🇳🇪 **Congress announces increase in US Special Operations combat missions in Africa**
https://sofrep.com/92296/breaking-congress-announces-increase-us-special-operations-combat-missions-africa/

Shortly after a meeting ended between Defense Secretary James Mattis and members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. John McCain and Sen. Lindsey Graham in regards to the attack in Niger that killed four soldiers attached to the 3rd Special Forces Group; Sen. Graham announced in a press briefing that the United States will be looking to increase U.S. Special Operations counter-terrorism missions within Africa. The U.S. in essence has declared war on African terrorism.

*We don’t want the next 9/11 to come from Niger,” Graham said to reporters, “The counter-terrorism rules under the Obama administration I thought were overly restrictive. We will in the coming weeks begin to change those restrictive rules of engagement in not only Niger but also across Africa as well.”

The Niger ambush and the deaths of two Green Berets and two Special Forces support soldiers has not only put Niger but Africa as a whole in the spotlight. Many in the United States had no clue where on the map to locate Niger let alone had any knowledge that U.S. Special Forces were on the ground and in harm’s way. The fact is that Africa has become a landing pad for terrorist groups for decades. From al-Qaeda affiliates to the apocalyptic Islamic State all have strong footholds all over the continent.

The Niger ambush seemed to have been the spark needed to light the fires of U.S. military might and the catalyst that forced the United States to declare Africa as the new battlefield of the Global War on Terror.

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🇸🇾 **Banner in Raqqa unveiled by victorious SDF depicts controversial PKK leader**
https://sofrep.com/92298/banner-raqqa-unveiled-victorious-sdf-depicts-controversial-pkk-leader/

Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) liberating Raqqa within the last week were photographed in front of a banner featuring the image of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, a Kurdish leader who has been identified as a terrorist by both the United States and Turkey.

Ocalan is recognized as the founder of the PKK, or Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish terrorist group that has been responsible for attacks inside Turkey for decades, and a group which the United States has continuously asserted plays no part in the Kurdish YPG forces that make up the SDF.

It’s no secret that Ocalan plays an important role in the political ideology of many Kurdish militant groups, but considering the U.S. has relied heavily on these Kurdish units to clear ISIS from its strongholds across Iraq and Syria, and armed and supported them accordingly, it certainly won’t help the relationship between Ankara and Washington.

Abdullah Ocalan has been in jail for the last 14 years. He has long been a political activist, starting the PKK in 1978 to advocate for an armed struggle for an independent Kurdish state. He is a prolific writer, having written over 40 books, some of which while he has been in prison.


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<:trump:284711336934375425> **British electrician is jailed for three months in Dubai prison for touching a man's hip in a bar**
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5005779/Brit-jailed-touching-man-s-hip-Dubai-bar.html

A British electrician has been sentenced to three months in prison in Dubai for touching a man's hip in a bar, according to campaigners.

Jamie Harron, from Stirling, Scotland, was arrested in July over the incident in which he said he put his hand on businessman Emad Tabaza's hip to avoid spilling a drink in a crowded bar.

The 27-year-old electrician had been working in Afghanistan and was on a two-day stopover in the United Arab Emirates at the time. After his arrest for public indecency Mr Harron lost his job and was told he could have faced up to three years in jail.

In relation to the alleged public indecency charge, Mr Harron is said to have been holding a drink, moving through a crowded bar and held a hand in front of him to avoid spilling it on himself or others. He then 'touched a man [Mr Tabaza] on his hip to avoid impact'.

He was initially jailed for five days and then released on bail with his passport confiscated.

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🇺🇸 **Deserter Bergdahl says Taliban more 'honest' than US Army**
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/21/deserter-bergdahl-says-taliban-more-honest-than-us-army.html

Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. Army sergeant who pleaded guilty Monday to deserting his post in Afghanistan in 2009, says his Taliban captors were more “honest” with him than the Army has been since his release three years ago.

“At least the Taliban were honest enough to say, ‘I’m the guy who’s gonna cut your throat,’ ” Bergdahl tells British TV journalist Sean Langan in an interview with the Sunday Times Magazine of London headlined "The Homecoming from Hell."

Bergdahl, 31, from Hailey, Idaho, says he never quite knew where he stood with the Army as he performed “administrative duties” while awaiting his desertion trial.

“Here, it could be the guy I pass in the corridor who’s going to sign the paper that sends me away for life,’’ he says. “We may as well go back to kangaroo courts and lynch mobs.”

Bergdahl is expected to appear for sentencing Monday in a military courtroom in Fort Bragg, N.C., after pleading guilty to desertion and misbehaviour before the enemy.

He could face life in prison.

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🇺🇸 **Former Harvey Weinstein Assistant Breaks NDA, Details History of Cover-Ups**
<https://archive.is/CW08p>

Zelda Perkins, who worked for Weinstein during his tenure running Miramax Films, has just answered all three in a bombshell of an interview with Financial Times. In doing so, Perkins becomes the first former staffer to come forward and publicly denounce an NDA, shedding light on how Weinstein relied on a network of lawyers to help prevent staffers from speaking out about his alleged bad behavior. She also claims that there were clauses in her contract that could have led to Weinstein's dismissal nearly two decades ago.

She had originally intended to expose his misconduct, Perkins said, and hoped to go to Disney as part of that effort. "But the lawyers were reluctant. They said words to the effect of: 'they are not going to take your word against his with no evidence,'" she remembered. "I was very upset because the whole point was that we had to stop him by exposing his behavior. I was warned that he and his lawyers would try to destroy my credibility if I went to court. They told me he would try to destroy me and my family."
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🇩🇪 **German man beats up Afghan teen, kicks his head against ground, performs Nazi salute**
<https://archive.is/GSR4w>

A 31-year-old German man verbally abused and physically attacked a 15-year-old refugee from Afghanistan. He hit the teen in the head, kicked his head on the ground, and performed a Nazi salute in Vogtland, southwestern Saxony.

The incident happened on a train late Saturday, DPA reported. According to witnesses, the man, who boarded the train at a station in Vogtland, near the Czech border, started to verbally insult the Afghan teen and his two Syrian companions.

The assailant made xenophobic statements and performed a Hitler salute. Just before the train reached Jocketa, the suspect punched the Afghan refugee in the head, Die Freie Presse reported.
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🇸🇪 **Journalist who called Assange ‘criminal’ over rape claims faces own sex assault allegations**
<https://archive.is/3WRtQ>

A journalist with Swedish daily Aftonbladet who reportedly referred to WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange as a “criminal” is himself in hot water. He’s accused of rape and sexual assault – including of underage girls.

The allegations against Fredrik Virtanen, who also hosts his own talk show on Swedish TV8, emerged as part of the #MeToo social media campaign. The campaign, which surged in popularity after the sex scandal surrounding Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, encourages women to speak up to share their experiences of sexual harassment.

The first accusation against Virtanen was made by Swedish feminist activist, journalist and actress Cissi Wallin, who claimed last week that Virtanen raped her back in 2006, when she was 21. In 2010, Wallin said an “older media man with power” had sexually assaulted her and wanted to push his genitals into her mouth, but did not give his name, Nyheter24 reported.

“I cannot be quiet anymore,” Wallin said in her Instagram post. The journalist added that she should “have screamed his name long ago,” but was silent as the journalist’s representative called her “bosses and so on, and dubbed me a ‘crazy mythomaniac.’”
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🇺🇸 **Professor Claims Math, Algebra And Geometry Promote ‘White Privilege’**
<https://archive.is/rb8Ns>

A University of Illinois math professor believes that algebra and geometry perpetuate “white privilege” because Greek terms give Caucasians unearned credit for the subject.

But that isn’t the professor’s only complaint. She also believes that evaluations for math proficiency perpetuates discrimination against minority students, if they do worse than their white counterparts.

Rochelle Gutierrez argues in a newly published math education book for teachers that they must be aware of the identity politics surrounding the subject of mathematics.

“On many levels, mathematics itself operates as Whiteness,” she argues with complete sincerity, according to Campus Reform. “Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of the mathematical community is generally viewed as White.”
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⚠ **Clinton campaign, DNC paid for research that led to Russia dossier**
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/clinton-campaign-dnc-paid-for-research-that-led-to-russia-dossier/2017/10/24/226fabf0-b8e4-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html

The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about Donald Trump’s connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, people familiar with the matter said.

Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct the research.

After that, Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community, according to the people.

Elias and his law firm, Perkins Coie, retained the firm in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Prior to that agreement, Fusion GPS’s research into Trump was funded by a still unknown Republican client during the GOP primary.

The Clinton campaign and the DNC through the law firm continued to fund Fusion GPS’s research through the end of October 2016, days before Election Day.
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🇺🇸 **Pentagon advocates requiring women to sign up for military draft**
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/24/pentagon-advocates-requiring-women-to-sign-up-for-/

The Pentagon says the country should stick with mandatory registration for a military draft, and it advocates a requirement for women to sign up for the first time in the nation’s history.

The recommendations are contained in a Defense Department report to Congress that serves as a starting point for a commission examining military, national and public service.

Congress ordered the Pentagon report, and the office of the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness completed it in the early months of the Trump administration.

Currently, only male citizens and residents ages 18-25 are required to register, for a pace of about 2 million each year.

Women, whom the government has never ordered to sign up, would add 11 million to the Selective Service System database “in short order,” the report says.
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🇸🇦 **I will return Saudi Arabia to moderate Islam, says crown prince**
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/24/i-will-return-saudi-arabia-moderate-islam-crown-prince

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has vowed to return the country to “moderate Islam” and asked for global support to transform the hardline kingdom into an open society that empowers citizens and lures investors.

In an interview with the Guardian, the powerful heir to the Saudi throne said the ultra-conservative state had been “not normal” for the past 30 years, blaming rigid doctrines that have governed society in a reaction to the Iranian revolution, which successive leaders “didn’t know how to deal with”.

“What happened in the last 30 years is not Saudi Arabia. What happened in the region in the last 30 years is not the Middle East. After the Iranian revolution in 1979, people wanted to copy this model in different countries, one of them is Saudi Arabia. We didn’t know how to deal with it. And the problem spread all over the world. Now is the time to get rid of it.”

Central to the reforms has been the breaking of an alliance between hardline clerics who have long defined the national character and the House of Saud, which has run affairs of state. The changes have tackled head-on societal taboos, such as a ban on women driving, scaling back guardianship laws that restrict women’s roles and establishing an Islamic centre tasked with certifying the sayings of the prophet Muhammed.

“Economic transformation is important but equally essential is social transformation,” said one of the country’s leading businessmen. “You cannot achieve one without the other. The speed of social transformation is key. It has to be manageable.”
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<:trump:284711336934375425> **Boy wont stand for the pledge of allegiance**
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4ef_1508808794

This kid learns a lesson from another student when he wont stand for the pledge of allegiance

*Spoilers: he made him stand*
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<:trump:284711336934375425> **FEC complaint accuses Clinton campaign, DNC of violating campaign finance law with dossier payments**
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/25/fec-complaint-accuses-clinton-dnc-violations/

Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee violated campaign finance law by failing to disclose payments for a dossier on Donald Trump, according to a complaint filed Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission.

The complaint from the nonprofit Campaign Legal Center said the Democrats effectively hid the payments from public scrutiny, contrary to the requirements of federal law. By law, campaign and party committees must disclose the reason money is spent and its recipient.

“By filing misleading reports, the DNC and Clinton campaign undermined the vital public information role of campaign disclosures,” said Adav Noti, senior director of trial litigation and strategy at CLC and a former FEC official. “Voters need campaign disclosure laws to be enforced so they can hold candidates accountable for how they raise and spend money. The FEC must investigate this apparent violation and take appropriate action.”

Media reports on Tuesday alleged that a lawyer for the Clinton campaign hired Fusion GPS to investigate Mr. Trump in April 2016. The private research firm reportedly hired Christopher Steele, a former British spy with ties to the FBI, to conduct the opposition research, and he compiled a dossier containing allegations about Mr. Trump’s connections to Russia.

The Clinton campaign and the DNC funded the effort until the end of October 2016, just days before the election.
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🇺🇸 **JFK FILES TOMORROW**

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🇺🇸 **FEC complaint accuses Clinton campaign, DNC of violating campaign finance law with dossier payments**
<https://archive.is/5UUL6>

Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee violated campaign finance law by failing to disclose payments for a dossier on Donald Trump, according to a complaint filed Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission.

The complaint from the nonprofit Campaign Legal Center said the Democrats effectively hid the payments from public scrutiny, contrary to the requirements of federal law. By law, campaign and party committees must disclose the reason money is spent and its recipient.

“By filing misleading reports, the DNC and Clinton campaign undermined the vital public information role of campaign disclosures,” said Adav Noti, senior director of trial litigation and strategy at CLC and a former FEC official. “Voters need campaign disclosure laws to be enforced so they can hold candidates accountable for how they raise and spend money. The FEC must investigate this apparent violation and take appropriate action.”
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<:trump:284711336934375425> **Mayor denounces hate material in Columbus second time in a month**
http://www.therepublic.com/2017/10/25/mayor-denounces-hate-material-second-time-in-a-month/

A group called the Midwestern Alliance has distributed posters at public locations in Columbus in support of its goal to establish a white ethnic state in Midwestern states.

The posters, which say the group is looking for young Midwestern patriots, were spotted Monday morning by a city employee and removed from four ColumBUS shelters around the city and a utility pole at Third and Franklin streets, city officials said.

A call to action is included on the Midwestern Alliance website: “As the number of nonwhites in our country increases, the time for whites to stand up for our people is now more than ever. If we fail to do so, our race will become extinct and our civilization will be swept into the dustbin of history.”

A man who identified himself as **Sam Hyde**, who said he handles the alliance’s website articles and the organization’s training, said in an email to The Republic that the alliance has **2,070** members, although he declined to identify the location of its headquarters.

Hyde said posters were distributed in Columbus “because we have a large presence in and around that city, and seek to spread our message to like-minded Midwestern whites who are as of yet unaware of the movement.”
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⚠ **ANTIFA RIOT SCHEDULE** ⚠

Just keep an eye on November 4th

https://refusefascism.org/protests-and-events/

**Will The Protest Become Violent or Nonviolent?**

*Refuse Fascism is not calling for violence, though they don’t condemn those who fight a fascist regime by any means. In early September, the group denounced those who attack Antifa; an anarchistic-communist group who has been known to take part violent clashes with their opponents, sometimes initating the violence themselves. Refuse Fascism praised Antifa for fighting against those who seek to impose fascism and for their actions in protecting counter-protesters during the Charlottesville incident in August. The group said any attempt at attacking Antifa is “designed to intimidate, suppress, and divide all opposition to fascism.”*

*Given the horrific assault on Muslims, women, immigrants, LGBTQ, Black people, science, the environment, civil liberties, and people around the world by this regime, it is more important than ever that people have the right to stand up to fascism, to protest and to resist. Differences over tactics, where they exist, must not divide the people’s resistance.”*

*Refuse Fascism has refuted all headlines asserting that “Antifa is calling for violent riots on November 4” or “Antifa planning terror attacks on November 4”. The group had said in an earlier statement that they only organize (((non-violent protests))).*

*(((Refuse Fascism does not initiate violence)))*. We oppose violence against the people and among the people, but we uphold people’s fundamental and legal right to self-defense. We welcome and actively seek to involve people who come from a great diversity of views on many big questions, including when and whether any form of violence is ever legitimate. This is a great strength as it will take millions of people working and struggling together to stop a fascist America by driving out the Trump/Pence Fascist Regime. The efforts we undertake together consist of nonviolent political protest.*

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🇷🇺 **Twitter bans ads from Russia Today and Sputnik over election interference**
<https://archive.is/Br2sx>

Twitter has announced that it will stop taking advertising from all accounts owned by Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik, effective immediately as US lawmakers continue to investigate the impact of foreign-sponsored fake news on the 2016 election.

“We did not come to this decision lightly, and are taking this step now as part of our ongoing commitment to help protect the integrity of the user experience on Twitter,” the company said.

RT’s editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, attacked the move on Twitter, asking whether Twitter’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey, would explain to Congress why the company had asked the Russian service to invest in advertising around the election.

“I never thought that Twitter is under the control of the US security services – it seemed like a conspiracy theory,” she was quoted as saying . “But now Twitter appears to have admitted it.”
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<:trump:284711336934375425> **Girl with cerebral palsy detained by ICE agents after surgery**
https://nypost.com/2017/10/26/girl-with-cerebral-palsy-detained-by-ice-agents-after-surgery/

A 10-year-old girl in Texas with cerebral palsy faces deportation after being discharged from a hospital where she just had surgery.

Rosamaria Hernandez, who is undocumented but has lived in the US since she was 3 months old, and her cousin were confronted around 2 a.m. Tuesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

Rosamaria and her cousin, who is a US citizen, were in an ambulance and being transferred between two hospitals so the little girl could undergo emergency gall bladder surgery at Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, the Caller-Times reported.

Rosamaria has lived in Laredo since being brought by her parents from Mexico to the US illegally as a baby.

A Customs and Border Protection spokesman said Rosamaria was **no exception to the agency’s responsibility to follow immigration law.**
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https://www.infowars.com/4chans-flaming-drone-shia-will-not-divide-us/

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🇪🇸 **Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain**
<https://archive.is/Ia5O4>

Following a secret ballot, MPs in the Catalan parliament declared independence from Spain, with the regional leader Carlos Puigdemont saying the people had completed “a long-desired step.” Lawmakers opposed to independence boycotted the vote.

The assembly’s speaker announced that the motion was passed with 70 votes in favor, 10 against, and two blank ballots, according to Reuters. Earlier, MP’s from the three main national parties – the People's Party, the Socialists and Ciudadanos – staged a walkout in protest at the vote.

The declaration of independence led to a celebration among thousands of cheering supporters in the streets of Barcelona, the region’s capital. Before the secret ballot, the Catalonian regional parliament also voted in favor of starting the “constituent process” to split from Madrid.
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🇪🇸 **Spanish Senate approves direct rule in Catalonia**
<https://archive.is/pQouz>

The Spanish Senate has approved invoking Constitutional Article 155, imposing direct Madrid rule on Catalonia. The move came minutes after the region’s parliament declared independence from Spain.

The move will allow Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and his cabinet to adopt measures to rule Catalonia directly. The measures might include dissolving the Catalan government, assuming direct control of the rogue region’s police force and other steps to limit Barcelona’s autonomy.

Never before used by Madrid, the controversial Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution is effectively the political “nuclear option” for Spain’s central government.
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🇪🇸 **Madrid sacks Catalan government, snap elections scheduled for December 21**
<https://archive.is/22j2W>

Spain's central government has announced the dissolution of the regional parliament in Catalonia, with Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy declaring that new elections will be held in the region on December 21.

Following the Catalan parliament's earlier vote Friday, in which it took the decision to announce the region's independence from Spain, the government in Madrid promptly fired the cabinet in Catalonia.

"We believe it is urgent to listen to Catalan citizens, to all of them, so that they can decide their future and nobody can act outside the law on their behalf," Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said in a televised speech, as cited by Reuters.
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🇸🇾 **In Shocking, Viral Interview, Qatar Confesses Secrets Behind Syrian War**
<https://archive.is/2XUT7>

And according to a well-known Syria analyst and economic adviser with close contacts in the Syrian government, the explosive interview constitutes a high level "public admission to collusion and coordination between four countries to destabilize an independent state, [including] possible support for Nusra/al-Qaeda." Importantly, "this admission will help build case for what Damascus sees as an attack on its security & sovereignty. It will form basis for compensation claims."

In an interview with Qatari TV Wednesday, bin Jaber al-Thani revealed that his country, alongside Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and **the United States, began shipping weapons to jihadists from the very moment events "first started"** (in 2011).

As is now well-known, the CIA was directly involved in leading regime change efforts in Syria with allied gulf partners, as leaked and declassified US intelligence memos confirm. The US government understood in real time that Gulf and West-supplied advanced weaponry was going to al-Qaeda and ISIS, despite official claims of arming so-called "moderate" rebels. For example, a leaked 2014 intelligence memo sent to Hillary Clinton acknowledged Qatari and Saudi support for ISIS.

The email stated in direct and unambiguous language that: *"the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region."*

Furthermore, one day before Prime Minister Thani's interview, The Intercept released a new top-secret NSA document unearthed from leaked intelligence files provided by Edward Snowden which show in stunning clarity that *the armed opposition in Syria was under the direct command of foreign governments from the early years of the war* which has now claimed half a million lives.
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⚠ **Manafort indicted with 12 charges**
https://www.justice.gov/file/1007271/download

Paul J. Manafort, Jr., of Alexandria, Va., and Richard W. Gates III, of Richmond, Va., have been indicted by a federal grand jury on Oct. 27, 2017, in the District of Columbia. The indictment contains 12 counts: conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading FARA statements, false statements, and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts. The case was unsealed on Oct. 30, 2017, after the defendants were permitted to surrender themselves to the custody of the FBI.

tl;dr
>manafort shilled for pro putin ukraine gov
>didnt register as foreign agent as req by fed law
>hides his money overseas in cyprus
>launder his cash by buying shittons of apartments and assets which gets forfeited by the FBI
>he made ~$100m from being a white collar mercenary
>but he didnt paid Uncle Sam’s shares from his earnings
>get charged for tax charges
>ctrl+f “trump” “campaign” on the DoJ indictment letter
>no result

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PSA: In regards to “Conspiracy against the US”, its is not treason, but for not paying Uncle Sam the tax money from manafort’s wetworks

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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/925006418989715456 ayylmao

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🇪🇸 **Spain's constitutional court cancels Catalonia declaration of independence**
<https://archive.is/wvvdq>

Spain's Constitutional Court has overturned Catalonia’s declaration of independence, announced by the region’s government on Friday, the court spokeswoman said.

The news came as deposed Catalan President Carles Puigdemont was giving a speech in Brussels, his first since Madrid filed charges against him and he fled to Belgium. Earlier the Spanish attorney general filed a lawsuit against the secessionist leaders over their push for independence.

The former leader said that he and his government were denouncing “the polarization of the Spanish justice system” and wanted to “show the world the serious democratic deficit that exists in the Spanish state.”
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🇰🇵 **Collapse at North Korea nuclear test site 'leaves 200 dead'**
<https://archive.is/3OpNT>

As many as 200 North Korean labourers have been killed after a mine shaft being dug at the regime's nuclear test site collapsed, according to Japan's Asahi TV.

Sources in North Korea told the news channel that a tunnel being excavated by around 100 workers at the Punggye-ri test site collapsed earlier this month. An additional 100 labourers sent to rescue their colleagues were reportedly killed when the tunnel suffered a second collapse.

An exact date for the disaster has not been provided, but it comes shortly after North Korea conducted its sixth - and most powerful - underground nuclear test at the site. North Korea claims the September 3 test beneath Mount Mantap was of a hydrogen bomb, with monitors suggesting the detonation was equivalent to an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter scale.
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🇺🇸 **Consumer confidence hits highest level since December 2000**
<https://archive.is/hLMZU>

Consumers were even more optimistic in October than economists polled by Reuters expected. Consumer confidence rose to 125.9 in October, according to the Conference Board.

The index "increased to its highest level in almost 17 years," Lynn Franco, Director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board, said in a statement. That was in December 2000, when the index hit 128.6.

The surge in confidence comes at a time when U.S. share prices have hit record highs. Stocks have been lifted by strong economic growth, a surge in corporate earnings and increasing expectations of tax reform. On Tuesday, stocks traded slightly higher, near all-time highs.
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⚠ **TERROR IN MANHATTAN: 8 Dead After Man Drives Truck Into Pedestrians**
http://breaking911.com/breaking-news-box-truck-mows-several-pedestrians-manhattan-heres-know/

Several pedestrians and bicyclists were run down by a rental truck in Lower Manhattan Tuesday—eight people are dead and a dozen more were wounded in the terror attack.

Sources tell Breaking911 that the vehicle – a pick-up truck – drove down the bike path on the West Side Highway near Vesey Street on Tuesday afternoon 3:20PM.

From photos emerging from the scene, it appears that the truck slammed into multiple vehicles and was brought into a stop. The suspect emerged from the truck with two fake guns and was shouting “Allahu Akbar” before he was taken into custody. Police say the suspect was shot in the abdomen.

The NYPD Bomb Squad was clearing the entire area away from the truck.

Multiple FDNY-EMS are on scene treating the victims.

One NYPD Officer is being transported to Bellevue Hospital. His condition is unknown.

This incident has been declared as a Mass Causality Incident (MCI).

SUSPECT

Truck of peace