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Oct-19
You don't hear the laughter from Pyongyang to Ankara to Tehran? When he spoke at the UN? Check with ordinary Europeans as well.
Don't forget, most everything he says is a lie and the reverse is actually what's happening.
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Oct-19
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he won't forget a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump that warned him not to be a "fool," a "tough guy" or a "devil," and vowed a response to what he said was a missive out of line with diplomatic courtesies.
Read more from Bloomberg.comOct-20
I missed this a couple of weeks ago. As one comment said ... She knows evil when she sees it.
I think a lot of us can relate.
— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) September 23, 2019
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Oct-23
Abuse of power is not a crime!
Matthew Whitaker also blasted the "global elitists and careerists" who are upset with Trump for "upsetting the apple cart" of the "world establishment."
Read more from The Daily BeastOct-23
Daily Beast: Only seven Republican Senators rule out impeachment.
Many Republican senators refused to rule out voting to remove President Trump from office in an impeachment trial over the Ukraine scandal.
Read more from dailycaller.comOct-27
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group who was killed in a U.S. military raid in Syria, according to President Donald Trump (all times...
Read more from AP NEWSOct-28
Austere religious scholar fingered by knuckle-draggers!
I think this goes well with the errant WaPo headline calling a ruthless terrorist an austere religious scholar. Fascinating details of the DNA kit used by Special Ops.
"We want something that doesn't take a Ph.D. to operate, obviously," said Michael Fitz, then the manager of SOCOM’s special surveillance program. "We have knuckle-draggers out there that are operating these things.”
New technology includes a smaller and much faster DNA-reader that troops can haul into combat aboard their helicopters and use while the smoke from combat is still clearing.
Read more from The Daily BeastOct-29
Having read the obituary article from WaPo, the Austere Religious Scholar appellation was a passing reference to Baghdadi's background BEFORE his radicalization during the fall of Saddam Hussein period in Iraq. The article went on to say that Baghdadi became, through the trials and tribulations of the Iraqi wars and the aftermath of the dissolution of effective governance in the region, a firebrand of Conservative Thought in strict Islam.
Oct-29
The DNA ID was facilitated by having a decent DNA sample of recent days on hand to do the instant rapid marker ID. Had recent DNA samples not been available, the ID would have taken much longer if at all barring collection of a close relative's DNA for comparison.