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Norwegian soldiers trained Syrian militia to fight ISIL and Syrian Gov't

Militants Syria
© Farsnews

The Norwegian-trained Syrian militia called the Revolutionary Command Army (MaT)
allegedly meant to help quell ISIL are waging a war against the Syrian leadership and pro-government forces, a Norwegian daily reported.

According to Klassekampen, the rebel group is now openly fighting for a regime change in Syria.


Comment: A few translated headlines from the Norwegian "Klassekampen" regarding this case:
The Norwegian (trained) militia fights against Assad (April 18, 2018)
Had to clean up their own ranks (April 19, 2018) It also reads: "Norwegian militia project ridden by trouble. Fighters stole weapons and did not take civilians into consideration"
Norway may have violated the rights of people (April 20, 2018)
Asked Norway to fight against the regime (April 21, 2018) It also reads: "DISAGREEMENT: Erna Solberg claims Norwegian supported rebels in Syria only began to fight against the regime after Norway pulled out. Militia sources dispute her version."


Comment: Already in the Spring of 2016 the Norwegian government would have been able to figure out the trend, of many NATO trained militias somehow losing their weapons and "getting out of control".


Snakes in Suits

Armenian PM Sargsyan resigns after week of mass protests led by opposition MPs

Serzh Sargsyan
© Denis Balibouse / Reuters
Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan
Pressured by mass protests in the capital, Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan has resigned from office. This apparently seals a victory for opposition forces behind the protest.

Demonstrations against Sargsyan, who served as president for a decade before being elected to his new office by the Armenian parliament last week, erupted on April 13. Ahead of the vote, several opposition MPs organized rallies against Sargsyan, accusing him of usurping power.


The leaders of the protests, MPs Nikol Pashinyan, Ararat Mirzoyan and Sasun Mikaelyan, were arrested on Sunday amid a police crackdown on a rally disrupting traffic in the capital, Yerevan. Before that, the prime minister met with Pashinyan, but the encounter lasted for only a few minutes and essentially amounted to the opposition leader demanding the Sargsyan's resignation. The government threatened to strip the trio of their legal immunity and prosecute, but made a U-turn on Monday.

Star of David

Israeli barbarism: MP says Ahed Tamimi should have "at least been shot in the knee"

Bezalel Smotrich

Dropped on his head as a child, or just born that way?
Female Palestinian protester Ahed Tamimi, who is currently serving an eight-month jail term for slapping an Israeli soldier, should have been shot in the knee and placed under house arrest for life, believes an Israeli MP.

Tamimi, 17, has a long record of protesting as a youngster against Israeli policies in the occupied Palestinian territories, and was sentenced last month to eight months behind bars for verbally and physically confronting armed Israeli soldiers in her home village. Her imprisonment has been highlighted amid the violence at Israel's border wall with the Gaza Strip, where dozens of Palestinians have been reported killed and hundreds injured by Israeli fire.

Palestinian children involved in protests against Israel should be dealt with in the harshest possible way, Bezalel Smotrich, a member of the Israeli Knesset from the right-wing Tkuma party, which is part of the country's ruling coalition, appeared to signal.

In a tweet on Sunday, he lamented that Ahed Tamimi was not injured or sentenced to a longer term. The tweet was a comment to a video showing the girl and other people confronting Israeli soldiers a few years ago.

"I am actually sad that she is in jail. She should have gotten a bullet, at least in her kneecap. I would have put her under house arrest for life," he wrote in Hebrew.

Comment: We should actually be thankful for people like Smotrich, because they are living proof of Israeli leaders' (and settlers') pathology. In any sane society, people like Smotrich would be shunned, ridiculed, and probably thrown in prison. They certainly wouldn't be deputy speaker of parliament. What can you say about a culture that rewards child-murderers?

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Bell

DOJ doc reveals Russia probe was launched without any actual supporting intelligence

jonathan winer

Jonathan Winer
After waiting eight months for the DOJ to turn over the "electronic communication" (EC) - the document which the FBI used to launch the original counterintelligence investigation against the Trump campaign, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) told Fox News that upon review - the EC reveals that no intelligence was used to launch the probe.

Nunes also touched on the fact that Hillary Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal pushed anti-Trump memos to the Obama State Department, written by Clinton "hatchet man" Cody Shearer and passed to Jonathan Winer, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.

"We now know that there was no official intelligence that was used to start this investigation. We know that Sidney Blumenthal and others were pushing information into the State Department. So we're trying to piece all that together and that's why we continue to look at the State Department," Nunes told Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures."


Bell

Expert lawyer DiGenova on memos: 'Comey is a total scumbag and should go to prison'

DiGenova
Former U.S. Attorney for D.C. and chief counsel to the Senate Rules Committee Joe diGenova stated on WMAL radio on Friday that the memos written by then-FBI Director James Comey about his conversations with President Donald Trump early in 2017 reveal a "tortured and troubled mind," a man who "committed a crime" and who "should go to prison."

DiGenova, a long-time attorney dealing with white-collar crime and congressional investigations, also said that the memos reminded him of those written by Nazi war criminals, who detailed their illegal actions in documents and then saw those same documents used against them during the Nuremberg trials.

Comment: Few have as good a grasp of the DNC/Deep State political war being egregiously and illegally waged against Trump than DiGenova. If you haven't yet seen the following video summarizing the ins and outs of this conflict, be sure to catch it:




Snakes in Suits

Why each US President ultimately becomes a ruthless interventionist

John Mccain
In the wake of last week's cruise missile attack on Syria, there was a joke going around the internet saying that it doesn't matter who Americans vote for, they always wind up getting John McCain as President of the United States. The humor derives from the fact that the past three presidents all ran for office committed to reducing America's interventionism overseas but once in office they reversed course and expanded US military commitments worldwide, turning them into facsimiles of John McCain, who has never seen a war he didn't like.

President Donald Trump's explicit pledges to avoid expanded engagement in Asia and the Middle East while also fixing the relationship with Russia are by now lost down the memory hole as he has increased troop levels in Afghanistan while, by his own admission, the relationship with Moscow is now even worse than it was during the Cold War. And regarding Syria, his Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Halley has confirmed that the US military will not be going anywhere because certain goals have to be met first. One objective, monitoring developments relating to Iran, is open-ended, implying that it will be impossible to leave for the foreseeable future and suggesting that another Afghanistan-style quagmire is in the making.


Chess

Trump team responds to ridiculous DNC lawsuit - Warns of "aggressive discovery phase - everything will be on the table"

hillary dnc lawsuit
In 2016 the Democrat National Committee claimed their websites were hacked by Russia and the information was given to Wikileaks.

Wikileaks has always maintained their source for the Podesta-DNC emails was not Russia.


Bad Guys

Mueller's FBI has repeatedly abused prosecutorial discretion

mueller
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Establishment DC types who reflexively defend Mueller haven't explained how they came to trust him so completely. It's a question worth asking given the bumpy historical record of Mueller's tenure as FBI director.

Journalist Mike Allen of Axios recently said that one word described Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and that word was "unafraid."

The context for his remarks on Fox News' "Special Report" was that Mueller had just spun off to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York a bit of his limitless investigation into President Donald J. Trump. Allen's comment was like so many others from media and pundit types since the special counsel was launched. If there's one word to describe the media's relationship to Mueller, it's "unquestioning."

Network

German lawmakers say Russia needed for peace in Europe and Middle East, want Moscow back in G8

G8 national flags
© Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters 8361
The national flags of the G8 countries and the flag of the European Union fly near a logo of the G8 summit in St Petersburg July 13, 2006.
The West should resume meaningful dialog with Moscow on all major international issues, and Russia should be invited to return to the G7, German opposition lawmakers say.

"If the West seriously intends to engage in a constructive dialog with Russia, it would be the right moment to do it now," the head of the parliamentary faction of the Left Party, Sahra Wagenknecht, told DPA news agency. She added that the G7 group should once again become the G8.

Her appeal was supported by another opposition MP, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, who is also a member of the federal executive committee of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). "It is reasonable to strengthen and to better organize a dialog with Russia," he told DPA, adding that "a G7+1 would be the right format for that."

Newspaper

Macron: 'Putin is a strong leader, we should never be weak with him'

Russian President Vladimir Putin
© Alexei Nikolskyi / Reuters
Russian President Vladimir Putin
French President Emmanuel Macron says Russian President Vladimir Putin is a clever 'strongman' who exploits his opponents' weaknesses, and who has a completely different view on democracy than his Western counterparts.

"I think he's a very strong man. He's a strong president. He wants a great Russia. People are proud with his policy," the French leader said in an interview to Fox on Sunday. However, Macron cautioned that "we should never be weak with President Putin. When you are weak, he uses it."

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