On Thanksgiving day, a EOD tech assigned to 5th Special Forces Group was killed in Ayn Issa, Syria. US CENTCOM (Central Command) announced yesterday that a US soldier was killed by an IED blast, but withheld further details. To understand why an American Special Forces advisor would be in Ayn Issa with the Kurdish YPG and affiliated Arab militias working under the banner of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), one need only look at a map. The road south from Ayn Issa leads straight into the ISIS capital of Raqqa.
Further West, the Kurdish YPG crossed the Euphrates river with the help of US Special Operations personnel, and took Manbij several months ago, before pushing toward Al Bab, a strategic decision which would close the Jarabulus corridor that supplies ISIS with weapons and fighters from Turkey. Such a move would also link the Kurdish canton of Kobani with the isolated and besieged canton of Afrin. Ayn Issa is linked to a separate strategic objective, capturing Raqqa and finishing off ISIS once and for all.

5th Group has been working inside Syria since President Obama announced that he was sending SOF soldiers into the country to work with SDF. Initially, Delta Force was to be deployed to Syria working under the auspices of the CIA. Delta Force is designed for surgical strikes, not long duration counter-insurgency missions or unconventional warfare, so they requested help from Special Forces.

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Hurriyet Daily News (Turkey), Nov 24 2016 - Three Turkish soldiers killed in suspected Syrian government air strike

Al Masdar News (Syria), Nov 25 2016 - Syrian Air Force denies bombing Turkish Army in east Aleppo

Avid readers of news sites will ask which of those reports is correct. They may turn to the so-called (hint: it's not) "paper of record", the New York Times and find this Nov 24 report: Syrian Warplanes Kill Turkish Soldiers Fighting in Syria

While that NYT headline claims certainty the text does not. It obediently repeats the Turkish government claim but adds:

Syrian Arab rebel forces fighting with the Turks said they had not received official notification that the Syrian government had launched the strike. One fighter said he had heard that the strike was from the Syrian government but heard later that it had been from the Islamic State. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a network based in Britain that monitors news from Syria, also said that the strike had been by the Islamic State.

An updated version of that report adds:

Some on the ground raised questions about whether the strike was undertaken by Syrian government forces. A network of activists who monitor the skies over Syria said Thursday that its watchers had spotted a Syrian aircraft taking off after 2 a.m. and also a Russian aircraft about the same time as the strike on Turkish forces occurred. It is impossible to know where the planes that were sighted went; they could easily have had another destination, the network said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a network based in Britain that monitors news from Syria, said the strike was by the Islamic State. But the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, is not known to have combat aircraft.

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Turkish-backed FSA.

As President Erdogan doubles down on the war in Syria, Turkey's military engages in armed clashes with the Syrian military in Lattakia province and near the strategic town of Al-Bab.

As the Syrian military continues to advance deeper into eastern Aleppo, with the Iranian Fars News Agency (FNA) reporting - perhaps rather over-optimistically - that the Al-Qaeda led Jihadis in eastern Aleppo may soon be forced to surrender, the situation between Syria and Turkey is deteriorating rapidly, with reports of armed clashes on Syrian territory between their two militaries.

Firstly there are reliable reports, confirmed by FNA, that a Syrian army offensive against Al-Qaeda led Jihadis in Lattakia province was forced back by heavy artillery fire directed from across the border by the Turkish army.

Secondly, and far more seriously, there are now also reports - confirmed by the Turks but not so far by the Syrians - of a Syrian air force strike on Turkish military positions north of the ISIS controlled Syrian town of Al-Bab in Aleppo province.

According to these reports either 3 or 5 Turkish soldiers were killed, with a further 10 or 16 wounded (precise figures for casualties differ). Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim is already threatening retaliation.

Norwegian police have filed charges against 51 people suspected of various kinds of abuse of children including babies. Even the future abuse of yet unborn children was discussed in the country's largest ever pedophile ring.

A total of 150 terabytes of data, including photos, videos and chat transcripts was seized in an operation codenamed "Dark Room," which was the largest operation of its kind carried out in Norway. The seized data shows, among other things, toddlers being penetrated, children being tied up, children having sex with animals and children having sex with other children.

The House of Lords, the upper house of the U.K.'s parliament, just passed the Investigatory Powers Bill, legislation that provides immense spying powers to the British government. The government's new surveillance privileges are virtually unrivaled across the globe.

The bill, which critics have deemed the "Snooper's Charter," will force internet companies to keep records on their users for up to a year. These records will be accessed by numerous government departments, and the law also allows the government to force companies to hack into products they have sold so consumers can be monitored. Under the newly passed legislation, the government can also ask these companies to make their devices less secure so communications can be intercepted. They can also mandate that companies encrypt their devices on demand.

As noted by the Independent:

In all, the new bill includes a range of changes to the law that will affect normal people, and gives Britain perhaps the most extreme spying powers in the developed world. (emphasis added)

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) transported several wounded militants from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham (formerly Al-Nusra Front) on Thursday to a local field hospital in the occupied Golan Heights, a military source informed Al-Masdar News this afternoon.

The jihadist rebels were attempting to forestall the Syrian Arab Army's (SAA) progress near the Hadar-Quneitra Road on Thursday before sustaining heavy casualties as a result of intense clashes.

English Premier League side Manchester City has launched an investigation into its links with convicted pedophile Barry Bennell following a string of child sex abuse claims from former professional footballers.

It has been revealed that former coach and scout Bennell, who received a nine-year prison sentence in 1998 after being found guilty of 23 sexual offense charges against six boys, was employed by at least four professional clubs, with Crewe Alexandra, Stoke City and Leeds United all under scrutiny.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell, Visionary Author

Now that the rigged election circus is finally behind us and the United States as a fake democracy has been exposed as a complete fraud, along with its criminally complicit, fake mainstream media news predicting Hillary would be the next president, with a vengeance the elite has accelerated its war against internet alternative news as the one and only closest source of truth left available to the global masses.

For ducking out from taking any honest responsibility for every scandal or shortcoming throughout her long, anything but ethical public life, Hillary Clinton's M.O. has always been to rail against "the vast right-wing conspiracy" as her nemesis. Her election loss is no different. In all the frenzied post-election finger pointing, puppet-in-chief Obama, his anointed, would-be successor Hillary and their MSM whores are acting as the proverbial pot calling the kettle black, launching a campaign to "expose" the internet for so called "fake news," conveniently blamed for Hillary losing the election (along with FBI fall guy James Comey, WikiLeaks and Putin of course, and legions of racist Trump supporters).

The liars are citing every reason but the actual reason for their loss - Hillary has been proven ad nauseam to be nothing more than a pathological lying prostitute for pure greed and the genocidal masters she bows down to and serves. Americans have grown so sick of government corruption, endless wars and blatant treason by their leaders maintaining policies that have consistently been destroying America, they've elected an angry, bigoted, rich white man as their latest hope promising to drain the swamp infested by leeching Washington criminals. And the prospect of a growing wrath behind a seething rage in America about ready to spill over has deep state insiders initiating an all-out offensive in a last gasp effort to ward off the truth from fully exposing their international crime cabal once and for all, especially since the Clinton et al.'s international child sex slavery-trafficking ring was outed [yet again] last month. As quickly as it resurfaced on alternative news sites, it closed just as quickly when Comey reclosed Hillary's criminal investigation two days prior to the election.

WikiLeaks released on Friday more than 500 documents from the United States embassy in Yemen, offering documentary evidence of Washington arming, training and funding Yemeni forces ahead of the war.

The documents span the period of time from 2009 until the breakout of the conflict in the country in March 2015.

"The documents reveal, among other things, procurement of many different weapon types: [aircraft], vessels, vehicles, proposals for [maritime] border security control and Yemeni procurement of US biometric systems," WikiLeaks said.

The US embassy in Yemen closed in February 2015 — just a month before the conflict erupted.

US officialdom and their media megaphones have systematically concocted narratives having less to do with political reality and more with their hallucinogenic world view. Pre-election and post-election reportage weaves a tapestry of fiction and fantasy.

We will discuss the most pernicious of these remarkable foibles and fables and their predictable failures.

1. Collapse of Capitalism

The pundits, prestigious editorialists and 'economists with gravitas', have convinced themselves that the election of Donald Trump would 'lead to the Collapse of Capitalism (COC)'.

They cited his campaign attacks of globalization and trade agreements, as well as his 'reckless' swipes at speculators. In reality, Trump was criticizing a specific kind of capitalism. The pundits overlooked the variety of capitalisms that constitute the US economy. With their snouts deep in the trough, their own vision was limited; their curly tails blindly twirled meaningless formulae on blackboards; their ample backsides flapping away in place of their mouths. Thus occupied, they easily ignored Trump's glorification of national capitalism.