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Pentagon openly threatens to shoot down Russian jets over Eastern Syria

Marko Marjanović
Checkpoint Asia
Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
Military jet
© Sputnik
Pentagon actually refers to eastern Syria as "our airspace" as it graduates from implicit to open threats.

Two weeks ago I wondered if heightened Pentagon rhetoric about "unsafe Russian flying practices" in Syria was to prepare the media for a possible shoot down of a Russian plane by the US. Now the US has moved on to openly threatening to do so.

Recall, on November 24th CNN ran an article whereby according to unnamed officials poor US pilots were being "subjected to unsafe Russian flying practices". This followed a report a week earlier where an unidentified Pentagon officer spoke about "threatening" and "potentially threatening" Russian aircraft and their "increasingly alarming behavior" (which later in the article simply turned out to be Russians flying in weapons range of US assets on the ground).
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Trump's top intel official spied for George Soros

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
SorMcMaTrump
© The Free Thought Project
A member of the Trump transition team and former CIA paramilitary officer, John R. Maguire, reportedly revealed during a meeting prior to an intelligence-gathering operation in Afghanistan, that President Trump's National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster - the highest-ranking intelligence official in the U.S. government - "authorized surveillance of Steven Bannon and Trump family members, including Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump," then proceeded to send the collected data to a surveillance facility in Cyprus owned by billionaire globalist George Soros, according to The Gateway Pundit.

Additionally, according to a report by The Intercept:
"[Maguire] said there were people inside the CIA who joined in the previous eight years [under Obama] and inside the government and they were failing to give the president the intelligence he needed," said a person who was pitched by Maguire and other Amyntor personnel. To support his claim, Maguire told at least two people that National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, in coordination with a top official at the National Security Agency, authorized surveillance of Steven Bannon and Trump family members, including Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. Adding to these unsubstantiated claims, Maguire told the potential donors he also had evidence H.R. McMaster used a burner phone to send information gathered through the surveillance to a facility in Cyprus owned by George Soros.
For those unfamiliar with Soros, he is a champion of progressive causes globally and funds his Open Society Foundation to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. Although operating under the guise of a global philanthropist, Soros works to fund NGOs as a means of destabilizing targeted governments.

Comment: Had the various ploys and attempts at sabotaging the Trump administration not come under such intense scrutiny, the dot connecting of a deeper layer of collusion may have gone undetected. All that is suspect may not be true, but there are more than enough questions and pieces of evidence up for serious consideration.

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Bandaid

Tillerson hard-pressed to heal trans-Atlantic rifts


New China
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 06:38 UTC
Tillerson/Le Drian
© REUTERS/Philippe WojazerU.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks with French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian at the Lebanon International Support Group meeting in Paris this month.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday wrapped up a five-day three-nation Europe visit which, experts said, was unlikely to heal the expanding trans-Atlantic rifts on the relevant regional and global issues. The absence of any summary of the tour, which took him to Brussels, Vienna and Paris, and which is the 7th of its kind since Tillerson took office in February, also indicated the fruitlessness of the visit, said experts.

MIDDLE EAST RIFTS

The tour, which aims to ease the rising tensions between Washington and Brussels, had been overshadowed before it even started on Monday by rumors of Trump's possible Jerusalem-related decision later.

After Trump made the highly controversial announcement on Wednesday in which he recognizes Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and orders the U.S. embassy in Israel to move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Tillerson has spent most of his remaining tour peddling Trump's justification to upset European allies.

Bilateral grudges were also detonated by Trump's retweeting of anti-Muslim posts, as British Prime Minister Theresa May, among European leaders, said Trump's posts were "wrong", and Trump later snapped by suggesting May to focus on her country's own security.

Comment: Trust issues. If Trump's goal is to single-handedly decrease EU dependency on the US, he may put a check mark in the box on that idea.

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Star of David

Analyst: Two-state solution for Israel-Palestine has been dealt a lethal blow


Sputnik
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:22 UTC
Israelipoliceworshipers
© Business InsiderIsraeli police and Palestinians in prayer, Jerusalem old city.
US President Donald Trump's December 6 decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has been condemned by the international community and the Arab League. Speaking to Radio Sputnik Israel Shamir, an international relations analyst said that Trump's move has dealt a lethal blow to the two-state solution of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis.

Sputnik: While the Arab League has said that Washington terminated its neutrality in the region, some experts have argued that the US has never been neutral in this bitter conflict, what is your take on that?

Israel Shamir: Well, it seems to be the result of him [Trump] building up two different things: one is a coalition that will support him [Trump] internally in the United States and there he needs some parts of the Jewish establishment to lean upon. While the liberal Jews are against him he decided to choose for the Jewish Zionists who also have a strong voice within the American establishment and to look for their support. And externally there is, let's say, a new axis being built - let's call this "an axis of goodness" - that is the axis of New York - Tel Aviv - Riyadh. And this second axis of goodness (because they called their enemies an "axis of evil") they seem to build a new idea that they can remake the Middle East. Then we know that the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, [Mohammad bin Salman], is a person of great ambitions, the person of great daring but not very successful, not very lucky. So now it seems that this decision by Trump which was done on his hope that it will be supported by the Saudis, but the Saudis also could not support it publicly. And whether they support it within their hearts or not we still don't know but in a few days on 13th of the month [December] there will be a big Islamic summit in Istanbul and that will a kind of give us a little bit more insight about what will happen.

Comment: Time to pivot to a new dynamic on behalf of Muslim heritage and the plight of Palestinians.

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Pirates

Where to go? 'Terrorist migration' to Afghanistan as the next ISIS stronghold is one option


RT
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 01:36 UTC
ISIS truck
© Global Look Press"You're traveling through another desert, a desert not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a barren land whose boundaries are that of terrorism. That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, Afghanistan."
Decades of instability and weakened security forces make Afghanistan one of the most probable new IS destinations after the terrorist group's defeat in Syria and Iraq, Nikita Mendkovich, political analyst at the Russian International Affairs Council, told RT.

The Iraqi government announced Sunday that the country was "totally liberated" from terrorists and that the war against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has ended.

Earlier this week, Russia's General Staff said "all terrorist units of IS on Syrian soil have been destroyed, and the territory is liberated."

Surviving militants have been fleeing the two countries, with Afghanistan becoming the "most probable" new foothold for IS, Mendkovich said. "There has been long time instability in Afghanistan and a high level of terrorist activity in the context of the weakness of the governmental security agencies," he said. Mendkovich was referring to the decades of fruitless struggle against the Taliban by US-led intervention forces and Afghan authorities. US troops have been in Afghanistan since 2001.
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Star of David

Erdogan: 'Israel is a state of occupation, and Jerusalem is a red line for Muslims'


Yahoo News
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday described Israel as a "state of occupation" which used "terror" against the Palestinians, as he stepped up his criticism of the US recognition of Jerusalem as its capital.

Erdogan has been bitterly opposed to the decision of US President Donald Trump to recognise Jerusalem and has called a summit of Islamic countries on December 13 in Istanbul.

"Israel is a state of occupation," Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul, referring to Israel's continued occupation of the West Bank and settlement building. "And now they are making use of terror and are bombing young people and children," he said.

Retaliatory Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip killed two militants from Palestinian Islamist group Hamas before dawn, bringing to four the number killed since Trump announced the move.

Erdogan, who regards himself as a champion of the Palestinian cause and an opponent of any perceived global injustice against Muslims, described Jerusalem as the "apple of our eye" and a "red line" for Muslims.
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Arrow Up

Supreme Court ruling benefits Trump's bid to defend DACA cancellation

Kevin Daley
The Daily Caller
Fri, 08 Dec 2017 08:31 UTC
DACA signs
© Los Angeles Times
A closely divided Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to shield documents relating to the cancellation of DACA, an Obama-era amnesty initiative that extended temporary legal status to foreign nationals who illegally entered the country as children.

The Court divided five to four along ideological lines in a late Friday ruling that temporarily permits the administration to conceal records relating to the program. Justice Stephen Breyer dissented from the decision, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan.

The ruling is likely a boon to Trump's efforts to defend DACA's termination.

"The Department of Justice is pleased with the Supreme Court's decision today putting on hold the district court's overreach," DOJ spokesman Devin O'Malley said. "The Department of Homeland Security acted within its lawful authority in deciding to wind down DACA in an orderly manner, and the Justice Department believes the courts will ultimately agree."

The case was occasioned when a coalition of four states sued the administration over its September decision to end DACA, which has benefited some 800,000 individuals. Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, now president of the University of California system, also joined with the plaintiffs.
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Star of David

Israel's London embassy holds chemical training drill in prep for a terrorist attack


RT
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 10:20 UTC
greenmen
© Ian Hodgson / ReutersIsrael's attention-catching 'green men' terrorist drill
Armed police in biohazard suits swarmed the Israeli embassy in London during a training exercise for a chemical terrorism attack. Emergency services rehearsed their response to "casualties effected by a noxious substance."

The drill, which was the first of its kind to take place in a foreign embassy in the capital, saw decontamination tents erected in a section of the building that was cordoned off on Sunday. Paramedics in biohazard suits treated 50 'casualties' played by Royal Military Police personnel, who were put through decontamination showers.

It comes at a time when Israeli-owned institutions are on high alert. Officials say the drill was planned well in advance, however, and was unconnected to protests around the world in the wake of US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Trump's move is controversial since the city is a holy site for a number of religions. It is home to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam, and is looked to as the capital of a future Palestinian state. The US president has been accused of squandering years of diplomatic peace efforts between the Israelis and Palestinians.


Comment: One can hardly say Trump squandered years of peace efforts...they were sabotaged or refused.


Comment: Is there something up and coming in order to instill fear in the populace and create a new, manipulatable dynamic for the PTB?

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US, S. Korea, Japan begin joint provocation drills aimed at stirring tensions with N. Korea


RT
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:08 UTC
USS Stethem
© US NavyUSS Stethem
Washington, Seoul and Tokyo have have begun joint "missile tracking" drills, South Korea's military said. The new round of military exercises comes just days after the US and its allies concluded the largest ever air maneuvers over the peninsula.

The exercises kicked off Monday amid speculation that North Korea may soon test launch a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), South Korea's military announced, according to the Yonhap news agency.

Two US Aegis destroyers - USS Stethem and USS Decatur - are leading the war games along with South Korea's Seoae Ryu Seong Ryong Aegis destroyer, and Japan's Chokai Aegis vessel. During the exercises, the three navies aim to polish their skills at detecting and tracking potential ballistic missiles using a computer-simulated training module.
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Former Waffle House employee summons inner SJW to attack Trump with backwoods taunt

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:50 UTC
Nikki Haley
© CBS
US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley has been a very public cheerleader for Donald Trump's controversial Jerusalem/al-Quds declaration, however, it seems that in terms of Haley's own career ambitions, Trump is standing in her way.

The woman described by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as spewing "bloodthirsty" tirades and by North Korea as "political prostitute...crazily swishing her skirt, playing the flagship role in Trump administration's hideous sanctions and pressure racket against the DPRK", seems to be doing what I personally predicted in May of this year-she's gunning for the top job in the US.

During the heavily fraught 2016 US election, pro-Clinton media attempted to cast Donald Trump as a man who had "attacked" women. However, the allegations were later exposed as baseless and the election continued with Trump ultimately securing victory.
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