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Star of David

ISIS avoids Israel but vows to destroy Iran for 'protecting Jews'

Matthew Allen
Russia Insider
Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:09 UTC
Israel_ISIS
In a new video, Islamic State cites Tehran's "tolerance" for Jews as the reason for all-out war on Iran. What?

We don't even know what to type.

In a Farsi-language video released on Monday, the Islamic State vowed to destroy Iran because ... it "tolerates" Jews.
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Stock Up

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner reportedly emerging as White House powerbrokers

ALI VITALI and CORKY SIEMASZKO
NBC News
Tue, 28 Mar 2017 08:29 UTC
ivanka trump jared kushner
© Martin H. Simon / Redux PicturesJared Kushner, counselor to President Donald J. Trump, waits for a news conference with the president in the East Room of the White House on March 17, 2017
The speculation began almost immediately after Donald Trump was elected: Who would have the ear of the famously unpredictable 45th president?

For a time it appeared that White House adviser Steve Bannon, memorably depicted as the Grim Reaper on "Saturday Night Live," was the power behind the throne. Another trusted aide, Kellyanne Conway, was also said to be an influential member of Trump's inner circle. And then there were Vice President Mike Pence, Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller — all skilled and ambitious political animals vying for the boss' attention.

But two months into Trump's presidency, it's becoming clear that blood and family have trumped ambition on Pennsylvania Avenue with First Daughter Ivanka Trump emerging as a powerbroker in her own right, along with her husband Jared Kushner.

"Ivanka Trump is all powerful," a source familiar with the inner workings of the White House told NBC News.
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Eye 2

David Rockefeller's gruesome legacy

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Sun, 26 Mar 2017 14:59 UTC
David Rockefeller
The death of David Rockefeller, the de facto Patriarch of the American establishment, at age 101, is being greeted by establishment media with praise for his alleged philanthropy. I would like to contribute to a more honest picture of the person.

The Rockefeller American Century

In 1939, along with his four brothers - Nelson, John D. III, Laurance and Winthrop - David Rockefeller and their Rockefeller Foundation financed the top secret War & Peace Studies at the New York Council on Foreign Relations, the most influential private US foreign policy think-tank which also was controlled by the Rockefellers. A collection of American academics gathered even before outbreak of World War II to plan a postwar world empire, what Time-Life insider Henry Luce later called The American Century. They made a blueprint for taking over a global empire from the bankrupt British, but carefully decided to call it not an empire. Rather they called it "spreading democracy, freedom, the American way of free enterprise."

Comment: For more on David Rockefeller's legacy: Puppet Master: The Unauthorized Biography of David Rockefeller

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Star of David

Oil interest heats up maritime dispute between Israel and Lebanon


RT
Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:47 UTC
Israeli soldiers
© Amir Cohen / Reuters
A long-running dispute between Israel and Lebanon over a maritime border in the Mediterranean Sea has reached boiling point as both sides want to secure multibillion-dollar energy investments from the oil and gas rich area.

Lebanese politicians have reacted with anger over a bill in the Israeli parliament that would seek to establish the country's sovereignty over the territory.
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Map

Just rumors? Washington's greater Middle East project 'aims at creating Kurdish state'


Sputnik
Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:31 UTC
Kurdish flag
© AFP 2017/ DELIL SOULEIMAN
The United States has pursued a strategy that entails creating an independent Kurdish state in the Middle East, Chairman of the Kurdish National Council (ENKS) Muslim Mihemed told Sputnik Turkey, commenting on recent rumors that Washington has promised to support Kurdish independence in exchange for Raqqa's liberation.

"We believe that Washington's Greater Middle East project is aimed at creating Kurdistan among other things. There is a possibility of the US establishing a Kurdish state in Syria and Iraq. This depends on the one who came up with this initiative, Washington. We think that if this project truly exists, it must take into account the rights of all Kurds. Otherwise, establishing a Kurdish state would not be possible," he said.
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Russian MoD reports some 800 militants head to Syrian border after leaving Mosul, Iraq


Sputnik
Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:23 UTC
Mosul, Iraq
© AFP 2017/ MARWAN IBRAHIM
At least 800 militants have left the Iraqi city of Mosul and headed toward the Syrian border over the past week, chief of the Russian General Staff Main Operational Directorate Col. Gen. Sergei Rudskoy said Tuesday.

Russian military has repeatedly said that Daesh terrorists would leave Mosul for Syria amid an Iraqi offensive supported by the US-led coalition.

"According to our data, at least 800 militants have left Mosul over the past week toward the Syrian border," Rudskoy said at a briefing.
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Chart Pie

Unwanted in Trump's America, Indian IT sector finds a suitor in bitter rival China

Rajiv Rao
ZDNet
Fri, 24 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
An unlikely romance between Chinese industry and Indian IT may just be what the doctor ordered for these two perennially bickering nations.
China India
© Unknown
It's a little weird to think of India and China as buddies.

There has been at least a half-century of rank hostility between the two most populous nations in the world, ostensibly kicking off when India gave the Dalai Lama refuge, post the Chinese invasion of Tibet.

A short but debilitating border war in 1962; claimed occupation of territories by both sides; China's alliance with Pakistan and its efforts to influence other countries in India's backyard -- they all ensure that these two fast-developing nations will never cosy up to each other.

And yet, the irony is that there has never been a better time for increased economic cooperation between the two. What is interesting is that this is something the two nations are increasingly doing despite the confrontational rhetoric that seems to perennially dominate the state of affairs between them.
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Eye 1

Britain's SAS special forces to increase 'permanent presence' in London after terror attack


RT
Tue, 28 Mar 2017 12:22 UTC
UK Britain special forces SAS
© Jason Reed / Reuters
Following Wednesday's terrorist attack on the Westminster estate, Britain's SAS special forces will have an expanded permanent presence in the capital, according to reports.

The rumors follow the attack on the Houses of Parliament which saw four people killed in a combined car and knife incident. The attacker was shot dead at the scene.

The claims were made in the Daily Star tabloid but have not been confirmed.
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USA

Where the Trump-bashing & anti-Russian hysteria is leading us

Justin Raimondo
AntiWar.com
Tue, 28 Mar 2017 12:22 UTC
anti-russian propaganda
They said the election of Donald Trump would usher in an era of political repression in which the First Amendment would come under attack - and they were right, although not in the way they meant it:
"Federal investigators are examining whether far-right news sites played any role last year in a Russian cyber operation that dramatically widened the reach of news stories - some fictional - that favored Donald Trump's presidential bid, two people familiar with the inquiry say.

"Operatives for Russia appear to have strategically timed the computer commands, known as 'bots,' to blitz social media with links to the pro-Trump stories at times when the billionaire businessman was on the defensive in his race against Democrat Hillary Clinton, these sources said."
Aside from sites run by the Russian government, like Russia Today and Sputnik, the targets of the investigation are Breitbart.com, the pro-Trump web site formerly managed by Steve Bannon - now an advisor to the President - and Infowars.com, the "conspiracy" site made famous by entertainer Alex Jones, although the purview of the witch hunt "investigation" is bound to broaden.
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Bad Guys

'It's a madhouse': Navalny protests were senseless & aimless

Ruslan Ostashko / J. Arnoldski (translator)
Live Journal / Fort Russ
Tue, 28 Mar 2017 12:22 UTC
Alexey Navalny
Alexey Navalny being arrested on March 26th
It's always nice in the morning to read the reactions of the political, media, and spin doctor crowd to some token public event. The unifying characteristic of the wave of analysis thrown into social networks is complete unwillingness by most authors to at least in some sense understand the subject of discussion. They're faced with an entirely different task, namely entering Sunday's events into a specific expert's already ready-made agenda.

It turns out that almost everyone spits on the truth. Some are busy promoting the message that "the regime will soon fall and Putin is warming up the helicopter to flee to North Korea" while others are pushing the thesis "Volodin is guilty of everything, he's the one that didn't allow Navalny into the Duma, who needed to be kept handy there as a beacon of democracy." Still others say that too much money is being allocated to propagandize spiritual values in school, yet it turns out that students are en masse coming out for Navalny.

It's a madhouse.
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