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House votes for bill making Syrian refugee admission almost impossible


RT
Fri, 20 Nov 2015 13:00 UTC
Syrian Refugee, Greece
© Yannis Behrakis / Reuters
A volunteer carries a Syrian refugee girl off an overcrowded raft after landing at a rocky beach in the Greek island of Lesbos, November 19, 2015
The US House of Representatives has voted on a bill that sharply increases the security screening of Syrian and Iraqi refugees, effectively blocking President Barack Obama's refugee settlement plan.

The final vote was 289 in favor, with 137 opposed. Some 48 Democrats, a quarter of the party's representatives in the House, broke ranks and voted in favor of the bill. Only three Republicans were against.

Following the terrorist attacks in Paris, opposition to hosting Syrian refugees in the US has grown in many states. The US was planning to receive 30,000 refugees from Syria in 2016, after hundreds of thousands flooded Europe this summer. Now 31 states say they would put a halt on their resettlement or even stop it completely, citing terror concerns.

Two of the terrorists involved in the November 13 Paris terror attacks got into Europe as refugees.


Comment: That's the claim anyway...


Comment: Just like what they did to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany... the excuse being that Jews were undesirables for various reasons.

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Mr. Potato

John Kerry speaks on terrorism; Makes complete ass of himself

Jay Vogt
Russia Insider
Fri, 20 Nov 2015 04:48 UTC
john kerry
© Unkown
Je suis un dumbass
Bumbling 'diplomat' inserted a huge foot into his huge mouth

Earlier this month I wrote a short piece on why the US diplomatic corps just doesn't measure up - particularly when going up against its far more able and professional Russian counterpart.

I mentioned how America's top diplomat, John Kerry, is not even a diplomat; and that this causes big problems for the US when he has to deal with men like Russia's Sergey Lavrov or Iran's Mohammad Zarif.

This week Kerry showed - yet again - just how much of a rank amateur he really is; and it did not require a brutal humiliation at the hands of a Lavrov or a Zarif to do it. He managed this one all on his own.
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Shoe

Going waaaay off-message: Mush-for-brains Biden drops an inadvertent truth-bomb

Tina Jennings
Russia Insider
Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:19 UTC
joe biden gaff

He's never put his foot in his mouth like this…
Here's what happens when Joe Biden accidentally veers off-script: the truth comes out!

Because that's what tends to happen when you've told so many lies on so many different subjects - you forget what exactly it is you're not supposed to say in public.

So candid that the White House actually issued an apology to Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates (i.e. not a retraction, but an apology for revealing their culpability in arming IS).

Shooting his mouth off at a Harvard Q&A with students last Thursday, Biden said:
"... our biggest problem is our allies - our allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria. The Turks were great friends - and I have the greatest relationship with Erdogan, which I just spent a lot of time with - the Saudis, the Emiratis, etc. But what were they doing? They were so determined to take down Assad and essentially have a proxy Sunni-Shia war, what did they do?

They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens, thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad, except that the people who were being supplied were Al Nusra and Al Qaeda and the extremist elements of jihadis coming from other parts of the world.

Now you think I'm exaggerating - take a look... Now we have - the President's been able to put together a coalition of our Sunni neighbors, because America can't once again go into a Muslim nation and be seen as the aggressor - it has to be led by Sunnis to go and attack a Sunni organization."
Scroll down and listen to the White House's own audio tape. Ignored by all Western mainstream media because (1) it's what Putin has been saying all along and (2) well, because Biden wasn't meant to say it.

Excellent additional commentary on CIA involvement in weapons transfers from Libya (Benghazi, anyone?) to Syria.
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Light Saber

The Bear awakens: 355 ISIS targets destroyed by Russian Air Force in last 48 hours

Rudy Panko
Russia Insider
Fri, 20 Nov 2015 00:56 UTC
Putin explosion
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Full beast mode.

The United States still refuses to coordinate airstrikes against ISIS with Russia — but it doesn't even matter at this point: Russia has gone full beast mode. Over the last 48 hours, Russia has destroyed a fleet of 500 ISIS tankers used to smuggle oil out of Syria. But that's just a fraction of the world of pain that Putin has rained down on them:
355 [targets] were destroyed in the countryside of Aleppo, Idleb, Raqqa and Dir Ezzor during the last 48 hours.

"The Russian air force, in cooperation with the Syrian air force, carried out 186 sorties against ISIS sites in Syria," Syria news agency reported.

It added 26 command-centers, 35 depots, 28 fortified sites, 3 training camps, 8 explosive factories and 86 heavy-weapon stores were destroyed.
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Mr. Potato

Politics Ben Carson is struggling to grasp foreign policy, advisers say

Trip Gabrielnov
The New York Times
Tue, 17 Nov 2015 22:57 UTC
ben carson
© David Becker/Reuters
Photo Ben Carson after a news conference in Henderson, Nev., on Monday.
Ben Carson's remarks on foreign policy have repeatedly raised questions about his grasp of the subject, but never more seriously than in the past week, when he wrongly asserted that China had intervened militarily in Syria and then failed, on national television, to name the countries he would call on to form a coalition to fight the Islamic State.

Faced with increasing scrutiny about whether Mr. Carson, who leads in some Republican presidential polls, was capable of leading American foreign policy, two of his top advisers said in interviews that he had struggled to master the intricacies of the Middle East and national security and that intense tutoring was having little effect.

"Nobody has been able to sit down with him and have him get one iota of intelligent information about the Middle East," said Duane R. Clarridge, a top adviser to Mr. Carson on terrorism and national security. He also said Mr. Carson needed weekly conference calls briefing him on foreign policy so "we can make him smart."

Comment: Why The Incompetent Don't Know They're Incompetent

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Info

French magazine Valeurs Actuelles interviews President al-Assad


Syrian Arab News Agency
Thu, 19 Nov 2015 01:00 UTC
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President Bashar al-Assad said..Whoever fights terrorism somewhere, will protect the rest of the world.

President al-Assad added in an interview with the French Magazine Valeurs Actuelles Thursday that you cannot fight terrorism while you follow or pursue the wrong policies that support terrorism directly or indirectly.

Following is the full text of the interview:
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Blackbox

Trouble brewing for Washington? Paris attacks could push the EU closer to Russia


Sputnik
Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:49 UTC
US NATO EU
© AFP 2015/ SAUL LOEB
Europe has suffered a great deal over the past couple of years due to US-fueled anti-Russian rhetoric that Washington forced on the EU, John Laughland, the director of Studies at the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation, told Radio Sputnik.

The EU is beginning to realize that they are the ones paying the price for Washington's anti-Russian rhetoric and poor US policies in the Middle East. The United States is destroying Europe by helping to cause the refugee crisis in the Middle East and terrorist attacks, Laughland said.

"If this realization starts to dawn, then there might be a risk for Washington," the political expert from the Paris-based think-tank said.

Comment: Check out:

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Bad Guys

Security crackdown: French MPs vote to extend 'state of emergency' for 3 months

Angelique Chrisafis and Julian Borger
The Guardian
Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:54 UTC
French police
© REUTERS/ Christian Hartmann
French MPs have voted to extend the national state of emergency for three months, as François Hollande prepares a major tightening of security laws in the wake of the Paris terror attacks that killed 129 people.

The lower house of parliament voted overwhelmingly to extend the measures until the end of February and to increase certain powers, including immediately placing people under house arrest if they are considered a risk.

This is the first step in a security crackdown promised by Hollande after the attacks week. The senate will vote on the measures this Friday. The government then intends to hold a special vote of congress within three months to strengthen emergency powers in the constitution. Hollande also wants to introduce measures including stripping French dual nationals convicted of terrorism of citizenship and creating specialist "de-radicalisation centres" for youths.

Comment: This is an ominous situation indeed. For an overview, check out:

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Eye 2

Taking a page from Hitler's notebook: Trump hints at surveillance, special IDs for Muslims


RT
Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:22 UTC
trump and hitler
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says the Paris terror attacks mean that "we're going to have to do certain things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago" in the US, including creating databases of Muslims and closely monitoring mosques.

Trump said he is concerned about the large Muslim population in the United States, and that, if he had his way, there would be increased surveillance, including warrantless searches, of American Muslims.

"We're going to have to do things that we never did before. And some people are going to be upset about it, but I think that now everybody is feeling that security is going to rule," Trump told Yahoo News.

"And certain things will be done that we never thought would happen in this country in terms of information and learning about the enemy. And so we're going to have to do certain things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago."

Comment: Whether he gets elected or not, the fact that Trump has made it this far as a presidential candidate shows just how far America has descended into a police state.

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Bad Guys

Israel's stormtroopers arrest 6-year-old boy and a leading activist at West Bank refugee camp


RT
Thu, 19 Nov 2015 06:06 UTC
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© PopularStruggle/Facebook
Israeli Defense Forces forcefully detained a six-year-old boy and an activist in the Aida Palestinian refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, according to a new video released by a local activist group.

The Popular Struggle Coordination Committee published a video showing Israeli forces in full combat gear coming into the Aida refugee camp, located near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and forcefully detaining two people, including a small boy.

The video starts out with three Israeli troops taking away the six-year-old boy, identified as Abdallah Lutfi Yousef, and dragging him by his arm. As the leader of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Coordination Committee, Munther Amira, tries to follow them, one of the soldiers starts to yell, while the other soldier continues to take the child away. Then the soldier attacks Amira by grabbing, pushing and shoving him. Shortly after, all three soldiers get involved in the scuffle, restraining the activist and then forcefully arresting him.

The video ends with both Amira and Yousef in Israeli detention.


Comment: Children of Gaza: The psychological toll of war trauma is too much to bear

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