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Killary for prison: Trump to pressure foreign govts to investigate Clinton Foundation


RT
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:41 UTC
hillary for prison
While President-elect Donald Trump earlier announced a U-turn on investigating Hillary Clinton, he is now reportedly planning to pressure foreign governments to look into the finances of the Clinton Foundation.

During one of the campaign debates, Trump said once he is in the oval office he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton's alleged misgivings, including the use of a private email server and involvement in the Clinton Foundation.

"You'd be in jail," he warned his rival if he were to win the election.

After his election victory he made a U-turn on the threat. But according to the New York Post, the Trump administration would pressure foreign governments to investigate the financial dealings of the Clinton Foundation.

Comment: If true, it's a clever move on Trump's part. Killary for prison!

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Growing doubts of production cut deal puts oil prices under pressure


RT
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 09:53 UTC
oil production
© Maxim Shemetov / Reuters
Crude oil prices are falling after Saudi Arabia walked away from Monday's talks with Russia and other non-OPEC producers saying there was a lack of unanimity in the cartel on how to rebalance the oversupplied oil market.

On Friday, Riyadh said it wouldn't attend the meeting with Russia until there was "a clear decision within OPEC." Some OPEC members are reportedly insisting on Russia cutting production.

However, Moscow is ready only for a freeze, said Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak. Russia is pumping the highest volume of oil since the Soviet-era peak, averaging 11.2 million barrels per day (bpd) in October.

According to Novak, the Russian contribution to the OPEC deal would be scrapping a planned increase in production next year by 200 to 300 thousand bpd.
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Fake News Invasion: MSM outrage over Syrian army gains and Civilian escape to safety in Aleppo


South Front
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:14 UTC
Fake news Invasion
The mainstream media is in outrage as Syrian government forces have liberated the northeastern part of Aleppo city and saved up to 10,000 civilians that had been used as a human shield by the so-called 'moderate opposition'.

According to headlines in the mainstream media, the local population is running from "regime forces".

Unfortunately, they just forgot to mention that locals are running to the "regime-held areas".

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Snakes in Suits

Russia confirms Kerry makes 'unbelievable effort' to save Syrian rebels before Trump


RT
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:06 UTC
Syrian rebels
© Khalil Ashawi / Reuters
US Secretary of State John Kerry has significantly intensified contacts with Russia on Syria, the Kremlin confirmed, substantiating a report that Kerry wants to seal a deal with Moscow before Donald Trump assumes the US presidency in January.

The report, by Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin, says Kerry is taking a last-ditch effort to stop the Syrian operation in eastern Aleppo, because the Trump administration may be "squarely on the side of dictator [Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad."

Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov confirmed that Kerry has lately intensified contacts with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on Syria.

"This [effort] could be called unbelievable, in terms that there have never been so many phone calls between the Secretary of State and Russia's FM which were focused on discussing a single issue - Syria," he told journalists. Ushakov refrained from commenting on whether there was any progress on it.
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Ukraine uses ultra right-wing thugs to prevent Viktor Yanukovych testifying about Maidan deaths: Update

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Sat, 26 Nov 2016 22:59 UTC
Viktor Yanukovych
Trial in Kiev of police officers charged with deaths during the 2013/2014 Maidan protests disrupted with collusion of Ukrainian authorities to prevent ousted President Viktor Yanukovych giving evidence.

Ukraine's overthrown President Viktor Yanukovych was supposed to give evidence by video link on Friday to a court in Kiev which is trying five former police officers who have been charged with shooting protesters during the Maidan protests of 2013 and 2014.

Yanukovych had previously made known that he intended to deny giving any orders to shoot protesters, and that he would say that the violence during the protests which caused numerous deaths amongst protesters and police officers was instigated and largely carried out by the leaders of the protests. His video testimony to the court would have given him an opportunity to provide further details, and to enlarge on this under cross-examination.

Comment: Update: Yanukovych: I Couldn't Order Use of Weapons in Dispersing 2014 Protests
Ukraine's ex-President Viktor Yanukovych said Monday he did not order the use of weapons to disperse protesters from central Kiev in early 2014.

"From the beginning to the very end, I was against the use of weapons and against bloodshed. It was my principal position," Yanukovych said during questioning over the deadly events. "That is why I could not have given these orders."


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UK commander: ISIS intelligence seized in Syria's Manbij reveals terror plots throughout Europe


RT
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 11:23 UTC
Abandoned buildings in the Syrian town of Manbij
© Ayham al-Mohammad / AFP
A "huge amount" of Islamic State intelligence found after the capture of the Syrian town of Manbij was related to terror threats in Europe, according to Britain's most senior commander in Iraq and Syria, as cited by British media.

Major General Rupert Jones said the capture of Manbij in August was "hugely important for external operations," adding that "a huge amount of intelligence gathered in Manbij related to threats in Europe and elsewhere..." the Telegraph reported.


Comment: Syrian commander: Syria's Manbij fully liberated from Daesh jihadists


"I am not going to go into the details but we know that external operations have been getting orchestrated to a very significant degree from within the caliphate critically from within Raqqa and from within Manbij..." Jones said, as quoted by the Guardian.

"...They were key external operations hubs. There is a huge amount of intelligence, documentation, electronic material that has been exploited there that points very directly against all sorts of nations around the world," he added.

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Russian Reconciliation Center: 40% of east Aleppo liberated from al-Qaeda


RT
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 10:59 UTC
The area of the humanitarian corridor in Aleppo, Syria
© Mikhail Alaeddin / SputnikThe area of the humanitarian corridor in Aleppo, Syria
More than 3,000 civilians have left the eastern part of the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo in the last 24 hours, the Russian Center for Reconciliation said. It later reported that about 40 percent of the militant-held part of the city has been liberated.

Some 3,179 people, including 1,519 children - among them 138 newborn babies - have left Eastern Aleppo through the 'humanitarian corridors' set up by Syrian government forces, Russian Reconciliation Center said on Monday.

The center reported that 12 neighborhoods, comprising roughly 40 percent of the territory previously controlled by the militants, have been cleared.


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Snakes in Suits

Brazil's corrupt political institutions: Major new corruption scandals engulf the faction that impeached Dilma

Glen Greenwood
The Intercept
Fri, 25 Nov 2016 00:49 UTC
Michel Temer
© Dida Sampio/Estadao Conteudo (Agencia Estado via AP Images)
A primary argument made by opponents of impeaching Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff was that removing her would immediately empower the truly corrupt politicians in Brasília - the ones who were the driving force behind her impeachment - and they would then use that power to kill ongoing corruption investigations and shield themselves from consequences for their own law-breaking. In that regard, Dilma's impeachment was not designed to punish corruption but to protect it. The last two weeks have produced new corruption scandals that have vindicated that view beyond what even its proponents imagined was possible.

In his short time in office, Temer has already lost five ministers to scandal, but these new controversies are the most serious yet. One major scandal involves an effort in Congress - led by the very parties that impeached Dilma, with the support of some in Dilma's party - to pass a law that vests themselves full legal amnesty for their crimes involving election financing. In late September, a bill appeared in Congress, seemingly out of nowhere, that would have retroactively protected any member of Congress from being punished for the use of so-called "caixa dois" (second box) monies in campaigns, whereby politicians receive under-the-table contributions from oligarchs and corporations that they do not declare.
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Steve Bannon on the media's echo chamber, why Trump won and politics as war

Kimberly A. Strassel
Wall Street Journal
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 23:02 UTC
Trump Bannon
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It's hard to think of Steve Bannon as a low-profile guy. He has garnered about as many headlines over the past week as Donald Trump—no small feat. He is the executive chairman of the hard-right Breitbart News, among the most aggressive voices online, its website an attack machine against Democrats and "establishment" conservatives. President-elect Trump chose Mr. Bannon this week as his chief strategist and senior counselor, a slot usually filed by someone eager to play a presidential surrogate on TV.

Yet Mr. Bannon—who joined the Trump campaign in mid-August to propel its thunderbolt victory—professes no interest in being the story. "It's not important to be known," he says in a telephone interview Thursday night, among his first public comments since the election. "It was Lao Tzu who said that with the best leaders, when the work is accomplished, the people will say 'We have done this ourselves.' That's how I've led."

Nor does he profess to care that Democrats and the media are portraying him as a "cloven-hoofed devil," as he puts it. "I pride myself in doing things that matter. What mattered in the campaign was winning. We did. What matters now is pulling together the single best team we can to implement President-elect Trump's vision.

He continues: "How can you take anything seriously from a media apparatus—paid the amount of money you people are paid—that systematically missed something that was so obvious, that missed Brexit, that missed the Trump revolution? You'd have thought they'd have learned their lesson on November 8."

Slight pause. "They clearly haven't."
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'An example should be set': Tony Blair faces new charges in Parliament for 'misleading' UK over Iraq War


RT
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 00:24 UTC
Tony Blair
© Bria Webb / Reuters
A cross-party group has tabled a new motion against Tony Blair, on the basis of facts revealed in the Chilcot report, that could see him stripped of his place on the Privy Council - a potential humiliation for the former leader, who is attempting to play a bigger role in UK politics.

The motion, which will be debated on Wednesday, claims that the seven-year Chilcot inquiry "provided substantial evidence of misleading information presented by the then prime minister and others on the development of the then government's policy towards the invasion of Iraq as shown most clearly in the contrast between private correspondence to the United States government and public statements to parliament and people."

It asks for "a further specific examination of this contrast in public and private policy and to report on what further action is necessary to help prevent repetition of this disastrous series of events."
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