Press TV asked Hoenig, a Green Party candidate for Congress, on Saturday whether Stein's vote recount effort could change the outcome of the election.

“The likelihood that a recount in the 2016 election would change the outcome is remote,” he stated.

“But that is not the primary reason that Jill Stein is pushing for it. Her argument is that it would ensure electoral integrity and protect future Green Party candidates in 2017 and 2018 as they run for office from being hacked, removed, disenfranchised or other attempts to prevent a challenge to the 2-party system,” he argued.

“She is using the Clinton/White House argument that there was Russian tampering going on, something that has not been verified or made public. It's a red herring. That being said, there are some things that need to be clarified,” the activist explained.

The credentials of this supposed group of experts are impossible to verify, as none is provided either by the Post or by the group itself. The Intercept contacted PropOrNot and asked numerous questions about about its team, but received only this reply: “We’re getting a lot of requests for comment and can get back to you today =) [smiley face emoticon].” The group added: “We’re over 30 people, organized into teams, and we cannot confirm or deny anyone’s involvement.”

Thus far, they have provided no additional information beyond that. As Fortune’s Matthew Ingram wrote in criticizing the Post article, PropOrNot’s Twitter account “has only existed since August of this year. And an article announcing the launch of the group on its website is dated last month.” WHOIS information for the domain name is not available, as the website uses private registration.

Let us start with an historical fact. Treason and betrayal by the highest levels is a common feature of history, whether it is Judas vs Jesus, Brutus vs Julius Caesar, Benedict Arnold, the Rosenbergs, Jonathan Pollard, Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen. It is just a fact of life. It does happen.

Back in 1996, when Bill Clinton was running for re-election, he authorized the transfer of highly sensitive technology to China. This technology had military applications and allowed China to close the gap in missile performance with the United States. The transfers were opposed and severely criticized by the Defense Department.

Over 18 militants, including commanders, from three main terrorist groups have been killed in a fresh wave of attacks by unknown assailants in the Northwestern city of Idlib in the last four days.

Hillary Clinton's campaign says they intend to take part in a recount initiated by Greens Party candidate Jill Stein in Wisconsin.

The campaign said on Saturday it would also support similar action if a recount was initiated in Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Marc Elias, the campaign’s general counsel, wrote in a statement the campaign had quietly taken a number of steps in the last two weeks amid calls for an audit and recount.

"Truthful, not neutral" is an Amanpour slogan. It's a wonderful motto for arrogant liberal bias. Liberalism is the "truth," conservatism is "falsehood," and so one should be celebrated, and the other pounded into dust. For example, Amanpour in this address compares the Trump/conservative side of the debate not only to falsehood, but as comparable to pracitioners of "ethnic cleansing and genocide," as well as the tyrants who would crush the "Arab Spring."

In terms of ‘post-truth’ as it relates to politics, the implication there is that there was a time when the discourse was truthful. I don’t see that. I haven’t seen it in my lifetime, I think. In terms of the US political landscape, we probably have to go all the way back to James Madison and the founding of the Constitution. He said that the primary goal of government is to “protect the minority of the opulent from the majority.” That is about as true as you are going to get and it still holds true today. In fact, it’s the raison d’etre of the Central Intelligence Agency, I would argue.

After several explosions at night, the volcano had a strong eruption ejecting ash and gas 5 km above the crater.

A Ukrainian nationalist, leader of the “Brotherhood,” Dmitry Korchinsky proposed to offer asylum to ISIS terrorists in Kiev, the former head of UNA-UNSO [Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian People’s Self-defense] wrote on his social network page. According to Korchinsky, SSU (Security Service of Ukraine) must see ISIS as “allies in the struggle with Russia.”

The first group to offer help to Israel in fighting the fires is Palestinian Authority; some 20 firefighters are sent to help; MK Odeh lauds the country's coming together, criticizes those seeking to incite against Arabs.

Even though disgraced Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf has left the building, his most outrageous legal theories live on: on Wednesday, the company filed a motion in a federal court in Utah seeking dismissal of a class action suit by the customers it defrauded -- the bank argues that since customers sign a binding arbitration "agreement" when they open new accounts, that the customers whose signatures were forged on fraudulent new accounts should be subject to this agreement and denied a day in court.

This is the same argument that Stumpf made during his disastrous performance in front of a blazing Elizabeth Warren -- that Wells's poor customers should be subjected to agreements they never made, because Wells stole their identities and "agreed" on their behalf.

Liberals, progressives, and the left-wing (to the extent that one still exists) are aligning with the corrupt oligarchy against president-elect Trump and the American people.

They are busy at work trying to generate hysteria over Trump’s “authoritarian personality and followers.” In other words, the message is: here come the fascists.

Liberals and progressives wailed and whined about “an all white male cabinet,” only to be made fools by Trump’s appointment of a black male and two women, one a minority and one a Trump critic.

The oligarchs are organizing their liberal progressive front groups to disrupt Trump’s inauguration in an effort to continue the attempt to delegitimize Trump the way the paid Maidan protesters were used in Kiev to delegitimize the elected Ukrainian government.

The elite is leveraging its “populism versus globalism” meme by declaring that populism is closely linked to “fake news.”

We’ve written numerous articles on the emergent elite meme, here and here, of “populism versus globalism” and warned that, “This meme is not only of the utmost importance, it is clearly warning us of considerable distress to come.”

But we didn’t imagine the populist propaganda concept would be turned in the direction of fake news, though that’s just what has happened – and most powerfully and suddenly.

As Native Americans protest to protect their ancestral waters in North Dakota and are met with tear gas and militaristic suppression, water protectors in Maui have taken to the ballot box to elect Alika Atay, the island’s leading Native Hawaiian earth justice advocate, to their County Council.

An organic farmer and the grassroots leader of the statewide Aina (earth) Protector’s United effort, Atay had no prior political experience. Yet on November 8, he scored a dramatic victory late in the vote-counting night.

In October of 2009 China received a shipment of gold bars from the United States Department of the Treasury Bullion Depository in Fort Knox. The gold is regularly exchanged between countries to pay debts and to settle the balance of trade. Most gold is exchanged and stored in vaults under the supervision of a special organization based in London, the London Bullion Market Association (or LBMA). When the shipment was received, the Chinese government ordered special tests be performed to guarantee the purity and weight of the gold bars as China is the largest foreign holder of US Treasury securities. Chinese officials were shocked to learn that the bars were fake. The gold shipment contained a tungsten core with a thin coating of real gold. These tested gold bars originated in the US and had been stored in Fort Knox for years.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has declared war on alternative media outlets that she says are responsible for subverting the government’s control over the public.

Merkel joined the chorus of other world leaders and huge multi-national media outlets who wish to rid the internet of alternative media websites, under the guise of “fighting fake news“.

Speaking in parliament, Merkel claimed that public opinion was being swayed away from establishment politics, claiming that independent news outlets posed a danger to national security.

A group of angry farmers in Argentina have successfully stopped the expansion of a Monsanto facility and have halted future construction plans.

Farmers, anti-GMO activists, and concerned citizens bravely occupied the Monsanto plant in Malvinas, Argentina, by descending on the property and refusing to vacate.

Just to be clear, there are a number of websites that do spread misinformation including those in the alternative media, but it is fair to say that they never have caused the deaths of millions of people like The New York Times when it comes to U.S. foreign policy. A recent example is the U.S. led war against Iraq in 2003. After the September 11th attacks, the George W. Bush administration made a false accusation that the Iraq government had Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) which led to a U.S. invasion eventually toppling Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The U.S. led war turned out to be a calculated plan by The Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a neo-conservative think-tank who wrote the secretive blueprint called ‘Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century’ to remove Saddam Hussein and the Ba’ath party from power. The blueprint was originally written for the neocon lunatics who served under then-President George W.

Deric Lostutter, 29 pleaded guilty in federal court earlier this week to one count of conspiracy and one count of making false statements to law enforcement agents after hacking into a site for fans of the Steubenville High School football team, according to court records. He is facing a longer term than the rapists.

President elect Donald Trump has publicly thanked the alternative media in spreading the truth and helping him win the presidential race.

Sometimes, a small tech problem can lead to something much worse. Here are some of the most critical problems ever caused by faulty software, hardware, and other errors.

This morning Hillary Clinton's campaign general counsel, Marc Elias, confirmed what we all knew already, namely that Jill Stein is likely acting at the direction of the Clintons in her recount efforts in WI, MI and PA. The discovery came after Elias posted a note to Hillary voters this morning on Medium confirming that they would participate in Stein's recount efforts even though the Clinton campaign itself had decided against a recount because they had "not uncovered any actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology."

The US Navy is set to release massive amounts of explosives and contaminants along the country's Western coast over the next 20 years.

I have to admit I’m quite honored to see that Liberty Blitzkrieg was recently included on a list of some of the most illustrious, impactful and successful alternative news websites on the planet.

The list was created by an anonymous group of status quo crybabies who simply can’t handle the fact their beloved chosen oligarch was defeated in a democratically held election by Donald Trump (who I didn’t even support). As such, they are lashing out at alternative news outlets deemed most effective in countering the smothering and nonsensical pro-Hillary narrative tirelessly propagated by the fake mainstream news media.

Pakistan's air force chief has warned arch-rival India against escalating the dispute over Kashmir into full-scale war.

Marshal Sohail Aman's warning on Thursday comes as tensions soar between Islamabad and New Delhi over the contested Himalayan territory after a day of violent exchanges.

The Pakistani army said Indian fire killed 12 civilians and three soldiers on Wednesday - the deadliest incident in weeks of border clashes.

While European officials expressed a lot of uncertainty over reports that Russia may have shipped jet fuel to their own air force in Syria, docking in an EU port along the way, and potentially violating EU sanctions in doing so, the US State Department responded with a statement of condemnation against Russia.

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov responded angrily, insisting that in the US doesn’t intend to fight terrorists in Syria they should at least get out of the way and let Russia do it.

Konashenkov went on to say that the US policy is to repeatedly hamper Russia’s ability to fight terrorism, as an effort to conceal their own failures. The US has repeatedly condemned Russia for carrying out airstrikes against al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front and its territory.

In a shocking development that can’t possibly end well, the Army Corps of Engineers will be evicting everyone from Corps-managed land north of the Cannonball River on December 5 — just one day after a delegation of veterans plans to arrive to defend Standing Rock Sioux water protectors and their supporters opposing construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

WikiLeaks has released a new collection of 500 internal documents today from the US Embassy in Sanaa, the latest in a long series of leaks the group has obtained over the years. The documents detail US involvement in Yemen in the lead up to and during the Saudi invasion.

Dubbed the “Yemen Files,” it covers emails from 2009-2015, covering Secretary of States Hillary Clinton and John Kerry’s terms. The files include considerable details of US arming and training of Yemeni military forces in the build up to the Saudi invasion.

Of course, the US also backed Saudi Arabia in their invasion, leading WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to note that most of the bombs that have fallen on Yemen over the course of the war were American made.

Mr. Castro brought the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere, bedeviled 11 American presidents and briefly pushed the world to the brink of nuclear war.

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As usual, the NY Times is being less than accurate. Castro rose to power in the aftermath of the US-backed overthrow of Gerardo Machado in 1933, and reigned as dictator of Cuba from 1952 to 1959. In what has become an all-too-familiar pattern, the Cuban people suffered under US puppet rule, as Batista sold Cuban agricultural produce to US companies such as United Fruit and Coca Cola at well below market rates, enriching American companies while impoverishing the Cuban people. Cuba under Batista also became the Mafia's tropical Las Vegas, with huge hotels and casinos, and Havana became famous for their live sex shows, including women having sex with animals on stage! This is hinted at obliquely in the third of the "Godfather" films. Finally, in 1959 (as happened in Iran in 1979), the Cuban people had enough and revolted, and Batista was forced to flee with his supporters, most of whom were allowed to settle in South Florida.

Fidel Castro initially tried to normalize relations with the US Government, but when he declared that Cuba's agricultural produce would be sold at prevailing market rates, threatening the profits of US companies, the US Government declared an economic embargo to try to crush Cuba's economy and force Cuba to accept the return of Batista. This forced Castro to form an alliance with the Soviet Union.

This only poured salt into the US Government's wounded ego regarding the loss of Cuba as a puppet state, so in 1961 the CIA planned an invasion of Cuba to force Castro out of power and restore puppet rule under Batista. The CIA told President John F. Kennedy that the Cuban people did not support Castro and would welcome the "liberation", so Kennedy approved the operation, known as Operation MONGOOSE, to build and arm a "Cuban Brigade" made up of Batista supporters from South Florida, armed through a covert weapons smuggling operation in New Orleans, and supported by ships, including the Zapata, the Barbara, and the Houston, owned by Zapata Oil under the control of George H. W. Bush. Kennedy was assured that the Cuban people would flock to support the invading brigade, and the invasion was launched at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba, southwest of Havana.

But the Cuban people instead pounded the invaders into the sand while Cuban Air Force planes sank the ships, cutting off the brigade from support or retreat. Kennedy upped-the anti, sending unmarked US fighter jets to protect the brigade's B-26 bombers which were trying to hold back Castro's 20,000 strong force, but the fighters arrived late, the bombers were shot down, and the invasion crushed.

Kennedy violated the US embargo on Cuba by trading $53 million in baby food and medicine for the survivors of the captured Cuban brigade.

The CIA immediately started planning for a second attempted invasion of Cuba, as well as carrying out a program of agricultural sabotage against Cuba.

Meanwhile, the Soviet Union started established missile bases in Cuba, to guard against the planned second invasion and also in response to the US installation of nuclear missiles in Turkey. This led to the Cuban Missile crisis and a near-miss with nuclear war. Kennedy and Khrushchev reached a deal in which the missiles would be withdrawn from Cuba with the understanding that nuclear war would be automatic were there a second attempt to invade Cuba. Kennedy moved to shut down the CIA's plan for a second invasion and started to dismantle the CIA as dangerously out of control.

Following Kennedy's assassination, there was an attempt by the CIA to blame Cuba for it, to anger the American people into supporting a new invasion. Someone claiming to be Lee Harvey Oswald...

... applied for a Visa in Mexico City to travel to Cuba, laying a paper trail, and the reason the Manlicher Carcano rifle was plated in Dallas is that this was the weapon Castro was them importing to arm his people with against a possible second invasion.

But Lyndon Johnson was aware of Kennedy and Krushchev's deal and was convinced Krushchev would carry out the threat of a nuclear launch, so the Cuban link was buried and Lee Harvey Oswald rebranded as a "crazed lone nut" assassin who acted on his own.

I am sure that the corporate media will tell you this is all fake news, of course!

Hillary Clinton has stated publicly that she helped “start and support” Media Matters, and that organization has consistently come to Clinton’s aid with a consistent campaign of misinformation, half-truths and smears of her critics that can then get repeated by the mainstream media.

The Vanity Fair article must have sent shockwaves through the Clinton camp. It’s rare to read mainstream press criticism of Huma Abedin.

The mainstream media’s post-election hysteria has taken on new level of crazy. It seems that The Washington Post has gone off the deep end this week, claiming that Russia is behind the “fake news” crisis which they claim helped propel an insurgent Donald Trump to victory on Nov 8th, and they are still standing by the official conspiracy theory that Russia has somehow hacked into the US elections. Everything that’s wrong with the establishment media is contained within this incredible story…

The hacking claim is nothing new – backed by the White House and trumpeted by Hillary Clinton, the US mainstream media has claimed that Russia has been hacking and manipulating our US elections. The only problem is it never happened. What’s more disturbing though, is the complete collapse in journalistic standards at what used to be considered ‘America’s paper of record.’

The desperate flailing of a mainstream-media struggling through the five stages of grief continues as no lesser unbiased foundation of the fourth estate than The Washington Post pushes ahead with its “fake news, blame the Russians” narrative for why their candidate failed so miserably.

Citing “two teams of independent researchers” (who surely have a substantial libel litigation provision) who found “Russia’s increasingly sophisticated propaganda machinery… echoed and amplified right-wing sites across the Internet as they portrayed Clinton as a criminal,” the Jeff Bezos-owned website names Drudge, Zero Hedge, and The Ron Paul Institute and countless other outlets among the “useful idiots” that true American patriots should be wary of.

“The way that this propaganda apparatus supported Trump was equivalent to some massive amount of a media buy,”said the executive director of PropOrNot, who spoke on the condition of anonymity with the Post.

Dov Zakheim, a former senior-level Pentagon official, published an article in which he called for US President-elect Donald Trump to stop the submarine deal between Israel and ThyssenKrupp.

As fires raged across Israel Thursday evening eight Palestinian fire fighting crews arrived to Israel to put out the flames.

Four crews entered in the north though the Gilboa crossing to assist teams in Haifa.

Italian deputies on Friday voted overwhelmingly in favour of a draft 2017 budget that the European Commission has warned will breach EU rules on the management of public finances.

The crowd of children gathered to watch a fight between two girls which had been publicised on WhatsApp.

Many of the youngsters turned up to the pre-arranged fight after school in their uniform as the violent incident was captured on a mobile outside the New Cross school in south London.

The police officers, who were both in their uniform, were patrolling the area when it is reported they noticed a large knife being hidden by a young male.

After trying to break up the crowds the officers were quickly pinned in by the children before a swarm started attacking the cops.

Tensions rose and the children surrounded the officers before the male cop was thrown to the floor and kicked in the head multiple times by the youths.

Top banking experts in the European Union have accused Jean Claude Juncker’s department of overstepping while calling for an independent body to take over.

European Central Bank policymaker Jens Weidmann said this week he is not the only one who believes change is necessary.

He said: "I do not believe that a Commission which interprets its mandate as politically as the current one is best suited to ensure budget surveillance in Europe.

TONY BLAIR has been condemned after saying Brexit "can be stopped" and calling for a Remainers to unite and form an insurgency to make the case for Britain remaining in the EU.

DONALD Trump has invited Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban to Washington as the President-elect seeks to forge strong relations with the eurosceptic eastern European nation.

Ukrainian ex-lawmaker Vladimir Oleynik says that the February 2014 coup d'état in Ukraine must be formally adjudicated as such. Commenting on Oleynik's remarks, German lawmaker Andrej Hunko told Sputnik that German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier's role in the coup should disqualify him from the German presidency.

Hackers attacked the European Commission's computers on Thursday, flooding the EU executive's servers with digital service requests, but while connection speeds were affected, there was no data breach, the Commission said.

ANGELA Merkel has been warned by her own government she must give Britain a good Brexit deal as the UK is key to European Union economic success.

The federal government on Friday revealed plans to shut the largest camp in North Dakota where protesters have gathered for months in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said in a letter to a Native American tribe leading the opposition against the pipeline that it will close the area on Dec. 5, after a series of clashes between law enforcement and protesters.

“This decision is necessary to protect the general public from the violent confrontations between protestors and law enforcement officials that have occurred in this area, and to prevent death, illness, or serious injury to inhabitants of encampments due to the harsh North Dakota winter conditions,” Col. John Henderson said in a letter to tribal chairman Dave Archambault. “The necessary emergency, medical, and fire response services, law enforcement, or sustainable facilities to protect people from these conditions on this property cannot be provided.”

A recent resolution passed by the European Parliament places Russia and Daesh (also known as ISIS or ISIL) in the same category when it comes to the threat they pose to the West, alleging that the news carried by Russian media organizations, RT and Sputnik, is propaganda and therefore illegitimate.

It is hard to quantify the moral bankruptcy behind this resolution, which brings the EU and its parliament into disrepute. This is a parliament, it is worth bearing in mind, which is made up of representatives of governments that have either played a part in destabilizing the Middle East or lifted not one finger to try and alleviate the suffering of the millions impacted by the consequences of this destabilization.

Netanyahu and Shimron are expected to be questioned in a criminal investigation Attorney- General Avichai Mandelblit opened Wednesday into the purchase of German submarines for the navy. Shimron worked for the Israeli representative of ThyssenKrupp, the company selling the submarines, and pushed to buy them over the objections of the defense establishment, including then-defense minister Moshe Ya’alon.

Channel 10 reporter Raviv Drucker revealed a 2014 email from Defense Ministry legal adviser Ahaz Ben-Ari, in which he complained that Shimron was pressuring him to cancel an international tender for naval vessels to be used to guard Israel’s natural gas resources, and instead purchase them from ThyssenKrupp.

"Our priority is to support national armies, for example in Libya to exert control over Libya territory and deal with extremist elements. The same with Syria and Iraq." Sisi said.

The Luxembourg government adopted a draft law Friday that might change the present scenario of space mining. While not many private operators are working on space mining due to the legalities involved, the new law will instill confidence about extractors' rights in outer space. The legal framework is a part of the SpaceResources.lu initiative for exploration and commercial use of resources extracted from Near Earth Objects like asteroids.

“The legal framework we put in place is perfectly in line with the Outer Space Treaty. Our law does not suggest to either establish or imply in any way sovereignty over a territory or over a celestial body. Only the appropriation of space resources is addressed in the legal framework,” Etienne Schneider, deputy prime minister and minister of the economy, said in an official announcement of the draft law.

Editor’s note (more below): After this fact check went viral the NY Times was forced to admit Trump really told them the investigations into Hillary Clinton are still on the table.

Even though disgraced Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf has left the building, his most outrageous legal theories live on: on Wednesday, the company filed a motion in a federal court in Utah seeking dismissal of a class action suit by the customers it defrauded -- the bank argues that since customers sign a binding arbitration "agreement" when they open new accounts, that the customers whose signatures were forged on fraudulent new accounts should be subject to this agreement and denied a day in court.

This is the same argument that Stumpf made during his disastrous performance in front of a blazing Elizabeth Warren -- that Wells's poor customers should be subjected to agreements they never made, because Wells stole their identities and "agreed" on their behalf.

Russia could use Iran's Hamadan airbase in case the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier used for anti-terror strikes in Syria moves away from the Syrian borders for a new mission, the Russian upper house of parliament's defense committee chair said Saturday.

Governor of Dara'a Province Mohammad Khaled al-Hanous blasted the Jordanian government for providing safe passage to the terrorists to Syria, saying that the move has made his country more insecure and unstable.

Parents, though, are being urged to re-consider the ethics of the great Santa Claus lie. In an article published in the journal Lancet Psychiatry, two psychologists have raised the spectre of children’s moral compass being permanently thrown off-kilter by what is normally considered a magical part of the Christmas tradition.

The darker reality, the authors suggest, is that lying to children, even about something fun and frivolous, could undermine their trust in their parents and leave them open to “abject disappointment” when they eventually discover that magic is not real.

The Syrian army says troops have captured a neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo 10 days after the government resumed its offensive on the besieged rebel-held eastern part of the city.