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Syrian Arab Army on brink of total victory in central Syria

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 21:05 UTC
Syrian Arab Army soldiers
Syrian offensive in key As-Safira district encircles ISIS fighters, securing communications from western Syria to Aleppo and Rusafa, and bringing large areas of central Syria under Syrian government control.

Unreported by the Western media, the situation in the Syrian war continues to shift decisively in the Syrian government's favor, and continues moreover to do so at a blistering rate.

Following the Syrian army's recent capture of the strategically important town of Rusafa in northern Syria, the Syrian army has launched a major offensive further south against ISIS fighters occupying the key As-Safira district in Aleppo province around the town of Khanasir. ISIS fighters occupying this district - the last area of Aleppo province still held by ISIS - have been resisting fiercely, but Al-Masdar reports that they are now totally encircled by the Syrian army.

Comment: For more updates on Syria, watch the South Front video:



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Attention

OSCE admits Ukrainian side violating agreement on transportation of heavy weapons

DNR News - translated by Inessa Sinchougova
Fort Russ News
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 21:00 UTC
OSCE in Ukraine
Special monitoring mission of the OSCE has recorded a violation of the agreement on the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the contact line in the Donbass, by Ukrainian security officials.

In the Ukraine government-controlled areas, the mission has noted that three towed antitank guns MT-12, caliber of 100 millimeters, are missing- as stated by a representative of the OSCE.

Comment: And more news of Kiev's lies: OSCE denies Kiev's claim monitoring mission was shelled by rebels

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Wine n Glass

72,000 people attending 'Theresa May's leaving drinks' party


RT
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 17:42 UTC
Theresa May drinking
© Nick Ansell/Reuters
The last day in any job isn't complete without a good send-off, so Theresa May must be thrilled that 72,000 Facebook users have said they'll attend a booze-up in honor of her (as yet unconfirmed) resignation as prime minister.

The event planned for Friday night has proven to be so popular that the location has been moved from The Red Lion pub near the Houses of Parliament due to capacity issues. The new location will be St James's Park.

"It's been a difficult year for Theresa as PM. Let's all give her a happy send off," the Facebook page for the event says.
Theresa May's Leaving Drinks Facebook page
© Facebook
If the page just mysteriously disappears then please arrive in the evening at the venue which was on the page at the time of disappearance."
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Star of David

Trump's aides end all doubt about whose side they'll be on in the next great peace process

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 20:14 UTC
Jared Kushner hugs Benjamin Netanyahu as Jason Greenblatt leaves the frame
Jared Kushner hugs Benjamin Netanyahu as Jason Greenblatt leaves the frame.
We try to avoid giving the "peace process" too much credibility because it was supposed to deliver Palestinians sovereignty 20 years ago (or 70) and it never has. But recent days have seen several incidents that have dashed any thought that Donald Trump would be neutral or an honest broker. So here we go again.

A week ago Jason Greenblatt, Trump's longtime real-estate lawyer and special representative for Middle East peace, went out to Israel and Palestine and spent most of his time on the Israeli side of the equation: sitting shiva with the family of an Israeli police officer allegedly killed by three Palestinians inside occupied Jerusalem and describing that as an act of terrorism - "She was murdered by terrorists." Greenblatt also prayed at the Western Wall and chatted up the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Dollar

Well-trained: US senators propose another $558M for Israeli missile defense


RT
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 21:02 UTC
lapdog
© The Times of IsraelDecades-long syndrome.
A Senate committee markup of the 2018 Pentagon funding bill would give $705 million to Israeli "cooperative" missile defense programs, a $588 million increase from the budget request made by President Donald Trump.

The Senate Armed Services Committee draft of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) would allocate $268.5 million for research, development, testing and evaluation for "multi-tiered missile defense systems" and another $290 million for purchasing them.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) identified the systems that would benefit from the funding as Iron Dome, David's Sling, Arrow-2 and Arrow-3.
"These funds will help Israel defend its citizens against rocket and missile threats, and contribute to America's missile defense programs," AIPAC said Thursday, in a statement thanking the Senate and House armed services committees.
The David's Sling weapon system and the Arrow program would receive $120 million apiece, while $92 million would go towards Israeli procurement of Tamir interceptors for the Iron Dome short-range system through co-production in the United States, according to the Senate committee markup.

The 2018 Senate proposal would be a $105 million increase over the funds approved for 2017, AIPAC noted.
"As Israel faces dramatically rising security challenges, AIPAC urges inclusion of these vital funds in the final versions of the Fiscal Year 2018 defense authorization and appropriations bills," the lobbying group said.

Comment: Israel would have little to no 'dramatically rising security challenges' if it minded its business, didn't force settlements on others' land, wasn't committing Palestinian genocide and didn't bomb Syria over false provocation. But that is just not how pathocrats operate.


Comment: The US wants its state-of-the-art (defective) equipment in Israel as a toehold. That it comes at the expense of US taxpayers...well, the senators just never seem to go there. What is raking a half billion MORE dollars from US citizens compared to feeding Bibi's illegal expansionism and and placating his incessant 'wolf' crying? Congress has been mesmerized and is locked into a well-connived, well-managed pathological relationship with Israel, and, according to this dynamic, doesn't want to get out.

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No Entry

As Trump's travel ban enforcement commences, Hawaii challenges exemption rule


RT
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 00:22 UTC
Trump Travel
© KRISTV.com
President Donald Trump's travel ban on six Muslim-majority nations has gone into limited effect, following the Supreme Court removing holds on enforcement. But already there are reported legal challenges to how certain travelers are exempted.

The state of Hawaii is challenging the administration's definition of what constitutes a "bona fide" relationship for exempt travelers, according to the Associated Press.
The Trump administration includes familial relationships such as a parent, spouse, child, adult son or daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, or sibling already in the US, as well as half and step-relationships, State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert told ABC News.
Hawaii's emergency motion filed Thursday evening calls for US District Judge Derrick Watson to tell the administration that fiancés or other relatives not defined are also exempt.

Travelers with valid visas as well as vetted refugees approved for entry through July 6 will also be exempt.

The affected countries are Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

The State Department announced that the temporary travel ban would go into effect at 8:00pm EST earlier Thursday, while that start time had also been widely reported Wednesday.

Comment: Trump's travel ban court saga began in Hawaii.

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Propaganda

Best of the Web: New York Times retracts Russia-gate canard...finally!

Robert Parry
Consortium News
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 00:00 UTC
TTrump
© Top Right NewsRetraction: Fairly little, unfairly late.
Exclusive: A founding Russia-gate myth is that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies agreed that Russia hacked into and distributed Democratic emails, a falsehood that The New York Times has belatedly retracted, reports Robert Parry.

The New York Times has finally admitted that one of the favorite Russia-gate canards - that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies concurred on the assessment of Russian hacking of Democratic emails - is false.

On Thursday, the Times appended a correction to a June 25 article that had repeated the false claim, which has been used by Democrats and the mainstream media for months to brush aside any doubts about the foundation of the Russia-gate scandal and portray President Trump as delusional for doubting what all 17 intelligence agencies supposedly knew to be true.

In the Times' White House Memo of June 25, correspondent Maggie Haberman mocked Trump for
"still refus[ing] to acknowledge a basic fact agreed upon by 17 American intelligence agencies that he now oversees: Russia orchestrated the attacks, and did it to help get him elected."
However, on Thursday, the Times - while leaving most of Haberman's ridicule of Trump in place - noted in a correction that the relevant intelligence
"assessment was made by four intelligence agencies — the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency. The assessment was not approved by all 17 organizations in the American intelligence community."

Comment: Here's the official retraction from the The New York Times:
Correction: June 29, 2017

A White House Memo article on Monday about President Trump's deflections and denials about Russia referred incorrectly to the source of an intelligence assessment that said Russia orchestrated hacking attacks during last year's presidential election. The assessment was made by four intelligence agencies — the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency. The assessment was not approved by all 17 organizations in the American intelligence community.


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TV

White House denounces media obsession over Russia, defends Trump's tweets


RT
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 04:22 UTC
Trumptwit
© www.carbonated.tv
The White House has once again gone on the offensive, condemning the media for constant coverage of the Russia probe, while defending President Donald Trump's recent tweets against MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski.

At Thursday's White House press briefing, deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders cited a study conducted by the conservative Media Research Center (MRC), which found that the media has spent more than half of their total coverage on Trump dealing with the Russian probe.

For their study, MRC looked at all 364 evening news stories in the five weeks since former FBI Director Robert Mueller was appointed to oversee the Russia probe. MRC found that out of the 640 minutes that the media covered Trump, 353 minutes was devoted to the Russia investigation and sacked FBI director James Comey.

"That's the numbers guys, the numbers don't lie. The media's focus on priorities, they don't line up with the rest of America," Huckabee Sanders said.



Comment: The only coverage Trump knows for sure seems to be that which he tweets. The only MSM coverage is that in which he is viewed negatively or under a bias, constituting a great disservice to the public.

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Airplane

Russian paper publishes alleged documents that Ukrainian air force was active during MH17 attack


Pravda.ru
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:38 UTC
MH17 wreckage
© AP
The Sovershenno Secretno newspaper (Top Secret) continues its investigation into the crash of the Malaysian Boeing over the Donbass. The newspaper has published another portion of documents that establish Kiev's guilt in the tragedy.

Newspaper journalists have obtained a map, namely a secret flight plan, that was made and personally signed the day before the flight, on July 16, 2014, by the pilot of the 299th tactical aviation brigade, Captain Vladislav Voloshin. The plan was also approved by commander of the A4104 military unit, Colonel Gennady Dubovik.

Ukraine persistently claims that there was no military aircraft flying in the area the day when the tragedy occurred. Yet, the newly published documents prove that Ukrainian officials lie.

Pravda.Ru held a brief interview with Sergei Sokolov, editor-in-chief of the Sovershenno Secretno newspaper.
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Pills

Fentanyl overdoses: Big Pharma caught bribing family doctors to prescribe drug 50x stronger than heroin

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 19:45 UTC
Family doctor and money graphic
A scathing investigative report from NJ.com has revealed some startling and damning facts about the exponential increase in fentanyl overdoses and the rate at which family practitioners prescribed it. In the center of the equation are pharmaceutical companies who've been exposed for paying doctors millions to push their deadly drug.

Prior to 2013, most Americans, unless they knew someone dying of cancer or who lived in immense pain, never heard of fentanyl. Now, this drug, which is magnitudes more powerful than heroin and far deadlier, has become a household name — for all the wrong reasons.

Fentanyl was created to be used as part of anesthesia to help prevent pain after surgery or other medical procedures. It was also used to treat pain in the terminally ill as well as those with severe and chronic debilitating pain. However, in 2013, the unscrupulous big wigs in the pharmaceutical industry saw it as a means of making their already opioid-saturated market that much more lucrative — and addictive.
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