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IDF 'comrades' savagely beat Druze soldier, denied transport to hospital for hours


RT
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 13:34 UTC
Druze and IDF
© Baz Ratner / ReutersDruze members and Israeli soldier
Two IDF soldiers have been charged with assault after brutally beating a fellow Druze serviceman until he was rendered unconscious. Relatives are accusing an IDF commander of deliberately delaying the request for medical help.

Israel's Military Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday charged the two Israel Defense Forces (IDF) servicemen with aggravated assault and causing serious injury in aggravated circumstances. They are accused of beating the Druze soldier in two separate instances while stationed together in northern Israel.

According to a statement released by the victim's family, the Druze soldier was at first "savagely kicked and punched" for refusing to vacate his own dorm. He was assaulted again the next day, leaving the soldier unconscious with a broken nose, "bleeding and humiliated on the ground." Soldiers and officers nearby came to his aid and stopped the attack, the statement said.


Comment: Gang-style aggression is in the IDF playbook for civilians or their own comrades.

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Russian forces to take out Al-Nusra in 2018

Seraphim Hanisch
The Duran
Wed, 27 Dec 2017 22:58 UTC
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© en.alalam.irAl-Nusra
U.S. support of this group implies the closest potential confrontation between Russian and American forces to date...

The Russian News Agency TASS reports that the plan for Russian forces in Syria in 2018 is to remove the militants who are with the group Jahbat al-Nusra. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated the following:
"A decisive blow has been dealt to the Islamic State (IS, terror group, outlawed in Russia - TASS). Although some militants who fled the battlefield are trying to either regroup in Syria or leave the country, it is clear that the main fight is over. Now, of course, the main anti-terrorist objective is the defeat of Jabhat al-Nusra.
This plan was agreed to at the Russian General Staff meeting, and announced by Army General Valery Gerasimov, on Wednesday. In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, General Gerasimov stated that the goals for next year in Syria included "the completion of eliminating militants from Jahbat al-Nusra and its affiliates."
"Some members of this terrorist organization operate in de-escalation zones... Jabhat al-Nusra fiercely opposes [the ceasefire]. Therefore, they must be eliminated.
This presents an issue that is bigger than meets the eye, because the fact is that for several years this group has been aided by the American forces operating in the region. The United States official stance on al-Nusra is that they are "moderate rebels", and therefore they serve the "greater good" by being in opposition to the government headed by Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has pledged that the American mission in Syria is to root out ISIS, but as Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov put it, "[the American mission] is getting vaguer and vaguer."

Comment: Russia has the upper hand. Something will have to give and, betting rubles, it won't be them.

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It seems Russiagate is devolving into an effort to stigmatize dissent

James Carden
The Nation
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 12:34 UTC
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© Mother JonesRoger Stone
Of all the various twists and turns of the year-and-a-half-long national drama known as #Russiagate, the effort to marginalize and stigmatize dissent from the consensus Russia-Trump narrative, particularly by former intelligence and national-security officials and operatives, is among the more alarming.

An invasion-of-privacy lawsuit, filed in July 2017 by a former DNC official and two Democratic donors, alleges that they suffered "significant distress and anxiety and will require lifelong vigilance and expense" because their personal information was exposed as a result of the e-mail hack of the DNC, which, the suit claims, was part of a conspiracy between Roger Stone and the Trump campaign.

According to a report in The New York Times published at the time of the suit's filing, "Mr. Trump and his political advisers, including Mr. Stone, have repeatedly denied colluding with Russia, and the 44-page complaint, filed on Wednesday in the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, does not contain any hard evidence that his campaign did."

In a new development, in early December, 14 former high-ranking US intelligence and national-security officials, including former deputy secretary of state William Burns; former CIA director John Brennan; former director of national intelligence James Clapper; and former ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul (a longtime proponent of democracy promotion, which presumably includes free speech), filed an amicus brief as part of the lawsuit.
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SOTT Focus: Do you have Russian ancestry? If so, the Senate Intel Committee may want to interrogate you for being a Russian spy

Harrison Koehli
Sott.net
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 16:50 UTC
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The witch-hunt otherwise known as Russiagate just descended to a new low. In a letter to GotNews Editor-in-Chief Charles C. Johnson's lawyer, the Senate Intelligence Committee requested Johnson hand over access to all his communications with anyone who Johnson knows, or has reason to believe, is Russian, or has Russian ancestry.

You read that right. Being a Russian national isn't enough. Even having Russian ancestry isn't enough (the descendants of Russians who fled the revolution a century ago are all agents of Putin, after all). No, anyone who Johnson might even have reason to believe might have a bit of those "deceptive" Russian genes is fair game.

When did we leave planet Earth and enter George Orwell's nightmare?

Even left-leaning journalists are horrified - and they should be. Michael Tracey posted the letter on Twitter, which was sent on December 19.

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Bad Guys

Operation Inherent Resolve: US-led anti-ISIS coalition admits 'at least 817' civilian deaths, says 600 reports still unconfirmed


RT
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 21:02 UTC
F/A-18A Hornet, engaged in the mission against Islamic State
© Operation Inherent ResolveF/A-18A Hornet, engaged in the mission against Islamic State
The US-led authority coordinating military efforts against ISIS has published the latest casualty figures for its airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, insisting the terrorist group "remains a regional and global threat."

"To date, based on information available, CJTF-OIR assesses at least 817 civilians have been unintentionally killed by Coalition strikes since the start of Operation Inherent Resolve. A total of 603 reports are still open," said the November update from the Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) published Thursday.

Over the past month, the Coalition has assessed 101 reports of potential casualties, judging only nine to be credible. The total civilian death toll has ballooned from16 to 801 a month ago.

Comment: See also:

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Trump's last laugh: Sweeping benefits of GOP tax law confirmed by CBS News Report, Bernie Sanders

Guy Benson
Town Hall
Wed, 27 Dec 2017 19:52 UTC
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One recipient of Trump's tax cut
We've been having some fun at the expense of Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party's literally apocalyptic hyperbole and rhetorical overreach about the new tax reform law, showcasing examples of businesses -- large and small -- that are celebrating passage of the landmark legislation by paying out employee bonuses, raising wages, expanding, and making charitable investments. For what it's worth, here are a few additional examples that have cropped up since our last pre-Christmas post on the matter. As we await more announcements from corporations and small businesses across the country in the new year, I'd like to go back and underscore two significant developments that Matt covered over the holidays -- they're both really important.

First, in a video I flagged as "must watch" on Twitter, CBS News delved into the personal finances of three families across the country to determine how the new tax law will impact them. Each household cut distinct profiles; a low-income single mother in North Carolina, a pair of middle-income married educators in Rhode Island, and married small business owners with three kids in California. One thing that all three families had in common: Anxiety about the GOP plan. None of them were optimistic about how the new system will affect their pocketbooks, with two families explicitly anticipating a tax hike. This reflects widespread public opposition to the bill, driven by aggressive misinformation from the Left. When an accountant ran the actual numbers, however, all three households discovered that their tax burden was going down. Watch the entire thing:
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The Islamization of Europe as Christmas 'gift'

Soeren Kern
Gatestone Institute
Sun, 24 Dec 2017 20:17 UTC
Christmas gifts
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  • The re-theologizing of Christmas is based on the false premise that the Jesus of the Bible is the Jesus (Isa) of the Koran. This religious fusion, sometimes referred to as "Chrislam," is gaining ground in a West that has become biblically illiterate.
  • A school in Lüneburg postponed a Christmas party after a Muslim student complained that the singing of Christmas carols during school was incompatible with Islam. Alexander Gauland, the leader of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD), said the school's action was "an unbearable, involuntary submission to Islam" and amounted to a "cowardly injustice" toward non-Muslim children.
  • "The word 'Christmas,' a symbol of our faith and our culture, does not discriminate against anyone. Striking the emblems of Christmas does not guarantee anyone's respect, does not produce a welcoming and inclusive school and society, but fosters intolerance towards our culture, our customs, our laws and our traditions. We firmly believe that our traditions must be respected." - Milan politician Samuele Piscina.
This year's Christmas season has been marked by Islam-related controversies in nearly every European country. Most of the conflicts have been generated by Europe's multicultural political and religious elites, who are bending over backwards to secularize Christmas, ostensibly to ensure that Muslims will not be offended by the Christian festival.

Many traditional Christmas markets have been renamed - Amsterdam Winter Parade, Brussels Winter Pleasures, Kreuzberger Wintermarkt, London Winterville, Munich Winter Festival - to project a multicultural veneer of secular tolerance.

More troubling are the growing efforts to Islamize Christmas. The re-theologizing of Christmas is based on the false premise that the Jesus of the Bible is the Jesus (Isa) of the Koran. This religious fusion, sometimes referred to as "Chrislam," is gaining ground in a West that has become biblically illiterate.
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Spain arrests Catalan leaders for 'instigating hate' against Spanish police


TeleSur
Wed, 27 Dec 2017 00:01 UTC
Catalonian Flag Catalan
© ReutersCatalan separatist "Estelada" flags fly along with tourist merchandise at a shop in Barcelona, December 22, 2017.
The Spanish judge who had Oriol Ciurana and Marta Llorens arrested Wednesday had attempted to question the two twice before, but they reportedly avoided testifying.

Pro-independence Catalan councilors have been arrested for "instigating hate" against the Spanish National Police during October demonstrations in the Catalan city of Reus, just south of Barcelona.

The Spanish judge who had Oriol Ciurana and Marta Llorens - both members of the left-leaning Popular Unity Candidacy, or CUP party - arrested Wednesday had attempted to question the two twice before, but they reportedly avoided testifying.

Comment: What a trumped up charge. No one incited "police hate" except for the police themselves with their violent over-the-top reactions to a peaceful vote.

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Flashback Croatian island airport becomes Pentagon hub shipping arms to Syrian 'rebels'

Ivan Angelovski, Lawrence Marzouk, Jelena Cosic
Balkan Insight
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 17:17 UTC
Pentagon military cargo airplane weapons Middle East Ryanair
© Nacional (Zagreb)Pentagon commissioned planes carrying military cargo to the Middle East (left) have been sharing a runway with low-cost airlines such as this Ryanair plane.


A small airport on a Croatian island has become an important but unofficial logistical base for Pentagon shipments to the Middle East, likely including arms for Syrian rebels.

Low-cost airlines packed with sun-seekers are the norm for Rijeka airport on the Croatian island of Krk.

But since April, they have been sharing a runway with vast cargo planes carrying munitions and unidentified military supplies for the Pentagon's wars in the Middle East, the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network has discovered.

Reporters have identified 14 cargo flights in the past six months carrying, or probably carrying, Eastern Bloc-style weapons and ammunition for the US military.

Air traffic control at Rijeka declined to comment on the planes' cargo, but admitted that there had been "many more" of these types of flights this year.

The upsurge appears to be the result of the Pentagon's decision to switch its arms supply-line route to Syria away from Germany.

Comment: For further context, please read:
Leaked Documents Expose How US and Gulf Allies Send Weapons to Terrorists Under Diplomatic Cover

Bulgarian investigative journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva has been fired from her job at the Trud newspaper in Bulgaria after reporting how the CIA (and others) run a covert operation where US defense contractors are used to procure weapons from Bulgarian and other East European arms manufacturers and send them to terrorist groups around the world, including al-Qaeda/al-Nusra/ISIS in Syria.

While in Aleppo in December 2016, Gaytandzhieva obtained access to underground weapons storage areas belonging to al-Nusra Front, the terrorist group that was routed from Aleppo by the Syrian Arab Army and the Russian military. In the storage areas Gaytandzhieva found boxes of weapons that displayed airway bill numbers, packing lists and other markings that proved they had come from Bulgarian manufacturers.

More recently, Gaytandzhieva received documents from an anonymous source that included correspondence between the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the embassy of Azerbaijan in Bulgaria. The leaked documents detail the purchase and movement of tons of weapons to and from European and Middle Eastern nations. The weapons were picked up and flown to their destinations by Azerbaijani (Azeri) national cargo airline Silk Way Airlines under Azeri diplomatic cover in order to avoid inspection.

According to the documents, Silk Way provided weapons transportation flights under diplomatic cover to private companies and arms manufacturers from the USA, the Balkans and Israel, as well as to the militaries of Saudi Arabia, UAE and the US Special Operations Command (USSCOM). The militaries of Germany and Denmark in Afghanistan, and the Swedish military in Iraq, have also availed themselves of the services of Silk Way, the documents show. [...]


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Well, well, well: Justice Dept says Obama admin mishandled sex abuse allegations for years

Amy Moreno
Truthfeed News
Thu, 28 Dec 2017 18:51 UTC
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Well, well, well, look who was not properly handling sex abuse and groping allegations.....

The "feminist" Obama administration, according to a scolding they received on Wednesday following a scathing report which highlighted their neglectful behavior.

From Fox News:

The Justice Department scolded the Obama administration on Wednesday following a report on how sexual harassment of all kinds was improperly handled at the department for years.

The Washington Post reported that the DOJ's inspector general had found "systemic" problems with how complaints were addressed, with offending officials often being let off the hook or even rewarded. The article cited investigative reports on a lawyer who allegedly groped two female attorneys and a top U.S. Marshals official who had sex with "approximately" nine women in his office.

Comment: So much for feminist Obama. Remember it was this admin that brought in Title IX.

Trump wants Congress to release names of lawmakers who have settled sexual harassment claims

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