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Russian military 'concerned' over Syrian army's sporadic truce violations


Sputnik
Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:52 UTC
Syrian army sniper
© AFP 2016/ STRINGER
The Hmeymim-based Russian center for Syrian reconciliation expressed concern on Monday over sporadic violations of the Syrian ceasefire by government forces and demanded that the Syrian military leadership took appropriate measures to ensure compliance with fragile truce.

The nationwide ceasefire in Syria backed by Russia and Turkey came into effect on December 30 and was later supported by a UN Security Council resolution. Russia and Turkey are monitoring and registering violations of the truce on a daily basis.

"The center is particularly concerned about sporadic violations of truce by the Syrian government forces," a high-ranking official from the center told Sputnik.

"The Russian side has recently asked the Syrian military leadership to take appropriate steps to ensure strict compliance with the reached agreements by some field commanders," he said.

According to the official, the Russian-Turkish ceasefire monitoring commission registers on average six truce violations by all conflicting sides per day.

Comment: The Syrian army's truce violations are counterproductive. Wonder what is driving the Syrian army to do this while the Astana peace talks are under way?

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McCarthyesque investigation probes Michael Flynn on alleged Russian ties


RT
Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:27 UTC
Michael Flynn Donald Trump
© ReutersFormer National security adviser General Michael Flynn (L) and U.S. President Donald Trump
US counterintelligence has investigated one of Donald Trump's security advisers, Michael Flynn, for having alleged ties with Russian officials, the WSJ reports, noting that the probe concerns phone conversations Flynn had at the end of December.

"US counterintelligence agents have investigated communications that President Donald Trump's national security adviser [Flynn] had with Russian officials," the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.

The aim of the investigation was to determine "the extent" of contacts between the Russian government and "people close to Mr. Trump," claimed the paper.

It's still unclear when the investigation began or if it is still ongoing. The main target of the investigation is "a series of telephone calls" which Flynn allegedly made to Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the US, on December 29, 2016 - the same day outgoing president Barack Obama announced that his administration was imposing more sanctions on Russian individuals and companies that the US government suspected of hacking American institutions ahead of the election.
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Biohazard

DHS whistleblower to Trump: "I know where valves to the swamp are - we'll need hazmat suits"

Ginni Thomas
The Daily Caller
Sat, 21 Jan 2017 16:40 UTC
DHS Logo
A road-worn, devoted Department of Homeland Security (DHS) whistleblower and author is uniquely positioned to help President Donald Trump do the forensics on what is on the bottom of the swamp.

Since Phil Haney's book, "See Something Say Nothing," came out, he saw, felt and witnessed the rising up of Americans who coalesced at the ballot box to turn this country away from willful blindness, excessively loose immigration policies and failed counter-terrorism policies in the name of civil rights. Haney says, "people knew intuitively that something wasn't right" in our government's policies to keep Americans safe.

"I know where the valves are and people like me do," the soft-spoken Haney — who traveled to 90 cities starting in Indianapolis, Ind. in April to Omaha, Neb. on Nov. 7, speaking to millions of worried Americans — says in this exclusive video interview for The Daily Caller News Foundation.

You will have to hold your nose, he says, because once you take the water out, then the real forensic work begins. We're "going to have to put our hazmat suits on," and wade into that toxic muck to dig all the pieces of evidence out of the bottom of the pond.

Haney says the forensics of draining the swamp will yield evidence of decisions and policies made in senior people in the DHS, FBI, CIA, the White House in the last eight years and more.

Comment: Sounds like Haney is right, just not as right has he thinks (or lets on). What is "civilization jihad"? Stripped of its ideological colors, it is simply revolutionism - the same revolutionism weaponized by the U.S. in its messianic quest for regime change and color revolution the world over. And since Trump defeated Clinton, it looks like that strategy of revolution has come to America. So yes, it may very well be that "the jihadis have joined forces quietly with [American] anarchists and revolutionaries". The question to ask is this: who is pulling their strings? To answer that, you'll need a hazmat suit.

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Nuke

Iran threatens to resume enhanced nuclear program if Trump dishonors P5+1 agreement


RT
Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:44 UTC
general view of Bushehr nuclear power plant
© Raheb Homavandi / ReutersA general view of Bushehr nuclear power plant.
Iran is prepared to resume its nuclear program, and at a technologically "higher position," if the new US Trump administration does not honor the nuclear agreement signed in July 2015.

The head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Ali Akbar Salehi, said Tehran reserves the right to "act appropriately" if Washington reconsiders the so-called P5+1 deal on the Iranian nuclear program.

"We can very easily snap back and go back ... not only to where we were, but a much higher position technologically speaking," Salehi said in an interview with Canada's CBC News.

"I don't want to see that day. I don't want to make a decision in that course, but we are prepared," Iran's nuclear chief added.
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Post-It Note

Is Rex Tillerson one of the biggest gators in 'the swamp'?

Ulson Gunnar
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 18 Jan 2017 15:46 UTC
Rex Tillerson
© Alessandro Della Bella/EPA/NewscomRex Tillerson, Secretary of State
When US business tycoon-turned-politician Donald Trump ran for office, "drain the swamp" became a popular campaign cry. Trump likely was implying that he would "drain" corrupt and redundant features of Washington's establishment and distance Washington's leadership from the suffocating corruption of special interests on Wall Street.

Yet since winning the election, almost overnight (and in many cases, all during his campaign even), Trump has surrounded himself with precisely the sort of flora and fauna found in the deepest, dankest swamps.

And perhaps the largest specimen Trump is stocking the swamp he now presides over with, is his pick for US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson.

Tillerson is not only at face value the embodiment of both Wall Street and Big-Oil as a lifetime oilman joining Exxon in 1975, becoming president of Exxon Yemen in 1995 and serving as chairman and chief executive officer of ExxonMobil from 2006-2016, but also epitomizes the conflicts of interest and unwarranted influence Wall Street and Big-Oil are notorious for.

Most ironic of all, the abuses Tillerson played part in almost up until the day he was recruited by Trump, exercising unwarranted power and influence through the United States government and the very State Department he now stands poised to lead, was done during, and more importantly, with the administration of President Barack Obama.

Comment: Rex Tillerson's career, including his 'special interest corporate connections' with Clinton at the State Department also make him a knowledgeable and incredibly savvy international businessman. He has vast experience and success in dealing with foreign nations and leaders, including Russia. His understanding of the global 'political theater' is wholly different than that of a Washington insider. For more on Tillerson and what he's up against, see: But, at the end of the day, it could simply be as the Intercept suggests: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

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Nuke

Labour and SNP call for Theresa May to explain Trident malfunction 'cover up'


RT
Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:21 UTC
Britanska vlada prikrila neuspješan test nuklearne rakete Trident blizu američke obale
© David Moir / Reuters
Labour and the Scottish National Party (SNP) say Prime Minister Theresa May must explain why Parliament was not told about a failed Trident missile test before a crucial vote on whether to renew Britain's aging nuclear weapons program.

Leading figures in both parties are set to use the incident, which occurred in June 2016 just weeks before a House of Commons vote on renewal, to attack the government. News of the missile malfunction only emerged on Sunday.

The SNP is committed to opposing it on the basis of safety and security, as the nuclear submarine fleet is based in Scotland.


Comment: News report reveals Whitehall covered up 1st-time failure of Trident ballistic missile test near US coast

Update: Defense Secretary Michael Fallon is refusing to answer questions over the June 2016 nuclear missile incident, but it seems US officials have been giving information to the media. CNN is reporting that the incident occurred close to Florida and resulted in the missile, which was not equipped with a nuclear warhead, self-destructing after veering away from Africa and towards the US mainland.

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Dollars

China cracks down on banks moving currency abroad


RT
Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:36 UTC
china currancy
© Stringer / Reuters
Chinese regulators have warned bankers against shifting domestic currency out of the country; the Financial Times reported citing its sources. The move is part of the Chinese government's strict new capital controls regime.

According to people familiar with the matter, the new rules introduced this month require banks in Shanghai to 'import' 100 yuan for every 100 yuan transferred overseas. Such measures are expected to ensure there will be no net outflows of the Chinese currency. Previously banks had been allowed to remit 60 yuan abroad for every 100 yuan they brought back into China.

Beijing-based banks have been ordered to import 100 yuan for every 80 yuan they remit overseas on behalf of clients, the sources added.
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Bullseye

Clinton Election Foul Play Saga Continues: DOJ Sues NYC Election Board for Pre-Primary Mass Voter Purge

Paul Kaiser
Russia Insider
Sat, 21 Jan 2017 00:00 UTC
Brooklyn, NY voters
It was the Russians.
More than 100,000 voters in Brooklyn were wrongly purged from the rolls ahead of the Democratic primary, handing Clinton a much-needed win in New York. Now the Justice Department is suing.

It's difficult to keep track of all the "shenanigans" which took place across the country over the course of last year's Democratic primaries: Tallies vanishing in Iowa, blatant electioneering in Massachusetts, buses full of unregistered voters caucusing in Nevada, whatever the hell happened in Arizona — we still don't know — we could drone on and on...

Then there's the New York primary, which was a must-win for Clinton, and, as expected, was also rife with foul play.

Comment: At least 125,000 New Yorkers were illegally purged from the rolls, had their votes lost/thrown away, or were not permitted to vote due to broken voting machines - all in Brooklyn.

See also: What "nomination"? Hillary cheated

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Attention

Council on Foreign Relations advises Trump, unaware the NWO has passed away


Sputnik
Sat, 21 Jan 2017 21:20 UTC
Uncle Sam globe
© softpapanorama.org''Hey, USA, get your arse off our globe!" Apparently President Trump agrees.
Last week, Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal urging Donald Trump not to "make any sudden moves." Haas is right, conservative pundit Pat Buchanan noted, in arguing against rash action. But what CFR shadow government types still don't seem to realize is that their New World Order has died.

In an op-ed addressed directly to the new President, Haass emphasized that ripping up the Iran deal, moving the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, or shooting down a North Korean missile during a test would only "make things worse," with no action being better than the wrong action.

Commenting on Haass' advice in his column for The American Conservative, veteran political commentator Pat Buchanan noted that "in arguing against rash action, Haass is correct. Where the CFR and the establishment are wrong, and Donald Trump is right, however, is in recognizing the new world we have entered."

"The old order," dating back to the Cold War and the twilight of the post-Cold War world, "is passing away," Buchanan stressed, its institutions, treaties and alliances "ceasing to be relevant" and incapable of being sustained any longer. Instead, he suggested, economic patriotism and nationalism opposed to globalism, ideas that are "personified by Trump, see everywhere ascendant."

Comment: End of one era (thank-you) and the start of another...the future is open, as they say.

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MIB

Top cyber-spy in Britain quits suddenly after just two years


RT
Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:23 UTC
GCHQ Robert Hannigan
© Ben Birchall / ReutersThe director of Britain's GCHQ Robert Hannigan
GCHQ director Robert Hannigan is stepping down after only two years as chief of the cyber spy agency for "personal reasons," the intelligence service has announced.

Hannigan took over GCHQ in 2014, just a year after National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden exposed the vast extent of surveillance carried out by US and British intelligence services.

In a letter to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Hannigan said a 20-year career in public service roles had "demanded a great deal of my ever patient and understanding family."

"Now is the time for a change in direction," he added.

The spymaster said he was proud of the work he had done at the agency and "how many lives have been saved in this country and overseas by the work of GCHQ."
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