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Trump offers Dept. of Interior post to former Navy SEAL and current Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke

Neil W. McCabe
Breitbart
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:09 UTC
Ryan Zinke
© Jim Urquhart/ReutersRep. Ryan Zinke
The lone congressman from Montana is being offered the chance to lead the Department of the Interior Tuesday by President-elect Donald J. Trump, according to multiple media reports.

A retired Navy commander, who commanded SEALs and other special operations forces in Iraq, Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke met with the president-elect Monday.

On Monday's conference call with reporters, Jason Miller, a spokesman for the Presidential Transition Team, said Zinke was a strong candidate for joining the Trump cabinet.

"Congressman Ryan Zinke from Montana. Congressman Zinke was an early Trump supporter," Miller said.

"His background includes time in the Montana senate and 22 years as a Navy SEAL. Congressman Zinke is a strong advocate for American energy independence and he supports an all-encompassing energy policy that includes renewables, fossil fuels, and alternative energy," he said.
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Russian General: Evacuation of over 5,000 militants in Aleppo begins


RT
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:36 UTC
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© Stringer / AFPStaff of the Syrian Red Crescent stand next to buses which will be used to evacuate rebel fighters and their families from rebel-held areas of Aleppo are seen waiting on December 15, 2016
The pullout of more than 5,000 militants and their families through a humanitarian corridor has begun in eastern Aleppo, the Russian General Staff said. Wounded rebels will be evacuated by the Russian Reconciliation Center with International Red Cross involvement.

The operation to evacuate the militants and their families from eastern Aleppo was ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov told foreign military attachés on Thursday.

"To allow the militants leave the city, a 21km humanitarian corridor has been set up. Of those, 6km lie across Aleppo's territories controlled by government troops and the other 15km to the west of the city go through militant-held areas," he said.

Twenty passenger buses and 10 ambulances have been provided to evacuate the militants, while around 100 cars are being used by the militants themselves, he added.

The first column carrying militants departed from Aleppo at about 12:30 GMT and safely arrived at its destination in the Er-Rashidin neighborhood sometime later, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. There the evacuees changed vehicles and went on towards Idlib governorate.

Comment: As Peter Galbraith, former US Ambassador to Croatia, says: It's clear Assad has won this war

Ziad Fadel adds some colorful speculation on the evacuation:
But, there was glitch ... The Syrian High Command was under the impression that there were only 5,000 rodents being evacuated with 2000 of those being terrorists and the rest described as "family" members. When it became obvious that the actual number was 15,000 with 4,000 counted as terrorists and the rest as "family", the SAA blocked the agreement until new conditions were met.

First of all, the rodents could only leave with their personal side-arms. They had to leave all heavy and automatic weapons behind which probably explains the explosions we mentioned herein-before. The other conditions were that the sieges of Al-Faw'ah, Kafarayyaa and Dayr El-Zor be lifted. The United States terrorist-enablers, who control Alqaeda in Syria, were heard over the telephones telling their favorite rats to accede to the demands. And so they did.


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'You haven't succeeded once': AP reporter Brad Klapper grills John Kirby on lack of progress in Syria


RT
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:41 UTC
bomb damaged eastern Aleppo
© ReutersTV / ReutersA still image from video taken December 13, 2016 of a general view of bomb damaged eastern Aleppo, Syria in the rain. Video released December 13, 2016.
After three years of backing and arming rebels brought no major progress in the Syrian war, Washington has accused Moscow of "failure" to achieve peace. When called out by AP on the lack of progress, the State Department tried to shift blame onto Russia.

The daily briefing at the State Department started off with a verbal sparring match between AP reporter Brad Klapper and department spokesman John Kirby.

Klapper first asked Kirby why the US was "laying all the blame" for developments in Aleppo on Russia, while also questioning what Washington was doing different than Moscow. The US, Klapper said, "failed repeatedly, doing the same thing over and over again" but continued to accuse Russia of war crimes "when things go badly."

"You [the US] haven't succeeded once," Klapper said.
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German Tabloid Says Putin Will Organize Arab 'Sex Mobs' to Rig 2017 Elections

Enrico Braun and Dean Parker
Russia Insider
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 14:31 UTC
Putin topless woman
Putin attacked by a sex mob of one in Germany
Apparently there are two things Vladimir Putin really, really hates. The first is puppies, the second -- Angela Merkel.

In 2007 the KGB sadist set his dog on Angela knowing that she suffers from a crippling fear of dogs. Now he is cooking up something even worse.

According to the widely circulating German tabloid Bild and its irrepressible reporter Julian Roepcke (also known as "Jihadi Julian" on account of his sympathies in the Syrian war) Russian and Syrian secret services will be infiltrating Europe mixed with refugees then organizing them into "sex mobs" to discredit Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Herr Jihadi wrote the following in an article headlined in German, "Putin's Huge Hybrid Attack on Parliamentary Elections 2017: Propaganda Campaign Includes Sex Mobs":
A component [of Putin's propaganda campaign] unknown until now has been revealed from the close cooperation of Russian, Syrian, and other secret services as well as Russian mafia said Russia expert Gustav Gressel (European Council on Foreign Relations).

"Part of the refugees from Iraq and Syria, even if a very small part, had connections to Assad's or Saddam Hussein's secret services."

These people could be selected from among intelligence agents or taken from mafia circles and utilized for disruptive actions, warned Gressel.

"What would happen for example, if at a summer festival before the election something similar repeats like in Cologne on new year's eve? What would be Merkel's standing then? What would be the consequenses for the parliamentary election? Naturally this is an extreme example, but it's within the realm of possibility," Gressel continued.

Comment: New Year's in Cologne: Sexual crime and the radicalizing of European society

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European Commission president against additional anti-Russian sanctions


Sputnik
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:53 UTC
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© Sputnik/ Vladimir Sergeev
New sanctions against Russia would not help resolve the conflict in Syria, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Wednesday.

At the EU summit in October, the leaders discussed the possibility of imposing sanctions on Russia over the situation in Syria. However, the wording was changed due to Italy's position, and the EU did not threaten Russia with restrictive measures.

"Those who believe that additional sanctions against Russia can help solve the crisis in Syria are extremely naive," Juncker said in an interview to the German ZDF broadcaster.
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No proof: US intelligence directors refuse to brief lawmakers on alleged US election hacks


Sputnik
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:32 UTC
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© Pixabay
US intelligence directors refused to brief lawmakers on leaked assessments related to cyber attacks that interfered with the 2016 presidential election, House Committee on Intelligence Chairman David Nunes said in a statement.

On Tuesday, Nunes said he was concerned by media reports of conflicting intelligence assessments conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with respect to election cyber attacks.

The US intelligence community declined a request for US Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper to provide an overall picture of intelligence assessments regarding Russian involvement in cyber activities in the presidential election.

"It is unacceptable that the Intelligence Community directors would not fulfill the House Intelligence Committee's request to be briefed... on the cyber-attacks that occurred during the presidential campaign," Nunes said on Wednesday. "The Committee is deeply concerned that intransigence in sharing intelligence with Congress can enable the manipulation of intelligence for political purposes."

Moscow has repeatedly denied any interference in the presidential election, calling the allegations absurd and an attempt to distract US voters from pressing domestic issues.
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Saudi king warns against 'foreign interference' in Yemen while his troops continue attacks on Houthis


RT
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:38 UTC
Saudi King Salman bin Abulaziz Al-Saud
© Hamad I Mohammed / Reuters / ReutersSaudi King Salman bin Abulaziz Al-Saud
Saudi Arabia will not tolerate any external "interference" in Yemen, King Salman has stated, as his forces continue to wage war against Houthi rebels, killing hundreds of civilians and leaving millions facing acute food shortages.

"We will not accept any interference in the internal affairs of Yemen," King Salman said in a televised address to the Shura Council on Wednesday, as quoted by AFP.

Salman stated that his kingdom will not accept that neighboring war-torn Yemen "becomes a base or a point of passage for whatever state or party to menace the security or the stability of the kingdom and of the region."


Comment: Worried about 'blowback' from defeated terrorists in Syria?

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Fake news! Civilians making social media pleas from Aleppo actually bloggers with MSM primetime access


RT
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:30 UTC
Fake Aleppo bloggers
© OGN
Social media coming out of Aleppo has gone into overdrive. Well-articulated video pleas alleging near-death snake their way into the mainstream. There's just one issue: these aren't civilians, but bloggers and filmmakers - with spots on primetime TV.

And according to the host of RT's 'In the Now', Anissa Naouai, it barely takes an internet search to quickly verify their identities.

The narrative is the same each time: that an all-out genocide is taking place; that the Assad forces are going from city to city killing their own people and taking no prisoners; and that Aleppo's rebels valiantly look death in the face as they endure alleged Russian bombardment.
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Flashback McCarthyism lives: Democratic party smearing its critics by accusing them of Kremlin allegiance

Glen Greenwald
The Intercept
Mon, 08 Aug 2016 00:26 UTC
putin clinton
© Mikhail Metzel/APNo irony here
A frequent weapon for Democrats in the 2016 election is to publicly malign those they regard as critics and adversaries as Russia sympathizers, Putin stooges, or outright agents of the Kremlin. To put it mildly, this is not a new tactic in U.S. political discourse, and it's worth placing it in historical context. That's particularly true given how many people have now been targeted with this attack.

Strongly insinuating that the GOP nominee, Donald Trump, has nefarious, possibly treasonous allegiances to Moscow has migrated from Clinton-loyal pundits into the principal theme of the Clinton campaign itself. "The depth of Trump's relationship with the Kremlin is revealing itself by the day," her website announced yesterday, and vital "questions" must be answered "about Trump's cozy relationship with Russia." The Clinton campaign this weekend released a 1-minute video that, over and over, insinuates Trump's disloyalty in the form of "questions" - complete with menacing pictures of Red Square. Democrats cheered wildly, and really have not stopped cheering, ever since the ex-Acting CIA Director (who, undisclosed by the NYT, now works for a Clinton operative) went to The New York Times to claim "that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation."
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© Youtube/Vice News

Comment: There are no depths to which a pathological organization won't stoop. Look for things to only get worse.

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US State Dept. warns Americans against traveling to Eastern Ukraine and Crimea


Sputnik
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:24 UTC
Ukraine APC near boy in Donbass
© REUTERS/ Gleb Garanich
The US Department of State said that the situation in Ukraine is unpredictable, warning Americans against traveling to the regions of the country involved in the armed conflict.

US citizens should avoid traveling to Crimea and eastern Ukraine due to unstable situation in the region, the Department of State said in a press release upon extending the travel warning from June 17, 2016.

"The situation in Ukraine is unpredictable and could change quickly," the release stated on Wednesday. "US citizens throughout Ukraine should avoid large crowds and be prepared to remain indoors should protests or demonstrations escalate."
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