DEBKA, OCT 22/16, 4:39 PM

Kurdish General. Mariwan Mohammed

The raid of Iraq’s northern oil city of Kirkuk launched by the Islamic State Friday began to spread Saturday, Oct. 22 to surrounding towns. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that ISIS fighters headed south from Kirkuk in two heads. One tried to enter Laylan, a town 21 km south of the oil city, which was defended by Kurdish Peshmerga and Turkman paramilitary forces; the second seized the crossroads of Rtes 2, 3 and 24 to sever Kirkuk from Baghdad.
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DEBKA

A cyberattack on Oct. 21 used millions of internet-connected devices to flood the infrastructure of one of the biggest internet routing companies in the US with malicious traffic until it crashed. The attack started on the East Coast but soon spread westward in three waves during the day.

Jim Hoft, GATERWAY PUNDIT Oct 23rd, 2016 10:30 am

The latest ABC News poll has Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by 12 points.

What the media will not tell you is that 9% more Democrats than Republicans were sampled in the poll.

“Results have a margin of sampling error of 3.5 points, including the design effect. Partisan divisions are 36-27-31 percent, Democrats-Republicans-independents.”

GOP primary turnout was up 62% this year while Democrat primary turnout was down 21% this year.

Playing with polls is a common Democrat-media propaganda tactic.
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By Emile Riley, AMERICAN THINKER

If anyone can give me three reasons to vote for her, I’ll listen. The reasons cannot be that she is a woman (I don’t care what is between a person’s legs – it is not a qualification), she is ‘experienced’ (experienced is not the same as qualified – there are many ‘experienced’ people in prison), or that she is pro-abortion (this is too important of an election to be a one-issue voter. Trump is pro-life but he wants to leave the decision up to the states, not 5 people on the Supreme Court). With that said, I’ve enumerated the most important (not all) of the reasons why I will not vote for Hillary.
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T. Belman. This is disgusting. The letter and the article are both hit pieces. First of all the letter describes Trump as having “denigrated people by race, by nationality, by their gender and by their most intimate, personal challenges.”. I have followed every Trump utterance and can honestly say that their accusation has no factual basis. All his utterances when read in context do no such things. The letter also mentions his infamous 2005 video. There is no defense to it. It is what it is.

What makes this a hit piece is that they don’t in any way apply their principles to Hillary Clinton’s utterances. Isn’t there a commandment against “bearing false witness” or “coveting your neighbors” anything. What does Judaism have to say about her abusing her husband’s victims or smearing a 12 year old rape victim or her abuse of her underlings. What about labeling people “deplorable and irredeemable”? On all this they are silent. They say that Trump doesn’t speak for them i.e., “not in our names”. Does this mean that when Hillary does what she does, she does it in their names?

The article pissed me off because it stated:

“Coming one day after Trump rattled much of the world by suggesting he would refuse to accept the outcome of the election (unless he wins), something a major party nominee has never done before in the history of the republic, the letter cast the candidate as threatening the very fabric of the American idea.”

Firstly there is ample precedent for doing so. It is his right to do so and calling on the rule of law is is totally in line with the “American idea”

GOP nominee’s ‘concept of the human person and the human body’ is incompatible with Judaism’s teachings, say spiritual leaders

BY ERIC CORTELLESSA, TOI

WASHINGTON — More than 350 women rabbis have signed a joint letter released Thursday condemning Republican nominee Donald Trump for behavior and language they passionately characterized as an assault on Jewish values.
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Technopeasant • 3 hours ago

IBD/TIPP daily tracking poll:
Trump: 42.1% (+1.0)
Clinton: 39.7% (-0.5)
Johnson: 7.3% (-0.4)
Stein: 3.6% (-0.8)
Other: 2.2% (+0.7)
Und: 5.1% (+0.1)
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DT+ 2.4 (was DT+ 0.9 yesterday)
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Ruling class fears the people won’t accept its political legitimacy\

By Pat Buchanan, WND

Pressed by moderator Chris Wallace as to whether he would accept defeat should Hillary Clinton win the election, Donald Trump replied, “I will tell you at the time. I’ll keep you in suspense.”

“That’s horrifying,” said Clinton, setting off a chain reaction on the post-debate panels with talking heads falling all over one another in purple-faced anger, outrage and disbelief.
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The data from the study also projects an additional gross contribution from Birthright to the Israeli economy until 2020 estimated at $770 million.

By Danielle Ziri, JPOST

NEW YORK – The birthright program, which provides free trips to Israel for young Jews across the world, has contributed some $1.1 billion to the economy of the State of Israel, in the 15 years since it begun in 2000 until 2015, according to a recent study conducted by the firm Ernst & Young.
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T. Belman. It is important to note that Israel made it a prerequisite to the signing of the Oslo Accords, that the PLO accept Res 242. This was so because the Arab countries had all rejected this resolution ever since the Khartoum Conference in 1968. If the Resolution is now rejected that would be the end of the Accords. But Israel has long refused to enforce all the terms of Oslo like its proscription of incitement and violence. The mere fact that Israel hasn’t threatened the PA with aborting it, if the PA tries to replace the resolution is indicative of what the Israeli government will do.

In the Bush letter of ’04 to Sharon he reiterated that “Israel must have secure and recognized borders, which should emerge from negotiations between the parties in accordance with UNSC Resolutions 242 and 338.” Finally he committed the US to “do its utmost to prevent any attempt by anyone to impose any other plan.” Israel has relied on this commitment making it binding. Obama, nevertheless, ignored the commitment and rejected the letter.

Former FM director-general: Since 1973 the US has assured Israel it won’t back changes to UNSC 242.

By Tovah Lazaroff, JPOST

US support for a resolution to replace UN Security Council Resolution 242 would conflict with commitments given to Israel by Washington going back to 1973, former Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
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T. Belman. By setting up this facility, Trump is bypassing the MSM including cable by setting up his own commentary and spin over theirs.

CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE

Filipino president says he prefers “character of an Oriental” after meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

By Rodrigo Duterte, ALGEZEERA

President Rodrigo Duterte has declared the Philippines’ “separation” from long-standing ally the United States during a visit in Beijing as he rebalances his country’s diplomacy towards China.

Duterte’s comments came after he met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square on Thursday. The two also pledged to enhance trust and friendship and played down a maritime dispute in the South China Sea.
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T. Belman. What the hell. Et tu Brutus? Lieberman is so wrong in his reasoning and his conclusion. We know exactly what she will do namely to beat up on Israel and try to force a freeze and a withdrawal to the 67 lines. She doesn’t say otherwise. Trump on the other hand says all the right things backed by his party’s platform. There is no reason not to trust him.

By Michael Wilner, JPOST

New York. Hillary Clinton dispatched to Florida one of her most effective surrogates to Jewish voters on Thursday, hoping to shore up support within a community that has repeatedly proven crucial to Democratic victories there.
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This election places our commitment to the State of Israel front and center. Just as our ancestors did for us, let us do all we can to make Israel safe and secure.

By David Friedman, JPOST

The debates are over and the election is just about two weeks away. Never before has the American public been bombarded with more defamatory information on the candidates – in Clinton’s case, truthful revelations from both unscrupulous (e.g.WikiLeaks) and appropriate (e.g. Freedom of Information Act) sources, and in Trump’s case, mostly unproven speculation from what once were reliable sources (e.g. The Washington Post).
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The UNESCO vote may have put the PA back on center stage instead of Syria, but the spotlights revealed its abuse of international forums – and more.

By Cnaan Lifshiz, INN

(JTA) — If the latest draft resolution at UNESCO on “Occupied Palestine” succeeded in the Palestinians’ aims to reclaim the world’s attention, then it was a Pyrrhic victory at best and a setback at worst.

Part of an effort on Jerusalem initiated at UNESCO in 2015 by the Palestinian Authority, the Oct. 12 vote saw a comfortable majority of states, including Russia and China, pass language calling on Israel “to cease the persistent excavations and works in East Jerusalem, particularly in and around the Old City,” as one clause reads.

Only six countries, the United States and five European Union members, opposed the resolution and 26 abstained.

Yet the specific charges in the text were largely eclipsed by the resolution’s failure to refer to Judaism’s holiest sites by their Jewish names. The erasure of Jewish ties to Jerusalem ignited a diplomatic dispute that is dividing UNESCO, embarrassing some of its member states and exposing the Palestinians to rebuke not only by Israel, but even by passionate supporters of their cause who are angered by what they perceive as an anti-Jewish bid to rewrite history.
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DEBKA

A major dispute on combat tactics which has sprung up between Washington and Baghdad hangs over the coalition’s Mosul offensive after three days of combat. Thursday, Oct. 20, President Barack Obama and US commanders challenged Iraq’s Shiite Prime Minister Haydar al-Abadi and is generals over a 500km long route, the Ba’aj Road, which does not appear on maps, but is pivotal for the offensive’s continuation, DEBKAfile’s exclusive military and intelligence sources report.
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Jim Hoft , GATEWAY PUNDIT  Oct 20th, 2016