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While the Trump administration waits to decide if it will send 1,000 troops to Kuwait to fight ISIS, overnight the Washington Post reported that the US has sent several hundred Marines to Syria to support an allied local force aiming to capture the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa. Defence officials said they would establish an outpost from which they could fire artillery at IS positions some 32km (20 miles) away. US special forces are already on the ground, "advising" the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance according to the BBC.

Via Damiel Lang of SHTFPlan.com,

Job creation has been a key focus of the Trump administration which has blamed outsourcing to lower cost countries like Mexico and China for the stagnant wages of the middle-class working folks of America's Midwest.

Hillary Clinton came out looking sharp this evening -- donning a devil's red toga and new bobbed haircut -- telling her fellow sisters to 'stand up and resist' for planned parenthood and jobs etc.

Via Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,