Iraqi Who Led Today’s Raid on US Embassy in Baghdad — Was Once Invited to White House by BARACK OBAMA

Well color me not shocked yet again!

The U.S. ambassador to Iraq and other staff were evacuated from their embassy in Baghdad for their safety, Iraqi officials said, as thousands of Iranian backed Militia stormed the Embassy after U.S. air strikes targeted key Hezbollah areas.

Iraqi security forced failed to stop the siege of the US Embassy.

The Iraqi protesters were carrying Hezbollah flags.

https://thedcpatriot.com/iraqi-who-led-todays-raid-on-us-embassy-in-baghdad-was-once-invited-to-white-house-by-barack-obama/

Putin emphasizes national unity as bedrock for achieving Russia's most ambitious goals

The president noted that "we can and should do everything for Russia to develop successfully and so that everything in our lives can change only for the better"

The unity of the citizens of Russia is the foundation for reaching the country’s most ambitious goals, President Vladimir Putin said in his New Year’s address to the nation.

"The present and future of Russia, and the future of our children depend on the efforts and contribution of each and every one of us. Only together, can we meet the challenges that our society and our country are facing today. Our unity is the bedrock for achieving any of the supreme goals. These values were passed on to us by our ancestors, a heroic, unbreakable generation of champions," Putin said.

President Putin noted that "2020 is at our doorsteps" and the world is already "on the threshold of the third decade of the 21st century."

"We are living in turbulent, dynamic and controversial times, but we can and should do everything for Russia to develop successfully and so that everything in our lives can change only for the better," he stated.

"Now, as we look forward with excitement to the chiming of the bells, we believe and hope that all our wishes are bound to come true," Putin stressed.

https://tass.com/politics/1105199

Sounds familiar

Prime Minister Netanyahu to officially ask for immunity on Wednesday

“I hope the prime minister will not request immunity, but if he does, we will deal with it then,” Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will formally request immunity from prosecution in his three criminal cases from Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein on Wednesday, the last day possible for him to make that request, Likud sources said on Tuesday.

Netanyahu ruled out taking steps seeking immunity in a live interview on Channel 12 ahead of the April election. But he is expected to reverse course by requesting the immunity, which is unlikely to be granted but could enable Netanyahu to postpone his trial, because there will be no Knesset House Committee to consider his immunity request until a government is formed.

The Knesset Arrangements Committee will meet on Thursday to consider appointing a temporary House Committee to deliberate on the request. But such a move will have no majority unless Yisrael Beytenu supports it. Blue and White officials said they had gotten positive messages from Yisrael Beytenu, which previously opposed forming the committee.

“I hope the prime minister will not request immunity, but if he does, we will deal with it then,” Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman said at Tuesday’s conference of the business newspaper Calcalist.

Channel 13 reported that Knesset legal adviser Eyal Yinon will rule that a House Committee cannot be formed.

Meanwhile, a hearing was held before the High Court of Justice on Tuesday morning to discuss a petition asking that the court rule that Netanyahu, under indictment on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, cannot form the next government. The hearing ended with no immediate decision.

Although the High Court announced it would decide on the matter at a later point, the overall feel of the justices’ questions to the lawyers was that they would very much prefer to stay out of the issue.

Chief Justice Esther Hayut, Deputy Justice Hanan Melcer and Justice Uzi Vogelman conducted the hearing.

Around 70 hi-tech officials have requested that the court rule on Netanyahu’s eligibility to form a government before the upcoming March 2 election, mainly due to the charge of bribery he faces in Case 4000, also known as the “Bezeq-Walla Affair.”

During the hearing, lawyers for the petitioners said the High Court had set a clear precedent when it forced Arye Deri to resign as minister upon indictment for bribery 20 years ago, and the precedent demands that the court do the same in Netanyahu’s case.

All three justices hinted that making a ruling now is premature and will only become relevant should Netanyahu secure enough votes to form a government. At that point, his candidacy to do so must be presented to President Reuven Rivlin following the upcoming election in March.

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/PM-to-officially-ask-for-immunity-today-612710

Grooming Gang Epidemic: Nearly 19,000 Children Sexually Exploited in the UK Last Year

The scourge of sexual exploitation of children has reached “epidemic” levels in the United Kingdom, as nearly 19,000 children were sexually groomed over the past year.

Local authorities have reported over 18,700 suspected victims of child sexual exploitation at the hands of grooming gangs between 2018-19, more than five times higher than the 3,300 reported cases just five years ago.

Sammy Woodhouse, a victim of the Rotherham rapist Arshid Hussain, said that the authorities have not implemented meaningful changes in combatting the crisis.

“You hear this bullshit line, ‘lessons have been learned’, but they haven’t learned anything”, she told The Independent.

“I still hear a lot about the authorities aren’t doing things as they should. It’s not very often I hear something good and for all different reasons – if the police won’t act on reports, people feel they’re not being listened to or supported properly, or information not being shared”, she added.

“I’ve said for years that this country’s in epidemic when it comes to abuse and exploitation. Authorities claim it’s under control but it’s not”, Woodhouse concluded.

Lancashire was the locality hit the hardest last year, with a total of 624 suspected victims, followed by Birmingham with 490, 447 in Surrey, 414 in Bradford and 409 in Gloucestershire. Thousands of more cases of abuse have been discovered across the country over the past decade, especially as the scandals of predominantly Pakistani male child rape gangs have been exposed.

The Labour MP for Rotherham, Sarah Champion, said that the figures demonstrate that grooming “remains one of the largest forms of child abuse in the country”.

“The government has singularly failed to tackle this issue head-on. Its approach has been piecemeal and underfunded”, she said.

The Home Office has allocated 7 million pounds to support survivors of child sex abuse for 2019-20 and has set up investigations into the institutional responses to the scandals in Rotherham and Norfolk, with a series of public hearings expected in the spring of 2020.

“The Home Office is committed to tackling child sexual abuse and will leave no stone unturned in tackling this abhorrent behaviour”, a spokesperson said.

“This is why we launched the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse to get to the truth, expose what has gone wrong and learn lessons for the future. The inquiry operates independently of government and, within its terms of reference, decides for itself what it investigates”, the spokesperson added.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/12/31/18700-children-were-sexually-groomed-in-the-uk-last-year/

CLIMATECHANGEgate: Hidden Agenda Behind the Huge Hoax and Global Criminal Conspiracy

Climate Change Hoax Exposed

as Massive Money-Making Scam

and Global Control Scheme

The whole world has been suffering tremendously from a highly premeditated and complex hoax initially known as Global Warming.

When this carefully packaged fraud did not pan out, the New World Order globalist cabal repackaged the unparalleled scam as Climate Change.

What is critical to understand is that the globalist perps have been stealthily geoegineering climate change for decades so that it will appear to be taking place in a much worse way. Clearly, there is unprecedented atmospheric flux occurring planet-wide, but the geoengineers are manufacturing it on a regular basis.

A daily look at the sky presents the most obvious evidence as to how they are conducting solar radiation management and water vapor production (H2O is the most abundant greenhouse gas) via chemical engineering techniques. These ongoing chemtrail operations have been proven with various video and photo-documentaries such as this overwhelming presentation: CHEMTRAILS: A Planetary Catastrophe Created by Geoengineering

KEY POINT: The planet has been experiencing wild and wacky weather for decades now; however, it’s the geoengineers who are primarily responsible for the unprecedented meteorological chaos. Hence, it can be stated with absolute certainty that: Geoengineering Is The Primary Cause Of Global Climate Change, Not CO2.

There are other valid reasons for both the unpredictable weather and climate chaos tormenting planet Earth. Most of these scientifically proven factors are well explained in the following extended essay.

Global Climate Change: A Definitive Essay On The Primary Causes Of Global Warming soon to shift to Global Cooling

Global Warming

The Global Warming narrative actually began quite naturally, but was then quite purposefully hijacked and manipulated by malevolent forces determined to dominate the entire planetary civilization.[1] As follows:

The Back Story:

This is what TPTB did. They saw that the planet had entered a period of natural and very gradual global warming. This occurred during World War II when they had to track the weather very closely for wartime purposes. The steady warming of the planet paralleled the same period when the Oil & Gas Industry really began to take off and the global population explosion first began. At the time when the data really started to pour in, the warming was just a “small campfire” … this was early on, right after World War II. Soon after they first made those observations about the slow warming of the planet, the decision was made to turn the little campfire into a raging wildfire. They experimented with HAARP and used chemtrails and other advanced geoengineering technologies to ramp up the heat worldwide. Eventually the wildfire of global warming was stoked sufficiently so that full-blown forest fires, brush fires and grass fires were jumping off anywhere and everywhere. In this way, the synthetic component of Global Warming was fabricated on top of a very real phase of planetary heating. The next part of their plan was to fabricate the patently false narrative known as the human activity CO2-driven climate change scam.

(Source: New World Order: Where Geoengineering Via HAARP and Chemtrails Meets The Global Carbon Control Matrix)

Only with this correct understanding can the true depth and breadth of the furtive NWO plot to take over the world be properly comprehended and responded to.

http://stateofthenation.co/?p=2517

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Toward that end, the primary purpose of a One World Government will be to act as the enforcement arm of the International Banking Cartel that greedily covets all of the natural resources on the planet. See: NWO Cabal Pursues Total Dominion Over The Earth’s Weather And Natural Resources

The NWO globalists know that they must also completely control the weather worldwide because of its enormous impacts on the land, sea and air. Hence, numerous geoengineering experiments are now being covertly conducted on the land masses, in the oceans and throughout the atmosphere as a prelude to their future world domination.

The Carbon Control Matrix, which was fastidiously developed as a reaction to the fake Global Warming narrative, is just one glaring example of how the One World Government will react to these contrived crises. The clandestine standing armies now supported by the U.N. will be used to police the panoply of new laws and statutes, rules and regulations, taxes and surcharges that are coming down the pike.

This is also why the various “agendas” were deceptively inaugurated by the United Nations. For instance, Agenda 21, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Vision 2050 were each implemented as a means to prepare (and especially program) governments and citizenries alike for this rapidly unfolding NWO paradigm.

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CNN Guest Calls For Net Censorship In Wake Of Monsey Stabbing: 'We Need A Lot Of Different Rules & Regulations to Start Happening'

Monday on CNN's Newsroom the co-president of the Jewish Federation and Foundation of Rockland County, Steve Gold, responded to the stabbing attack in Monsey by pushing for widespread internet censorship through "a lot" of new rules, regulations and legislation.

From NewsBusters, "CNN Guest Blames Social Media for Anti-Semitism, Calls for Regulation":

In the wake of the attack on a Hanukkah celebration at a Rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, weekday morning CNN Newsroom co-host Jim Sciutto interviewed a local Jewish community leader named Steve Gold. When Sciutto asked what can be done to solve this going forward, Gold, the co-president of Jewish Federation and Foundation of Rockland County suggested censoring free speech on social media platforms.

"We need a lot of different rules and regulations to start happening. A lot of legislation to start happening" Gold proposed, before slamming Facebook for its free speech stances including what he called "fake" political ads and unmonitored Facebook groups.

Sciutto observed that "So it's in the statistics that attacks, anti-Semitic attacks in New York state, but also nationally, have increased in recent months and years" before asking Gold "Why? What do you blame this on?"

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61058

Report: "Jared Is Running Everything," Former White House Official Says

This strikes me as an apt summation of President Trump's last year in the White House.

From Vanity Fair (Archive):

“JARED TREATS MICK LIKE THE HELP”: IT’S JARED’S WHITE HOUSE NOW (TRUMP’S JUST LIVING IN IT)

With impeachment imminent, Kushner has pushed out his enemies, installed allies, and taken control of the campaign and large swaths of policy—only Kellyanne Conway is still pushing back.

BY GABRIEL SHERMAN

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As the House Judiciary Committee gaveled a rare prime time impeachment hearing inside the vaulted hall of the Ways and Means Committee Room on the evening of December 11, Donald Trump stood at a lectern in the White House’s East Room, lavishing praise on his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. “I love Jared,” Trump told casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, Patriots owner Robert Kraft, Israeli ambassador Ron Dermer, and other high-profile guests attending the White House’s annual Hanukkah reception. A few hours earlier, at Kushner’s urging, Trump had signed a controversial executive order that classified Jews as a nationality for the purposes of enforcing anti-discrimination laws on college campuses. That morning, Kushner defended the policy in a New York Times op-ed. The flurry of activity reflected an emerging truth: As Trump ends the year by becoming only the third president in history to be impeached, Kushner is completing what is, by any measure, an unexpected comeback.

A year ago, it was conventional Washington wisdom that Kushner could be indicted in the Robert Mueller probe. Trump’s previous chief of staff John Kelly effectively marginalized him during pivotal domestic and foreign policy debates. Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Guiliani even told Fox News that Kushner was “disposable.” Today, Kelly is gone and Giuliani’s fate is uncertain, while Kushner is exerting influence over virtually every significant White House decision, from negotiating trade deals to 2020 campaign strategy to overseeing Trump’s impeachment defense. “Jared is running everything,” a former West Wing official told me.

Trump also put Kushner in charge of building the wall, put Kushner aide Avi Berkowitz in charge of the White House's Middle East peace plan and pardoned Israeli drug smuggler Ronen Nahmani and money-laundering fraudster Sholom Rubashkin (who ran a Kosher slaughterhouse which resembled a house of horrors) on Kushner's advice.

Inside the West Wing, Kushner has both eliminated opponents and installed acquiescent officials. “Jared was very frustrated with [Reince] Priebus and John Kelly,” a Republican close to the White House, said. Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney “was Jared’s pick,” the source said, and has allowed Kushner to function as de facto chief of staff. “Mick has decided not to be in control,” a former West Wing official said. “Jared treats Mick like the help. There’s no pushback,” a prominent Republican said. John Bolton, who recently mocked Kushner in a private speech, has been replaced by Robert O’Brien, a Kushner ally. Sources say that Vice President Mike Pence and his advisers don’t challenge Kushner after a string of leaks that Kushner wanted to replace Pence on the ticket with Nikki Haley. “Pence people look at Jared apprehensively. Pence treats Jared as a peer,” said former Trump aide Sam Nunberg. (The White House did not respond to a request for comment.)

If Jared Kushner is running everything, to me that means his blackmailing convict father Charles is running everything.

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61057

At Least 500 Fort Bragg Paratroopers Deploying to Kuwait Amid Baghdad Unrest: Officials

The U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division's alert brigade has been issued orders to deploy rapidly to Kuwait amid the unrest in Baghdad, three U.S. defense officials told Fox News on Tuesday.

At least 500 paratroopers are already making their way to Kuwait, Fox News is told.

The alert brigade of roughly 4,000 paratroopers, known as the DRB – the Deployment Ready Brigade – has been told to pack their bags for a possible deployment in the days ahead after hundreds of Iranian-backed militiamen tried to storm the U.S. embassy in Baghdad Tuesday.

Within that alert brigade, three rifle battalions have a certain alert sequence, 18 hours, 36 hours and 54 hours for the third. The entire brigade has a 96-hour alert window to deploy.

The Pentagon is expected to issue a statement in the coming hours about the deployment.

Some of the paratroopers already have left their base in Fort Bragg, N.C., to fly overseas in Air Force C-17 cargo planes, according to officials.

The U.S. Army has kept an alert brigade of roughly 4,000 paratroopers in the 82nd Airborne for crisis response like this.

There are roughly 5,000 U.S. troops currently deployed to Iraq now, among the roughly 60,000 U.S. troops currently deployed to the region. According to the Pentagon, 14,000 have been added since May as the threat from Iran increased.

The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman has been in the Gulf of Oman, its strike group armed with hundreds of Tomahawk cruise missiles in addition to the dozens of strike aircraft aboard Truman.

More than 100 U.S. Marines arrived at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad earlier Tuesday to help bolster security after the mob of Iranian-backed Shite militiamen tried to storm the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

The crowd attacked the embassy following funerals for 25 Iranian-backed fighters killed in U.S. airstrikes Sunday in Iraq and Syria–retribution for an American defense contractor killed in Iraq Friday, according to U.S. defense officials.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/12/31/least-500-fort-bragg-paratroopers-deploying-kuwait-amid-baghdad-unrest-officials.html

Some Marines Get OK to Carry Concealed Firearms After Deadly Shootings

Marine Corps law enforcement personnel who meet specific federal qualifications are now authorized to carry their own concealed firearms on base – even when off duty, a three-star general announced.

Marine Corps law enforcement professionals can now carry privately owned weapons "for personal protection not in the performance of official duties," a new service-wide message released Tuesday states.

While the new rules apply only to Marine law enforcement personnel, Lt. Gen. George Smith Jr., head of Marine Corps Plans, Policies and Operations, indicated that additional concealed carry policies could be in the works.

"[Headquarters Marine Corps] will continue to develop policy to address the total force requirements for the carry, transport, and storage of concealed [personally owned firearms] aboard Marine Corps property," he wrote.

The moves follow two recent fatal shootings on separate Navy installations – one in Hawaii and another in Florida. The attacks killed six and prompted a Navy Department-wide review of safety measures.

"These tragic events prompted Headquarters Marine Corps (HQMC) to accelerate existing efforts to develop concealed carry policies," Smith's message states.

Related: Navy, Marine Corps Ordered to Review Insider Threat Training After Attacks

The permissions apply to uniformed and civilian Marine Corps law enforcement personnel, but only if they meet the credentials laid out in section 926B of the federal Law Enforcement Officer Safety Act, known as LEOSA. Approved personnel include military police, criminal investigators and Marine Corps Law Enforcement Program police officers.

The Marine Corps' policy aligns with LEOSA, which allows qualified civilian law enforcement agents and retirees exemption from most state or local laws that would prohibit them from carrying concealed firearms.

The recent attacks on the two Navy bases have reignited questions about why troops who qualify on service weapons aren't allowed to carry firearms to protect themselves on base. Similar questions were raised after the 2015 terror attack on a Marine Corps recruiting station and Navy Reserve center in Tennessee.

A Navy Department policy authorizes Gen. David Berger, as commandant, to grant uniformed and civilian personnel permission to carry personal firearms on Marine Corps property. The policy approved this week applies only to Marine Corps installations in the U.S. and its territories, Smith wrote in his message.

Marines are not authorized to carry personal weapons on other Defense Department installations, he added, including joint bases. Similarly, the policy does not authorize other Defense Department law enforcement personnel to carry weapons on Marine Corps property.

Any law enforcement personnel opting to carry a concealed weapon must comply with the rules listed in a 2016 Defense Department directive called "Arming and the Use of Force." That includes rules about firearm registration, storage and transportation.

Military policy also bars Marines from carrying concealed firearms in Defense Department schools, some courtrooms and other locations where carrying a weapon is prohibited by law.

Commanders implementing the new concealed carry policy for law enforcement personnel are urged to consult with a staff judge advocate "to ensure local policies comply with law, regulations and policies," Smith's message states.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/12/31/some-marines-get-ok-carry-concealed-firearms-after-deadly-shootings.html

US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II

GR Editor’s Note

Let us put this in historical perspective: the commemoration of the War to End All Wars acknowledges that 15 million lives were lost in the course of World War I (1914-18).

The loss of life in the second World War (1939-1945) was on a much large scale, when compared to World War I: 60 million lives both military and civilian were lost during World War II. (Four times those killed during World War I).

The largest WWII casualties were China and the Soviet Union, 26 million in the Soviet Union, China estimates its losses at approximately 20,000,000 deaths. Ironically, these two countries (allies of the US during WWII) which lost a large share of their population during WWII are now categorized as enemies of America, which are threatening the Western World. A so-called preemptive war against China and Russia is currently contemplated.

Germany and Austria lost approximately 8 million people during WWII, Japan lost more than 2.5 million people. The US and Britain respectively lost more than 400,000 lives.

This carefully researched article by James A. Lucas documents the more than 20 million lives lost resulting from US led wars, military coups and intelligence ops carried out in the wake of what is euphemistically called the “post-war era” (1945- ). The extensive loss of life in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Libya is not included in this study.

Continuous US led warfare (1945- ): there was no “post-war era“.

Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, January 20 2019, November 2019, December 31, 2019

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After the catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and a feeling of desperate and understandable anger began to permeate the American psyche. A few people at that time attempted to promote a balanced perspective by pointing out that the United States had also been responsible for causing those same feelings in people in other nations, but they produced hardly a ripple. Although Americans understand in the abstract the wisdom of people around the world empathizing with the suffering of one another, such a reminder of wrongs committed by our nation got little hearing and was soon overshadowed by an accelerated “war on terrorism.”

But we must continue our efforts to develop understanding and compassion in the world. Hopefully, this article will assist in doing that by addressing the question “How many September 11ths has the United States caused in other nations since WWII?” This theme is developed in this report which contains an estimated numbers of such deaths in 37 nations as well as brief explanations of why the U.S. is considered culpable.

The causes of wars are complex. In some instances nations other than the U.S. may have been responsible for more deaths, but if the involvement of our nation appeared to have been a necessary cause of a war or conflict it was considered responsible for the deaths in it. In other words they probably would not have taken place if the U.S. had not used the heavy hand of its power. The military and economic power of the United States was crucial.

This study reveals that U.S. military forces were directly responsible for about 10 to 15 million deaths during the Korean and Vietnam Wars and the two Iraq Wars. The Korean War also includes Chinese deaths while the Vietnam War also includes fatalities in Cambodia and Laos.

The American public probably is not aware of these numbers and knows even less about the proxy wars for which the United States is also responsible. In the latter wars there were between nine and 14 million deaths in Afghanistan, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East Timor, Guatemala, Indonesia, Pakistan and Sudan.

But the victims are not just from big nations or one part of the world. The remaining deaths were in smaller ones which constitute over half the total number of nations. Virtually all parts of the world have been the target of U.S. intervention.

The overall conclusion reached is that the United States most likely has been responsible since WWII for the deaths of between 20 and 30 million people in wars and conflicts scattered over the world.

To the families and friends of these victims it makes little difference whether the causes were U.S. military action, proxy military forces, the provision of U.S. military supplies or advisors, or other ways, such as economic pressures applied by our nation. They had to make decisions about other things such as finding lost loved ones, whether to become refugees, and how to survive.

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https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-has-killed-more-than-20-million-people-in-37-victim-nations-since-world-war-ii/5492051

Haftar Visits Cairo To Hold Talks, As Fight For Tripoli Appears to Be At a Standstill Once Again

The Libyan National Army’s commander Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar is in Cairo, holding talks to prevent Turkey from interfering in Libya, al Arabiya reported, citing its own sources.

Spokesman of the LNA Major General Ahmed al-Mismari made several statements, claiming that the LNA were advancing.

He further said that “the Turkish president exceeded all the standards of the international community and the Security Council and contributed to the transfer of extremist militants from one country to another.”

Finally, he alleged that Turkey not only threatens security in Libya, but also threatens the security of the entire Arab region.

On December 31st, an emergency meeting of the Arab League began, to discuss the situation in Libya.

Meanwhile, Turkey continues with its own propaganda efforts, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar both saying that Ankara was forced to sign the memorandums of understanding with the UN-assigned Government of National Accord (GNA), as there was a “plot” against it to exclude it from the Eastern Mediterranean.

“The project to exclude Turkey from the Mediterranean has been foiled with the latest steps we have taken,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.

“With support to the legitimate Tripoli government, Turkey will ensure implementation of all elements of agreements with Libya,” Erdogan added.

On December 30th, Turkey’s presidency submitted a motion to the Parliament Speaker’s Office on sending troops to Libya. The parliament is set to debate the motion on January 2nd.

The Turkish Defense Minister said that the agreements with the GNA were vital to Turkey “protecting its rights” in the Mediterranean Sea.

Turkey’s state outlet, Anadolu Agency, reported that the GNA had repelled an attack by the LNA, and destroyed 12 armed vehicles and killed 10 enemy fighters during clashes in southern Tripoli. Both the GNA and LNA regularly provide updates claiming that they are successful in their fights.

The GNA provided an alleged video of it shelling LNA positions at the Equestrian Bridge.

https://southfront.org/haftar-visits-cairo-to-hold-talks-as-fight-for-tripoli-appears-to-be-at-a-standstill-once-again/

US Embassy Attackers Are ‘Same People’ Killing Peaceful Iraqi Protesters - Activist

While Washington leaders have attempted to draw parallels between the Iraqi protesters demonstrating peacefully for months and the violent group who attacked the US Embassy in Baghdad Tuesday, the truth is that nonviolent protesters have also been victims of these violent groups, an Iraqi-American activist told Sputnik.

Several hundred protesters stormed the International Zone (IZ) in central Baghdad on Tuesday, laying siege to the US Embassy there and prompting police to fire tear gas into the crowd.

https://sputniknews.com/analysis/202001011077912265-us-embassy-attackers-are-same-people-killing-peaceful-iraqi-protesters—activist/

Ben Rhodes Blames Trump for Embassy Attack: Foreign Policy ‘Based on Obama Envy’

Ben Rhodes, a former national security aide to former President Barack Obama, accused President Trump of pursuing a foreign policy based on “Obama envy” following news of a violent mob attacking the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

“Trump sanctions on Iran have done nothing to change Iranian behavior except make it worse,” Rhodes, who once described the Iran Deal as “necessary … even if Iran doesn’t change,” tweeted Tuesday morning.

“This is what happens when your foreign policy is based on Obama envy, domestic politics, Saudi interests, and magical right wing thinking,” he added:

Rhodes was an instrumental figure in the Obama administration who tried to sell the deal that resulted in billions in cash to Iran — money that essentially funds state-sponsored terrorism, further facilitating attacks such as the aggression unleashed on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday.

Rhodes’ tweet followed news of protesters breaking into the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad in protest of recent U.S. airstrikes against the Iran-backed Shiite militia Kataib Hezbollah (KH) in Iraq, a member of the umbrella group Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), which the Pentagon blamed for the death of a U.S. contractor in Kirkuk, Iraq.

As Breitbart News reported:

Several militia commanders loyal to Iran were spotted in the mob, including Hadi al-Amiri, head of the state-sponsored Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) umbrella organization for paramilitary groups. At least one sitting member of the Iraqi parliament also participated in the attack.

“Iran killed an American contractor, wounding many. We strongly responded, and always will,” the president tweeted on Tuesday.

“Now Iran is orchestrating an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq,” he continued, promising that they would be held “fully responsible”:

Rhodes was far from the only leftist to blame Trump for the developments in the Middle East.

“Really hard to overstate how badly Trump has bungled things in the Middle East,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) wrote in a post retweeted by Rhodes.

“One of the only good things going – anti-Iran street protests in Iraq – have now morphed into anti-U.S. protests thanks to Trump’s mishandling of Iran policy,” he added:

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/12/31/ben-rhodes-blames-trump-for-embassy-attack-foreign-policy-based-on-obama-envy/

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asshole for 500 Alex

ICE Lodges Detainer Against Mexican Illegal Alien Arrested In SC For Sexual Abuse Of A Child

CHARLESTON, S.C. – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) lodged an immigration detainer Tuesday against an unlawfully present Mexican man arrested in North Charleston earlier this month for sexual abuse of a child.

Carlos Bartolo-Rios was arrested December 19 by the U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, of which ICE and the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office are members, after executing a state criminal warrant at Bartolo-Rios’s North Charleston residence for first degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

Mr. Bartolo-Rios is currently being held by the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office while awaiting trial for the state criminal charges he faces. ICE has lodged an immigration detainer against Mr. Bartolo-Rios and will seek to take him into immigration custody for removal proceedings at whatever point he may be released from criminal custody for the crimes he faces in South Carolina.

“This case is an excellent example of ICE’s ongoing focus to prioritize its immigration enforcement efforts toward unlawfully present foreign nationals who pose a clear threat to public safety,” said ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Atlanta Acting Field Office Director John Tsoukaris. “Despite attempts by some to confuse the public, ICE does not conduct any type of random or indiscriminate enforcement and the agency’s targeted enforcement efforts make communities safer for all persons whatever their immigration status may be.”

In fiscal year 2019, more than 90 percent of all persons arrested by ICE within the Atlanta field office, which includes Georgia and the Carolinas, either had a criminal conviction, a pending criminal charge, or were already subject to a removal order issued by a federal immigration judge.

https://breaking911.com/ice-lodges-detainer-against-mexican-illegal-alien-arrested-in-sc-for-sexual-abuse-of-a-child/

Prisonfags feel free to get stabby with this muthafucka

Europeans Lead in Every Field, Jewish Brilliance a Myth, Einstein Over-Rated, Hyped by Jewish PR

The New York Times recently published an opinion piece by its gun-grabbing, open borders in-house "conservative" columnist Bret Stephens asserting that Ashkenazi Jews are an elite race by nature of their superior hereditary, culture and soul.

For sure, there are Jews of exceptional intellect and ability, but this is true for most races. Stephen's dictation is an evacuation straight from the bowels of Zionist ideology into the minds of the liberal status quo beneath his feet. His inference is the contention that Jewish domination of Western cultural, economic and political choke points is a product of natural selection rather than nepotism and propaganda.

A cursory glance of history puts the Jews to shame.

When it comes to innovation, no nation has punched outside of its weight class like Scotland. With a modern population of 4.5 million and less than a million in England, Scots have gifted mankind with radar technology, Penicillin, the telephone, the vacuum flask and much more. Unlike abstractions like Marxism, Freudianism and Relativity, these inventions have drastically improved the lives of all human beings and taken civilization to new heights.

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In the sciences, Stephens points to Jews winning Nobel prizes at a disproportionate rate as evidence of their genius. Yet it is Swedes, with a population smaller than Jewry, who have discovered 20 elements on the Periodic Table, only slightly trailing the United Kingdom (24) and America (21) in the race to understand the hidden nuances of the world around us.

As a complement to Nordic scientific prowess, the smallest branch of the Latin-Mediterranean race, Portugal - a nation which during the 1500s had a population of less than 2 million - rose to prominence in the Age of Discovery, helping man fill an otherwise blank map of the globe.

Despite being a tiny sliver of land off the Iberian peninsula surrounded by hostile powers, Portugal had by the 16th century developed ships that shattered European limitations in sea travel (the equivalent of going to space at the time) to circumnavigated Earth and split claims to much of the newly discovered world with Spain at the Treaty of Tordesillas.

The plucky Portuguese had a presence seemingly everywhere, with holdings and ports as far as Japan and India, not to mention permanent cultural and racial imprints in Africa and Latin America.

What, in comparison, are the major achievements of the booming Ashkenazi Jewish population during this time period? They may have a presence on every continent today, but only thanks to infrastructure and discoveries by nations like Portugal.

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