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Russian senator: US-led coalition wants to rebuild Raqqa as 'anti-Assad center' - Saudi Minister visits Raqqa, rescues 30 ISIS members


TASS
Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:54 UTC
raqqa bombing
© Youtube Screenshot/Gabriel ChaimThough the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), led by Kurdish militias and its multi-ethnic allies, declared victory over ISIS fighters after a final round of battles, the city itself has been "comprehensively wrecked."
The immediate allocation of millions of dollars and euros for Raqqa is another example of how the US-led coalition uses double standards in Syria, Frants Klintsevich said

By allocating money for humanitarian assistance to Raqqa's residents, the US-led coalition tries to organize a new Syrian center, which would be beyond the control of President Bashar Assad, first deputy head of the Federation Council (parliament's upper house) committee on defense and security Frants Klintsevich told reporters on Sunday.

The immediate allocation of millions of dollars and euros for Raqqa, he said, is another example of how the US-led coalition uses double standards in Syria, and example of differentiating between "friendly" and "unfriendly."

"Clearly, all this has an apparent political background," the senator said. "And here the thing is not only in the attempts to hide the evidence of the barbarian bombing, in my opinion first of all those are the attempts to make Raqqa a center of another Syria - Syria, which is not controlled by Bashar Assad. This is the purpose of the money, and claimed restoration of peaceful life in the city is only a seeming excuse."

Comment: That certainly sounds like something the US would do: raze Raqqa to the ground in order to rebuild it and populate it with 'the right people'.

Informed sources in Raqqa were quoted as saying that al-Sabhan's visit coincided with a trip made by Brett McGurk, the top US envoy to the anti-ISIL coalition, to the region.
"Al-Sabhan's main objective was not helping the displaced people but it was saving nearly 30 Saudi ISIL members," the sources said.

They added that al-Sabhan vowed to help reconstruction efforts in Syria after extradition of the Saudi ISIL members.

Al-Sabhan is minister of state for Arab Affairs. He was previously the ambassador to Iraq.
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Snakes in Suits

'The Master doesn't need you on this': Trump says US can pressure Iran without EU's help


RT
Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:30 UTC
Donald Trump
© Yuri Gripas / ReutersU.S. President Donald Trump
Donald Trump said the EU would have supported US sanctions on Iran if he was insistent. But, according to the US president, he allowed Germany and France to keep making money with Tehran as America was capable of putting pressure on Iranians on its own.

When asked by Fox News if Europe is going to support his new strategy on Iran, Trump replied by saying that he has really warm relations with French and German leaders."They're great friends of mine. They really are. I get along with all of them, whether it's Emmanuel [Macron] or whether it's Angela [Merkel]... I really like those people," he said.

As for the Iranian issue, Trump stressed: "I told them [the EU]: 'Just keep making money. Don't worry about it. We don't need you on this."

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Bad Guys

US now admits Syrian "rebels" have used chemical weapons

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sun, 22 Oct 2017 10:14 UTC
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From the first moment chemical weapons were used on the Syrian battlefield, the American public was led to believe that only one side could possibly be responsible. The constant refrain in the echo chamber of US government officials and the mainstream media was that only the Assad government possessed chemical stockpiles and the technological capability of deploying such heinous weapons, therefore blame for each and every chemical attack from Ghouta to Khan Sheikhoun was laid at the feet of Assad and the Syrian military.

And yet last Wednesday, for the first time, the US State Department casually dropped an important admission into its official Syria travel warning for American citizens: that the core rebel group currently operating in northwest Syria not only possesses but has used chemical weapons - to the point that the State Department considers it a major enough threat to publicly warn citizens about.
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Magic Wand

The media is shocked, shocked I tell you! Discovers facts that discredit Russia-Trump collusion fairytales

Mollie Hemingway
The Federalist
Thu, 19 Oct 2017 18:18 UTC
Fusion GPS
© MSNBCGlen Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS
Journalists can't push a Russia collusion narrative for a year then go silent because it turns out Russians paid a shady opposition research firm that happens to employ a bunch of their close friends.

This morning President Donald J. Trump tweeted:


He's referring to yesterday's news that, as CNN headlined its story on the matter, "Fusion GPS partners plead Fifth before House Intel."

Fusion GPS is the firm that paid for and disseminated the discredited dossier that former FBI director James Comey briefed President Obama and President-elect Trump about in January. The almost immediate and well-sourced leak of that briefing to CNN is what got the Russia scare really going in January. BuzzFeed published the dossier very soon after CNN's story ran.
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Die

Eyewitness describes police shooting suspect at Delano hotel after Route 91 massacre

Niall Bradley
Sott.net
Sun, 22 Oct 2017 19:07 UTC
mandalay bay vegas shooting
An eyewitness of the Las Vegas shooting massacre on October 1st claims to have heard gunshots fired on the ground floor of the Delano hotel after the gunfire from the Mandalay Bay had ended and both hotels went into lock-down.

Cited as both Jake Freedman or Jack Friedman in subsequent media reports, the full audio statement provided by this eyewitness to ABC News, who was a guest at the Delano, included key details left out by all media outlets who quoted his interview comments.

After witnessing the venue massacre from the Skyfall Lounge at the top of the Delano resort next to the Mandalay Bay, Freedman twice went downstairs to the ground floor.

The first time he went down, he saw pandemonium as people entered his hotel in search of safety from the venue. He then ventured downstairs a second time; probably some time after the massacre because he states that the ground floor of the Delano was at this time deserted.

He says that this time he encountered police officers there who told him to "run away", after which he heard gunshots close by, leading him to think that police may have been "dealing with the shooter":


Comment: See also:

Las Vegas Terror Attack: Clear Evidence of Multiple Shooters at Multiple Hotels

Serious Problems With Official Las Vegas Massacre Narrative

The Las Vegas Massacre and Occam's Razor

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Bizarro Earth

Globalization: A 'global' failure

Daniel Greensfield
Frontpage Mag
Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
Obamerkel
© elmundo.es640
"We cannot allow to fall back into pre-globalization times," German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned. Merkel was welcoming Obama back to Berlin for the last time. The election had been fought and won nine days earlier. And Obama and Merkel were defending globalism against President-elect Trump.

To Merkel and Obama, returning to pre-globalization times was every bit as mad as going back to the caves. Globalization had become synonymous with civilization. And its prophets, like Thomas Friedman, traced back its rise to the fall of the Berlin Wall in the city where Merkel and Obama were chatting.

But globalization didn't bring down the Berlin Wall. Nationalism did. The pro-democracy activists wanted a country where the people had a voice. That's the opposite of globalization in which there are no nations and only the influential figures of various stripes have any kind of impact.

Comment: Achieving US-style globalism depends on how helpless and dependent a targeted state is made to become. The worse its circumstances, the easier the assimilation. In the opposite context, Russia and China are bringing countries together within a positive - everyone benefits - OBOR framework while maintaining individual-state autonomy. The problem lies in Western modeling of empire over individual sovereign states.

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Footprints

Brennan's 'Police State USA' and his 'Trump-Russia connection'

Mike Whitney
CounterPunch
Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
Brennan
© The Counter Jihad ReportFormer Director CIA, John Brennan
Did the United States warn Russia to stay out of Syria?

Yes, they did.

Did they tell the Russians that if they joined the war against ISIS and helped Bashar al Assad the US would make them pay a heavy price?

Yes.

Did US agents and diplomats warn their Russian counterparts that Russian troops would "come home in body bags" and that the western media would launch a propaganda campaign against them?

Yes, again.

Did US officials say the western media would concoct a phony story about "Russian hacking" that would be used to persuade the American people that Russia was a dangerous enemy that had to be reigned in with harsh economic sanctions, provocative military maneuvers, and threats of violence?

No, but it's not hard to imagine a scenario in which the CIA would pursue such a strategy. After all, the Intel agencies, the media and the entire political establishment have been hammering on Russia for over two years now. Isn't it possible that elements of these three factions decided to pool their resources in order to poison the public's perception Russia? Hasn't the US government dabbled in these type of psychological operations (PSYOPS) many time before?

Comment: Somebody started this ball rolling and it hasn't yet stopped. All it seems to take is an empowered pathocrat utilizing MSM to further constrict an already established police-state and its complementary political-social climate experiment. Was it Brennan?

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Boat

Poland's Minister of the Interior decries migration crisis caused by irresponsible leaders like Merkel


Voice of Europe
Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
Mariusz Błaszczak
© Super ExpressMariusz Błaszczak
Mariusz Błaszczak is minister of the interior of Poland and member of the ruling Law and Justice party. In a statement on Polish national television he says that:
"The migrant crisis is the most serious problem affecting Europe" and that "it was caused by irresponsible actions of some of the European leaders".
He mentions Merkel and her open door policy that invited refugees as an example of that irresponsibility in the video below.

At a later moment the minister says Poland helps Christian refugees locally and that this kind of help is the "best and most effective".


Comment: The migrant problem is secondary to the reason there is a migrant problem.

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Oscar

GW Bush speech: How to Trump-bash 13 clueless ways

Rebecca Mansour
Breitbart
Sat, 21 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
GWBush
© AP Photo/Seth WenigFormer President George W. Bush
They like him. They really, really like him.

Former President George W. Bush discovered this week that all he had to do to make the media finally like him was take a rhetorical swing at Donald Trump.

And it didn't hurt that he teamed up with Barack Obama to do it. The result was a media swoon. The New York Times crooned: Without Saying 'Trump,' Bush and Obama Deliver Implicit Rebukes.

The #Resistance found its new power couple!

But wait, there's more! The Times also printed a fawning profile of Bush's twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna. You've come a long way, babies, from the tabloid accounts of drunken college revelries.

Now that their father has teamed up with Obama and the Clintons, the girls are enjoying the sort of media love that only Democrat daughters get. In fact, Barbara and Jenna are kind of like a double Chelsea-with Planned Parenthood fundraising and all.

It's as if the Obamas, Clintons, and Bushes have formed a sort of Establishment extended family. Dubya even likes to call Bill his "brother with a different mother."

So is it any wonder that George finally joined Barry, Bill, and Hill in bashing Don? Trump, for all his wealth, has never been one of the beautiful people.

The Establishment despises Trump, but they don't fear him. They fear his Deplorables - the ordinary Americans from every race, religion, gender, and background who catapulted Trump to victory.

Comment: There's only two words for Bush: "Missing Accomplished"

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Heart - Black

WHO to rethink naming Robert Mugabe as 'goodwill ambassador'

Ruth McKee
The Guardian
Sat, 21 Oct 2017 17:55 UTC
Mugabe
© africanindy.comZimbabwe President Robert Mugabe
The head of the World Health Organization has said he is rethinking his decision to name Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, as a goodwill ambassador after the move provoked global outrage.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the UN health agency, had this week asked Zimbabwe's 93-year-old authoritarian leader to serve in the role to help tackle non-communicable diseases such as heart attacks, strokes and asthma across Africa.

The decision triggered confusion and anger among WHO member states and activists who noted that Zimbabwe's health care system, like many of its public services, has collapsed under Mugabe's regime.

"I'm listening. I hear your concerns. Rethinking the approach in light of WHO values. I will issue a statement as soon as possible," Tedros, a former Ethiopian health minister, tweeted on Saturday night.
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