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Zakharova: U.S. demeanor in Syria to the definition of "occupation"

Bill Oliver
Essence of Time
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 14:54 UTC
War USA
© War. USA, author: OpenClipart-Vectors, license: CC0 1.0
On November 23, Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, promptly responded to a publication by The Washington Post which announced U.S. plans to establish a new local government in northern Syria, Interfax reports.

Zakharova stressed that the ongoing presence of American troops on the territory in the republic is "contrary to the will of the legitimate government of Syria". She also noted that "in fact, such behavior [by the U.S. ― Rossa Primavera Information Agency] is close to the definition of 'occupation".
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Question

General Michael Flynn cuts ties with Trump's legal team...is Mueller trying to force him to flip?

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 14:36 UTC
Michael Flynn
Retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn
Attorneys for retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn have cut ties with President Trump's legal team.

Did special counsel Robert Mueller finally get to Michael Flynn, and do what he could not do to Paul Manafort...pressure the former General to provide some sort of evidence that POTUS Trump was colluding with Russia to steal the election away from Hillary?

We will let The Duran's Alexander Mercouris and Adam Garrie weigh in on the evidence and consequences for Flynn going forward.

For now, Micheal Flynn may be Mueller's last hope to justify the millions spent to investigate Hillary Clinton's Fusion GPS dossier...and turn a fictitious document into some sort of reality.

The New York Times is reporting that attorneys for retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn have cut ties with President Trump's legal team, raising questions if the former national security adviser is "cooperating with prosecutors or negotiating a deal" with Robert Mueller in the Special Counsel's Russia collusion investigation.

Comment: The witchhunt continues with Mueller's desperate attempt to weave the thinnest tissue of innuendo against Flynn into something credible. Manafort on the other hand does have a shady past,however his alleged sins were long before his association with Trump. But that doesn't excuse the extraordinary measures Mueller has unleashed against him:

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Lemon

UK plans to waste £100 million tax dollars making up non-existent threats about Russia in Eastern Europe


RT
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 14:39 UTC
Putin Theresa May
© Alexey Druzhinin / ReutersRussian President Vladimir Putin meets with British Prime Minister Theresa May as part of the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, China, September 4, 2016
The UK plans to spend £100 million over five years to counter what it calls a Russian "disinformation" campaign, Downing Street has said, releasing key points of PM Theresa May's Eastern Partnership summit speech where she plans to fully outline her anti-Russia strategy.

Delegations from EU member states and representatives of six Eastern European countries are scheduled to convene for the 5th Eastern Partnership (EaP) summit in Brussels Friday. Britain, which is leaving the EU in March 2019, is sketching its plan for Eastern Europe - a vision that is firmly focused on countering Russian influence in the region.

Comment: Following the US' absurd and self-destructive anti-Russian policy, the UK is committing themselves to fighting windmills. With idiotic leaders like this, no outside 'threat' is needed to destabilize the West. They're doing it all themselves.

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Snakes in Suits

Pressure mounts on Congress to disclose who 'secretly settled' harassment claims at taxpayer expense

Rachael Bade Elana Schor
Politico
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 13:50 UTC
US Senate Capitol Hill Congress
© Zach Gibson/AFP/Getty Images
Lawmakers in both parties say members of Congress shouldn't be allowed to use taxpayer money to settle harassment claims without being named.

Pressure is mounting on congressional leaders to release the names of lawmakers who have secretly settled sexual harassment claims at taxpayer expense - a move that some members of Congress are loath to make.

President Donald Trump told reporters this week that he believes Congress should disclose the settlements. A handful of House members from both parties are calling on Republican leadership to do the same.
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Ethics investigation begins after Conyers confirms harassment deal


Breitbart
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 13:50 UTC
Rep. John Conyers conference
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John Conyers has dealt with various ethics investigations and a public corruption case that landed his wife in prison during a U.S. House career spanning more than five decades - longer than any other current member.

Allegations that the 88-year-old Michigan Democrat sexually harassed female staff members may be the toughest opponent yet for the party's top member on the House Judiciary Committee.

"He's not as sharp as he used to be," said Adolph Mongo, a longtime follower of Detroit politics who has worked on mayoral campaigns. "This is a young person's game now. You hate to see somebody who has put in 50 years ... go out like this."
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Russia demands US State Dept shut down Ukrainian 'journalist hit-list' website


Fort Russ
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 13:51 UTC
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
© Sputnik/ Natalia SeliverstovaRussian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent a note to the US State Department in connection with the Mirotvoretz "Peacemaker" site. It publishes the personal information of journalists covering events in the Donbass, and has switched to US servers, TASS reported.

At the moment, there has been no response from the American side. This was reported to journalists on Thursday by Maria Zakharova, the Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"We sent a note to the US Department of State, about the characteristics of the" Peacemaker " portal, and this document contains a demand to deny US registration for it, as more than one journalist has suffered from the activities of this so-called peacekeeping site," she said. "There has yet been no official response to our appeal, but we will keep this topic under special watch."
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Megaphone

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman slams Iranian supreme leader as 'new Hitler of Middle East'


Sputnik
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 13:20 UTC
Saudi Crown Prince
© AFP 2017/ ALAIN JOCARD
Saudi relations with Iran have further deteriorated after Yemeni Houthi rebels launched a missile targeting Riyadh earlier this month.

"[Iran's] supreme leader is the new Hitler of the Middle East. But we've learned from Europe that appeasement doesn't work. We don't want the new Hitler in Iran to repeat what happened in Europe in the Middle East," Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman told The New York Times.

Saudi Arabia broke off diplomatic relations with Iran in January 2016 after attacks on its diplomatic missions in Tehran and Mashhad, provoked by the execution of top Iranian Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, along with 42 other people convicted of terrorism, by Riyadh. One of the leaders of the Arab Sunni world, Bahrain, as well as Sudan and Djibouti also cut diplomatic relations with Iran in solidarity with Riyadh.

Comment: Its not really surprising that Mohammed bin Salman would resort to Reductio ad Hitlerum, given the hard line he's been taking with Iran since rising to prominence. See:

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Shoe

Senator McFake: John McCain busted wearing medical walking boot on wrong (uninjured) leg for wedding photo


True Pundit
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 13:12 UTC
John McCain fake wrong leg medical walking boot
Arizona has a Senator Flake and now a Senator Fake.

It appears John McCain is faking his supposed Achilles injury. There is no other way to explain this.

McCain has been wearing a walking boot on his right leg for weeks. Now the walking boot is on his left leg.

Perhaps the good senator had too many pre-wedding cocktails before his daughter's ceremony at the family's $15 million mountain compound and forgot which Achilles was supposedly torn. This guy truly is a piece of work.

Comment: Somebody have pity on the poor old man - he can't even remember which leg he had pretended to have injured the day before! But then that's what happens when you lie a lot - you can't keep track of your own lies. Perhaps he should wear the boot on his head instead?

As criminal scandals implicating McCain unfold, 'declining' health has become an off-broadway production

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Snakes in Suits

Zimbabwe's new president Emmerson Mnangagwa sworn in


The Irish Times
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 07:44 UTC
Emmerson Mnangagwa
© AP Photo/Ben CurtisEmmerson Mnangagwa and his wife Auxillia arrive at the presidential inauguration ceremony in the capital Harare, Zimbabwe, on Friday.
Emmerson Mnangagwa was sworn in on Friday as president of Zimbabwe in front of thousands of cheering supporters at Harare's national stadium, bringing the final curtain down on the 37-year rule of Robert Mugabe.

Taking his oath of office, the former security chief known as "The Crocodile" vowed to uphold the constitution of the former British colony and protect the rights of all Zimbabwe's 16 million citizens.

Even though most Zimbabweans celebrated the exit of Mr Mugabe (93), who presided over the descent into penury and despotism of one of Africa's brightest prospects, some are worried about the future under Mr Mnangagwa (75).

In particular, they question his role in the so-called Gukurahundi massacres in Matabeleland in 1983, when an estimated 20,000 people were killed in a crackdown on Mugabe opponents by the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade.

Mr Mnangagwa has denied any part in the atrocities and since his return to Zimbabwe after two weeks in hiding has been preaching democracy, tolerance and respect for the rule of law.

"The people have spoken. The voice of the people is the voice of God," he told thousands of supporters on Wednesday at the headquarters of his ruling ZANU-PF party.

Comment: With Mnangagwa now in power, it seems like there will continue to be relations between China and Zimbabwe, much to the chagrin of the US no doubt. See also:

End of the road for Robert Mugabe? Military tanks on streets of Harare - China denies involvement in apparent Zimbabwe coup

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Stormtrooper

Imperial logic: Israel arrests Palestinians accused of carrying out a population census

Ibrahim Husseini
Al Jazeera
Wed, 22 Nov 2017 12:50 UTC
Israel Palestine East Jerusalem Israeli police
© M Kahana/AFPIsrael's annexation of East Jerusalem is not recognised by the international community.
Israeli police have arrested several Palestinians, including members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' political party, Fatah, and accused them of carrying out a population census in occupied East Jerusalem.

Muhammad Mahmoud, a lawyer representing some of the detainees, told Al Jazeera that five Fatah members, including Hatem Abdel Qader, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council for the Jerusalem district, were arrested and had their detention subsequently extended because of their "illegal work with the PA [Palestinian Authority]".

An Israeli judge extended the detention of Aseel Hasoneh, Issam Khatib and Musab Abbas to November 27, Mahmoud said. Hatem Abdel Qader and Arafat Musa were given house arrest for five days and ordered to pay a $570 bail.

Abdel Qader was imprisoned by Israeli police for five days in July on grounds of "incitement".
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