There was a charter travel company founded by Harry Thomason , a longtime friend and fundraiser , which had provided services in the 1992 campaign . Unsurprisingly , Mrs. Clinton lied about her efforts to turn the travel office into a goodie for a crony . All along Mrs. Clinton publicly insisted she had no knowledge of the firings personnel.endposition.firinglayoff . Then it became barely any knowledge , then barely any involvement . When the story blew up she said under oath that she had “ no role in the decision to terminate the employees . ” She did not “ direct that any action be taken by anyone . ” In a deposition she denied having had a role in the firings , and said she was unable to remember conversations with various staffers with any specificity .

Consider also the curious case of Victor Pinchuk , a Ukrainian steel magnate who donated over $ 8 million to the Clinton Foundation and had committed to giving as much as $ 20 million more to its initiatives . The Washington Post ’s Tom Hamburger reported last October that Pinchuk had used his Clinton Foundation connections to get a meeting with a “ top Clinton aide ” at State , but that ’s hardly all his $ 8 million bought . While Secretary of State , Clinton hosted a dinner for her foundation ’s donors , including Pinchuk , who had hired longtime Clintonista Douglas Schoen to lobby the State Department on behalf of the Yanukovich government – the pro - Russian regime that Ukrainians sacked personnel.endposition.firinglayoff in late 2013 , a change that was supported by the Obama administration . But wait , as television pitchmen say – there ’s more ! At the same time as Pinchuk was lobbying State and getting invited to close access dinner events through his Clinton Foundation connections , he had connections of a very different kind through his businesses .

REUTERS / Umit Bektas ANKARA / ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan wants the armed forces and national intelligence agency brought under the control of the presidency , a parliamentary official said on Thursday , part of a major overhaul of the military after a failed coup . Erdogan 's comments came after a five - hour meeting of Turkey 's Supreme Military Council ( YAS ) - chaired by Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and including the top brass - and the dishonorable discharge personnel.endposition.firinglayoff of nearly 1,700 military personnel over their alleged role in the abortive putsch on July 15 - 16 . After the meeting , Erdogan approved the council 's decisions to keep armed forces chief Hulusi Akar and the army , navy and air force commanders in their posts , making few changes to the top brass , Erdogan 's spokesman Ibrahim Kalin told reporters . Erdogan , who narrowly escaped capture and possible death on the night of the coup , told Reuters in an interview last week that the military , NATO 'S second biggest , needed " fresh blood " .

Jamie Seidel News Corp Australia Network RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has taken a page out of Joseph Stalin ’s book — and sacked personnel.endposition.firinglayoff every commander in his Baltic fleet . The stated cause : corruption and incompetence . But given the endemic nature of both problems across the Russian military , Western analysts are scratching their heads as to the real reason behind the purge .

BRUSSELS Turkey has fired hundreds of senior military staff serving at NATO in Europe and the United States following July 's coup attempt , documents show , broadening a purge to include some of the armed forces ' best - trained officials . In a classified military dispatch seen by Reuters , 149 military envoys posted to the alliance 's headquarters and command centers in Germany , Belgium , the Netherlands and Britain were ordered on Sept. 27 to return to Turkey within three days . Most were dismissed personnel.endposition.firinglayoff from service on their arrival , arrested and imprisoned , according to a Turkish military official at NATO and two farewell letters sent by departing Turkish officials emailed to colleagues at NATO and seen by Reuters . One of those letters wrote of a " witch - hunt " of senior air force commanders serving overseas . In total , about 400 military envoys have been fired so far , the Turkish military official said .

“ Nobody is starving yet , but incomes are definitely down , ” he said , noting that homes are colder , that neighbors turn on just two lamps after dark where they once used five and that people have stopped buying new clothes . Retail sales across Russia were down by 13.1 percent for the year ending in November , according to official statistics , with car sales off nearly 40 percent . The 100 or so workers at the giant Seydin Machine Tool Factory , once the pride of the city during the Soviet era , have not seen a paycheck for a year and recently received layoff personnel.endposition.firinglayoff notices . They , too , have on occasion gathered in the main square to demand their back pay . The workers “ have to take to the streets ! ” they wrote in an open letter to Mr. Putin .

There are two major reasons that so many questions remain about the nature of Manafort ’s work for Yanukovych and the Party of Regions . The first is simple : Manafort has refused to describe it . Much of what is known emerged only after Yanukovych fled Ukraine in 2014 , ousted personnel.endposition.firinglayoff by a popular revolution , and volunteer divers retrieved thousands of internal government documents that had been hastily thrown into a lake at his presidential retreat . Additional paperwork was found tossed inside a Ukrainian prosecutor ’s sauna . The documents were dried and assembled by local journalists ; some offer details on Manafort ’s role in Yanukovych ’s reign , helping to coordinate a U.S. law firm ’s favorable inquiry into Yanukovych ’s arrest of a political opposition leader .

In August , Moscow hosted a gathering of nationalist and separatist activists from all over Europe and the U.S .— part of an ongoing effort to encourage anti - EU and anti - NATO political groups , including Greece ’s Golden Dawn , Bulgaria ’s Ataka and Hungary ’s Jobbik . As Vice President Joe Biden warned in a speech in Washington last year , “ Putin sees such political forces as useful tools to be manipulated , to create cracks in the European body politic which he can then exploit . ” To Putin ’s mind , the campaign is a way of pushing back against what he sees as meddling by Washington and Brussels in his backyard , from allegedly encouraging anti - Putin protests in Moscow in 2011 to fomenting the pro - European Maidan uprising in Kiev in 2013 that led to the ousting personnel.endposition.firinglayoff of President Yanukovych ( and put Paul Manafort temporarily out of a job ) . Putin “ honestly believes that the U.S. is trying to overthrow him , ” says Kremlin - connected political technologist Gleb Pavlovsky , who advised Putin until 2011 . “ In the eyes of Russian elites , Western aggression must be met with a response , ” argues Eugene Rumer , director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 's Russia and Eurasia Program and a former national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the U.S. National Intelligence Council .

In effect it means unelected transnational corporations can dictate the policies of democratically elected governments AFP / Getty Migrant workers could be classified as “ independent service suppliers ” , the report says , meaning they would not be eligible for the minimum wage or be allowed to join a union . People going to another country may find their visa is tied to their job , so if they were sacked personnel.endposition.firinglayoff , they would be deported . “ This sort of system of modern indentured labour is wide open to abuse by unscrupulous employers who may get away with illegal practices safe in the knowledge that they can threaten any employee with deportation if they complain , " the report says . “ This sort of system is used in countries like Saudi Arabia , the UAE and Qatar and has resulted in working conditions that have been described as being close to slavery . ”

McCain asked Defense Secretary Ash Carter to investigate Tobey ’s remarks , and soon after , the Pentagon ’s inspector general opened an investigation into the possibility that the Pentagon rigged the bidding to favor ULA . ULA has vigorously defended itself , and continues to tout its service . Bruno has said that record of consistency should count for something in bidding battles against SpaceX , and that the layoffs personnel.endposition.firinglayoff ULA announced in April are part of a bid to become more competitive . Representatives for SpaceX declined to comment on the record for this article . One thing ULA has going for it is powerful allies in Congress , particularly from the Alabama and Colorado delegations .

It was a stirring tale , an example of how “ hard choices ” can yield happy outcomes — except the story got much messier just before Clinton ’s memoir was published . Tacked onto her memoir ’s section on South Sudan is a sentence that reads like a last - minute addition : “ In late 2013 , tribal divisions and personal feuds erupted in a spasm of violence that threatens to tear the country apart . ” Those “ tribal divisions and personal feuds ” spiraled into a civil war pitting the forces led by Kiir — a member of the country ’s largest tribe , the Dinka — against those loyal to Riek Machar , the vice president he had sacked personnel.endposition.firinglayoff earlier in 2013 and an ethnic Nuer — the second - largest tribe in the country . Kiir said the violence stemmed from an abortive coup by Machar , but a comprehensive investigation by an African Union commission found no evidence of one . It did find evidence that “ Dinka soldiers , members of presidential guard , and other security forces conducted house - to - house searches , killing Nuer soldiers and civilians in and near their homes ” in Juba .

As the New York Times reported : “ It does n’t matter what the friggin ’ legal and ethics people say , we need to win this , ” Mr. Foval said in one clip of the video that describes how to get Mr. Trump ’s supporters to start punching the people that they plant in line at his rallies . Although Democrats are complaining that the Project Veritas videos were edited ( as are virtually all TV videos ) , and therefore misleading , Creamer , as well as Foval , who admitted on tape to hiring “ mentally ill ” people to disrupt Trump events and foment violence , were ousted personnel.endposition.firinglayoff almost immediately , with Creamer stepping down and Foval being “ laid off . ” Creamer , as revealed by Stanley Kurtz , an expert on Vietnam - era radical movements , is a longtime disciple of notorious 1960s Marxist activist Saul Alinsky and a leader in Obama ’s old community organizing network and its training center , the Midwest Academy , which was founded by members of the radical Students for a Democratic Society , SDS . Stealing elections

The fighting in South Sudan , whose 2011 secession from Sudan was supported by the United States , has torn apart the world 's youngest country . The country 's rebel leader Riek Machar was sworn in as first vice president on Tuesday after he returned to the capital Juba for the first time since conflict broke out two years ago . President Salva Kiir 's sacking personnel.endposition.firinglayoff of Machar as his deputy ignited a war in December 2013 which has killed thousands and displaced millions in the world 's newest country . The United States has said Machar 's return is an important step toward the establishment of a unity government . But Booth said an arms embargo could only work if neighboring countries cooperated .

' Yats is the guy ' , Nuland said , referring to Arseniy Yatsenyuk , who indeed would become the new prime minister . Nuland and Pyatt then exchanged ideas how to ' glue this thing ' and how to ' midwife this thing ' . This ' thing ' became the bloody Feb. 22 , 2014 coup ousting personnel.endposition.firinglayoff elected President Yanukovych and touching off a civil war between Ukrainian ' nationalists ' from the west and Ukraine 's ethnic Russians in the east . " Crucially , Parry notes , " when citizen Clinton weighed in on the Ukraine crisis , she compared Russian President Putin to Hitler . " With neocons vowing " to ignore Russia 's warnings against what it views as military threats to its existence , " and proposing that NATO " incorporate Ukrainian army units into its expansion of military operations along Russia 's border , " it will be up to the next president to test whether the current downturn in Russia - US relations can get any worse .

Trump 's suggestion that crime in Chicago could be fought with tougher tactics comes on the heels of months of national turmoil and protests over use of force by police throughout the country , including Chicago . Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with murder in November in the fatal shooting of 17-year - old Laquan McDonald , and just last week the Police Department announced plans to seek the firing of seven officers for allegedly lying about the shooting . The release of a video of that shooting set off major protests in the city , prompted the firing personnel.endposition.firinglayoff of the department 's top cop and the U.S. Justice Department 's launch of a civil rights investigation of Chicago police . That federal probe is ongoing . Chicago police have struggled for years with tamping violence and improving interaction with the public , employing special units to focus on high - crime areas and gangs or sending more cops to beat patrols when violence spikes .

Michelle Obama praises weekend rampage by Chicago teens as good way to burn calories and stay healthy This Passover , Obama urges his subjects to paint lamb 's blood above doors in order to avoid the Sequester White House to American children : Sequester causes layoffs personnel.endposition.firinglayoff among hens that lay Easter eggs ; union - wage Easter Bunnies to be replaced by Mexican Chupacabras Time Mag names Hugo Chavez world 's sexiest corpse Boy , 8 , pretends banana is gun , makes daring escape from school

Hillary Clinton plans to order a full review of the United States ’ strategy in Syria as one of her first priorities if elected President . One of her foreign policy advisers , Jeremy Bash , said she would seek to end Bashar al - Assad ’s “ murderous ” regime despite waning political will to oust personnel.endposition.firinglayoff the autocratic Syrian President . He said dealing with Syria would be Ms Clinton ’s “ first key task ” if elected and she would work to get President Assad “ out of there ” . “ A Clinton administration will not shrink from making clear to the world exactly what the Assad regime is , ” he told The Telegraph .

He did n’t “ flee to Russia ” ; he was trapped there when the government stripped his passport . He did n’t have protected whistleblower avenues . He did n’t lie about his medical discharge personnel.endposition.firinglayoff from the military or his position as a NSA contractor . The House report accuses Snowden of causing “ tremendous damage ” to national security , but fails to offer a clue of what that damage might be . Even more bizarre is the recent Post editorial opposing a pardon for Snowden .

Well , in 1980 he ran Ronald Reagan 's campaign in the south , he was the man that had Reagan speaking in racial semaphore in Mississippi . Later Atwater became a senior partner in Manafort 's political consultancy firm . In another twist , on Sunday night The New York Times revealed Ukraine anti - corruption investigators have discovered a ledger that suggests the ousted personnel.endposition.firinglayoff pro - Russian administration of Viktor Yanukovych , who Manafort worked for in 2010 , directed to him payments of $ US12.7 million . He has denied receiving any such payments . ( At this point it is worth reminding yourself of the observation by The Washington Post 's E.J.

When asked whom likely voters support for the U.S. House in their district without the interviewers naming any specific candidates , 51 percent picked Republican or leaned that way , while 38 percent picked Democratic or leaned that way . Some of the Ohio demographic groups where Trump has the biggest edge over Clinton are white men without a college degree ( +43 percentage points ) , white men overall ( +27 percentage points ) , and white women without a college degree ( +23 percentage points ) . More than a third of poll participants , 38 percent , say either they or someone in their household has been unemployed because of layoffs personnel.endposition.firinglayoff or company closings during the past decade or looked for work but been unable to find a job . Within that group , Trump outperforms Clinton 51 percent to 38 percent . “ Our party breakdown differs from other polls , but resembles what happened in Ohio in 2004 , ” said pollster J. Ann Selzer , whose Iowa - based firm Selzer & Co. oversaw the survey .

After the meeting , Erdogan approved the council 's decisions to keep armed forces chief Hulusi Akar and the army , navy and air force commanders in their posts , making few changes to the top brass , Erdogan 's spokesman Ibrahim Kalin told reporters . Erdogan , who narrowly escaped capture and possible death on the night of the coup , told Reuters in an interview last week that the military , NATO 'S second biggest , needed " fresh blood " . The dishonorable discharges personnel.endposition.firinglayoff included around 40 percent of Turkey 's admirals and generals . Turkey accuses U.S .- based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen of masterminding the coup and has suspended or placed under investigation tens of thousands of his suspected followers , including soldiers , judges and academics . In the aftermath of the coup , media outlets , schools and universities have also been closed down .

He said : “ We are extremely concerned about the increasing tensions near the administrative boundary between Crimea and the rest of Ukraine . “ We urge both sides to avoid provocative steps or rhetoric that could escalate the situation . ” related stories PUTIN 'S PURGE Shock as Vladimir Putin ’s sacks personnel.endposition.firinglayoff his Chief - of - Staff after years in the Russian President ’s inner circle ' BRITS NO MATCH FOR RUSSIANS ' Red alert as Russia stocks up on secret weapons after testing them in war against Ukraine Red Zeppelin Vladimir Putin is planning to build this huge £ 23million airship and it 's bigger than a Boeing 747 KREMLIN THREAT Putin orders war games off Crimea after accusing Ukraine of trying to stir up conflict INSIDE THE WAR ZONE Horrifying images reveal extent of fighting in Syria 's war torn Aleppo as Russia teams up with Iran PUTIN IS WATCHING US The tyrant 's Russian spy planes are flying over Britain – and the MoD is absolutely fine about it Officials told the publication similar movements were seen before Vladimir Putin carried out his deceptive annexation of the Crimea . Such manoeuvres have reduced the “ warning time ” available to the US if he decides to launch another attack .

Bannon ’s hire highlights a troubling trend : the blurring of the lines between media as campaign observer and campaign operative . With Bannon leading Trump ’s presidential bid , the lines are now erased . And Bannon is n’t even the only media mogul helping : ousted personnel.endposition.firinglayoff Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes is reportedly advising Trump in the run up to the first debate , despite allegations against him of sexual misconduct at Fox . All of this would be unthinkable in any other election year . But with Trump ’s unpredictable candidacy , anything goes .

Another major challenge in the region , of course , is the Syrian Civil War itself – one of the worst humanitarian disasters in recent history . After five years of brutal conflict , the only solution in Syria will be , in my view , a negotiated political settlement . Those who advocate for stronger military involvement by the U.S. to oust personnel.endposition.firinglayoff Assad from power have not paid close enough attention to history . That would simply prolong the war and increase the chaos in Syria , not end it . In other words , we all recognize that Assad is a brutal dictator .

They were , generally , in favor of order and had a propensity toward the broadly normative , a certain squareness . They leaned toward skepticism ( they ’d believe it when they saw it , “ it ” being anything feelings - based , gauzy , liberal , or European ; i.e. , “ socialist ” ) . Some ( far from all ) had been touched by financial hardship — a layoff personnel.endposition.firinglayoff was common in many stories — and ( paradoxically , given their feelings about socialism ) felt that , while in that vulnerable state , they ’d been let down by their government . They were anti - regulation , pro small business , pro Second Amendment , suspicious of people on welfare , sensitive ( in a “ Do n’t tread on me ” way ) about any infringement whatsoever on their freedom . Alert to charges of racism , they would pre - counter these by pointing out that they had friends of all colors .

" We 're going to let everybody compete . " That has turned out to be a brutal reckoning for Alberta , and Canada , as well as other oil producing nations . There is as much talk of layoffs personnel.endposition.firinglayoff in Houston as there is in Calgary . High - cost producers need to get out If there was a theme to the speech , it was that high - cost producers do n't have much of a future .

A convoy of nationalists on motorbikes passed as he spoke . Such solidarity may not last . There are already opposition concerns that the restructuring of the military lacks parliamentary oversight and is going too far , with thousands of soldiers discharged personnel.endposition.firinglayoff , including around 40 percent of generals . WESTERN CRITICISM The extent of the purges in Turkey , which has NATO 's second largest armed forces and aspires to membership of the European Union , has drawn criticism in the West .

Officials also noted Trump ’s own connections to the Russian government . Putin has publicly praised the nominee , who said he was “ honored ” by the compliment . Trump ’s campaign manager , Paul Manafort , was a consultant for Viktor Yanukovych , the former president of Ukraine who was ousted personnel.endposition.firinglayoff for his pro - Moscow orientation ( and now lives in Russia ) . One of Trump ’s top national security advisers , retired Army Gen. Michael Flynn , sat with Putin at a dinner celebrating the 10th anniversary of Kremlin - backed media network RT and was paid to give a speech at the event ; Flynn later retweeted an anti - Semitic message that called into question any Kremlin - Trump link . Another Trump adviser , Carter Page , recently denounced America ’s “ often - hypocritical focus on democratization ” while in Moscow .

I am a 68-year - old American voter . I am a white American . I am a combat veteran of the U.S. Army ; I served for 18½ years , received an honourable medical discharge personnel.endposition.firinglayoff , and was declared 100 per cent Service Connected Disabled . I have been married to the same wonderful woman for over 33 years , have four children with her . I grew up on a farm in the state of Maryland , which in the ’50s and ’60s , made my parents automatically Democrat .

When the story blew up she said under oath that she had “ no role in the decision to terminate the employees . ” She did not “ direct that any action be taken by anyone . ” In a deposition she denied having had a role in the firings , and said she was unable to remember conversations with various staffers with any specificity . A General Accounting Office report found she did play a role . But three years later a memo written by David Watkins to the White House chief of staff , recounting the history of the firings personnel.endposition.firinglayoff , suddenly surfaced . ( “ Suddenly surfaced ” is a phrase one reads a lot in Clinton scandal stories . ) It showed Mrs. Clinton herself directed them .

The power of staying true to the precedent that had been set prevailed . ” Recent revelations about the finances of Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort are likely to increase pressure on Trump to release his tax returns . The New York Times reported on Sunday that a Ukrainian anti - corruption agency found Manafort ’s name on a secret ledger used by the ousted personnel.endposition.firinglayoff , pro - Russia government of ex - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych . The ledger showed payments totaling $ 12.7 million designated for Manafort from Yanukovych ’s political party . Manafort was a top political adviser to Yanukovych for several years , but it ’s not clear if he ever received the payments listed .

Detectives from the Ukrainian National Anti - Corruption Bureau have said that a further ten entries bring the total amount of payments designated for Mr Manafort to $ 12.7 million Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Fresh details of alleged secret payments allocated for Paul Manafort by the pro - Russian party of Ukraine ’s former president have emerged after 12 itemised regime accounting entries , totalling $ 7.61 million , were obtained by The Times . The payments designated for the man who would later become Donald Trump ’s campaign chief were detailed in the “ black ” accounting ledger of Viktor Yanukovych ’s ousted personnel.endposition.firinglayoff regime . The ledger was used to record $ 2 billion allegedly handed out “ under the table ” to political consultants , election commissioners , ministers , parliamentarians , judges and journalists from 2007 to 2012 , according to Ukrainian investigators . Officers believe the money was taken from a clandestine cash reserve made up of bribes paid to party officials , but have yet to prove their theory .

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They hope to deprive him of the nomination on the first ballot , opening up a window of opportunity for some other candidate to swoop in . Their case has been buttressed by the turmoil that has engulfed the Trump campaign . The billionaire began Monday by firing personnel.endposition.firinglayoff his campaign manager , Corey Lewandowski , and ended it with the release of dismal fundraising numbers . He lags presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonWhat do Democrats stand for ? THE MEMO : For Trump , danger signs in the polls McAuliffe touts buildup of cyber defenses in the states MORE by around 6 points in most national polls , and many Republicans are gravely concerned about his lack of campaign infrastructure .

Traditionally , Ukrainian - Americans have skewed toward the Republican Party which took a hard line toward the Soviet Union during the Cold War . Now , however , Ukrainian - Americans may abandon the GOP due to Trump 's apologetic stance toward Putin and Russia . Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort 's ties to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych , who in turn had sought to ally his country to Russia before he himself was ousted personnel.endposition.firinglayoff during the Maidan revolution , may also prompt Ukrainian - Americans to jettison the Republican Party . Currently , there are more than 20 million Ukrainians living abroad , of which one million reside in the U.S. In Ohio , Ukrainian - Americans are mostly congregated around Cleveland and some 45,000 people stateside trace their roots back to the Old Country .

The buyer was Russian fertiliser billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev , who was reported in the Panama Papers leaks to have used offshore law firms to hide more than $ 2bn - worth of art works , including pieces by Picasso , Van Gogh and Leonardo , from his wife in advance of their divorce . Yanukovych , Gazprom and more Facebook Twitter Pinterest Viktor Yanukovych used to employ Paul Manafort , Trump ’s campaign manager before being ousted personnel.endposition.firinglayoff as Ukrainian president in 2014 . He is now exiled in Russia . Photograph : Ivan Sekretarev / AP

" Her message is that things ca n't change , " Trump said . " My message is that things have to change -- and this is our one chance to do it and may be our only chance to do that change . " In delivering the fiery speech against Clinton , firing personnel.endposition.firinglayoff campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and actively working to rebut Clinton 's remarks Tuesday in real time , Trump 's campaign is working to reassure Republicans the billionaire is up to the job . Republicans have expressed concern about and distanced themselves from his controversial comments of late and some GOP delegates are actively exploring ways to block Trump at the convention in Cleveland next month . Clinton , who spent Tuesday firing off her own assault on Trump , hit back at his counter - attack during a visit to North Carolina , interrupting a speech on her economic policy to accuse the presumptive Republican nominee of attacking her because he lacks substance .

This breach of objectivity in Clinton ’s favor was supported by documents , statistical tables and videos attached to the emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee ’s servers . To damp the crisis . party leaders , including Clinton , took two immediate steps that made the situation worse : They sacked personnel.endposition.firinglayoff the head of the Democratic National Committee ( DNC ) , Debbie Wasserman Schultz , the day she was due to open the convention and , second , they called on the FBI to investigate the hacking and find who was responsible for the embarrassing leaks . The culprit was quickly named as Russia 's military intelligence service , the GRU , by " experts close to the examination " – namely , the information security company CrowdStrike , which was hired by the DNC , and the FBI . CrowdStrike said it had found two types of Advanced Persistent Threat ( APT ) malware inside the DNC 's servers that were intended to remain undetected for long periods of time , slowly spread inside the servers , and secretly send the data back to the culprits who planted the malware .

( CNN ) There is " little doubt " Russia is behind the hack of Democratic National Committee emails , a US official told CNN on Wednesday . The remarks follow a week - long episode where leaked DNC emails showed Democratic officials giving preferential treatment to Hillary Clinton . The emails inflamed supporters of her primary opponent , Bernie Sanders , during the Democratic Party 's national convention , which led to widespread protest and the ousting personnel.endposition.firinglayoff of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz . Asked about potential consequences for the hack , the White House described " a full range of options available to us in the government . " " That includes economic sanctions out of Department of Treasury .

Make Wall Street , big corporations , and the rich pay their fair share of taxes . Create democratically - run public banks and utilities . Provide full protection for workplace rights , including the right to a safe workplace and the right to organize a union without fear of firing personnel.endposition.firinglayoff or reprisal by passing the Employee Free Choice Act . Ensure equal pay for equal work , ending discrimination based on race , gender , or generation . Enact paid sick leave and family leave , strong overtime protections .

Finally this campaign can get back on track with Paul Manafort in charge , said the arms dealer holding a briefcase of cash . — Rory Cooper ( @rorycooper ) June 20 , 2016 Firing personnel.endposition.firinglayoff Lewandowski = big move by @realDonaldTrump 2 overhaul campaign . But does n't account 4 fact that Trump 's been running show all along . — David M. Drucker ( @DavidMDrucker ) June 20 , 2016

" As a consequence of Ukraine 's payment default … a formal legal complaint against Ukraine will soon be filed in an English court , " said a statement from the Russian finance ministry . In December , Kyiv announced it would be putting a moratorium on repayment to Russia , saying Moscow refused to sign a restructuring agreement despite Russian President Vladimir Putin 's vow to sue the country if it defaulted on the loan . The debt dates to 2013 when Moscow offered the loan to Ukraine under former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych , the pro - Russia politician ousted personnel.endposition.firinglayoff from power during pro - European protests . However , the ministry statement noted that the legal action did not " preclude " talks to negotiate the terms of repayment . " The Russian Federation would carefully examine any meaningful proposal from Ukraine and believes that the commencement of legal proceedings does not preclude a constructive dialogue with a view to reaching an acceptable solution , " the statement added .

Bernie Sanders is not an internationalist . He is an American nationalist . He is a consistent advocate of economic nationalism and protectionism , which seek to place the onus for layoffs personnel.endposition.firinglayoff and unemployment in the US on the workers of other countries . By virtue of his “ America First ” politics , he seeks to line up American workers behind “ their ” American exploiters and in opposition to their class brothers and sisters in other countries . He has long agitated , in particular , against China , opposing trade deals from a chauvinist standpoint .

“ In the past six years , I am not aware of a single international field staff member being fired , or even sanctioned , for poor performance . “ It appeared to be a reference to the UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan ’s war - torn Darfur region . Reuters reported in December 2014 on how Russia blocked a request by the United States , Britain and France for the UN to sack personnel.endposition.firinglayoff the Russian chief - of - staff of the UN - African Union peacekeeping mission . Aicha Elbasri , a former spokeswoman for the mission , said at the time that the Russian diplomat was responsible for withholding information from UN headquarters and the security council about Sudanese government attacks on civilians and peacekeepers in Darfur . Banbury said one of the worst examples of the UN ’s failures was in Central African Republic , where international peacekeepers , including troops wearing UN blue helmets , have been accused of sexual abuse and rape .

[ After the Wars : A legacy of pain and pride ] Army officials say McCombs enlisted in 2005 and did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan . By the time she was honorably discharged personnel.endposition.firinglayoff , in 2009 , she had reached the rank of captain , according to military records . McCombs received multiple awards for service , including the Afghanistan Campaign Medal with Campaign Star , the NATO Afghanistan Service Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal . The Department of Veterans Affairs has estimated that PTSD afflicts 11 percent of veterans of the war in Afghanistan and 20 percent of veterans of the war in Iraq .

In 2011 , Clinton joined with “ liberal interventionists ” in again pushing Obama into a “ regime change ” war in Libya that led to the overthrow and torture - murder of Muammar Gaddafi – which she gleefully welcomed with the quip , “ We came , we saw , he died ” – but has since turned the once relatively prosperous North African country into a failed state with the Islamic State gaining another foothold . Both as Secretary of State and since her departure in 2013 , Clinton has pressed to escalate the “ regime change ” war in Syria , seeking a “ no - fly zone ” that would require the U.S. military to destroy the Syrian government ’s air force and air defenses , apparently without regard to the risk that the U.S. intervention could pave the way for Al Qaeda ’s Nusra Front and/or the Islamic State to march into Damascus . Though the Syrian “ regime change ” strategy that Clinton has advocated has failed to oust personnel.endposition.firinglayoff President Bashar al - Assad , it has transformed another reasonably functional Mideast state into a bloody killing field and driven millions of refugees into what is now a destabilized Europe . In 2014 , Clinton also has embraced the neocon - backed coup in Ukraine that has touched off a new and costly Cold War with Russia . Again showing her “ tough - gal ” side , Clinton likened Russia ’s President Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler .

( Part III ) Sometimes it seemed that they were , like me , just slightly spoiled Americans , imbued with unreasonable boomer expectations for autonomy , glory , and ascension , and that their grievances were more theoretical than actual , more media - induced than experience - related . Before the rally in San Jose on June 2nd , I talk to a group of construction workers , each of whom is in some state of layoff personnel.endposition.firinglayoff : current , recent , chronic . One , who ’s hoping to get a job working construction on the Wall , rails against millennials , the unions , a minimum - wage hike for fast - food workers , and “ these people ” who get fired , then turn around and sue . I ask for examples .

Further evidence of Putin ’s gathering of power into his own hands is an ongoing purge launched over the summer that has already claimed the heads of the Federal Narcotics Service , Federal Protection Service ( Putin ’s bodyguard ) , the Federal Migration Service and Russian Railways , as well as the president ’s Chief of Staff and personal confidant Sergei Ivanov . The aim in all cases seems to be to replace old - guard Putin allies with younger , more loyal and less independent figures . The same pattern has been repeated among regional governors — four of whom have recently been sacked personnel.endposition.firinglayoff , and two replaced by Putin ’s personal bodyguards . Protect the regime The creation of the Ministry of State Security is part of a “ project aimed at replacing old allies with new ones , ” said independent Moscow - based analyst Stanislav Belkovsky .

He was a close adviser to Viktor Yanukovych , the disgraced Ukrainian president who was toppled in 2014 . Yanukovych , who has been dogged by a criminal record and accusations of links to organised crime , is accused in Ukraine of having been in league with Putin . A popular uprising eventually ousted personnel.endposition.firinglayoff him from power and his flight to Russia two years ago was quickly followed by the Kremlin ’s military onslaught on Ukraine , and the seizure of Crimea . Mr Manafort clearly saw nothing wrong in devoting the best part of a decade to polishing the image of Yanukovych , a man reviled by his own people , and most Western countries , as a Kremlin stooge . Even more startling is the behaviour of one of America ’s top spymasters , General Michael Flynn , who now advises Donald Trump .

President Rodrigo Duterte also wants to halt the 28 military exercises that are carried out with U.S. forces each year , Lorenzana said . Duterte has said he wants an ongoing U.S.-Philippine amphibious beach landing exercise to be the last in his six - year presidency as he backs away from what he views as too much dependence on the U.S. " This year would be the last , " Duterte said of military exercises involving the Americans in a speech Friday in southern Davao city where he lashed out at the U.S. anew and repeated his readiness to be ousted personnel.endposition.firinglayoff from office for his hard - line stance . " For as long as I am there , do not treat us like a doormat because you 'll be sorry for it , " Duterte said . " I will not speak with you .