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NBC News: Steve Bannon met with Mueller multiple times over the past week

Hallie Jackson
NBC News
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:16 UTC
Steve Bannon
© Aaron P. Bernstein / Getty Images
Bannon arrives at a closed-door meeting with the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday.
Steve Bannon, who served as President Donald Trump's chief strategist, was interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller over multiple days this week, NBC News has learned from two sources familiar with the proceedings.

Bannon spent a total of some 20 hours in conversations with the team led by Mueller, who is investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia as well as other issues that have arisen around the probe.

Bannon left his job as a senior White House adviser in August and returned to a leadership role at Breitbart, the right-wing news site based out of Washington. But he fell out of favor with the site's financial backers, the Mercer family, after criticizing the president and his family in "Fire and Fury," a book about the Trump administration published earlier this year by author Michael Wolff.

Comment: The anti-Trump media are probably salivating right now, but we suspect that Bannon is not going to provide any shocking revelations - simply because there was no 'Russian collusion'!

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Propaganda

Assange slams Intercept hit-piece claiming his group 'sexist, backed Trump'


RT
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 12:11 UTC
Julian Assange
© Peter Nicholls / Reuters
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Britain, May 19, 2017
WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has rejected claims by The Intercept that he backed Donald Trump's presidential campaign. He accused the outlet of furthering one of the authors' personal obsession.

"The editorial propriety of letting Micah F Lee, of all people, instrumentalize the Intercept to further his obsessive, obscenity laden campaign against WikiLeaks must be questioned," Assange said on Thursday.

Assange added that Lee was "formally behind cutting off WikiLeaks' US tax deductible donations," referring to the Freedom of the Press Foundation cutting off WikiLeaks' access to funding.

Comment: The accusations levied at Wikileaks/Assange in the Intercept's hit-piece range from 'blatant transmisogyny,' 'sexism and misogyny,' all the way to 'hints of anti-Semitism'. In other words, it's 'Women's Studies' levels of desperate, with a dash of the ADL for good measure.

Here are a few more reasons to read the Intercept with caution:

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Bizarro Earth

Afghanistan: UN report reveals shocking civilian death toll and terrorists gaining territory


RT
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:42 UTC
Afghan security forces take positions while responding to blasts and gunfire. January 24, 2018.
© Parwiz / Reuters
Afghan security forces take positions while responding to blasts and gunfire. January 24, 2018.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has released a damning report on civilian casualties in the ongoing war, pointing to air strikes and improvised explosives as the cause of most deaths and injuries.

The 2017 annual report, titled "Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict," gives a chilling assessment on the number of civilians killed by the ongoing conflict between the NATO-backed Afghan security forces and anti-government factions, such as Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and the Taliban, emphasizing they were the primary causes of non-combatant deaths.

"Civilian casualties caused during ground engagements against Anti-Government Elements accounted for the majority - 53 per cent - of all civilian casualties attributed to Pro-Government Forces," the report states.

Comment: Without the US and its allies, ISIS/the Taliban wouldn't exist:

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Gear

'Productive and open talk': Tillerson, Erdogan meet amid heightened strain over Operation Olive Branch


PressTV
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 09:56 UTC
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have had a meeting as relations between the two North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) partners have frayed in the wake of Ankara's ongoing cross-border offensive in Syria's northwestern region of Afrin against the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).

A Turkish presidential source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the top US diplomat and the Turkish leader sought ways to improve strained ties during their Thursday meeting in Ankara, which lasted for more than three hours behind closed doors.

The source noted that Erdogan conveyed his priorities and expectations on Syria, and also discussed Iraq, regional developments and the fight against terror with the US secretary of state.


Comment: US Wants Control over Iraqi-Syrian Borders


Moreover, a US State Department spokesman travelling with Tillerson said the top US diplomat and Turkey had a "productive and open" talk.
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Chess

Desperate Fuzzy Alliance: Damascus to deploy forces in Afrin - Reports


Sputnik
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 02:00 UTC
Afrin, Syria
© Bertramz
The Kurdish militias and the Syrian government have reached an agreement on the deployment of the Syrian Armed Forces in Syria's district of Afrin, Lebanese media reported on Thursday.

The decision was made in order to protect the district and counter the attacks of Turkey or its allies in Afrin, Mayadeen broadcaster reported, citing a source with a knowledge of the situation.

A source familiar with the situation told Sputnik on Thursday that the Syrian Armed Forces would enter the territory near the border with Turkey in the district of Afrin in the next few days.

"The agreement has been reached on the deployment of the Syrian Armed Forces at the Syrian-Turkish border in Afrin in the north of Aleppo in the next few days. The agreement was reached between the Syrian government and the Kurds," the source said.

Comment: United States attempted to create a 30,000 Kurdish border security force that evoked Turkish anger and invasion. United State's failure to support Kurds against Turks forced them to take Assad's help. At the same time, Assad is fighting with US-backed Kurds in Dier ez-Zor region and he is also fighting with Turkish backed HTS in Idlib. Putin is standing for a reelection in March. More Russian casualties will have negative impact on his election campaign. More Turkish casualties in this war will have negative impact on Erdogan at home. American Syria policy is in disarray due to deep-state, Trump infighting. With no major party interested in serious casualties at this point in time (except Assad), we have a interesting fuzzy alliances.



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Eye 2

Ex-CIA chief John Brennan: Russiagate's mastermind?

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 22:35 UTC
CIA Director John Brennan Panama Papers

Former CIA Director John Brennan
The report ("The Dossier") that claims that Donald Trump colluded with Russia, was paid for by the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign.

The company that claims that Russia hacked DNC computer servers, was paid by the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign.

The FBI's counterintelligence probe into Trump's alleged connections to Russia was launched on the basis of information gathered from a report that was paid for by the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign.

The surveillance of a Trump campaign member (Carter Page) was approved by a FISA court on the basis of information from a report that was paid for by the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign.

Comment:

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Alarm Clock

Economist: Fed triggered the big stock sell-off - and the almighty dollar's next, 'this kind of thing eventually gives you hyperinflation'

Greg Hunter
USA Watchdog
Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
The Fed
In his latest report, economist John Williams asks the question, "Did the Fed trigger the stock sell-off?" Williams answer, "It sure looks that way. With all the heave selling, the bond yields were rising and investors didn't like that. Risings bond yields means someone is selling bonds. The Fed was not selling bonds, they were not rolling over the bonds they normally wood. . . . There was a big drop in the amount of bonds the Fed was holding in the last week by about $10 billion. That was the biggest weekly decline since August of 2012. . . It was enough to put some upside pressure on the interest rates . . . and that was a trigger (for the stock market sell-off). Normally, you don't crash from an all-time high, not that it crashed, but you did have pretty heavy selling. You didn't see much movement in the dollar. You didn't see much movement in gold, and when this market really goes, I think you are going to see the dollar selling off very rapidly and gold being a flight to safe haven."

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Info

Videos of government officials exposing high-level pedophiles


Investment Watch Blog
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 23:42 UTC
pedogate
This is a list of current and former government officials exposing the pedophiles who run our world. The only way this will ever change is when a critical mass of people becomes aware to it.

List of videos from link:
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Robot

Unhinged Schiff claims there's more 'non-public evidence' of Trump-Russia collusion and obstruction

Cristina Laila
The Gateway Pundit
Wed, 14 Feb 2018 22:06 UTC
Adam Schiff
© C-SPAN
Adam Schiff
Ranking member of the House Intel Committee and suspected leaker, Adam Schiff (D-CA) continued to spread the big lie that he has 'more evidence' of Trump-Russia collusion and obstruction.

The DNC servers have yet to be inspected by federal investigators and the FBI has not questioned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Let that sink in.

At a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday, Rep Schiff told reporters the panel has "non-public" evidence of Trump-Russia collusion and obstruction.

After rattling off his usual talking points of Russian collusion 'evidence' which is already public knowledge, Schiff pivoted to the issue of 'obstruction'.

Comment:

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Chess

President Macron vows to reform Islam in France

Soeren Kern
The Gatestone Institute
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:26 UTC
French President Emmanuel Macron
© Thibault Camus / Reuters
French President Emmanuel Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron, in a declared effort to "fight fundamentalism" and "preserve national cohesion," has promised to "lay the groundwork for the entire reorganization of Islam in France."

According to Macron, the plan, similar in ambition to Austria's Islam Law, is aimed at seeking to "better integrate" Islam in France in order to "place it in a more peaceful relationship with the state."

A key priority is to reduce outside interference by restricting foreign funding for mosques, imams and Muslim organizations in France. The plan's overall objective is to ensure that French law takes precedence over Islamic law for Muslims living in the country.

Comment: A minority of French imams agree with Macron. It's important they exercise the influence they have and find a workable solution. France is becoming one of several European powder kegs. Austria provides an example:

Austria's 2015 reforms to their 1912 Islam Law: No foreign meddling, one legal system for all Austrians

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