Input: SPEAKER: Laura Wilkerson. And my son was Joshua Wilkerson. He was murdered by an illegal in 2010. And I personally support Mr. Trump for our next president. SPEAKER: My name is Ruth Johnston Martin (ph).

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Input: Rep. Adam Schiff Adam SchiffSchiff: Russia investigation is just beginning Sunday shows preview: Trump pushes back as Russia probe heats up Dem: Congress will begin impeachment if Trump fires Mueller, Rosenstein MORE (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, called Obama's decision "painfully inexplicable" given his comments about the killings as a senator and presidential candidate. “I’m gravely disappointed that President Obama will now leave office without fulfilling his commitment to recognize the Armenian Genocide," he said in a statement." Recognition of the Armenian Genocide could have been a proud part of the president's legacy; instead this decision will be just another sad milestone in the struggle to prevent genocide by exposing genocide and its perpetrators." Updated at 11:55 a.m.

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Input: And in 2011, Trump sued the company behind Trump Vodka after it went bankrupt, demanding $ 8.4 from his former partners. There’s no indication that Trump received the money, or that he gave any of it to charity." Trump also faces questions about what happened to money from his most recent book, “Crippled America.” He pledged to donate the profits to charity: “In May, Trump reported earning more than $ 1 million in royalties from the book. But there were no signs that he gave away any of it. His staff refused to answer questions.” Both of these fit into a quite familiar pattern ...

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Input: A few months later, in the November 2012 presidential election, Romney lost Florida by fewer than 75,000 votes, making consequential the 180,000 Hispanic voters who were on the voting roles despite serious questions about their eligibility to vote. Striking down voter ID laws While no American can board an airplane, rent a car or even cash a check without showing a valid government-issued ID, the Democratic Party charges “voter suppression” and brings lawyers to court to litigate every time efforts are made to pass basic voter ID laws. Techniques Democrats used to get Obama elected in 2012 included coaching students on how to vote for Obama in the state where they were attending college and also by absentee ballot in the state where their parents resided; encouraging Obama supporters to vote by absentee ballot in states where they formerly resided as well as the state in which they currently reside; and finding voters to assume the identity of someone Democratic campaign officials knew would not show up to vote, including deceased individuals still on voter registration rolls. As WND reported, in the 2012 election Obama did not win a single state that requires photo IDs to vote, although he was victorious in four states that accept non-photo identification – Ohio, Virginia, Colorado and Washington.

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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 is no evidence, however, that Liddy’s “Operation Gemstone” was ever taken seriously, let alone implemented. “Trump is right,” Lipscomb told WND. “The Clintons, with the help of funding diverted from the Clinton Foundation and George Soros’ seemingly endless flow of hundreds of millions of dollars to ‘progressive causes,’ have set out to steal the 2016 election in a rigged election that dwarfs Watergate in its dangerous disregard for the laws of electoral politics. The total bill for the Watergate operation, including payoffs, was less than $ 2 million.” 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.”

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Input: Trump’s foreign policy advisor Carter Page has his own business ties to the state-controlled Russian oil giant Gazprom. ... Another Trump foreign policy advisor, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, flew to Moscow last year to attend a gala banquet celebrating Russia Today, the Kremlin’s propaganda channel, and was seated at the head table near Putin. Manafort denounced the New York Times Monday for a deeply reported story that broke over the weekend showing that secret ledgers in Ukraine contained references to $ 12.7 million in payments earmarked for him. The Times report said that the party of former Ukraine president and pro-Russia ally, Viktor Yanukovych, set aside the payments for Manafort as part of an illegal and previously undisclosed system of payments. “Once again, the New York Times has chosen to purposefully ignore facts and professional journalism to fit their political agenda, choosing to attack my character and reputation rather than present an honest report,” Manafort said in a statement first reported by NBC News.

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Input: This sort of behavior is not an appearance of a conflict of interest but the definition of one. Trump appears to be genuinely unaware, even at the conceptual level, that his business interests might complicate his ability to govern in the public interest. During the primary, when a debate moderator asked if he would put his holdings in a blind trust, Trump comically replied that he would, while defining a “blind trust” to mean his children would run his business for him, which is the opposite of a blind trust. Even if Trump wanted to distance himself from his business interests, the nature of his holdings would make it virtually impossible, as The Wall Street Journal explains today. A traditionally rich person could place their wealth in third-party hands without knowing what they were invested in; Trump’s business is his personal brand, making divestment impossible.

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Input: But Egypt’s Christians complain that they still suffer discrimination and even violence in some cases. A 70-year -old Christian woman was stripped naked by a Muslim mob in the Minya province in Upper Egypt in May, following rumors that the woman’s son had had an affair with a Muslim woman. Seven Christian homes were also ransacked and torched in the incident. Mina Thabet, a Coptic activist at the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, a civil society group based in Cairo, tells Newsweek that Moussa’s killing can not be taken out of context. “You ca n’t separate this from the problem of discrimination against Christians and religious minorities in general in Egypt.

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Input: This was seen as something near impossible at the time. A head transplant is a surgical operation which involves the grafting of one organism's head onto the body of another. Head transplantation involves decapitating the patient. Pushing forward his idea, Canavero has now proposed a two-part procedure. He describes the two procedures as: HEAVEN, or head anastomosis venture; and Gemini, or the subsequent spinal cord fusion. Canavero has described how the procedure might work for the journal Surgical Neurology International. Following this, Canavero has presented the concept to the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeon’s 39th annual conference. According to the website Gineers Now, the first head transplant will take around 36 hours to complete and it will require a surgical team of 150 people, and at a cost of $ 20 million. Apparently the recipient of the first transplant has been identified.

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Input: Fifteen pro-regime military officials -- including four Russian generals -- have been killed by opposition forces in northwestern Syria near the border with Turkey, Syrian opposition sources said Wednesday. According to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the slain military officials included four Russian generals and four Syrian generals who had met late Tuesday in Turkmen Mountain -- located in Syria’s northern Latakia region -- to discuss recent military developments. One of the slain Russian generals, identified only as "Yuri", was reportedly coordinating regime attacks in Turkmen Mountain, the sources added. In a statement issued later in the day, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed death of one Russian officer in Syria but did not mention his name or rank. The statement said the officer was in Syria for "military consultancy on use of weapons" and was killed on Feb. 1 during an attack on a military post that belongs to the Syrian regime.

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Input: Democratic Nominee for Vice President Tim Kaine walks on stage during the 2016 Democratic National Convention at Wells Fargo Center. (Photo: Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY) In a plain-folks manner that appeased some of Bernie Sanders ' supporters -- who continued to disrupt portions of the convention for a third consecutive night in defense of their left-wing agenda -- Kaine mimicked Trump as "a slick-talking, empty-promising, self-promoting, one-man wrecking crew." "He never tells you how he's going to do any of the things he says he's going to do," Kaine said." He just says, ' believe me. '

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Input: There are only 35 doctors left to tend the wounded in Aleppo (AFP / Getty Images) East Aleppo’s supply lines were completely shut off by goverment forces in July, leaving residents inside living under siege conditions. There are only 35 doctors left in the district caring for hundreds of wounded, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. A White Helmets representative told The Independent he estimated 2,000 people were in need of urgent medical assistance. “WHO is calling for the immediate establishment of humanitarian routes to evacuate sick and wounded from the eastern part of the city,” spokesperson Fadela Chaib said from Geneva.

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Input: Perhaps it’s unfair to reproach Obama when other politicians and other countries are also unmoved — and the U.S. has been generous with financial aid — but ultimately the buck stops on Obama’s desk. He will host a summit meeting on refugees next month and I hope will seize that chance to provide the global leadership needed to address the crisis. I met recently with two brave American doctors who, at great personal risk, used their vacation time to sneak into Aleppo, Syria, to care for children injured by barrel bombs. They described working in a makeshift underground hospital and their quiet fury at the world’s nonchalance. “Sitting idly by and allowing a government and its allies to systematically and deliberately bomb, torture and starve hundreds of thousands of people to death, that is not the solution,” Dr. Samer Attar, a surgeon from Chicago, told me.

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Input: In response, Russia's defence ministry asked permission from President Vladimir Putin to resume air strikes against the rebels after a 10-day pause, but he denied the request. About 275,000 people have been besieged in the east of the city for months. Russian and Syrian government planes began bombarding the city in September. More than 2,700 people are said to have been killed and injured since then. Russia suspended its air campaign on 18 October to allow evacuations of sick and wounded people but few have heeded the call to leave.

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Input: Investigators have yet to make an official determination that Russia was behind the Podesta email break-in and subsequent WikiLeaks dump, although they are reportedly leaning in that direction. The Clinton campaign has neither confirmed nor denied the authenticity of any individual Podesta emails, although it did acknowledge the hack. Ecuador on Tuesday vowed to remain mostly hands-off on the divisive issue, reaffirming the country's decision to grant Assange asylum “based on his legitimate fears of persecution because of his journalistic activities as the editor of WikiLeaks.” Authors:

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Input: Those concerns prompted Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to convene a conference call with state election officials on Aug. 15, in which he offered his department’s help to make state voting systems more secure, including providing federal cybersecurity experts to scan for vulnerabilities, according to a “readout” of the call released by the department. Johnson emphasized in the call that Homeland Security was not aware of “specific or credible cybersecurity threats” to the election, officials said. But three days after that call, the FBI Cyber Division issued a potentially more disturbing warning, titled “Targeting Activity Against State Board of Election Systems.” The alert, labeled as restricted for “NEED TO KNOW recipients,” disclosed that the bureau was investigating cyberintrusions against two state election websites this summer, including one that resulted in the “exfiltration,” or theft, of voter registration data. “It was an eye opener,” a senior law enforcement official said of the bureau’s discovery of the intrusions. “We believe it’s kind of serious, and we’re investigating.”

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Input: "We take care of Saudi Arabia. Now nobody’s going to mess with Saudi Arabia because we’re watching them," he said." They’re not paying us a fair price. We’re losing our shirt," he said. Trump had earlier suggested that the United States should consider ditching Riyadh because Washington is increasingly getting less dependent on the Saudi Arabian oil.

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Input: Absolutely not. But did that mean we couldn't have bombed Assad's air force? I think we would have forced them to the negotiating table. The consequence is now, as far as I can see, a region that may be in this kind of conflict for five or 10 more years. SPIEGEL: Do you still believe that there might be a diplomatic solution?

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Input: Today, Kenya took a step toward abolishing the horrific “tests,” as a court heard a constitutional challenge to the practice. Although the results were inconclusive, the court signaled that the abhorrent practice’s days may be numbered. Neela Ghoshal, a Nairobi-based activist for Human Rights Watch, told The Daily Beast that “it’s hard to imagine how a practice that has been harshly condemned by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture can continue to be authorized in Kenya.” Indeed, it’s clear that forced anal examinations are primarily about humiliation, not investigation. They date to the 19th century, when authorities tried to determine whether men suspected of homosexuality had engaged in anal sex or not.

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Input: German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a news conference after talks with Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, April 6, 2016. REUTERS / Hannibal Hanschke / File Photo BERLIN There is no reason to lift the European Union's sanctions against Russia as Moscow has not fulfilled all of its commitments under an international peace plan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview published on Friday. Merkel told the RedaktionsNetzwerks Deutschland (RND) that Russia had caused a major crisis by annexing the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in 2014 and with its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine." Europe had to react against this violation of basic principles," Merkel said.

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Input: She did not go to the police, she said, because “everyone told us that no one would deal with it.” By the time four debt collectors wearing black balaclavas smashed into her small wooden shack on March 30, that debt had bloated to more than $ 3,600. The men put bags over her head and those of her husband and 17-year -old son, beating and kicking them while demanding repayment. Advertisement Continue reading the main story They pushed Ms. Gorbunova facedown on a couch, stripped off her pajamas and began “poking” her with some kind of wooden object, she said.

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Input: Read more “Following the Hollywood trend, the method was adapted by athletes,” said the Russian report, via a translation from Mashable. “According to them, vacuum-based massage improves circulation and overall well being, suggesting that muscle repair happens faster after physical exertion. In other words, the net effect from such practices in many ways, is not unlike those of meldonium.” Meldonium first came to prominence earlier this year when the Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova tested positive for the substance and received a two-year ban.

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Input: He is a member of the executive committee of football's world governing body, Fifa, and chairs the organising committee of the 2018 World Cup, to be held in Russia. The report claimed Mutko personally intervened to cover up a doping case of "at least" one overseas football player in the Russian league and that 11 positive tests by Russia footballers disappeared. However, it was Mutko's deputy, Yuri Nagornykh, who was advised of "every positive analytical finding" from the Moscow laboratory from 2011 onwards-in "total violation" of Wada rules-and decided who to protect. Media playback is not supported on this device Dan Roan reports from the discredited Moscow anti-doping laboratory Why was the report commissioned?

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Input: There are two major reasons that so many questions remain about the nature of Manafort’s work for Yanukovych and the Party of Regions. The first is simple: Manafort has refused to describe it. Much of what is known emerged only after Yanukovych fled Ukraine in 2014, ousted by a popular revolution, and volunteer divers retrieved thousands of internal government documents that had been hastily thrown into a lake at his presidential retreat. Additional paperwork was found tossed inside a Ukrainian prosecutor’s sauna. The documents were dried and assembled by local journalists; some offer details on Manafort’s role in Yanukovych’s reign, helping to coordinate a U.S. law firm’s favorable inquiry into Yanukovych’s arrest of a political opposition leader.

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Input: The Clinton-related “bipartisan” think tank mentioned above, Center for a New American Security, just released a major strategy paper on May 16 entitled “Extending American Power.” The paper is authored by Kagan, Michele Flournoy, the probable Secretary of Defense under a Clinton presidency, and many other neo-neocons from both parties. The CNAS strategy paper calls for escalating the war in Iraq and Syria and adopting a much more aggressive posture toward China, Iran and Russia. CNAS is the most influential foreign policy think tank in Washington and is advised, led and staffed by almost all of the key players in Washington’s foreign policy and military establishment — from both parties. CNAS is also funded and staffed by the big banks, weapons manufacturers and many others from the heights of the capitalist establishment. The think tank functions as a straight-up shadow government where Wall Street, weapons manufacturers and imperialist policy makers hash out policy, strategy and tactics.

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Input: The FBI has uncovered evidence that foreign hackers penetrated two state election databases in recent weeks, prompting the bureau to warn election officials across the country to take new steps to enhance the security of their computer systems, according to federal and state law enforcement officials. The FBI warning, contained in a “flash” alert from the FBI’s Cyber Division, a copy of which was obtained by Yahoo News, comes amid heightened concerns among U.S. intelligence officials about the possibility of cyberintrusions, potentially by Russian state-sponsored hackers, aimed at disrupting the November elections. Those concerns prompted Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to convene a conference call with state election officials on Aug. 15, in which he offered his department’s help to make state voting systems more secure, including providing federal cybersecurity experts to scan for vulnerabilities, according to a “readout” of the call released by the department. Johnson emphasized in the call that Homeland Security was not aware of “specific or credible cybersecurity threats” to the election, officials said. But three days after that call, the FBI Cyber Division issued a potentially more disturbing warning, titled “Targeting Activity Against State Board of Election Systems.” The alert, labeled as restricted for “NEED TO KNOW recipients,” disclosed that the bureau was investigating cyberintrusions against two state election websites this summer, including one that resulted in the “exfiltration,” or theft, of voter registration data.

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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: 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: Members of the terrorist group have since been trying to spread their atrocities to the West. Father Amorth said at the time only two spiritual realms exist, “the Holy Spirit and the demonic spirit,” and that the demonic enters in “because evil is disguised in various ways: political, religious, cultural.” The demonic spirit has one source of inspiration: “the devil”, and as a Christian, he said he fights “the beast spiritually.” He noted that the political world, “which today seems to lack a response in face of the massacre of Christians, will also have to fight ISIS and it will do it in a different way. If it advances as it seems to be doing, we ask ourselves what has the West done over the course of the last decades.” In one of his last interviews published at the end of last year, Father Amorth told the magazine FaithfulInsight that “today the world does not turn from God because it is idolatrous; rather it pursues pure atheism, so as to put science on the altar.” But by turning away from the Lord, he said its breakthroughs “are put to disastrous use” and that without the Lord, “progress too is misused.”

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Input: 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”. Still not being told the American people about this latest failed Obama regime-CIA “adventure”, and that we reported on in our 17 July report Turkish Leader Praises Putin For Saving His Live — But Vows “Revenge” On Obama, is that the life of President Erdogan was only able to be saved due elite Federation Spetsnaz forces President Putin had ordered to protect him. This SC report further states that on 15 July, when President Erdogan was in flight to Istanbul to counter the CIA-led coup forces against him, the same two pilots who had downed Su-24 bomber aircraft, locked on their air-to-air missiles to destroy Erdogan’s plane.

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Input: Recently the Green Party put up a meme on Facebook: “How Long Will a Counter-Revolutionary Party Support a Revolutionary Campaign?” Stein was initially unenthusiastic about running the slogan. But she was pleasantly surprised: “It went viral.” Hillary Clinton, Stein agrees with me, has considerably less capacity to deceive and bamboozle progressive and young voters than Barack Obama enjoyed in 2007-08. “Obama,” Stein notes was fairly new on the scene. Hillary,” by contrast, “has been a warmonger who never found a war she did n’t love forever!”

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Input: — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2016 That followed his call Saturday for criminal charges against Clinton." It is impossible for the FBI not to recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton," Trump tweeted Saturday." What she did was wrong! What Bill did was stupid!"

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Input: Legal crackdown The signatories are making their call in open defiance of an October ruling by the Court of Cassation. France’s highest court of criminal appeals upheld the conviction of a dozen Palestine solidarity activists for publicly calling for the boycott of Israeli goods. It also made France, in addition to Israel, the only country to penalize appeals not to buy Israeli goods. But the French law, which includes criminal penalties, is arguably harsher than Israel’s, which allows boycott supporters to be pursued for financial damages, but not jailed.

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Input: NEW YORK "Tony the Cripple," Muscles "and" Mustache Pat "were among dozens of suspected Mafia members arrested on Thursday in a massive multi-state bust. U.S. authorities charged 46 people, ranging in age from 24 to 80, with extortion, loan sharking, smuggling, arson, gun trafficking and other crimes in a federal indictment unsealed in New York. DON'T MISS: Trump ' an unwitting agent ' of Russia: Ex-CIA official

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Input: Smoke from wildfires in Siberia seen from million miles away. Pictures: EPIC camera, NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory Currently, as we outline below, there are worrying reports of the tundra burning in the Arctic Yamal Peninsula, as well as other damaging fires, for example a 3,000 hectare blaze at the Lena Pillars Nature Park-a UNESCO World Heritage Site-which was finally extinguished in recent days in Yakutia, also known as Sakha Republic. Ecologists say the fires pose a direct threat to the role of Siberian pristine Boreal forests in absorbing climate-warming emissions. And as the weather turns drier and warmer, the forests become more prone to wildfires.

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Input: Even as he called for a massive increase in the military budget, Trump suggested he would more judicious in using force -- upending the traditional partisan battles lines on national security. “Unlike my opponent, my foreign policy will emphasize diplomacy, not destruction. Hillary Clinton’s legacy in Iraq, Libya, and Syria has produced only turmoil and suffering,” he said in Pennsylvania, skipping over his own one-time support for intervention in some of those conflicts. “Sometimes it has seemed like there was n’t a country in the Middle East that Hillary Clinton did n’t want to invade, intervene or topple. She is trigger-happy and unstable when it comes to war,” he said.

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Input: They support the release of dangerous, dangerous, dangerous, criminals from detention. And, they support unconstitutional executive amnesty. Hillary Clinton has pledged amnesty in her first 100 days, and her plan will provide Obamacare, Social Security, and Medicare for illegal immigrants, breaking the federal budget. On top of that she promises uncontrolled, low-skilled immigration that continues to reduce jobs and wages for American workers, and especially for African-American and Hispanic workers within our country. Our citizens.

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Input: Imagine the uproar talk-radio show hosts Laura Ingraham, Alex Jones and Rush Limbaugh would be whipping up now, if Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for? MORE’s chief campaign manager had been for years a trusted adviser to Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovych, as Donald Trump Donald TrumpLewandowski near ' high six-figure book deal ': report GOP 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 MORE's Paul Manafort was. The Vladimir Putin satrap leveraged his Donbas mobster background to defeat, with Kremlin backing, the pro-democracy Orange Revolution and went on to build a kleptocracy underpinned by Russia’s security services, which is believed to have trained the Ukrainian snipers who slaughtered more than 50 Maidan protesters in 2014. ADVERTISEMENT Imagine, too, that it was the Democrat’s presumptive White House nominee who considered appointing as her running mate a retired three-star general and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency who last December bizarrely — and certainly ill-advisedly — chose to be a feted guest at a 10th anniversary gala in Moscow for Russia Today, the virulently anti-American Kremlin propaganda outlet and cheerleader for the Crimea land-grab of Crimea and Putin’s bombing of U.S.-supported Syrian rebels.

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Input: Something like the “flexible response” posture from the Cold War will be required, necessitating a range of actions from enhancing the US deterrent presence — nuclear submarines carrying ballistic missiles in the Arabian Sea — to bolstering regional actors’ defenses. Israeli leaders should be able to contain the damage to the Israeli population’s morale from an Iranian bomb, but this will require careful management of public statements. There is a tension between building up support for action against the Iranian nuclear program now and delivering the kind of reassurance that will be necessary once the capability has been acquired. Clinton replied that she would like to discuss the matter with Jackie. Jackie replied: I will be in Washington for a day-long meeting on Thursday this week [B3 REDACTED] and my travel plans are flexible, so I could meet you any time on Wednesday afternoon, after 5 pm on Thursday, or any time on Friday morning.

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Input: But, over the past several months, Russian airstrikes against anti-Assad fighters in northwestern Syria have weakened them. That created an opening that allowed the Kurdish-led groups to expand their zone of control to the outskirts of Aleppo, bringing them into more frequent conflict with the CIA-backed outfits. We'll fight all who aim to divide Syria or harm its people. — Suqour Al-Jabal Brigade fighter "Fighting over territory in Aleppo demonstrates how difficult it is for the U.S. to manage these really localized and, in some cases, entrenched conflicts," said Nicholas Heras, an expert on the Syrian civil war at the Center for a New American Security, a think tank in Washington.

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Input: READ MORE: Russia to form National Guard to answer new challenges The National Guard will be formed out of existing Interior Ministry troops. “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.

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Input: At the time of its construction, the highway was a show of American ingenuity and determination during World War II. In March 1942, just months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army hastily began to build a road linking Alaska, another exposed Pacific outpost, through Canada to the lower 48 states. Seven months later it was opened, providing a key supply line in case of invasion. Today the highway serves as the main artery connecting the “Last Frontier” with Canada and the northwestern U.S., bringing tourists to Alaska cruise ships; food, supplies and medicine to remote towns; and equipment to oil fields and mines that are the region’s lifeblood. Judy Gagnon, a 67-year -old trucker, has driven Canada’s roads since the early 1970s and said she’s seeing “more pieces fall apart.” Some damage is regular wear and tear, but “they are having trouble maintaining the road bed, because you have the permafrost underneath, and then you have it melting and it’s sinking.”

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Input: (Moriah Balingit) Five bicyclists were killed and four more were injured in Kalamazoo, Mich., after a truck driver plowed through the group. Officials said they received several complaints of a driver behaving erratically. (Travis M. Andrews) CDC officials are ramping up public awareness efforts on Legionnaires’ disease, after cases of the easily-preventable sickness quadrupled in the U.S. over the past 15 years. Bacteria is most commonly found in water sources such as showers, cooling towers and hot tubs. (Lena H. Sun) A retired NASA astronaut was charged with murder after killing an 11-year -old and a 13-year -old girl in a car accident.

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Input: Trump has also raised questions about NATO, saying U.S. partners should pay more for the military alliance designed in part to deter Russian aggression. Vice President Biden and other Democrats have said that Putin wants to defeat Clinton in November using Trump. In his ABC interview, Trump dismissed those Democratic claims." They only fear one thing, losing the election," Trump said." If our country got along with Russia, that would be a great thing."

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Input: HASEN: Well, it was maybe two months ago that Donald Trump when he first started talking about a rigged election asked for his supporters to go to his webpage and sign up to be a poll watcher. So people went there and they signed up to be a poll watcher, so far as we can tell, he hasn't organized any efforts to actually have this take place. 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.

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Input: Clinton was walking away from the lectern after a press conference when a reporter yelled a question about her GOP opponent granting an interview to a Russian-funded news network. ADVERTISEMENT She returned to the microphone, laughing in exasperation. “Every day that goes by, this just becomes more and more of a reality television show,” Clinton said.

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Input: Speaking to an audience in Toronto via video, Snowden pointed to a campaign promise by Justin Trudeau to amend the law, which has n’t happened Edward Snowden has waded into the simmering debate over Canada’s controversial anti-terror law, saying that Justin Trudeau was reluctant to repeal the law out of a fear of appearing soft on terror. Speaking to an audience in Toronto on Tuesday, Snowden pointed to a campaign promise by the Canadian prime minister to amend the sweeping legislation, which gives security forces heightened powers to apprehend suspected terrorists and disrupt their activities.

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Input: Image copyright EPA Image caption The war has so many sides involved that an end to the fighting is still a long way off Someone visiting central Damascus for the first time might wonder where to find the war. The covered markets in the Old City are packed with busy people.

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Input: This is all that mattered tonight: https://t.co/zkvSepZgjO pic.twitter.com/A7nWhtMykE — Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) October 10, 2016 Forget theatrics. The most important thing said all night was Trump threatening his political opponent with prison. — Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) October 10, 2016 # Trump threatens to jail his political opp't.

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Input: He added there would be a comprehensive approach to training experts and specialists able to work in crises. The minister noted that regions of Russia have enough material and other resources of civil defense to respond to large massive disasters swiftly and efficiently. ' The Emergency Ministry, federal executive authorities and regions have material and other resources to ensure uninterrupted operation of transport, power supply and communication systems. ' It has proven efficient in the past three years. ' We are restoring roads, building temporary bridges and handle many other problems.

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Input: Advertisement So if there really is an inherent — Islam-driven — propensity for deadly violence in Muslim societies, we should expect to find that the greater the percentage of Muslims in society, the greater would be the numbers of homicides. In fact, the reverse is the case: The higher the percentage of Muslims in a society, the lower the homicide rate. In 2011, a major study by University of California, Berkeley, political scientist M. Steven Fish presented cross-national statistical data showing that between 1994 and 2007, annual homicide rates in the Muslim world averaged just 2.4 per 100,000 of the population. That was approximately a third of the rate for the non-Muslim world and less than the average rate in Europe.

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Input: facebook twitter email Share More Videos 0:56 Housing advocate: ' It's ridiculous to ask these families to pay this much. ' Pause 0:54 California's housing crisis: ' The hardest part is living with someone who I don't know. ' 1:29 Budget bills ' rushed through in the dark of night, ' GOP complains 0:50 Lawmaker demonstrates how to rescue a hot dog 1:02 Firing Trump-Russia special counsel ' would be too reminiscent of Watergate ' 1:19 Don Bachardy tells the story behind his Capitol portrait of Jerry Brown 1:28 Josh Newman vows to beat recall attempt: ' We are not giving this seat back ' 1:01 ' There's really no check ' on the populous parts of California, assemblyman says 1:23 Democrats need to win back hearts and minds, Kimberly Ellis tells activists 1:11 California senator argues for single-payer health care in California Share Video Video link: Select Embed code: Select facebook facebook twitter

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Input: The Washington Post, whose writers have portrayed skeptics of Hillary Clinton’s health as conspiracy theorists, is now lending credence to a Nigerian-born doctor’s conspiracy theory that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump collaborated to poison Hillary Clinton. “The man who discovered CTE thinks Hillary Clinton may have been poisoned,” blared the Post’s headline Monday morning. Nigerian-born doctor Bennet Omalu, who has worked extensively on concussions, suggested that Clinton had been poisoned by Putin and Trump. I must advice the Clinton campaign to perform toxicologic analysis of Ms. Clinton’s blood. It is possible she is being poisoned.

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Input: And my daughter Shaley Estes (ph), 22 years old, was murdered here in Phoenix last July 24 by a Russian who overstayed his visa. And vote Trump. SPEAKER: I'm Mary Ann Mendoza, the mother of Sergeant Brandon Mendoza, who was killed in a violent head-on collision in Mesa. Thank you. I want to thank Phoenix for the support you've always given me, and I want to tell you what.

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Input: (Brian Blanco / European Pressphoto Agency) The president has called Trump unfit for the White House several times before, but his remarks here are part of a stepped-up offensive from the president with less than a month left until the Nov. 8 elections and Trump sliding in the polls. Obama was interrupted three times from anti-Clinton hecklers, including two wearing shirts calling former president Bill Clinton a rapist and one who tore up a Clinton-Kaine sign, as the crowd booed. Security escorted the hecklers out. Obama took the interruptions in stride.

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Input: 2. Falsely said," We are now, for the first time ever, energy independent." (Wrote the Associated Press: “For the first time in decades the United States gets more energy domestically than it imports, but it is not yet energy independent, as the country continues to rely on oil imports from the Mideast and elsewhere.”) 3. Falsely said, of Trump’s talk of her emails, “everything he just said is absolutely false.” (Trump made at least some correct statements, including that 33,000 emails were deleted.)

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Input: 1. After you left office as secretary of state, the president and your successor, John Kerry, repeatedly said they would prevent all pathways to Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon and get anytime / anywhere inspections. We now know breakout time would be reduced to zero in as little as 10 years and there are not true anytime / anywhere inspections. Since that deal was implemented and $ 1.7 billion was released to Iran, it has obtained a Russian anti-missile defense system, attempted to acquire impermissible materials, according to German intelligence, conducted multiple illegal missile tests, cracked down even harder on human rights, sent troops to Syria and continues to be the largest state sponsor of terrorism. Was this the deal you would have negotiated?

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Input: Mr. Trump dismissed the catcalls from the audience by saying they were from Bush supporters, donors and Washington insiders. “I tell the truth, lobbyists,” Mr. Trump said. Moments later, Mr. Trump stood by his past remarks that he would have supported the impeachment of President George W. Bush over the war in Iraq, saying that his administration misled the country about weapons of mass destruction. “They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction, and there were none,” Mr. Trump said.

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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: This week Brazil moved one step closer to removing Dilma Rousseff from office after the Senate voted to indict the suspended president over charges of violating fiscal laws. The move means the Senate will go ahead with Rousseff's trial, which is expected to begin at the end of August. Rousseff calls the ongoing impeachment proceedings a "coup". Critics of Rousseff's impeachment argue that many of those voting on whether to remove the suspended president, including those strongly pushing for the impeachment, need also to be examined as they face serious corruption violations. In this week's Reality Check, Mehdi Hasan looks at how deep corruption runs in the Brazilian political system.

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Input: For simply stating facts, I am described by the presstitutes as “an apologist for Putin.” The endless lies about Russia have convinced the Russian media that Washington is mobilizing its NATO vassals for an attack on Russia. Read the transcripts to this Russian media broadcast. https://vimeo.com/174777588 If you are n’t scared after absorbing this Russian news broadcast, you are stupid beyond belief.

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Input: When homeowner Art Gonsalves confronted Bryant, she allegedly drove off erratically, forcing the victim to run out of the way of her car. Police tracked down Bryant and charged her with four counts of defacing property and one count of assault by means of a dangerous weapon. Bryant is suspected of vandalizing signs at the property several other times in previous months. Gonsalves did not suffer any injuries, but said he was “absolutely terrified.” He said he’s caught her defacing his signs on several different occasions and recently installed a security camera. All Gonsalves, a veteran, wants to do is express his First Amendment rights.

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Input: 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. He added that about 20 of those who planned the overnight coup were killed and 30 more were wounded. Acting chief of staff of the armed forces Umit Dundar said during a press conference that more than 190 people have been killed since the attempted coup was launched. “1,563 soldiers were arrested, and 104 military who took part in the coup were killed in clashes.

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Input: Here's the letter from the FBI to Congress: pic.twitter.com/OKjipTeiJp — Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) October 28, 2016 The FBI’s surprise announcement jolted the presidential race, thrusting the controversy over Clinton’s use of a private email system for government business back into the political spotlight with just 11 days until Election Day. Clinton's Republican opponent, Donald Trump Donald TrumpRepublicans and the lost promise of local control in education Press: Worse than Nixon What do Democrats stand for? MORE, has attacked her over the server, arguing it should disqualify her from being president. He seized on the FBI's decision at a rally on Friday afternoon as he seeks to make up ground in the polls.

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Input: In California, a 64-year -old Air Force veteran, a great woman, according to everybody that knew her, Marilyn Pharis, was sexually assaulted and beaten to death with a hammer. Her killer had been arrested on multiple occasions but was never, ever deported, despite the fact that everybody wanted him out. A 2011 report from the Government Accountability Office found that illegal immigrants and other non-citizens, in our prisons and jails together, had around 25,000 homicide arrests to their names, 25,000. On top of that, illegal immigration costs our country more than $ 113 billion a year. And this is what we get.

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Input: The decentralization of the American election system means hackers would have to gain access to thousands of county and municipal systems, and to hundreds of thousands of machines, to make a dent in the electoral outcome. Take Wisconsin, another swing state up for grabs this year. Michael Haas, administrator of the state elections division, said clerks in each of the state’s 72 counties are responsible for programming voting equipment, and that the state’s 1,854 municipal clerks have to conduct public tests of voting machines before polls open. Counties and cities use machines manufactured by different brands. “There is no single entity that has the ability to control the outcome of the election,” Haas said.

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Input: So Would Hillary Support a Coup to Oust a Sanders-like Presidency in Latin America? While our thought experiment may at first appear ludicrous, the people of Honduras might not think it so. 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.

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Input: “And the second pillar is access for humanitarian aid. We’re not giving up.” At the current rate of fighting, Ayrault lamented, “Aleppo will be totally destroyed by Christmas.” Russia will almost surely veto the French measure. “I can not possibly see how we can let this resolution pass,” Russia’s U.N.

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Input: They pushed Ms. Gorbunova facedown on a couch, stripped off her pajamas and began “poking” her with some kind of wooden object, she said. “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.

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Input: Rebel sources and activists from the Aleppo Media Centre said reports of the opposition stopping evacuations were fabricated. Video shows amazing rescue of child as shelling resumes in Aleppo The UN did not say assign blame, but the agency’s humanitarian wing said that plans to evacuate people in need of medical attention had broken down on Friday, citing a “lack of security assurances” from both sides. “The necessary conditions were not in place to ensure safe, secure and voluntary movement of people,” spokesperson Jens Laerke said in Geneva. Syria's ambassador to the UN in Geneva accused the international body of “quoting the demands of terrorists inside Aleppo to justify their failure to evacuate. “

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Input: Richman is part of the Patriotic Millionaires, a left-leaning group of more than 200—you guessed it — millionaires who vow to support legislation to reduce income inequality. Michael Granoff, a principal at Maniv Energy Capital, was once a strong supporter of both Bill and Hillary Clinton. Granoff worked on Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign in the early ’90s and donated to Hillary Clinton’s Senate and 2008 presidential campaign. But Granoff but has since soured on the Democratic Party’s foreign policy decisions — particularly on Iran. And that’s led to a change of heart about supporting the former secretary of state.

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Input: She outmanned him on specifics and details. But his attacks were far more effective than hers. While Clinton was right to suggest the fact-checkers get busy on his statements -- many were misleading -- if I'm looking at who moved the needle tonight with voters, it was Trump, not Clinton. And, Robby Mook, I assure you, this anti-Trump conservative isn't grading him "on a curve." S.E.

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Input: "If someone does not find us, he shall start killing Russian apostates on his own. It is not difficult to find weapons in Russia." The video ends with the execution of an alleged Russian intelligence agent, who is reportedly shot by one of the militants. Russia has had heavy security presence in the Muslim-dominated North Caucasus region since separatist wars were waged in Chechnya in the 1990s. Islamist rebels in Dagestan, a restive region just east of Chechnya, have been making several efforts to join ISIS.

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Input: You know, that's how I started thinking about all this stuff after being in Russia." View photos st petersburg More In his research from St. Petersburg, Chen discovered that Russian internet trolls — paid by the Kremlin to spread false information on the internet — have been behind a number of "highly coordinated campaigns" to deceive the American public. It's a brand of information warfare, known as "dezinformatsiya," that has been used by the Russians since at least the Cold War. The disinformation campaigns are only one "active measure" tool used by Russian intelligence to "sow discord among," and within, allies perceived hostile to Russia.

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Input: The Republican Party Platform was passed quickly on Monday. Officially dedicated to the military and the police, it outlines a program for eliminating every legal, financial and government restraint on the accumulation of wealth by the capitalist class. It calls for repealing the 16th amendment, which established the federal income tax; lowering the corporate tax rate; eliminating government regulations; cutting Medicaid and transitioning Medicare into a program for subsidizing the purchase of private insurance; cutting Social Security; replacing remaining welfare programs with “the dynamic compassion of work requirements” and abolishing the Environmental Protection Agency. The platform also adopts Trump’s proposal to build a wall on the US-Mexico border. It enshrines a form of clerical authoritarianism, with government based on religious principles.

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Input: The Arab-Russian Forum will convene at the ministerial level in Moscow next week, in the midst of the battle for Syria amid growing Russian-Turkish tensions and increasing talk of Saudi and Gulf ground intervention in Syria. The Russian foreign minister will be very clear in drawing the strategic frameworks for Russian policies in the Middle East, and will insist on an agenda that Arab ministers are unlikely to find compatible with Arab priorities. Sergei Lavrov will not soften his rhetoric just because he will be playing host, because the broad features of Russia's Middle Eastern policy, as drafted by President Putin, are not subject to negotiations from Moscow's viewpoint.

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Input: Let’s unpack his argument, which is common. First, the decision to minimize her chronic dishonesty baffles me because if you elect a president you do n’t trust, you forfeit any right to complain when you are deceived. And you will be deceived by Clinton. Fish got ta swim, and Clintons got ta lie. She wo n’t change her stripes — she is what she is.

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Input: MORE's supporters view Russia favorably. Meanwhile, only 32 percent of Republicans believe the Obama administration's conclusion that Moscow is trying to influence the presidential election, compared to 50 percent of Democrats. The Obama administration earlier this month blamed the Russian government for a series of recent hackings of Democratic Party and Clinton campaign emails, calling it an attempt to interfere with the U.S. election process. But only 34 percent of respondents said the U.S. should retaliate with economic sanctions, while 33 percent opposed the idea. The poll was conducted among 1,999 registered voters online from Oct. 13 to Oct. 15 and has a margin of error of 2 percentage points.

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Input: TAIPEI, Taiwan — With the lifting of the US arms embargo to Vietnam, a US defense industry source indicates Hanoi is seeking to improve its air defense and maritime security capabilities with the procurement of F-16 fighter aircraft from the US Pentagon’s excess defense articles (EDA) program and refurbished P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft, armed with torpedoes. The source also said Vietnam could seek US-made UAVs for maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions. Torpedoes were banned under the embargo, but now the Vietnamese want the same P-3 program the US sold to Taiwan, the source said. On the F-16 EDA, they want the same deal the Obama administration gave Indonesia.

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Input: The plan involved ‘sawing off Marx’s nose and then emptying bolts, fireworks and a mixture of weedkiller and sugar into the hollow head’. However, this attempt was unsuccessful as the nose of the bust proved too tough for the culprits to cut through. They opted to instead detonate the bomb at the base of the tomb, causing minimal damage. Earlier, in 1965, British police foiled another attempt to blow up the tomb after receiving an anonymous tip-off from a member of the public. A patrol car was despatched to the scene and discovered a crude home-made bomb, which was quickly disassembled.

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Input: Étienne Balibar, the noted theorist and distinguished professor at the University of California, Irvine; The sociologist and feminist Christine Delphy, who co-founded the journal Nouvelles questions féministes (New Feminist Issues) with Simone de Beauvoir; Saïd Bouamama, an academic who is on trial under France’s harsh anti-free-speech laws for a book he wrote critical of France’s colonial past; The journalist for Le Monde Diplomatique and anti-Islamophobia campaigner Alain Gresh; Azzedine Taïbi, mayor of the Paris suburb of Stains.

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Input: By Andre Damon 12 January 2016 The US Navy’s “goals and objectives” outline for 2016, released last week, does not mince words: the first goal listed in the second subhead reads: “Buy more ships.” The US government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into into military programs like the F-35 fighter, while slashing assistance for the poor, homeless, and hungry. And that is exactly what the world’s most powerful navy is doing.

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Input: But Trump and Putin’s greatest enemy is the truth. Putin is spending 1.3 billion this year on propaganda. Putin enforces draconian controls against journalists and political opposition, literally killing his enemies, like the former chief of RT who ended up bludgeoned in a Washington, DC hotel room. (RT reported he had suffered a heart attack.) Legislation has stifled critics of his rule, putting opponents in prison, where they are routinely tortured.

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Input: That automatically makes it news. And Trump himself is making things worse. Asked by Newsweek, “Do you, or any of your business units have outstanding loans with Russian banks or individuals?” his spox said “Mr. Trump does not have any business dealings in / with Russia.” Then Trump tweeted this: For the record, I have ZERO investments in Russia.

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Input: "Any faction that attacks us, regardless from where it gets its support, we will fight it," said Maj. Fares Bayoush, a leader of Fursan al Haq. Rebel fighters described similar clashes in the town of Azaz, a key transit point for fighters and supplies between Aleppo and the Turkish border, and March 3 in the Aleppo neighborhood of Sheikh Maqsud. The attacks come amid continued heavy fighting in Syria and illustrate the difficulty facing U.S. efforts to coordinate among dozens of armed groups that are trying to overthrow the government of President Bashar Assad, fight the Islamic State militant group and battle one another all at the same time." It is an enormous challenge," said Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, who described the clashes between U.S.-supported groups as "a fairly new phenomenon." "It is part of the three-dimensional chess that is the Syrian battlefield," he said.

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Input: See also: How Alex Gibney Made the Most Chilling Documentary Film of the Year For more on cyberespionage, watch Fortune's video: Some onlookers have suggested that the alleged thieves could be linked to Russian intelligence agencies, citing a recent flareup of activity by "Guccifer 2.0," believed to be a Russia-sponsored puppet account, and the country's well-known penchant for "false flag" operations, intended to deceive or confuse people. Others have urged caution of those so casually proposing attributions before thorough investigations can be conducted. 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.

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Input: ' The international community should be ashamed; they have let President Putin do this for months.’ On the ceasefire which began last weekend, Dr Aziz said: ‘A hospital in Aleppo was targeted by air strikes at 11.30 local time on the Friday night, just half an hour before the ceasefire came into effect. ‘There were no air strikes in Aleppo on the Saturday but by Sunday it was like normal again, with bombs being dropped every day. For the local people there has been almost no respite. And in the meantime Islamic State fighters are getting closer to Aleppo, to within ten miles to the east of the city.

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Input: "The embargo is currently effective until the end of August. I think these documents will be approved unless some miraculous changes occur in the geopolitics," Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said. While the United States exports little food to Russia, some European Union countries had a significant trade relationship with Russia prior to the embargo. A major dairy in one such country, Finland, announced the closing of a milk-processing facility because of losses caused in part by the lack of access to the Russian market. The Valio dairy company said it would close its Tampere, Finland, operations.

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Input: TAIPEI, Taiwan — With the lifting of the US arms embargo to Vietnam, a US defense industry source indicates Hanoi is seeking to improve its air defense and maritime security capabilities with the procurement of F-16 fighter aircraft from the US Pentagon’s excess defense articles (EDA) program and refurbished P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft, armed with torpedoes. The source also said Vietnam could seek US-made UAVs for maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions. Torpedoes were banned under the embargo, but now the Vietnamese want the same P-3 program the US sold to Taiwan, the source said.

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Input: And, as was the case in other Fox-sponsored debates in the primary season, Wallace's questions were just top-notch. On immigration, on the women alleging that Trump groped them, on the Clinton Foundation, Wallace asked blunt questions that demanded straight answers. * Vladimir Putin: The Russian leader had to be thrilled about the amount of airtime he and his country received in the debate. And Trump, while insisting that he and the Russian president are not, in fact, friends, repeatedly said that he knew for a fact that Putin had no respect for Clinton. Any airtime for Putin in a debate with tens of millions of Americans watching probably make him very, very happy.

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Input: ANDOVER (CBS) – A woman was arrested after she allegedly vandalized a resident’s Donald Trump campaign sign and nearly ran over the homeowner as she tried to speed away. Andover Police said Susan Bryant of North Reading spray painted the Trump sign on Jenkins Road early Saturday morning. One side of the sign was painted with “Putin’s (expletive),” a reference to Trump’s purported relationship with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

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Input: Her lawyer has argued that phone records prove she was captured by rebels before the attack. Ms Savchenko had arrived in the area a few days previously to join the volunteer Aidar battalion, loyal to the Ukrainian government. According to her lawyers, she was captured by the rebels on the morning of 17 June whilst trying to reach several Aidar fighters who had been wounded in an ambush. Reading the verdict, the judge in the southern Russian town of Donetsk, not far from the Ukrainian border, quoted prosecutors as saying Ms Savchenko had been driven by "political hatred". The prosecution has called for Ms Savchenko-who was elected as a Ukrainian MP in her absence following her capture-to be jailed for 23 years.

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Input: A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State said the SDF had withdrawn across the Euphrates, doing so "to prepare for the eventual liberation" of Raqqa, the radical group's stronghold which lies further east. Isik said the retreat was not yet complete and Washington had given assurances that this would happen in the next week." If the PYD does not retreat to east of the Euphrates, we have the right to do everything about it," the minister said. The offensive is Turkey's first major military operation since a failed July 15 coup shook confidence in its ability to step up the fight against Islamic State. It came four days after a suicide bomber suspected of links to the group killed 54 people at a wedding in the southeastern city of Gaziantep.

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Input: As the New York Times reported: “It does n’t matter what the friggin’ legal and ethics people say, we need to win this,” Mr. Foval said in one clip of the video that describes how to get Mr. Trump’s supporters to start punching the people that they plant in line at his rallies. Although Democrats are complaining that the Project Veritas videos were edited (as are virtually all TV videos), and therefore misleading, Creamer, as well as Foval, who admitted on tape to hiring “mentally ill” people to disrupt Trump events and foment violence, were ousted almost immediately, with Creamer stepping down and Foval being “laid off.” Creamer, as revealed by Stanley Kurtz, an expert on Vietnam-era radical movements, is a longtime disciple of notorious 1960s Marxist activist Saul Alinsky and a leader in Obama’s old community organizing network and its training center, the Midwest Academy, which was founded by members of the radical Students for a Democratic Society, SDS. Stealing elections

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Input: Despite seeing global foreign policy dangers as the Democratic nominee for president, Hillary Clinton did not view North Korea or Russia as a threat to the United States in 2013, according to speeches released by WikiLeaks. Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) meets U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton upon her arrival at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Vladivostok September 8, 2012. REUTERS / Mikhail Metzel / Pool. In a presentation to the National Multi-Housing Council on Apr.

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Input: The bank paid the US Department of Justice and the State of New York $ 270 million and $ 130 million respectively. Last year, three former Bank Leumi executives were forced to repay the company a total of 5.1 million shekels (approximately $ 1.3 million) in the wake of the scandal. According to Haaretz, the documents also show that Bank Hapoalim used the Panamanian law firm to manage activity for various trust funds until 2011. Others mentioned in the leaks include Mohammad Mustafa, a senior financial official and confidant of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas who used offshore accounts to funnel money from Arab states to the Palestinians, according to the documents. The trove of documents was reviewed by a team of more than 370 reporters from over 70 countries, according to the ICIJ.

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Input: Levitan made his fortune manufacturing slot machines and creating bank note validation technology, and Shnaider earned his in the post-glasnost steel trade,” it reported. Finally, for all of his denials of Russian ties lately, Trump has boasted in the past of his many meetings with Russian oligarchs. During one trip to Moscow, Trump bragged that they all showed up to meet him to discuss projects around the globe. “Almost all of the oligarchs were in the room” just to meet with him, Trump said at the time. And when Trump built a tower in Panama, his clients were wealthy Russians, the Washington Post reported.

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Input: The side effects include unusual psychiatric behaviour, psychosis, panic attacks and violent behaviour, as well as the possibility of a heart attack and an elevated body temperature 9/10 2. Whoonga Whoonga is a combination of antiretroviral drugs, used to treat HIV, and various cutting agents such as detergents and poisons. The drug is widely available in South Africa due to South Africa’s high rate of HIV sufferers, and is believed to be popular due to how cheap it is when compared to prescribed antiretrovirals. The drug is highly addictive and can cause major health issues such as internal bleeding, stomach ulcers and ultimately death Getty Images

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Input: Google is also aiming to become an internet access provider. Google’s “Project Loon” aims to provide internet access to populations in the global south using wireless access points mounted on fleets of high-altitude balloons and aerial drones, having acquired the drone companies Titan Aerospace and Makani Power. Facebook, which bid against Google for Titan Aerospace, has similar aspirations, having acquired the UK-based aerial drone company Ascenta. See Adi Robertson, “Google X ‘moonshots lab’ buys flying wind turbine company Makani Power,” Verge, 22 May 2013, archive.today/gsnio. See also the Project Loon website: archive.today/4ok7L.

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Input: Patches of grassland on the Siberian tundra have turned into what looks like a waterbed, bobbing up and down when trodden on by scientists. Footage of the phenomenon, which is not believed to have ever been recorded before, was taken by a team of scientists on a research expedition to the remote Bely Island. Alexander Sokolov and Dorothee Ehrich said they found 15 patches of ground that appeared to bubble or tremble and when they punctured them, methane and carbon dioxide was released, the Siberian Times reports. While further research will be necessarily, the team believes an unusually hot summer has caused permafrost to thaw, releasing methane gas locked up in the ground. The Siberian tundra made headlines over recent years as a result of a massive crater that opened up in 2013.

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Input: Facts have rarely gotten in the way of dubious suggestions about Clinton's health. In a letter released Wednesday, her physician made a point of stating that the candidate "is in excellent mental condition." Here -- quite apart from any legitimate concern stemming from her recent illness -- are a few of the more ludicrous and resilient theories: Whatever might be wrong, it's now being covered up by ... a body double! In the aftermath of the Sunday incident, web sleuths turned up a series of images they believe show the Clinton campaign used a "body double" to reassure the public and trick the press.

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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: According to the GAI report, Podesta’s far-left think tank, Center for American Progress (CAP), took in $ 5.25 million from the Sea Change Foundation between 2010-2013. Who was funding Sea Change Foundation? According to tax records, Sea Change Foundation at the time was receiving a large infusion of funds from a mysterious Bermuda-based entity called ‘Klein, Ltd.’ … Who owns Klein? It is impossible to say exactly, given corporate secrecy laws in Bermuda. But the registered agent and lawyers who set up the offshore entity are tied to a handful of Russian business entities including Troika Dialog, Ltd.

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Input: He's going to nominate the best person that he thinks can take the job and do the job. And I think that's going to be great .... KORNACKI: In terms of the political battle that we're seeing play out right now, the White House is saying the Republicans have no business obstructing a nominee the president puts forward. But I'm asking if the president, as a Senator, participating in a filibuster against a duly elected president's nominee to the Supreme Court. Did the president not lay the groundwork for the Republicans obstructing him on this?

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Input: That is why immigration limits are established in the first place. If we only enforced the laws against crime, then we have an open border to the entire world. We will enforce all of our immigration laws. And the same goes for government benefits. The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that 62 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants use some form of cash or non-cash welfare programs like food stamps or housing assistance.

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Input: But Kim Jong-un is not above disposing of those closest to him if they fall out of favour. He executed his uncle, Jang Sung-taek, after finding him guilty of treason despite their relationship being reportedly close beforehand. Announcing the execution, Kim Jong-un denounced him as “human scum worse than a dog” for an alleged attempt to overthrow him and introduce reform.

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Input: (CNN) When an "overheated and dehydrated" Hillary Clinton stumbled into a van as she left a 9/11 memorial ceremony on Sunday morning, conspiracy theorists rejoiced. A few hours later, after it was revealed she had come down with pneumonia -- a common illness now being treated with antibiotics and a few days ' rest -- they got back to work, retrofitting baseless and lurid suggestions about her health. The weekend wobble was treated by some political rivals and online antagonists as validation -- proof positive that the Democratic nominee was unfit, in the most literal terms, for the presidency.

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Input: A transcript of the radio message appeared on social media." I request an air strike. They'll mutilate me and my uniform. I want to die with dignity, and I want all these scumbags to die with me. Please fulfil my last request," he was quoted as saying.

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Input: — President Obama (@POTUS) September 6, 2016 As he opened a day of ceremony and diplomacy, Obama was greeted by a military band, traditional dancers and a warm, tropical rain. He met with Lao President Bounnhang Vorachit, was feted at a welcome banqueted, where he toasted to a relationship he said would "mean greater progress and opportunity for the people of Laos." Obama's outreach to those regional powers hit a snag just as he arrived in the region from China. The White House called off a planned meeting Tuesday with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, after the brash new leader referred to Obama as a "son of a b****."

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Input: But no significant action was taken. The FBI is investigating the breach. “A compromise of this nature is something we take very seriously, and the FBI will continue to investigate and hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace,” the bureau said in a statement. Fox News’ Matthew Dean contributed to this report. Catherine Herridge is an award-winning Chief Intelligence correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC) based in Washington, D.C. She covers intelligence, the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security.

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Input: ' Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, is also being called a Russian agent. ' This is neo-McCarthyist hysteria. What kind of press environment is this going to lead to post-election? ' The American liberal press in falling over themselves to defend Hillary Clinton are erecting a demon who is going to put a noose around everyone's neck as soon as she wins the election, which she is almost certainly going to do. ' Assange accused Clinton of trying to stir up ' neo-McCarthyist hysteria ' after the leaks showed the DNC had favored her over Bernie Sanders in the primary campaign

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Input: The Vladimir Putin satrap leveraged his Donbas mobster background to defeat, with Kremlin backing, the pro-democracy Orange Revolution and went on to build a kleptocracy underpinned by Russia’s security services, which is believed to have trained the Ukrainian snipers who slaughtered more than 50 Maidan protesters in 2014. ADVERTISEMENT Imagine, too, that it was the Democrat’s presumptive White House nominee who considered appointing as her running mate a retired three-star general and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency who last December bizarrely — and certainly ill-advisedly — chose to be a feted guest at a 10th anniversary gala in Moscow for Russia Today, the virulently anti-American Kremlin propaganda outlet and cheerleader for the Crimea land-grab of Crimea and Putin’s bombing of U.S.-supported Syrian rebels. What on earth would the talk-radio hosts be saying, if another one of Clinton’s main foreign-policy advisers, like Trump's Carter Page, was a onetime consigliere for Gazprom, the vast Kremlin-run natural-gas monopoly that Putin has used as a major tool in geopolitical energy politics in Europe rewarding countries favorably disposed to Moscow like Silvio Berlusconi’s Italy, punishing and threatening obdurate ones? That’s the same Gazprom that in 2001 mounted a hostile takeover of the last remaining independent Russian television network, NTV — a takeover characterized by Mikhail Gorbachev as a Putin-directed campaign to establish Kremlin monopoly control of the country's broadcasters.

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Input: The Obama administration will seek to accept 110,000 refugees from around the world in fiscal 2017, officials announced Wednesday. Secretary of State John F. Kerry briefed lawmakers Tuesday on the new goal, which is an increase from 85,000 in fiscal 2016 and 70,000 in the previous three years. It represents a 57 percent increase in refugee arrivals since 2015, as ongoing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere have spurred an exodus of migrants seeking asylum in Europe, Canada and other regions." That does represent a substantial increase in our commitment to addressing the refugee problem around the world," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Wednesday, adding the U.S. is the world's largest humanitarian donor when it comes to refugees." But I think what we need to see around the world is a greater commitment to not just shunting this burden off to a handful of countries."

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Input: Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Nigel Farage have all called for the adoption of an Australian-style immigration system. However, in a devastating critique of Australia’s methods, medical ethicists have warned there is “increasing evidence that Australia is engaged in torturing asylum seekers” with refugees imprisoned for more than a year without trial. There are allegations of waterboarding, another method of torture called “zipping” in which people are tied to a bed that is then thrown into the air, sexual assault and exploitation, and child abuse. And the inmates of detention centres created outside of Australia to avoid its laws are held in conditions of secrecy that prevent scrutiny of their treatment while laws prevent doctors speaking out about mistreatment.

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Input: A State Department official, who was not authorized to speak on the record, said no specific goal has been set for the number of Syrian refugees who will be admitted. Syrian refugees are expected to be admitted at a “robust level,” the official said, though not as many as in recent months. The primary goal, however, is to provide aid and protection to refugees in the countries and areas where they have fled, “so refugees can return home when the conflict ends,” the official added. Since the conflict began five years ago, the United States has donated $ 5.6 billion in humanitarian aid to the region, both in direct aid to refugees and to the countries where they have sought safe haven, as well as inside the borders of Syria. The administration has launched a new effort to reach a political solution to the Syrian conflict by brokering a still-fragile cease-fire with Russia that took effect Monday.

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Input: "Terrorists are insane people," he said." Clothes also can change one's thoughts sometimes. When we were searching for prisoners who had escaped a detention centre, Melis Turganbayev (the former interior minister) came to me and said that they had been eavesdropping on telephone conversations of wives and mistresses of criminals. Their wives and mistresses wore sacks on their heads and they wanted to organise bombings." If you do not like Kyrgyzstan you can leave our country and go wherever you want.

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Input: But Smith also drew criticism for bringing up Benghazi. GQ writer Bethlehem Shoals tweeted: “I do n’t care how many children Pat Smith lost, I would like to beat her to death.” He later apologized. In her “Fox News Sunday” interview, Clinton was asked about Smith’s allegations that she misled her and another Benghazi family after the 2012 attack. She took a soft approach. “Chris, my heart goes out to both of them.

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Input: Hillary Clinton in last night’s presidential debate tried to avoid talking about the substance of the damaging WikiLeaks disclosures of DNC and Clinton campaign officials by claiming 17 U.S. intelligence agencies determined that Russia was responsible for this. After Clinton made this claim, she scolded Trump for challenging U.S. intelligence professionals who have taken an oath to help defend this country. What Clinton said was false and misleading. First of all, only two intelligence entities – the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – have weighed in on this issue, not 17 intelligence agencies. And what they said was ambiguous about Russian involvement.

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Input: No. You stare them down, and you say:" This is not acceptable." And to Russia, you say:" You can be the ally of the government, but this government is massacring its people. These are crimes against humanity, and we are not going to allow them." SPIEGEL: Does that mean you do not believe in the Geneva peace talks initiated by Secretary of State John Kerry?

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Input: “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. “It is why we call for the support and strengthening of the BDS movement and for the boycott of Israeli goods.” Legal crackdown The signatories are making their call in open defiance of an October ruling by the Court of Cassation.

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Input: (“ So many other countries would have to fall first,” a U.S. defense official quipped.) But Slovenia represents other ways that NATO undergirds European security. Slovenia and the other NATO members share intelligence, work to stop human trafficking, monitor the flow of refugees, and help build the region’s security forces. If Putin’s “Little Green Men” overthrew any NATO country, it would be bad news for Melania’s Motherland. “It was initially a military alliance but it is evolved into something much stronger,” Lt Gen. Mark Hertling, who retired in 2012 as the commander of U.S. Army Europe, explained to The Daily Beast.

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Input: In interviews, lawyers who have tangled with Mr. Trump in court cases are sometimes reduced to sputtering, astonished rage, calling him “borderline pathological” and “the Michelangelo of deception” as they attempt to describe the ease with which Mr. Trump weaves his own versions of reality. “He’s a bully, and bullies are n’t known for their veracity,” said Richard C. Seltzer, a retired senior partner at the law firm Kaye Scholer who confronted Mr. Trump in three real estate lawsuits. In a telephone interview on Friday, Mr. Trump defended his integrity as a businessman — “I shoot very straight” — and argued that those who accuse him of acting in bad faith are often the same people he has outmaneuvered in deals. “What, you’re going to quote people that I’ve beat? Are you going to quote people that I out-dealt?” he asked, adding, “I’ll give you hundreds of names of people that have dealt with me that say I’m very honest.”

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Input: In a paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics, the ethicists, Dr John-Paul Sanggaran, of the University of New South Wales, and Professor Deborah Zion, of Victoria University, wrote that there was “increasing evidence that Australia is engaged in torturing asylum seekers”. “There are allegations of situations, circumstances and actions that also constitute cruel and unusual punishment throughout Australian immigration detention,” they wrote. They pointed to allegations by guards at a detention centre on the island of Nauru “of waterboarding, familiar to most as a torture technique that simulates drowning used by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in places like Guantanamo bay”. “ ‘Zipping’ is also alleged. It is described as tying an individual to a metal bed frame with cable ties, the bed is then thrown into the air causing injury to the bound individual when the frame crashes to the ground,” they added.

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Input: "It would depend on how smart and dedicated this person was ... I would think you would have to devote some real time to getting up to speed," he said. Fernando is now a board member of a private group called the American Security Project, which describes itself as "a nonpartisan organization created to educate the American public and the world about the changing nature of national security in the 21st Century." He also identifies himself online as a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and says he's involved with a Washington think tank. And he continued to donate to Democrats, and to Clinton. He emerged as one of the first "bundlers" to raise money for Clinton's 2016 bid. And in July 2015, he hosted a fundraiser for Clinton at his Chicago home.

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Input: The truth, as several columnists and reporters have painstakingly shown since the first hack of a Clinton-affiliated group took place in late May or early June, is that several of Trump’s businesses outside of Russia are entangled with Russian financiers inside Putin’s circle. So, yes, it’s true that Trump has failed to land a business venture inside Russia. But the real truth is that, as major banks in America stopped lending him money following his many bankruptcies, the Trump organization was forced to seek financing from non-traditional institutions. Several had direct ties to Russian financial interests in ways that have raised eyebrows. What’s more, several of Trump’s senior advisors have business ties to Russia or its satellite politicians.

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Input: He also called the birther movement, which the Republican presidential nominee helped lead," racist." "That's what the 99% believe. When Trump couldn't keep that up he said he also wanted to see if the certificate noted that he was a Muslim," Powell wrote in an August email. The messages, the existence of which were first reported by BuzzFeed and The Intercept, were posted to DCleaks, an organization affiliated with other recent hacks of high-profile figures. Peggy Cifrino, an aide to Powell, told CNN:" The emails are accurate.

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Input: About 40 percent of all unpaid debt ends up in the hands of collection agencies, said Mr. Akhlomov of the United Credit Bureau. Short of violence, collectors use all manner of psychological pressure. They telephone constantly, sometimes as many as 150 times a day. They hound not just the debtors but their families, friends and business associates, demanding that they help pay. The police in the southern city of Stavropol opened a case against one collection agency that blocked phone service to the local children’s hospital by robocalling every hospital number in pursuit of a debtor.

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Input: But at the time it was a novel thought. Eric Schmidt's Instagram of Hillary Clinton and David Rubinstein, taken at the Holbrooke Forum Gala, 5 Dec 2013. Richard Holbrooke (who died in 2010) was a high-profile US diplomat, managing director of Lehman brothers, a board member of NED, CFR, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg steering group and an advisor to Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. Schmidt donated over $ 100k to the the Holbrooke Forum One of our stronger investigative partners — the Beirut-based newspaper Al Akhbar — scoured the emails for intelligence on Jared Cohen. The people at Stratfor, who liked to think of themselves as a sort of corporate CIA, were acutely conscious of other ventures that they perceived as making inroads into their sector.

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Input: Distressing footage emerged of men kicking and stomping on another person lying on the street in broad daylight, as the rivalry turned violent prior to kick-off. Then, at the end of the game, Russian fans charged at the section of the stadium containing England supporters and more chaos ensued. Smoke filled the streets as panicked fans fled. Rebekah Vardy, wife of English striker Jamie Vardy, was critical of the crowd policing." That has to be up there with the worst experience EVER at an away game!

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Input: In 2011, a major study by University of California, Berkeley, political scientist M. Steven Fish presented cross-national statistical data showing that between 1994 and 2007, annual homicide rates in the Muslim world averaged just 2.4 per 100,000 of the population. That was approximately a third of the rate for the non-Muslim world and less than the average rate in Europe. It is also approximately half the homicide rate in the United States. In comparing individual countries, the difference is even greater. The latest homicide statistics from the U.N.’s Office on Drugs and Crime reveal that for every murder perpetrated in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim state, seven people are murdered in the United States.

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Input: The new ISIS video reportedly called on Russian Muslims to “kill apostates” in the country and threatened to carry out an attack on President Vladimir Putin. In the video, which was released on social media, the group’s militants in Chechen — commonly referred to as Chechnya — urged Muslims in Russia to join ISIS’ fight against the West, claiming that "the Caliphate is already here,” according to the Jerusalem Post. The video reportedly begins with a news report being broadcast on a Russian TV channel about a car bombing that hit the town of Dzhemikent in Dagestan province on Feb. 15, killing two Russian police officers. The video later shows the militants in front of a black ISIS flag talking about the importance of "striking the apostates,” the Jerusalem Post reported." Today we do have a place where we can implement Sharia.

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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: A Secret Service spokeswoman said the agency was “aware of the alleged email hacking of a White House employee.” “The Secret Service is concerned any time unauthorized information that might pertain to one of the individuals we protect, or our operations, is allegedly disclosed,” spokeswoman Nicole Mainor told POLITICO. “As a matter of policy, we do not provide information regarding investigations.” White House spokesman Josh Earnest declined to discuss the leak at his daily briefing. “Administration officials are taking a look at the information that’s been disclosed,” Earnest told reporters.

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Input: Nuclear weapons technology was discovered in the 1940s, along with the refrigerator and the washing machine. India, Pakistan, France, the UK, China, South Africa, and North Korea have all figured out nuclear weapons technology a long time ago. Not only would the repeal of this nuclear agreement put Iran onto the path of a nuclear bomb, bu it would be very difficult to get the full scope of sanctions back onto Iran since it would require France, the UK, Germany, and the rest of the West to also put back on sanctions, which is something they may not be willing to do given our President is a former WWE wrestling star. Then we have a weaponized Iran whose economy is now booming because of their Western oil sales. This could start an arms race in the Middle East where Saudi Arabia develops a bomb to combat Iran's new weapon.

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Input: 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. And on Thursday, he immediately rebuked a man at a campaign rally who criticized "Zionist Israel."

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