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Trump Announces Sudan’s Removal From Terror List, Paving Way For Israel Peace Deal
Trump Announces Sudan’s Removal From Terror List, Paving Way For Israel Peace Deal
Tyler Durden
Mon, 10/19/2020 – 20:00
President Trump indicated via a Tweet Monday afternoon that he is removing Sudan from the official terror blacklist as the Arab League nation is inching closer toward normalizing ties with Israel.
The president indicated that Sudan, which has long been on the list based on allegations of providing covert support to Islamic militants that have carried out attacks on Americans, has agreed to set aside $335 million for payments for American victims of terrorism in the region.
For example, Washington would later blame Sudan in part for funding operations related to the deadly al-Qaeda twin bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, which had killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. Another 5,000 people were injured in the major attacks. Sudan was known have given safe-haven to Osama bin Laden at one point.
GREAT news! New government of Sudan, which is making great progress, agreed to pay $335 MILLION to U.S. terror victims and families. Once deposited, I will lift Sudan from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list. At long last, JUSTICE for the American people and BIG step for Sudan!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 19, 2020
This means Sudan is likely to become the third Arab League member state to normalize ties with Israel, after the UAE and Bahrain inked historic, unprecedented agreements to establish peaceful diplomatic relations and economic cooperation.
The timing is also crucial, given that just weeks before the Nov.3 election, the White House could tout this as a major foreign policy win.
Talks between Sudan and Israel have been underway for some time, but full diplomatic recognition has recently been stalled after Sudan officials accused the US of threatening the country with remaining on the terrorism list if it didn’t accept the normalization deal with Israel.
Sudan has been on the State Department’s list going all the way back to 1993, amid the lengthy rule of strongman Omar al-Bashir, who was toppled by Sudanese Army coup d’état in 2019.
During the post-9/11 ‘war on terror’ Sudan became under even more scrutiny.
Concerning the 1998 embassy bombings, Voice of America has recently detailed that "Leading up to the attacks, the Sudanese government harbored the al-Qaeda militants, providing them with Sudanese passports and allowed them to transport weapons and money across the border into Kenya."
"Sudan had also given safe haven to Osama Bin Laden leading the U.S. State Department to place the country on a list of state sponsors of terrorism in 1993," the report underscored.
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EXCLUSIVE: New Photo Shows Hunter Biden’s Indicted Business Partner Devon Archer Meeting with Joe Biden in His VP Office – Hunter’s Lawyers Later told Burisma to Take Photo Down
Via The Dilly Show.
A new photo of Hunter Biden’s business partner Devon Archer meeting with Vice President Joe Biden in his office in 2014 was released today.
The image and another from Joe Biden’s ceremonial office ran in a Russia Today broadcast in 2014.
The room in this photo which ran in the Russia Today segment appears to be the Vice President’s ceremonial office.
Here’s another photo of the VP ceremonial office.
The Vice President’s Ceremonial Office shown after a fire erupted Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. White House photo by Chris Greenberg
Documents released last week by The New York Post show that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of Burisma, allegedly sent Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015, about a year after Hunter joined the Burisma board at a reported salary of up to $50,000 a month.
The footage is from Russia Today back in 2014 when Russia went to war with Ukraine.
The attorneys for Rosemont Seneca Partners — Hunter Biden and Devon Archer’s company — later wrote Burisma and told them to remove the photo from their webpage!!
Here is a copy of that letter.
Devon Archer was convicted of misusing proceeds from a $60 million bond sale involving the Oglala Sioux Tribe.
The video played on The Dilley Show earlier today.
More…
BREAKING: As VP, on 4/14/14 Joe Biden had his scheduling aide call his son’s business partner (Devon Archer) to a private meeting w/ Joe at the White House. The very next day Burisma dropped a 6-figure load of cash into Hunter & Devon’s bank account. This is about Joe, not Hunter https://t.co/qoMk8hRMR3
— ThenAtlasSpoke (@ThenAtlasSpoke) October 19, 2020
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Supreme Court Rejects Republican Challenge to Pennsylvania Vote-by-Mail Changes; 4-4 Split; Roberts Sides with Liberals
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Republican application to stay the decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to grant the Democratic Party’s request to make several changes to mail-in voting that critics have decried as vulnerable to fraud.
As Breitbart News reported last month, “The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled … that ballots received three days after Election Day will still be counted — even if there is no evidence they were postmarked on time.”
Republicans sought a stay.
The Supreme Court, however, split 4-4 on the request, leaving the decision of the lower court in place. Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the Court’s liberal minority; the remaining four conservative justices sided with the Republican request.
The Court currently has only eight justices, due to the passing last month of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
President Donald Trump has nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ginsburg.
In an interview with Breitbart News Daily earlier this month, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) pointed out the need to have a ninth judge before the election to decide close election cases.
Cruz said Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s possible confirmation to the Supreme Court would provide the ninth justice needed to avoid a four-four division over post-election legal battles.
“It’s one of the reasons why it is so important that the Senate confirm Judge Barrett, because if the Supreme Court only has eight justices, eight justices can divide four to four,” Cruz noted. “An equally divided court has no authority to decide anything. So if we have this chaos of litigation, if the Supreme Court is equally divided, there is no resolution and we’re in a constitutional crisis.”
Cruz warned, “If the Supreme Court is divided four-four, there is no answer. You just sty in the chaos, and and that’s why I think it is so important to have fully functioning court.”
Cruz concluded, “There were four justices in Bush versus Gore that were happy to say keep on recounting, keep counting until you find find more Al Gore votes, and that’s dangerous.”
Barrett is expected to be voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee this week and to be confirmed by the full Senate next week.
Pennsylvania is considered a key battleground state in the 2020 presidential election.
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Court Rules Ghislaine Maxwell Can’t Keep Epstein Deposition Details Secret
Ghislaine Maxwell will not be allowed to keep details secret regarding previous a deposition she gave about her relationship with deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, a U.S. appeals court ruled Monday.
Reuters reports:
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said there was a presumption the public had a right to see the April 2016 deposition, which was taken in a now-settled civil defamation lawsuit by Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s accusers. In its unsigned order, the appeals court also said U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in Manhattan did not abuse her discretion in rejecting Maxwell’s “meritless arguments” that her interests superseded that presumption. Lawyers for Maxwell did not immediately respond to requests for comment, including whether they plan a further appeal.
Maxwell was arrested in July on charges related to the sexual abuse of young women by Epstein and has since been held at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York. She pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Monday’s ruling comes after the attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands subpoenaed flight logs listing the names of all the people transported on Epstein’s aircrafts — a development that has sparking panic among the elite who once socialized with the deceased investor.
U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George has filed a lawsuit against the Epstein estate, accusing it of human trafficking, aggravated rape, and prostitution, the Mirror previously reported. George has sought “complaints or reports of potentially suspicious conduct” written by Epstein’s pilots.
Among Epstein’s most famous guests aboard his private jet is allegedly former President Bill Clinton, Fox News said in May 2016.
Clinton has denied he ever visiting Epstein’s Caribbean residence.
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Photo of Hunter Biden’s Signature on Paperwork For the Computer Repair Shop Surfaces
Fox News has obtained a photo of Hunter Biden’s alleged signature on paperwork for the Delaware computer repair shop.
A drunk Hunter Biden stumbled into a Delaware computer repair shop in April of 2019 asking for help repairing his MacBook Pro which sustained water damage.
After many failed attempts to reach Hunter Biden, per the contract Hunter allegedly signed, the computer repair shop owner took legal ownership of the abandoned MacBook Pro.
According to The New York Post, the computer repair shop owner, John Paul Isaac, contacted the FBI and gave them Hunter Biden’s laptop in December of 2019.
Rudy Giuliani said the computer repair shop owner made copies of Hunter Biden’s hard drive and gave them to a couple of his friends just in case he was killed.
Giuliani’s lawyers obtained copies of Hunter’s hard drive and provided the contents to the New York Post which started publishing damning emails revealing Joe Biden was involved in a massive pay-to-play scheme.
The Democrat-media complex immediately went into overdrive and claimed Russian GRU hackers targeted Burisma and the release of Hunter Biden emails were just a Russian disinformation campaign.
We now have an email sent to John Paul Mac Isaac from Hunter Biden’s lawyer referencing the MacBook Pro and Hunter’s signature on the computer repair paperwork.
Hunter Biden’s attorney called John Paul’s shop a few days ago and asked for Hunter’s computers back. The letter was sent after the call. This confirms that the computers held by John Paul Mac Isaac were indeed from Hunter Biden.
Now this…
Hunter Biden’s signature on paperwork for The Mac Shop in Wilmington, Delaware.
The bill was only $85.00.
Joe Biden’s campaign is collapsing since his crackhead son Hunter failed to go back into the repair shop in a timely manner (90 days per the contract) and pay the $85.00.
NEW: @MikeEmanuelFox obtains photo showing an alleged Hunter Biden signature on paperwork for the computer repair shop pic.twitter.com/LMBkiXmCer
— Sean Langille (@SeanLangille) October 19, 2020
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Streisand Effect: Twitter Ban On Biden Laptop Scandal Nearly Doubled Visibility According To MIT
Streisand Effect: Twitter Ban On Biden Laptop Scandal Nearly Doubled Visibility According To MIT
Tyler Durden
Mon, 10/19/2020 – 19:25
Twitter’s Orwellian decision to censor the Hunter Biden laptop scandal published by the New York Post completely backfired – ‘nearly doubling’ its visibility, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and media intelligence firm Zignal Labs.
The poorly-thought-through ban triggered the so-called Streisand Effect and helped turn a sketchy article into a must-share blockbuster. And then on Friday, the Republican National Committee filed a Federal Election Commission complaint against Twitter, claiming that the ban “amounts to an illegal corporate in-kind political contribution to the Biden campaign.”
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Looking at the firehose of Twitter shares of the URL—including original tweets, retweets, and quote tweets—Zignal found a surge of shares immediately after Twitter instituted the block, jumping from about 5.5 thousand shares every 15 minutes to about 10 thousand. -MIT Technology Review
So Twitter is back to where it was 2 days ago, only now everyone knows about Hunter’s notebook. Brilliant
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 16, 2020
The Streisand Effect was named after Barbara Streisand’s 2003 attempt to suppress a photo of her Malibu, California residence by trying to sue a photographer for $50 million over the aerial photograph. Before Streisand’s lawsuit, the photo had only been downloaded from the photographer’s website six times – two of which were Streisand’s attorneys. Once the story went viral, however, over 420,000 people visited the site over the following month. The lawsuit was dismissed and Streisand was ordered to pay $155,567 to cover the photographer’s legal fees.
And Twitter did the same thing when they banned the Post story – blocking people from posting it or sharing it over Direct Message, deleting tweets, and suspending others who shared it. Of note, the New York Post‘s Twitter account is still locked.
Twitter cited their policy against unverified information and "hacked materials," though they never explained how the Biden emails – obtained from a laptop which Hunter dropped off at a Delaware computer repair shop and failed to pick up – violated that policy.
After Twitter came under extreme fire for what some consider election meddling and an editorial decision, CEO Jack Dorsey expressed regret, tweeting that "[s]traight blocking of URLs was wrong, and we updated our policy and enforcement to fix. Our goal is to attempt to add context, and now we have capabilities to do that."
For their partisan censorship, the social media giant has earned themselves a Congressional investigation spearheaded by Sens. Josh Hawkey (R-MO) and Ted Cruz (R-TX). Dorsey will testify next Wednesday via videoconference in front of the Senate Commerce Committee.
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BREAKING: Director Of National Intelligence Confirms Hunter Biden Laptop ‘Not Part Of Some Russian Disinformation Campaign’
John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence, told Fox Business on Monday morning that Hunter Biden’s laptop was not part of a Russian disinformation campaign despite the media’s attempts to claim otherwise. Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo pressed Ratcliffe about claims from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who made repeated false claims during the Russia […]
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COVER-UP! ABC/CBS/NBC Bury Hunter Biden Scandals (14 Minutes in 51 Hours)
The Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks are doing everything they can to avoid investigating the latest Hunter Biden bombshells. Since the morning of October 14 when the New York Post published new evidence of Hunter Biden’s corrupt business dealings with Ukraine and Joe Biden’s potential knowledge of it the broadcast nets have buried the allegations.
For Wednesday, October 14 through the morning of October 19 MRC analysts looked at the ABC, CBS, NBC evening and morning shows and their Sunday roundtable programs, plus ABC’s and NBC’s townhall events with Joe Biden and President Trump. Out of a total of 51 hours of news programming, there was less than 15 minutes (14 minutes, 15 seconds) spent on the latest scandals involving Joe Biden’s son.
ABC spent ZERO seconds on Hunter Biden.
NBC spent just 5 minutes, 2 seconds on Hunter’s emails. CBS led the broadcast networks with nine minutes and 13 seconds.
Even when journalists mentioned the story, they devoted much of their time to knocking it down.
Over the weekend, NBC Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd invited NBC News analyst and Washington Post reporter Ashley Parker to question the veracity of the Hunter Biden scandals, with Parker adding one of the released phone texts “actually makes Joe Biden seem like what voters already believe. A decent guy.”
NewsBusters’s Nicolas Fondacaro reported on a hack job by CBS’s Margaret Brennan:
During Sunday’s Face the Nation, host Margaret Brennan peppered former National Security Agency Director Admiral Mike Rogers with a request to comment on what she admitted was “speculation” Russia had stolen Hunter Biden’s emails to dump.
Leading up to her admission that what she was peddling about the Biden scandal was baseless, Brennan primed the pump by asking Rogers to discuss Russian efforts to sway the 2020 election with misinformation and even manipulation of vote counts:
“I want to get to your old line of work and your expertise on the intelligence front because we know U.S. intelligence says, right now, Russia is basically trying to manipulate the public, spread disinformation about the election specifically to hurt the Democratic candidate and some Kremlin-linked actors trying to boost the President. Can Russia, at this point, actually change the outcome of the election by altering votes? Do they have that capability?”
After Rogers shot down her suggestion that Russia would be manipulating vote totals for Trump, he noted that Russia was still trying to manipulate voters’ emotions via social media to drive people apart. Brennan saw the opportunity and pounced.
“To that point, you know, there has been a lot of speculation that this week some of the information about Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, that has circulated in tabloid, The New York Post, may be the result of a hack and dump operation,” she declared. Meanwhile, CBS was among the first to push that “speculation” while the Biden campaign had not refuted the validity of the information.
Adding: “This is speculation at this point. That it could have come from Russian military hacking of a Ukrainian gas company where Hunter Biden served. Do you see any justification for that speculation at this point?” But, Brennan’s hypothesis made no sense.
According to the Post report, the information on the computer in question contained a “12-minute video that appears to show Hunter, who’s admitted struggling with addiction problems, smoking crack while engaged in a sex act with an unidentified woman, as well as numerous other sexually explicit images.”
Why would the Ukrainian energy company Burisma have that video and those images, as Brennan suggested was taken from them? That’s not to mention the emails confirmed by Fox News pertaining to Hunter’s involvement with a Chinese firm.
For Rogers’ part, he didn’t know much about the case and didn’t like her speculation. “Again, my view would be let’s let it play out, let’s investigate it, let’s get some factual evidence, let’s get the Metadata, and let’s see if this is accurate or not. I’m just not in a position to speculate. I’m not a fan of speculation,” he said as his host began to speak over him.
Brennan tried to salvage the CBS talking point by comparing the alleged Biden corruption to the Clinton campaign email scandal of 2016:
Well, it’s being compared to the hack and dump operation that happened, as you know, back in 2016. A lot of Democrats alleging that it is that. So, when you say you see Russia doing a disinformation and access — spreading disinformation, is that the kind of thing you’re talking about?
(For this study analysts looked at ABC’s World News Tonight, Good Morning America, ABC’s This Week and their 2-hour townhall event with Joe Biden; CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning, CBS Sunday Morning and CBS’s Face the Nation; NBC Nightly News, NBC’s Today show, the Today show Third Hour, Sunday Today with Willie Geist, Meet the Press and their 1-hour townhall event with Donald Trump).
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