort by a foreign government to interfere with our electoral process and I will not indulge it,” Rubio told ABC News

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Input: Advertisement Continue reading the main story Mr. Mateen bought the two weapons used in the attack just this month, officials said. When he went to buy those guns after having come under investigation, “one would have liked to have known about it,” Ms. Yates said.

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Input: The Russian team could now face an anxious wait after the crowd trouble. Four years ago Russia was sanctioned and handed a suspended six-point deduction following crowd trouble in Poland at Euro 2012. Meanwhile, along the Mediterranean coast, Northern Irish fans were involved in a ugly exchanges with locals in the city of Nice that left seven people hurt. European soccer's governing body, UEFA, condemned the day's events." People engaging in such violent acts have no place in football," it said in a statement.

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Input: Couldn't have said it better!" After being widely denounced for his previous silence, Trump now acknowledges the need to disavow Duke. Nonetheless, Trump's address was a toxic combination of unprovable claims -- "excessive regulation is costing our country as much as $ 2 trillion a year" and ending it will "produce more than $ 20 trillion in job-creating economic activity" -- and outright lies -- "My opponent wants to essentially abolish the Second Amendment." The Republican nominee repeated his belief that "NATO is obsolete." Hours earlier, he told The New York Times he found nothing sacred about America's decades-old pledge to defend any NATO member whose borders are threatened by Russia.

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Input: Agents originally looked into a call from the store about a group of suspicious foreign men appearing to be of Middle Eastern descent, who were buying police gear. The FBI tracked down the men, who were visiting government security officers from a Middle Eastern country. The purchase was not deemed suspicious, the sources said. When the FBI closed the matter with the store, an employee mentioned another unidentified suspicious man who days before had tried to buy Level 3 body armor. There was no name or any purchase record to review.

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Input: And again, depending on where they're captured, arrested, will determine how they go. But we always look for opportunities to capture individuals, to arrest them. There is a determination made whenever the U.S. government decides to conduct a direct action against individuals, that there is not the option to capture them. And that calculus takes into account what the risks might be to the forces that would be used to capture. But as you well know, the U.S. military has engaged in some spectacular activities in terms of capturing individuals, and being able to bring them to an environment where they can be debriefed.

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Input: Now here’s the kicker that makes me absolutely love this woman. She’s a 69 year old woman in apparently poor health (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). She gets punched hard in the face, knocked down and bruised. She gets driven home by the police. But damn, Shirley pops right back up and she’s on message.

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Input: The United States built the international coalition against ISIS. Now we're working with partners to take back territory and defeat them without getting drawn in to a ground war. We brought the world together to impose sanctions on Iran and secure a deal that puts a lid on Iran's nuclear program, without firing a single shot. You don't build a coalition by insulting our friends or acting like a loose cannon. You do it by putting in the slow, hard work of building relationships.

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Input: Cuba has freedom of the press. Cuba kicks out the Russians from Lourdes, and kicks out the Chinese listening station at Bejucal. Cuba stops helping North Korea invade [sic] UN sanctions. Cuba takes all of those fugitives from American justice, including the cop killer from New Jersey, and send her back to the United States, to jail where she belongs. And you know what?

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Input: You know, my hands are normal. Slightly large, actually. In fact, I buy a slightly smaller than large glove, okay? No, but I did this because everybody was saying to me, “Oh, your hands are very nice. They are normal.” So Rubio, in a debate, said, because he had nothing else to say … now I was hitting him pretty hard.

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Input: A major point of concern is Afghanistan’s largest province of Helmand, which is almost completely under the control of insurgents. Read more “Despite heavy U.S. airstrikes in the area, the Taliban – who already control 80 percent of the region – have steadily encroached on the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah,” Stratfor warns. The group is now engaged in a large-scale offensive to seize the remaining territories in Helmand. Despite joint efforts by the Afghan army and US Air Force, insurgents continue to push forward in other provinces.

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Input: No matter who occupies the White House in 2017, the president will have to deal with the Middle East, just like every president since Franklin Roosevelt. Now whatever the candidates state on the campaign trail will mean nothing, and will fall to the harsh reality of the complexities of the Middle East come January 2017! In the entire debate on how to defeat ISIS it’s always about how to annihilate them with the militarily, or ‘we need to defeat them’ without ever identifying all the other players in the region, their complex tensions, and the diverse prospects which lie at the heart of the conflict. No matter what course of action the candidates take, a vast majority of the ISIS fighters will eventually survive to fight another day, and then other violent Islamic extremist groups will fill the vacuum; such as the Al Nusra or Al Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula. Quoting two of the most famous military strategists in history; Sun Tzu stated that, “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting,” and Clausewitz stated, “War is not a mere act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political activity by other means.”

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Input: And then it turns out that Secretary of State Hillary played a role in transferring 50 percent of our nation’s uranium output to Russia’s government. With the Hillary-led State Department authorizing numerous deals, several countries in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, et al.) received arms shipments from the United States. These dictatorships (some even having ties to terrorist organizations) donated somewhere between $ 50 and $ 150 million to the Clinton Foundation. The FBI, already investigating Hillary’s unsecured e-mail transmissions, has reportedly opened up a second investigation looking into the possibility that she accepted funds and delivered political favors.

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Input: Interestingly the USTR’s report praises the fact that “a Russian court shut down Rutracker.org”, when in fact the site was only blocked and remains fully operational today. Nevertheless, it appears that court orders are not enough for the United States. “Issuing injunctions against infringing websites does not address the root of the problem; Russia should be investigating and prosecuting the operators of such sites. The overall number of raids, criminal charges, and convictions have declined in recent years,” the report reads. Finally, Ukraine remains on the Priority List in 2016.

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Input: You’ll hear accusations that Trump is anti-immigrant. Unsaid is that of the past 90 years, the four years in which there were the largest number of “aliens removed or returned” from the United States, according to the Department of Homeland Security’s Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, were all during Bill Clinton’s presidency. Also unsaid is that Sen. Clinton served eight years without enacting meaningful immigration reform legislation. You’ll hear, as in a Clinton campaign commercial released last week, that Trump sets a bad example for our children. “Our children are watching.

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Input: Whether Manafort is still working for the pro-Russian party today is unclear. Neither Trump’s campaign nor a spokesperson for Lyovochkin would confirm or deny whether Trump’s campaign chairman is still on the payroll. Page’s financial interests in Russia include investments in the Russian state oil conglomerate Gazprom, as well as consulting work advising companies on how to do business in Russia. Page told Bloomberg News this spring that he still attends Gazprom shareholder meetings, and that U.S. sanctions against top Kremlin officials and state-owned Russian companies have hurt his consulting business and the value of his Gazprom shares. “So many people who I know and have worked with have been so adversely affected by the sanctions policy,” Page said in March.

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Input: The only thing that could disprove the accusations are being withheld by the candidate. But, it would go a long way to explain why, a candidate for the Presidency, running for the party that spent decades whipping the population into an anti-communist frenzy, is so openly fawning of former KGB agent and proto-dictator Vladimir Putin. Donald Trump has a history of praising Putin’s leadership style of assassinating political rivals, journalists, and jailing bands named after a certain delightful part of the female anatomy for being critical of his tyranny, comparing his BFF to the imagined “weakness” of American’s sitting President. Putin, for his part, has all but endorsed Trump for President. Nor does this mutual lovefest stop there.

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Input: And I’m just wondering, as you’re putting forth your perspective, why you feel that has not caught the kind of support here in this country that Greens have in Europe? DR. JILL STEIN: Well, you know, there is no doubt we have a voting system, as well as a system of press and debates and so on, which essentially removes any knowledge that there — and, you know, the reason people do n’t hear about what the Green Party is doing is because there’s a complete corporate media blackout on what we’re doing. You can look at Mayor Gayle McLaughlin in Richmond, California, who did incredibly innovative things as an eight-year mayor, using — turning eminent domain on its head and actually using it against the banks in order to seize underwater mortgages and preserve the homes of families who were threatened with eviction and foreclosure; or with suing the — Chevron, which was extremely dangerous, blew up, sent 5,000 people to the hospital; massively reduced police violence and deaths at the hands of police — an exemplary mayor. You do n’t hear about that. You did n’t hear about Mayor Jason West in New Paltz, New York, who actually went to jail as the first official, as a mayor, to actually officiate over gay marriages, went to jail in order to perform those marriages.

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Input: The meeting, held Tuesday through Thursday in New York City, was billed as a forum to debate drug laws, called for by Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala in 2014. All three countries suffered disproportionate violence from cartels controlling drug supplies to the north. In Mexico alone, the government estimates 164,000 people were the victims of homicide related to cartel violence between 2007 and 2014. On Thursday, Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, announced plans to legalize marijuana-based medicines and proposed raising the amount of the drug that can be legally carried. Activists for drug policy reform had already warned there was little hope that UNgass would provide a forum for serious debate of the issue.

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Input: Russia’s Central Electoral Commission has nullified the results of nine polling districts for offences such as stuffing ballot boxes with more votes than voters, state news agency Itar-Tass reports. The Kremlin declared Sunday’s elections would give Russians the power to elect the next parliament, after previous votes had been plagued by allegations of mass fraud and bias towards the ruling United Russia party. Ella Pamfilova, a respected human rights advocate, was appointed head of the electoral commission and vowed to organise the cleanest election in the country’s modern history. While thousands of violations were reported during the election, international and local observers noted that the infringements of voting rules at least was an improvement on previous elections. Footage of ballot box stuffing in a number of regions in Russia, from Rostov to Dagestan, surfaced online, gaining huge traction on social media.

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Input: Dusting for prints A search on Shodan revealed computers behind six other DigiCube-owned IP addresses all sharing the same fingerprint. DigiCube just provides the underlying systems; another organization will have rented its boxes and provided proxy services on top. The shared fingerprint suggests each server is a clone, all managed by one organization. One of those IP addresses, 95.130.9.198, resolves to fr1.vpn-service.us.

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Input: She described Trump’s foreign policy views as "not really even ideas" but rather a "series of bizarre rants, personal feuds, and outright lies." Clinton challenged calls by Trump to reexamine the role of the United States in the world, saying Washington needs to "stick with our allies." Trump has said that if other NATO members do not step up their spending on the military alliance, then Washington would "let countries defend themselves" if he is elected president. Clinton accused Trump of threatening to "abandon our allies in NATO" at a time when "Moscow has taken aggressive military action in Ukraine," a reference to Russia’s illegal annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in March 2014 and backing of armed separatists in the country's east. Clinton said Trump would be incapable of defending U.S. interests in dealing with countries like China and Russia, which she said "often work against" the United States.

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Input: Speaking in Latin, Francis said that "after due deliberation and frequent prayer for divine assistance, and having sought the counsel of many of our brother bishops, we declare and define Blessed Teresa of Calcutta to be a saint, and we enroll her among the saints, decreeing that she is to be venerated as such by the whole church." Catholics -- including hundreds of blue- and white-robed nuns from the Missionaries of Charity sisterhood founded by Mother Teresa -- had gathered from around the world to attend the canonization of the church's newest saint, just 19 years after her death. A huge portrait of Mother Teresa, whom the church credits with having performed two miraculous cures of the sick, hung from St. Peter's Basilica during the colorful ceremony. An image of Mother Teresa hangs from the facade of St. Peter's in the Vatican. Francis: ' May she be your model of holiness '

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Input: You can find Robert Mandell’s donation in this photo. Karol Mason Karol Mason donated $ 856,000 to the DNC and Obama appoints her as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs. * * * It's probably nothing ...

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Input: But the media is ignoring far more important matters such as how Hillary’s policies will push America over the tipping point in many different ways with a very damaging impact on America that in most cases, will be irreversible. In regards to fair elections, tax rates, welfare dependency, destruction of our energy industry, the disappearance of our manufacturing base, the collapse of our health care system, the rise of domestic terrorism, the composition of the Supreme Court and the concentration of executive branch power at the expense of legislative power, are all areas now at a critical point in American history. A Hillary presidency will push us over all these tipping points, with disastrous consequences and the damage done will not be easily reversed, if at all. A Clinton presidency will accelerate election fraud techniques regarding veterans, prisoners, illegal aliens and welfare recipients President Clinton will continue to do what Democrats have been perfecting since LBJ and JFK.

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Input: But this was n’t just about convincing Internet users to support the Kremlin’s positions. It was also about turning the Internet into a political wasteland, so that if anyone sought information that might be against Kremlin policy, they’d encounter a confusing morass and feel immediately discouraged. Chen met with a liberal campaign manager named Leonid Volkov who emphasized this point: “The point is to spoil it, to create the atmosphere of hate, to make it so stinky that normal people wo n’t want to touch it,” Volkov said, when we met in the office of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation. “You have to remember the Internet population of Russia is just over 50 percent.

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Input: "We will continue to work closely with the government of the Philippines to address any concerns they may have," Cook said. Under the defense agreement, two C-130 transport planes and 100 U.S. servicemen have been at an air base in the central Philippines since Sept. 25 as part of a two-week exercise. Analysts saw the agreement in part as a deterrent to ward off moves by China to advance its interests in the South China Sea. Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, John McCain, has previously said the agreement was a landmark deal with a significance "not witnessed in decades." Any indication it could be halted would be a big setback for U.S. efforts to boost its influence in Asia and counter that of a fast-rising China.

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Input: Since he declared his candidacy for president, Donald Trump has blacklisted media outlets who fell out of his favor, threatened to jail his political opponent, promised to purge the government of employees appointed by President Obama and refashioned the right-wing website Brietbart as his own personal Pravda. Over the last 18 months, Trump has essentially promised his administration would look a lot like those of the autocratic rulers he's expressed admiration for: Syria's Bashar al-Assad (" In terms of leadership, he's getting an A "), Iraq's Saddam Hussein ("You know what he did well? He killed terrorists"), North Korea's Kim Jong Un (" You got ta give him credit ") and, of course, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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