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US CENTCOM Chief General Votel's three stunning admissions to Congress on the Mid-East

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 14:52 UTC
General Joseph Votel
© House Armed Services Committee
General Joseph Votel, commander of United States military operations in the Middle East.
Assad has won, Iran deal should stand and Saudis use American weapons without accountability in Yemen: head of U.S. military's Central Command's stunning Congressional testimony

The top U.S. general in the Middle East testified before Congress this week and dropped several bombshells: from signaled support for the Iran nuclear deal, admitting the U.S. does not know what Saudi Arabia does with its bombs in Yemen and that Assad has won the Syrian Civil War.

U.S. Army General Joseph Votel said the Iran agreement, which President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw from, has played an important role in addressing Iran's nuclear program.
"The JCPOA addresses one of the principle threats that we deal with from Iran, so if the JCPOA goes away, then we will have to have another way to deal with their nuclear weapons program," said U.S. Army General Joseph Votel.
JCPOA, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, is the formal name of the accord reached with Iran in July 2015 in Vienna.
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Snakes in Suits

Fmr Obama advisor reveals Facebook allowed Obama campaign to have access to private user data


RT
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:27 UTC
obama zuckerberg
© Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
As Facebook faces public anger over Cambridge Analytica harvesting personal information for the Trump campaign, it's been revealed that the social media giant allowed Barack Obama to do the same in 2012.

Carol Davidsen, former director for media analytics for Obama's 2012 campaign, has poured oil onto the fire by reveling in a series of tweets that Facebook allowed them to do "things they wouldn't have allowed someone else to do."

That reportedly included "suck[ing] out the entire social graph" - an individual's network of friends on Facebook - in a bid to target more and more potential voters through friends' friends on social media.

After Facebook "realized" what the Obama campaign staffers had been doing, they preferred to turn a blind eye for one simple reason: "they were on our side," Davidsen claimed.
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Arrow Down

Samantha Power issues veiled threat to President Trump, then backpedals

Cristina Laila
Gateway Pundit
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:01 UTC
Samantha Power

Samantha Power
Obama's echo chamber of Deep State operatives came out swinging after Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired Andrew McCabe late Friday evening.

Former CIA Director and Twitter troll, John Brennan attacked President Trump for celebrating McCabe's firing.

Brennan tweeted to Trump: When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America...America will triumph over you.

Comment: Must be a slow news day to be focusing so much on what a couple of has-been Deep Staters are tweeting. Maybe if we ignore them, they'll go away.

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Jet3

US & South Korea to begin 'massive' joint military drills in April


RT
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:48 UTC
US Air Force South Korea Gunsan
© Josh Rosales / U.S. Air Force / Reuters
A US Air Force F-35A conducts a training flight with F-16s over the city of Gunsan, South Korea on December 1, 2017
Following a months-long pause in military drills and despite a thaw in relations between Seoul and Pyongyang, South Korea and the US will resume joint military exercises on April 1, the Ministry of National Defense announced.

"The practice is slated to begin April 1, and it will be conducted on a similar size in previous years," the Ministry of National Defense said, according to Yonhap.

The Pentagon confirmed the planned resumption of joint US-South Korean drills, noting that the exercises are expected to conclude toward the end of May.

Comment: Further reading: Disastrous Winter Olympics For the USA, May Lose South Korea to Peace

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Bulb

Corbyn demands Russia be given sample of nerve agent, says international law should be followed in Skripal case


RT
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:38 UTC
Jeremy Corbyn
© Darren Staples / Reuters
Jeremy Corbyn has demanded that Russia be given a chance to verify the nerve agent used against Sergei and Yulia Skripal. The Labour leader said that, despite recent events, the UK must maintain "robust" ties with Russia.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's World At One program, Corbyn said: "I asked the Russians be given a sample so that they can say categorically one way or the other." The opposition leader urged people to wait for an assessment of the nerve agent from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical weapons (OPCW) before they "shoot from the hip."

"All fingers point towards Russia's involvement in this, and obviously the manufacture of the material was undertaken by the Russian state originally," he said. "What I'm saying is the weapons were made from Russia, clearly. I think Russia has to be held responsible for it, but there has to be an absolutely definitive answer to the question where did the nerve agent come from?"
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Handcuffs

Ex-French President Sarkozy in police custody for questioning over 'Libyan aid' for his 2007 campaign


RT
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:29 UTC
Nicolas Sarkozy
© Lionel Bonaventure / AFP
Nicolas Sarkozy
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been placed in police custody for questioning over alleged Libyan aid to help fund his 2007 presidential election campaign, Reuters and local media report citing judicial sources.

According to Le Monde, this is the first time Sarkozy, 63, has been questioned in relation to the investigation, which was launched in April 2013. Sarkozy was placed in police custody in Nanterre, in the western suburbs of Paris. His detention could last up to 48 hours, L'Obs reported.

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Chess

GOP threatens to subpoena DOJ for 1mn documents related to Clinton email probe


RT
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:48 UTC
Bob Goodlatte House Judiciary Committee
© Joshua Roberts / Reuters
Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Bob Goodlatte (R-VA).
Unhappy with the "very slow" ways of the Justice Department, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee want to subpoena it for one million missing documents related to the probe into Hillary Clinton's private emails.

The committee has received only a "tiny percentage" - about 3,000 of 1.2 million - of the documents they have requested, chairman of the committee, Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Virginia), told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on the 'Sunday Morning Futures' show.

"We need to have those documents," Goodlatte said. "We've had communications with the Department of Justice about this and they know that not just myself and Chairman [Trey] Gowdy, but many other members of the House are very concerned about the slow nature of those documents being produced. And as I say, actions are going to have to take a new level here very soon," he added.

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Light Sabers

Trump bans use of Venezuela's new oil-backed cryptocurrency as a 'scam directly supporting dictatorship'


RT
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:22 UTC
Nicolas Maduro
© Marco Bello / Reuters
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro
A new war of words has broken out between Washington and Caracas after President Donald Trump banned the use of the oil-backed cryptocurrency launched by Venezuela in a bid to undermine the dominance of the petro-dollar.

Trump signed an executive order late on Monday prohibiting trade in the Venezuelan government's newly-launched Petro cryptocurrency in the US. The order bans "all transactions related to, provision of financing for, and other dealings in, by a United States person or within the United States, any digital currency, digital coin, or digital token," issued by Venezuela's government since January 9, a White House statement said.

"The 'petro' is a desperate effort by a corrupt regime to defraud international investors," one senior administration official said. "Investing in the 'petro' should be viewed as directly supporting this dictatorship and its attempts to undermine the democratic order in Venezuela."
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Bad Guys

'Any actions & tricks to split China are doomed to failure' - President Xi


RT
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:13 UTC
Great Hall of the People Beijing
© Damir Sagolj / Reuters
Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks at the closing session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. March 20, 2018
Beijing has explicitly warned Taipei and Washington against stirring separatist sentiments, with President Xi stating that any violation of the One China policy will inevitably face condemnation and the "punishment of history."

"It is a shared aspiration of all Chinese people and in their basic interests to safeguard China's sovereignty and territorial integrity and realize China's complete reunification," President Xi Jinping said during a speech at China's annual session of parliament. "Any actions and tricks to split China are doomed to failure and will meet with the people's condemnation and the punishment of history."
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Cardboard Box

Internal border checks must stay until EU can "effectively protect" its borders - German minister


RT
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:22 UTC
r border crossing point Germany/Czech
© Bodo Schackow dpa / Global Look Press / Global Look Press
FILE PHOTO: A police officer checks the ID with a mobile data device at the former border crossing point Germany/Czech Republic near Schoenberg, Germany, 13 December 2017.
Internal border checks must stay in place in Germany for as long as the EU fails to protect its external borders, newly-appointed German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said, slamming the Schengen Agreement.

"As things stand now, there are not too many border points in Germany that are permanently occupied," Seehofer told German weekly newspaper Die Welt am Sonntag.

"We will discuss whether that needs to change. After all, it is not just about preventing people from crossing borders illegally. Border controls also serve other protective functions."

Seehofer lambasted the landmark Schengen Agreement, which allows border control-free travel within the passport-free Schengen zone, made up of 26 European nations.

Comment: See: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis

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