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Bannon makes apology: "Donald Trump Jr. is a patriot and a good man" - says comments were directed at Paul Manafort

Tyler Durden
Zero Heedge
Sun, 07 Jan 2018 19:33 UTC
stave Bannon
With President Trump lashing out via twitter again this morning at the "Fake Book" - referring, obviously, to Michael Wolff's Fire And Fury as he departed Camp David, the news coverage of the book's contents is set to continue into its second week.

And as the president works the phones, demanding that his political allies help him bury "Sloppy Steve" in retaliation for his former chief strategist's disloyalty, Bannon is now desperately trying to get back in the president's good graces.

In recent days, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have run stories about Bannon's political allies and patrons distancing themselves from the Breitbart executive and former Trump campaign chairman. The billionaire Mercer family told the Times that it has retracted all financial backing for Bannon and that they're weighing whether to fire Bannon from his role as executive chairman at Breitbart. They reportedly have stopped payment on his personal security detail.

Comment: The Duran comments:
It may have taken days for Steve Bannon to walk back his disparaging comments documented in Michael Wolff's book Fire and Fury, with a Sunday apology aimed at winning back the trust of POTUS Trump and his family...but it did not take US President Trump long to swipe away Bannon's peace offering, as Trump aides describe the president demanding a stark choice from supporters of both men: you're either with Bannon, or with me.

Of course Trump has all the leverage, he is the US President, and conservatives are overwhelmingly backing the President over Bannon.

Bannon lost big time, and now it is in Trump's hands, when and if he will forgive Bannon's disloyalty.

Bloomberg reports...
Trump's aides are tracking who came out with full-throated criticism of Bannon over the weekend, and they put out the word that the president is keeping score.

Trump remains irritated over losing the first week of the year to titillating excerpts from the book "Fire and Fury" by Michael Wolff, which is focused on the president and his dysfunctional White House.

One person who was judged as being insufficiently critical of Bannon was David Bossie, president of Citizens United. On Friday night, Bossie came out with a forceful condemnation of Bannon, his longtime friend, in an op-ed in the Washington Post.

Bannon may have hoped his statement would begin to put the episode behind him. A half dozen sources describe almost the exact opposite: Trump remains angry at the disloyalty of his former strategist, and is forcing a him-or-me moment inside Trump World and the Republican Party as a whole.

"I don't know if it's ever repairable," said Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, who has been friends with Bannon for two decades. "These wounds are pretty deep."
And from ThinkProgress:
Since this news broke, Bannon has found himself increasingly alone in the world. Trump put out a statement claiming that his former chief strategist "has nothing to do with me or my Presidency" and that Bannon "spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was."

The wealthy Mercer family, which has funded Bannon's work in the past and owns a stake in Breitbart News, suggested in their own statement that he is dead to them. "I support President Trump and the platform upon which he was elected," Rebekah Mercer said. "My family and I have not communicated with Steve Bannon in many months and have provided no financial support to his political agenda, nor do we support his recent actions and statements."

Even Bannon's job at Breitbart may be in danger. Mercer noted her equity interest in the publication, which has close ties to the so-called "alt-right" and white nationalism, in her statement - a move many interpreted as an implicit threat to fire Bannon.


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Mr. Potato

Nikki Haley defends Trump's sanity

Amy Moreno
Truthfeed
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 19:32 UTC
nikki haley defending trump
On Sunday, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley appeared on ABC's "This Week."

She was asked about discredited liberal author Michael Wolff and his new (fan fiction) book "Fire and Fury," which supposedly "raises questions" about President Trump's mental stability.

Comment: Dear Nikki probably wasn't the best person to defend the President's mental fitness or ability to govern: Someone with a bit more credibility weighs in: Dr. Keith Ablow: Donald Trump is "stone cold sane"

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Propaganda

Another reason the MSM is losing their reputation - #Fakenews on Iran and Egypt


Moon of Alabama
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 18:43 UTC
Fake News
© DDL Gambaro
The "western" media like to rant against fake news. But they are indeed the biggest provider of such.

Yesterday the British news agency Reuters claimed: Iran bans English in primary schools after leader's warning
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has banned the teaching of English in primary schools, a senior education official said, after the country's Supreme Leader said early learning of the language opened the way to a Western "cultural invasion".
Kamenei indeed has made such a remark, early learning of a foreign language opens the people to influence through that language. That conclusion is not particular controversial. But has Iran really banned the teaching of English in primary schools? Why would any non-English country teach English in primary school in the first place? And why would especially Iran do so?
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Arrow Up

Syrian intelligence responsible for massive explosion that killed and wounded dozens of terrorists in Idlib

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ News
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 19:47 UTC
Massive explosion in Idlib
Massive explosion in Idlib, Syria
In the capital of the Syrian Islamists, the city of Idlib, a very powerful explosion took place yesterday with local activists report about two dozen killed and over 30 wounded as a result of the terrorist attack, as reported by FRN yesterday.

However, since the last FRN report, it has been revealed that the Syrian intelligence was responsible for the attack that killed and wounded dozens of terrorists, according to Syrian reports.
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Snakes in Suits

CIA Director Pompeo says there is 'no deep state' at CIA

Pam Key
Breitbart
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 19:09 UTC
CIA Director Mike Pompeo
© Greg NashCIA Director Mike Pompeo
Sunday on CBS's "Face The Nation," CIA Director Mike Pompeo said there was "no" deep state in the CIA.

Partial transcript as follows: DICKERSON: The president also tweeted about the deep state. Is there a deep state at the CIA?
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Bad Guys

Please stop talking about Ahed Tamimi's hair

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Sat, 06 Jan 2018 17:46 UTC
Ahed Tamimi
© David KattenburgAhed Tamimi
In the past three weeks, following the famous slapping of an Israeli soldier by Ahed Tamimi of Nabi Saleh, the remarks about Ahed's looks have gained extra momentum.

These remarks have often been disparaging ones. They are generally meant to suggest that there is really no content to the 'hype' around Ahed - that her appeal and impact are only really about how she looks, not what she is. Such notions basically render the whole context of Ahed's situation, the situation of Nabi Saleh, the occupation and the oppression, to be a mere 'photo-op' which serves the 'Palestinian narrative'.

Whilst less disparaging and more nuanced remarks about Ahed's look have been made, we must realise the danger of such focus upon external appearance. It risks diverting our attention from the very serious issues at hand.

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Георгиевская ленточка

"60 Minutes" interview with RT's editor-in-chief on election meddling, being labeled Russian propaganda


CBS
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:40 UTC
Margarita Simonyan
© CBS NewsMargarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT
"There's nothing illegal that we did...nothing murky," says Margarita Simonyan, who dismisses the U.S. intelligence report that says the Russian news network she heads meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election

It's widely accepted that Vladimir Putin used disinformation warfare to interfere in our 2016 presidential campaign - but how exactly did he do it? Well, according to a U.S. intelligence report one of his weapons was a Russian television network called RT. It stands for Russia Today, and you can find it on many of our cable or satellite systems -- just like any other news outlet.

We recently went to Moscow to meet with the head of RT, Margarita Simonyan. We arrived just as the Justice Department was insisting that RT register as a foreign agent in the United States under an 80-year-old law enacted to expose Nazi propaganda. And Simonyan was scalding mad.

Comment: CBS, like the good little MSM minion it is, puts a dark spin on all Ms.Simonyan's forthright answers via its narration. And notice how Stahl sidesteps the question of the Iraq war lies, and the bombing of Yugoslavia without UN sanction. Simonyan's got her dead to rights on those points and she knows it.

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Red Flag

Russian military repels militant drone attack on Syrian compounds, attackers may have been aided by "technologically advanced state"


RT
Mon, 08 Jan 2018 16:28 UTC
Khmeimim airbase Syria
© SputnikThe Khmeimim airbase in Syria
Russian military have repelled a massive drone attack on its bases in Syria, which was carried out by militants, Moscow said. The extremists may have been aided by a "technologically advanced state," it added.

The militants launched their assault during the night on Saturday, the ministry said in a statement. The Russian Kheimim Airbase in the Syrian Latakia province was attacked by 10 unmanned combat aerial vehicles, while three more attempted a strike against the Russian maritime logistics base located in the city of Tartus.

All of the drones were detected by anti-aircraft defense systems "at a considerable distance from the Russian military objects," the ministry said. Seven of them were then successfully shot down by the Russian Panzir-S air-defense system.

Comment: That the extremists may have been aided by a "technologically advanced state" suggests another attempt by the Empire of Chaos to salvage its Syrian operation..

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Snowflake

Israel publishes blacklist of twenty BDS groups to be barred from country


The Times of Israel
Sun, 07 Jan 2018 13:37 UTC
Israeli Minister Gilad Erdan Likud
© Tomer Neuberg/Flash90Public Security and Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan at a Likud party conference in Lod, on December 31, 2017.


Strategic affairs minister says the country is moving from defense to attack against organizations that seek to harm the Jewish state

The Strategic Affairs Ministry on Sunday published a list of organizations it says promote the boycott of Israel and that, in cooperation with the Interior Ministry, it will block members of those groups from entering the country, including an American Jewish group.

The blacklist covers some 20 groups the ministry said are part of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) and which it said consistently and openly work to delegitimize Israel.

"We have moved from defense to attack," Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan said in a statement that listed the targeted groups. "Boycott organizations need to know that Israel will act against them and will not allow [them] to enter its territory in order to harm its citizens."

Comment: Given the way Israel steals land from and treats Palestinians, the least it deserves is boycott, divestment and sanctions. But, as always, snowflake Israel's defense is to take the role of the victim.

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Star of David

Israel has revoked Jerusalem residency permits of 14,600 Palestinians since 1967

Daniel Estrin
National Public Radio
Sat, 06 Jan 2018 13:12 UTC
Jerusalem Jewish settlement Palestine Israel
© Mahmoud Illean/APA Palestinian man walks near a construction site of a new housing unit in a neighborhood in East Jerusalem known to Jewish settlers as Har Homa and to Palestinians as Jabal Abu Ghneim. The Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of a future state and object to Israeli building there and throughout the West Bank. Israel claims all of Jerusalem as its capital.
President Trump has recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital. But a third of Jerusalem's residents are not Israeli citizens at all. They're Palestinians who hold Israeli residency papers.

Israel has revoked those papers from thousands of Palestinian residents, rights groups say. Jerusalem's mayor, however, would not acknowledge it.

"I'm not aware of anybody that his residency was provoked [sic]," Mayor Nir Barkat said in an interview with NPR's Morning Edition about the revocations. "I think, factually, this is probably not true."

But according to an August report by Human Rights Watch, Israel has revoked the residency status of at least 14,595 Palestinians in East Jerusalem since Israel captured the territory from Jordan in 1967. The group cited data that lawyers and rights groups collected from Israel's Interior Ministry through freedom of information requests and court cases.
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