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UN refugee chief slams Syrian safe zones as a waste of time


RT
Sat, 04 Feb 2017 04:15 UTC
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© Ali Hashisho / ReutersA damaged street in Aleppo, Syria, February 2, 2017.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi slammed the idea of 'safe zones' in Syria, saying he does not "see the conditions" to create such areas in the war-torn country.

"Let's not waste time planning safe zones that will not be set up because they will not be safe enough for people to go back," Grandi said Friday, as cited by Reuters.

Grandi urged instead to "concentrate on making peace so that everything becomes safe. That should be the investment."

"Frankly, I don't see in Syria the conditions" to set up such zones in the country, "with the fragmentation, the number of actors, the presence of terrorist groups," he added.

"It's not the right place to think of that solution," the official concluded.
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Backed into a corner: Kiev reignites the Ukraine War

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Thu, 02 Feb 2017 16:58 UTC
Petro Poroshenko
© Thomas Peter / ReutersPetro Poroshenko
The old journalistic maxim, "report what you know and stick to the facts," has been difficult to honor during the Ukraine conflict. Because while every military confrontation has a "fog of war," this firefight has gone further.

It has a sort of "cloud of war." And a big thick and grey one at that, which envelopes everyone who tries to penetrate it in all sorts of mud, grime and manure.

At this point, almost all observers who've touched it have shipped a soiling or six, and that's why everyone - except the poor, unfortunate locals caught up in the battlegrounds - felt relieved when the matter appeared to have become frozen after the Minsk accords. And a nod seemed as good as a wink for quite some time.

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MSM stirring the pot: 'Melania Trump's absense raises questions about her role'

Julie Hirschfeld Davis
New York Times
Thu, 02 Feb 2017 00:00 UTC
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© Doug Mills/The New York Times
When President Trump traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware this week to pay respects to a fallen member of the Navy SEALs, it was his daughter Ivanka — not his wife, Melania — who accompanied him.

Mrs. Trump's conspicuous absence at the solemn ceremony only underscored the fact that she vanished from public view days after her husband's swearing-in two weeks ago. And it raised new questions about what role, if any, she plans to play as first lady.

Mrs. Trump shattered decades of tradition when she decided last year that she would not move into the White House when her husband took office, and would remain instead in the family's lavish Manhattan penthouse so the couple's 10-year-old son, Barron, could finish the school year. That decision has made for an unusually slow transition into what has traditionally been a hectic, demanding and heavily scrutinized role.

It was not until Wednesday that she named Lindsay Reynolds, who worked in the White House under President George W. Bush, as her chief of staff, a position that most first ladies fill before Inauguration Day. Mrs. Trump has still not filled other crucial positions, including social secretary and communications director.

Comment: It seems premature to draw conclusions about Melania's abilities to fulfil her role after only 15 days! The mainstream media never misses an opportunity to stir up trouble and wildly speculate, creating a drama out of a non-issue. See also:

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Trump's new Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, will continue the war on encryption

James Corbett
Corbett Report Extras
Wed, 01 Feb 2017 16:45 UTC
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Jeff Sessions has been approved as Attorney General by the Senate Judiciary Committee and his confirmation is now a foregone conclusion. But he is a proponent of the phony war on drugs, a supporter of mass government surveillance, and has vowed to mandate encryption backdoors for "national security."

Today we talk to Derrick Broze about the latest man to head the Department of Injustice.
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Marine Le Pen's parliamentarian niece dismantles feminist hypocrisy in 3 minutes

Paul Kaiser
Russia Insider
Sat, 04 Feb 2017 16:29 UTC
Marion Maréchal-Le Pen
Marion Maréchal-Le Pen
The niece of Front National leader Marine Le Pen gives a scathing rebuke to the "has-been feminists" and "political dinosaurs" haunting French parliament

With so much doom and gloom in the news cycle, we thought it would be prudent to share something that will help restore your faith in humanity.

Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, the elegant, articulate niece of Front National leader Marine Le Pen, dissected the dizzying mental gymnastics of modern day feminism during a scathing 3-minute speech in front of her fellow French parliamentarians.

Le Pen made her remarks during debate on a ban of pro-life websites and the spread of "false information" regarding abortions, but she went after more than just SJW censorship:
Feminism had been reduced to "sexism in grammar, a pink toy in a happy meal", Maréchal-Le Pen said, adding that feminists had "lost the plot" on real threats. The real threats, she said, were issues like the migrant sex assault in Cologne on New Year's Eve 2015/2016 and Islamic law which she said was "being enforced in some of France's districts".

She slammed feminists' views of the "patriarchy" and their placing blame on "heterosexual white men". She also accused leftists of cosying up to Islamists to further their cause adding the alliance was the reason "self-proclaimed protectors of women's rights" defend the Islamic veil which she called an "Islamic submission tool".
Watch the entire, glorious 3 minutes:

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Donald Trump's presidency --- First SNAFUs already

The Saker
The Unz Review
Fri, 03 Feb 2017 16:10 UTC
trump tank cartoon
It is a rare privilege to be able to criticize a politician for actually fulfilling his campaign promises but Donald Trump is a unique President and this week he offered us exactly this opportunity with not one, but three different SNAFUs to report.

First, there was the botched raid against an alledged al-Qaeda compound in Yakla, Yemen. Let me commit a crimethink here and remind everybody that for all the great Hollywood movies, Americans have a terrible record of doing special ops. The latest one was typical. First, it involved Navy SEALS, one of the most disaster-prone US special forces. Second, it involved special forces from the United Arab Emirates (don't ask why, just don't). I am pretty sure that using US Rangers alone would have yielded better results. Third, as always, they got detected early. And then they began taking casualties. This time from female al-Qaeda fighters. Finally, they botched the evacuation. They did kill some kids and, so they say, an al-Qaeda leader. More about this raid here and here. As I said, this is pretty much par for the course. But I am sure that some Hollywood movie will make it look very heroic and "tactical". But the real world bottom line remains unchanged: Americans should give up on special ops, they just can't do it right.
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The left has gone insane

Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts
Fri, 03 Feb 2017 00:00 UTC
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© YouTube / On Demand NewsA woman screams at the heavens during the inauguration of President Donald Trump, 2017
The leftwing has placed itself in the trash can of history

At a time when the Western world desperately needs alternative voices to the neoliberals, the neoconservatives, the presstitutes and the Trump de-regulationists, there are none. The Western leftwing has gone insane.

The voices being raised against Trump, who does need voices raised against him, are so hypocritical as to reflect less on Trump than on those with raised voices.

Sharon Kelly McBride, speaking for Human Rights First, sent me an email saying that Trump stands on the wrong side of "America's ideals" by his prohibition of Muslim immigrants into the US.

My question to McBride is: Where were you and Human Rights First when the Bush/Cheney/Obama regime was murdering, maiming, orphaning, widowing, and displacing millions of Muslims in seven countries over the course of 4 presidential terms?

Why is it OK to slaughter millions of peoples, destroy their homes and villages, wreck their cities as long as it is not Donald Trump who is doing it?

Comment: All of this outrage over Trump's policies, after decades of deafening silence during the numerous war crimes committed by the Bush/Clinton/Obama dynasty, really makes it look like America is being pushed towards a color revolution.

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Texas government audit: 'Elevated' Islamic terrorism threat to US from Mexico


Judicial Watch
Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:21 UTC
Border wall political cartoon
A new government audit confirms what Judicial Watch has been reporting for years, that Islamic terrorists are operating in Mexican border towns and infiltrating the United States to carry out attacks. In a report issued this month by the Texas Department of Public Safety, the agency notes that the state faces a full spectrum of threats and "due to the recent actions of lone offenders or small groups affiliated with or inspired by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and other foreign terrorist organizations, we assess that the current terrorism threat to Texas is elevated."

Safety officials in the Lone Star State also write in the 86-page document that they are "especially concerned about the potential for terrorist infiltration across the U.S.-Mexico border, particularly as foreign terrorist fighters depart Syria and Iraq and enter global migration flows." They also express worries about Syrian refugees that have been sent to Texas under President Obama's settlement program because the government doesn't have a system to properly vet them.

Judicial Watch has also reported extensively on that national security crisis. Read the latest stories here and here. "We see a potential that these challenges may leave the state exposed to extremist actors who pose as authentic refugees, and who are determined to later commit violent acts," the Texas report states.
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E. Ukraine car blast kills militia commander, blames Kiev's 'hit squad'


RT
Sat, 04 Feb 2017 10:56 UTC
Car bombed
© Ruptly
Two people, including the chief of the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) Militia Office, were killed in a car blast in the republic's capital, Lugansk. The Lugansk People's Militia says the blast was a terrorist attack carried out by Kiev's secret services.

"The chief of the LPR People's Militia Office, Colonel Oleg Anashchenko, has died today in a terror act," Major Andrey Marochko, the department's representative, said at a press briefing on Saturday, as cited by RIA Novosti news agency. "Presumably, the terror attack was committed by Ukrainian special services aiming to destabilize the situation in the republic [of Lugansk]," Marochko added.

He stressed, however, that despite this incident, "Kiev's hit squad will not be able to break the morale of the fighters of the People's Militia," adding that Lugansk authorities have launched an investigation and will "punish the masterminds and those responsible for carrying out this heinous act of terrorism."

The blast occurred at about 8am local time. The People's Militia press service earlier said that the car belonged to Oleg Anashchenko. According to the office of the Lugansk Attorney General, Anashchenko was the only person in the car at the time of the explosion.

During the inspection of the crime scene we found out that only one person was in the car - Oleg Anaschenko himself. We've also established that the blast occurred on the driver's side of the vehicle. The type and nature of the explosive devices is currently investigated," David Kats, the Lugansk Attorney General press secretary said at a press briefing on Saturday.


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Meet Mexico's fiery, Trump-like populist who looks increasingly likely to win the presidency in 2018

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 04 Feb 2017 16:09 UTC
Lopez Obrador
Left-wing candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador: 'We don't like him coz he's commie... er, in contact with RT... whatever, he's Moscow's Trojan Horse into Mexico.'
Last week brought fresh deterioration in diplomatic relations between the US and Mexico after Trump threatened to cancel a White House meeting with Mexican President Pena Nieto, saying if "Mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting". And while Pena Nieto tried to save face by officially cancelling the meeting over twitter, Mexicans are growing increasingly frustrated with a candidate that they see as too soft in combating an aggressive Trump Presidency. All of which has caused Pena Nieto's approval ratings to plunge to historic lows of just 12%.
Mexico's Nieto approval rating chart

Comment: Also read: Mexico's populist Obrador capitalizes on economic woes

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