Re: #38 - Main news thread - conflicts, terrorism, crisis from around the globe

[Zambeezi]

'Israel murders Palestinians routinely,' says @AliAbunimah after an air strike killed eight members of a family in Gaza.

Watch the full show: https://t.co/4JExnHgvVN pic.twitter.com/D3IRpDSr7b

— The Newsmakers (@The_Newsmakers) November 20, 2019

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Turkey Retracts Its Statement Threatening To Relaunch Military Op In Northern Syria https://t.co/CcxCklrnVF

— SouthFront (@southfronteng) November 20, 2019

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Ukraine says Russia returned ships in bad condition
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-ships/ukraine-says-russia-returned-ships-in-bad-condition-idUSKBN1XU1P8

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NYT
Sondland Kept Pompeo Informed on Ukraine Pressure Campaign
http://archive.is/hzChP


Sondland testimony targets Trump, Pompeo and confirms deal with Ukraine
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sondland-testimony-targets-trump-pompeo-confirms-deal-ukraine-n1086541

[Zambeezi]

Millions 'missing out' on NHS dentistry More than 2 million adults in England are unable to see an NHS dentist, BBC analysis suggests. "Access problems are no longer affecting a few 'hotspots', but are now the reality for millions across every English region" said British Dental Association leader.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50467776

Greece to replace island refugee camps with 'detention centres'
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/nov/20/greece-to-replace-island-refugee-camps-with-detention-centres

Sweden's largest bank caught in Russian ministers money laundering worth billions, violating US sanctions
https://www.svt.se/special/swedbank/kalashnikov/

U.S. to provide ship to Vietnam to boost South China Sea patrols
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-usa-military/u-s-to-provide-ship-to-vietnam-to-boost-south-china-sea-patrols-idUSKBN1XU0UP

In first since 2002, EU not forcing any states to cut debt
https://apnews.com/9a74a5d578894c7da276b0e57931e655

Billionaires invest in giant Australian solar farm to supply power to Singapore via a 4,500km high-voltage direct-current transmission network, including a 3,800km submarine cable running through Indonesian waters. It could provide one-fifth of the island city-state’s power needs.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/20/billionaires-invest-in-giant-australian-solar-farm-to-supply-power-to-singapore

[KneelB4Zod!]

Libya:

According to this report, what the #LNA shot down over #Tarhouna earlier today appears to be the Italian Air Force MQ-9A Predator #UAV https://t.co/FXlLybp8Zc

— SMM Libya (@smmlibya) November 20, 2019

[Antidotal]

Official White House twitter account now makes snide, partisan, unprofessional comments to back up Trump. Didn't happen just today either, it's been happening with some frequency recently. For those who aren't aware, White House twitter account's function is not to be Trump's personal speakerphone, it's role is to give non-opinionated details of the day to day events and activities of the current US President (whomever that is). That's what it used to do anyway even during Trump's earlier time as President, but it's changed recently...

What an unprofessional tweet to come from the official White House account.

— Quixote Center (@quixotecenter) November 19, 2019

@MsHarleyD
It is unorthodox for the White House tax payer Twitter account to resort to name calling using said account. You are suppose to serve the public not be an ass-kisser of ghetto fabulous President Trump.

Detail I didn't mention - White House Twitter account is managed by those on the government payroll as part of their official job duties. So Americans are literally paying for a government Twitter account to spread pro Trump political propaganda.

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Spain starts tracking mobiles but denies spying

Millions of Spanish mobile phone users are being tracked this week as part of the government's census, in a move that critics fear is a step closer towards spying on the population.

Statistics agency INE insists the eight-day project is anonymous and aimed at getting a better idea of where Spaniards go during the day and night.

The three biggest mobile companies are taking part in the scheme.

They say that by handing over the data they are not breaking any laws.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50473442

[Antidotal]

Now for a second TV interview? Prince Andrew 'wants second chance to show remorse for victims of billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7706159/Could-Prince-Andrew-TV-interview-Duke-York-wants-second-chance.html

[Antidotal]

Now for a second TV interview? Prince Andrew 'wants second chance to show remorse for victims of billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7706159/Could-Prince-Andrew-TV-interview-Duke-York-wants-second-chance.html

[Antidotal]

Theif-in-chief gonna resign soon?


BREAKING
'This is a real bombshell'

by Anthony Zurcher

BBC North America reporter

With his opening statement to the House impeachment hearings on Wednesday, Gordon Sondland fired a torpedo that has blown a hole in the White House’s defences.

Water is rushing in, and it’s now a question of whether Republican senators will once again give Donald Trump a lifeboat before his presidency disappears beneath the waves.

Sondland, the US ambassador to the EU, was working with Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, on Ukrainian policy at the explicit direction of the president.

There was a quid-pro-quo.

A White House visit for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was directly conditioned on publicly announcing opening investigations that could help the president politically. Sondland also came to believe that US military aid to Ukraine was also being held up for this reason.

Everyone at the White House - acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former National Security Advisor John Bolton and others - was “in the loop”.

The word “bombshell” gets thrown around a lot these days, but Sondland’s testimony, which represents a shift from his earlier closed-door statements, is a watershed moment in these impeachment investigations.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-50476322

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Harry Dunn: Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab defends seeking legal costs from family https://t.co/R79YITJHjI

— Sky News (@SkyNews) November 20, 2019

Harry Dunn’s parents issue excoriating attack on @DominicRaab handling of their son’s death. “He has lied to teparents before and he is now lying to the nation.” https://t.co/8iWFmdw65S

— Roland Oliphant (@RolandOliphant) November 20, 2019

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To the Office of the Special Counsel @US_OSC :

Please investigate and shut down this partisan smear account operating under the name of OUR White House @WhiteHouse and by WH staff members paid with OUR taxpayer dollars.

— mollyswordmcdonough (@mollysmcdonough) November 20, 2019

[Slovák]

Kremlin calls Estonia's territorial claims to Russia unacceptable
Estonia's statements on absence of prospects for ratifying border treaty with Russia push entire process back by 15 yrs - MP Slutsky
Interfax

[KneelB4Zod!]

#Bolivia : Villagers of Ayllus de Potosí enter #Senkata, where the military killed several yesterday who oppose the coup d'etat. Despite the terror imposed by the right wing coup fascists, courageous Bolivians take to the streets. #EvoEsElPresidente
pic.twitter.com/eO4B5y00PI

— nonouzi (@Gerrrty) November 20, 2019

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Russian Market
@russian_market
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25m
Ouch.. Trump says he wanted NOTHING from Ukraine.. and then Trump adds

he wanted Zelensky TO DO THE RIGHT THING.

[Talos]

Mike Pompeo planning to resign because Trump ‘hurting his reputation’, report claims

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-pompeo-planning-resign-because-093230187.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvL1VKNlc3YnVLd0Q_YW1wPTE&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGDaD0CtsVSYxtfn0AXbh5qS-YXd_sgIJEQuvyIl4m0WkFAqcpaK6DVbEuI6SbNTnX_9f7IVhzk-J-h_-_gkNVUQkQgWY7QFDKwX-5tsQ0sOOY76VXO95GCBrIql-LeJdX78ZRC8L0ekwJKyqyCOKMnDvBkSl40pLJhIE5a_XOdn

[KneelB4Zod!]

Mike Pompeo planning to resign because Trump ‘hurting his reputation’, report claims

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-pompeo-planning-resign-because-093230187.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvL1VKNlc3YnVLd0Q_YW1wPTE&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGDaD0CtsVSYxtfn0AXbh5qS-YXd_sgIJEQuvyIl4m0WkFAqcpaK6DVbEuI6SbNTnX_9f7IVhzk-J-h_-_gkNVUQkQgWY7QFDKwX-5tsQ0sOOY76VXO95GCBrIql-LeJdX78ZRC8L0ekwJKyqyCOKMnDvBkSl40pLJhIE5a_XOdn

Reputation? What reputation? Reputation of liar, fraud and thief?



Nah, such reputation can't be hurt by andother liar, fraud and thief I guess...

[antidotal]

Mike Pompeo planning to resign because Trump ‘hurting his reputation’, report claims

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-pompeo-planning-resign-because-093230187.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvL1VKNlc3YnVLd0Q_YW1wPTE&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGDaD0CtsVSYxtfn0AXbh5qS-YXd_sgIJEQuvyIl4m0WkFAqcpaK6DVbEuI6SbNTnX_9f7IVhzk-J-h_-_gkNVUQkQgWY7QFDKwX-5tsQ0sOOY76VXO95GCBrIql-LeJdX78ZRC8L0ekwJKyqyCOKMnDvBkSl40pLJhIE5a_XOdn

@SethAbramson
21m21 minutes ago

PS/ Previously, the reason for a resignation (prospectively) was Pompeo running for office. Now, the news is Pompeo wants to resign... because of Trump. And here's Trump's henchmen, today, throwing Pompeo under the bus and pinning an international bribery conspiracy on him alone.

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Within Syria
@WithinSyriaBlog
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24s
Breaking: several missiles launches were spotted near Damascus, type, direction unknown. Updates to follow.

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Great news- must see TV: While #US ambassador to #Riyadh was ensuring rollercoasters project is going, people of #Riyadh put on an amazing show of flooding across the city. Just notice the amazing engineering @USAinKSA #AmericanHostagesinKSA pic.twitter.com/L8fqpfFlhl

— Ali AlAhmed (@AliAlAhmed_en) November 20, 2019

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His cognitive abilities must be worse than we thought (if that's even possible) pic.twitter.com/MkZJctnGV1

— SRM_MD (@srmduke87) November 20, 2019

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ARSON ATTACK AT EPOCH TIMES #HONGKONG NEWSPAPER’S PRINT SHOP

English-language video of the incident: pic.twitter.com/9fWg52Qm29

— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) November 19, 2019

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zerohedge
@zerohedge
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2m
PHASE ONE U.S.-CHINA TRADE DEAL MAY NOT BE DONE THIS YR:REUTERS

[Zambeezi]

Kremlin calls Estonia's territorial claims to Russia unacceptable
Estonia's statements on absence of prospects for ratifying border treaty with Russia push entire process back by 15 yrs - MP Slutsky
Interfax

FSB WWII Archives: Estonian Goon Squads Murdered 17,000 Russians, Burned Their Bodies

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Ali Özkök
@Ozkok_A
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10m
Benny Gantz can not form a government. #Israel

Still no government...

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#Bolivia | Thousands of people from Senkata locality march towards La Paz to repudiate the massacre, in which security forces loyal to the coup-born government killed at least 8 people from their town and and left nearly 30 injured, Tuesday. Video from: @F_ortegazabala pic.twitter.com/7iRe9G4KrX

— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) November 20, 2019

[Böhse Tante]

Ali Özkök
@Ozkok_A
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10m
Benny Gantz can not form a government. #Israel

Still no government...

How long until now?

Much time left to frontrunner Belgium: 541 days without government.