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-Lurid Crime Tales-
The Connection Between Epstein & Impeachment
BLUF:
[Sons of Liberty] So, why the secretive, Soviet-style impeachment process and the dramatically heightened hyperbole in the press and sinister collusion over a story about a dead pedophile?

What’s the connection?

Here it is: Apart from the left’s fear and loathing surrounding Donald Trump, both the impeachment process and the Epstein story run a very high risk for the American people discovering the true character of those who govern them. While many of the astute have already figured this out, a preponderance of Americans making this discovery could prove fatal to socialist ascendency in America, and might actually spell the demise of at least one of our political parties.

As some commentators have noted, the abysmal character of this impeachment process is due to congressional Democrats’ knowledge that if the proceedings do not remain within their tight control, they run the risk of exposing not only the machinations of the Deep State at large, but the illegal activities of public officials at many levels, going all the way back to Bill Clinton’s administration.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/22/2019 01:53 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ....run a very high risk for the American people discovering the true character of those who govern them.

The Washington elite could care less what the "American people discover" or think. This isn't about discovery, it's about enabling the media to establish a time and distance conundrum with regard to illegal acts and wrongdoing. It's purely a political 'cover for action.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/22/2019 2:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Muslims are just vermin to be fumigated. China is just an opportunist - show firm and they'll pipe down. The real enemy is the Western "cognitive elites" - dumb as shit and twice as arrogant.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/22/2019 3:39 Comments || Top||

#3  It's simply a redirect from their own crimes, corruption and lies.

Virtually everything they print or say now is either a form of projection-- accusing Trump of abuses that they themselves are guilty of-- or a head fake designed to keep the public off the trail.

That trail leads to the obvious conclusion that our political class and their cheerleaders in the media don't have the faintest idea of how to run this country. They have failed massively in every realm-- economic, political, foreign affairs, the cultural sphere-- and have given us 30+ years of stagnation and decline.

In our history only the late 19th century compares for our era's level of corruption, incompetence, economic concentration, and stupidity.

At least then our power and stature int he world were increasing. These f---ing morons have deliberately squandered the extraordinary windfall they were handed in 1989.

Hence the massive and constant attempt to redirect the public's attention away from their colossal failures.
Posted by: Lex || 11/22/2019 4:54 Comments || Top||

#4  might actually spell the demise of at least one of our political parties.

Hasten the day. The American DNC is near the sort of intellectual and moral bankruptcy that the Indian INC underwent in the previous decade. Too much power, and too many threads of compromise with pressure groups whose interests are contrary to those of the law-abiding common citizen. There is no way the DNC is coming back from the rot. And Americans are not as dumb as the globalist groups supporting the DNC want to believe. No one is.

The equivalent of the DNC in India, the INC is today a joke, after just two terms of conservatives. The media realized it couldn't live on goodwill from 'deposed princes' and changed loyalties, even if not in spirit. Today, they are laughed at and ridiculed, their 'stalwarts' are either fighting off cases or in jail, their financiers and benefactors are fighting extradition and orange notices. Once you've descended the food chain, the officials take it from there.

After a century of systematized pavlovian conditioning pushed by federal agencies and judiciaries, Democrats were only able to make a slight dent in the American psyche. It won't simply give in, like Brit compliance with everything out of Westminster.

The challenging task for Trump will remain to purge the federal bureaucracy and appoint nationalists in those positions that require them. Maybe a PR campaign to remind American youth of what the US means ? The 'keep America great' concept could flow into the campaign for his successor, maybe Melania or Junior.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/22/2019 5:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Not Melania. Even if she were not a naturalized citizen, she clearly has absolutely no interest in politics. She does her duty as Mrs. Trump, whether that involves his business entertaining or the nation’s, but she is has no interest beyond supporting him in his work. Hillary Clinton is the rare president’s wife interested in taking up the mantle for herself, and look how bad she has been at the job.

If Donald Trump, Jr is the one who has been tweeting and going on television, he may be the one. Or Ivanka, though she strikes me as happier being an executive in the organization — better work/life balance, donchaknow.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/22/2019 10:01 Comments || Top||

#6  Any Trump relative would be unlikely as it would look bad.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/22/2019 11:37 Comments || Top||

#7  The one to carry on Trump's legacy has not emerged yet. It needs to be someone who's savvier about Washington, who won't get sandbagged as Trump was. Maybe someone like Josh Hawley. Possibly Ted Cruz.
Posted by: Lex || 11/22/2019 11:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Lex. WRT Ted Cruz: Trump has shown how far a president can go against the Deep State and the media. Cruz has the stones to try, so that's an improvement Originally, I was for Cruz/Fiorina, but figured selling the task as doing things the same old way to fix what doing things the same old way got us wasn't going to get anybody elected.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 11/22/2019 14:43 Comments || Top||

#9  John the Baptist = Trump
Messiah = ?
Posted by: Lex || 11/22/2019 14:56 Comments || Top||

#10  Melania = St Mary M.
Posted by: Lex || 11/22/2019 14:58 Comments || Top||


Chicago Drug Gang Leader Says if Anyone Insults Muhammad, 'His Head Gotta Go'
[PJ] It could be a whole new trend, drug dealers against blasphemy: Jason Brown, according to the Associated Press, is the "37-year-old leader of the AHK gang," and "could be heard on secret FBI recordings speaking admiringly about beheadings by the Islamic State group." Brown, also known as Abdul Ja’Me, said that if anyone insulted Muhammad, "his head gotta go."

The illustrious Brown’s AHK represents a convergence between drug trafficking and Islam. According to prosecutors, AHK deals drugs all over Chicago, and is "comprised of former members of the Black P-Stone, Gangster Disciples and Four Corner Hustlers who converted to Islam, the court filings say. The gang requires all new members to convert."
Is this unique to this Chicago gang, or it is becoming a trend across the country?
The new Muslims of AHK display the zeal that is common to converts in general. Brown "handed over $500 on three occasions this year to someone he believed would wire it to an Islamic State fighter." He also talked about traveling to the Islamic State’s domains himself.

Above all, he and his comrades picked up on the fact that jihadists have used drugs to fund their efforts for years. Years ago, in his study of the Taliban, journalist Ahmed Rashid reported: "Abdul Rashid, the head of the Taliban’s anti-drugs control force in Kandahar, spelt out the nature of his unique job. He is authorized to impose a strict ban on the growing of hashish, ’because it is consumed by Afghans and Muslims.’ But, Rashid tells me without a hint of sarcasm, ’Opium is permissible because it is consumed by kafirs [unbelievers] in the West and not by Muslims or Afghans.’ This seems to have been a common view among the Taliban. Another Taliban named Khaled asked, ’Who cares if heroin is wreaking havoc in the West? It doesn’t matter; they aren’t Muslims.’"

And in December 2017, Politico revealed that "in its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States."
Given Mr. Obama’s enjoyment of a variety of chemical substances over the course of his life, no doubt he considered that a second win.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/22/2019 01:12 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Abdul Ja’Me

Is that a wish, or a command?
Posted by: Lex || 11/22/2019 5:25 Comments || Top||

#2  A muslim DeShawn.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/22/2019 5:38 Comments || Top||

#3  If Obama had a son ...
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/22/2019 8:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Why is not in federal custody?
Posted by: chris || 11/22/2019 10:20 Comments || Top||

#5  They get converted in prison. It seems that criminals are naturally attracted to it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/22/2019 13:07 Comments || Top||

#6  If Obama could have had a son ...

Michelle Obama reveals daughters were conceived by IVF
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/22/2019 13:10 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ OK, so Big Mike's their dad. Who's their momma?
Posted by: Lex || 11/22/2019 14:48 Comments || Top||

#8  yeah they get converted in prison, you also fimd alot of assholes in prison which goes right along with islam.
Posted by: chris || 11/22/2019 14:54 Comments || Top||

#9  A friend who works in the US BoP told me that there's a whole industry to protection and extortion in the prisons. And you absolutely have to play ball to survive. Blacks have no choice but to join the baddest blacks, because blacks are the most vicious and tricky bastards in prison.

I'm guessing this Brown asshole must have latched onto the islam lingo as a means to gaining greater reach and support. It's a wise tactic given the availability of lawfarer and representation support for 'diversity' currently.

Islam is the ultimate mental-set that appeals to borderline sociopaths. You get to be 'righteous', pay obeisance to a 'god', and you get to be a criminal. You don't have to obey social mores and you can give women the hell you believe they deserve. You can do anything your body wants to other human beings and judges and legislators will only scratch their heads deliberating over what to do with you before you die of old age or a rival hit. You can laugh at the silly white man with his altruistic laws and his stupid stun-guns while you bash in a woman's head, hack off a kid's arm and rape someone's wife with relative impunity.

And in a way, it is our fault.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/22/2019 15:12 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ An argument for greater use of Solitary.
Posted by: Lex || 11/22/2019 15:22 Comments || Top||

#11  Don't be surprised when you and your boys start having their heads on spikes filled with bacon showing up on random street corners.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/22/2019 23:14 Comments || Top||

#12  greater use of Solitary.

I was thinking 'Total Harvest'. Kidneys, liver, heart, eyes, marrow, blood... hair. Everything. Give it to law abiding folks with no criminal records, who need it. Incinerate the meat.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/22/2019 23:19 Comments || Top||

#13  I was thinking 'Total Harvest'.

So we export him to China?
Posted by: Unaitle Panda6599 || 11/22/2019 23:53 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Australia's ex-spy chief warns about China influence
[Aljazeera] China is trying to "take over" Australia's political system with an "insidious" and systematic campaign of espionage and influence-peddling, Canberra's ex-spymaster said in an interview published on Friday.

Duncan Lewis, who resigned in September after five years at the head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), said China could target anyone in political office, with the effect potentially not known for years to come.

"Espionage and foreign interference is insidious. Its effects might not present for decades and by that time it's too late," Lewis was quoted as telling the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper in his first interview since leaving the office.

"You wake up one day and find decisions made in our country that are not in the interests of our country," he said.

Australia courts Vanuatu to tackle China's influence (2:45)
"Not only in politics but also in the community or in business. It takes over, basically, pulling the strings from offshore," he added in the interview.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/22/2019 01:38 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The 'blind sow and acorn' matrix.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/22/2019 2:11 Comments || Top||

#2  "You wake up one day and find decisions made in our country that are not in the interests of our country,"

Yupp. And if you don't fight it tooth and nail the first time it happens, the country is maimed forever.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/22/2019 3:25 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
How Republicans Won Phase One Of Impeachment
[Federalist] Mollie Hemingway. Nuff said
Posted by: Frank G || 11/22/2019 09:58 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mollie's solid as always but this observation is a little disturbing:

Schiff kept a tight hand on the wheel, controlling witness lists, controlling their testimony, keeping things secret, selectively leaking, and withholding information. That’s his prerogative, but for impeachment to be considered something other than political theater, the unfairness didn’t work.

Huh?
A Shitshow + Star Chamber is part of the Chairman's "prerogative"? Really?
Posted by: Lex || 11/22/2019 11:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Under HR660 (?) they adopted rules that allowed that, as unfair as it is
Posted by: Frank G || 11/22/2019 11:55 Comments || Top||


Fiona Hill Testifies Russian Meddling Sought To Sow Discord Between Parties, Criticizes Those Casting Trump Presidency As Illegitimate
[Daily Caller] Fiona Hill, former senior director for European and Russian Affairs on President Trump’s National Security Council, testified Thursday that the goal of Russian meddling into the 2016 election was not to elect Trump over then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, but to sow discord between Republicans and Democrats.

"The Russians’ interests are frankly to delegitimize our entire presidency," Hill stated in response to a line of questioning from Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff during her public impeachment hearing. "So one issue that I do want to raise, and I think this would resonate with our colleagues on the committee from the Republican Party, is that the goal of the Russians was really to put whoever became the president, by trying to tip their hands on one side of the scale, under a cloud."

"So if Secretary, former First Lady, former Senator Clinton had been elected as president, as indeed many expected in the run-up to the election in 2016, she too would have had major questions about her legitimacy," she continued. "I think that what we’re seeing here as a result of all of these narratives is exactly what the Russian government was hoping for."

"Perceived misinformation, perceived doubt, they have everybody questioning the legitimacy of a presidential candidate, be it President Trump or potentially a President Clinton, that they would pit one side of our electorate against the other, they would pit one party against the other, and that’s why I wanted to make such a strong point at the very beginning."

Hill further emphasized the "need to be very careful as we discuss all of these issues not to give them more fodder that they can use against us in 2020."
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/22/2019 02:31 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Finally, some sanity. This woman knows what she's talking about. Unbelievable that it took this long for someone in Washington to say the obvious.

Putin couldn't care less about who's in the White House. He feared and loathes Trump as much as he fears and loathes any Democrat who might replace Trump.
Posted by: Lex || 11/22/2019 5:23 Comments || Top||

#2  And the Democrats played into their game, being crazy marxists themselves.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/22/2019 5:36 Comments || Top||

#3  They spent 25 million as compared to 2 billion total.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/22/2019 6:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Is there like anyone in USG branches dealing with Ukraine who is not an Ukrainian patriot?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/22/2019 6:38 Comments || Top||

#5  At least we KNOW she didn't sleep her way to the top
Posted by: Frank G || 11/22/2019 8:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Don't jump to conclusions, lookist!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/22/2019 8:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Fiona walks into a bar.
Bartender says, "Why the long face?"
Posted by: Lex || 11/22/2019 11:34 Comments || Top||

#8  played by Sarah Jessica Parker in the miniseries?
Posted by: Frank G || 11/22/2019 11:59 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ Hey, hold up there. I could use the work and I can totally lose the weight!
Posted by: Webbell Hubster2957 || 11/22/2019 12:18 Comments || Top||


Obama Reminds Democrats To Save The Far-Left Stuff Until After They Get Elected
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.‐Former President Barack Obama on Friday offered a firm warning to the 2020 Democratic primary field. Worried the candidates may be openly pushing the party too far to the left, he urged them to remember the age-old secret of getting elected as a Democrat.

"They’ve got to save the far-left stuff until after they get elected," Obama said. "You’ve got to lie a little. ’Mislead’ is the better term. You won't get elected otherwise. On the campaign you want to stick with the simple stuff like ’yes we can’ and ’change.’ Once you’re elected, you can basically go full commie."

Historically, Obama is correct. Every single Democratic president since Grover Cleveland has won the presidency by simply lying to the American people‐or at least misleading them. It worked then, and it would likely work in 2020.

Obama noted that typical Democratic voters are not ready for forced abortions, wealth confiscation at gunpoint, or even labor camps. "Unfortunately," Obama said, "ideas like this take time to develop in the collective mind, so we have to hide them from the American people."

Obama also warned that another four years of President Trump could be devastating to the far-left agenda. Worse, he warned that the continued push for impeachment will likely aid Trump in winning a second term.

"Listen," Obama said, "If they had tried to impeach me, I’d have been done for real quick. We had so many scandals we actually ran out of code-names for them. But this Ukraine deal, it’s a joke, and it needs to stop."

The message from Barack Obama is crystal clear. Democrats need to save the far-left talk for November 4, 2020--and stop trying to impeach President Trump for no reason.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/22/2019 01:29 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not Bee.
Posted by: Guillibaldo Omaving7499 || 11/22/2019 2:14 Comments || Top||

#2  [Babylon Bee]

Bee, Guillibaldo Omaving7499. But it’s playing off something the former president did say on the subject recently.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/22/2019 12:10 Comments || Top||

#3  My way of saying this is credible enough To Be Not Bee.
Posted by: Unaitle Panda6599 || 11/22/2019 12:41 Comments || Top||


California Law Aimed At Acquiring Trump's Tax Returns Ruled Unconstitutional
[The Federalist] A California law that sought to require candidates to publish tax records in order to appear on the ballot has been ruled unconstitutional by the state’s Supreme Court Thursday.

The "Presidential Tax Transparency and Accountability Act," which was signed by California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom in July, required candidates running for president or governor in the state to hand over the five most recent years of tax returns to the California secretary of state to qualify for the ballot.

The California Supreme Court unanimously struck down the law Thursday ruling it a direct violation of the state constitution which mandates the state government to operate an "open presidential primary whereby the candidates on the ballot are those found by the secretary of state to be recognized candidates throughout the nation or throughout California."

The state’s highest court found that the new legislation passed by Democrats flew "in conflict with the [state] constitution’s specification of an inclusive open presidential primary ballot."

Democrats have demanded President Donald Trump to release his tax returns ever since he announced his White House bid four years ago, from using various lawsuits in state and local jurisdictions to their oversight powers in the House of Representatives to subpoena for their release speculating on improper conduct.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/22/2019 00:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Little noted but very important (cause like most bad news for the Left, its buried) -

Federal court undercuts progressive efforts to nullify Electoral College, rules electors can vote freely

States can not override the process of electing to federal offices.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/22/2019 7:13 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Will the Peshmerga reform – or be integrated into the Iraqi Army?
[Rudaw] There is renewed talk about the future status of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces ranging from uniting the two predominant Peshmerga units in Kurdistan to broadly unifying the group with the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF).

On November 12, during an officer's graduation ceremony in Zakho, the President of the Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani called for a Peshmerga "that is united and has a national thinking as well as being above all political, partisan, ethnic, religious and sectarian purposes."

"It should not be the force of [political] parties and groups," he said. "It should stay away from internal disagreements and rivalry. Kurdistan's Peshmerga forces should never be for political intentions and determination of political issues."
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Posted by: trailing wife || 11/22/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Government
JFK files: CIA spy in Cuba ‘befriended' Castro, Che; played key role amid nuclear-war fears
[USA Today] The World War II veteran with the top-secret job hid a lot from his 12-year-old daughter. But on this day, he opened up about how suspicious it seemed: The accused assassin of John F. Kennedy getting shot and killed on live TV, during a transfer between jails.

Today, Lilliam remembers her dad "being sort of angry that we weren’t going to get any answers... and just really wondering about it: Was it (Lee Harvey) Oswald who shot the president like we all thought? And he conveniently gets shot himself?"

She wouldn’t know for four more years that this was not simply idle speculation about danger and deception surrounding the president’s 1963 murder. Her dad was a deep-cover CIA operative whose life had been dedicated to danger and deception.

A secret war the White House waged against Cuba provided both in abundance. And the spy was often in the thick of the adventure. Fate would sideline him at a crucial moment, when Fidel Castro took control of the island nation. But that didn’t derail his dedication to fighting communism ‐ until a personal demon destroyed his career.

The spy was Ross Lester Crozier, who died in obscurity in 2000. Details of his role in history remained buried in 944 pages of classified Central Intelligence Agency documents until their release, bit by bit, starting two years ago.

A CIA assessment of Ross Crozier's interactions with Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

In those files, reinforced by recollections of his daughter and of former operatives who worked under him, Crozier emerges as a real-life James Bond. He interacted with major players of tumultuous events involving Cuba and the Cold War from the mid-1950s to the early ’60s. He crossed paths with spies who would later be arrested in the 1972 burglary of Democratic offices at Washington’s Watergate complex, which took down another president.

Prior to Cuba’s revolution, he managed to develop a rapport with its two biggest icons ‐ Castro and aide Ernesto "Che" Guevara, whose name and image today are synonymous with revolution.

Crozier also was the agency’s official liaison for a CIA-funded group of young, exiled Cubans who opposed both Castro and Guevara.

Through those students, he learned that the Soviet Union had placed missiles in Cuba capable of striking the U.S. and passed this intelligence on to Washington. But his reports went nowhere, he complained to a researcher in his later years ‐ a lost opportunity with the potential to change the course of history by preempting the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/22/2019 06:32 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A little CIA PR to try to cover their past and current despicable institutional behaviors?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/22/2019 6:52 Comments || Top||

#2  That may be the most cynical thing I've read, P2k.

Not saying it's wrong, mind you, not saying it would surprise me, just saying it is cynical.

Sorry I didn't think of it myself.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/22/2019 7:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Corporate virtue signaling for the uninformed, or a thesis on the origins of regime change...or both.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/22/2019 8:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Tales from back when the CIA was on our side.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/22/2019 9:28 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Most decorated soldier of Vietnam War had almost as many Article 15s as he did medals
h/t Instapundit
There is a long-standing adage in combat arms branches that says "you haven’t had a full career until you’ve gotten an Article 15."

Well, this Vietnam War veteran had his share non-judicial punishments (authorized by Article 15 of UCMJ), racked up 115 confirmed kills and was awarded the Medal of Honor. He was also one of the most decorated soldier in American international combat, even eclipsing both Alvin York and Audie Murphy.

Born in the summer of 1938 in South Carolina, Joe Ronnie Hooper was relocated as a child to Moses Lake, Washington.

Originally a Navy man, Hooper first enlisted in December of 1956. He worked in naval aviation, eventually reaching the rank of Petty Officer 3rd class, the equivalent of an Army or Marine corporal (E-4). He was honorably discharged in 1959.

The next year, Hooper enlisted in the US Army as a Private First Class. After graduating Basic Training, he volunteered for Airborne School. From there he did tours of duty in Fort Bragg, Korea and Fort Hood, eventually making his way to Fort Campbell’s 101st Airborne Division.

Now a Staff Sergeant, Hooper requested a tour in Vietnam but was sent to Panama instead as a platoon sergeant. Unable to stay out of trouble while he was there, he was the subject of several Article 15 hearings and was eventually demoted to Corporal. However, he eventually got his Sergeant back and deployed with the 101st to Vietnam in December of 1967, taking on the role of a squad leader.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/22/2019 02:35 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If you read early American military history, you'd be quickly informed of the number of officers who were 'boarded' yet still served and went on to higher grade.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/22/2019 6:56 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2019-11-22
  Iranian security forces brutally beat #Iranian protesters
Thu 2019-11-21
  Afghanistan’s president claims victory over IS
Wed 2019-11-20
  SpaceX Starship BLOWS UP!
Tue 2019-11-19
  Iran’s Guards threaten petrol protesters with ‘revolutionary’ response
Mon 2019-11-18
  Basra roads closed as national protests continue
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Sat 2019-11-16
  Protests erupt across Iran, burning banks, angry over gas prices
Fri 2019-11-15
  Roger Stone found guilty by D.C. jury.
Thu 2019-11-14
  121 ISIS militants and relatives surrender to Afghan forces in Nangarhar, 300+ in past week
Wed 2019-11-13
  Live: the House’s Trump Impeachment hearings starting at 10 a.m. ET
Tue 2019-11-12
  Israel hit by rockets after killing Islamic Jihad leader Abu al-Ata in Gaza
Mon 2019-11-11
  Thanks to all the veterans on Veterans Day!
Sun 2019-11-10
  Bolivia's president announces his resignation
Sat 2019-11-09
  Will Julian Assange Die in Prison? Is that why a "dead man" data dump just took place?
Fri 2019-11-08
  WikiLeaks just dropped their databomb

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