Trump Pulling US Out Of Muslims-Controlled UNHRC

(Byariel Whitman’s article direct from The JERUSALEM POST on 26 February 2017.)

Controversial UNHRC Chief
Prince Al-Hussein of Jordan.

Trump may pull United States out of UN Human Rights Council due to Israel Bias: The administration regards the Council as being inherently anti-Israel which is the main reason for the consideration for pulling out of the international body, according to the report. Politico reported on Saturday that the Trump administration may soon back Israel on its claim of UN bias and pull out of the organization's Human Rights Council.

According to the report, the administration is not expected to withdraw ahead of the council’s next session that begins on Monday, but discussion of the option has already begun and is expected to include input from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and President Donald Trump.

The administration regards the Council as being inherently anti-Israel which is the main reason for the consideration for pulling out of the international body, according to the report. The news site also reported that in private conversations, Secretary Tillerson has expressed doubts about the effectiveness of the Council.

Mattis Calls ISIS Islamic State & Ditches Obama’s ROE

(Lucas Tomlinson’s article direct from The FOX NEWS on 24 February 2017.)

General Mattis's New ROE (Shoot First Ask Later).

It's official: Pentagon now calling terror group 'ISIS'. Not Kerry’s “DAESH.” Not Obama’s “ISIL.” Not “IS.” Pentagon has announced that the Islamic State will officially be called “ISIS” (Islamic State Of Iraq & Syria).

In other words, references to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) will no longer hide its “Islamic” roots as American and European leaders have been trying to do. Thank you, General Mattis. Not Daesh. Not ISIL. Not IS. 

The Pentagon has officially declared the name of the terror group the United States and its allies have been fighting for years is, in fact, ISIS. “We have officially switched to ISIS,” Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a briefing with reporters Friday. “They all mean the same thing.” Davis said ISIS already had been used unofficially in the past inside the Pentagon because it was the “easiest to understand.”

The Battle Of 73 Easting Iraq: Desert Storm (1991)

       (John Gresham’s article from The DEFENSE MEDIA NETWORK on 22 February 2011.)

There is an old training axiom that a military force usually learns a great deal more from their defeats than from victories on the battlefield. This has been particularly true with the U.S. Army, which has lost many of its “first battles” during the roughly 225 years it has served the nation. Names like First Manassas, Kasserine Pass, and Task Force Smith are touchstones for American leaders, as they recall the U.S. Army’s failures and defeats.

Usually, these battles remind us of the fact that the Army in the early battles of a conflict is made up of citizen soldiers led by a cadre of peacetime officers, not used to the fast pace, physical rigors, and mental stress of war. The names also remind us that enemies usually attack us when they perceive weakness and an inability to be hurt in the effort. Operation Desert Storm was different.

The 1991 Persian Gulf War was the first of America’s conflicts where a large, standing military force was maintained, equipped, and trained to be ready for the early battles of a major regional conflict. Mostly as a result of Cold War-era preparations for general war with the Soviet Union, American forces were the best trained in the world, superbly prepared to operate the state-of-the-art weaponry that had been supplied to them in the 1980s.

Trump Bars Times, NYT, CNN, & Others From Briefing

(Michael Grybaum’s article from The New York Times on 24 February 2017.)

WASHINGTON — Journalists from The New York Times and several other news organizations were prohibited from attending a briefing by President Trump’s press secretary on Friday, a highly unusual breach of relations between the White House and its press corps.

Reporters from The Times, BuzzFeed News, CNN, The Los Angeles Times and Politico were not allowed to enter the West Wing office of the press secretary, Sean M. Spicer, for the scheduled briefing. Aides to Mr. Spicer only allowed in reporters from a handpicked group of news organizations that, the White House said, had been previously confirmed.

Those organizations included Breitbart News, the One America News Network and The Washington Times, all with conservative leanings. Journalists from ABC, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Fox News also attended. Reporters from Time magazine and The Associated Press, who were set to be allowed in, chose not to attend the briefing in protest of the White House’s actions.

Ten Lessons From Battle Of 73 Easting: Desert Storm

(New NSA General McMaster’s essay from The NATIONAL INTEREST on 27 Feb 2016.)

One Iraqi T-72 Tank burning in the battle of 73 Easting.

“Other battles would be more destructive than 73 Easting. Other units would fight with the same proficiency demonstrated by Holder’s dragoons. Yet in this first major engagement against the Republican Guard, the U.S. Army demonstrated in a few hours the consequences of twenty years’ toil since Vietnam.

Here could be seen, with almost flawless precision, the lethality of modern American weapons; the hegemony offered by AirLand Battle doctrine, with its brutal ballet of armor, artillery, and air power; and, not least, the élan of the American soldier, who fought with a competence worthy of his forefathers on more celebrated battlefields in more celebrated wars."

- Rick Atkinson, Crusade

The Battle of 73 Easting was one of many fights in Desert Storm. Each of those battles was different. Individual and unit experiences in the same battle often vary widely. The tactics that Army units use to fight future battles will vary considerably from those employed in Desert Storm.

Donald Trump Picks Lt. Gen. McMaster As New NSA

(Madeleine Weast’s article direct from The FREE BEACON on 20 February 2017.)

President Donald Trump picked Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster to replace Michael Flynn as his national security adviser on Monday. Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. that McMaster would replace Flynn as national security adviser.

The president touted McMaster's credentials, saying he is "a man of tremendous talent and tremendous experience." "I watched and read a lot over the last two days. He is highly respected by everybody in the military, and we're very honored to have him," the president added.

McMaser called it a "privilege" to be appointed national security adviser. "I would just like to say what a privilege it is to be able to continue serving our nation," McMaster told reporters. "I'm grateful to you for that opportunity, and I look forward to joining the national security team and doing everything that I can to advance and protect the interests of the American people."

McMaster, 54, has been regarded as "smart, energetic, and tough" by Tom Ricks of Foreign Policy. When McMaster was a colonel he served as an advising officer on counterinsurgency operations in Iraq for David Petraeus, who was leading U.S. combat operations in the country at the time.

Nuclear Accident In Russia? Europe Highly Radioactive!

(Jasper Hamil’s article direct from The SUN UK on 20 February 2017.)

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE? Dangerous radioactive particles have been detected across Europe and no-one knows where they came from. Scientists baffled after detecting cancer-causing chemical that's produced during nuclear disasters or atomic bomb blasts.

DANGEROUS radioactive particles have been detected in seven different European countries and scientists can’t explain where they have come from. Traces of Iodine-131 were found in Norway, Finland, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, France and Spain in January, but the public were not immediately alerted.

The map below shows where the particles have been detected. These radioactive particles are produced by atomic bomb explosions or nuclear disasters such as Chernobyl or Fukushima. They appear to be emanating from Eastern Europe, but experts have not been able to say exactly what produced them.

Astrid Liland, head of emergency preparedness at the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority, told the Barents Observer that the health risk was very low – which was why she did not raise the alarm after detecting Iodine-131 during the second week of January. The Iodine-131 may have leaked from nuclear reactors or medical facilities.

Lt. General Flynn: First Victim Of Obama’s Sabotage

(Tyler Durden’s article direct from The ZERO HEDGE on 18 February 2017.)

In light of the recent flurry of leaks by the so-called "deep state", which includes such agencies as the NSA and FBI and which last week lead to the resignation of Mike Flynn after a phone recording of his phone conversation with the Russian ambassador was leaked to the pro-left Washington Post and other anti-Trump publications, an article published on January 12 by the NYT has generated renewed interest.

One month ago, the NYT reported that "In its final days, the Obama administration expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections."

The new rules significantly relax longstanding limits on what the N.S.A. may do with the information gathered by its most powerful surveillance operations, which are largely unregulated by American wiretapping laws. These include collecting satellite transmissions, phone calls and emails that cross network switches abroad, and messages between people abroad that cross domestic network switches.

Paki Sharia Bitch Is Banning Islamophobia In Canada

(Compilation of articles from various Canadian sources in February 2017.)

What is Really Behind Canada’s Anti-Islamophobia Motions? A Liberal Member of Canadian Parliament (MP), Iqra Khalid, who has strongly suggested “that terrorism carried out by Muslims ‘has no religion,'” has tabled a second anti-Islamophobia motion in Parliament.

The motion M-103 is titled “Systemic racism and religious discrimination,” but it specifies that Canadians must “condemn Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination and take note of House of Commons’ petition e-411 and the issues raised by it.”

Petition e-411 was forwarded in June, stating that “We, the undersigned, Citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to join us in recognizing that extremist individuals do not represent the religion of Islam, and in condemning all forms of Islamophobia.”