Israel-Gaza 'ceasefire begins' after two days of fighting https://t.co/xy5ASofHev— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 14, 2019
The death toll from Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip rose to 32 in three days after Palestinian officials said six members of the same family had been killedhttps://t.co/jP7RlBtyCg pic.twitter.com/jZQ1swNtJZ— AFP news agency (@AFP) November 14, 2019
The US will maintain around 600 troops in Syria, Pentagon chief Mark Esper says, despite Donald Trump's desire to end US involvement in what the president calls 'endless wars'https://t.co/xxf55eDObQ pic.twitter.com/oljmG5Fxdp— AFP news agency (@AFP) November 14, 2019
Bolivia crisis: Clashes as Morales supporters oppose interim rule https://t.co/D9rBpRveor— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 14, 2019
Strained US-Turkey ties as Trump and Erdogan hold meeting https://t.co/dI56LPVOEH pic.twitter.com/RombQK3Ecy— Military Times (@MilitaryTimes) November 14, 2019
Perfection. pic.twitter.com/k9ENSePewQ— 🇷🇺Only In Russia 🇷🇺 (@CrazyinRussia) November 6, 2019
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The dollar amounts anbd stuff make for good, easily understandable, accurate and truthful ads. The American people will be envious and angry.
Documents Released by Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s Office Reveal MILLIONS Funneled to Hunter Biden and the John Kerry Family
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/huge-exclusive-bombshell-documents-released-by-ukrainian-general-prosecutors-office-reveal-millions-funneled-to-hunter-biden-and-the-john-kerry-family/
QUID PRO QUO
"So I said to Poroshenko (Ukrainian President) & Yatsenuk (Ukr PM):
If you don't fire the prosecutor investigating my son, we're going to withhold the $1 billion in aid."
- Joe Biden at the Council of Foreigh Relations (CFR) on camera.
https://twitter.com/MichaelCoudrey/status/1177028193569538048?s=20
However, there are two big problems with the narrative presented by Trump and Giuliani, according to activists in Ukraine and others.
For one thing, Ukrainian prosecutors and anti-corruption advocates who were pushing for an investigation into the dealings of Burisma and its owner, Mykola Zlochevskiy, said the probe had been dormant long before Biden leveled his demand.
"There was no pressure from anyone from the United States" to close the case against Zlochevskiy, Vitaliy Kasko, who was a deputy prosecutor-general under Shokin and is now first deputy prosecutor-general, told Bloomberg News in May. "It was shelved by Ukrainian prosecutors in 2014 and through 2015," he added.
Activists say the case had been sabotaged by Shokin himself. As an example, they say two months before Hunter Biden joined Burisma's board, British authorities had requested information from Shokin's office as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering by Zlochevskiy. Shokin ignored them.
Kaleniuk and AntAC published a detailed timeline of events surrounding the Burisma case, an outline of evidence suggesting that three consecutive chief prosecutors of Ukraine -- first Shokin’s predecessor, then Shokin, and then his successor -- worked to bury it.
"Ironically, Joe Biden asked Shokin to leave because the prosecutor failed [to pursue] the Burisma investigation, not because Shokin was tough and active with this case," Kaleniuk said.
Ukrainian prosecutors have described no evidence indicating that Biden sought to help his son by getting Shokin dismissed -- and have suggested that they have not discovered any such evidence.
But there is a long list of Western organizations, governments, and diplomats, as well as Ukrainian anti-corruption groups, that wanted to see Shokin fired.
They include the International Monetary Fund, the European Union, the U.S. government, foreign investors, and Ukrainian advocates of reform.
In a column published days after Shokin was fired in March 2016, Anders Aslund, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington, wrote that his dismissal came as no surprise.
"The amazing thing is not that he was sacked but that it has taken so long," Aslund said. "Petro Poroshenko appointed Shokin to the role in February 2015. From the outset, he stood out by causing great damage even to Ukraine's substandard legal system."
You can say that, but it is not true.
Just like there are factions here there are faction there that will lie.
You take your typical person and ask them to prove that they worked andt they can show you something.
Can Hunter show so much as a memo?
We prosecute mafia people for no show construction jobs all the time.
Scions of Democrat aristocracy have special privilege not to get prosecuted unlike mafia?
We have the copies of payment records. We have the recording of Joe Biden bragging, which is worth more that your article by a journalist. How many people believe journalists nowadays? It think it is in the tank there along with Congress.
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do not believe journalists but believe trump, a non stop liar, all recorded if you simply google and see he is non stop liar, faker...but you will not and instead will dismiss professional journalists
ah, revealed by Lativa. then it must be authentic...tell this to Barr
If any validity, then we are bound to learn about this within the next two weeks on tv, the impeacement hearings, Barr, Trump et al...we wait then and are all excited to learn more
An Oval Office meeting yesterday with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took a dark turn when Erdoğan pulled out his iPad and made the group watch a propaganda video that depicted Kurds as terrorists, according to three sources familiar with the meeting.
Why it matters: The meeting hosted by President Trump included five Republican U.S. senators who've been among the most vocal critics of Turkey's recent invasion of Syria and attacks on the U.S.'s Kurdish allies in the fight against ISIS.
Erdoğan apparently thought he could sway these senators by forcing them to watch a clunky propaganda film.
The senators in the meeting took turns pushing back on Erdoğan, while Trump sat back and watched, intervening occasionally to play traffic cop.
The meeting comes as Erdoğan is trying to avoid sanctions over the purchase of a Russian missile defense system.
Erdoğan's video "was unpersuasive," according to a source who was in the room. It depicted members of the YPG (the U.S.-allied People's Protection Units) and the PKK (the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which the State Department has designated as a terrorist group).
More nonsense and allegations that are FALSE!
• Vice President Joe Biden did urge Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor, with the threat of withholding U.S. aid. But that was the position of the wider U.S. government, as well as other international institutions.
• We found no evidence to support the idea that Joe Biden advocated with his son's interests in mind, as the message suggests. It's not even clear that the company was actively under investigation or that a change in prosecutors benefited it.
via Fact Check
The United States foreign policy must reflect an honest accounting of human rights abuses, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and genocide. We cannot turn our backs on the Armenian victims of genocide," he said.
Menendez noted that he listened to President Trump's press conference Wednesday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The Turkish president scolded a House-passed resolution recognizing the genocide and instead promised to "establish a history commission."
Graham objected to passing the resolution in the Senate, saying senators shouldn't "sugarcoat history or try to rewrite it."
Under the Senate's rules, any one senator can ask for consent to pass a bill or resolution, but any one senator can block it.
Graham's objection came hours after he took part in a White House meeting with Trump, Erdoğan and a group of GOP senators.
"I just met with President Erdoğan and President Trump about the problems we face in Syria by the military incursion by Turkey. I do hope that Turkey and Armenia can come together and deal with this problem," he added on the Senate floor.
Graham added that he was objecting "not because of the past but because of the future."
A U.S. ambassador’s cellphone call to President Trump from a restaurant in the capital of Ukraine this summer was a stunning breach of security, exposing the conversation to surveillance by foreign intelligence services, including Russia’s, former U.S. officials said.
The call — in which Trump’s remarks were overheard by a U.S. Embassy staffer in Kyiv — was disclosed Wednesday by the acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, William B. Taylor Jr., on the dramatic opening day of public impeachment hearings into alleged abuse of power by the president.
“The member of my staff could hear President Trump on the phone” asking U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland about “the investigations,” Taylor testified, referring to the president’s desire for a probe of the son of Trump’s potential political opponent in 2020, Joe Biden, and the Ukrainian energy company on whose board Hunter Biden once served.
Sondland, Taylor said, told Trump in that conversation that “the Ukrainians were ready to move forward” on the investigations.
The U.S. Embassy staffer who overheard the call, political counselor David Holmes, is scheduled to testify Friday before House impeachment investigators in a closed session.
“The security ramifications are insane — using an open cellphone to communicate with the president of the United States,” said Larry Pfeiffer, a former senior director of the White House Situation Room and a former chief of staff to the CIA director. “In a country that is so wired with Russian intelligence, you can almost take it to the bank that the Russians were listening in on the call.”
The former White House counsel who helped to bring down President Richard Nixon over the Watergate scandal said that the current House already has enough evidence to impeach President Donald Trump after just one day of the public witness hearings in its inquiry.
On Wednesday, the House intelligence committee heard from Bill Taylor, the most senior American diplomat in Ukraine, and George Kent, deputy assistant secretary of state with responsibility for Ukraine policy.
They are the first of the impeachment inquiry's witnesses to give evidence in public after a series of closed-door depositions from a number of administration officials with knowledge of the events under scrutiny. And their testimony was a powerful start.
"There is a conspiracy. We know, from what's come out of the executive sessions, generally, where this is going," John Dean, who was Nixon's counsel and went to prison for helping to cover up the Watergate scandal, said on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360.
"What struck me today in listening to these two witnesses is they already have more than they had against Richard Nixon to impeach him. Just on all accounts," continued Dean, who also delivered evidence to prosecutors and testimony to the Senate that implicated Nixon.
Dean said "the evidence is there," unlike in the Watergate scandal, which early on had relied primarily on his testimony and "a few people that were lower in the pecking order than me," until the transcripts of the infamous Nixon tapes were released.
Wow, the know nothing crank is back posting in bold font.
“Don’t worry about investors. We’ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden.”
- James Biden of the Biden family criminal syndicate
sorry: meant not as dumb as you
It didn’t take long for the crazy to start. Even before the first two witnesses in the public impeachment hearings of Donald Trump had been sworn in to testify at the House Intelligence Committee Wednesday morning, the panel’s top Republican, Representative Devin Nunes, was going on about various conspiracy theories. First, he talked about a “three-year-long operation by the Democrats, the corrupt media, and partisan bureaucrats to overturn the results of the 2016 election.” A few sentences later in his opening remarks, he mentioned an alleged Democratic plot to obtain “nude pictures of Trump” from Russia. Soon after that, he blasted the Democrats for creating a “cult-like atmosphere” in their private depositions of witnesses.
None of it had anything to do with the matter at hand in the House’s impeachment investigation—President Trump’s pressure campaign to force Ukraine to launch investigations that would benefit his personal political interests. Nor had a single word yet been uttered by either George Kent or William Taylor, Jr., the career diplomats who sat waiting patiently to testify in the storied but frigid House committee room, where the impeachment hearings—only the fourth in American history—will take place over the next two weeks.
There does seem to be enough negative stuff on Biden, apart from his manhandling of little girls that is, to preclude him from becoming President because it strongly suggests that he, as President, would attempt to pull a Quid Pro Quo too. I am sure that if the same tests were applied to several other former Presidents evidence of their similar activities would emerge.
That is the issue. Trump IS President, attempted to do it, has been caught at it, has admitted it, and for a sitting President doing such a thing, AND getting caught at it is a no no. If he was an honorable man, that would/should be enough for him to bow out.
He won't do that because, among other things, he needs the fake impunity the DOJ has granted to sitting Presidents to avoid jail time for other, non presidential related crimes. After all, he lives in the day and not the tomorrows.
When it moves to the Senate the GOP will no doubt collectively hold their noses and allow Trump to keep his job. If that happens it is testimony the level of the poor level of integrity that exists in Washington.
Someone should be asking the Democratic House leader if should would press for impeachment if the sitting President as a Democrat.
Proof that this Ukraine stuff is hurting Biden is the Patrick Duvall is getting into the race.
QED
Biden is the second last person I want to see as President following the 2020 election. For my first last person pick I go with Donald, and I give the edge to Donald should the DNC decide to resurrect Hillary.
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