position:deputy secretary of state

Rex Tillerson of ExxonMobil Expected to Be Named Trump’s Secretary of State: Sources - NBC News
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Donald Trump is expected to nominate ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of state, two sources close to the transition process told NBC News on Saturday.

The 64-year-old veteran oil executive has no government or diplomatic experience, although he has ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The pick would put to rest weeks-long speculation of who would earn the post as the U.S.’s top diplomat, and would place Tillerson fourth in line to the presidency.

He will also be paired with former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton as his deputy secretary of state, one of the sources added, with Bolton handling day-to-day management of the department.

Ca va pas fort pour les rebelles de la poche d’Azaz qui après avoir pris du territoire à Da’ich risquent de voir leur microterritoire coupé en 2 par les offensives de Da’ich et perdre la ville de Mare. Reste que la ligne de front ne cesse de bouger dans cette zone et donc que rien n’y est fait :

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Cela dans les contexte où on évoque la création d’une armée « Armée du Nord » (Jaych al-Chamal) sous le patronage turco-américain qui aurait pour but d’empêcher les Kurdes de faire la jonction Kobané-Afrin en prenant du territoire à Da’ich au Nord à partir de la poche d’Azaz, et également de combattre al-Nousra dans la province d’Idlib afin d’aider la rébellion à se distancier du groupe selon les souhaits des Russes - et, semble-t-il, des Américains (mais soyons prudents...) :
▻http://www.thearabweekly.com/?id=5153

The plan was reportedly formu­lated at a meeting May 9th in Turkey and included intelligence officials from the United States, Turkey, Sau­di Arabia and Qatar, in addition to leaders of the rebel groups. Turkish officials bluntly told the insurgents that if they refused to join the pro­posed alliance they would be brand­ed as terrorists.
The Americans are to provide the new force with advanced weaponry. Saudi Arabia and Qatar would cover financial costs. Military operations could start within two weeks. Air cover would be provided by the coa­lition countries while Turkey would offer artillery support from across the border.
According to a field commander with al-Zenki, the plan involves three phases, starting with the an­nouncement of the creation of Jaish al-Shamal. The second step includes moving the groups’ fighters and their weapons via Turkish territo­ries to northern Aleppo. The third phase is the fight itself.
He noted that opposition groups had begun on May 13th mov­ing fighters and heavy weaponry through Bab al-Hawa, a border crossing between Syria and Turkey.
Al-Zenki group is to lead the bat­tle, which is meant to fight ISIS, evict al-Nusra Front from Idlib, lib­erate the town of Al Raii, capture the area to the east of city of Azaz and then the city of Mare’.
The plan was confirmed by US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who declared at a May 13th news conference in Washington that the United States and Turkey share the objective of clearing the area from ISIS.
However, the fact that the plan does not refer to fighting troops loy­al to Assad has aroused suspicions among rebel groups of the existence of a prior agreement between the United States and Russia on the for­mation of the new alliance.
“We fear that the US conditions limit the mission of this (new) army to fighting ISIS,” an al-Zenki com­mander said. “Is there a US-Russian understanding with the Syrian re­gime to avoid fighting between the Northern Army and the Syrian regu­lar army as well as the Kurdish fight­ers who are attempting to control the area?”
It seems opposition groups have no alternative but to go along with the US plan of fighting ISIS out of fear that they will lose land to ad­vancing Assad troops, backed by Iranian and Hezbollah fighters un­der Russian air cover, and also their only supply route from Turkey, which threatened to consider them terrorists if they fail to comply.
Nonetheless, the US-sponsored plan seems to serve the goals of Turkey, which according to high-ranking Syrian opposition sources, “is facing an embarrassing situa­tion” after the killing of more than 25 people and the injuring of dozens of others by ISIS bombardment from Syria on the Turkish town of Kilis.

The U.S. Is ‘Missing’ Millions in Ukraine | Observer
▻http://observer.com/2016/05/the-u-s-is-missing-millions-in-ukraine

Ironically, the Poroshenko administration is following the lead of the American-installed Al-Abadi administration in Iraq. Corrupt and ruled by internal interests, both parliaments create their own reality in the tug-of-war for power and money, which includes increased spending on military. Both setups are also threatened by outside developments (the civil war in the East, and Daesh respectively) as the name of the game is a monopoly-like of accumulation of wealth with get-out-of-jail-free cards given away by the top of the official administrations.

Increasingly, the cookies distributed by the Deputy Secretary of State [fuck the EU] Nuland at the EuroMaidan are the most expensive pastries ever sold: they are paid for both in U.S. Treasury (five billion and counting) and at least 10,000 lives.

Marie Antoinette would be proud. The #revolution which ultimately cost her head is back, and inflicted on ordinary people.

#corruption #bandits #oligarchie #Etats-Unis #Ukraine

Top US official says Iran has met interim obligations | The Times of Israel
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Deputy secretary of state tells Jewish group that many concerns about the emerging nuclear deal are ‘more myth than fact’

La pub pour les Nike, c’est gratis ?

#Iran, #US announce unprecedented talks
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/iran-us-announce-unprecedented-talks

Iran and the United States will on Monday and Tuesday hold their first direct talks in decades, in an unprecedented move toward securing a comprehensive nuclear deal between Tehran and the West. The discussions will take place in Geneva, with the US delegation led by Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns and Undersecretary Wendy Sherman, who is responsible for Iran negotiations. Iran will be represented at vice foreign minister level in what is the most senior direct bilateral contact on the nuclear issue so far. read more

Egyptian Military Backed Out Of Prisoner-Release Deal That Could Have Averted Killings: Sources

▻http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/15/egypt-military-muslim-brotherhood_n_3762068.html

CAIRO — A week before the Egyptian government ordered Wednesday’s deadly clearing of two Muslim Brotherhood protest camps, military leaders and the Brotherhood very nearly came to an agreement that involved a prisoner release and other measures that might have averted the catastrophe, The Huffington Post has learned.

The notion of such a plan, mediated by a handful of diplomats from the U.S. and Europe — including U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns and EU Special Representative Bernardino Leon — was first reported on Wednesday by Reuters. HuffPost has learned that the terms of the proposed deal would have seen the Muslim Brotherhood reduce the size of their protest camps by half, and the military release two notable prisoners: Saad El-Katatni, the chairman of the Brotherhood’s political party who was arrested during the military takeover in July, and Abou Elela Mady, the chairman of the Islamist al-Wasat Party who was locked up in the aftermath.

Brotherhood leaders had agreed in principle to the plan, but in the end the military-backed government declined to take part, sources say.