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Turkey and Qatar stage military drills amid Gulf diplomatic crisis


RT
Mon, 07 Aug 2017 13:16 UTC
Turkish trooper is seen in a tank
© Qatar News Agency / Reuters
Turkey and Qatar have staged joint military drills showcasing their strategic alliance, according to Qatari media. It comes after Turkish troops moved into Qatar following a diplomatic and transport blockade imposed against Doha by several Arab countries.

The drills were aimed at preparing Qatar's military to defend "vital economic, strategic and infrastructure facilities," Al-Sharq newspaper reported, as quoted by Reuters.

The exercises come after Turkish media reported that joint drills would be taking place August 6-7, with officials saying they would be aimed at "strengthening the defense capabilities of both countries" and "boosting efforts to combat armed groups and maintaining stability in the region."

According to Anadolu agency, Qatari Emiri Navy Commander Rear Admiral Mohammed Nasser al-Mohannadi visited the Turkish frigate 'TCG Gökova' last week, which is docked at Hamad Port in Qatar.
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Dollars

Russia will further reduce reliance on US dollar and payment systems in response to sanctions


RT
Mon, 07 Aug 2017 12:35 UTC
US dollar with calculator
© Natalia Seliverstova / Sputnik
The Russian government will intensify efforts to cut the country's dependence on US payment systems and the dollar as a settling currency, said Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov on Monday, as quoted by RIA Novosti.

"We will, of course, speed up the work on import substitution, reduce dependence on US payment systems, on the dollar as a settling currency and so on. It is becoming vitally important," said Ryabkov.

"The US is using its dominating role in the monetary and financial system to impose pressure on foreign business, including Russian companies," added the deputy minister.

After Washington imposed sanctions on Moscow in 2014, the MasterCard international payment system stopped serving clients of seven Russian banks without warning.
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Radar

Predictably N. Korea hits out after new UN sanctions: 'Big mistake for US to think it's safe'


RT
Mon, 07 Aug 2017 12:13 UTC
N. Korea missile system
© KCNA / Global Look Press
Pyongyang has criticized the new round of UN restrictions against it, promising to respond with "righteous action" and hinting that the US mainland cannot consider itself safe, North Korean state media reported.

Sanctions approved by all 15 members of the UN Security Council on Saturday outraged North Korea, which for years has refused to negotiate its nuclear program, instead accusing the US and its allies of aggression.

Pyongyang has promised to use "righteous action" in response, although without elaborating, North Korea's KCNA news agency reported, as cited by Reuters.

"It's a wild idea to think the DPRK will be shaken and change its position due to this kind of new sanctions formulated by hostile forces," AP cited the agency.
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Best of the Web: Will a Trump take-down result in a civil war?

Kit Daniels
Infowars
Sun, 06 Aug 2017 16:27 UTC
blurred trump at rally
© Justin Merriman / Getty
Americans - not Russians - elected Trump

Millions of Americans will revolt if the globalists remove President Trump from office or render him powerless, radio host Michael Savage warned.

Americans could even "resort to mob violence" because they'll have nothing to lose once they "are finally aware of the fact that they've been tricked by their society, and that no matter how hard they work as middle-class people" they have nothing to gain, the Savage Nation host said Friday.

"That is what's going to happen in this country," he pointed out. "You have not yet seen mob violence in this country. You've seen some mob violence instigated by George Soros' mobs."

Comment: What will happen remains to be seen, but one thing's for certain: the liberals are playing with fire in the tinderbox that is America.

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MIB

How the CIA bamboozled the public for 7 decades

Charles Burris
Lew Rockwell
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 22:35 UTC
CIA floor logo
© Saul Loeb / AFP
There are the important questions which matter and should be asked of anyone who discusses "politics." Unfortunately, most people are oblivious to seeking these deeper insights. They are deferential to what they learned in school and from their peers, from their willfully ignorant parents, and from the regime media.

They are unaware of the post-WWII creation by the National Security State of synthetic "liberal" and "conservative" ideological movements which sought to rationalize the projection of power and hegemony of the American empire. The American people have been pawns on the deep state's chessboard for seven decades.

One must employ what is labeled "Power Elite Analysis" or "Establishment Studies," the examination of causal relationships regarding the nature and scope of political power, who has it and how it is exercised, to understanding the nexus between the State and those who profit from its machinations. This is what researcher Peter Dale Scott calls "Deep Politics," the critical examination of the sub rosa reality behind surface events, an attempt to unmask the true face of power, exposing the elite social, economic, and financial groups and individuals who benefit from the exercise of State coercion. How is the corporatist welfare-warfare State enabled by the fractional reserve policies of the Fed? What is the true purpose of Military Keynesianism, the War on Drugs, and the US Empire of over 900 bases stretching across the planet? How do these policies impact on the grievous loss of civil liberties at home?
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Syria demands UN take action against US-led coalition due to constantly massacring civilians

Al Mayadeen - translated by Samer Hussein
Fort Russ
Sun, 06 Aug 2017 14:36 UTC
white phosphorus explosion
© Reuters
Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry has demanded the immediate cessation of the American-led "anti-ISIS" coalition bombardment of civilian areas in Syria, saying it constitutes a grave violation of international law and the international humanitarian law.

The Ministry repeated Syria's previous calls to end the violence and respect the international law, noting that both, the flights over Syrian territory and the bombardment itself are illegal, according to international law.

In its letters, addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the President of the UN Security Council, the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry explained that targeting neighborhoods, civilian homes, destroying national hospitals (as was recently the case in Raqqah), as well as the use of internationally banned white phosphorus by the Washington-led coalition, are a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and the international law.

Comment: One day, probably not far off, the US will reap what it has sown.

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Attention

"Do not toy with John Kelly": White House advisor warns leakers that things will change rapidly under new chief of staff

Kathryn Blackhurst
Polizette
Sun, 06 Aug 2017 01:39 UTC
John Kelly
© Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesJohn Kelly has struggled to reconcile his growing frustration with the political press and his desire to engage in order to put to bed the rumors that he's on the outs with the president.
Top White House aide Sebastian Gorka warned White House leakers that President Trump's new chief of staff John Kelly "is a man you do not toy with" during an interview Saturday on Fox News' "Fox & Friends Weekend."

Gorka made his comments the day after Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered a press conference in which he vowed to stomp out the "culture of leaking" that has plagued President Donald Trump and his administration ever since he took office in January. Whenever leaks have poured out of the government agencies or from the White House itself, Gorka said that both the Trump administration and U.S. national security interests have been compromised. Noting that Kelly began his new post as Trump's chief of staff Monday after serving as Trump's secretary of Homeland Security, Gorka predicted that the culture of leaking will change "very rapidly" under the West Wing's newest staff leader.

"Yesterday we had the four star general, former four star General John Kelly give an all-hands speech first-thing to everybody inside the Eisenhower Executive Building who works for the White House," Gorka said. "He started the day by saying, 'Loose lips sink ships, and if you leak, there will be consequences.' That's a four star Marine Corps legend."

Comment: New Chief of Staff flexes his authority; wants to vet Trump tweets and staff visits

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Snakes in Suits

New sanctions against Russia are a failure of US strategy


Moon Of Alabama
Sun, 06 Aug 2017 22:09 UTC
Vladamir Putin
© Getty Images
Recently the U.S. Congress legislated sanctions against the Russian Federation over alleged, but completely unproven, interference in the U.S. presidential elections. The vote was nearly unanimous.

President Trump signed these sanctions into law. This was a huge and stupid mistake. He should have vetoed them, even as a veto would likely be overturned. With his signing of the law Trump gave up the ability to stay on somewhat neutral grounds towards Russia. This for no gain to him at all.

Sanctions by Congress are quasi eternal. The 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment restricted trade with the then "Communist block". It was supposed to press for Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union to Israel. But even after the Soviet Union broke down in the early 1990s, after the "communist block" had disappeared and long after any limits on emigrations had been lifted, the law and its economic sanctions stayed in place. It was only lifted in 2012 and only to be immediately replaced by the ludicrous Magnitsky act which immediately established a new set of sanctions against the Russian Federation and its interests.

The new additional sanctions, like the Jackson-Vanik amendment and the Magnitsky act, were shaped by domestic U.S. policy issues. There is nothing Russia could have done to avoid them and there is nothing it can do to have them lifted.

Comment: When psychopaths get desperate, they make big miscalculations:

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Arrow Up

No First Lady for France? Petition against Macron's wife reaches over 200,000 signatures


RT
Sun, 06 Aug 2017 20:05 UTC
first lady_france
© Julien de Rosa / ReutersFrench President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron
A petition to stop French president Emmanuel Macron's wife Brigitte being afforded a formal position as the country's First Lady has collected over 200,000 signatures.

The petition, started two weeks ago on Change.org by painter and author Thierry Paul Valette, is demanding that no public funds be set aside for the position of First Lady for Mrs Macron.

While on the campaign trail, Macron announced his intention to create the position for his wife in order to clarify her status but promised no public funds would be used to pay her.

Comment: UPDATE: The French president's wife, Brigitte Macron, will not be given an official "first lady" title or her own budget, the French government has said following a petition against a proposed change to her status.

The Élysée has made no official announcement, but officials were forced to react after the petition opposed to the president's spouse having an official title, status and budget was signed by more than 275,000 people in two weeks.

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Syrian representative for Saudi interests: 'Riyadh no longer fixed on overthrowing Al-Assad'

Al Mayadeen - translated by Samer Hussein
Fort Russ News
Sun, 06 Aug 2017 22:04 UTC
Bashar al-Assad
© AFP
Saudi Arabia is no longer interested in overthrowing the Syrian President Bashar Al Assad.

According to Ahmad Al Asrawi, a member of the "Syrian opposition"-led and Riyadh-based High Negotiations Committee (HNC), the Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al Jubeir has officially backed off from insisting on departure of the Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, considering it an internal issue entirely in the hands of Syrians, not the Saudis.

In a conversation with Al Mayadeen, Al Asrawi said that Al Jubeir assured that Supreme Council of Saudi Arabia supports any efforts, aimed at finding a political solution in Syria, especially if they would grant that Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity remain intact.

Sources in Geneva noted that Al Jubeir already informed the Supreme Commission for negotiations as regards the latest Saudi stance on Al Assad's survival and remaining in power in Syria.
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