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Army Special Forces soldiers killed in Jordan were working for the CIA

Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Joby Warrick
The Washington Post
Sat, 12 Nov 2016 23:41 UTC
Army soldiers move the flag-draped remains
© Alex Wong/Getty ImagesArmy soldiers move the flag-draped remains of Army Staff Sgt. Kevin McEnroe, of Tucson, Ariz., from a C-17 aircraft at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Nov. 7.
The three Army Special Forces soldiers killed at a Jordanian military base this month were working for a CIA program to train moderate Syrian fighters when they were shot at a checkpoint under still-unclear circumstances, U.S. officials said.

The Nov. 4 slayings of the three soldiers is believed to be the deadliest single incident involving a CIA team since December 2009, when seven officers and contractors were killed in a suicide bombing in Khost, Afghanistan.

The Fort Campbell, Ky.-based soldiers — all members of the 5th Special Forces Group — were killed by a Jordanian soldier at an entry control point to Prince Faisal Air Base near Jafr, in the southern desert about 150 miles south of the capital, Amman, according to the officials. The shooter also was wounded in what was described by U.S. and Middle Eastern sources as an exchange of gunfire.
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Trump trolls NY Times on Twitter: 'Very poor & highly inaccurate coverage'


RT
Sun, 13 Nov 2016 22:08 UTC
President-elect Donald Trump
© Jonathan Ernst/ReutersU.S. President-elect Donald Trump
On the same day he promised a more "restrained" approach to social media, Donald Trump fired off a series of tweets directed at the New York Times. The paper says that it reported on both candidates "fairly" during the race, but Trump does not agree.

"Wow, the @nytimes is losing thousands of subscribers because of their very poor and highly inaccurate coverage of the 'Trump phenomena' [sic]," tweeted Trump on Sunday afternoon.

The New York Times has denied Trumps allegations, telling Politico that Trump misrepresented its latest circulation figures. While the print edition is selling more poorly, this has been offset by an even higher number of digital subscriptions.

"The @nytimes sent a letter to their subscribers apologizing for their BAD coverage of me. I wonder if it will change - doubt it?"

In an email to staff, sent on Friday by NY Times publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr, the newspaper, which both endorsed Hillary Clinton, and predicted her win, said that it "reported on both candidates fairly during the presidential campaign," but questioned if "Donald Trump's sheer unconventionality lead us and other news outlets to underestimate his support among American voters?"


Comment: Yes, you did. The NYTimes and other media shills believed their own pro-Killary propaganda, with no thought of the voters and who they actually supported.

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Marine Le Pen thinks Trump victory boosts her chances for presidency, likens NF to UKIP


RT
Sun, 13 Nov 2016 23:33 UTC
Marine Le Pen
© Jacky Naegelen / Reuters
Marine Le Pen, far-right leader of the National Front, has said Donald Trump's presidential win has increased her chances of becoming France's next president. She also said "there's not a hair's breadth of difference" between UKIP and her party.

In an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Le Pen stated that president-elect Trump "made possible what had previously been presented as impossible."

Le Pen made the comments during a pre-recorded interview with Marr, which was aired on Sunday and was widely criticized by many viewers for giving a platform to the far-right leader.
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Amnesty International: US-led invasion caused power vacuum in Iraq and contributed to rise of Daesh


Sputnik
Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:12 UTC
Amnesty International
Amnesty International's Syria researcher stated that US-led military invasion in Iraq and the political vacuum that followed the overthrow of the government of Saddam Hussein made a major contribution to the rise of the Daesh jihadist group.

LONDON - The US-led military invasion in Iraq and the political vacuum that followed the overthrow of the government of Saddam Hussein made a major contribution to the rise of the Daesh jihadist group, Neil Sammonds, the Amnesty International's Syria researcher, told Sputnik.

After the US-led overthrow of the government of Saddam Hussein they had a massive vacuum of power, and while he was a terrible dictator and all sorts of horrible human rights abuses took place there, there was also very strong level of control and there was no room for jihadi terrorism there. But after the overthrow of the government and after hundreds of thousand of soldiers became demobilized that fueled aggressive jihadi organizations," Sammonds said.
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Russian bombers gearing up, Syrians give jihadis 24 hours to surrender

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Sun, 13 Nov 2016 22:10 UTC
russian bomber
There are growing signs that what looks like a big Syrian government offensive in Aleppo is in the works.

The Syrian army has been broadcasting messages to the trapped Jihadis in eastern Aleppo via loudspeakers all day giving them just 24 hours to lay down their arms.

There are also reports of more elite Syrian troops from the Tiger forces and the Desert Hawks Special Forces units being concentrated in Aleppo. They are apparently being reinforced by well trained Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon.

There is also an indeterminate number of Shiite militia fighters brought to the area of Aleppo from Iraq, though it seems that they are being given secondary support roles, and that most of the fighting on the front line will be carried out by the Syrian army.

In addition there are also reports of Russian and Iranian staff officers arriving in the city to help coordinate the fighting.
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What does the Donald have in store for the Fed?

Benyamin Appelbaum
New York Times
Sat, 12 Nov 2016 21:59 UTC
Janet L. Yellen
© Al Drago/The New York TimesJanet L. Yellen’s four-year term as the Federal Reserve chairwoman ends on Feb. 3, 2018. Donald Trump has said he will most likely replace her after that.
Paul A. Volcker, the Federal Reserve chairman, received an urgent warning two weeks after Ronald Reagan won the 1980 presidential election. Some of the president-elect's advisers, he was told, wanted to abolish the central bank and replace it with a computer program that would manage interest rates and monetary policy.

Today, a Democratic Fed leader is once again bracing to see whether victorious and emboldened Republicans will try to overhaul the central bank.

In almost three years as the Fed's chairwoman, Janet L. Yellen has led an aggressive campaign to stimulate economic growth. Donald J. Trump, the president-elect, has embraced criticism that the Fed is causing more problems than it is solving, and he has surrounded himself with advisers who would like to rein in the institution that has the greatest influence over the direction of the nation's economy.

Mr. Trump can fill a majority of the Fed's seven-member board with his own nominees over the next 18 months, including replacing Ms. Yellen in February 2018. He also could work with Congress on new constraints, including some form of an old idea on the right that a formula should dictate the Fed's movements of interest rates.

Comment: In sum: no one knows. Only Trump. He's keeping everyone in suspense.

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DNC staffers: Arrogance from Clinton campaign leadership lost the election

David Catanese
AOL
Sun, 13 Nov 2016 21:34 UTC
crying hillary supporters
On Thursday, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, held a conference call with devastated staffers that put the rosiest possible frame on a calamitous picture.

The message to the dozens of mostly young, sleep-deprived and shell-shocked aides: We did everything we could have. We wouldn't have changed a thing. You should still be proud.

Inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters, which sits half a mile south of the U.S. Capitol, eyes rolled and heads shook in frustration and disbelief.

Clinton's loss at the hands of Donald Trump amounted to the most surprising outcome in the history of modern electoral politics. Of course things could've been done differently. And ignoring that fact wasn't going to make the searing defeat any easier.

"We are pissed at them and state parties are pissed at them because they lost due to arrogance," a top DNC staffer tells U.S. News, sharing the candid sentiment suffusing the high levels of the committee in exchange for anonymity.

Comment: Hubris comes before the fall. And wishful thinking will get you every time.

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Ignoring reality: Read this if you do not understand why Trump won

Trent Lapinski
Medium.com
Wed, 09 Nov 2016 00:00 UTC
US map Trump election

Trump Is What Happens When You Nominate A Cheater and Live In An Echo Chamber—Please Learn From This

Did you read Wikileaks?
Well, you should have.
The "conspiracies" were true, and the mainstream media lied to you to about everything.

Wikileaks was not Russian propaganda, it was the news.

Wikileaks has a 10-year record of never releasing a single falsified document, and is not connected to Russia. Everything they released were the actual e-mails of Hillary Clinton and her campaign staff. You had the opportunity to look through a window into the Hillary Clinton campaign, but you didn't.

By ignoring the leaks, you ignored reality.
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Corbyn: 'NATO should demilitarize border with Russia. We can't descend into a new Cold War'


RT
Sun, 13 Nov 2016 20:45 UTC
Jeremy Corbyn
© liarpoliticians / YouTube Jeremy Corbyn talking to Andrew Marr on Sunday
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says NATO's current policies of adding more troops in eastern Europe is only increasing tensions, and has proposed a demilitarized buffer zone on the alliance's border with Russia. "There has to be a process that we try and demilitarize the border between what are now the NATO states and Russia so we drive apart those forces, keep them further apart," Corbyn told Andrew Marr on the BBC. "We can't descend into a new Cold War."

Corbyn previously said that NATO "should have been wound up" after the fall of the Iron Curtain, and refused to commit the UK to the principle of collective defense if he were to become Prime Minister. The Labour MP expressed skepticism that under the current international system any rapprochement with Moscow was possible."Donald Trump clearly thinks he can have a strong relationship with Putin on the basis that he is a strong leader. But, it's not about strong leaders, it's about movements towards coexistence and peace," explained Corbyn.

Comment: Corbyn vowed to make efforts to create "a world where we don't need to go to war".
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The end of the Clinton dynasty

Anita Kumar
McClatchyDC
Wed, 09 Nov 2016 07:00 UTC
various clintons
© Wall Street Journal
With Hillary Clinton's stunning defeat, a force in American political life for nearly four decades comes to an abrupt end. Bill and Hillary Clinton, a husband-and-wife duo unmatched in U.S. history, brought people across the country into politics, created a vast fundraising network and shaped the nation by holding some of the highest offices in the land.

Clinton, 69, who has made two failed bids at the presidency, is unlikely to be on the front lines of politics again. Her husband, Bill Clinton, 70, a former president who was widely expected to be the first husband to accompany his wife to the White House, likely will return to philanthropic efforts at his family's foundation.

"I'm glad the Clintons came along. They have contributed greatly to the country and the world," said Donald Fowler, a former Democratic National Committee chairman who's close to the Clintons. "I think they will both be willing to help in the search for new leadership."

The Clintons represented the rise and maturation of the baby boom generation, perhaps the most discussed, analyzed and self-referential generation in our country's history. In that sense, they were emblematic of its aspirations, as well of its outsized feelings of self-worth.

On Wednesday, as Donald Trump began to prepare to move into the White House, Clinton said goodbye to American politics and pushed the next generation to keep fighting.

Comment: "Bill and Hill are, no doubt, a husband-and-wife duo unmatched in U.S. history." In so many ways it is deeply disturbing, appalling, and a travesty of justice that they have been let come this far. Consider their legacy: Corruption, Treason, Racketeering, Money Laundering, Skimming, Soliciting Bribes for Favors (individuals, foreign governments), Pay to Play, Media Manipulation, Law Violations, Violations of Federal Statutes, Fraud, Conspiracy, Falsifying Records, Obstruction of Justice, Compromising National Security, Sexual Misconduct, Cronyism...and the list goes on, likely deeper and darker than we want to know. They managed to fool a lot of people, certainly all those who voted for them in their various elections. What is next for the ex-Washington Clintons? The only place the Bill and Hill should be heading is to prison. Is it the end of the dynasty? That is up to America. There could be a next chapter...

See also: Clinton dynasty: Chelsea being groomed for Congress

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