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Putin promises to send enough wheat to Venezuela to stop the food war


TeleSUR
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 15:51 UTC
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Russian President Vladimir Putin ratified Tuesday their strategic alliance in economic, military and agricultural matters.

Maduro said that his Russian counterpart had promised in a phone conversation to send its top experts and to build agrarian factories next year in five Venezuelan states in order to provide technology, equipment and capital to combat the economic sabotage being carried out by right-wing forces.

Putin also agreed to renew the military cooperation with Venezuela and to send modern military equipment by 2017, Maduro added.

With the sabotage from local producers, provoking a scarcity of basic goods, Maduro welcomed Putin's offer to send as much wheat as needed to combat the food war.
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MIB

Spy v. spy: Snowden docs reveal British intel monitors Israelis, with help from U.S. & Jordan


RT
Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:52 UTC
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British secret services have been spying on Israel's diplomats, defense firms, and military, according to documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden and examined by French newspaper Le Monde.

Documents found among Snowden's National Security Agency (SNA) leak from 2013, indicate that the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) collects intelligence on what the paper called the "number two of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs" and "ambassadors posted in Nairobi, Kenya, and in Abuja, Nigeria." None of the targets were named in Wednesday's article.

Previous reports by the Wall Street Journal and German magazine Der Spiegel have already revealed how US spies monitored the communications of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his predecessor Ehud Olmert.

These new revelations show how Israel's closest political allies - Britain and the United States - are clearly keeping tabs on all areas of Israeli politics, including government departments, civil servants, and diplomats.
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Boat

Danish MP suggests shooting at migrant boats that stray too close in Mediterranean


RT
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 15:07 UTC
Migrants
© Reuters
In a televised debate shown on Tuesday, Danish MP Kenneth Kristensen Berth suggested that migrant boats that stray too close to European waters should be "shot at." A fierce backlash is now forcing him to backtrack.

Berth, a member of the populist Danish People's Party, made the remarks while taking part in a debate on immigration with the Danish European Movement Chairwoman Stine Bosse. At one point in the conversation, Berth suggested that harsher measures be taken against migrant boats coming across the Mediterranean Sea.

"The only way you can do it effectively is simply to turn the boats away and say 'You can't sail within this national border and if you do, you will either be shot at or be turned around and sailed back,' he said on the show.

In response, host Ole Stephensen asked Berth to clarify if he really meant that boats full of refugees and asylum seekers should be fired upon.

"Just so I can understand if what I am hearing is true, you really want a fairly stringent rule that states that if they come in above a certain mile limit, you have to shoot at them?" Stephensen asked.

"For example," Berth replied. "We need to do what is necessary to ensure that the border is not violated."

Berth's statement shocked his fellow panelists.

"You cannot stand here and say that they be shot in the Mediterranean. I simply refuse to believe it," his debate opponent Bosse said.

Comment: See also: 'Asylum spray' handed out in Denmark by far-right party 'to ward off migrant attacks'

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Bad Guys

Views of General Kelly: Lead pick for Trump's head of Dept. Homeland Security


RT
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 15:33 UTC
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© Lucas Jackson / ReutersRetired Marine Corps general John Kelly is escorted by Madeleine Westerhout (R) as he arrives at Trump Tower to meet with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in New York, U.S., November 30, 2016.
General John Kelly, a retired four-star Marine General is President-elect Donald Trump's likely pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security. Kelly's son was killed in combat in Afghanistan.

Several news outlets, including The New York Times and Reuters, said Kelly was Trump's leading pick to head the Department of Homeland Security.

General Kelly had a 45-year career in the Marine Corps, served in Vietnam, commanded Camp Pendleton troops in Iraq, and headed US Southern Command. Here are five important things to know about Kelly.

Dismissed human rights abuses at Gitmo

While serving as head of Southern Command, which included the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, he rejected criticism from human rights activists about the treatment of detainees.

General Kelly told reporters in January 2016, a week before he was due to retire from Southern Command, the remaining 105 inmates held at the US Navy base are "all bad boys."
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Propaganda

Fake news: Are magazines that blame Brexit on Russia legitimate?

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 14:07 UTC
Brexit graphic
© imago stock&people / Global Look Press
The rebooted Newsweek has questioned whether the Brexit vote is valid. Rather than admitting that it simply dislikes the outcome, it ludicrously attempts to pin the blame on Russian meddling.

Firstly, a disclaimer. I personally believe voting for 'Brexit' is possibly the most stupid thing a semi-major nation has done in living memory.

At the very time that China, Russia and the US have de-facto established themselves as the three central pillars of an emerging multi-polar world order, it's beyond comprehension that the UK would vote itself into irrelevance.

It's quite apparent that the only way western Europe's diminished powers can compete with the 'big three,' in the geopolitical sense, is by pooling resources and developing a foreign policy independent of Washington. While Germany, France, Italy and the rest may eventually do that, Britain has excluded itself from the possibility and will now fade even further. Welcome to Upper Volta, reimagined by Boris Johnson.
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Info

Moscow slams Mogherini for saying EU alone in providing aid to Syria unless she means aid to terrorists


RT
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 13:56 UTC
Residents of Kaukab, Syria during the distribution of Russian humanitarian aid
© Maksim Blinov / SputnikResidents of Kaukab, Syria during the distribution of Russian humanitarian aid.
Moscow has blasted as "outrageous twisting of the facts" a statement by EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, who said the EU was the only party providing aid to Syria.

"It's outrageous twisting of facts which ignores what Russia has been doing for a long time," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said.

The Russian Foreign Ministry also officially responded to Mogherini's statement "with surprise," and said that Russia, "unlike other international players, is actively supplying thousands of tons of humanitarian aid to various regions in Syria, including the liberated areas in eastern Aleppo, at the risk of Russian military lives."

"If the high representative [Mogherini] means providing assistance to terrorists and extremists, then we don't participate in this, indeed," the statement added.
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Star of David

With no evidence: Israel claims to have 'blocked WMD smuggling to Hezbollah' after alleged strike on Damascus airbase


RT
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 13:42 UTC
Avigdor Lieberman
© Jinipix / Global Look Press via ZUMA Press
Israel's defense minister has broken Tel Aviv's secrecy over its policy on Syria, stating it is working to prevent weapons of mass destruction from reaching Hezbollah. It came hours after a rocket attack on a Damascus air base was blamed on Israel.

Speaking to ambassadors from the European Union on Wednesday, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said that Israel is "working, first and foremost, to defend the safety of our citizens and to protect our sovereignty, and we are trying to prevent the smuggling of advanced weapons, military equipment and weapons of mass destruction from Syria to Hezbollah," The Times of Israel reported.

The defense minister's office refused to elaborate on the type of weapons of mass destruction Hezbollah may be trying to obtain.
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USA

Michigan pushes anti Jill Stein law

Gary Barnes
Truth Kings
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 03:09 UTC
Jill Stein
© Dominick Reuter / Reuters
Michigan lawmakers are rushing to push through a law to block future attempts like the one they are currently dealing with. The frivolous waste of money lawsuit brought by Dr. Jill Stein. As Michigan lawmakers currently look for money to repair water lines poisoning their residents, Stein is burning up taxpayer money in the state.

Now lawmakers are rushing the legislation that will force any candidate who didn't get at least 5% of the vote to have to pay the full cost of a recount. Currently, Stein will only pay $1 million of a recount expected to cost taxpayers as much as $12 million.
The Conservative Review is reporting the following:
Michigan lawmakers are considering legislation to discourage futile recount efforts by candidates who lose their election bids by an incontestable amount, forcing the candidate to foot the bill for the recount.

Introduced by Republican state Sen. Lisa Lyons (R-Alto) last week, the bill, H.B. 6097, would make a candidate who lost by more than 5 percent pay for the full cost of the recount for each precinct referred to (there are 6,300 precincts in Michigan) in his or her petition. The bill passed on a 5-3 vote in the House Elections committee Tuesday, and now moves to the state's full House of Representatives for consideration.
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Gold Seal

Syrian Army makes major advances in Aleppo, jihadis on brink of surrender (plus South Front VIDEOS)

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Wed, 07 Dec 2016 17:26 UTC
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© REUTERS/ SANA
Reports from Aleppo confirm collapse of Jihadi resistance and mass surrender of Jihadi fighters to Syrian Arab Army. Surrendered Jihadi fighters being bused in green buses to an undisclosed destination.

Following yesterday's reports of Al-Qaeda commanders negotiating to surrender in eastern Aleppo come reports today of Jihadi fighters giving up, surrendering themselves to the Syrian authorities, and being taken away from Aleppo in green buses.

It seems that the total number of diehard Jihadis still resisting the Syrian army in eastern Aleppo may have fallen to no more than a few hundred. The area of eastern Aleppo that is still contested meanwhile has shrunk to just 10 square kilometres, and it seems that no significant part even of this area is fully Al-Qaeda controlled any longer.

It is not clear where the Jihadis who have surrendered are being taken to. However it seems more likely that they are being bused to Turkey whence they came, rather than to the Al-Qaeda controlled provincial capital of Idlib to Aleppo's west.

It seems that the 'Great Battle of Aleppo' is almost ended, and that the Syrian army is on the brink of winning its greatest victory of the Syrian war.


Comment: Videos below.


Comment: The Syrian Army now controls 70% of the area previously controlled by jihadists in E. Aleppo. The Army has restored the water supply; the main pumping station had been controlled by jihadists, who had shut it off and booby-trapped it with 10 explosive devices. Sixty-six militants surrendered over the last day and were granted amnesty; 1,224 civilians fled the areas still controlled by jihadis, bringing the total to 80,000+ over the course of the operation. On their last ropes, the jihadis are calling for a 5-day humanitarian pause in order to catch their breath and evacuate around 500 wounded militants, according to a local source. But SANA reports that militants continued to shell government-controlled districts, killing 12 and injuring 64.

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Briefcase

Chicago mayor urges Trump to continue Obama's DACA program for young immigrants


CBS Chicago
Wed, 07 Dec 2016 01:35 UTC
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Donald Trump and Rahm Emanuel have talked on the phone and have now met.
In a private meeting in New York, Mayor Rahm Emanuel delivered a letter to President-elect Donald Trump, urging him to continue a federal program that allows some undocumented immigrants to avoid deportation.

The letter, signed by Emanuel and 16 other big city mayors, asked the Trump administration to continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) system enacted by President Barack Obama, until Congress passes a comprehensive plan to overhaul the immigration system. The federal program allows immigrants brought to the country illegally as children to avoid deportation and get work permits.

After the meeting, the mayor said he made it clear the Trump administration should embrace young immigrants who voluntarily gave the federal government their personal information so they could stay and work in the United States.

"All of us fundamentally believe that those are students. Those are also people that want to join the Armed Forces. They gave their name, their address, their phone number where they are. They're trying to achieve the American dream. No fault of their own, their parents came here. They are something we should hold up and embrace," he said. "We are clear, as mayors, that these are DREAMers who are seeking the American dream, and we should embrace them rather than do a bait and switch."

According to the mayor's letter, more than 740,000 undocumented youth have participated in DACA since it began in 2012.
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