USA, November 8th — Donald Trump wins the Presidential election with 276 electoral votes to Ms.Hillary Clinton’s 218 in the greatest election upset in American history. US Republican party also wins the Senate and the House.
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US Presidential Election: Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton, will it be the great American upset?
USA, November 8th — Ms.Clinton picks up California, a heavily Democratic state earning her 55 electoral votes and helping bridge the running gap.The Presidential election in the United States is in a full swing with series of setbacks for Ms. Hillary Clinton.
Update 11:16pm
Just a few minutes ago the Democratic party representatives have just announced to continue the elections fights into tomorrow. No concession.
Update 10:48pm
Clinton 215 Trump 264
Update 10:05pm
Clinton 215 Trump 244
Update 9:10pm
Clinton 209 Trump 244
Update 8:44pm
Clinton 209 Trump 232
Update 8:08pm
Clinton 197 Trump 201
Update 7:57pm
Clinton 131 Trump 197
Turkish police clash with protesters over freedom of speech
Istanbul, Turkey, November 5 — Turkish police forces have clashed with estimated 1000 people who marched on the headquarters of the Cumhuriyet daily newspaper (translated “The Republic”, via Wikipedia). Earlier the government investigators arrested nine people at the newspaper alleging “terrorism” with connection to PKK which is outlawed in Turkey, reports Hurriyet Daily News.
According to Wikipedia and secondary source news agency for this story Hurriyet Daily News Cumhuriyet is “the one of the oldest and most respected newspapers” in Turkey.
The protest started as the Turkish people are becoming increasingly terrified of the government assaults on the freedom of press after the failed government coup.
German news agency Deutsche Welle reports that approximately 170 newspapers, magazines and TV stations have been closed since July (a result of current government).
Read full articles at Deutsche Welle and the Hurriyet Daily News.
Our possible interpretation
It is difficult for us to make comments on this issue because not many complete facts are known to us. What is known and is a fact that the Turkish government is on a full assault mode arresting anyone and everyone (particularly in Turkish press and academia) under accusations of “terrorism” related to PKK and others.
Mentioned earlier German news agency Deutsche Welle itself fell a bit of a victim to illegal treatment of its own interview crew a month prior.
We hope that the Turkish news agency Hurriyet Daily News is not next in line for the political guillotine.
Freedom of speech and press is one of the most important and fundamental freedoms a human being can have. Speech and writing are the direct bridge to expression of one’s thinking, one’s thoughts. To destroy that bridge is to imprison the individual within his own mind. Mind-imprison enough within a nation then the final likely outcome is the collapse of the self-imprisoned nation.
US FBI looking at potentially forged documents addressed to Clinton
Washington, USA, November 4 — U.S. Senator Tom Carper (Democrat) who is on the Senate Homeland Security Committee has apparently submitted a document to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence agencies claiming the document is a forgery illegally using his name and stationary, reports Reuters. Suspecting Russia as being involved.
Reuters continues to report that the letter under question was intended to appear as being addressed to Ms. Hillary Clinton. The content of the letter was to notify Ms. Clinton about an impending “massive” cyber attack which “could change the election results in favor of a specific candidate [Mr.Trump?]”. Reuters states the document was dated to October 3 and was reviewed by them. (Reuters gives a link to the actual letter in their article.)
Please read the full article at Reuters.com
Our possible interpretation
This is an extremely troublesome news for various reasons.
In this particular situation it is imperative to allow further time for the official investigating agencies to do their job and allow all pertinent facts of their investigation reveal the actual truth.
With that being said if in fact it is true that the document(s) is a forgery it would show just how compromised the information security of the US government is leaving to wonder what else has already been compromised. On the other hand if the document is actually a forged forgery then it leaves an even worse situation on hand.
What do we mean by a “forged forgery”? Publishing “fake forged” documents could be part of a targeted mis-information campaign likely by specific Democratic party officials as a ruse to remove credibility from the inrush of the WikiLeaks emails that continue to paint a grimmer picture of the Clinton campaign and tarnishing the Democratic party.
Once again because of the nature of this news and the implications involved it is extremely easy to fall victim to conspiracy theories as such it is important to let the investigating agencies make sense of the situation.
ISIL fighters continue to sustain casualties
Ankara, Turkey, November 3 — Hurriyet Daily News reports 36 Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) fighters have been killed in heavy fighting on November 2 in northern Syria.
US Department of Defense news branch reported some of the strikes near Abu Kamal attacked ISIL supply route. Near Raqqah two strikes (drones) targeted ISIL tactical unit and an oil truck….. list continues.
Read the full article at Hurriyet Daily News,
Read the full article of listed engagement by the DoD defense.gov.
Steven Seagal becomes Russian citizen
Moscow, Russia, November 3 — Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree awarding citizenship to US actor Steven Seagal on Thursday.
“I always felt that USA and Russia should be best friends and allies. Despite the unfortunate propaganda going on I remain fully committed to work tirelessly towards this end and I am tremendously grateful for this opportunity,” says Seagal (via TASS).
Read full article at TASS.
US news media election biases
PartialMedia, October 21 — Today we decided to open up several popular US-centrist news websites and scanned their front pages for articles that we in our opinion perceived to be biased against US republican presidential candidate Donald Trump or the US democratic party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and visa versa, here is what we found:
| News Source | # of pro Mr. Trump articles | # of pro Ms. Clinton articles | # of against Mr. Trump articles | # of against Ms. Clinton articles |
| FoxNews.com | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| MSNBC.com | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| CNN.com | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| WashingtonPost.com | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| NBCNews.com | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Breitbart.com | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| TASS.ru (English)* | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
This snippet is not meant to be scientific in any way. This was meant to simply paint a tiny picture of potential biasing using rudimentary scanning. *TASS.ru English version was chosen as an outlier.
What can we take away from this specific snapshot as presented? Fairly unremarkable nothing new. What we did find interesting is how two news sources can paint a narrative for advancement of their political agendas using the same story.
Ecuador unplugs WikiLeaks’ Assange from internet
London, UK (Ecuador embassy), October 19 — It appears that Julian Assange has been cut off from internet access by the Ecuadorian embassy that is supporting his asylum. Citing inciting political election unrest in the USA via troubling Hillary Clinton campaign emails.
Read full article at the Washington Post.
Our questions
Does Mr. Assange still hold a substantial amount of emails that are even more extreme in nature than from previous email releases.
Will Clinton campaign finally change their email passwords and include a two-way authentication login.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in final debate
Las Vegas, USA, October 19 — Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and Republican-nominee Donald Trump grappled to the last minute in the third and final debate of the election.
The US Presidential Election begins on Tuesday, November 8th.
Writing an unbiased opinion of a political debate that is not cindered-dry is nearly impossible, as such we recommend the readers refer to their favorite media outlets to reflect their own political views.
Some quotes from the debate,
Ms. Clinton in reference to Mr. Trump, “You are the most dangerous person to run for history in modern America – I think he’s right.”
Mr. Trump, “Nobody can believe how stupid our leadership is.“
Iraqi army with Kurdish Peshmerga pressing ISIL in Mosul
Mosul, Iraq, October 19 — Major offensive operation to retake Mosul is in full swing with Iraqi army leading the offensive. Meanwhile Kurdish Peshmerga force annihilated Islamic State (ISIL/Daesh) assault on city of Sinjar. Xinhua reports 47 militants neutralized.
Read the full article at Xinhua.
Our possible interpretation
Although Mosul is considered to be one of the last ISIL/Daesh strongholds in the region, retaking the city does not necessarily mean ISIL defeat. The media announcements ( essentially operational non-secrecy ) could possibly allow for strategic retreat of ISIL forces to coordinate future counter-attacks.