Friday, October 21, 2016

Trump, Putin The Mob, and Terrorism

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Trump, Putin The Mob, and Terrorism

Trumpism - Putinism rears its ugly double head. Machismo, authoritarianism, greed, double dealings, criminal connections, and cheap but skillful populism and demagoguery  are their common body. The Russian Mafia State and The Underworld International play their "Samson and Delilah games" with the West, using Trump as their "unwitting agent" and "playing him like a fiddle". These are the games of deception, betrayal, domination and conquest.

The similarities in personalities, both general and political, of Trump and Putin, are striking. Theirs is what Theodor Adorno called the "authoritarian personality" ("a personality type that involved the "potentially fascistic individual") or what the Russian criminals call "avtoritet" ("the authority") or "vor-v-zakone" ("the thief-in-law").

Both Trump and Putin possess the same pungent bouquet of personality traits and styles with criminal tendencies and juvenile delinquency at its core: easy and frequent, habitual, artful lying (which they probably could not separate from truth themselves), lifelong skill of camouflage, "pathological narcissism", grandiosity, risk taking (gambling), superficial psychopathic charm, bullishness and brazenness, etc., etc. The difference between them is that Putin is more adept, skillful and experienced in politico-criminal matters, which would allow him to invisibly outsmart and play his bromance buddy "like a fiddle".

Trump-Samson destroyed the GOP, singlehandedly, alarmingly, tragically, destructively and self-destructively, acting not only as an "unwitting agent" but also as an unwitting and destructive Trojan, who burrowed his way into the country's social and political life and delivered the party which adopted him, blood drained, confused and incapacitated, on a silver platter to its traditional geopolitical foreign opponents. Very much in the style of the "Fancy Bears", his Russian cyber-patrons. 

The Republican party will be reborn from this crisis and this bitter lesson. But Trump will not be able to destroy the country. This is the consolation. And with all this, he still is pretty much "unwitting" and still is unaware of the "inner workings" of not Russia only but, apparently his own. 

Trump: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing!" 

Mother Russia responds: "O.K., sunny, I've heard you; we'll do. We will do anything to get you elected, the whole world knows this. Don't you ever doubt me, my boy, yeah! Didn't I find a good new wife for you? And don't you worry about the costs either, we will put them on your credit account, you can pay it back later, at our convenience... Because you are my kind!" 

Trump (pulling at $11M pinky "pussy bow", pensively): "Finally! I have nothing to lose except my capitalist GOP shackles! This is my last and the most resolute battle! The Oligarchs of the World, unite! Putin, if you hear me, leak, leak, leak! Leak more! Right on their heads! And keep whispering your sweet Melania somethings into my ears at night (just like this mantra: "Oh, wouldn't it be nice to get along with Russia, Trump-ik?"), it is like the two of them have merged into The One. It's so erotic, who needs to grab pussies...
"The iconic intensely aggressive style, for which Trump would become world renown, began in his youth. By the age of 13, he became a bit more than his parents could handle. They determined the best avenue for the young Donald was to send him to military school. So, off he was shipped to the college preparatory, military style boarding school of the New York Military Academy (NYMA)."

Did young Donald perceive his "shipping off" to military school ("shape up or ship out") as an act of betrayal by his parents? Did this start the never ending cycles of rage and the desire for revenge? What role did this circumstance play in the formation of his adult character? Did it contribute into his deeply felt ambivalence about the rules, authority, and power? Are these feelings of ambivalence and rage the sources of his potential capacity for betrayal, which alarmed so many experienced people who declared him the present and the future danger to National Security

“When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same,” the 70-year-old presumptive Republican nominee once told a biographer. “The temperament is not that different.”
At the same time, his adaptive capacity for change (the ability to be "reformed", among other factors, by the political-military establishment), has to be assessed also. His hypothetical need for this reform might also be viewed as the maladaptive psychological replay ("repetition compulsion") of the old drama. It probably was one of the key moments in his early and later life history. 

The present and future historians and political scientists will try to analyze and understand the 2016 Presidential Elections in depth. It looks like some of the major contributing factors, among others, of the GOP looming defeat, are the "technical issues": Trump's lack of the personal and political maturity and professionalism, and his campaign managers' lack of the political acumen, in comparison with the much better prepared, experienced and strategically adept Democratic party operatives, in addition to the substantive issues: the nature and character of the political appeals of the candidates and the structures of their respective electorates. 

Now Trump looks more like Laocoon, tied up in painful and torturing knots by the serpents of truth that he himself has unleashed. The defeat looks inevitable and well deserved.


Both Trump's and Putin's connections with organized crime are well documented

"Security Analysts Issue Dire Warning: Trump Is The ‘Manchurian Candidate’ Of The Russian Mafia... The stunning article reveals that Trump’s connections inside Russia go far deeper than what has been discussed in the mainstream media to date, and along a much darker path."
"Putin’s power is founded on his links to organised crime. Putin has a close circle of criminal oligarchs at his disposal and has spent his career cultivating this circle."
"The Republican candidate’s links to Russia are a mix of bling, business and bluster spanning 30 years. The FT has compiled this account from a variety of sources, tracing Trump's fascination for Russia from its beginnings in Soviet times, through the Putin era to the US presidential campaign." 

How should the future President deal with Russia?
"There will be no ‘reset’ with Russia"
"Russia is now a threat. The U.S. should treat it like one". 
"The best answer to Russian aggression is containment". 
On a somewhat deeper level, the question is, how to deal with the powerful and hidden forces that are behind the "mafia state", and I venture a guess. 

Destroy or at least control the Russian - International "Mafia" - organised crime, in which Russia plays now a major role, and with which the Russian Intelligence services are most inextricably linked and intertwined, and use them as the conduit, the operational tools and the means of subversive activity, (hypothetically) from terrorism to mass shootings, war on police, and other "active measures" and "special operations", to covert and overt political interference, that we know and do not know aboutand you will solve at least half of the problem. This is the area with which law enforcement is the most familiar with and could be potentially most successful, in comparison with the direct counterintelligence work, which is complex, intricate, often operates outside the official realm of law enforcement, and should be left to the highly specialized and trained security services. 

What are the roots of this phenomenon of "authoritarianism", descending historically to the times immemorial, from ancient Greek tyrants, to more recently, Hitlerism and Stalinism, among many other historical figures and examples, large and small?
Its association with criminality, in many aspects and respects, seems to be evident and logical; it is a crime to deny and suppress the personal liberties of others.

Just by the way, Stalin was a direct product of the criminal world, in which he grew up, matured and acquired his skills which he later used in his political struggles, the main among them, the old familiar "divide and conquer". This circumstance shaped the Soviet Union and the history of the post-WW2 world.

What are the psychological and social underpinnings of this phenomenon of authoritarianism, and what are their vicissitudes?
Why does this political mechanism work so well in the countries like Russia, where Trump and Putin are supported by the majority, and why, hopefully, it will never work in America? 
What are the political immunity factors?
Free speech, free press, pluralism, healthy intellectual honesty and civic duty.

Michael Novakhov


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Wednesday, October 19, 2016

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Former Central Intelligence Agency Director Michael Hayden said the Kremlin doesn't appear to be trying to influence the election's outcome, noting Russian involvement has provided fodder for both Republicans and Democrats. “They are not trying to pick ...

Russian Hackers Evolve to Serve the Kremlin

Attacks on Hillary Clinton and Democratic National Committee are part of Vladimir Putin’s effort to sow instability, U.S. officials say



Russian President Vladimir Putin, shown in Berlin on Wednesday, said the products of cyber-breaches in the U.S. matter more than their origin.
With the hacking of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee, U.S. officials say Russia has unleashed a strengthened cyberwarfare weapon to sow uncertainty about the U.S. democratic process.
In doing so, Russia has transformed state-sponsored hackers known as Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear from internet spies to political tools with the power to target the country’s adversaries, according to U.S. officials and cybersecurity experts.
The attacks are the harder side of parallel campaigns in the Kremlin’s English-language media, which broadcast negative news about Western institutions and alliances and focus on issues that demonstrate or stoke instability in the West, such as Brexit. Moscow seeks particularly to weaken the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which has expanded its defense against Russia.
“The underlying philosophy of a lot of these attacks is about establishing information as a weapon,” said Alexander Klimburg, a cyber expert at the Hague Center for Strategic Studies. “Hacking for them is literally about controlling information.”

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President Vladimir Putin denies Russian involvement in the hacking, but in a way that telegraphs glee about the potential chaos being sown in the U.S. democratic process.
“Everyone is talking about who did it, but is it so important who did it?” Mr. Putin said. “What is important is the content of this information.”
Former Central Intelligence Agency Director Michael Hayden said the Kremlin doesn’t appear to be trying to influence the election’s outcome, noting Russian involvement has provided fodder for both Republicans and Democrats. “They are not trying to pick a winner,” he said Tuesday at a cybersecurity conference in Washington. Rather, Russia is likely unleashing the emails “to mess with our heads.”
Pro-Kremlin commentators in Russia have seized on the DNC leaks to cast doubt on the American democratic process and argue that Washington has no right to criticize Moscow. They have said the hacked DNC emails, which showed party officials working to undermine primary runner-up Bernie Sanders, prove Americans are hypocritical when they malign Mr. Putin’s authoritarianism.
The White House has threatened a “proportional response” against Russia.

Retaliating against murky cyberattackers is uncertain new territory, Western officials said. The group often called Fancy Bear has been active since at least 2007 or 2008, experts say. Multiple security companies have given the group different code names including Pawn Storm, Sofacy, and APT 28, which denotes an “advanced persistent threat.”
Another group, known as Cozy Bear or APT 29, has taken a lower profile, often targeting higher-profile individuals and uses more sophisticated tools to cover its tracks, cybersecurity experts said. It was active as early as 2008 and 2009, with targets related to Chechnya, a U.S.-based think tank and government institutions in Poland and the Czech Republic, according to security firm F-Secure Corp. FSC1V -0.30 %
The methods are well known: Hackers trick targets into providing account information or downloading infected files through expertly faked emails and webpages, a tactic known as spear-phishing.

The hacking on the Democratic National Committe has been traced by the U.S. to Russia. Above, the DNC’s Washington headquarters. ENLARGE
The hacking on the Democratic National Committe has been traced by the U.S. to Russia. Above, the DNC’s Washington headquarters. Photo: Alex Brandon/Associated Press
The link to Russia’s security apparatus is based in part on technical clues. The two groups’ malware is deemed too sophisticated for most criminal gangs. Cyrillic script appears in some of the code Fancy Bear used to hack targets in Ukraine in 2015, according to Romanian security firm Bitdefender. Samples of some Cozy Bear malware showed they were generally compiled during business hours in Moscow.
Yet it is the groups’ selection of targets that offers the most compelling evidence of Russian involvement, cybersecurity experts say. Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear have generally focused on NATO and allied governments, officials in Eastern Europe, and Western defense groups, such as Academi LLC, the U.S. security firm previously known as Blackwater. In many cases, the information they siphon off aligns closely with Russian interests.
“This all adds up to a strong indication of Russian sponsorship,” said Laura Galante, director of global intelligence at U.S.-based security firm FireEye Inc. FEYE -1.28 % and a former Russia specialist at the U.S. Department of Defense. “The Russian government has very publicly stated its desire to have ability in this realm. They want the ability to shape the way people think about events.”
Fancy Bear’s early efforts were mostly unremarkable and under-the-radar, typical of state-sponsored actors, said Brian Bartholomew, a researcher at Kaspersky Labs. Targets included Georgia’s Ministry of Defense and Eastern European governments and militaries, according to FireEye.
But since around 2014, when Russia’s annexation of Crimea set off a confrontation with the West, the group has expanded its activities, often in apparent response to news events. In that shift the groups combine traditional spycraft with the public impact of leaks such as those by WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden, who now lives in Russia.
Fancy Bear was behind the hacking alias CyberBerkut, cybersecurity experts said, in attacks that targeted Ukrainian ministries, its presidential elections and posted hacked documents online. The group has been linked to 2014 hacks of Polish government websites, spear-phishing aimed at U.S. and European militaries, the 2015 hacking of Germany’s parliament and other attacks in the West.
More recently, private security companies said that Fancy Bear was behind hacking of the DNC and the leaking of athlete information from the World Anti-Doping Agency in September. The leak following the Rio Olympics sought to show U.S. athletes got unfair prescription-drug exemptions just as some Russian athletes were barred from the Olympics over claims of systemic Russian doping violations.
Write to James Marson at james.marson@wsj.com, Sam Schechner at sam.schechner@wsj.com and Alan Cullison at alan.cullison@wsj.com
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US Confident It's Blocked Russia's Hacking Paths - NBCNews.com
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U.S. officials are confident that defensive measures put in place will stop Russia from hacking more emails to influence the upcoming election — for now. A high-level intelligence source said the U.S. and its allies have choked off cyber paths that ...

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US, UK Cybersecurity Officials: Destructive Hacks are Coming

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The world should brace itself for more physically destructive hacks, two senior cybersecurity officials said Wednesday, warning that a more dangerous era of hacking was already upon us. Paul Chichester, the director of operations at Britain's new National Cyber Security Center, told attendees at an event hosted by British defense think tank RUSI that electronic intrusions were on their way to becoming more “destructive, disruptive and coercive.” “That will be our future,'' he told a crowd of officers, academics and industry experts gathered for a two-day symposium in central London. Chichester was seconded by Air Force Lt. Gen. James K. McLaughlin, deputy commander at U.S. Cyber Command, who told attendees that infrastructure-wrecking attacks were being seen “right now in the environment.” Neither official went into specifics about what they'd seen or why they felt the threat was intensifying, although McLaughlin invoked a cyberattack in Ukraine which knocked out three separate power distribution companies last year. The Dec. 23 incident, believed to have been pulled off by a team of hackers using stolen passwords, left 225,000 people without electricity, according to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security bulletin published two months later. Cybersecurity experts long worried that hackers can hijack the vulnerable industrial control systems to wreak havoc in power plants, traffic systems, factories, dams or reservoirs. Still, publicly confirmed examples of real-world damage from hacking have — so far — been few and far between. The Ukrainian incident provided a rare and dramatic demonstration of the physical consequences of a well-organized cyberattack. McLaughlin said there was now no doubt such hacks were possible. “Three years ago these were just theoretical,” he said. “Now we see them. They're practically here in front of us.”

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Merkel, Hollande comments on Syria, Russia, Mosul - ForexLive

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Report: Baltics to Triple Military Spending by 2018

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Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia intend to triple their annual spending on arms and military equipment to $670 million by 2018 from 2014 thanks to fears of Russia after its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region, an HIS Markit report said Thursday. By 2020, it said, the combined overall defense budgets of the three Baltic republics will reach an estimated $2.1 billion, more than double what it was when the countries entered NATO in 2004 and the fastest such growth in any region worldwide. “We have seen political confrontation between Russia and the West in the past 2-1/2 years escalate to military assertiveness and we do not see this ending anytime soon,” said Alex Kokcharov, principal analyst in the country risk division of HIS Markit, a prominent research and analysis firm. “This confrontation will likely include elements of military intimidation, making immediate Russian neighbors concerned.”  Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 after the outbreak of World War II, but regained independence when the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, and are now members of NATO and the European Union.  The IHS Markit report, which gave no sources, said Latvia and Lithuania would account for the biggest increase in military spending through 2018. After Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, Latvia and Lithuania agreed to increase military spending to reach NATO’s informal target of 2 percent of GDP by 2018, something that Estonia has achieved. The three Baltic republics each host detachments of about 150 U.S. soldiers, who were deployed immediately after Russia annexed Crimea. The Americans are augmented by occasional rotations of troops from other NATO allies. Deployments will grow to about 1,000 soldiers per country next year. Lithuania protested Russia’s transfer of nuclear-capable missiles to its western Baltic outpost of Kaliningrad this month, calling it an aggressive move against the whole of Europe. The Kaliningrad enclave is sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland, both NATO and EU members.

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The Latest: Putin could halt Aleppo strikes indefinitely - Washington Post

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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says a summit with the leaders of Russia, France and Germany has resulted in agreement on establishing a so-called “road map” to end the conflict between Russia-backed separatists and the army in eastern Ukraine.
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The Slide Toward War With Russia - The Nation.

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With the hacking of Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee, U.S. officials say Russia has unleashed a strengthened cyberwarfare weapon to sow uncertainty about the U.S. democratic process. In doing so, Russia has transformed ...

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Royal Navy sends ships to shadow Russian fleet passing Britain - The Guardian

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Russia taunts US with biggest military offensive since the Cold War - Telegraph.co.uk

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Mr Trump has consistently praised Mr Putin as a strong leader and has promised a closer relationship with Russia if he wins the Nov 8 US election. He has suggested that, if elected, he would meet the Russian president before the inauguration in January.
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Putin says ready to extend Aleppo ceasefire as Merkel & Hollande accuse Russia of 'war crimes' - RT

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Путин: Россия рассчитывает на разделение США оппозиции и террористов в Сирии

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Президент России Владимир Путин после встречи с президентом Франции и федеральным канцлером ФРГ в Берлине заявил, что Москва рассчитывает на выполнение Вашингтоном обязательств по по размежеванию оппозиции от террористов в Сирии, передает ...
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Путин рассказал об итогах переговоров в Берлине по Украине и Сирии

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Владимир Путин рассказал об итогах многочасовых переговоров в Берлине с лидерами Германии, Франции и Украины. В первой части обсудили Украину, во второй – Сирию. Ангела Меркель охарактеризовала вторую часть встречи как жесткую

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Рэп против Трампа: о новой композиции Эминема

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Американский рэпер Эминем выпустил новую композицию "Предвыборная речь". В ней артист критикует Дональда Трампа - кандидата в президенты США от Республиканской партии.

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RT @CENTCOM: GEN Votel: 3 Key Issues: long term role of US partnerships in region, understanding that role, and future challenges @amprog h…

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Analysis: Russia hits US at heart of democracy; US counterstrike not likely to deter - Jerusalem Post Israel News

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Russia, brushing off diplomatic snub, inaugurates Paris cathedral - Reuters UK

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Mars Probe Confirmed Entering Martian Atmosphere

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A spacecraft from Earth has once again reached Mars. The European Space Agency said its Schiaparelli spacecraft entered the Martian atmosphere on Wednesday, but there was still no word on if the probe had successfully landed. In a
bad sign, the ESA confirmed that the signal from the lander had stopped unexpectedly, with the agency's Paulo Ferri, the Head of Mission Operations Department at the ESA saying it was not a good sign. tweet, ESA said the next window for contact would be later Wednesday. The probe was released from its mother ship, the Trace Gas Orbiter, Sunday, and over the ensuing days, it positioned itself for a landing. As with any landing on such a distant body, it’s tricky, with some calling the descent “six minutes of hell,” as the craft plunges toward the red planet at 21,000 kilometers per hour. If everything worked Schiaparelli used parachutes and reverse thrusters to slow the craft to a mere 10 kph. "We can't conclude the real status of (Schiaparelli) at the moment but indeed it did enter the atmosphere," an official said at mission control in Darmstadt, Germany. Schiaparelli will take images of Mars and conduct scientific measurements on the surface, but its main purpose is to test technology for a future European Mars rover. Meanwhile, TGO will remain in orbit, analyzing methane and other gases in the Martian atmosphere to help determine whether there is or was life on Mars. The two crafts are part of the ExoMars mission, a joint venture between ESA and Russia's Roscosmos space agency, and were launched in March. In the next stage of the ExoMars program, ESA plans to send a rover to Mars in 2020, equipped with a drill and instruments dedicated to geochemistry and the search for life. Scientists have said that landing a spacecraft on Mars is very difficult. ESA's last attempt to land the Beagle 2 rover on Mars failed at the end of 2003. Beagle 2 disappeared during the landing process and was declared lost after several months. It was not located until January 2015, when new photos from an orbiter showed that it had reached the surface, but did not fully deploy and start communicating.

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US, Russia Need to Update Syria Deconfliction Mechanism - CENTCOM - Sputnik International

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The United States and Russia need to look into updating memorandum of understanding for flights deconfliction in Syria amid deployment of new defense systems to the region, US Central Command Commander Gen. Joseph Votel stated on Wednesday.

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Presidential Debate: How Will Trump and Clinton Handle Sexual Assault Allegations? - New York Times

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Russian alleged hacker arrested in Prague over cyber-attacks in US - The Guardian

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Russian alleged hacker arrested in Prague over cyber-attacks in US
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Czech police have arrested a Russian hacker suspected of cyber-attacks in the United States, officials said on Wednesday. Police said an international warrant for the man, who was not named, was issued by Interpol and that officers cooperated with the ...
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'We failed,' New York police commissioner says of sergeant fatally shooting 'emotionally disturbed' woman - Washington Post

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'We failed,' New York police commissioner says of sergeant fatally shooting 'emotionally disturbed' woman
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A New York police sergeant responding to a call about an “emotionally disturbed person” fatally shot a 66-year-old woman wielding a baseball bat, authorities said. Police said they were investigating the shooting, including why the officer who ...
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Erdogan talks with Putin on Al-Nusra withdrawal from Aleppo - ANSAmed

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Erdogan talks with Putin on Al-Nusra withdrawal from Aleppo
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(ANSAmed) - MOSCOW, OCTOBER 19 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke by phone on Tuesday evening with Russian President Vladimir Putin about an accord to make troops of Al-Nusra Front, now known as Fateh al-Sham Front, withdraw ...

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The presidential debate: Sexual assault claims, emails are expected to come up

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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will face off tonight in Las Vegas. Six topics are on the docket, but news of the past week may dominate discussion.





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D.N.C. Operatives Are Seen Scheming to Incite Chaos at Donald Trump Rallies

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The undercover video was the work of Project Veritas Action, which sends researchers around the country to spy on the inner workings of Democratic campaigns.

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Trump's reputational train-wreck is well underway

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U.S. Builds Force to Drive ISIS From Syria Stronghold

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Amid an assault to dislodge Islamic State from Mosul, Iraq, the U.S. is working to assemble a force to retake Raqqa, the group’s de facto capital in Syria.

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Doubts Raised About Russia's 'Humanitarian Pause' in Aleppo

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Locals say leaving the city is not an option.
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