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How Ukraine Refit Its T-64BM Bulat Tanks to Fight Russia - The National Interest Online

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 19:00:00 -0500

How Ukraine Refit Its T-64BM Bulat Tanks to Fight Russia The National Interest Online

What Does The US Military Need For A War In Space? It's Hard to Say - Defense One

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:40:52 -0500

What Does The US Military Need For A War In Space? It's Hard to Say Defense One

What Does The US Military Need For A War In Space? It’s Hard to Say

Marcus Weisgerber — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:34:00 -0500

The plans for war above the atmosphere remain so tightly classified that industry can’t start building the things that will be needed.

Defense One - All Content: What Does The US Military Need For A War In Space? It’s Hard to Say

Marcus Weisgerber — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:34:00 -0500

The plans for war above the atmosphere remain so tightly classified that industry can’t start building the things that will be needed.

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Justice Department to Terminate Longstanding Legal Rules for Movie Distribution - The Wall Street Journal

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:34:00 -0500

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National Security: Trump weekend hospital visit gets a skeptical reception

Kevin Freking | AP — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:32:20 -0500

Trump’s unscheduled weekend visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center raises suspicions about his health

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National Security: Russians arrested as spies in Libya worked for Russian firm Wagner, official says

Missy Ryan, Sudarsan Raghavan — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:31:42 -0500

The U.N.-backed government is seeking international assistance as it cites growing involvement of Russian mercenaries in the battle for Tripoli.

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Patrick Frazee found guilty of first-degree murder in death of fiancée, Kelsey Berreth - NBC News

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:30:00 -0500

Patrick Frazee found guilty of first-degree murder in death of fiancée, Kelsey Berreth NBC News
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The National Interest: McCarthy Demands Answers from ABC on Epstein Story Coverup

Shelby Talcott — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:30:00 -0500

Shelby Talcott

Politics, Americas

The network is accused of killing a story back in 2015.

Congress members are asking questions about ABC News’s decision to kill a 2015 story about alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy sent a letter to the network’s president Sunday demanding answers about why it killed the Epstein story.
Journalist Megyn Kelly obtained an exclusive copy of the letter and reported it through her social media accounts Sunday.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy sent a letter Sunday to ABC News demanding answers surrounding allegations that the network killed a 2015 story about dead alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, journalist Megyn Kelly said.

ABC News has come under fire after Project Veritas released a video of anchor Amy Robach Nov. 5 complaining that the network killed her interview with Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre. The anchor said Buckingham Palace threatened ABC News after finding out Prince Andrew was a part of the story and added that she “had all of” the reporting years ago.

“I am deeply concerned that this victim, in search of justice, went to ABC News, provided information and an interview, and then ABC News chose to bury the truth,” McCarthy wrote to ABC News President James Goldston, according to Kelly’s Instagram. She obtained an exclusive copy of the letter.

The letter accused the network of potentially causing fewer victims to come forward and allowing more people to become victims of human trafficking. McCarthy also requested more information from the network, including that ABC News present Robach’s interview with Giuffre to Congress members.

McCarthy’s letter also asks if ABC News was ever given more evidence about Epstein in between the time of the 2015 interview and when authorities arrested Epstein. He demanded the names of those involved in the decision to kill the story as well as their reasons asked other questions.

GOP Reps. Mike T. McCaul of Texas and Doug A. Collins of Georgia also signed the letter.

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Valve announces Half-Life: Alyx, its first flagship VR game - The Verge

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:27:23 -0500

"house judiciary committee" - Google News: Four statute of limitations reform bills pass committee, head to Senate for a vote - WPMT FOX 43

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:26:00 -0500

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The National Interest: Bannon: I Tried to Get Alleged Whistleblower Fired From NSC

Chuck Ross — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:23:00 -0500

Chuck Ross

Politics, Americas

'The individual that was named, absolutely true,' he said.

Steve Bannon said in an interview that when he was at the White House in 2017, he was involved in an effort to remove an intelligence officer suspected of being the Trump whistleblower from the National Security Council due to concerns about leaks.

“When I was in the White House there was a number of people in the National Security Council — the named individual eventually got let go, I believe because people were suspicious, not me, but other people around him were suspicious about his leaking, and that’s why he was let go,” Bannon, who served as White House strategist through August 2017, said in an interview with VICE published Friday.

The whistleblower, who is reported to be a CIA analyst, filed a complaint on Aug. 12 accusing President Donald Trump of abusing his office in his dealings with Ukraine.

Bannon said he does not believe that the whistleblower needs to be identified publicly, but he did confirm his involvement in efforts to remove an individual now rumored to be the whistleblower from the NSC.

“I don’t think the individual naming of the whistleblower is important, although there was a story in The Washington Times … that tied me to the efforts to get, at least, the gentleman who was named out of the National Security Council,” said Bannon, who left the White House on Aug. 18, 2017.

“Is that true?” a VICE reporter asked Bannon.

“The individual that was named, absolutely true,” he replied.

Multiple conservative media outlets have identified a former NSC official who handled Ukraine issues as the possible whistleblower. The Daily Caller News Foundation has not confirmed that the individual is the whistleblower.

Bannon did not name the individual during his VICE interview and said he does not think it is necessary to publicly identify the person. But he did confirm that he was involved in efforts to remove the alleged whistleblower from the NSC.

Bannon asserted that the background and motivations of the whistleblower are far more important than the individual’s identity.

“You don’t need to name the person. I do believe you need a thorough of his intentions, relationships he’s had, etc.,” Bannon said.

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FBI Warning Of Scam That Says Receiver Has Won $75,000 For Shopping At Certain Stores - CBS Pittsburgh

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:17:00 -0500

FBI Warning Of Scam That Says Receiver Has Won $75,000 For Shopping At Certain Stores CBS Pittsburgh

Washington Free Beacon: NYT Editor Tells Staff Paper Will Not Openly Support Sanders or Warren

Graham Piro — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:10:42 -0500

New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet said he has warned junior staff that the paper will not openly back Sens. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) or Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) due to concerns about appearing too political.

"They probably want a more political New York Times than I’m willing to give them," Baquet told the Guardian. "I hope they will learn over time that a New York Times that plays it straight has much more power and much more longevity."

Baquet added that newsrooms have undergone shifts in attitudes toward news coverage with the arrival of younger journalists. He said the new generation of reporters have "different demands of their news" and want a "different relationship with their readers."

The veteran editor pointed to an investigation of President Donald Trump's taxes as an example of how the paper can have an impact without being openly partisan. Baquet stressed that his job is to cover the news with "tremendous curiosity," while at the same time resisting calls from readers and staff to be more combative with the Republican president.

Baquet has acknowledged some of the Times‘s shortcomings since becoming executive editor in 2014. Shortly after the 2016 election, he admitted that the paper was out of touch with "devoutly religious Americans."

The paper also ran a headline over the summer that drew heavy backlash online for not being more critical of President Trump's rhetoric. The Times eventually retracted and changed the headline. Baquet criticized the initial headline but also emphasized that the paper is not leading an "opposition party" to the president.

A 2014 study found that only 7 percent of journalists identify as Republican, a marked decrease from previous decades when the number was closer to 25 percent. Another recent survey of financial journalists saw 58 percent identifying as "very" or "somewhat" liberal, while about 4 percent identified as "very" or "somewhat" conservative.

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The National Interest: FedEx and NY Times Face-Off Over ‘Factually Incorrect’ Article

Shelby Talcott — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:10:00 -0500

Shelby Talcott

Politics, Americas

Frederick Smith wants to debate A. G. Sulzberger in public.

The CEO of FedEx challenged New York Times publisher A. G. Sulzberger to a public debate Sunday after the publication reported that the company didn’t pay any federal taxes in 2018.

FedEx financial filings show that the company “owed no taxes in the 2018 fiscal year overall,” The NYT report reads. The company has also saved $1.6 billion under a 2017 GOP tax reform plan, according to the article. FedEx CEO Frederick Smith called the report “distorted and factually incorrect” in a statement Sunday.

“I hereby challenge A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times and the business section editor to a public debate in Washington, D.C. with me and the FedEx corporate vice president of tax,” Smith wrote. He added that the report ignored the “$6 billion of capital” the company “invested in the U.S. economy” in 2018.

Holy shit. @FedEx/@nytimes faceoff.

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— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) November 18, 2019

Smith continued to hit back at The NYT in the statement, writing that it “paid zero federal income tax in 2017 on earnings of $111 million, and only $30 million in 2018 — 18% of their pretax book income.”

“Also in 2018 the New York Times cut their capital investments nearly in half to $57 million, which equates to a rounding error when compared to the $6 billion of capital that FedEx invested in the U.S. economy during that same year,” he wrote.

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‘Joe is an uncle to our state’: South Carolina polls show Biden with blowout lead - POLITICO

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:08:00 -0500

Live updates: Trump says he will ‘strongly consider’ providing written testimony; McConnell ‘can’t imagine’ president being removed from office - The Washington Post

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:06:00 -0500

Washington Free Beacon: Ron Johnson: Ukrainians Felt No Pressure From White House Over Withheld Aid

Brent Scher — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:05:01 -0500

Republican senator Ron Johnson (Wis.) said Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky made no mention during their September meeting in Kiev of feeling pressure from the White House to take action in return for military aid, contradicting his Democratic colleague Chris Murphy's characterization of the meeting.

In a Monday afternoon letter sent to top House Republicans, Johnson said he and Murphy, who joined him on the trip, had a "very open, frank" discussion with Zelensky, and that there was no indication that Zelensky felt aid was being withheld for political reasons. House Intelligence ranking member Devin Nunes (R., Calif.) and House Oversight ranking member Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) had requested from Johnson all firsthand knowledge of his meeting with Zelensky.

"At no time during this meeting—or any other meeting on this trip—was there any mention by Zelensky or any Ukrainian that they were feeling pressure to do anything in return for the military aid," Johnson wrote. "Not even after Murphy warned them about getting involved in the 2020 election—which would have been the perfect time to discuss any pressure."

Johnson met with Trump at the White House to discuss the withheld aid to Ukraine just before leaving on his trip, and says he told Ukrainians that Trump's reservations about releasing the aid were based on "endemic corruption and inadequate European support."

Johnson's account stands in stark contrast to comments made by Senator Murphy, who said in September—following news that a whistleblower had filed a complaint—that he heard "directly" from Zelensky that Ukraine felt pressured to investigate Hunter Biden's dealings in the country.

"Once I got on the ground there, I heard about how confused the entire new Ukrainian administration was about the nature of these demands they were getting from the Trump administration to conduct this political investigation, and that they worry that the aid that was being cut off to Ukraine by the president was a consequence for their unwillingness, at the time, to investigate the Bidens," Murphy said during a Sept. 23 press conference.

Murphy's office did not respond to a request for comment.

Zelensky has consistently said he never felt pressured to take any action. The Trump administration lifted its hold on the Ukrainian aid on Sept. 11.

Johnson was a strong advocate for restoring aid to Ukraine, and worked to convince Trump to release the aid during the White House visit he made prior to his meeting with Zelensky. He said the purpose of his meeting was "to try and persuade him to authorize me to tell Zelensky that the hold would be lifted on military aid."

Johnson was ultimately unsuccessful, he explained in the letter.

"The president was not prepared to lift the hold, and he was consistent in the reasons he cited," Johnson wrote. "He reminded me how thoroughly corrupt Ukraine was and again conveyed his frustration that Europe doesn't do its fair share of providing military aid."

Johnson said he asked Trump directly whether Ukraine was asked to take any action to release the aid and received an "adamant, vehement, and angry" denial.

"It was only after he reiterated his reasons for not giving me the authority to tell Zelensky the support would be released that I asked him about whether there was some kind of arrangement where Ukraine would take some action and the hold would be lifted," Johnson said. "Without hesitation, President Trump immediately denied such an arrangement existed."

Johnson also attacked the release of transcripts between Trump and Zelensky during the impeachment inquiry, saying it has "done a great deal of damage to our democracy."

"The release of transcripts of discussions between the president of the United States and another world leader sets a terrible precedent that will deter and limit candid conversations between the president and world leaders from now on," he wrote.

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Russia Seeks to Gain on New Middle East Power with Military Sales - Newsweek

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:00:09 -0500

Russia Seeks to Gain on New Middle East Power with Military Sales Newsweek

The National Interest: How the Navy's Terrible Littoral Combat Ship Just Got a Little Better

David Axe — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:00:00 -0500

David Axe

Technology, Americas

It can now carry and shoot the Naval Strike Missile.

Key point: America's LCSs are really bad, but being able to hit another ship with a high-tech missile is a step in the right direction.

The U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship USS Gabrielle Giffords fired an anti-ship missile at a target vessel during an Oct. 1, 2019 exercise off the coast of Guam.

The missile-shot signals an important, if greatly delayed, expansion of the LCS’s weapons capability. The two-variant class for years has come under fire for being lightly-built and under-armed for major warfare.

Gabrielle Giffords, a triple-hull Independence-variant of the LCS, launched a Naval Strike Missile at the ex-USS Ford, a decommissioned frigate, as part of a joint sink exercise, or SINKEX, that also involved the Republic of Singapore Navy.

The Naval Strike Missile is a new addition to the LCS. The 13-feet-long, sea-skimming missile weighs 900 pounds and can strike targets as far as 100 miles away, making it by far the LCS’s most powerful weapon.

An LCS can be fitted with two quad launchers for the Norwegian-designed missile. Giffords is the first of the 3,000-ton-displacement ships to carry the weapon, although it could become standard on the class.

“That’s a game-changer for LCS,” Rear Adm. Casey Moton, the program executive officer for unmanned and small combatants, told USNI News. “They still have their mission, they still have their focused mission and all the things that they’re going to do in the surface warfare world and in [anti-submarine warfare] and [mine countermeasures.”

But with Naval Strike Missiles in their arsenals, LCSs now pose a threat to even larger enemy surface ships, as well. “Now, every LCS that’s out there can’t be ignored,” Moton said.

The addition of the new missile is a welcome development for the growing LCS force, which after years of developmental problems finally is beginning to send ships out on deployment.

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Here’s the new commander in charge of US nuclear forces - American Military News

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:55:48 -0500

Here’s the new commander in charge of US nuclear forces American Military News

Saved Stories - 1. US Security: The Latest: Allred: Prince should speak to FBI about Epstein - San Francisco Chronicle

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:51:27 -0500

The Latest: Allred: Prince should speak to FBI about Epstein San Francisco Chronicle

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The weakest part of Ford’s Mustang Mach-E reveal was the software - The Verge

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:50:55 -0500

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The National Interest: How Iran Turned Its Neighbor Iraq Into A Persian Proxy

Eliora Katz — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:47:00 -0500

Eliora Katz

Security, Middle East

Instead of working toward a self-sufficient Iraq, the Iranian theocracy has turned its former enemy into a dumping ground for Persian products and proxies. 

For decades, Iran has formed relationships with proxy militias across the Middle East under the guise of assisting locals in a fight against Western imperialism. Yet, recent protests in Iraq and Lebanon cast Iran as colonizer rather than a liberator. From Beirut to Baghdad, citizens are revolting against their Persian overlords and the sectarian political structures they’ve established.

In the beginning of October, predominantly Shia Iraqi youth took to the streets, calling for the government’s resignation, and shouting “Out, out Iran, Baghdad remains free!” Portraits of Iran’s Supreme leader and offices of Iran-aligned Shia paramilitary groups were torched. In Iraq’s last elections, Iran-tied militias emerged as kingmaker, where Maj. Gen. Qassim Soleimani, chief of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, negotiated the arrangement that put the current parliament speaker, president, and prime minister in power. The day after protests began, Soleimani flew to Baghdad to head a meeting with security officials in lieu of the prime minister. Soon after, the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF)—a consortium of Iran-aligned militias institutionalized in 2016 by Iraqi parliament—ostensibly deployed snipers in a brutal crackdown leaving at least 165 dead and over six thousand injured.

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The National Interest: Hawley Wants to Protect Americans' Data from China

Chris White — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:44:00 -0500

Chris White

Politics, Americas

Will Big Tech be the trade war's next casualty?

Sen. Josh Hawley is escalating his war on China as the Missouri Republican aims to protect Americans’ communication from being exported to the communist country.

Hawley is seeking to block companies from China and Russia from transferring Americans’ data back to their countries. The National Security and Personal Data Act is designed to prevent countries that represent a national security threat to the U.S. from collecting data that is not pertinent to their business.

“It shouldn’t be that you can’t have fun on an app anymore without it collecting your entire personal profile and shipping it off to a hostile nation-state, who will do who knows what with it,” Hawley said in an interview with The Washington Post on Monday. He said the bill will likely fundamentally change how companies like TikTok interact with China.

Hawley added: “It would certainly prevent them from doing business on Beijing’s terms.”

The bill, if it becomes law, would require TikTok and other Chinese-based companies to annually certify to federal regulators that they are not collecting and distributing American’s data to China. Hawley’s legislation comes as TikTok acknowledged in a New York Times report Monday that it stores data in the U.S. and has a backup server in Singapore.

“There’s a chance the Chinese Communist Party knows where” American children are located at any given time, Hawley said in a statement announcing the legislation. “Current law makes it far too easy for hostile foreign governments like China to access Americans’ sensitive data,” he said. TikTok is a social media platform that allows users to shares quirky videos. It censors content that Beijing finds objectionable, according to a Guardian report in September.

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Nanotechnology Is Shaping the Hypersonics Race

Patrick Tucker — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:43:01 -0500

New materials to deflect massive amounts of surface heat don’t come from nature.

Defense One - All Content: Nanotechnology Is Shaping the Hypersonics Race

Patrick Tucker — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:43:01 -0500

Professor Zhiyong (Richard) Liang and research faculty member Ayou Hao holding pieces of carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites with a protective heat shield made of a carbon nanotube sheet that was heated to a temperature of 1,900 degrees Celsius.

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"us national security" - Google News: Top National Security Council Lawyer Fielded Officials’ Ukraine Complaints - Wall Street Journal

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:41:00 -0500

Top National Security Council Lawyer Fielded Officials’ Ukraine Complaints Wall Street Journal

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"us national security" - Google News: Pompeo says US does not view Israeli settlements as violation of international law – live - The Guardian

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:41:00 -0500

Pompeo says US does not view Israeli settlements as violation of international law – live The Guardian

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Pompeo announces reversal of longstanding US policy on Israeli settlements - CNN

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:32:00 -0500

Pompeo announces reversal of longstanding US policy on Israeli settlements CNN
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Jordan, NATO talks cover ties, review regional challenges - Jordan Times

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:30:55 -0500

Jordan, NATO talks cover ties, review regional challenges Jordan Times

‘Wall of water’: Lawsuits detail deadly USS Fitzgerald collision

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:30:25 -0500

Survivors and descendants of those killed when a container ship collided with a U.S. Navy destroyer off Japan’s coast in 2017 are suing the ship’s Japanese charterer, according to a lawsuit filed Monday that details the survivors’ scramble for safety as water rushed in.

Stars and Stripes: ‘Wall of water’: Lawsuits detail deadly USS Fitzgerald collision

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:30:25 -0500

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"fbi" - Google News: The Latest: Allred: Prince should speak to FBI about Epstein - San Francisco Chronicle

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:30:00 -0500

The Latest: Allred: Prince should speak to FBI about Epstein San Francisco Chronicle

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How Not to Plot Secret Foreign Policy: On a Cellphone and WhatsApp

By David E. Sanger — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:28:39 -0500

American officials expressed wonderment that Rudolph W. Giuliani was running his “irregular channel” of diplomacy over open cell lines and communications apps penetrated by the Russians.

After Court Hearing Jackson Accusers Feel 'Closer' to New Trials - TMZ

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:28:00 -0500

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North Korea snubs Trump, saying he hasn’t earned a new summit to ‘brag about’ - The Washington Post

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:25:00 -0500

North Korea snubs Trump, saying he hasn’t earned a new summit to ‘brag about’ The Washington Post
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Lamar Jackson becomes the Vegas favorite to win the MVP award - NBCSports.com

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:21:00 -0500

Lamar Jackson becomes the Vegas favorite to win the MVP award NBCSports.com
The AFC is changing, with Lamar Jackson leading the charge Washington Post
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Security Boulevard: Pew Survey: America Worries About Privacy (But Won’t Do Anything About It)

Richi Jennings — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:20:23 -0500

US adults are mostly fearful about their online privacy. And it’s getting worse.

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"fbi" - Google News: FBI features Eugene suspect on Unknown Bank Robbers web page - KVAL

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:19:00 -0500

FBI features Eugene suspect on Unknown Bank Robbers web page KVAL

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FBI features Eugene suspect on Unknown Bank Robbers web page - KVAL

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:19:00 -0500

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"fbi" - Google News: FBI agents arrest Muncie, Ind., mayor in corruption probe - UPI News

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:18:17 -0500

FBI agents arrest Muncie, Ind., mayor in corruption probe UPI News

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FBI agents arrest Muncie, Ind., mayor in corruption probe - UPI News

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:18:17 -0500

FBI agents arrest Muncie, Ind., mayor in corruption probe UPI News

'KUWTK': Khloe Kardashian Seeks Therapy for Being Obsessed With Cleaning and Organization - Showbiz Cheat Sheet

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:18:04 -0500

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The National Interest: Veterans to Congress: End Forever Wars

Hunter DeRensis — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:18:00 -0500

Hunter DeRensis

Security, Americas

George W. Bush’s War on Terror began eighteen years ago, with no initiative on the part of the U.S. government to bring it to a conclusion. In those two decades, Americans have spent $6.4 trillion and lost seven thousand soldiers.

While the U.S. House of Representatives played domestic politics with the first open impeachment inquiry hearing last Wednesday, a new veteran’s organization, Bring Our Troops Home, held its first conference in Washington, DC. After a series of panels and speeches, 120 veterans traveled to Capitol Hill to lobby lawmakers to repeal the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Force and end the “forever wars.”

George W. Bush’s War on Terror began eighteen years ago, with no initiative on the part of the U.S. government to bring it to a conclusion. In those two decades, Americans have spent $6.4 trillion and lost seven thousand soldiers. Polling this year indicates that a majority of War on Terror veterans now feel that it, and its military interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, were not worth fighting at all.

All attributed quotes were provided to the National Interest in exclusive interviews.

Bring Our Troops Home was founded in January 2019 by former Sgt. Dan McKnight, who served ten years in the Idaho National Guard, including an eighteen-month deployment to Afghanistan. “It was in an effort to try and keep my brothers and sisters from going back to war on back to back to back combat deployments, and I was tired of seeing them come home broken, divorced, and emotionally scarred,” McKnight said.

In less than a year Bring Our Troops Home has garnered thousands of members and opened chapters in twenty-two states (primarily the mountain west). “The support we’re seeing from around the country has been nothing but full support from the veteran community,” says Pryce Robinson, who has been involved since the beginning. “If you actually talk to the veterans on the ground, they are done. They are sick and tired of these endless wars that continue to affect them, their children, their parents, their relatives.”

Speaking to attendees, their message to their congressional representatives was clear.

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"International Security" - Google News: Dakar opens International Forum on Peace and Security - Eye on Africa - FRANCE 24

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:16:00 -0500

Dakar opens International Forum on Peace and Security - Eye on Africa FRANCE 24

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What Thanksgiving Looks Like in a War Zone

By C. J. Chivers — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:15:54 -0500

What’s it like to celebrate the holiday in a conflict zone? We asked those who were deployed as part of the global war on terror.

United States Defense and Military Forces: What Thanksgiving Looks Like in a War Zone

By C. J. Chivers — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:15:54 -0500

What’s it like to celebrate the holiday in a conflict zone? We asked those who were deployed as part of the global war on terror.

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Washington Free Beacon: Joe Biden’s Former Ukraine Adviser at Center of House Impeachment Inquiry

Andrew Stiles — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:15:42 -0500

A former state department official who advised Joe Biden on Ukrainian affairs played a key role in raising concerns about President Donald Trump's efforts to pressure Ukrainian officials to investigate both the former VP and his son, Hunter.

Amos Hochstein is a former State Department official who served as an adviser to Biden from 2011 to 2017, and currently serves on the supervisory board of the state-owned Ukrainian gas company Naftogaz. Following a May meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, Hochstein contacted U.S. officials with his concerns. During the meeting, Zelensky reportedly expressed feeling pressured by the Trump administration to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.

From an Associated Press report published Monday:

The Associated Press reported last month about Zelenskiy's meeting on May 7 with, two top aides, as well as Andriy Kobolyev, head of the state-owned natural gas company Naftogaz, and Amos Hochstein, an American who sits on the Ukrainian company's supervisory board. Ahead of the meeting, Hochstein told Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador, why he was being called in.

[He] separately briefed two U.S. Embassy officials, Suriya Jayanti and Joseph Pennington, about Zelenskiy's concerns, said the two people who spoke to the AP. Jayanti and Pennington took notes on the meeting, the people said.

Hochstein told the embassy officials about Zelenskiy's concerns and then traveled to Washington to update Yovanovitch on the meeting. The ambassador, who was facing a smear campaign, had just been called back to Washington, where she was informed that she no longer had the confidence of the president. She was relieved of her duties as ambassador on May 20.

Hochstein has yet to be questioned as part of the House impeachment inquiry, according to the AP.

The former State Department official was nominated in 2015 (but never confirmed) to be the U.S. assistant secretary of state for energy resources. He has also donated extensively to Democratic Party candidates and committees, according to federal election records. Between 1996 and 2019, Hochstein donated more than $71,000 to Democratic candidates and committees. He also donated $1,500 to Republican candidates and committees.

Hochstein previously worked in Congress on the Democratic staff of the House International Relations Committee and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Prior to joining the Obama administration in 2011, Hochstein worked as a policy adviser for then-governor Mark Warner (D., Va.), former senator Chris Dodd (D., Conn.) and former representative Sam Gejdenson (D., Conn.).

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Washington Free Beacon: Campaign Struggling With Black Voters Touts Video of White Boomers Dancing to Panic! at the Disco

Andrew Stiles — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:00:56 -0500

South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg is threatening to upend the 2020 Democratic primary after a recent CNN poll found him comfortably leading the field in Iowa at 25 percent.

Buttigieg's success has been driven in part by his popularity among rich white liberals with college degrees, as evidenced by his dominance in the "boat shoe" strongholds of Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and Cape Cod.

However, some Democrats have expressed concern about Buttigieg's inability to win over black voters, a key Democratic constituency. A recent poll of South Carolina, for example, found Buttigieg receiving just 1 percent of the black vote in the early primary state.

This perception of Buttigieg, who has been on the receiving end of protests and calls for his resignation from black residents of South Bend, was reinforced by reports that his campaign claimed endorsements from black lawmakers in South Carolina who hadn't actually endorsed the candidate, and used a stock photo taken in Kenya to promote Buttigieg's "Frederick Douglass Plan for Black America."

Amid these bizarre revelations, a Buttigieg campaign organizer tweeted out a video of what is perhaps the whitest moment of the 2020 presidential race thus far: A group of white Baby Boomers in New Hampshire dancing to "High Hopes" by Panic! at the Disco, one of the whitest musical acts in the country.

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…meanwhile, during the #PeteSummit lunch break #teampete #highhopes pic.twitter.com/8VFU4b1q0c

— Liz McLeod (@LizMcLeod) November 17, 2019

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The National Interest: This Simulation Proves There No Such Thing as a "Limited" Nuclear War

David Axe — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:00:00 -0500

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Do you want to kill a billion people?

Key point: It is not possible to control escalation once the nuclear threshold is crossed.

A “small” nuclear war would kill or injure more than 90 million people within just a few hours.

That’s the startling conclusion that a team of researchers at Princeton University reached when they simulated an exchange of small-yield “tactical” nuclear weapons between the United States and Russia.

Princeton’s Science and Global Security project team on Sept. 6, 2019 released a video of the simulation, with tiny missiles arcing over continental maps and pinprick blasts erasing cities and countries as the body-count rises.

The video underscores what experts for years have been saying. There’s really no such thing as a small nuclear war. Any wartime use of atomic weapons would be catastrophic, even civilization-ending.

The Science and Global Security team developed the simulation to depict what it described as “a plausible escalating war between the United States and Russia using realistic nuclear force postures, targets and fatality estimates. It is estimated that there would be more than 90 million people dead and injured within the first few hours of the conflict.”

The Princeton simulation relies in part on NUKEMAP, an on-line atomic-strike simulator that historian Alex Wellerstein developed. “We live in a world where nuclear weapons issues are on the front pages of our newspapers on a regular basis, yet most people still have a very bad sense of what an exploding nuclear weapon can actually do,” Wellerstein explained.

“This project is motivated by the need to highlight the potentially catastrophic consequences of current U.S. and Russian nuclear-war plans,” the Princeton team stated.

“The risk of nuclear war has increased dramatically in the past two years as the United States and Russia have abandoned long-standing nuclear arms control treaties, started to develop new kinds of nuclear weapons and expanded the circumstances in which they might use nuclear weapons.”

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Stephen Dinan — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:00:00 -0500

China-backed researchers deployed to American universities have been siphoning off taxpayer funding for their own research, giving their Chinese overseers first look at their work and stealing intellectual property from their U.S. employers, a bipartisan Senate report revealed Monday.

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The National Interest: Pompeo Goes Full Neocon

Matthew Petti — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 16:51:00 -0500

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pivots back from America First.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unleashed a litany of neoconservative talking points at a Monday afternoon press conference, marking a turn away from the Trump administration’s “America First” foreign policy.

“We are recognizing the reality on the ground,” he said when asked about a one-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “When the time is right, our vision will go forward.”

The speech touched on issues around the world, from condemning China’s crackdown in Hong Kong to condoning the recent military takeover in Bolivia. But it focused the most on the Middle East, where President Donald Trump has promised to end “endless wars.”

Pompeo began by focusing on Iran, a country the Trump administration has flip-flopped on several times. Pompeo demanded Iran act like a “normal country,” echoing a talking point from the days of John Bolton.

“The United States will terminate the sanctions waiver related to the nuclear facility at Fordow, effective December 15,” Pompeo said, driving another nail into the coffin of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six leading world powers. “The right amount of uranium enrichment for the world’s largest state sponsor of terror is zero.”

The waivers allowed foreign companies to work at the Fordow nuclear enrichment facility, which Iran was converting to a civilian research center under the deal. After the Trump administration broke from the deal and began a campaign of maximum pressure against Iran, the Iranian government began to drop its own obligations, beginning sensitive nuclear work that it had previously agreed to stop.

On November 5, Iranian nuclear scientists began to convert Fordow back into an enrichment facility.

“The regime does not intend to ‘break out’ toward a nuclear weapon but these violations continue to mount and chip away at the year break out time envisioned in the [nuclear deal],” said Matt Brodsky, a senior fellow at the Gold Institute for International Strategy. “We should bear in mind that Fordow was used to enrich uranium up to 20 percent, which is just a short step away from the level needed for weaponization.”

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