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FBI clears Afghan & Pakistani asylum seekers of ISIS ties, deported from US anyway


RT
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 21:13 UTC
The border wall at the US - Mexico border
© Dimitrios Manis / Global Look PressThe border wall at the US - Mexico border
Half a dozen men from Afghanistan and Pakistan who crossed the US-Mexico border illegally to seek refuge were deported after being cleared of ties to ISIS. Their arrests were cited by local and federal officials to call for increased border militarization.

The six men were detained by Border Patrol after crossing the US-Mexico border in November 2015. They were then investigated by the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the FBI. CBP said that record checks on the immigrants "revealed no derogatory information." As news of the arrests spread, politicians and several media outlets claimed the men had ties to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and called for an increase in border militarization.

"News like this is very troubling, especially in light of new threats on the United States from ISIS in a video released in just the last 24 hours," Arizona Governor Doug Ducey said following the arrests. "I will personally be making the case for enhanced security along our border to build on the efforts already underway."

Fox News reported that "Islamic State militants could be probing security."
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Erdogan slams corruption claims against him, says he'll resign if allegations proven true


Sputnik
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 21:18 UTC
Erdogan
© REUTERS/ UMIT BEKTAS
Erdogan's lawyers have appealed to the court against an opposition figure, demanding $380,000 in compensation for the president's defamation.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to resign if the head of the country's main opposition party Kemal Kilichdaroglu manages to prove allegations of corruption against him.

"If you have any proof, please provide it. And I will give an answer. Otherwise, say that you have slandered me and apologize. Let [Kylychdaroglu] prove in which foreign bank Tayyip Erdogan has an account. If he fails to do so, let him leave politics. And if he does [prove it], then I will leave my post," Erdogan said as broadcasted by the NTV television channel.
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The Mossad-inspired spy company that protected Weinstein operates in London and should be investigated

Asa Winstanley
Middle East Monitor
Sat, 25 Nov 2017 12:22 UTC
Black Cube
You'd be forgiven for thinking that the story was the paranoid raving of the strangest of conspiracy theorists, but it's true; alleged multiple-rapist and disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein really did hire former agents of Israel's Mossad spy agency to snoop on his accusers and on journalists who were planning to report the story that has rocked the world since the start of October.

In a long and meticulous investigative report published by The New Yorker earlier this month, journalist Dylan Farrow broke the news that Weinstein hired Israel's Black Cube to spy on Rose McGowan - who accuses him of rape - and on Ben Wallace, a reporter at New York Magazine whose story on Weinstein was ultimately spiked by his editors.

Hired via Weinstein's lawyer - to ensure the secrecy provided by attorney-client privilege - the Israeli firm went to extreme lengths to get dirt on McGowan. According to The New Yorker report, the firm dispatched a former Israeli military officer to pose as a women's rights activist, whilst hinting to Wallace that she also had an allegation to make against Weinstein.

Comment: It is entirely possible that Black Cube was actually working at dual purposes here. The first, as Weinstein's hired gun as the article suggests. But what if this corporation was also getting a lay of the metoo land - and at the same time ensuring that the scandal reached its full potential as a media campaign to scare the wits out of - and therefore gain greater control over - all those people in the media and in government who had something to hide. Sex - and the blackmail over revelations of sex scandals - is, after all, the MO of Mossad.

If this sounds implausible, just consider these stories:

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Trump stands by Roy Moore, despite loss of support from most Republicans


RT
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 07:08 UTC
Roy Moore
© Marvin Gentry / ReutersRepublican candidate Moore along with his wife
Donald Trump launched a scathing attack on Roy Moore's opponent in the race to fill the Alabama Senate seat left vacant by Jeff Sessions, seemingly reiterating his support for Moore, who has been accused of sexual misconduct.

The US President took to his favored platform, Twitter, to lambast Jones, saying "Jones would be a disaster!" if elected to office. His opponent in the race has been embroiled in scandal following accusations in the Washington Post that he initiated a sexual encounter with a 14 year-old girl in 1979. Moore was 32 at the time.

The Post further reported that three other women, then aged between 16 and 18, now also allege that Moore, described as a 'firebrand judge', pursued them when he was in his early thirties.

Comment: See also:

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Propaganda: 'Iraqi hackers' fill official ISIS channels with pornographic pictures

Hannah Lawrence
Independent, UK
Sat, 25 Nov 2017 18:58 UTC
ISIS flag
© JM Lopez/AFP/Getty Images
Hackers have targeted Isis by slipping pornographic images into its official communication channels.

Members of the Iraqi hacking group, Daeshgram, said they wanted to show distrust among Isis supporters about messages from the group's leaders, according to Newsweek.

In one image the hackers photo-shopped an image of a naked woman into an announcement about a media centre which was being opened in a part of Isis-controlled Syria. The image made it look as though Isis leaders had been viewing pornographic images.
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Bring it on! Representative Conyers' lawyer hints he will take down many other congressional harassers if pursued too hard

Thomas Lifson
American Thinker
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
Congressman Conyers
We have already reached the cornered animal stage of Democrats caught up in the sexual harassment hysteria. Is there anything more amusing than watching your enemies play a game of chicken with each other, threatening mutual assured destruction? Even better: a threat that comes written in all caps, the cyber-equivalent of shouting, hinting that "many members" could find themselves in a similarly difficult situation.

Peter Hasson describes for the Daily Caller the remarkable vague threat emanating for the attorney representing John Conyers:
The attorney for Democratic Michigan Rep. John Conyers, who is accused of continuously sexually harassing his female staffers, defended Conyers by indicating that there are allegations against "many members" of the House and Senate.

Conyers' attorney, Arnold E. Reed, released a statement defending the Michigan Democrat and pushing back against the "disturbing allegations." The bizarre statement was written in all-CAPS and referred to both Reed and Conyers in the third person.

Comment: The Democratic Party is now coming apart at the seams over yet another scandal with wide-ranging implications:

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Saving Private Merkel: The SPD establishment rushes to the rescue

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:14 UTC
SchulzMerkel
© Yves Herman/ReutersMartin Schulz (SPD) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Desperate to avoid an election SPD leadership reverses itself and talks to Merkel about propping her up as Chancellor.

Days after the collapse of the coalition talks in Berlin German Chancellor Angela Merkel has found a not-so-unlikely saviour in the form of the leadership of the SPD, Germany's biggest 'opposition' party and her partner in the outgoing coalition.

After the SPD's dismal showing in the September parliamentary elections - when the SPD's share of the vote was a paltry 20.5% - the SPD's leadership led by the party's leader Martin Schulz vowed that the SPD would not enter into any further coalition with Angela Merkel.

The idea was that the SDP, having been badly damaged by its all-too-close association with Merkel in two coalition governments, urgently needed to distance itself from Merkel so that it could start to reconnect with its increasingly angry and alienated working class base. In addition SPD leader Martin Schulz said it would be wrong for the SPD to forge a new coalition with Merkel after the SPD's previous coalition with Merkel was electorally hammered by German voters in the September election.

That was a clear and straightforward position, easily understandable by the SPD's membership and electoral base, and one which makes total political sense.

However following the collapse of the talks between Merkel and the FDP and the Greens to form a so-called 'Jamaica coalition' the SPD at the insistence of President Steinmeier (previously one of the SPD's most senior leaders) reversed itself. Following a tense eight hour discussion on Thursday it agreed to open talks with Merkel to look for ways to support her government. There is now even some talk of the SPD going into coalition with her again.
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Trump's secret ME war? US military presence up 33 percent in four months

John Haltiwanger
Newsweek
Tue, 21 Nov 2017 02:27 UTC
Trumpsoldiers
© Yahoo
President Donald Trump has increased the number of U.S. troops and civilians working for the Department of Defense in the Middle East to 54,180 from 40,517 in the past four months, representing a 33-percent rise. This number doesn't even account for the big rise in troops stationed in Afghanistan since Trump announced his new strategy for the fight against the Taliban in late August.

These figures, first pointed out on Twitter by Dr. Micah Zenko, a foreign policy expert, come from the Pentagon's quarterly reports on personnel. In other words, these numbers are no secret, which raises concerns about the apparent lack of discourse over the expansion of the U.S. military in a region in which it already has a long, complicated history.

Comment: Ignorance doesn't give the US constituency a pass, nor does keeping deployment facts and military operations quiet make acts that harm or kill civilians, rampant destruction and illegal occupation tolerable.

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Qatar calls out Saudi role in destabilizing Middle East and North Africa


Middle East Monitor
Sat, 25 Nov 2017 02:14 UTC
al-Thani
© Deccan Chronicle MediMohamed Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani
The Foreign Minister of Qatar said on Thursday that extremism in the Middle East is the result of authoritarianism, the Qatari News Agency has reported. Mohamed Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani expressed his sadness that the region has become a region of instability instead of peace and coexistence.

"People are suffering from rulers who seek authority, practice bad governance and strip their citizens of their human rights and dignity," the minister told an anti-terror conference in London sponsored by his government. "These people fall as prey to the extremist groups." Children in the region, he added, have lived through atrocities in Syria, under Daesh in Iraq as well as Syria, and in Yemen. "They are deprived of hope and a better future."

To deter terror, Al-Thani called for stability in the region. "This is one of the main ways to win the war on terror and deter violence," he insisted. "We need a political commitment to end struggles in the Middle East and North Africa."

Comment: Well that's progress of sorts. It's amazing what positive influences Russia's intervention in Syria is having. Arabian thugs reforming, who would have believed it possible?!

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Libya is a failed state (and it's all America's fault)

Ted Galen Carpenter
The National Interest
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 18:20 UTC
Lybian fighter
© REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-FetoriA member of the Libyan National Army holds his weapon during clashes with Islamist militants in Khreibish district in Benghazi, Libya.
When the Obama administration led a 2011 NATO military intervention on behalf of rebels seeking to overthrow Libyan dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi, there was considerable optimism that the move would produce a much better country. Although U.S. officials and their media cheerleaders acknowledged that significant challenges remained for a post-Qaddafi Libya, they argued that the outcome could scarcely be worse than the oppressive status quo. Events over the past six years have proven their assumptions spectacularly wrong. Libya is now a cauldron of turmoil and Islamic radicalism.

As Qaddafi's rule teetered, optimism in U.S. political and journalistic circles was pervasive. "Tripoli is slipping from the grasp of a tyrant," President Obama stated in August 2011. "The people of Libya are showing that the universal pursuit of dignity and freedom is far stronger than the iron fist of a dictator." Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham were equally gratified and positive. "The end of the Gadhafi regime is a victory for the Libyan people and the broader cause of freedom in the Middle East and throughout the world," they concluded. The two senators, along with their Republican colleagues, Mark Kirk and Marco Rubio, gushed during a visit to "liberated" Tripoli that the rebels had "inspired the world."
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