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U.S. Caves to Key Iranian Demands as Nuke Deal Comes Together
Post Date: 2015-03-27 11:01:34 by redleghunter
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LAUSSANE, Switzerland—The Obama administration is giving in to Iranian demands about the scope of its nuclear program as negotiators work to finalize a framework agreement in the coming days, according to sources familiar with the administration’s position in the negotiations. U.S. negotiators are said to have given up ground on demands that Iran be forced to disclose the full range of its nuclear activities at the outset of a nuclear deal, a concession experts say would gut the verification the Obama administration has vowed would stand as the crux of a deal with Iran. Until recently, the Obama administration had maintained that it would guarantee oversight on Tehran’s ...
The Central Banker Who Saved the Russian Economy From the Abyss
Post Date: 2015-03-27 03:24:45 by Pericles
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(Bloomberg) -- Panic reached the inner sanctum of the Russian central bank. It was Dec. 16 -- the day Russian traders would later christen Black Tuesday -- and the ruble was in a freefall. “Intervene! Intervene!” a central bank official shouted. Governor Elvira Nabiullina watched the currency on her tablet screen react to her emergency rate increase. No, she said, not this time: Russia would no longer fight the market. Speculators needed a cold shower, she said. That daring decision, related by two people with knowledge of the meeting, has begun to pay off for Nabiullina, 51, and her patron, President Vladimir Putin. Despite sanctions meant to punish Russia for its foray into ...
GERMAN NEWS: Co-Pilot of Germanwings Airbus Was MUSLIM CONVERT…’Hero of Islamic State’?
Post Date: 2015-03-26 23:41:18 by out damned spot
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GERMAN REPORT —HE WAS RADICALIZED! GERMAN CO-PILOT WAS MUSLIM CONVERT– — STAYED AT Bremen Mosque Police have reportedly found something of “significance” at the apartment of the co-pilot who crashed the Germanwing passenger plane into the Alps this week. 28-year-old German Andreas Lubitz trained in the Phoenix, Arizona and is pictured here in San Francisco. A German news website claims Andreas Lubitz was a Muslim convert. Speisa.com reported: According to Michael Mannheimer, a writer for German PI-News, Germany now has its own 9/11, thanks to the convert to Islam, Andreas Lubitz. Translation from German: All evidence indicates that the copilot of Airbus ...
Corporate Sovereignty Provisions Of TPP Agreement Leaked Via Wikileaks: Would Massively Undermine Government Sovereignty
Post Date: 2015-03-26 12:35:59 by Willie Green
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For years now, we've been warning about the problematic "ISDS" -- "investor state dispute settlement" mechanisms that are a large part of the big trade agreements that countries have been negotiating. As we've noted, the ISDS name is designed to be boring, in an effort to hide the true impact -- but the reality is that these provisions provide corporate sovereignty, elevating the power of corporations to put them above the power of local governments. If you thought "corporate personhood" was a problem, corporate sovereignty takes things to a whole new level -- letting companies take foreign governments to special private "tribunals" if they ...
Germanwings co-pilot DELIBERATELY crashed Flight 4U9525 into mountain to 'destroy the plane' after locking his captain out of cockpit, reveals French prosecutor
Post Date: 2015-03-26 09:24:21 by Tooconservative
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BREAKING NEWS: Germanwings co-pilot DELIBERATELY crashed Flight 4U9525 into mountain to 'destroy the plane' after locking his captain out of cockpit, reveals French prosecutor Black box voice recorder reveals final chilling moments of Airbus A320Prosecutor: 'Death was instant. You only hear screams in final seconds' Co-pilot was named today as 28-year-old German Andreas Günter LubitzProsecutor says he does not believe disaster was terrorism or suicideThe co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings Airbus A320 locked his captain out of the cockpit before deliberately crashing into a mountain to 'destroy the plane', it was sensationally revealed today.French prosecutor ...
Stunning! Obama Administration Declassifies Document on Israel’s Nuclear Power [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-03-25 22:04:54 by A K A Stone
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Dimona nuclear plant in the southern Negev desert of Israel. (Alphabetics) In a stunning move the Obama administration released 1987 report on Israel’s top secret nuclear program. Israel National News reported: Obama revenge for Netanyahu’s Congress talk? 1987 report on Israel’s top secret nuclear program released in unprecedented move. In a development that has largely been missed by mainstream media, the Pentagon early last month quietly declassified a Department of Defense top- secret document detailing Israel’s nuclear program, a highly covert topic that Israel has never formally announced to avoid a regional nuclear arms race, and which the US until now has ...
Germanwings Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash in France (Terrorism?) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-03-25 19:53:14 by Pericles
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Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before France Crash By NICOLA CLARK and DAN BILEFSKY 21 minutes ago As officials struggled to explain why a jet with 150 people on board crashed, an investigator said evidence indicated that one pilot left the cockpit before the plane’s descent and was unable to get back in. Click for Full Text!
Yemen crisis: President Hadi flees as Houthi rebels advance
Post Date: 2015-03-25 18:38:48 by out damned spot
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Yemen's President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has fled his palace in Aden as Houthi rebels advance towards the city. Gunfire could be heard around the city centre, and security forces allied to the Houthis have taken over the international airport. The rebels have made rapid gains since seizing a key airbase only 60km (37 miles) from Aden on Wednesday morning. Government officials deny reports that the president has fled the country, and say he remains in Aden. The US State Department says it was in touch with President Hadi earlier in the day. It said he is no longer at the compound but could not confirm any "additional details" about his location. State television, which is ...
Turkish cartoonists fined for suggesting Erdogan is gay
Post Date: 2015-03-25 14:26:31 by redleghunter
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Two Turkish caricaturists have been fined for insulting President Tayyip Erdogan after a court ruled that one of their cartoons implied he was gay, local media said on Wednesday. Bahadir Baruter and Ozer Aydogan were prosecuted for an illustration on the front page of satirical magazine Penguen last August in which an official greeted Erdogan while apparently making a circle with his thumb and forefinger. Prosecutors launched the indictment after a citizen complained that the hand signal, commonly used in Turkey to insult homosexuals, was against the country's moral values. Lawyers representing Erdogan then got involved in the case, demanding that the court punish ...
Russia questions Britain's claim to the Falklands as garrison reinforced
Post Date: 2015-03-25 12:28:02 by Pericles
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Russia questions Britain's claim to the Falklands as garrison reinforced Extra Chinook helicopters and new missile system to be sent to be deployed, as Russia likens Islands to Crimea By Matthew Holehouse, Political Correspondent 7:18PM GMT 24 Mar 2015 Britain will send two troop-carrying Chinook helicopters and new surface-to-air missile system to the Falkland Islands, amid fears Russia could be arming the Argentine government. Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, said the Islands will be ready to repel “any potential threat” following reports that the Kremlin is preparing to lease 12 Su-24 long range bombers to Buenos Aires in exchange for beef and wheat. It ...
Britain sends an extra £180million to defend the Falklands amid fears Putin is plotting to help arm Argentina
Post Date: 2015-03-25 12:20:37 by Pericles
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Britain sends an extra £180million to defend the Falklands amid fears Putin is plotting to help arm Argentina Defence Secretary Michael Fallon promises to 'beef up' military presence MPs say defence capabilities abandoned after Cold War must be rebuilt Soldiers also need training to respond to nuclear and biological attacks Defence spending is set to fall below Nato target for the first time next year ByLarisa Brown, Defence Reporter for the Daily Mail Published: 19:02 EST, 23 March 2015 | Updated: 20:56 EST, 24 March 2015 Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/...ay-MPs.html#ixzz3VPnVzRH8 Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook Click for Full Text!
With the U.S. F-35 Grounded, Putin’s New Jet Beats Us Hands-Down
Post Date: 2015-03-25 12:18:22 by Pericles
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With the U.S. F-35 Grounded, Putin’s New Jet Beats Us Hands-Down By Rob Garver, The Fiscal Times March 24, 2015 With the U.S. F-35 Joint Strike Fighter still in limbo over reliability problems, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s administration on Monday said it would begin regular production of its newest fighter jet, the T-50, next year. According to state-run media, the Russian military will begin mass-producing the advanced fighter jet in several versions, and will also begin making models that will be available for export. “We have plans to deliver the first series of fifth-generation fighter jets next year,” said Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov, ...
The purpose of Putin’s diplomatic acrobatics (To save the world from American chaos)
Post Date: 2015-03-25 12:15:31 by Pericles
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March 24, 2015 6:17 pm The purpose of Putin’s diplomatic acrobatics Samuel Charap The Russian president’s goal is not to deceive his counterparts. So why lie, asks Samuel Charap ...snip... High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. The more compelling explanation is international. Russia is often denounced in the west as a revisionist power, determined to tear down the postwar international order. Given Moscow’s flagrant violations of basic principles of ...
Obama’s foreign policy: Perhaps cunning, but never wise, never truthful
Post Date: 2015-03-25 11:47:31 by nativist nationalist
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This writer carries no brief for Israel. All that is written and argued about “Israel’s right to exist” is nonsense. Neither Israel nor the United States nor any other nation has a right to exist. A state’s ability to survive depends solely on its own social cohesion, economic viability, and domestic political, international, and military behavior and actions, not on some non-existent right the Israel-First lobby dreamed-up to use to propagandized the American people into eternally supporting a nation that is completely irrelevant — and, indeed, bloodily counter-productive — to genuine U.S. national security interests. That said, Israel and all nation-states ...
Afghanistan withdrawal delayed
Post Date: 2015-03-25 08:12:29 by tomder55
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President Obama said Tuesday that he will delay a planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, and maintain a force of 9,800 in the war-torn nation through the end of this year. Reductions in 2016 will be made based on conditions on the ground, according to a joint U.S.-Afghanistan statement issued after Obama met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the White House. While the United States had planned to cut its Afghanistan force nearly in half this year, Obama said he agreed to Ghani's request for a slowdown so that Afghanistan can continue building up its own force. "This flexibility reflects our reinvigorated partnership with Afghanistan, which is aimed at making ...
Jordan, Russia Sign $10 Billion Deal on Nuclear Power Plant
Post Date: 2015-03-24 23:47:30 by Pericles
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Jordan, Russia Sign $10 Billion Deal on Nuclear Power Plant AMMAN, Jordan — Mar 24, 2015, 3:31 PM ET By SAM McNEIL Associated Press Jordan signed a $10 billion deal with Russia on Tuesday to build the kingdom's first nuclear power plant, with two 1,000-megawatt reactors in the country's north. The deal, signed in the Jordanian capital, Amman, with Russia's state-owned Rosatom company caps efforts of the energy-poor kingdom to increase energy sufficiency and reduce imports. Jordan lacks any local energy sources and imports 96 percent of its electricity. The violence in neighboring Iraq and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula has threatened and in many cases, completely cut off ...
The church at the South Pole: A Russian Orthodox priest has spent four years leading prayers in a small wooden building on King George Island, Antarctica
Post Date: 2015-03-24 21:26:17 by Pericles
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The church at the South Pole A Russian Orthodox priest has spent four years leading prayers in a small wooden building on King George Island, Antarctica By AP, King George Island, Antarctica 7:33PM GMT 06 Mar 2015 Sophrony Kirilov pulls hard on the strings of the heavy Russian bells from inside the world’s southernmost Eastern Orthodox church, calling to Mass anybody wanting to pray on this remote Antarctic island. The 38-year-old Russian priest is clad in a loose black robe and a vest dotted with patches of penguins and seals, marking his four years of service at the bottom of the world. Although he often misses his family and the dark winters are hard, Kirilov says there is no ...
Leading Russian Orthodox official sees Russia as ‘only center of non-enslaved civilization’
Post Date: 2015-03-24 21:19:31 by Pericles
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Leading Russian Orthodox official sees Russia as ‘only center of non- enslaved civilization’ Catholic World News - February 26, 2015 Describing much of Europe as “Babylon,” the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Synodal Department for the Cooperation of Church and Society said that “Russia is the only center of non-[en]slaved civilization,” according to the Interfax news agency. “Our patriotism is not chauvinism,” said Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin; rather, it consists in “understanding the importance of the unique Christian mission which, I believe, our people live for.” Chaplin traced the decline of Europe from “Genoa and ...
Russia’s return to Nicaragua worrying many in Central America
Post Date: 2015-03-24 21:13:09 by Pericles
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Russia’s return to Nicaragua worrying many in Central America BY TIM JOHNSON McClatchy Foreign StaffMarch 23, 2015 MANAGUA, NICARAGUA — Russia is rekindling its once-strong ties to Nicaragua, possibly including providing the Central American nation with jet fighters, stoking unease as far away as the Andes in South America. Later this week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will arrive in Nicaragua as part of a swing through four Latin American nations, the culmination to a series of high-level Russian visits to this Central American nation in the past year. Last month, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu paid a two-day visit, and in January the head of Russia’s ...
Russia fails in bid to halt UN staff benefits for same-sex couples
Post Date: 2015-03-24 21:11:18 by Pericles
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Russia fails in bid to halt UN staff benefits for same-sex couples UN’s recognition of gay marriages of staff in July allowed them to receive benefits, but Russia desired return to system abiding by laws of country of nationality Russia has failed on Tuesday in a bid to stop the United Nations extending staff benefits to all same-sex couples after a UN general assembly budget committee voted 80-43 against the proposal. There were 37 abstentions, and 33 countries did not vote. The UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, said in July that the United Nations would recognize all same-sex marriages of its staff, allowing them to receive UN benefits. Previously, staff members’ personal ...
How China used more cement in 3 years than the U.S. did in the entire 20th Century
Post Date: 2015-03-24 17:02:15 by Willie Green
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China used more cement between 2011 and 2013 than the U.S. used in the entire 20th Century. It’s a statistic so mind-blowing that it stunned Bill Gates and inspired haiku. But can it be true, and, if so, how? Yes, China’s economy has grown at an extraordinary rate, and it has more than four times as many people as the United States. But the 1900s were America’s great period of expansion, the century in which the U.S. built almost all of its roads and bridges, the Interstate system, the Hoover Dam, and many of the world’s tallest skyscrapers. And China and the U.S. are roughly the same size in terms of geographic area, ranking third and fourth in the world, ...
Moscow Patriarchate to monitor violations of Orthodox Christians' rights in Europe
Post Date: 2015-03-23 23:46:07 by Pericles
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10 March 2015, 14:53 Moscow Patriarchate to monitor violations of Orthodox Christians' rights in Europe Moscow, March 10, Interfax - The Center for Monitoring Orthodox Christians' Rights and Liberties in Europe has launched a website with support from the Moscow Patriarchate's representative office in the Council of Europe. The English-language website, Orthodoxrights.org, will carry information about violations of Orthodox Christians' rights and liberties in Europe, as well a special reports, according to the press service of the Russian Patriarchate's representative office in the Council of Europe. It said numerous abuses of the rights of Orthodox Christians of the ...
Putin's Falklands threat: Britain to boost defences amid claims Russia is arming Argentinian army
Post Date: 2015-03-23 23:40:09 by Pericles
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Putin's Falklands threat: Britain to boost defences amid claims Russia is arming Argentinian army It was claimed the Kremlin and Argentina had struck a deal for Russia to supply long-range bombers to the Argentinian air force Britain is set to boost its defences in the Falklands amid claims Russian president Vladimir Putin is helping Argentina re-arm. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon is due to tell MPs on Tuesday that the Government is beefing-up the UK’s presence on the islands. But critics will question the timing of the expected announcement just six weeks before the general election and as David Cameron faces intense pressure over his failure to commit to spending ...
NGOs As Agents of Subversion: Not Only In Israel, But Egypt And The Caucasus As Well
Post Date: 2015-03-23 21:54:11 by nativist nationalist
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Though “Bibi” Netanyahu won re-election last week, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will still look into whether the State Department financed a clandestine effort to defeat him. Reportedly, State funneled $350,000 to an American NGO called OneVoice, which has an Israeli subsidiary, Victory 15, that collaborated with U.S. operatives to bring Bibi down. If we are now secretly pumping cash into the free elections of friendly countries, to dump leaders President Obama dislikes, Americans have a right to know why we are using Cold War tactics against democracies. After World War II, my late colleague on CNN’s “Crossfire,” Tom Braden, delivered CIA ...
New pro-Russia party emerges in Poland
Post Date: 2015-03-23 21:40:10 by Pericles
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New pro-Russia party emerges in Poland By PAULINA PACULA WARSAW, 23. MAR, 11:14 A new pro-Russia party has emerged on the Polish political scene and is hoping to scoop as much as 12 percent of votes in elections later this year. Zmiana - meaning “change” - has a strong anti-American streak and supports Russian president Vladimir Putin’s politics, seeing Russia as a natural ally for both Poland and the European Union. Mateusz Piskorski, Zmiana’s leader, denies there is Russian aggression against Ukraine, supports pro-Russian separatists, says Crimea's secession referendum (deemed illegal by the EU and UN) was fair, and criticises the Polish government’s ...
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