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Marine Le Pen: "We are experiencing the end of one world and birth of another"


South Front
Sat, 28 Jan 2017 03:40 UTC
Marina Le Pen
On Wednesday, France's National Front leader and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen was not allowed to enter a migrant camp, located near Grande-Synthe town, which she wanted to visit during her trip to the north of the country, ABC News reported.

Later, it became known that Le Pen was barred from entering on the grounds that she came there without notifying the camp authorities prior to her visit. The politician, known as a great critic of France's immigration policy, commented on the incident on her Twitter, branding it as "democracy a la francaise." According to Le Pen, if she announced her visit beforehand, she would have been given a polished tour around.

Comment: The reason so many refugees fled to Europe in the first place is because countries that are part of NATO, like France, have engaged in wholesale destruction of Middle Eastern countries and have not respected their election choices. One can hope the irony of that isn't lost on her.

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Light Saber

Trump has committed the most revolutionary act I've seen in 45 years

Judge Andrew Napolitano
Fox News
Fri, 27 Jan 2017 23:35 UTC
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Within four hours of becoming president of the United States, Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to limit immediately the effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) in ways that are revolutionary.

With the stroke of a pen, the president assaulted the heart of the law that was the domestic centerpiece of his predecessor's administration. How did this happen? How can a U.S. president, who took an oath to enforce the laws faithfully, gut one of them merely because he disagrees with it?

Here is the back story.
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Bad Guys

Why you can't be an 'anti-imperialist' while supporting the Syrian opposition

David Mizner
Rogue Nation
Fri, 27 Jan 2017 21:28 UTC
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During the final stages of the fighting in Aleppo, Twitter's care-more-than-thou caucus was out in full force, blasting people who questioned the claims of the opposition parroted by the MSM. How gross, how crass, to quibble about numbers when people are dying. Like that one famous Trump fan says, How could you be so heartless? What does it matter whether 250,000 or fifty-thousand people were trapped in East Aleppo? What does it matter if government forces actually raped women and slaughtered children? They committed atrocities; that's what matters. Assad's forces are committing summary executions - - the UN (sort of) confirmed it - - and you're going to whine about people using Holocaust analogies? Doctors Without Borders - - I mean Doctors Without Borders! - - is calling it a humanitarian crisis and you have the audacity to ask for evidence for particular claims?

Such rhetoric appeals to the less informed, as sophistry tends to. If someone like Shawn King, who cares deeply about police violence, likens Aleppo to the Shoah, what's a caring person to do but Retweet?

Propaganda, however, has the power not merely to shade the truth but to obliterate it. It can make black gray but it can also make black white. As Orwell (I know, I know) said: "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
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Secret clause in Astana agreement sparks terrorists' attacks on opposition factions in northwestern Syria


FARS News Agency
Fri, 27 Jan 2017 21:58 UTC
Syrian soldiers
Reports said on Wednesday that a secret clause included in the Astana agreement triggered battles between Fatah al-Sham Front, also known as al-Nusra Front, and Syrian opposition factions.


Comment: Must not be too secret of a clause to trigger the battles.


The clause calls for bolstering the positions controlled by the Syrian government and opposition forces during the ceasefire, but allows advances at the expense of ISIL and Fatah al-Sham Front, Al Bawaba reported.

Informed Syrian sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that the clause "bolsters the ceasefire reached in Syria and reinforces the positions of parties involved in the conflict, including Syrian government forces and their allies from one part and the opposition forces from another part."

However, it made an exception by allowing advancement at the expense of Fatah al-Sham and ISIL, two factions not included in the ceasefire agreement.

"Therefore, taking positions controlled by the two terror groups would be considered legitimate," the sources said.
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Attention

Mikhail Gorbachev: 'It all looks as if the world is preparing for war'

Mikhail Gorbachev
Time
Fri, 27 Jan 2017 21:36 UTC
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The world today is overwhelmed with problems. Policymakers seem to be confused and at a loss.

But no problem is more urgent today than the militarization of politics and the new arms race. Stopping and reversing this ruinous race must be our top priority.

The current situation is too dangerous.

More troops, tanks and armored personnel carriers are being brought to Europe. NATO and Russian forces and weapons that used to be deployed at a distance are now placed closer to each other, as if to shoot point-blank.
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Chess

Trump effect? British ministers signal abandonment of 'regime change' policy, accept that Assad will stay

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Fri, 27 Jan 2017 00:00 UTC
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Responding to the reality of President Trump British ministers signal abandonment of 'regime change' policy and accept Syrian President Assad will stay.

The extent to which US President Donald Trump's arrival in the White House is already changing the political weather is shown by comments made yesterday Thursday 26th January 2017 by Britain's two most senior ranking foreign policy officials.

In a speech to Republicans in Philadelphia British Prime Minister Theresa May agreed with President Trump that the West's longstanding policy of 'regime change' around the world in order to advance what is euphemistically called 'democracy promotion' (actually the extension of US and Western power) is being abandoned
It is in our interests - those of Britain and America together - to stand strong together to defend our values, our interests and the very ideas in which we believe. This cannot mean a return to the failed policies of the past. The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over.
(bold italics added)

Britain, alongside the US and to a lesser extent France, has been at the centre of the US-led 'regime change' alliance which has dominated Western foreign policy since at least the mid 1990s.
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Turkey to cancel migrant deal if Greece doesn't extradite coup suspects


RT
Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:21 UTC
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Greece's refusal to extradite eight soldiers accused of being involved in last year's coup attempt has angered the Turkish government, which has threaten to cancel a deal on readmitting migrants back to Turkey.

The soldiers - three majors, three captains and two sergeant majors - fled to Greece by helicopter in the aftermath of the failed coup attempt in July of 2016 and asked for political asylum, as they feared for their lives. All eight officers deny being involved in the coup, but Turkey has demanded that they be sent back home to face justice. However, on Thursday, the Greek Supreme Court ruled against the extradition, with presiding judge Giorgos Sakkas saying the men were unlikely to receive a fair trial in Turkey.

Ankara reacted to the decision with dismay, accusing Greece of complicity in terrorism.

"We protest this decision which prevents these individuals who have threatened the life of our president and took an active role in a coup attempt that killed 248 of our civilians and members of our security forces, wounded 2,193 of our citizens, and attempted to take the life of our President, to be brought before the independent Turkish judiciary," read a statement on the Turkish Foreign Ministry's website.

Comment: Greece is right, the men haven't stood trial and are already verbally convicted, and, it follows with a punishing threat to Greece.

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Cult

Saudi Arabia reportedly offering large bribes to Syrian MPs to oppose Assad


Sputnik
Fri, 27 Jan 2017 09:13 UTC
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Saudi Arabia attempted to bribe parliamentarians in order to persuade them to oppose the Syrian government, an MP tells Sputnik.

Mohammed Kheir Jasim al-Nadir said that while some Syrian leaders have indeed taken bribes from Saudi Arabia and stayed in the country, he refused the offer and went to serve Syria instead.
"Saudi Arabia offered us money to break away from Assad and oppose the Syrian government. We were offered it (the bribe) at the house of the Syrian ambassador to Riyadh Mahdi Dakhlallah," al-Nadir said.
"They tempted us with houses and money. They gave us a blank check which could be filled out with any sum, if we announced a U-turn. But, as they say, a person who is good does the right thing for their country, for their people. Nobody can be separated from their people, nobody can abandon their homeland. We are with Syria, with our land, with the valiant Syrian army."
"Unfortunately, some Syrian leaders left for Saudi Arabia because of money. I had a Saudi passport, but I left everything and went to Syria," al-Nadir said.

Comment: What a surprise!

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Attention

Hungarian Foreign Minster: 'Russia would not attack any NATO state, real current threat to the world is IS'


RT
Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:01 UTC
Hungarian FM Peter Szijjarto
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said Russia should not be perceived as a threat to Hungary or any other NATO or EU state. Criticizing Western sanctions against Russia, Szijjarto said Hungary is seeking closer ties with Moscow.

"I don't see Russia as a threat to Hungary," the foreign minister said in an interview with Reuters on Friday.

Szijjarto also said that while he "understands" some Eastern European countries such as Poland and the Baltic states might have "another" position, he disapproved of frequent allegations of Russian aggression.

"Russia would not attack any NATO member state. I don't think it would be in Russia's interest," the foreign minister said.
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Bad Guys

UK is becoming a vassal state to the US, says French presidential candidate


RT
Fri, 27 Jan 2017 20:31 UTC
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Having been on equal terms with the EU, Britain has now entered a stage of 'vassalization' in its relations with the US under Prime Minister Theresa May, according to French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron.

"Britain lived in an equilibrium with Europe. But now it is becoming a vassal state, meaning it is becoming the junior partner of the United State," Macron said in an interview with France Culture radio on Friday, according to Reuters.

Macron described new US President Donald Trump's first steps in office as "extremely worrying," adding that in his opinion it would be difficult to cooperate with the Republican.

"What's happening today with Trump's first statements and choices is extremely serious and worrying," Macron said, adding that under Trump the US could "destabilize things that have been built for decades."

Macron, who was previously sure that Trump would stay close to the European Union, has now apparently changed his views.

"It signifies that the US will no longer be in a position to co-organize globalization and be the world's policeman with the European Union," he said.

Comment: This guy is a little late to the party. It's no revelation that both the UK and the EU serve as vassal states to the US. Now that Trump is pursuing a more reasonable global platform, the EU's slavish leadership doesn't know what to do without a master.

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