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Trump to name son-in-law to White House 'SWAT team'


RT
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 17:20 UTC
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© Jim Bourg / ReutersIvanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner
President Donald Trump will appoint his son-in-law Jared Kushner to head a White House office focused on making government run more efficiently. The news comes as Kushner agreed to testify before the Senate on alleged Trump "ties with Russia."

Kushner, who is married to Trump's daughter Ivanka, will head the new White House Office of American Innovation. Trump and Kushner previewed the appointment on Sunday to the Washington Post, an outlet usually hostile to the current administration.

"All Americans, regardless of their political views, can recognize that government stagnation has hindered our ability to properly function, often creating widespread congestion and leading to cost overruns and delays," Trump said in a statement to the Post. "I promised the American people I would produce results, and apply my 'ahead of schedule, under budget' mentality to the government."
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At least 112 bodies found at site of US-led coalition's airstrike in Iraqi Mosul


Sputnik
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:28 UTC
Mosul destroyed building
© AP Photo/ Felipe Dana
At least 112 bodies have been retrieved from the site of a March 17 airstrike by the US-led coalition in western Mosul, US media reported Monday, citing a senior Iraqi health official Ahmed Dubardani.

The bodies, which had been pulled over the past three days, were buried at al-Mamoun cemetery in western Mosul, the CNN broadcaster reported.


Comment: Where's the outcry at massive death toll from US bombing in Mosul?

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SDF temporarily stops advance on Syria's Raqqa to allow repairs at Tabqa Dam


Sputnik
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 18:52 UTC
SDF members
© AFP 2017/ DELIL SOULEIMANMembers of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), made up of an alliance of Arab and Kurdish fighters, stand under an Islamic State (IS)group banner in the recently recaptured town of Al-Karamah, 26 kms from the IS bastion of Raqqa, as they advance encircle the jihadists, on March 26, 2017
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Monday a temporary pause in its advance on the Islamic State (ISIL or Daesh, outlawed in Russia) terrorist group's stronghold of Raqqa due to the need to repair the damaged Tabqa Dam on the Euphrates.

On Sunday, local media reported that the dam partially collapsed as result of the fighting between the SDF and the Daesh. The SDF refuted the information that the dam had collapsed but said the US-led international coalition had conducted numerous strikes against the Daesh in the area.


Comment: Syria's biggest dam partially collapses as clashes erupt near Raqqa


"In order to protect the dam on the Euphrates... and at the request of the dam authority, we have decided to stop the operation in the region of the dam for four hours. This is being done to allow an engineer team to pass through and work on the dam," the SDF press service said on its website.

Fighting is ceasing between 12:00 and 17:00 GMT, according to the statement.

Comment: The Tabqa dam that lies on the Euphrates River upstream from the Syrian city of Raqqa remains structurally intact, as claimed earlier by anti-government forces advancing on the city about 25 miles to the south, US Central Command announced in a Twitter message on Monday.
"The Coalition is taking every precaution to ensure the integrity of Tabqa Dam, the tweet stated. "To our knowledge, the dam has not been structurally damaged."
The US-led coalition in Syria and Iraq carried out 34 strikes consisting of 80 engagements against the Daesh on Sunday, including seven strikes near Tabqa, Operation Inherent Resolve said in a press release.
"Near Tabqah, seven strikes engaged three Daesh tactical units; destroyed two vehicles, a fighting position, and a front-end loader; and damaged two supply routes," the release stated on Monday.
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Monday refuted media reports about the Tabqa Dam partly collapsing in result of airstrikes or shelling.
"We are very careful in order for the Euphrates Dam to not be damaged during the operation to liberate it [from the terrorists of the Islamic State (Daesh)]. However, the international coalition's air force conducts massive strikes against the IS units around Tabqa in order to secure the dam," official spokesman of the SDF said in a statement obtained by Sputnik.
The armed units of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pushed Sunday the militants of the Islamic State (Daesh) terrorist group out of the military airport, located near the Syrian city of Tabqa, Lebanese Al Mayadeen broadcaster reported, citing its source.
Earlier in the day, the media said the SDF forces planned to seize the city of Tabqa, which is the last big Daesh stronghold on the way to Raqqa, serving as Daesh's de facto capital in Syria since it was captured in 2013.
See also: US forces block Syrian Army advance in preparation for Syria's 'balkanization'

Update (Mar. 28):

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Reality check: Ukrainian FM admits that West sees Ukraine as 'waste material'


Sputnik
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:20 UTC
Ukraine neo Nazi Kiev maidan
© SPUTNIK/ ANDREI STENINSupporters of Ukraine’s European integration in Madan square in Kiev, Ukraine
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has admitted that Ukraine's allies aren't ready to fight for Kiev. Commenting on the admission, political scientist Grigory Trofimchuk told Sputnik that Kiev is just coming to realize the obvious: that while Kiev officials see the West as their allies, the EU and the US see Ukraine only as 'waste material'.

In a recent interview for Ukrainian pro-government online news resource Liga.net, Foreign Minister Klimkin bluntly admitted that Kiev's closest allies weren't going to fight for Ukrainian territory against what he called 'Russian aggression'. Klimkin blamed the prevailing circumstances for the current state of affairs, but noted that he was optimistic that this may change in the future. "I'm not saying that this cannot change tomorrow or the day after that," he said.

At the same time, the foreign minister emphasized that he believes Kiev is "inescapably moving" toward a "format in which our country will be an element in the logic of NATO's eastern flank." This is "inevitable," according to Klimkin.
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If West wants 'Maidan' in Moscow they are bound to be disappointed

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:21 UTC
Navalny
© Evgenya Novozhenina / SputnikLawyer and politician Alexei Navalny
Russian authorities support police handling of unsanctioned protest whilst organisers confirm accuracy of police estimate of numbers.

Alexey Navalny, the organiser of yesterday's unsanctioned protest in Moscow, and the person who called the protests elsewhere in Russia, has now been convicted by a Moscow court of organising an unsanctioned protest and has been ordered to pay a $350 fine.

This is part of the regular circus between the Russian authorities and Navalny. He pretends to be persecuted, and they pretend to punish him. In reality, though he now has two convictions for serious embezzlement as well as multiple public order offences - some minor, some less so - he remains free and continues exactly as before, with the authorities doing nothing to enforce the various sentences the Russian courts have imposed on him.

Comment: Further reading: Navalny's 'cheap publicity stunt' only proves how popular Putin really is

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Yale University 'educated' Russian color revolution agitator tool Alexey Navalny

Fort Russ
Ilia Belous & Inessa Sinchougova
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
Alexey Navalny
Alexey Navalny's campaign offices across Russia have called on the citizens to attend unsanctioned protests against Russia's Government. Peaceful protests, in Russia, require a permit from the cities' authorities to be able to account for any disruption. If no permit has been obtained, then the civil action is illegal.

Irrespective of this, over the past couple of days - protesters have gathered in Moscow, Ekaterinbug, Novosibirsk and other regional centers.

Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree...

Navalny has obtained special training as part of his Yale University education, equipped to organise and carry out such operations with guaranteed funding. The civil unrest taking place throughout the country contains all the classic criteria of an "orange", "velvet', or "colour" revolution, which have been continually instigated by US intelligence services.

It is clear that not one "maidan" has ever resolved the problems that its respective country had - not in Yugoslavia, not in Tunisia, nor Ukraine. A 'maidan' achieves a government coup, the imposition of US-funded puppet leaders, genocide of the local population, and an overall throw back to the Middle Ages.

Comment: See also:

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Footprint of Soros? The ubiquitous 'yellow duck' appears at Russia's protests

Inessa Sinchougova
Fort Russ
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:11 UTC
Moscow protests yellow duck
Moscow, 26 March 2017. Signs read "Sell your holiday homes, build us roads."
Is there more to the symbol of the duck than meets the eye?

In 2015, in Serbia, protesters and civic groups took to the streets of Belgrade clutching toy ducks to denounce a controversial government-backed project along the banks of the Sava river which they "feared will change the look of their city for ever."

yellow duck serbia protests

Comment: Billionaire hedge fund mechanic George Soros has a finger in every political pie there is. If there is a crisis on the world, it's a safe bet he's had a hand in it.

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Fake News Circus: How a few thousand people turned into 'ten-million-strong protest against Putin'

Richard Brandt
Russia Insider
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:44 UTC
Russia Moscow Protests
Russians rallied in central Moscow on Saturday
Two's company, three's a ten million person protest against Putin

The crowd-counters at unfortunate western news outlets have submitted their findings: "Millions all across Russia defied Putin" on Sunday, according to a very special news outlet that is frequented by Louise Menschand other disciples of Moloch.

We wish we were kidding, but we're not: According to U.S. media outlets, "millions" of Russians across Russia marched against "thug Putin" over the weekend:

Comment: According to the Russian Investigative Committee, the West's darling 'opposition activist' Aleksey Navalny organized the protests and went so far as to pay people (largely teen-aged) to show up. The West's Fake News Organs dutifully spun it into a 'million strong march against Putin' by some 'bold democratic hero'. But there weren't millions, there were a few thousand. And Navalny is no 'democratic hero' - Putin is, and that's why the West hates him. Rather, Navalny has been described as:
Liberal opposition activist? Navalny is a far right, racist, ultranationalist, anti-Semite, gun-nut, neoliberal twice convicted fraudster. But he's also pro-Western so who cares?
The Fake News circus continues.

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Navalny's 'cheap publicity stunt' only proves how popular Putin really is

Rudy Panko
Russia Insider
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:20 UTC
putin medvedev laughing
Now that the dust has settled from today's "nationwide" protests, we can safely say that Navalny accomplished only one thing: He showed how popular Putin truly is

A transparent publicity stunt carried out by a xenophobic felon has somehow failed to overthrow one of the world's most popular leaders.

"I'm happy that so many people came out (onto the streets) from the east (of the country) to Moscow," Alexei Navalny said to a not-very-large crowd on Sunday morning, moments before he was arrested — which is exactly what he wanted.
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Right wing groups attempt to bomb EU targets as Greek tragedy worsens

Whitney Webb
Mint Press News
Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:07 UTC
PAME burn a EU flag
© AP/Yorgos KarahalisSupporters of the communist-affiliated union PAME burn a EU flag during an anti-austerity rally in Athens, Wednesday, Mar. 1, 2017.

Last week, major financial institutions in Europe were put on notice when letter bombs were sent to the International Monetary Fund and the office of Germany's financial minister. Only one of those bombs exploded and injuries were minimal. But not-so-coincidentally, both of those bombs, as well as eight others that were intercepted just this week, all originated from the same country - Greece.

Now bearing the brunt of the ninth year of their country's debt crisis, some Greeks have come to see radical groups, such as those responsible for the letter bombs, as their only chance for having their voices heard by the European Union's technocratic bureaucracy. A major factor for the widespread disillusionment among the Greek populace has been the national government's continued ineffectiveness in the face of its nearly decade-long financial predicament - one that has decimated the economy, eroded pensions and caused surges in unemployment.

Indeed, since the crisis began, Greece has had nine different governments, at least thirteen austerity measures, severe capital controls and multiple bailouts - none of which have brought even a semblance of relief to the Hellenic Republic.
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