SPRING'S 1-21-2018 = INFRA SOUND && RATS

Adulthood now begins at 24, say scientists

HA, that's young. I know people here in their mid 70's who haven't reached adulthood yet.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-21/turkish-tanks-cross-syria-ground-offensive-against-us-backed-milita-begins

Turkish Tanks Cross Into Syria As Ground Offensive Against US-Backed Militia Begins

by Tyler Durden

Sun, 01/21/2018 - 09:32





Early on Sunday, Turkish ground forces crossed the border and pushed into northern Syria’s Afrin province on Sunday, Ankara said after launching artillery and air strikes on a U.S.-backed








Turkey sent armored divisions into northwest Syria after a day of airstrikes as part of 'Operation Olive Branch' which bombed Kurdish YPG forces ("People's Protection Units") in and around Afrin to drive the US-allied Kurdish militia from the area. Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army fighters along with Turkish troops are now moving into the area, according to state-run Anadolu news agency.

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1/ The ground offensive against Afrin enclave has indeed started. Clashes now inside Afrin province. Kurdish YPG claims it destroyed at least 1 Turkish tank. See video. pic.twitter.com/k81T2OPlbe
— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) January 21, 2018

"Our jets took off and started bombing. And now, the ground operation is underway. Now we see how the YPG ... are fleeing in Afrin," President Tayyip Erdogan said. "We will chase them. God willing, we will complete this operation very quickly."

https://youtu.be/NKdQkeN_s3s




Quoted by Reuters, Erdogan also accused some of Turkey’s allies of providing the YPG with 2,000 plane shipments and 5,000 truckloads of ammunition; the comments were clearly aimed at the United States.


https://youtu.be/vruAwO_A_Kk





According to the local military, Turkish forces forces started the ground phase as part of ‘Olive Branch’ in the north-western Syrian region of Afrin, with Hurriyet reporting that the Turkish military has so far faced no serious resistance from Kurdish forces, which has retreated to towns and villages.

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Video released by Turkish Armed Forces purportedly shows air strike on tunnel in Kurdish-controlled city of #Afrin in northern Syria pic.twitter.com/NH4pn2rlCc
— CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) January 21, 2018

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim confirmed that tanks and military vehicles had begun to cross the Syrian border, according to Haberturk. They were said to advance roughly five kilometers into the Afrin region. Yildirim also said the Turkish military, NATO’s second-largest, would create a 30-km (19-mile) “safe zone” in the  region.

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What we know so far about Turkey’s Operation Olive Branch in Syria’s Afrin:

- Turkish troops and FSA make first gains
- Ground operation follows aerial bombardment of YPG/PKK positions
- Turkey says aim is to establish 30 km safe zone for civilians and secure its border pic.twitter.com/gxzz53Y4wg
— TRT World Now (@TRTWorldNow) January 21, 2018

Predictably, there have been conflicting reports, with the YPG spokesman Birusk Hasaka saying that Turkish troops failed to cross the border into the Afrin region as they were forced back after a fierce stand-off. The statement was reiterated by another YPG official, Nouri Mahmoudi, who said that “all the Turkish military’s ground attacks against Afrin have been repelled so far and they have been forced to retreat,” Reuters reports. Thousands rallied against the attacks in the border town of Amuda in northwest Syria, vowing to stand against “Turkish occupation”, according to a local witness.

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The moment #Turkish tank was destroyed by #YPG fighters in #Afrin. #YPJ #TwitterKurds pic.twitter.com/cWOjF4grKu
— Rojava Defense Units | YPG (@DefenseUnits) January 21, 2018

At the same time, a Turkish official said that the Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army rebel factions had captured a Kurdish village with no resistance and were clearing landmines.  Facing little resistance, Turkey appeared set to extend its territorial gains:

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At a training camp near the border, about 200 fighters from the Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army factions drilled on a parade ground. Some were in different khaki-colored uniforms, some in jeans and sneakers.
Lieutenant-colonel Mohammad al Hamadeen, a rebel spokesman, said a ground offensive was due to begin within hours against the YPG. “The military operation started this morning with the invasion of the northwestern areas of Afrin. And they will start in the eastern area of Afrin,” he told Reuters.

A Reuters reporter on the outskirts of the northern Syrian town of Azaz, under the control of rebels from Free Syrian Army factions, heard several blasts and saw smoke rising from a hill to the west, where a fighter said the YPG were.

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Meanwhile, There were no signs of conflict in the town itself, where life appeared to continue as normal with traffic on the muddy, potholed roads and uniformed rebel police at the main roundabouts. Still, Azaz was bleak and the toll from the war was plainly seen in some of its crumbling buildings. At one of the car repair workshops on the outskirts of the town some men were fixing a gun-loaded vehicle.

Finally, the US remains oddly mute on this latest escalation which sees NATO member, and US-ally Turkey, attack a US-armed and backed militia in Syria (whose initial purpose of helping remove the Assad regime is long gone). On Saturday, a Pentagon official said: "We encourage all parties to avoid escalation and to focus on the most important task of defeating ISIS (Islamic State)." 

The plea by the world's superpower was roundly ignored by everyone.

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RAT'S ALWAYS FORGET WHERE CHEWED UP PAPER IS IN THEIR NEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


FIRST THE NSA


NOW FBI!!


I CALL B.S.
YOU PEOPLE THINK WE BELIEVE THAT????!!!!!!
PRESIDENT TRUMP, GATHER THE MILITARY AND RAID THEIR HOUSES NOW AND CONFISCATE EVERYTHING! PROSECUTE THEM ALL!!!!

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-21/fbi-loses-five-months-text-messages-between-anti-trump-agents-blames-glitch
FBI "Loses" Five Months Of Text Messages Between Anti-Trump Agents, Blames Glitch

Five months of text messages between anti-Trump FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page have been lost, according to a Friday disclosure from the Justice Department to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), as reported by the Associated Press and the Daily Caller.
Peter Strzok and Lisa Page
In a letter from Stephen Boyd, the assistant attorney general for legislative affairs at the Justice Department, to Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of HSGAC, the assistant AG writes that "The Department wants to bring to your attention that the FBI’s technical system for retaining text messages sent and received on FBI mobile devices failed to preserve text messages for Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page."

The explanation for the gap was "misconfiguration issues related to rollouts, provisioning, and software upgrades that conflicted with the FBI's collection capabilities."

 

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The missing texts conveniently span the period between Dec. 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017 - the day Robert Mueller was appointed to take over the FBI's probe of alleged Trump-Russia collusion, and during the period in which the FBI would ostensibly have been hard at work on their "insurance policy" against a Trump victory, alluded to in previous text messages between Strzok and Page.

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"I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy's office - that there's no way he [Trump] gets elected - but I'm afraid we can't take that risk," wrote FBI counterintelligence officer Peter Strzok to FBI lawyer Lisa Page - with whom he was having an extramarital affair while spearheading both the Clinton email inquiry and the early Trump-Russia probe - adding "It's like a life insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40."

New Texts Turned Over

Despite the five months of missing text messages between Strzok and Page, the DOJ turned over a new 384 page trove of new text messages to the HSGAC, according to a letter from Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) to FBI Director Christopher Wray (letter below).

The new batch of texts are from the spring and summer of 2016 and involve discussions revolving around the Hillary Clinton email investigation - and in particular, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch's decision to accept the FBI's recommendation not to press criminal charges against then-candidate Clinton.

One exchange references a change in language to Comey's statement closing out the email case involving Clinton. While an earlier draft of the statement said Clinton and President Barack Obama had an email exchange while Clinton was "on the territory" of a hostile adversary, the reference to Obama was at first changed to "senior government official" and then omitted entirely in the final version.

The exchange in question from Johnson's letter is below:

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In another exchange, the two express displeasure about the timing of Lynch's announcement that she would defer to the FBI's judgment on the Clinton investigation. That announcement came days after it was revealed that the attorney general and former President Bill Clinton had an impromptu meeting aboard her plane in Phoenix, though both sides said the email investigation was never discussed.



In a July 1 text message, Strzok tells Page that the timing of Lynch's statement "looks like hell," while Page mockingly refers to Lynch's decision to accept the FBI's conclusion a "real profile in courag(e) since she knows no charges will be brought."

This is also the exchange which troublingly demonstrates that then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch was aware that Comey would not recommend criminal charges in the Clinton investigation prior to Lynch's announcement that she would accept whatever recommendation the FBI made.

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Four days later (and six days after the "tarmac" meeting), Comey announced the FBI's recommendation not to press charges against Clinton.

Strzok and Page also texted each other with concerns over which email accounts they were using for work purposes, with Page texting Strzok on November 10, 2016 "Hey without thinking I replied to the email you sent me on Gmail. But it went to your Verizon. So please clear. Let me know if you want me to send it again somewhere else." On October 4, 2015, Strzok texts Page "It's going to be ok at work. And haven't emailed you here, although I just did on gmail."

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Wiped? Like, with a cloth? 

Word of the missing texts between Strzok and Page come on the heels of a report we covered yesterday in which the NSA "sincerely regrets" deleting all Bush-era surveillance data it was ordered to preserve.



The NSA told U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White in a filing on Thursday night and another little-noticed submission last year that the agency did not preserve the content of internet communications intercepted between 2001 and 2007 under the program Bush ordered. To make matters worse, backup tapes that might have mitigated the failure were erased in 2009, 2011 and 2016, the NSA said.

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“The NSA sincerely regrets its failure to prevent the deletion of this data,” NSA’s deputy director of capabilities, identified publicly as “Elizabeth B.,” wrote in a declaration filed in October.
“NSA senior management is fully aware of this failure, and the Agency is committed to taking swift action to respond to the loss of this data.”

Given the magnitude of malfeasance already uncovered within the top ranks of the FBI during and after the 2016 presidential race, we can only imagine what's contained within those five months of missing texts between the rabidly anti-Trump FBI employees deeply involved in both the Clinton and Trump investigations. 

Or, to summarize:

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Hillary Clinton: emails deleted
NSA: emails deleted
FBI: text messages deleted
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 21, 2018

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Full letter from HSGAC Chair Ron Johnson to FBI Director Christpher Wray (pdf)

AS BAD AS THAT SOUNDS FOR THE WHITE HATS [GO TEAM!]  Q KEEPS SAYING, WHEN DOES THE BIRD SING?
AND THE ANSWER IS WHEN IT'S CAGED, RIGHT?  SO, THEY ARE GOING TO INCRIMINATE EACH OTHER PLAYING THEIR FAVORITE GAME: THE BLAME GAME...JUVENILES.  [NO DEALS Q SAID, SO LET'S HOPE THEY'RE NOT READING]