News For The Blind

http://www.renegadetribune.com/trump-reconsidering-withdrawal-of-us-troops-from-syria-thanks-to-lindsey-graham/

Renegade Editor’s Note: I know Zero Hedge is not to be trusted, but I don’t have the time or inclination to re-write this piece. The point is that Trump is taking back his Christmas present to the Americans who want to see their boys and girls come home. Was it really Lindsey who convinced the president or was it Trump’s Israeli handlers? By Tyler Durden(ZHE) — President Trump is “reconsidering” his strategy to pull US forces out of Syria following an “eye-opening trip to Iraq” the day after Christmas, Bloomberg reports. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) who sits on the Senate Armed Forces Committee – a harsh critic of Trump’s announced pullout, said earlier Sunday that he would try to change Trump’s mind during a private lunch since the Islamic state isn’t quite defeated in the region as the President had previously stated. “I feel better about Syria than I felt before I had lunch,…

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/draft-dodging-trump-rails-failed-generals-criticize/
President Donald Trump on Monday attacked former military leaders who have criticized his assorted foreign policy moves as “failed generals.” Writing on Twitter, the president declared that these military leaders had no right to criticize anything he’s done because they were bad at doing their jobs. “I campaigned on getting out of Syria and other places,” the president wrote. “Now when I start getting out the Fake News Media, or some failed Generals who were unable to do the job before I arrived, like to complain about me and my tactics, which are working.” Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump ...I campaigned on getting out of Syria and other places. Now when I start getting out the Fake News Media, or some failed Generals who were unable to do the job before I arrived, like to complain about me & my tactics, which are working. Just doing what I said I was going to do! 95.2K 7:12 AM - Dec 31, 2018

https://www.alternet.org/2018/12/tainted-dc-lobbyists-experiencing-waves-of-panic-over-muellers-probe-report/
A new report from The Hill claims that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election is generating anxiety among many Washington DC lobbyists who may now find themselves vulnerable to criminal charges. According to The Hill, “Mueller has uncovered a web of alleged criminality linked to violations of a World War II-era law enacted amid concerns over foreign propaganda” that could also be used to nail a number of other DC lobbyists who have been breaking the law for years. Mueller has already referred lobbyist-related cases to other prosecutors, including cases involving former associates of one-time Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former national security adviser Michael Flynn. However, one lobbyist tells The Hill that others in the industry fear this could be just the tip of the iceberg. “When you become gr…

https://dailyarchives.org/index.php/history/1527-the-true-story-of-haiti-and-the-mass-murder-of-whites-under-black-rule?utm_source=D5&utm_campaign=6654d98517-WR-News+Campaing+1st&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_70e342152e-6654d98517-48298879
The Caribbean state of Haiti serves as a striking reminder of just how deadly the practice of slavery could be. By 1804, the combined effect of thirteen years of uprisings, murder, and terrorism had destroyed the white population of Haiti, along with all agricultural production and the economy of what was formerly the most prosperous colony in the Western Hemisphere. (The New Observer) The island, originally named San Domingo, had become a center of Spanish activity during the time of the conquistador Hernando Cortes. The Spanish retained a small presence on the eastern side of the island, which is today known as the Dominican Republic. The western part of the island was settled by French traders in 1697 and renamed Saint-Domingue, and it w…

https://dailyarchives.org/index.php/history/1153-how-britain-s-unity-mitford-met-adolf-hitler-140-times?utm_source=D5&utm_campaign=6654d98517-WR-News+Campaing+1st&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_70e342152e-6654d98517-48298879
The first German book about British aristocrat and Adolf Hitler fan Unity Valkyrie Mitford reveals that the Führer was so obsessed with her that he met her 140 times while in the middle of preparing for World War Two. (Daily Mail corrected) Adolf Hitler was as spellbound by Unity - one of the famous ‘It’ girls of the 1930s. The first German biography to deal with this mutual attraction is published entitled: ‘I was leafing through Vogue when the Führer spoke to me.' Bestselling political science author Michaela Karl tells how the bond was forged at Hitler’s favourite Munich restaurant, the Osteria Bavaria, on February 9 1935. Adolf Hitler and Unity Mitford at the Führer’s favourite Munich restaurant Unity wrote to her sister Diana: 'At 3.00pm I was …

https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Palestinian-American-gets-life-in-prison-for-selling-properties-to-Jews-575903?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=20-2-2018&utm_content=palestinian-american-gets-life-in-prison-for-selling-properties-to-jews-575903
A Palestinian court in Ramallah sentenced a Palestinian-American to life in prison with hard labor on Monday, after finding him guilty of selling a house in the Old City of Jerusalem to a Jewish Israeli organization.

The man was identified as Issam Akel, a resident of east Jerusalem, who was arrested by Palestinian Authority security forces in October.
The story of the incarceration of the 53-year-old Akel, a US citizen, was first reported by The Jerusalem Post earlier this year.

The Palestinian Grand Criminal Court found Akel guilty of “attempting to cut off a part of the Palestinian land and adding them to a foreign country.”

The verdict was issued after a one-week trial.

Akel worked for one of the PA ministries and a hospita…