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Taliban sources draft deal: Foreign troops to leave Afghanistan in 18 months

Abdul Qadir Sediqi, Jibran Ahmad, Rupam Jain
Reuters
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 07:39 UTC

Taliban officials said U.S. negotiators on Saturday agreed on a draft peace pact setting out the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan within 18 months, potentially ending the United States' longest war.

The details of the draft were given to Reuters by Taliban sources at the end of six days of talks with U.S. special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad in Qatar aimed at ending the war, more than 17 years since American-led forces invaded Afghanistan.

It stipulates that troops would leave within 18 months of the agreement being signed.

While no joint statement was issued, Khalilzad tweeted later that the talks had made "significant progress" and would resume shortly, adding that he planned to travel to Afghanistan to meet government officials.

"Meetings here (in Qatar) were more productive than they have been in the past. We have made significant progress on vital issues," he wrote, adding that numerous issues still needed work.

"Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed and everything must include an intra-Afghan dialogue and comprehensive ceasefire," he wrote in the tweets.

Comment: Count on nothing until it happens - but it does sound like incremental progress has begun. Eighteen months is a long time and for the US, excuses are 'a dime a dozen'.

Vultures of Caracas

Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC

We are frequently told that people in Venezuela have no food, clothing or toilet paper, and that popular discontent with the left wing government is driven by real hunger. There are elements of truth in this story, though the causes of economic dislocation are far more complex than the media would have us believe.

But I ask you to look at this photo of supporters of CIA poster-boy, the West's puppet unelected "President" Juan Guaido, taken at a Guaido rally in Caracas two days ago and published yesterday in security services house journal The Guardian. Please take a really close look at the photo. Blow it up as big as you can. Scan individual people in the crowd, one-by-one.

These are not the poor and most certainly not the starving. As it chances I have a great deal of life experience working amongst seriously deprived, hungry and despairing people. I know the gaunt face of want and the desperate glance of need. Look at these Guaido supporters, one-by-one-by-one. This designer spectacled, well-coiffed, elegantly dressed, sleekly jowled group does not know hunger. This group does not know want. This is a proper right wing gathering, a gathering of the nicely off section of society. This is a group of those who have corruptly been siphoning Venezuela's great wealth for decades and who want to make sure the gravy train flows properly in their direction again. It is, in short, a group of exactly the kind of people you would expect to support a CIA coup.

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Roger Stone interview with Tucker Carlson on being raided by FBI and arrested at gunpoint

Chris Donaldson
I Love My Freedom
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC

Americans got a glimpse of the police state that the Democrats are desperate to gain control over when a swarm of heavily-armed FBI agents descended on the home of Roger Stone to make an arrest that was televised live on CNN.

It was the last brazen exercise of power by special counsel Robert Mueller who is now arguably more powerful than President Trump but even for a rogue prosecutor imbued with extra-constitutional powers, the paramilitary raid on an old man's home was completely over the top.

The 66-year-old Stone was treated like El Chapo by Mueller's goon squad despite the unsealed indictment only being for the same type of process crimes that the sweeping witch hunt has produced in what should forever be referred to as "Operation Get Trump" because the unacknowledged objective is the reversal of the 2016 election.

Hardly a threat that merited such an overwhelming show of force, the elderly political operative blasted the feds for terrorizing his wife and dogs and decried how the U.S. was being turned into a "new Soviet Union" by Mueller and the Democrats.

After being released on a $250,000 bond with travel restrictions, the latest victim of Obergruppenführer Mueller's tyranny talked with Fox's Tucker Carlson on Friday night.

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New migrant caravan rises to 12,000 at Mexico's southern border

Robert Arce
Breitbart
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC

The ranks of a new Central American migrant caravan reportedly grew in size to more than 12,000 as of Friday. The caravan is now heading to Mexico's southern border.

Mexican immigration officials in the city of Ciudad Hidalgo, which borders Guatemala, are establishing procedures to expedite the process in which to approve one-year humanitarian visas for members of the Central American migrant caravan who are arriving daily. The one-year humanitarian visas, promised by Mexico's new President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is a newly adopted policy which allows migrants to legally travel and work during their stay in Mexico.

The new policy of handing out humanitarian visas began on January 17 in response to the new caravan of primarily Honduran migrants who left their home country and headed towards the Mexican border on January 15. Officials originally estimated the caravan's size at about 2,000. Mexico now claims the caravan's population swelled to over 12,000 migrants, according to local media and Breitbart Texas sources.

Comment: See also: New migrant caravan sets out from Honduras for the US border

The richest man on earth, Jeff Bezos drops a token of his $160B fortune to charity

Isabel Vincent
New York Post
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 01:25 UTC

For the world's richest man, charity begins - and stays - at home.

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has given only a tiny fraction of his $160 billion fortune to philanthropic causes, falling far behind fellow billionaires such as Bill and Melinda Gates and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, public records show.

Although Bezos, 55, and his estranged wife MacKenzie recently pledged $2 billion to a new charitable initiative, their previous giving amounts to a total of just over $145 million or .0906 percent - far less than one percent - of their net worth. Out of $100,000, that would be like spending $90.06 on charity.

"The record of both Amazon and Jeff Bezos reveals that they are takers, not givers," said Queens City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, whose district includes Long Island City, where Amazon plans to set up a corporate headquarters. "When they make promises of how generous they will be, I look at what they have done in the past to know what the truth really is."

Over nearly two decades, Jeff Bezos has given paltry donations to the Bezos Family Foundation, a charity that was started by his parents in Washington state in Sept. 2000, state incorporation filings show.

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McCain is dead but 'bomb, bomb, bomb Iran' still resounds

Brian Cloughley
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 00:00 UTC

In 2007, when making a speech during his bid for the presidency of the United States, the late Senator John McCain spoke about Iran's supposed nuclear weapons' programme and when questioned as to whether there might be US reaction to such allegations responded by singing that old Beach Boys song, "Bomb Iran... bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb."

This jovial retort about killing people by bombing them was not surprising to those who remembered that during the US war on Vietnam McCain was shot down on a mission to bomb a power generation plant in Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam, in the course of the entrancingly-named Operation Rolling Thunder. If he hadn't been shot down before he released his bombs there would almost certainly have been civilian casualties and deaths. Power stations in cities are not manned by soldiers, after all, and around the Hanoi plant there were houses that would doubtless be struck by errant bombs.

But who cares about civilians who are killed or maimed in bombing or rocket attacks?

Comment: The fuse is all but lit...what are we going to do about it?

Israel: Hezbollah tunnels in Lebanon are older than UNSC Resolution 1701

Sputnik
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 20:01 UTC

Late last year, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) launched operation Northern Shield, aimed at exposing Hezbollah's attack tunnels dug into Israel, later announcing that the Israeli military had located a total of four tunnels.

One of the tunnels the IDF found was over 13 years old, making UN Security Resolution 1701 irrelevant in this case as it had been dug before the document was adopted, Al-Mayadeen broadcaster reported, citing the Hezbollah leader as saying.

In an interview with the TV channel, the leader stressed that the tunnels would be used to enter Israeli territory in a forthcoming war.

Earlier reports stated that Israel was constructing a wall along its frontier to prevent any Hezbollah's efforts to infiltrate.

New mayor Boris Johnson ends discounted Venezuelan oil deal - Scheme provided half-price travel for city's poorest

George Parker
Financial Times
Sun, 25 May 2008 16:59 UTC

Hugo Chavez with former London mayor Ken Livingstone

Boris Johnson, London's new rightwing mayor, is to axe the scheme under which Venezuela provided discounted oil to run the capital's red bus fleet, a deal that funded half-price bus travel for some of the city's poorest residents.

Mr Johnson, a member of the opposition Conservative party, denounced the deal struck by his predecessor with Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's president, as "completely Caracas [crackers]". He said it was an unfair subsidy to London by a country in which many people live in "extreme poverty".

The agreement was made last year by Ken Livingstone, the Labour former mayor ousted in elections on May 1, who had always professed his admiration for the leftwing Venezuelan leader.

On Sunday, Mr Livingstone attacked Mr Johnson for the "cowardly" decision to announce the end of the half-price bus and tram deal for poor Londoners on a public holiday weekend. "It shows he is more interested in pursuing his rightwing ideological agenda than improving the living standards of the most deprived people in the capital."

Defying God: Governor Cuomo declares abortion a constitutional right

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Sun, 27 Jan 2019 18:00 UTC

The title of this piece is honestly not strong enough, but it does state the fact. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo took a major step to promote the willful murder of the unborn by signing into law a measure that allows elective abortion at any stage of a woman's pregnancy, up to the instant before birth. And if the baby is "accidentally" born alive, it can be killed anyway.

And the Christian community at large, most notably the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches, have taken zero action other than an open letter about the situation. Rather, the Greek Orthodox Church has said nothing at all to date about this measure, signed into law by one of the recipients of its own highest humanitarian award. The Roman Catholics were slightly more vocal (because anything is more vocal than silence), but their response was muted, when the most severe consequence, excommunication from the Holy Sacrament of Communion, should have been slapped on those that made this law in nothing flat.

So, what happened, exactly?

This measure was incorporated into the Constitution of New York State itself, making elective abortion a "right." It features several disturbing aspects which we have quoted radio host Rush Limbaugh on in order to elucidate:

Facebook to work with Ukrainian authorities to ensure 2019 'election security'

Joaquin Flores
Fort Russ News
Sun, 27 Jan 2019 17:47 UTC

Representatives of the Ministry of Information Policy of Ukraine intend to cooperate with Facebook to ensure information security during the presidential elections in the country. It is reported by the press service of the Ministry.

On Wednesday, January 23, Minister of Information Policy of Ukraine Yurii Stets, his deputy Dmitry Zolotukhin and Secretary of State Artem Bidenko met with head of Facebook's public policy in Central and Eastern Europe Gabriella Czech and head of the direction of public politics on Facebook election Anika Geisel.

According to Minister Yurii Stets, the security measures that the social network has implemented are verification of the pages of the Ukrainian authorities, opposition to fake news, and the removal of a large number of related fake profiles, groups and pages. According to the ministry, one of the two detected networks of bots was controlled from Russia and was used for information operations in Ukraine.

Comment: That is, banning anyone who doesn't agree with them.

'Fake news' is shorthand in the U.S for news stories or analysis which goes against U.S policy.

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Puppet Masters

Taliban sources draft deal: Foreign troops to leave Afghanistan in 18 months

Vultures of Caracas

Roger Stone interview with Tucker Carlson on being raided by FBI and arrested at gunpoint

New migrant caravan rises to 12,000 at Mexico's southern border

The richest man on earth, Jeff Bezos drops a token of his $160B fortune to charity

McCain is dead but 'bomb, bomb, bomb Iran' still resounds

Israel: Hezbollah tunnels in Lebanon are older than UNSC Resolution 1701

New mayor Boris Johnson ends discounted Venezuelan oil deal - Scheme provided half-price travel for city's poorest

Defying God: Governor Cuomo declares abortion a constitutional right

Facebook to work with Ukrainian authorities to ensure 2019 'election security'

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