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Why the West is helping ISIS spread hysteria post-Berlin attack

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 29 Dec 2016 20:24 UTC
German Truck Bomb
© New Eastern Outlook
The Washington Post - among others - hit the ground running in the wake of an apparent terrorist attack in Germany's capital of Berlin before evidence was forthcoming and even before German police arrested a suspect.

A truck plowed into a crowded Christmas market, killing 12 and injuring many more in what resembled an attack in Nice, France where a truck likewise plowed into a crowd killing 86 and injuring hundreds more.

Spreading ISIS Propaganda

The Washington Post's article and others like it followed the self-proclaimed "Islamic State" (ISIS) allegedly taking credit for the incident. Undeterred by a lack of evidence, the Washington Post and other media outlets - eager to capitalize on the attack to further Western narratives - concluded that the attack was aimed at "sharpening the divide between Muslims and everyone else."

The Washington Post's article, "Truck attack may be part of ISIS strategy to sharpen divide between Muslims and others," would claim:
The claim on the official Amaq media channel was short and distressingly familiar: A "soldier of the Islamic State" was behind yet another attack on civilians in Europe, this time at a festive Christmas market in Berlin.

The accuracy of the claim remained in question Tuesday as German authorities searched for both a suspect and a motive behind the deadly truck assault on holiday revelers. But already it appeared that the attack had achieved one of the Islamic State's stated objectives: spreading fear and chaos in a Western country in hopes of sharpening the divide between Muslims and everyone else.
The Washington Post's "analysis" fails to explain why ISIS would target a nation so far playing only a minor role in anti-ISIS operations or the logic in provoking a wider divide between Muslims and the West. At one point, the Washington Post actually suggests ISIS may be trying to hinder the flow of refugees away from their territory toward nations like Germany with open-door policies welcoming them.

In reality, the Washington Post and the "experts" it interviewed are merely attempting to perpetuate the myth of what ISIS is and what its supposed objectives and motivations are.

Understanding what ISIS really is, and what it is truly being used for, goes far in explaining why the incident has been so eagerly promoted as a "terrorist attack," and why other incidents like it are likely to follow.
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Ruble hits 17-month high to Russians' delight and Kremlin's chagrin


RT
Thu, 29 Dec 2016 20:28 UTC
People skate at an ice rink in Moscow's Red Square
© Sergei Karpukhin / ReutersPeople skate at an ice rink on its first day of operation in front of GUM department store in Moscow's Red Square.
The Russian currency has strengthened to its highest level since July last year. While this is probably good news for people, it makes it more challenging for the government to balance the budget.

The ruble rose to 60.12 against the dollar and 62.70 against the euro. Since the beginning of the year the currency, mockingly called 'wooden' by Russians, has been one of the world's strongest-performing, up 17 percent against the greenback.

The trend is not all good news for the economy, as it hurts Russian manufacturers and exporters, warns Finance Minister Anton Siluanov.

"For our industry, which has already got used to the rate of 65 rubles for a dollar, further strengthening will lead to a decline in competitiveness. I think that further currency fluctuations, even if the ruble grows, is not good," he told Rossiya-24 TV channel.
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Blackbox

Why did Obama wait 8 years to take on Netanyahu?

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Thu, 29 Dec 2016 20:00 UTC
Netanyahu and Obama
© Reuters
Yesterday was one of the most dispiriting days in the history of U.S. foreign policy. In a long valedictory speech, secretary of state John Kerry told Americans what was preventing peace in the Middle East: unending Jewish settlements in the fragment of historic Palestine that Palestinians accepted as theirs. The speech was more blunt than any earlier pronouncement from this administration about the end of the dream of a Palestinian state; afterward people praised Kerry's passion and personal engagement, and a leading editor said he should receive the Nobel Prize.

The speech was tragic for a simple reason. Everything Kerry said was known to him and President Obama eight years ago. The speech repeated warnings that President George H.W. Bush and his secretary of state made to the Israelis 25 years ago, when the illegal Jewish settlement project was a mere stripling of 25. And though the UN Security Council resolution of last week condemning settlements is a victory for Palestinians, and may well precipitate a crisis inside Israeli politics, it is not as if Obama succeeded in his 8-year quest to make a Palestinian state. No, he and Kerry failed.
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There will be no partition of Syria

Sharmine Narwani
RT
Thu, 29 Dec 2016 19:37 UTC
Syrians celebrating
© Omar Sanadiki / Reuters
East Aleppo is liberated, and regime-change has lost its luster. It's no surprise Syria's foes are ready to promote the next big goal: partition. Like most Syrian conflict predictions, of which few have materialized, the 'partition' of Syria is not going to happen.

In February, when East Aleppo was still bulging with Western-trained, Al Qaeda-allied militants, Syrian President Bashar Assad was asked the question: "Do you think that you can regain control over all Syrian territory?"

Well, yes, said Assad: "This is a goal we are seeking to achieve without any hesitation. It makes no sense for us to say that we will give up any part."

Western politicians were having none of that.
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Heart - Black

Israel declassifies 3,500 files on systematic state kidnapping racket during country's foundation


RT
Thu, 29 Dec 2016 20:36 UTC
Babies
© Reuters
After decades of silence, Israel has moved to bring some closure to the hundreds of parents whose children went missing under mysterious circumstances. Some argue the database on the so-called "Yemenite Children Affair" has only been partially declassified.

The 210,000 pages of declassified documents come as a result of three probes into the mysterious disappearances, which date back to the 1950s.

More than 1,000 families - mostly from the Middle East and North Africa, but also from Balkan countries - had since reported their infants being systematically taken from Israeli hospitals, and put up for adoption. The claims never stood up, and the latest effort to investigate the Yemenite Children Affair in 2001 concluded that the children had either died or been buried with the hospital authorities failing to notify the parents.

"The government is now taking action for the first time. [This step] erases the feeling of an opaque and disconnected establishment," Minister for Regional Cooperation Tzachi Hanegbi told Army Radio. Hanegbi was also the one appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to lead the latest effort, which gave the green light for the release of 70 years of testimony and other evidence collected for the Israel State Archives.

"Today we right a historic wrong," Netanyahu said, according to the Times of Israel. "For close to 60 years, people did not know the fate of their children, in a few minutes any person can access the pages containing all the information that the government of Israel has."
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Bad Guys

What ceasefire? Ukraine security forces try to break DPR line near Yasinovataya

J. Flores
RIA / Fort Russ News
Thu, 29 Dec 2016 19:32 UTC
Ukrainian troops
Ukrainian law enforcers have made an attempted breakthrough in the Yasinovataya area in the Donbass, deputy commander of the operational command of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Eduard Eduard Basurin told reporters.

"Yesterday (Wednesday) in the area of ​​Yasinovataya, enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups of up to 10 people, supported by mortars and small arms made an attempt to break our positions," - he said.

Eduard Basurin also said that "in their approach to our positions, three soldiers of the APU (Ukrainian Armed Forces) died in the explosion of a mine."

Ukrainian security officials fired 473 times per day at the front-line territory of Donetsk People's Republic.
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Bad Guys

Boko Haram teaches young boys how to rape women, uses as an incentive to recruit

Thomas D.Williams, PH.D
Breitbart
Wed, 28 Dec 2016 00:00 UTC
boko haram
© Getty
Islamist militants from the Boko Haram terror group are instructing their teenage recruits how to sexually assault women as part of their training, both as a means of terror and an incentive for the young militants.

As part of their formation program, the Nigeria-based Jihadi leaders rape women and young girls captured during raids in front of the boys as a visual lesson in how to subdue a struggling victim during sexual assault, according to reports.

One 15-year-old boy known only as Ahmed said that the girls "scream and cry for help," but the militants don't care. "Sometimes they'll be slapped and threatened with guns if they didn't cooperate," he said.

According to Ahmed, the jihadists accompany their demonstrations with specific instructions on how to carry out a rape.

Comment: See also:

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Alarm Clock

Best of the Web: 2016: The Year the Globalist War on Reality Began to Crumble

Rob Slane
The Blogmire
Thu, 29 Dec 2016 20:30 UTC
The war on reality
One of my favourite quotes of the 21st century is this gem from George W Bush's Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove:
"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
When I say a favourite, I am by no means endorsing it. Quite the opposite. I like it because it so wonderfully encapsulates the arrogance of the Globalists, and what they have been up to for the last couple of decades or so. They have indeed been "creating" their own reality, and they have done so in ways that ordinary people hardly have a chance of working out what they're up to. By the time we start to catch on, they've already moved on with their crazed dialectic, and are busy creating their next new reality.
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Stock Up

$85M and climbing: Cost of 8 years of presidential vacations

Anita Kumar
McClatchy DC
Wed, 28 Dec 2016 01:54 UTC
Obamacations
© Washington Examiner
As one of the most well-traveled Commander-in-Chiefs in U.S. history, President Obama has made numerous historic trips around the globe. From the Czech Republic to India and Cuba, Obama has prioritized foreign policy while logging thousands of miles on Air Force One.

As America's first family enjoys its eighth and final vacation in Hawaii, new estimates put the price tag of the Obamas' annual trip at $3.5 million or more. In total, the cost of the the first family's personal or largely personal travel during the last eight years comes to $85 million - though that is likely to climb to $90 million after additional records are released, according to the conservative group Judicial Watch based on federal government records.

The cost of Air Force One and other government planes as well as helicopters, cargo planes, armored cars, Secret Service protection and advance, communications and medical staff has led Judicial Watch to push for less personal travel. "The Secret Service and the Air Force are being abused by unnecessary travel," Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said. "Unnecessary presidential travel for fundraising and luxury vacations on the taxpayers' dime would be a good target for reform for the incoming Trump administration."

President-elect Donald Trump prefers to vacation at his own properties. He is spending Christmas at Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, where he stayed for Thanksgiving. After the election, he spent a weekend at Bedminster golf club in New Jersey, which has fueled speculation that it could be Trump's Camp David.

Comment: There are plenty of world leaders who manage to live frugal lives without spending tens of millions of taxpayers dollars. Obama and his family apparently have no qualms about living a life of luxury while millions of Americans struggle to put food on their table and a roof over their heads. While the Obamas have been content to do such things, Trump has promised not to take any vacations or a salary while in office. At least he respects the job of being a president.

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Dominoes

Federal Court: Trump's AG, Jeff Sessions, to probe Clinton email case


Sputnik
Thu, 29 Dec 2016 02:03 UTC
Sessions CLinton
© Conservative TribuneBattle to the finish?
A federal court has ruled that President-elect Donald Trump's Attorney General pick, Jeff Sessions, will have the opportunity to get involved in Hillary Clinton's ongoing email case. On Tuesday, a three-judge panel in the Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that a lower court made a bad ruling when it threw out lawsuits attempting to force the release of additional Clinton emails documenting her tenure as US Secretary of State.

Two separate lawsuits, filed by Judicial Watch and Cause of Action, asked for the email issue to be referred to the Justice Department. The lower court had previously ruled that the lawsuits were moot, as the Department of State's review of the Clinton emails was sufficient. "Even though those efforts bore some fruit, the Department has not explained why shaking the tree harder — e.g., by following the statutory mandate to seek action by the Attorney General — might not bear more still. It is therefore abundantly clear that, in terms of assuring government recovery of emails, appellants have not 'been given everything [they] asked for,'" the court ruled. "Absent a showing that the requested enforcement action could not shake loose a few more emails, the case is not moot."

US Secretary of State John Kerry previously declined to refer the matter to the attorney general, even though it is required by federal law. His decision allowed State Department officials to choose which emails they believed should be released to the public. "The appeals court ruling stops short of ordering the district court to force State to make the Federal Records Act referral to the Justice Department, leaving the possibility the cases could be dismissed on other grounds before such a directive is issued. DC Circuit judges also indicated they were not taking a position on whether the attorney general would be required to sue if presented with a referral on the issue," Politico reported.

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said in a statement that he believes that the court is "fed up" with the Obama administration refusing to enforce the rule of law, in regards to the Clinton email scandal.

Comment: As they say..."It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings." Perhaps there is just enough unbiased justice left in the US to thoroughly examine Killary's email scandal and rule accordingly. Once again, Trump has finessed this well.

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