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US-backed Kurdish SDF continue to steal Syrian land, ethnic cleansing of non-Kurds

Sarah Abed
The Rabbit Hole
Sun, 08 Oct 2017 15:06 UTC
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© Hawar NewsAugust 8, 2017 - Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces raise their flag in the center of the town of Manbij after driving Islamic State militants out of the area, in Aleppo province, Syria. Syrian Kurdish officials and an activist group say U.S.-backed fighters have seized a key Islamic State stronghold in northern Syria after two months of heavy fighting and freed hundreds of civilians the extremists had used as human shields.
The West claims that the Kurds are one of the most moral and dignified forces in the Middle East fighting against Daesh. But if their focus is on defeating Daesh, as they claim, why are they committing genocide against Syrians in the process? Taking this into consideration, it is hard to justify the West's persistent claim that armed Kurdish terrorist groups are trying to help Syria. The reality on the ground contradicts these empty compliments, which the West uses to save face while supporting these terrorist organizations. This false narrative was in fact used to arm the Kurds in Syria in order to create instability and division.

For separatist Kurds to claim an area that they have lived in or have liberated as being rightfully theirs defies international law and logic.

The U.S. has armed the Kurds and supported their efforts since helping them establish the Syrian Democratic Forces on Oct. 10, 2015. The U.S. needed to fund a group within Syria that was fighting against Daesh, but that was not as extremist as the Free Syrian Army, which was outed as being affiliated with al-Qaeda.

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Imran Awan wiped his phone hours before his arrest - lawyer lies, says it was a 'brand new phone'

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 09 Oct 2017 14:55 UTC
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Conjuring up images of Hillary and her team bashing Blackberry phones with hammers, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Mirando revealed in a court hearing Friday that embattled Congressional IT staffer Imran Awan apparently wiped his cell phone clean just hours before being arrested by the FBI at Dulles airport while attempting to flee to Pakistan. As Forbes points out this morning, this new information came out in a hearing in which Awan's attorney argued that his curfew should be lifted and his ankle bracelet removed.
Imran Awan, the IT professional Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) kept on her congressional payroll long after it became known he was under investigation by the Capitol Police, wiped his phone hours before he was arrested last July.

But we are just starting to learn about this case. This is new revelation that Awan wiped his phone just before he attempted to fly away to Pakistan came out last Friday when Awan appeared in court.

Awan's attorney, Chris Gowen, argued that Awan should have his curfew lifted and that the tracking device on his ankle should be removed.

This prompted Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Mirando to say that when Imran was arrested at Dulles International Airport a cellphone found on him "had been wiped clean just a few hours before."
Awan's attorney, and long-time Clinton employee (see: Arrested DNC Staffer Awan Retains Long-Time Clinton Associate For Legal Help), Chris Gowen tried to argue that Awan's phone was blank because he had just purchased it while seemingly hoping that the FBI had simply overlooked the ".obliterate file" that was created when the phone was intentionally wiped clean.

Comment: See also: Phil Giraldi: Where are all those congressional emails, Imran Awan?

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Canada's draconian Magnitsky bill is nearly official: Bill passes unanimously in late Commons vote Wednesday with 277 for and 0 votes against

Thomson Reuters
CBC
Wed, 04 Oct 2017 15:46 UTC
Nataliya Magnitskaya
© Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP PhotoNataliya Magnitskaya, mother of whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky, holds his portrait in Moscow in 2009. Russia said it will retaliate against Canada if it passes legislation inspired by Magnitsky's case, allowing sanctions to be imposed on countries for human rights violations.
Russia said it will retaliate tit-for-tat over a new Canadian law that would impose sanctions on officials from Russia and other nations considered guilty of human rights violations.

The bill, approved by the House of Commons Wednesday, was inspired by the case of Sergei Magnitsky, an anti-corruption lawyer who died in 2009 after a year in a Russian jail.

"Should Bill S-226 be passed by the Senate and receive royal assent, it will enable Canada to sanction, impose travel bans on and hold accountable those responsible for gross human rights violations and significant corruption," Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said in a statement after the vote.
"This will ensure that Canada's foreign policy tool box is effective and fit for purpose in today's international environment. It will also provide a valuable complement to our existing human rights and anti-corruption tools."



Comment: Chrystia Freeland offers Canadians false words of "human rights and anti-corruption tools" to battle the evil Russians.

Chrystia Freeland: Victim or aggressor: Chrystia Freeland's family record for Nazi war profiteering and murder of the Cracow Jews

Here is Ms. Freeland back in May 2017 drumming up support for Bill S-226 while dressed in the cultural clothing of Ukraine:



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"Censorship is easy if you don't worry about becoming The Ministry Of Truth" - Facebook security chief lashes out

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 09 Oct 2017 12:09 UTC
Alex Stamos
In a furious tweetstorm this weekend, Facebook's Chief Security Officer warned interfering desperate politicians and triggered letfists that the fake news problem is more complicated and dangerous to solve than the public thinks.

As a reminder, we noted that Alex Stamos was seemingly pressured into 'finding' Russian evidence after Senator Mark Warner paid the social media company a visit -
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Anti-Russia sanctions may be lifted soon - Saudi Foreign Minister


RT
Sat, 07 Oct 2017 12:14 UTC
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© Leonhard Foeger / Reuters
An array of US and EU sanctions on the Russian economy could be poised to be lifted in the near future, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Adel Al-Jubeir, told Russian state TV, adding that his country's close ties with Washington do not present an obstacle for cooperation with Moscow.

"We hope that an arrangement can be worked out where Russia and the international community can work out their differences so that the sanctions can be removed. And I expect that this will be soon," Al-Jubeir said in an interview to Rossyia-24 television aired Friday, in response to a question about whether the anti-Russia sanctions would hamper investment projects.

The foreign minister went on to note that Saudi Arabia sees Russia as a "friendly country" and is seeking greater cooperation in energy and other areas. He also praised Russia's role in the Middle East and said that it could contribute to the resolution of a number of regional conflicts.

Comment: Are the Saudis jumping ship? Is this a signal that the US petrodollar is on the way out as the world's reserve currency?

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Russiagate more fiction than fact: MSM media substitutes hype for evidence

Aaron Maté
The Nation
Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
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In her new campaign memoir, What Happened, Hillary Clinton reveals that she has followed "every twist and turn of the story," and "read everything I could get my hands on," concerning Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election. "I do wonder sometimes about what would have happened if President Obama had made a televised address to the nation in the fall of 2016 warning that our democracy was under attack," she writes.

Clinton has had a lot to take in. Since Election Day, the controversy over alleged Russian meddling and Trump campaign collusion has consumed Washington and the national media. Yet nearly one year later there is still no concrete evidence of its central allegations. There are claims by US intelligence officials that the Russian government hacked e-mails and used social media to help elect Donald Trump, but there has yet to be any corroboration. Although the oft-cited January intelligence report "uses the strongest language and offers the most detailed assessment yet," The Atlantic observed that "it does not or cannot provide evidence for its assertions." Noting the "absence of any proof" and "hard evidence to back up the agencies' claims that the Russian government engineered the election attack," The New York Times concluded that the intelligence community's message "essentially amounts to 'trust us.'" That remains the case today.

The same holds for the question of collusion. Officials acknowledged to Reuters in May that "they had seen no evidence of wrongdoing or collusion between the campaign and Russia in the communications reviewed so far." Well-placed critics of Trump-including former DNI chief James Clapper, former CIA director Michael Morrell, Representative Maxine Waters, and Senator Dianne Feinstein-concur to date.
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Lavrov: US must return diplomatic property it's stolen from Russia


RT
Mon, 09 Oct 2017 20:37 UTC
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© Muhammad Hamed/Reuters
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that Moscow insists on the return of its diplomatic properties "illegally seized" by the US, warning of legal consequences and possible retaliation.

"Russia reserves the right to undertake legal action and retaliatory measures," reads a statement issued by the Russian Foreign Ministry after the phone call.

Both Lavrov and Tillerson, however, expressed support for the ongoing consultations on the issues of Russia-US relations, led by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov and US Under Secretary Thomas Shannon.
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No Entry

Merkel agrees to limit number of asylum seekers entering Germany


RT
Mon, 09 Oct 2017 20:37 UTC
Merkel refugee immigrant
© Fabrizio Bensch / ReutersA migrant takes a selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside a refugee camp near the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees after registration at Berlin's Spandau district, Germany.
After hours of discussion, Angela Merkel's CDU and its Bavarian CSU sister party have made a breakthrough in the fight over the refugee ceiling issue, agreeing to cap Germany's intake of asylum seekers at 200,000 a year.

"We want to achieve a total number of people taken in for humanitarian reasons (refugees and asylum seekers, those entitled to subsidiary protection, family members, relocation and resettlement minus deportations and voluntary departures of future refugees) that does not exceed 200,000 people a year," the agreement stated, according to Reuters.

This would relate to the humanitarian inflow, in other words asylum seekers and refugees; migrant workers would not be affected by the scheme. In exceptional circumstances, that number could be increased or lowered by the Bundestag, Der Spiegel reported, citing a draft paper.
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Don't dump the Iran deal! Germany, France & UK issue joint statement to US

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Mon, 09 Oct 2017 20:37 UTC
Iran deal
Germany's Foreign Minister has echoed the words of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in saying that a US withdrawl from the JCPOA would send the wrong message to North Korea.

Berlin has released a statement jointly signed by the governments of Germany, France and the United Kingdom, urging the United States not to pull out of the 2015 JCPOA, often referred to as the 'Iran deal'.

The news comes as many suspect that Donald Trump is preparing to defy the advice of his own state department, his allies in Germany, France, Britain and the EU as a whole, as well as the stated wishes of Russia and China and withdraw from the deal.

Comment: Further reading: German FM: 'World will change' as Trump 'likely to quit' JCPOA

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Syrians arrest U.S. spy in Damascus


Fars News Agency
Thu, 05 Oct 2017 20:58 UTC
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The Syrian intelligence forces detained a US spy in Damascus, media sources reported on Thursday.

According to the Arabic-language al-Hadath news, the Syrian security apparatus arrested a US spy who had taken images and recorded footage of several military points near Damascus in disguise as a journalist and with a fake ID card. They also seized a number of weapons, cameras and computers during the arrest.

The spy who is originally a Syrian Arab confessed that he was hired via social media networks with a monthly salary of $20,000 and provided the US authorities with the demanded images and intelligence.

He also confessed to cooperation with certain terrorist groups in Ghouta of Damascus.
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