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Washington Post sez: Clinton has comfortable lead, begins making plans for White House agenda

Anne Gearan, John Wagner & Dan Balz
The Washington Post
Sat, 20 Aug 2016 07:11 UTC
Killary
Hillary Clinton's increasingly confident campaign has begun crafting a detailed agenda for her possible presidency, with plans to focus on measures aimed at creating jobs, boosting infrastructure spending and enacting immigration reform if current polling holds and she is easily elected to the White House in November.

In recent weeks, as her leads over GOP nominee Donald Trump have expanded, Clinton has started ramping up for a presidency defined by marquee legislation she has promised to seek immediately. The pace and scale of the planning reflect growing expectations among Democrats that she will win and take office in January alongside a new Democratic majority in the Senate.

While careful not to sound as if she is measuring the draperies quite yet, Clinton now describes what she calls improved odds for passage of an overhaul of immigration laws — the first legislative priority she outlined in detail last year — and what could be a bipartisan effort to rebuild the nation's roads, bridges, airports, rail system and ports.

Comment: God help us from this evil woman.

It's highly unlikely she's in the lead. If anything, she doesn't stand a chance against Trump.

But this won't be (it already isn't) a fair fight.

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Chest-thumping top US commander warns Damascus and Moscow against operations near American positions


RT
Sun, 21 Aug 2016 18:09 UTC
U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle
© US AIR FORCE / Reuters
Counter measures will be taken by US troops in case they "feel threatened" by Syrian or Russian air forces, according to a senior US military official. The warning comes in the wake of a recent incident with Syrian warplanes attacking areas close to US Special Forces.

"We've informed the Russians where we're at ... (they) tell us they've informed the Syrians, and I'd just say that we will defend ourselves if we feel threatened," recently appointed US commander of American forces in Iraq and Syria Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend said in a telephone interview with CNN on Saturday.

The US-led coalition had to order up its planes stationed near the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakah after two Syrian Su-24 jets dropped bombs "dangerously near" the US forces positions on Thursday, Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis told reporters shortly after the incident.


Comment: Let's remember the US was not invited by the Syrian government. Syrian jets are flying in their own country trying to defend themselves but the US has the audacity to tell them they can't do that and uses their top of the line F-22 Raptor fighter jets to reinforce that position.


Comment: The US has become embarrassing. The Syrian jets had already been and gone by the time they got there. Why don't they just admit defeat and go home?

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Syrian warplanes fly over flash-point city of Hassakeh despite US warning


The Daily Star
Sat, 20 Aug 2016 08:29 UTC
Hassakeh province
Syrian government warplanes took to the skies again Saturday over the flash-point northeastern city of Hassakeh, despite a U.S. warning against new strikes that might endanger its military advisers.

In another escalation of the five-year war, regime planes this week bombarded positions held by U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in the city fighting ISIS.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the raids showed Damascus was starting to see the Kurdish attempt to consolidate territory in northern Syria as "a threat".

He pledged to play a "more active" in the next months in putting an end to the conflict.

Comment: See also: Why are the Kurds risking their gains by demanding federalization now?

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The boy in the ambulance: US State Dept-funded groups behind latest 'iconic image' designed to demonize Russia and encourage further bloodshed in Syria

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Thu, 18 Aug 2016 17:40 UTC
Omran Daqneesh

CNN's front page today
Things have not been going well for the US government's (and friends') 5-year-long attempt to use proxy terror forces to overthrow the Assad government. The first death-knell came last September when the Russian air force entered the fray to great effect (and applause from all sensible people). The shoot-down of the Russia bomber in November by some NATO fifth-columnist was the Empire's response to the Russian intervention and was designed to destroy Turkish-Russian relations, making Russia's air war against Washington's terrorists more difficult. But Erdogan and Co. were disinclined to 'take one for the team' in that way (especially since Turkey was never really allowed to be part of the team) and eventually conceded to Russian demands for a public apology over the shoot-down and restitution to the families.

Faced with such an insolent and uncooperative reality, the State Department pulled out what they thought was their trump card: an old-fashioned coup d'etat in Turkey in mid-July. But that back-fired in a spectacular way, and now looks set to achieve exactly the opposite of what the Empire wanted: hard-wired (or piped) ties between not just Russia and Turkey, but Iran and China too.
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The Clinton Privilege: 'Broke' Killary takes a 20 mile plane trip to party it up in Martha's Vineyard

Olaf Eckberg
The American Mirror
Sat, 20 Aug 2016 16:13 UTC
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© redalertpolitics
Hillary Clinton is very important, and she can't be bogged down by pesky things such as boats or waiting.

The presidential candidate, who is endlessly trying to tell factory workers in Ohio and Pennsylvania that she's one of them, jetted approximately 20 miles from Martha's Vineyard — where she was last night partying with President Obama — to Nantucket for a fundraiser on Saturday.

Fox News aired footage of her stepping off her plane in the latter.

Comment: Further reading:

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Turkey to expand military role in Syria, says Assad may be part of transition but not long term


Sputnik
Sun, 21 Aug 2016 02:49 UTC
Turkey
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim announced on Saturday that Turkey is going to take more active role on Syria in next six months. He also announced Turkey's position that President Bashar Al-Assad can be part of transition in Syria.

Apparently, the Kurds did manage to bring Syria and Turkey closer together. While Turkey's position on Syria for years has been based on the aim of immediate removal of Assad from office, the recent developments which include the failed coup attempt and strengthening of Syrian Kurds, may have led Ankara alter its calculation.

According to Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, Turkey thinks Bashar Assad can be a "part of the transition", but has no place in Syrian future in the long term.

"Could Syria carry Assad in the long-term? Certainly not," Yildirim said. "The United States knows and Russia knows that Assad does not appear to be someone who can bring (the people) together."

Comment: See also: Turkey and Iran reach tentative agreement on conditions for Syria peace

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ISIS was made in the USA -- here's how we know

Roger Stone
Lew Rockwell
Sun, 21 Aug 2016 15:46 UTC
isis sponsors
Judicial Watch proved it. Under a Freedom of Information Act request, Judicial Watch was able to obtain a (heavily redacted) copy of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) directive that initiated the creation of ISIS in 2012. the DIA report states,

"THE WEST, GULF COUNTRIES, AND TURKEY [WHO] SUPPORT THE [SYRIAN] OPPOSITION . . . [SUPPORT] ESTABLISHING A DECLARED OR UNDECLARED SALAFIST PRINCIPALITY IN EASTERN SYRIA . . . IN ORDER TO ISOLATE THE SYRIAN REGIME . . .".

Not even Judicial Watch seems to have appreciated the significance of this document, where its press release focused on the Benghazi attack. Recent releases of Hillary's emails, moreover, confirm that taking out Assad has nothing to do with his alleged abuse of the Syrian people but because it will help Israel.

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Iraq: 36 militants responsible for the Camp Speicher massacre hanged in Tikrit


Sputnik
Sun, 21 Aug 2016 15:35 UTC
disposing bodies
© AFP 2016/ AHMAD AL-RUBAYE
Iraq hanged 36 militants over the 2014 massacre of hundreds of military recruits at Camp Speicher near the city of Tikrit, Iraqi Minister of Justice Haidar Zamili said on Sunday.
"The Justice Ministry carried out executions by hanging of 36 militants convicted over the Camp Speicher massacre," the minister of justice said as quoted by Iraqi newspaper Al Mada.
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Israel launches strikes against Gaza in response to alleged rocket attack on Sderot


RT
Sun, 21 Aug 2016 14:50 UTC
israeli tank
© Amir Cohen / Reuters
The Israeli military have launched strikes against two Hamas positions in the north of the Gaza Strip, the IDF reported on Twitter, saying the operation was a response to an earlier rocket attack from Gaza.

On Sunday afternoon, both the Israeli Air Force and armored corps on the ground targeted Hamas, who is considered a terrorist organization in Israel.

Earlier in the day, a rocket exploded in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, with the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) saying the missile had been launched from the Gaza Strip.

No injuries or damage have been reported in Sderot, which has a population of 19,000, while the police have called on members of the public to stay away from the scene.

Comment: Mossad op! IDF admits Gaza rockets not fired by Hamas
Guaranteed the Israeli Mossad sent a few operatives into Gaza to launch their phony rocket attacks into Israel, which always seem to hit nobody and nothing of importance, so that the evil Israelis could somehow justify bombing Gaza once again. The Israelis have been lying for years claiming that their attacks against their neighbours are justified because of the so called ''thousands'' of rockets that Hamas and Hezbollah supposedly possess. More and more we are finding that these Hamas-Hezbollah ''rockets'' absolutely do not exist.
See also: By way of deception: Hamas blames "Israeli collaborators" for launching rockets

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UN urges Israel to charge or free 'administrative' detainees


Press TV
Sun, 21 Aug 2016 04:59 UTC
Israel
© Reuters
A woman holds a Palestinian flag as she sits in front of Israeli policemen during a protest in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, August 12, 2016.
The UN has urged Israel to decide the fate of prisoners held under the so-called administrative detention without trial or charge amid a fresh wave of hunger strikes by Palestinians in protest against their arbitrary incarceration.

UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Aid and Development Activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Robert Piper made the request in a statement released on Saturday.

Piper said he was "deeply concerned about the deteriorating health" of Bilal Kayed, who has been refusing food for 67 days to express dissatisfaction with his administrative detention.

The 35-year-old inmate, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was arrested in 2002 and spent 14 and a half years in Israeli jails.

Comment: Israel is torturing the Palestinians in so many ways, why only ask that the prisoners be released or charged? The rest of the Palestinian nation is suffering horribly and they all should be given back their freedom and allowed to live as human beings, not caged.

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