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Donald Trump's Oil Moves in Syria Play Into Old Fears of U.S. Policy in Middle East
Newsweek 15 Nov 2019
President Donald Trump's plan to maintain a military presence at Syria's oil fields bears little resemblance to the United States' stated mission in the country and instead resembles much of what critics have long accused Washington of doing in the Middle East—invading and occupying for control of natural resources ... economic plunder ... A convoy of U.S....
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Yovanovitch calls Trump's attacks on her this morning "very intimidating"
Boing Boing 15 Nov 2019
While former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch's testified this morning during the public impeachment hearing, Trump bashed her in a couple of tweets. And when Yovanovitch was later asked by Rep ... She then said, "I can't speak to what the president is trying to do, but I think the effect is to be intimidating." ... It is a U.S ... It is a U.S ... ....
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Trump impeachment: Name of alleged whistleblower shared widely online despite security concerns
The Independent 15 Nov 2019
A week ago, YouTube and Facebook said they would block people from identifying the government official thought to be the whistleblower who set in motion an impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump. It hasn’t worked out so well. A name believed by some to be the whistleblower has been shared thousands of times on Facebook ... Shape Created with Sketch ... Getty....
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Why can't Mexico control the cartels? Some blame America
CNN 15 Nov 2019
(CNN)It was just small talk. A quick conversation about weather, traffic and pollution. I was, after all, in Mexico City, a metropolis of more than 20 million with more than its share of big city problems ... "Americans," he said, "are always blaming us for drug trafficking ... Read More ... Johnson's counterpart for most of his presidency ... The phrase stuck ... ....
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Can Animal-Consciousness Liberate Us From Ourselves And A Climate Apocalypse?
WorldNews.com 15 Nov 2019
Through evolutionary cognition, they’ve revealed that apes have a “theory of the mind” and that they can anticipate when another ape (or person) will wind up believing something ... 11, 2001 ... They floated a more controversial assertion showing an even more controversial idea. animal consciousness ... (Dallas Darling is the author of Politics 501....
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NASA overpaid Boeing by hundreds of millions of dollars
Deccan Herald 15 Nov 2019
The US has relied on Russia to transport its crews to the ISS since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, but has hired Boeing and SpaceX under multi-billion dollar contracts, with the two companies already two years behind schedule ... "We question $187 million of these price increases as unnecessary costs," it added ... GET IT. NASA. Boeing. SpaceX....
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Did US oust Morales for Bolivia’s lithium reserves?
Press TV 15 Nov 2019
In the wake of the ouster of Bolivian President Evo Morales, a controversial speculation has been raised among analysts who say the military coup may have been intended to ensure US control of the South American country’s massive lithium resources ... The mineral is critical to batteries, clean energy and electric cars ... ....
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Erdogan's ethnic cleansing of the Kurds is still happening now – and we have Trump to thank
The Independent 15 Nov 2019
Mass expulsion or the physical extermination of an entire ethnic or religious community – ethnic cleansing – is usually treated by the media in one of two different ways. either it receives maximum publicity as a horror story about which the world should care and do something about, or it is ignored and never reaches the news agenda ... He says ... 1/25 ... AP....
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Venice Could Be Permanently Submerged by the End of the Next Century, Scientists Warn
Newsweek 15 Nov 2019photo: AP / Manuel Balce Ceneta
Roger Stone guilty of witness tampering, lying to Congress
The Spokesman-Review 15 Nov 2019
Roger Stone, a longtime friend and ally of President Donald Trump, was found guilty Friday of witness tampering and lying to Congress about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election bid ... Stone has denied wrongdoing and consistently criticized the case against him as politically motivated ... 6....
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Taylor Swift: Big Machine Records deny blocking star from performing her own songs
The Independent 15 Nov 2019
Taylor Swift’s former record label Big Machine has denied her claims that they have blocked her from performing her own songs ... Swift also claimed that the pair were “exercising tyrannical control” over her, and preventing the use of old performance footage to be used in a forthcoming Netflix documentary about her life and career ... They wrote ... Youtube ... ....
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Jeremy Corbyn sends shockwaves through City with BT re-nationalisation plan
Belfast Telegraph 15 Nov 2019
Jeremy Corbyn sent shockwaves through the City as he unveiled plans to nationalise the UK’s broadband network, providing free internet access for every home in the country. Labour costed the scheme at £20 billion but BT – which would be partly taken back into public ownership – warned the true figure would be closer to £100 billion ... PA. ....
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Pope Francis says politicians who attack Jews, gypsies & gays remind him of Hitler
Russia Today 15 Nov 2019
Pope Francis has condemned an apparent resurgence of Nazism by slamming politicians who rage against “Jews, gypsies and people of homosexual orientation.”. During a wide-ranging discussion at the World Congress of the International Association of Penal Law, Pope Francis decried what he saw as a resurgence of Nazism in the modern era....
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Taliban shifted Western hostages as prisoner swap postponed: sources
Yahoo Daily News 15 Nov 2019
By Jibran Ahmed and Hamid Shalizi. PESHAWAR, Pakistan/KABUL (Reuters) - A plan to swap two Western hostages with three Taliban prisoners has been postponed, an Afghan government official told Reuters on Friday, and Taliban sources said the group had moved the Westerners to a "new and safe place" ... President Donald Trump for their release ... ....
