Input: “Sanders really does have a singularly naïve and simpleminded understanding of American politics,” scoffed Michael Cohen, a former Clinton-administration speechwriter. (Similar charges have long been made against populists; in 1935, the NEW REPUBLIC rhetorically asked Huey Long, “Upon what statistics of economic studies do you base your conclusions?”) While it was true that the details (and costs) of Sanders’s proposals often did n’t add up, it was certainly conceivable that the United States could enact them — after all, Canada and several European countries have “Medicare for all.” What made them seem unrealistic was their challenge to the market liberal consensus on fiscal restraint and redistribution. Unlike Trump, Sanders never contended, as his liberal critics suggested, that if he were elected president, he could enact the changes he advocated. “If we are going to transform America,” he said last November in Las Vegas, “we need a political revolution. Millions of people have to stand up and get involved in the political process in a way we have not in many, many years.”

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Input: But even Clinton, who had anticipated a smooth "coronation" to the Democratic presidential nomination, still faced two uphill battles, first for the nomination against Senator Bernie Sanders, and then to win the national election in November, Schirach predicted." As several opinion polls show, a majority of Americans do not like her, in large part because she is seen as the latest manifestation of the ‘Clinton Machine,’ "he acknowledged, referring to the entrenched connections and loyalists in the US establishment. Sanders has routinely criticized Clinton for her connections to the large financial institutions on Wall Street and hefty payments and donations she received from them. President Putin was also accurate in his observation because the very structure of the US political system was strongly weighted against change, renewal and reform by electing new people with different ideas to the two chambers of Congress, Schirach maintained." The real problem in American politics is that the system at the congressional level — mostly in the House of Representatives, but also in Senate elections — strongly favors incumbents," he stated.

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Input: Today, the group is fighting alongside the Syrian Army to retake the camp. Nour al-Din al-Zenki is part of the Levant Front, and its allies the Islamic Front and the Free Syrian Army are fighting to overthrow the Assad regime. It is also battling ISIS and the U.S government supplied the group with money and anti-tank missiles.

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Input: But on one topic, Trump is conspicuously incurious: the suggestion that he is complicit in a plan by Vladimir Putin to influence the U.S. election. Consider how Trump might react to the following fact pattern if the candidate involved were n’t “Donald Trump” but — let’s pick a name at random here — “Hillary Clinton”: The candidate’s real estate empire, unable to borrow from most U.S. banks, gets capital from Russian sources. Such transfers could n’t occur without Putin’s blessing. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday, July 26 that he raised the issue of Russia's involvement in a Democratic National Convention email hacking incident with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit.

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Input: Former Republican New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg derided Trump as a “dangerous demagogue.” Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley called Trump an “immigrant-bashing carnival barker” and a “bully racist.” They picked apart and ppilloried Trump’s business record and his slam of Sen. John McCain for getting captured during his military service in Vietnam. And they ripped Trump for his newest controversy: urging earlier Wednesday that Russia recover and release Hillary Clinton’s private emails. Even President Barack Obama, whose speech was largely a rosy recollection of his presidency and a boost to Clinton, mentioned Trump at least six times." He’s not really a plans guy.

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Input: The internet is one of the few, if not only, available ways for Julian Assange, who has been locked up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for more than four years, to maintain contact with the outside world. READ MORE: WikiLeaks cancels Assange’s live balcony appearance over ‘security concerns’ Facing extradition to Sweden over allegations of rape, which he denies, the Australian computer programmer has been holed up in the embassy in West London since 2012. He claims the extradition is actually a bid to move him to a jurisdiction from which he can then be sent to the US, which is known to be actively investigating WikiLeaks. The unverified claims of state sabotage come as WikiLeaks continues to release damaging documents, most recently thousands of hacked emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta.

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Input: “We do n’t have the authority ... we can only express our concerns,” Kasich said at a speech focusing on foreign policy at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. “I’m criticized for having a big heart but I also have a big brain,” he said. He urged the federal government to “pause,” and put in place stringent background checks before allowing Syrians to enter the U.S. He said refugees should be relocated to “safe zones” located on the borders of Turkey and Jordan and are protected by no fly zones. One of the Paris attackers was a Belgium citizen but Kasich refused to say if Belgiums-or all Muslims-should also be excluded from coming to the United States.

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Input: Mr Erdogan has accused western capitals of failing to condemn last month’s failed coup, while criticising him for purging thousands of people who allegedly shared the coup-plotters’ views and for threatening to restore the death penalty in Turkey. He has also lambasted the United States for refusing to immediately hand over Fethullah Gulen, the Pennsylvania-based Muslim cleric whom Ankara accuses of being behind the coup attempt. The growing rift with the West, as well as fears over Syria and economic concerns, spurred Mr Erdogan to seek to restore relations with Moscow that were wrecked last November when Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet over the Syrian border. The sudden rapprochement between Turkey and Russia unnerved some officials in the EU and Nato, who fear the two autocratic and powerful leaders could cause trouble for the West on issues including Syria and refugees. As Turkish diplomats and military and intelligence officials held talks in Moscow yesterday, foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said his compatriots had lost confidence in the EU because it had “failed a test” over the coup.

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Input: That is those relying on public welfare or straining the safety net along with millions of recent illegal arrivals and overstays who've come here under this current corrupt administration. Number six, we are going to suspend the issuance of visas to any place where adequate screening can not occur. According to data provided by the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, and the national interest between 9/11 and the end of 2014, at least 380 foreign born individuals were convicted in terror cases inside the United States. And even right now the largest number of people are under investigation for exactly this that we've ever had in the history of our country. Our country is a mess.

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Input: Johnson has also received rougher treatment from the press. Beyond the combative interviews on MSNBC raising questions about his foreign policy credentials, the left-leaning Huffington Post published a story on Thursday with the headline “Ralph Nader supporters warn third-party voters: Do n’t make the same mistake!” In it, voters who backed the Green Party candidate in 2000 voiced regret that they might have contributed to Republican George W. Bush’s victory over Democrat Al Gore Al GorePence calls hiring of counsel ' routine ' CORRECTED: Three members of Mueller's team have donated to Democrats OPINION: Don't repeat the mistakes of Clinton and 1998 with Trump MORE. The backlash against Johnson comes after Democrats watched with alarm as polls between Clinton and Trump tightened in August and early September. The surveys showed Clinton failing to win over left-leaning independents and millennials, who have been flirting with Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein.

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Input: The Democrats preferred to sacrifice their own legitimate election victory than threaten the stability of oligarchy by questioning the legitimacy of one of its main institutions. Leaving democracy in their hands means watching the U.S. political system become more and more of a "democracy." We should resurrect the old definitions of democracy that emerged from the movements of workers in struggle -- and that means organizing at the grassroots to demand social change and building for a political alternative independent of the two-party status quo.

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Input: He has said he might recognize Russia’s military annexation of Crimea, which America and its allies consider illegal, and might lift U.S. sanctions imposed on Moscow for its regional aggression. Trump has challenged the importance of NATO, the transatlantic military alliance born out of World War II, and shaken one of its pillars by saying he might not defend a member nation under attack from Russia or other invaders, as the treaty requires. He has called for using torture against terrorism suspects, and has said America has no standing to lecture other nations on human rights and the rule of law, as administrations have done since the depths of the Cold War. He also has suggested upending decades of U.S. efforts aimed at stopping the spread of nuclear weapons by suggesting Japan and South Korea should build their own atomic arsenal rather than rely on the U.S. nuclear umbrella. By embracing these and other controversial positions, Trump has turned America’s postwar political dynamic on its head.

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Input: “On the one hand, any involvement whatever in the practice of torture, countenancing or condoning as well as participating, is forbidden, formally by the World Medical Association 1957 Declaration of Tokyo, but more generally by the professional duty to do no harm,” he said. “On the other hand, the professional duty of care, and more generally human decency and compassion, forbids standing idly by when no other professional with comparable skills is available to relieve the suffering of victims of torture. “But then again, they may also be all too aware that in exercising their duty of care they may simply be ‘patching up’ the victims in order for them to be tortured again.” Professor Boyd said that given the interest in Australia’s immigration control policies in Europe and other places, the practices of its detention centres should be “of moral concern elsewhere also”. “Popular sentiment in relatively peaceful and prosperous countries which are the desired destination of migrants from war-torn or impoverished parts of the world may not always wish to know all of the means by which immigration is controlled,” he said.

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Input: Fewest since Harding's six. — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) June 7, 2016 Spotted on Capitol Hill: Helen Mirren (watch her testimony on Holocaust art restitution here): HOT ON THE LEFT “This Popular Weed Killer Wreaks Havoc on Animals and Is Probably Hurting Us, Too,” from Mother Jones: “Atrazine, the second most commonly used herbicide in the United States, is mainly used to control weeds in the corn blanketing much of the Midwest. The chemical also routinely turns up in streams and drinking water.” And according to a new EPA preliminary risk assessment, it may be doing serious harm to fish, animals, and amphibians, even at extremely low exposure levels.

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Input: Norway, too, has been anxious to deliver political nostrums to others. Its mediation in the Sri Lankan civil war muddled the issues and the civil war became a bloodbath. Though the Scandinavians posed as the moral arbiters of the West, their “model democracy” has created many unacknowledged social problems. Sweden now says it will reject up to 80,000 asylum seekers who arrived last year, half of whom the government says will be forcibly deported. The government has told police and immigration authorities to prepare for a sharp increase in deportations, and to arrange charter flights of migrants to their country of origin.

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Input: In a terse press conference Wednesday morning at his property in Doral, Florida, Donald Trump said he hopes that Hillary Clinton’s “lost” emails have fallen into Russian hands and urged the foreign government to release them. When asked about documents stolen in a cyber attack on the Democratic National Committee’s servers, Trump suggested hackers had also breached Clinton’s personal email server. “By the way, if they hacked, they probably have her 33,000 emails.

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Input: It’s a lesson that Donald Trump, who is hypersensitive to any negative coverage, might heed. He bears some responsibility for the pile-on coverage for issuing an unequivocal denial during the second presidential debate that he “actually [kissed] women without consent or grope[d] women without consent?” “No, I have not,” Trump said. (As he complains about the media response, he should remember what happened when Bill Clinton baldly lied about such a question: He was impeached.) This categorical comment incited reporters to quote women who would put their names to the accusations and emboldened women who had been mauled by Trump to come forward. It also inspired the archive aces to dig deeper for more nasty talk by Trump.

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Input: In light of his long list of exaggerations and outright fabrications detailed in this report, no one should take him at his word.” Rep. Adam Schiff, the panel’s ranking Democrat, told Yahoo News that the report was the product of a two-year investigation of Snowden’s conduct that uncovered new details about his theft of government documents. “I learned things, this was quite exhaustive,” Schiff said in a telephone interview. “The thing that leapt out to me — and I’m glad we can now disclose it — is that the vast majority of what he took had nothing to do with civil liberties. They were military and defense” documents, he said, that harmed national security.

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Input: (Alain Bachellier / Flickr) A group of prominent intellectuals and activists is defying France’s crackdown on the Palestine solidarity movement by publicly calling for the boycott of Israeli goods. This comes just as the French prime minister has announced that his government plans to intensify its restrictions on free speech targeting the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. “This boycott movement is enjoying growing success around the world as the only nonviolent means to put pressure on Israel,” the public figures’ statement in the independent online publication Médiapart says. “It permits everyone who wishes to peacefully demonstrate their solidarity and to protest the favorable treatment [Israel] receives from a large part of the international community despite its constant violations of international law,” it adds.

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Input: Cohen’s directorate appeared to cross over from public relations and “corporate responsibility” work into active corporate intervention in foreign affairs at a level that is normally reserved for states. Jared Cohen could be wryly named Google’s “director of regime change.” According to the emails, he was trying to plant his fingerprints on some of the major historical events in the contemporary Middle East. He could be placed in Egypt during the revolution, meeting with Wael Ghonim, the Google employee whose arrest and imprisonment hours later would make him a PR-friendly symbol of the uprising in the Western press. Meetings had been planned in Palestine and Turkey, both of which — claimed Stratfor emails — were killed by the senior Google leadership as too risky. Only a few months before he met with me, Cohen was planning a trip to the edge of Iran in Azerbaijan to “engage the Iranian communities closer to the border,” as part of Google Ideas’ project on “repressive societies.” In internal emails Stratfor’s vice president for intelligence, Fred Burton (himself a former State Department security official), wrote,

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Input: China’s UN Ambassador Liu Jieyi “Russia has become one of the chief purveyors of terror in Aleppo, using tactics more commonly associated with thugs than governments,” US Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations David Pressman told the council. He said Russia was “intent on allowing the killing to continue and, indeed, participating in carrying it out” and that what was needed from Moscow was “less talk and more action from them to stop the slaughter.” A UN resolution needs nine votes in favour and no vetoes to be adopted. The veto powers are the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China.

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Input: Moving forward. We will issue detainers for illegal immigrants who are arrested for any crime whatsoever, and they will be placed into immediate removal proceedings if we even have to do that. We will terminate the Obama administration's deadly, and it is deadly, non-enforcement policies that allow thousands of criminal aliens to freely roam our streets, walk around, do whatever they want to do, crime all over the place. That's over. That's over, folks.

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Input: "For now, the market is staying well supported," said Olivier Jakob, oil analyst at Petromatrix." It will be difficult to return to the lows of the year." WTI also hit a premium against Brent CL-LCO1 = R in intraday trading, the first time since January, as traders piled into the U.S. crude market on bets of an uptick in domestic oil exports. Venezuela's state-run PDVSA bought two more cargoes of WTI this month after becoming Latin America's first importer of U.S. oil since January after an export ban was lifted." We're seeing increasing export activity in the U.S. Gulf, with over 2-1/2 million barrels currently loaded on tankers, ready to depart, and there's potentially more," said Matt Smith who tracks crude loadings for New York-headquartered Clipperdata.

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Input: Chaos becomes the new normal — both in campaigns and in the government itself.” He believes demonizing and disempowering political professionals and parties is like spending decades abusing and attacking your own immune system. “Eventually, you will get sick,” Rauch writes. “Because that problem is mental, not mechanical, it really is hard to remedy.” (The piece is 29 pages printed out but quite thought provoking. Read it here.)

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Input: One of them, Virginia Giuffre, has claimed she was lured into joining Epstein's harem when she was just 15 years old and was then known as Virginia Roberts. The former teen prostitute has said she was used as a ' sex slave. ' FREQUENT FLYER: Bill Clinton took far more rides on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's ' Lolita Express ' airplane than has been previously disclosed, according to a Fox News report ' MADAM ': Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's ex-lover, is pictured hugging him on the day a child sex abuse investigation was opened into him. She has denied recruiting young girls for him to have sex with

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Input: Even the Court of Cassation must answer for its decisions and respect universal principles, not least the right of expression. The BDS movement was created in the context of the international community’s resignation to its inability to end colonization or protect Palestinians from the daily abuses inflicted on them by the Israeli army and settlers. This boycott movement is enjoying growing success around the world as the only nonviolent means to put pressure on Israel. It permits everyone who wishes to peacefully demonstrate their solidarity and to protest the favorable treatment that country receives from a large part of the international community despite its constant violations of international law. It is why we call for the support and strengthening of the BDS movement and for the boycott of Israeli goods.

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Input: The Rosneft-Essar deal will be the biggest foreign takeover in India, and Russia's largest outbound deal, according to Thomson Reuters data. It comes as Russia moves to reassert its role in global affairs and at a time when its own economy is stagnant, hit by Western sanctions and low oil prices. Under the deal, a group led by Rosneft will acquire 98 percent of Essar Oil, and with it a 400,000 barrels-per-day refinery and port at Vadinar for $ 12.9 billion, the two sides said. Russian state bank VTB (VTBR.MM) said it would refinance $ 3.9 billion owed by the Essar Group. Rosneft would pay $ 3.5 billion and its partners, oil trader Trafigura and investment fund UCP the same amount for an equal joint stake.

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Input: But for the most part, we've lost these other definitions of democracy. That's a real problem, because in this country, certainly, the strength of our democracy has always had more to do with the strength of popular movements of workers and oppressed groups than whichever windbags were elected to Congress or the White House. One of the main reasons we have so little democracy today, even relative to the recent past, is that protest movements are weak, having been greatly hurt in turn by recent assaults on democratic rights: Occupy encampments ruthlessly evicted (mostly by Democratic Party mayors, by the way), Verizon strikers barred from picketing in important locations, laws that make boycotts in solidarity with Palestine illegal. That means that the fight against Donald Trump and all he stands for isn't about defending democracy so much as creating it. For one thing, we need to assert not just our right to vote, but our right to vote for someone other than the oligarchy-approved Hillary Clinton instead of an independent left-wing alternative like the Green Party's Jill Stein.

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Input: Support for the ICC among Africa’s leaders has declined since the indictment of top politicians, including sitting heads of state in Kenya and Sudan. Some have labeled the ICC an instrument of neocolonialism, noting that countries that did not ratify the Rome Statute are among those exerting the greatest pressure on African leaders to submit to the court. South Africa expressed its displeasure last year when it was accused of ignoring its treaty obligations because it allowed Sudan’s President Omar Bashir — accused of genocide and other crimes in his country’s Darfur region — to attend an African Union summit without arresting him. South African officials contend that the Rome Statute is at odds with their efforts to promote a peaceful resolution of conflicts on the continent, which can include hosting adversaries. The decision to leave will be put to a vote in the country’s parliament, but is expected to win approval.

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Input: But on one topic, Trump is conspicuously incurious: the suggestion that he is complicit in a plan by Vladimir Putin to influence the U.S. election. Consider how Trump might react to the following fact pattern if the candidate involved were n’t “Donald Trump” but — let’s pick a name at random here — “Hillary Clinton”: The candidate’s real estate empire, unable to borrow from most U.S. banks, gets capital from Russian sources. Such transfers could n’t occur without Putin’s blessing. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday, July 26 that he raised the issue of Russia's involvement in a Democratic National Convention email hacking incident with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit.

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Input: Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Stratfor analyst Sim Tack:" This was indeed an IS (Islamic State) attack, rather than an accidental explosion" New satellite imagery appears to reveal extensive damage to a strategically significant airbase in central Syria used by Russian forces after a reported attack by so-called Islamic State (IS). Four helicopters and 20 lorries were destroyed in a series of fires inside the T4 base last week, the images from intelligence company Stratfor suggest.

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Input: “I was shocked, but the only thing I thought about was that I did not want them to hurt my son,” she said on a television talk show. The police called it sexual assault, and an appalled public called it rape. Representatives of the collection industry either accused her of lying or suggested that a few “black collectors” were soiling the entire industry. No one has been arrested, and the credit company denied any involvement. The grass-roots level of the collection industry is unregulated, thinly separated from organized crime and peopled mainly by cashiered police officers, former secret police agents and prison or security guards.

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Input: That is the only conversation we should be having at this time, immigration security. Cut it off. Whether it's dangerous materials being smuggled across the border, terrorists entering on visas or Americans losing their jobs to foreign workers, these are the problems we must now focus on fixing. And the media needs to begin demanding to hear Hillary Clinton's answer on how her policies will affect Americans and their security. These are matters of life and death for our country and its people, and we deserve answers from Hillary Clinton.

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Input: Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is furious with Donald Trump Donald TrumpGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Overnight Tech: Trump seeks tech's help for ' sweeping ' IT overhaul | FTC looks to block sports fantasy merger | Firm exposes nearly 200 M voters ' data Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul MORE's refusal to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan Paul RyanRepublicans and the lost promise of local control in education Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax push Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE (R-Wis.) or Sen. John McCain John McCainMcCain: North Korean regime murdered Otto Warmbier GOP defense spending battle delays Republican budget Otto Warmbier, US student held in North Korea for 17 months, dies MORE (R-Ariz.), NBC News reported. ADVERTISEMENT Priebus is “apoplectic” over Trump’s remarks and called campaign chairman Paul Manafort and other top staffers to voice his “extreme displeasure,” NBC reported, citing a source in the GOP.

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Input: Lipscomb added, “The Clinton political criminals have an advantage the Nixon Watergate burglars never had – a compliant lapdog mainstream media that consistently refuses to report anything adverse to the Clinton campaign, despite the abundant evidence we now have from Clinton’s State Department emails, James O’Keefe’s videos and from the Podesta email file Wikileaks is making public.” ‘We’re not going to stop now’ Two undercover videos produced by O’Keefe and his Project Veritas deployed journalists posing as possible funders of Clinton campaign dirty tricks. In the first video, as WND reported, Scott Foval, then of Americans United for Change and formerly of People for the American Way, a Soros-funded group, was shown paying for thugs to create violence to disrupt Trump rallies. “You know what?

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Input: One witness told how the mugger shouted, ' you've lost, hand over your watch ' as he announced the robbery, before breaking the car window with his revolver. Show of force: Massive numbers of heavily-armed police and members of the armed forces have been deployed in Rio Torch procession: This was the police guard for the Olympic Torch Relay-which caused the traffic jam in which a motorcycle robbery went fatally wrong for the perpetrator His accomplice reportedly fled after seeing his partner suddenly hauled inside the diplomat's shot and killed. In a statement, Rio's 31st Military Police Battalion, which investigated the incident, said Braga ' acted quickly pulling the criminal inside the car, took his revolver and fired it towards him. '

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Input: The explicit-sounding call to violence is bad enough. But even worse is that, intentionally or not, Trump has been laying the groundwork for this idea for a while. From his talk of "rigged elections" to his suggestion that we need Russia to hack Clinton’s emails if the Justice Department wo n’t indict her, Trump’s message is clear: Clinton is so corrupt, and the system that favors her is so broken, that our ordinary democratic and legal processes are n’t equipped to handle it. She should be thrown in jail, but she probably wo n’t be. It’s a pretty short step from that idea to violent fantasies of going outside the law for real justice — even from official sources like the Republican Party of Riverside County, California, which recently tweeted a picture of a hangman captioned "Ready For Hillary."

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Input: He often comes under heavy criticism, but he is not afraid (of that) and says: ' Yes that's what we decided, that's what I decided. '" "He is not afraid of taking responsibility, unlike many Western politicians and American politicians who, as far as I understand, can't bring themselves to say ' That's what I decided and that's how it will be. '" Roldugin listed German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, and U.S. President Barack Obama as being guilty of not taking responsibility and of concealing the true nature of agreements they had struck. (Reporting by Denis Pinchuk; Writing by Dmitry Solovyov; Editing by Andrew Osborn)

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Input: But for the most part, we've lost these other definitions of democracy. That's a real problem, because in this country, certainly, the strength of our democracy has always had more to do with the strength of popular movements of workers and oppressed groups than whichever windbags were elected to Congress or the White House. One of the main reasons we have so little democracy today, even relative to the recent past, is that protest movements are weak, having been greatly hurt in turn by recent assaults on democratic rights: Occupy encampments ruthlessly evicted (mostly by Democratic Party mayors, by the way), Verizon strikers barred from picketing in important locations, laws that make boycotts in solidarity with Palestine illegal. That means that the fight against Donald Trump and all he stands for isn't about defending democracy so much as creating it. For one thing, we need to assert not just our right to vote, but our right to vote for someone other than the oligarchy-approved Hillary Clinton instead of an independent left-wing alternative like the Green Party's Jill Stein.

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Input: 17. Falsely said, “Chicago; you take a look at Washington, D.C., we have an increase in murder within our cities.” (Murder is down in D.C. this year. There were 106 homicides as of Oct. 7, compared to 120 at the same time last year.) 18. Falsely said of Clinton, “She made $ 250 million by being in office.

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Input: The presumptive GOP nominee’s opposition to free-trade policies and hard-line approach to immigration are unpopular with the tech industry, which benefitted from globalization and is keen to reform the visa process for skilled workers. ADVERTISEMENT Trump’s talk of an Apple boycott after the company refused to help the FBI break into its phone was also deeply unpopular in the Valley. But there is also a general distaste, like in many other circles, for Trump's temperament and rhetoric. Republicans inside the technology industry predict Trump is almost certain to raise less money from tech donors than Mitt Romney, the previous Republican nominee.

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Input: When the story blew up she said under oath that she had “no role in the decision to terminate the employees.” She did not “direct that any action be taken by anyone.” In a deposition she denied having had a role in the firings, and said she was unable to remember conversations with various staffers with any specificity. A General Accounting Office report found she did play a role. But three years later a memo written by David Watkins to the White House chief of staff, recounting the history of the firings, suddenly surfaced. (“ Suddenly surfaced” is a phrase one reads a lot in Clinton scandal stories.) It showed Mrs. Clinton herself directed them.

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Input: On January 11, the 13-year -old disappeared in the morning on the way to school and the police published an APB. Tuesday noon of the following day she reappeared. According to the company they had been abducted by “Arab men” who had her blindfolded, they kidnapped in an apartment and they were detained for 30 hours against their will and repeatedly raped. The crime scene is suspected near Falkenberg. After she was released in Hellersdorf middle, the girl had rung with strangers, to seek help.

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Input: A neo-Nazi group, including former Latvian Nazi Waffen SS veterans, has demolished a monument to fallen Soviet troops in a Latvian town with the support of a nationalist party which forms part of the ruling coalition in Latvia’s parliament. The monument to fallen Soviet sailors in the northern Latvian town of Limbazi, located about 100 kilometers from Riga, was demolished by activists from neo-Nazi group Daugavas Vanagi (the Daugava Hawks), which calls itself an organization of the former Nazi Waffen SS Legion veterans. The demolition was also supported by the National Alliance, which is a part of the ruling coalition in the Latvian parliament. The party even posted a video of the demolition on its Facebook page with a march playing in the background.

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Input: ' If they start reacting on time to small fires, everything will be okay, ' he claimed. Concern is also growing about other regions in Siberia and the Russian Far East where large summer wildfires are an annual threat to nature and wildlife. In Yamal, a state of emergency has been declared because of the large wildfires, with some 8,000 hectares of forest and tundra destroyed. Hot, dry weather in the Arctic means that during a 24 hour period some 1,000 hectares of tundra has been destroyed. Boris Volovod, an emergencies official in Tazovsky district, said: ' There is no threat to people and settlements (but the) situation is complicated.

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Input: “We continue to underscore the importance of historical remembrance as a tool of prevention, as we call for a full, frank, and just acknowledgment of the facts, which would serve the interests of all concerned,” he said. “I have consistently stated my own view of what occurred in 1915, and my view has not changed.” He also invoked Pope Francis, Turkish scholars and other figures who have recognized the massacre as genocide. “We continue to welcome the expression of views by those who have sought to shed new light into the darkness of the past,” he said. Armenian-American organizations and human-rights groups have long pressed Obama to call it a genocide as president, to no avail.

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Input: On Sunday, a New York Times report claimed that secret ledgers showed $ 12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments designated for Manafort from the Yanukovych administration. Manafort called the report "unfounded, silly and nonsensical" in a statement Monday morning. He added that he had never taken an "off-the-books cash payment" or worked for the governments of either Ukraine or Russia. Corey Lewandowski, who was replaced by Manafort as Trump's campaign manager in June, tweeted a link to the article with no comment on Sunday night – which helped increase speculation of division in the Trump camp. On Saturday, Trump railed against NYT reporters as "dishonest people" over a story about divisions in his campaign, and threatened to revoke their credentials to cover the campaign.

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Input: Turkish Prime Minister said that 2,839 soldiers and officers implicated in an overnight coup attempt have been arrested. At least 265 people have been killed, including 104 pro-coup participants, while 1,440 people were injured in military action in Istanbul and Ankara. According to Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, those arrested included ordinary soldiers and high-ranking officers.

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Input: However, neither the Syrian government nor the rebels were involved in the deal and both have since vowed to continue fighting. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Friday that he intended to retake "the whole country" from rebels-a statement the US government said was "deluded". Syrian government forces, backed by Russian air strikes, have almost encircled rebels in parts of the northern city of Aleppo. Also on Sunday, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev repeated a warning that any foreign ground operation in Syria would lead to "a full-fledged, long war". Turkey has said its troops and forces from Saudi Arabia might participate in a ground operation against IS.

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Input: (Silvia Izquierdo / AP) This post has been updated. More than 100 prominent physicians, bioethicists and scientists from around the world posted a letter Friday urging World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan to exert pressure on Olympic authorities to move the Olympics from Rio de Janeiro or delay the Games because of public health concerns over the Zika virus. Brazil, which is hosting the Olympics and the Paralympics, is at the epicenter of the rapidly evolving mosquito-borne epidemic. The letter is signed by 150 individuals from more than a dozen countries, including Brazil, Japan, Israel, Russia, Sweden, South Africa and the United States.

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Input: The US has resolved to prevent the fall of Aleppo and is preparing to allow its Gulf allies to flood the city with shoulder-fired, anti-aircraft missiles, according to a source with close contacts to rebel forces. The Reuters news agency this week reported anonymous US officials as saying that the recent intense bombardment of Syria's second city had "heightened" the possibility of the Obama administration lifting a long-held ban by allowing Qatar and Saudi Arabia to arm rebels with man-portable missiles. A source on Tuesday told Middle East Eye that the US had confirmed it would allow the two Gulf states to begin shipments." The US confirmed the green light to begin sending them to rebels through supply routes still open through Jordan and Turkey," the source said." Rebels are being told only to target Syrian helicopters, not Russian-but it's not clear they will abide by this.

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Input: The Wall Street Journal ran a full-page ad on Wednesday containing links to a Turkish project that denies the Armenian genocide – the 1915 massacre of 1.5 million people by Ottoman Turks. The newspaper says it accepts ads with “provocative viewpoints.” The ad features the words “Truth = Peace” printed in large letters and shows a hand colored like the Turkish flag holding up a peace sign, while two other hands colored like the Russian and Armenian flags have their fingers crossed.

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Input: "We need change now," Trump concluded. In a highly unusual attack on his possible replacement, Obama questioned why Republicans continue to endorse Trump, even as numerous Republican lawmakers have condemned his comments about the Khans, sometimes criticizing Trump by name and other times denouncing his comments but not mentioning him by name. Trump said the the Khans had "viciously attacked" him at the Democratic convention and then complained that they continued to assail his candidacy in a series of television interviews in recent days. Khizr Khan said Trump had made no sacrifice for the U.S. as great as his son, Humayon Khan, killed by a suicide bomber while protecting other soldiers. Trump, in one interview last weekend, said he had made sacrifices for the United States by creating "thousands of jobs" and providing workers benefits to improve their lives.

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Input: Others said Trump needed to stop engaging in petty battles with former rivals and build a fundraising organization. Trump will meet on Thursday in New York with top fundraisers of the Republican National Committee, a party official said. Hopes flickered among some anti-Trump Republicans that there would be a revolt against him when delegates convene to nominate him formally in Cleveland from July 18 to 21. Representative Morgan Griffith, a Virginia Republican, said that was unlikely but that Trump needed to improve as a candidate." Don't step into the cow pie," Griffith said.

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Input: Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The US says its P-8 Poseidon was carrying out a routine flight over the Black Sea However, the Russian defence ministry said fighters intercepted the US plane because it was heading towards Russian territory with its transponder signal-which helps others identify it-switched off." After the Russian fighters got close to the spy planes for visual confirmation and to determine their wing numbers, the American aircraft changed course sharply and flew away," a statement said." The Russia pilots acted in strict accordance with international rules for flights." Relations between Russia and the West have been strained since the Russian annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014.

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Input: Generally, banks seeking loan payments are not in the business of thrashing their customers physically. The worst abuses are rooted in the so-called microfinance industry, which extends small loans to tide borrowers over until their next paycheck. Those loans average $ 125, according to United Credit Bureau statistics. The interest rate is usually 2 percent a day, or 730 percent a year. That adds up fast.

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Input: "Does this look familiar to me? Absolutely." Trump has staked out a staunchly pro-Israel position, vowing in March that "the days of treating Israel like a second-class citizen will end on day one" of his presidency. And just a day before his tweet about Clinton, Trump tweeted that he was "shocked by the heinous murder" of a 13-year -old Israeli-American Jew who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist Thursday in her home in a West Bank settlement. His daughter Ivanka is also an observant Jew -- having converted to Judaism before her marriage to businessman Jared Kushner -- and Trump has three Jewish grandchildren.

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Input: And so I think an organized effort at voter intimidation coming from the Trump campaign seems very unlikely. What seems more likely is people who are Trump supporters taking matters into their own hands. A couple of weeks ago, I reposted a picture on Twitter of a guy from Florida who had taken his pickup truck and put some chain link fencing on the back of the pickup truck and claimed it was a cage that he was going to keep all the vote fraudsters in. So you see stuff like that. There was also a report last week in the Guardian about Roger Stone who's a kind of old school, dirty trickster who's supporting Trump.

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Input: In a fashion that would have been unheard-of for a Republican during or immediately after the Cold War, Mr. Trump has made improved relations with the Kremlin a centerpiece of his candidacy. And Russia has been a subplot of the campaign that Tom Clancy and John le Carre together may have been unable to conjure, complete with the apparent Russian hack of one of America’s political parties, a threat that Russian hackers may try to tamper with electronic voting machines, and Mr. Putin’s unsubtle preference for Mr. Trump over Mrs. Clinton. While railing against Asian, Latin American and Middle Eastern countries, Mr. Trump has continually praised Mr. Putin’s government: He has hailed Mr. Putin’s tight control over Russian society, hinted that he may not defend the NATO-aligned Baltic nations formerly in Moscow’s sphere of influence, and for a time employed a campaign chief with close ties to Ukraine’s pro-Russian forces. Most extraordinarily, he used a news conference over the summer to urge the Russians to hack into Mrs. Clinton’s emails to find messages the F.B.I. might have missed.

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Input: If a firm or individual has not properly disclosed, in other words, simply correcting the disclosures can be sufficient in some cases. “We were not aware that Rick Gates was a Party of Regions consultant at the time he introduced us to the Centre,” Fritts told The Hill in the emailed statement. “Our assumption was that he was working for the Centre, as we were hired to do.” In the AP report, Podesta principal John Ward Anderson issued a similar statement. The report cites Gates as saying that “he and Manafort introduced the lobbying firms to the European Centre nonprofit and occasionally consulted with the firms on Ukrainian politics.”

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Input: ALTOONA, Pa. Republican Donald Trump on Friday backed away from comments calling President Barack Obama and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton the founders of the militant group Islamic State, while the Republican Party sought to project unity behind their candidate. A new poll showed Trump, whose unfiltered speaking style has repeatedly landed him in hot water, losing ground in three crucial states ahead of the Nov. 8 general election against Clinton. In a surprise appearance, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, who in private expressed fury over some of Trump's actions earlier this month, introduced the candidate at a campaign event in Erie, Pennsylvania, and the two hugged onstage." We’re so honored to be working with Donald Trump and the campaign," Priebus told thousands of Trump supporters.

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Input: (New York City Commission on Human Rights) A press release from the New York City Commission on Human Rights emphasized an individuals’ “right” to use any restroom, regardless of the sex they were “assigned” at birth. “While other cities and states are legislating intolerance and taking away individuals’ right to use bathrooms consistent with their gender identity, we are proudly standing with our transgender and gender non-confirming New Yorkers,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement. Existing city law already permits transgender people to use the bathroom of their choosing. The new ad blitz is only designed to promote the policy.

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Input: NATO defense ministers will this week begin outlining plans for a complex web of small eastern outposts and warehoused equipment ready for a rapid response force, with troops on rotation and war games held regularly. The rapid response force includes air, maritime and special operations units of up to 40,000 personnel. The allies are also expected to offer Moscow a renewed dialogue in the NATO-Russia Council, which has not met since 2014, about improved military transparency to avoid surprise events and misunderstandings, a senior NATO diplomat said. U.S. plans for a four-fold increase in military spending in Europe, to $ 3.4 billion in 2017, are central to the strategy, which has been shaped in response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the U.S. plans will mean “more troops in the eastern part of the alliance.

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Input: More Syrian civilians killed in latest US airstrike A day after announcing an inquiry into what watchdogs call the United States’ worst civilian casualty incident in its war against Isis, the US military said more civilians may have been killed in another attack around Manbij city east of Aleppo province. A monitoring group put the death toll in the latest airstrike at 28 civilians, including, once again, women and children. US military says it may have killed more civilians in latest airstrike in Syria Norway might give Finland a mountain for its 100th birthday

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Input: Those other programs were effectively tracking the activities and individuals in terrorist groups, drug cartels, human trafficking rings, nuclear proliferation programs, cyber crime gangs and foreign espionage agencies like Russia’s Federal Security Bureau (FSB), the successor of the Cold War KGB. After Snowden's revelations of how the U.S. tracked those activities, many of the targeted groups changed the way they communicated to evade NSA’s collection. The U.S. suddenly had less ability to prevent terrorist attacks, cocaine smuggling, and espionage. It is true that the U.S. may ultimately re-gain some of the access it lost because of Snowden -- some but not all. Gaining any new ability to track terrorists, criminals and spies will likely cost taxpayers billions of dollars.

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Input: And so it is with President Obama, a man honored with a Nobel Peace Prize presumably for his commitment to abolishing nuclear weapons, who may well go down in history as the man who made the Apocalypse doable because of his proposed trillion dollar nuclear weapons upgrade. America's political freedom relies on safe and rational foreign policy decisions. The Patriot Act, NSA spying and a perpetual War on Terror are but three consequences of a foreign policy that is neither safe nor rational. Supporters of Bernie Sanders assume that he will make foreign policy decisions free from the inbred neoconservative biases of his chief opponent, but what will the Vermont Senator's supporters do should their candidate fall in line with the status quo after the election, as Obama did, and fail to deliver on his promises? Americans, both left and right, are ill informed when it comes to their leaders.

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Input: In the coming presidential election, the outcome will probably be determined by whether the powerful oligarchic interest groups decide whether Trump is an actual threat or whether they can cosy up to him and rope him in by appointing his government. Trump’s disability is that no matter how able an individual is, that person can not simultaneously make themselves a multi-billionaire and be knowledgeable of economic and foreign policy issues. The bald fact is that Trump, if he becomes president, does not know whom to appoint in order to have the support from his government to effect the changes for which his supporters hope he stands. When a person becomes President, that person does n’t suddenly become an encyclopedia with full knowledge. The President is dependent on the information flows from his government.

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Input: The internationalists have been, until now, so dominant and sure of themselves and the postwar system that in recent years no one has questioned it (though the unilateralist George W. Bush administration did an effective job of largely ignoring its institutions — especially NATO — in its first term). Unwinding this system today is almost unthinkable: American power overlays every region of the planet, and it supplies the control rods that restrain belligerents and arms races from East Asia to Latin America (if not always successfully, as we’ve seen in the Mideast and Afghanistan). Nor does Trump appear to be going so far as to say he wants to withdraw from the global system—“To all our friends and allies, I say America is going to be strong again. America is going to be a reliable friend and ally again,” he said in his speech — but he does seem willing to renegotiate the terms and conditions for it, as well as America’s role in it. * * *

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Input: To neoliberals, everyone and everything are disposable. The failed states that have risen up across the Middle East, Africa, the Caucasus and Asia in the wake of the Cold War herald a neoliberal world driven by violence, corruption, greed and desperation. The drug traffickers, smugglers, pirates, kidnappers, jihadists, criminal gangs and militias that roam huge swaths of territory where central authority has vanished are the real faces of globalization. These nihilists define Islamic State just as they define the corporate state. Corruption may be more naked and cruder in Afghanistan or Iraq, but it has its parallel in the for-sale politicians and political parties that dominate the United States and Europe.

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Input: KARKAMIS, Turkey Turkish troops fired on U.S.-backed Kurdish militia fighters in northern Syria on Thursday, highlighting the complications of an incursion meant to secure the border region against both Islamic State and Kurdish advances. Syrian rebels backed by Turkish special forces, tanks and warplanes entered Jarablus, one of Islamic State's last strongholds on the Turkish-Syrian border, on Wednesday. But President Tayyip Erdogan and senior government officials have made clear the aim of "Operation Euphrates Shield" is as much about stopping the Kurdish YPG militia seizing territory and filling the void left by Islamic State as it is about eliminating the ultra-hardline Islamist group itself. A Turkish security source said the army shelled the People's Protection Units (YPG) south of Jarablus. Turkey's state-run Anadolu agency described the action as warning shots.

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Input: “I’m very passionate and supportive of the Reagan foreign policy of peace through strength.” Trump too often invokes Ronald Reagan when talking about America’s role in the world. But although Reagan negotiated with the Soviet Union, he also stood up to Russian aggression in Europe and defended democratic principles abroad. When the platform comes out, Republicans will see how far from the Reagan doctrine their party has drifted, thanks to Trump.

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Input: I built an unbelievable company, ' he said. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (center) talks with his daughter Chelsea Clinton prior the first presidential debate From left, Melania Trump, Ivanka Trump, Mike Pence, Karen Pence, retired Gen. Michael Flynn, and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani watch the debate Former U.S. President Bill Clinton greets Melania Trump ahead of the start of the first debate on Monday night ' On occasion, four times we used certain laws that are there, ' Trump said of bankruptcy filings.

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Input: Those killed at the Istanbul airport had come from all over the world, but most of them were Turkish, including 10 airport employees, TAV Airports CEO Sani Sener said. Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry said six Saudis were killed and dozens more wounded. Other fatalities included two Iraqis, one Tunisian, one Chinese, one Iranian, one Ukrainian, one Jordanian and one person from Uzbekistan, a Turkish official said. Three of the foreigners had dual Turkish citizenship. One U.S. citizen suffered "minor injuries," Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Thursday.

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Input: They're going out fast. Moving forward. We will issue detainers for illegal immigrants who are arrested for any crime whatsoever, and they will be placed into immediate removal proceedings if we even have to do that. We will terminate the Obama administration's deadly, and it is deadly, non-enforcement policies that allow thousands of criminal aliens to freely roam our streets, walk around, do whatever they want to do, crime all over the place. That's over.

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Input: Free trade Hillary and the global crisis Despite what she says, Clinton is fundamentally for the hated “free trade” deals on the table right now — the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. The CNAS paper urges Congress to pass the TPP as soon as possible, presumably before the election, to strengthen the U.S. “stewardship” of Asia. In other words, free trade agreements which are not freedom for workers — in reality they serve only to make world trade more subordinate to dictates of Wall Street — will be helpful, primarily, in expanding U.S. power. The greater poverty, misery and evisceration of rights that the TPP would bring about for workers in Asia and the U.S. be damned.

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Input: Cruz has faced criticism for his ties to Goldman Sachs. His wife is an investment manager at the firm. Reports emerged last month that Cruz did not disclose loans from the financial firm during his 2012 Senate campaign. He has dismissed those charges, saying it was a clerical error that has been corrected.

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Input: But nearly half the logging will be of other species, according to its only published inventory. Oak trees as high as 150 feet that have grown for 450 years could be reduced to stumps under the planned threefold increase in tree fells. Białowieża hosts Europe’s largest bison population and wolves and lynx still roam freely across its sun-mottled interior. Its foliage stretches for nearly 1,000 square miles across the border between Poland and Belarus. Beneath its green canopy, sunlight filters down on to a panorama of skyscraper trees soaring as much as 180 feet into the air, swampy water pools dammed by beavers, and psychedelic fungi that sprout from tree trunks.

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Input: Under Hillary Clinton’s leadership as Secretary of State, the U.S. gave support to the Honduras military which ousted yet another democratically elected president. Here’s Dana Frank’s description in the New York Times on January 26, 2012. “Ever since the June 28, 2009, coup that deposed Honduras’s democratically elected president, José Manuel Zelaya, the country has been descending deeper into a human rights and security abyss. That abyss is in good part the State Department’s making .... This chain of events — a coup that the United States did n’t stop, a fraudulent election that it accepted — has now allowed corruption to mushroom.

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Input: President Putin has been notified of the arrest of two CIA agents who Turkey say shot down a Russian plane last November, and attempted to assassinate President Erdogan. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) for the Republic of Turkey, the two captured CIA pilots were not only responsible for shooting down the Russian Sukhoi Su-24 m bomber over Syria last year, but also attempted to kill President Erdogan during the failed “coup” attempt a few days ago. Whatdoesitmean.com reports: The MoD further warned that the Obama regime was planning to kill President Erdogan in a coup and replace him the CIA’s “designated figurehead” Fethullah Gulen — and that Turkey’s MoFA confirmed just hours ago was behind this plot by stating that “the Fethullah Gülen Terrorist Organization is behind this coup attempt”.

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Input: “Hopefully, after the election is over and the dust settled, there will be more attention to the actual facts behind the deal and it wo n’t just be a political symbol or a political football.” The president also weighed in gingerly on the release of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee, the result of a cyber-intrusion that some experts have pinned on Russia. Asked whether Moscow was behind the attack, Obama declined to comment specifically, citing an ongoing FBI investigation, but hinted that his administration was looking at possible retaliation against the perpetrators. “There are a lot of countries out there that are trying to hack into our stuff,” he said. “We have provisions in place where, if we see evidence of a malicious attack by a state actor, we can impose, potentially, certain proportional penalties.

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Input: Viewers were told that Clinton sees Russia as an enemy and can not be trusted, while the Democratic Party convention was portrayed as further proof that American democracy is a sham. In her acceptance speech, Clinton reaffirmed a commitment to NATO, saying she was "proud to stand by our allies in NATO against any threat they face, including from Russia." In doing so, she was implicitly rebuking her rival, Republican nominee Donald Trump, who has questioned the need for the Western alliance and suggested that if he is elected president, the United States might not honour its NATO military commitments, in particular regarding former Soviet republics in the Baltics. While Trump's position on NATO has delighted the Kremlin, Clinton's statement clearly stung." She mentioned Russia only once, but it was enough to see that the era of the reset is over," Channel One said in its report.

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Input: Twenty-two voted in favour of the sanction, with one voting against. The council member from Russia, who pleaded ARAF’s case as part of the meeting, was not eligible to vote. Coe said: ‘Today we have been dealing with the failure of ARAF and made the decision to provisionally suspend them, the toughest sanction we can apply at this time. But we discussed and agreed that the whole system has failed the athletes, not just in Russia, but around the world." This has been a shameful wake-up call and we are clear that cheating at any level will not be tolerated.

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Input: At the time of writing, the Bitcoin address associated with the so-called Shadow Brokers had received a handful of Bitcoin transfers totaling about $ 24 (the exchange rate was $ 568.22 per Bitcoin at press time)—nowhere near the crowdsourced half a billion dollars requested to publicly leak an unencrypted version of the remaining 40% of the data. The hackers said they would end the bidding "when we feel it is time to end," and would not return money to losers. (Most people agree the auction was a clever — and successful — ploy to attract attention.) See also: These 10 Companies Are the Top Cybersecurity Startup Acquirers Meanwhile, whistleblowing website WikiLeaks also said that it had acquired and would publish a copy of the "cyber weapons" cache shortly.

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Input: The Budapest-based think tank Political Capital was among the first to note that the Kremlin was clearly courting and assisting far-right parties and personalties in western Europe as well as those in countries Russian politicians like to term the “near abroad”, the former Soviet Union’s satellite states. Among the aims, the think tank suspects is to keep Europe dependent on Russian natural gas, a useful economic weapon to wield, especially during harsh winters, against the Europeans when needs be. But influence-peddling and mischief-making has become more sophisticated and now consists not only of funding far-right parties as well as far-left ones or honey-trapping, and subsequently blackmailing, a transgressing politician or two. And it has gone beyond just using longterm sleeper agents, like Anna Chapman, to infiltrate strategic sectors, whether it be U.S. government Beltway sub-contractors, Microsoft or marketing agencies in New York. As the Economist’s Edward Lucas, the first Western reporter to focus in earnest on Russia’s hybrid and myriad subversion techniques designed for a globalized, free market world the Kremlin has discovered the West above all likes cash — and that influence, if not loyalty, can be bought, that politics and policy can be shaped and tweaked even more effectively by a company directorship here; a business deal there.

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Input: ADVERTISEMENT "Mr. Murphy’s positions on climate change — an issue that Mr. Rubio seems deeply ignorant about — gay rights, gun control and comprehensive immigration reform make him by far a superior representative for Floridians," the editorial reads." Mr. Murphy has also challenged Mr. Rubio’s obstinate support for the failed embargo on Cuba, which puts him on the right side of history and, increasingly, public opinion in Florida," it stated. The newspaper noted that the Florida Senate race is one of the most crucial contests of the election season that is surprisingly close due to the changing attitudes of Cuban-Americans voters." The changing Latino electorate is the key factor, with Cuban-Americans, who once swung reliably Republican, increasingly up for grabs, particularly younger voters who are more socially liberal than their parents and less dogmatic about the Cuban embargo," the editors argued.

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Input: Black people are nearly six times as likely to be locked up as their white peers, with only about 61 to 80 percent of that overrepresentation explained by higher crime rates in black communities. The racial disparity is one of the major explanations for black Americans’ distrust of the criminal justice system. It is, in other words, one reason that people in these communities may feel the need to take the law into their own hands — sometimes leading to more violent crime. But were the racially disparate results that have led to this distrust deliberate — the "new Jim Crow," to use a term popularized by Michelle Alexander’s book of the same name? Latzer’s history suggests they were n’t, since policymakers — including black leaders — were reacting to a real crime wave.

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Input: The United States and Russia haven't been cooperating much in these days of heightened tensions, but the U.S. Embassy in Moscow this week returned 28 valuable historical documents to Russia. They were stolen from Russian collections and archives during the turbulent 1990s, in the wake of the Soviet collapse. The documents were believed to be stolen by Russian insiders and then made their way to U.S. dealers and auction houses. U.S. and Russian officials met at the American ambassador's residence to exchange friendly words and speeches of thanks. The reason for the ceremony was on display in an adjoining room — a whole table covered with the stolen goods.

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Input: Attacking the honor and record of the Bush family amounted to one of the biggest risks that Mr. Trump had taken during the presidential race, given that Mr. Bush and his “super PAC” are spending heavily to win the South Carolina primary and that Bush advisers believe Mr. Trump is vulnerable here. Mr. Trump’s florid reputation, past support for abortion rights and harsh language — including a vulgarity he used last week about Mr. Cruz — could alienate social conservatives and establishment Republicans in the state, according to Bush advisers. While Mr. Bush has assailed Mr. Trump in the past and described him as all but unqualified for the presidency, the Saturday debate was his most forceful performance of the race. The debate was also critical for Senator Marco Rubio of Florida after his disastrous turn in a face-off last weekend in New Hampshire, where Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey savaged him as scripted and callow after Mr. Rubio kept repeating the same stock attack on President Obama.

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Input: From the start the DLC maintained a strong neo-conservative agenda, especially in foreign policy. Its selection of Bill Clinton as chairman in 1990 helped cement its acceptance with the general public but the split within the party grew even deeper. These "New Democrats" sold themselves as centrist reformers but behaved more like merchant bankers and, within a few years, ushered in a raft of privatizations, Wall Street giveaways, tough-on-crime laws, and deregulated trade rules that would rob the middle class and set a course toward financial ruin. The New Democrats were quickly swapping tried and true Democratic Party values for tried and true Republican virtues, and within no time had banished the real "left" in anything but name from the political process. Prior to the 1990s, old Democrats were careful to reconcile their rank and file with the "limousine liberals" who financed candidates and funded campaigns, but according to the author of Reinventing Democrats, Kenneth Baer, the DLC was now brazenly selling itself as an "elite organization [within the party] funded by elite-corporate and private-donors."

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Input: "As you know, investments over the years in U.S.-Israeli missile defense programs have saved the lives of countless civilians from indiscriminate rocket and missile attacks," they wrote. Signatories so far include Republican Sens. Kirk, 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 (Fla.), Kelly Ayotte Kelly AyotteKelly Ayotte joins defense contractor's board of directors Week ahead: Comey firing dominates Washington GOP senators pitch Merrick Garland for FBI director MORE (N.H.), David Vitter David VitterOvernight Energy: Trump set to propose sharp cuts to EPA, energy spending Former La. official tapped as lead offshore drilling regulator Former senator who crafted chemicals law to lobby for chemicals industry MORE (La.), Cory Gardner Cory GardnerThese GOP senators need to stand up to their party on healthcare Trump having lunch with senators to talk healthcare McCain strikes back as Trump’s chief critic MORE (Colo.), Orrin Hatch Orrin HatchWeek ahead: Ryan to give ' major ' tax reform speech | Panel takes up flood insurance bill | Trump trade rep heads before Congress Senate GOP shifts focus to Lynch Sen. Hatch jokes he was behind Nickelback prank on Sen. Sasse MORE (Utah), Roger F. Wicker (Miss.

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Input: A woman who has accused Bill Clinton of rape and been a vocal opponent of Hillary Clinton's criticized Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign on Sunday for using her words in a political attack ad in a new interview. Juanita Broaddrick was 35-years -old when she met then-Arkansas Attorney General Bill Clinton in 1978. Clinton was 31-years -old at the time when Broaddrick claims he raped her in a Little Rock hotel room.

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Input: This war has helped the Takfiri terrorists of AQAP (Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) conquer territory in the country. With the beheading of Nimr, this proxy war between the Saudis and Iran has threatened to become a direct conflict. Enraged at the execution, Shi’ite protesters in Iran ransacked and firebombed the Saudi embassy. The Saudis reacted by completely breaking off diplomatic contact with Iran. Soon after, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Sudan slashed ties as well.

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Input: There are no statistics on how many Tajiks have been victims of hate crimes, or have lost their lives in Russia. Often, the bodies of murder victims aren't even sent back to their home country, but rather buried quickly at the nearest Muslim cemetery. Scharipow says he alone arranges for the transport back to Tajikistan of three to four of his countrymen each day with the so-called "Fracht-200": Dead, in a coffin made out of zinc." In total, about 1,300 Tajiks die in Russia each year ", said Scharipov. Sulaimon Saidov is still alive, although he now has considerable disabilities.

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Input: What they fail to point out is that a true system of open borders would open the only border in the world between a First World nation and a Third World nation, the U.S. and Mexico. Her goal is entirely unrealistic. If we opened that border, millions of Mexicans would migrate immediately because of the higher pay and better living conditions here. But she stated in plain English that this is her goal. Nonetheless, the Post pundits rate as "mostly false" Trump's assertion that when she said "open borders" she meant "open border."

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Input: "I would put a lot of pressure on China because economically we have tremendous power over China," he said in the interview in his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan." China can solve that problem with one meeting or one phone call." A Chinese official said dialogue was needed to resolve issues on the Korean peninsula. “China supports direct talks and communication between the United States and North Korea. We believe this is beneficial,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters.

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Input: One oft-heard idea is to fire missiles from outside Syria to crater military runways to make them unusable. One aim of such strategies is to increase the odds of a negotiated end to the war. Obama’s reticence has robbed Secretary of State John Kerry, who is valiantly trying to negotiate a lasting Syrian cease-fire, of leverage. The U.S. was able to get an Iran deal because it held bargaining chips, while in Syria we have relinquished all clout. And Obama’s dithering has had a real cost, for any steps in Syria are far more complex now that Russia is in the war.

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Input: “We thought about how to improve [the work of law enforcement] in all areas, including those related to fighting terrorism, to organized crime and illicit drug trafficking,” Putin said. The statement came as Putin met Interior Minister Viktor Kolokoltsev, head of the Federal Drug Control Service Viktor Ivanov, and the commander of the interior troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Viktor Zolotov. Viktor Zolotov, ex-commander of the Internal Troops and former head of the President's personal security service, has been appointed as the leader of the new structure, with orders to report directly to the president, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Tuesday. He also drew attention to the fact that Zolotov “has grand experience in [the work of] special forces. This is a very good basis for managing a body such as the National Guard.”

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Input: Speaking of Benghazi, while the government has n’t held Hillary responsible for her inaction during the attacks, the families of the victims are n’t going to let this scandal die, like all of Hillary’s others over the decades. As the Boston Herald reports: Parents of two Benghazi victims have sued Hillary Clinton, arguing that she caused the death of their sons and later defamed them in statements made to the media, according to court documents. “During her campaign for President, Defendant Clinton has negligently, recklessly, and/or maliciously defamed Plaintiffs by either directly calling them liars, or by strongly implying that they are liars, in order to protect and enhance her public image and intimidate and emotionally harm and silence them not to speak up about the Benghazi attack on at least four separate occasions,” Larry Klayman, an attorney for the families, wrote in his complaint. The suit was brought by Charles Woods and Pat Smith, parents of Benghazi victims Tyrone Woods and Sean Smith, respectively. The suit also suggests Clinton’s use of a private server to handle classified emails could have contributed to the deaths.

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Input: REUTERS / Jorge Silva GENEVA The United States and Russia failed on Friday to reach a breakthrough deal on military cooperation and a nationwide cessation of hostilities in Syria, saying they still have issues to resolve before an agreement could be announced. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, addressing a joint news conference after more than nine hours of off-and-on talks in Geneva, said teams from both sides would try to finalize details in coming days in the Swiss city. Kerry said the talks with Lavrov had "achieved clarity on the path forward" but together they offered few details on how they planned to renew a February cessation of hostilities and improve humanitarian assistance." We don't want to have a deal for the sake of the deal," Kerry said.

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Input: THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NO LONGER EXISTS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NO LONGER EXISTS And an orchestrated war with Russia has all of us marked for extinction Paul Craig Roberts The Democratic Party that once was concerned with workers’ rights, the elderly, civil rights, and the constitutional protections of America liberty no longer exists.

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Input: Not just these two pilots were ordered by the CIA to abort their mission, this report notes, but, in fact, all Turkish, NATO and American aircraft were ordered to immediately return to their bases too throughout the entire Levant War Zone. Without air cover to protect them, this report says, these CIA coup forces were overwhelmed by both Turkish police forces and ordinary citizens and President Erdogan was able to land safely in Istanbul to guide them to victory. Stunningly, this SC report reveals that the reason for the CIA ordering all of their aircraft supporting their coup to be grounded was due to President Putin’s “threat / promise” to immediately activate the MoD’s S-500 Prometey (55R6 M Triumfator-M) air defense systems stationed at Khmeimim Air Base that would, within 120 seconds, down every “hostile” aircraft over Turkey, Syria and Iraq — as well as destroy every single US-NATO military satellite in low Earth orbit (LEO) over the Levant. Though barely known to average Western peoples, this report explains, the S-500 is the most feared weapon of its type in the world and can simultaneously intercept up to ten ballistic and hypersonic missiles and is capable of engaging targets at an altitude of up to 200 kilometers (more than 120 miles), can intercept aircraft and UAVs, as well as destroy low-earth-orbit satellites, space destruction devices and orbital weaponry too — and by its ability to operate on super inaudible radio channels, makes it impervious to all countermeasures. With these two CIA pilots now in custody, along with their commander, and coup leader, General Akin Ozturk, this report continues, it is expected that they will be sentenced to death after President Erdogan’s government reinstates the death penalty later this week, or next.

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Input: The governor of St Petersburg clarified what bread rations people could expect should Russia come under attack – 300 grams for 20 days. The Kremlin also ordered nuclear capable missiles to be rolled into a base in mainland Europe, on an enclave near Poland called Kaliningrad. It comes as Russia vowed to shoot down any American fighter planes that attack President Bashar al-Assad's forces in Syria. GETTY Bombs have been raining down on Syrian civilians as Russia continues its bombardment Verbal jousting between the US, Britain and Russia over the issue of the ongoing bombardment of civilians in Syria are reaching a peak, with the very real possibility of genuine armed conflict between the nations taking place over the city of Aleppo.

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