Saturday, October 12, 2019

There you have it. Our sons and daughters are mercenaries for Aramco and the House of Saud. What are the Turks paying for us to abandon the Kurds?


Elizabeth Warren bought a political ad on Facebook this past week that purposefully includes false claims about Mark Zuckerberg and President Trump to goad the social network to remove misinformation in political ads ahead of the 2020 election


Per WaPo, SONDLAND will testify: “It was a quid pro quo, but not a corrupt one.” Omg.


Here's Trump mimicking a Middle Eastern accent while telling a story about how he ignored calls from world leaders advising him not to declare Jerusalem Israel's capital before he went ahead and did it


The former ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, tweeted “Please tell me this can’t be true.”


#BREAKING: Ukraine envoy will testify that Trump himself dictates the “no quid pro quo” text


SCOOP: Trump’s EU envoy who denied a “quid pro quo” in a text message now says he isn’t certain. “It’s only true that the president said it, not that it was the truth” says a person familiar with his planned testimony.


This sickening horror is one man’s fault. — Hillary Clinton


Start thinking about the fact that in the generations to come, people will spit when they hear your name mentioned, the ground at each of your towers will be salted, and your spawn and their descendants will be shunned like lepers.


Hey @realDonaldTrump: Why did you increase troops in the Middle East? There are more American military personnel in the Middle East now than in 2016 because of YOU.


So glad @realDonaldTrump had a great day of golfing today. So glad all his GOP Senate defenders wouldn't call him out by name and avoided mean tweets.


Horrible videos emerging from NE #Syria today of #Turkey proxies field-executing SDF fighters. You can hear one saying “another pig gone.” Warning, this is a graphic thread of videos:


Former Head of Danske Bank’s Estonian Branch Found Dead


For the record. Here is the WH statement issued on eve of Turkish invasion clearly saying that it was about to happen -that means US advance noticed - and that US forces pulling out of the way. So when President Trump says no greenlight, remember this.


JUST IN from @MarthaRaddatz: ISIS has breached several prisons in northern Syria. Official says Turkey is deliberately targeting American bases so we will depart.


Why isn’t the media covering Turkish President Erdogan’s ties to ISIS??


74 Kurdish-led fighters killed in Turkish offensive


France's president discusses the Turkish offensive in Syria with U.S. President Donald Trump, and warns about a possible resurgence of Islamic State activity as a result of the military action.


Our website has the full News4 one-on-one with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Follow the link in the story (Via WSMV)


This is disturbing and reveals the depth of Fox’s role as a propaganda platform for Trump and, equally important, his enablers. You don’t have to watch the whole absurd thing, but do watch the last 7s for the reveal. Every propaganda study must include this clip. It has it all.


Facebook Is Threatening Our Elections—Again


Treasury will again borrow $1 trillion to pay for tax cuts, spending


embarrassing pic of the ENTIRE Trump gang with the 2 Giuliani associates who were just arrested while trying to flee the country after being charged with felony campaign finance violations for secretly funneling Russian $ to Rep politicians


Turkey's official news agency says Turkey-backed Syrian opposition forces have reached a strategic highway in northeastern Syria as Turkey's offensive against Syrian Kurdish fighters enters its fourth day.


Trump still thinks you need photo ID to buy groceries "If you want to go out and buy groceries you need identification...the only thing you don't need identification for is to vote" Someone in the crowd then informs him that Louisiana already has voter ID, which he didn't know.


Dumbmentia


This must be some kind of record>>> Friday's 5 court rulings against President Donald Trump


"The ‘Serious’ Senate Republicans Chiding Trump Are Profiles in Chickenshit"


NEW: A Fox insider told The Daily Beast that Smith was sick of being attacked by colleagues with evening shows and asked for a way out of his contract. An effort was made to appease him, the insider said, but he ultimately decided to leave Fox behind


It is not hard to imagine Secretary of State Pompeo being impeached for exactly what the president is being impeached for here.


BREAKING— Kevin McAleenan resigns as acting homeland security secretary


Breaking News: Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's lawyer, is said to be under investigation over whether he broke foreign lobbying laws in his dealings in Ukraine


House Dems hope Marie Yovanovitch’s defiance will be contagious


Kurds in Sanandaj (Sine) hit the streets to protest against Turkish govt’s unprovoked military aggression against Kurds in Northern Syria— “Death to Turkey!”


Look at this


After @realDonaldTrump questioned whether @RudyGiuliani was still his attorney, Giuliani tells me: “I am still his attorney.”


Trump just announced that we’re going to send a man to the moon. I hope Giuliani has packed.


"Donald Trump loves Louisiana, the way the devil loves sin." John Neely Kennedy


ICE has a new $3.4 million contract with Thomson Reuters to identify "threats" against agency officials


Keeping track: Here are next week's important dates and deadlines related to the impeachment inquiry.


Arrested Giuliani Ukraine Associates Operated Companies Called 'Fraud Guarantee' and 'Mafia Rave'


Yovanovitch told lawmakers that she had heard from officials within the Ukrainian government that Giuliani was going around trashing her and making stuff up about her, per source. At the time, she didn't have a clear picture of what he was up to.


Lil Ben Shapiro loves to inspire mass shooters


Elizabeth Warren targets Facebook's ad policy — with a Facebook ad


Propagandist Sarah Sanders Huckabee’s father Mike isn’t getting enough attention when it comes to his relationship with Trump/Giuliani’s indicted pals Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, pictured here in Jerusalem with Rabbi Moshe Azman.


Poland hopes the troops will help counter the threat posed by Russia


So, my nephew enlisted because of 9/11. Today is his birthday. He died in 2007 in Iraq. @realDonaldTrump has sent our troops to support the Saudis. My hatred knows no bounds.


I think this is a first — a country with US nuclear weapons stationed in it literally firing artillery at US forces.


President Donald Trump outlined the first phase of a deal to end a trade war with China and suspended a threatened tariff hike, but officials on both sides said much more work needed to be done before an accord could be agreed


I spent 2011 training Kurdish forces in Iraq. I never doubted they’d have my back. They were true allies against ISIS. Trump giving the OK for the Turks to attack them is unconscionable. He has Kurdish blood on his hands that will cost him military & veteran votes.


Captain Bone Spurs is enlisting the US military as mercenaries for Captain Bone Saw BUT Article I section 8 says “The Congress shall have the Power ... to declare War”


If Chris Wallace now leaves, following Shep Smith, then the purpose of the Barr meeting with Murdoch seems pretty clear. Also, why is the US AG having a meeting like this?


Breaking News: Marie Yovanovitch, the recalled U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, told Congress in scathing testimony that President Trump pushed to have her removed based on "false claims" and warned that private influences are undermining the nation's interests


Why does Notre Dame not want people to know Bill Barr is scheduled to speak on their campus? Do they fear having a lawless traitor enabling Donald Trump's conspiracies with Russia and Ukraine to rig US elections again will throw shade on their university? They're quite right!


Indicted Giuliani associate worked on behalf of Ukrainian oligarch Firtash


"Subsequent filings in the case revealed that the money at issue in Kukushkin’s lawsuit appears to have come from Andrey Muraviev, a Russian businessman who was the only other investor listed in the California venture."


“I don’t know what the tactical rationale for this is,” says a former Pentagon official as Turkey assaults the Kurds whom the U.S. used to attack ISIS.


In exclusive comments to Rudaw, the spokesman for the Kurdish-led SDF in Syria Mustafa Bali said guarding ISIS prisoners and families 'is no longer our responsibility.'


I wrote about Facebook's decision to let politicians lie in advertisements – and what it reveals about the company's and Mark Zuckerberg's basic political programming – here:


Sitting comfortably in a German tank, Turkey-paid Jihadist repeats the former Islamist State slogan "baqiya", which means The Caliphate reaming/standing, as they advance against the Democrat Forces abandoned by the United States. What a meaningless world...


Indicted Giuliani associate attended private ‘16 election night party for ‘friend’ Trump


Just a quick note: Right now, Trump is killing Christians in the Middle East. Women. Children. Babies. Even the unborn kind you republicans like. That is all.


Folks, this was NOT an accident. Repeat: NO accident. "The shelling was so heavy that US troops considered returning fire in defense." Turks know exactly, down to the UTM mark on the grid where our guys are at! They did this intentionally!


Giuliani under investigation for breaking lobbying laws: NYT


Trump suffers legal 'body blow' among collection of court losses


US diplomats 'frozen under the tweet of Damocles': Malinowski


As Trump installs enablers, he leaves behind witnesses


Former ambassador excoriates corruption of Trump acolytes