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U.S. considers sending arms and supplies to Kiev regime, Russia warns against it

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 00:00 UTC
Kurt Volker
Sputnik reports Russia again warns Washington against arms supplies to US as Pentagon reported to be mulling the idea.

The Russian government has according to Sputnik issued a public warning against any thought by the Western powers - notably the US - sending weapons to Ukraine.

The suggestion that weapons might be sent to Ukraine has been repeatedly floated in the US, where it was part of the Republican Party platform in last year's election until Donald Trump famously removed it.

Comment: Kurt Volker: another walking-talking automaton for the war-thirsty U.S. Deep State. There seems to be a limitless supply of such stupid bureaucrats who are ready and willing to foster more chaos and carnage for a paycheck.

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Vader

Killary's own words reveal the huge part she played in her downfall - Book review of "How I Lost By Hillary Clinton"

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Mon, 31 Jul 2017 15:12 UTC
Killary
© Recode / YouTubeKillary still at it...
The single biggest mystery of the 2016 election is why anyone was surprised that Hillary Clinton lost.

Even from faraway London it was obvious to me that she was a terrible candidate who the American people didn't like and didn't trust but who the US political elite - which in this context also means the US media - was trying to force on the American people against their wishes.

Unsurprisingly this provoked a reaction, which is why Hillary Clinton lost.

There is no reason to introduce meddling by Russia or the ham fisted and misunderstood interventions of James Comey to explain this.

A book - How I Lost By Hillary Clinton - with a foreword by Julian Assange and introduced and annotated by Joe Lauria (a contributor to The Duran) sets this all out in a way that makes it all perfectly clear.

Comment: It should be obvious to anyone with two firing neurons that Killary was a terrible candidate, with elitist attitudes and opinions, who the American people mistrusted and disliked.

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Chess

Kelly has approval of both parties, but bringing order to the West Wing is the bigger task ahead

Vivian Salama and Jill Colvin
Associated Press
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 15:10 UTC
John Kelly
© Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated PressWhite House Chief of Staff John Kelly appears at event where President Donald Trump was to bestow the Medal of Honor to retired Army medic James McCloughan during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 31, 2017.
Raised voices could be heard through the thick door to the Oval Office as John Kelly - then secretary of Homeland Security - offered some tough talk to President Donald Trump.

Kelly, a whip-cracking retired general who was sworn in as White House chief of staff on Monday, had demanded to speak to the president alone after Trump complained loudly that the U.S. was admitting travelers from countries he viewed as high risk.

Kelly first tried to explain to Trump that the admissions were standard - some people had legitimate reasons to visit the country - but the president insisted that it was making him look bad, according to an administration official familiar with the exchange about a month ago.

Kelly then demanded that other advisers leave the room so he could speak to the president frankly. Trump refused at first, but agreed when Kelly insisted.

It was an early indication that Kelly, a decorated retired Marine general who served three tours in Iraq, is not afraid to stand up to his commander-in-chief.

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Vader

Patrick Buchanan wonders, "Shall we fight them all?"

Patrick J. Buchanan
World News Daily
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:54 UTC
Supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong-un
© KCNA / ReutersSupreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong-un
'President Trump may need those transgender troops'

Saturday, Kim Jong-un tested an ICBM of sufficient range to hit the U.S. mainland. He is now working on its accuracy and a nuclear warhead small enough to fit atop that missile that can survive re-entry.

Unless we believe Kim is a suicidal madman, his goal seems clear. He wants what every nuclear power wants - the ability to strike his enemy's homeland with horrific impact, in order to deter that enemy.

Kim wants his regime recognized and respected, and the U.S., which carpet-bombed the North from 1950-1953, out of Korea.

Where does this leave us? Says Cliff Kupchan of the Eurasia Group, "The U.S. is on the verge of a binary choice: either accept North Korea into the nuclear club or conduct a military strike that would entail enormous civilian casualties."
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Sherlock

Democratic IT hacker Imran Awan is now blessed with a high-powered Clinton attorney

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:42 UTC
wasserman schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz's IT specialist could very well bring down the entire fake news Russia story that Hillary Clinton and her campaign staff put together in the run up to their election defeat to Donald Trump.

This would explain why this Pakistani "hacker", who is now under arrest for bank fraud charges while attempting to flee the United States, has been curiously blessed with high powered Clinton attorneys.

The rapidly growing scandal is seeing zero airtime on mainstream media.
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War Whore

Pentagon enjoys impunity in spite of its horrific crimes against civilians

Grete Mautner
New Eastern Outlook
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:47 UTC
usa bombing
Somehow most of us grew accustomed to various media sources reporting about horrific crimes against civilians committed by US servicemen in various regions of the world on the daily basis.

For instance, yet another air raid launched by US Air Force on July 25 in Afghanistan claimed a number of civilian lives. Eight people were fell dead, including women and children. For local residents the fact that that the area where the attack occurred is being contested by pro-government forces and various militant groups is yesterday's news. However, as eyewitnesses argue, this time the strikes were aimed against civilians. There's been reports that those who were trying to provide first aid to the victims of the air strike were outraged by the number of wounded minors. It's curious that the contested Nangarhar province is located on the very border with Pakistan, so there are no large where hitting one's designated target may be tricky. Americans have been bombing the area for a long time.

Under the conditions of self-declared military intervention, local authorities are forced to bear with with the fact that the death of a singled terrorist killed by US and NATO soldiers would be accompanied by a number of civilian lives lost in the process. However, the best the Pentagon has ever done for the relatives of its victims was the offering of pathetic condolences accompanied by a promise to "investigate the incident". As it was a few days ago, when US aircraft would "mistakenly" bomb an Afghan military base in the province of Helmand, claiming the lives of 17 Afghan policemen.
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Handcuffs

Court rules to arrest three Turkish soldiers for beating Syrian refugees


Sputnik
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:54 UTC
Turkish soldiers
© AFP 2017/ BULENT KILIC
A Turkish court decided to arrest three Turkish soldiers who assaulted, both physically and verbally, four Syrian refugees attempting to cross the border illegally, local media reported on Tuesday.

According to the Hurriyet Daily News outlet, one more soldier was released following the investigation carried out by the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office of the district of Altฤฑnozu in the Hatay Province, where the incident occurred.
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Info

Macron and Libya: The Rothschild connection

Manlio Dinucci
Voltaire Network
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:44 UTC
Macron with Libyan leaders
"What is happening today in Libya is the nub of a destabilization program holding a myriad of complexities". So declared President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee, as he concluded an agreement that "paves the way for peace and national reconciliation".

Macron's message is that terrorist movements are the single cause for the chaos in which Libya now finds itself; terrorist movements that "exploit the political instability and the economic and financial resources that may exist in Libya to allow it to flourish". This is why - he concludes - France will give Libya a helping hand to block the terrorists. [Mauvaise foi!] This statement by Macron is actually turning the situation on its head. France was in fact a manipulator in destabilizing Libya. And did she act alone? Hell no! Her accomplices were the United States, NATO and the Gulf Monarchies. The proof?
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Family

Donald Trump Jr. sought advice from his dad after Russian lawyer meeting

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:36 UTC
Trump Trump Jr
According to The Washington Post, US President Donald Trump advised his son with a statement which claimed Trump Jr. had met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya to discuss adoption during his flight home, after attending the G20 summit in Germany.

US media is reporting that the statement prepared by father and son was "misleading", as emails later released by Trump Jr., himself prove that Trump Jr., took the meeting after being suckered into it via an email from British pop music promoter Rob Goldstone, and being promised that the Russian lawyer has some information on Hillary Clinton.

The CIA, Jeff Bezos funded Washington Post reports...
Over the next three days, multiple accounts of the meeting were provided to the news media as public pressure mounted, with Trump Jr. ultimately acknowledging that he had accepted the meeting after receiving an email promising damaging information about Hillary Clinton as part of a Russian government effort to help his father's campaign.

The extent of the president's personal intervention in his son's response, the details of which have not previously been reported, adds to a series of actions that Trump has taken that some advisers fear could place him and some members of his inner circle in legal jeopardy.
The meeting lasted 20 minutes, and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was indeed interested in talking about adoption laws as related to the Magnitsky Act sanctions, but it appears baited Trump Jr., with Hillary intel in order to secure the meeting.

Comment: See also: The White House offered this in response:
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump only "weighed in, offered suggestions, like any father would do."

She said Trump Jr.'s statement to the press when the meeting was first disclosed last month was true and there was "no inaccuracy" in it.


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Star of David

We stole it fair and square! Israel rules out handing over Golan Heights to Syria


Sputnik
Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:40 UTC
Golan Heights
© REUTERS/ Alaa Al-Faqir
Israeli Ambassador to Russia Gary Koren said in an interview with Sputnik on Tuesday that Israel is not going to negotiate on the issue of the Golan Heights that were seized by Israelis from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War.

Israel does not plan on returning the country's northern Golan Heights region to Syria, Koren told Sputnik, commenting on the central roadblock in long-standing conflict between Israel and Syria.

"According to our legislation, the Golan Heights are an independent part within Israel. If anyone keeps thinking that this question has yet to be discussed, it is naive of them. In the past, during the tenure of [former Israeli Prime Minister] Ehud Barak's government, we tried to hold talks, explore the opportunity of talks with [former Syrian president] Hafez Assad, but it did not take us anywhere. Well, thank God it failed. If we had returned the Golan Heights, we would now have Hezbollah and Iranian soldiers over the the Kinneret lake," Koren said.
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