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Russian committee member Klintsevich: US expansion of anti-Russian sanctions is signal to EU partners


ITAR-TASS
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 16:09 UTC
US Department of the Treasury
US expansion of the anti-Russian sanctions is a signal to European partners that the policy towards Russia remains unchanged, Frants Klintsevich, the first deputy head of the Russian Federation Council Committee for Defense and Security, said.

"The United States has become convinced that it is impossible to influence Russia in such a way. First and foremost, the move is a signal to the U.S. European partners who are being clearly warned that the course towards Russia should remain unchanged," Klintsevich told TASS on Thursday.

According to Klintsevich, the United States has made another unfriendly step towards Russia. "The bridge over the Kerch Strait will be ready on time anyway despite all the sanctions, which the Americans are imposing on companies that are involved in the project," the Russian lawmaker said.

Comment: U.S. imposes new sanctions on Russia - targets Crimea bridge builders

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Treasure Chest

Russia, Turkey plan to sign memorandum on over $1 billion joint investment fund


ITAR-TASS
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 16:03 UTC
G20 Summit
© REUTERS/ Aly Song
Russia and Turkey plan to sign a memorandum on the establishment of over $1 billion joint investment fund during the G20 forum in China's Hangzhou on September 4-5, Kirill Dmitriyev, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), said in an interview with Rossiya-24 television channel.

"We will be having important negotiations with Turkey," Dmitriyev said. "We will sign a memorandum of the formation of the joint Russian-Turkish fund on the sum of over $1 billion."

Dmitriyev earlier made a statement that the joint investments of the mooted Russia-Turkish fund could be launched starting in 2017.
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Question

Brexit fallout fatal threat to War on Terror says Europol chief


RT
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 15:52 UTC
UK police boat
© Stefan Rousseau / Reuters
Britain's departure from the European Union might prove fatal to international police efforts against terrorism, Europol's director Rob Wainwright told the German press.

Europol's latest regulations come into force in May 2017. But Westminster is yet to approve their use in Britain and Brussels fears Prime Minister Theresa May will soon pull Britain out of the European law agency too.

"The EU would sorely miss Great Britain's leadership and vast expertise in security questions," Wainwright told German newspaper Die Welt.

"The British are the strongest provider of intelligence to the Europol databases."

"Britain is extremely important for Europol's work, I hope the most effective solution is found so we can secure long-running cooperation," he added.
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Black Magic

Pay-to-kill: Clinton rakes in $143 million in campaign donations in just one month


RT
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 15:54 UTC
clinton
© Bryan Woolston / Reuters
"For every dollar you donate, I will match that in dead bodies overseas. Guaranteed."
Marking the most bountiful fundraising month of Hillary Clinton's campaign to date, $143 million was raised in August. The total, to be shared with other Democratic groups, breaks a record set in 2008, when the Obama campaign raised a comparatively meager $66 million.

The staggering sum of $143 million was announced by Clinton's campaign on Thursday in a statement, the result of a summer-long schmoozing with donors on the East and West coasts.

"Thanks to the 2.3 million people who have contributed to our campaign, we are heading into the final two months of the race with the resources we need to organize and mobilize millions of voters across the country," said Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook, according to The Hill. "These resources will help us to register and turnout millions of voters to elect progressive candidates across the country."

Comment: The biggest scandals are often the most trivial, at least when compared to what should be the big scandals. Clinton's pay-to-play scheme pales in comparison to the carnage and murder she is responsible for, and will continue if she is elected. All these big and small donors are funding a serial killer, in record numbers. Says something, doesn't it?

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U.S. imposes new sanctions on Russia - targets Crimea bridge builders

Jack Stubbs and Yeganeh Torbati
Reuters
Thu, 01 Sep 2016 15:42 UTC
kerch crimea bridge
© Andrew Osborn / Reuters
The construction of a bridge across the Kerch Strait to Crimea is seen from the outskirts of the Taman settlement in Krasnodar region, southern Russia.
Companies building a multi-billion dollar bridge to link the Russian mainland with annexed Crimea, a project close to the heart President Vladimir Putin, were targeted by the United States in an updated sanctions blacklist on Thursday.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury added dozens of people and companies to the list, first introduced after Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 and expanded over its support for separatist rebels in the east of the country.

As well as multiple subsidiaries of Russian gas giant Gazprom (GAZP.MM) and 11 Crimean officials, the Treasury named seven companies directly involved in the construction of the 19 km (11.8 miles) road-and-rail connection across the Kerch Strait, dubbed "Putin's bridge" by some Russians.

Chief among those were SGM-Most, a subsidiary of lead contractor Stroygazmontazh which is already under U.S. sanctions, and sub-contractor Mostotrest (MSTT.MM), one of Russia's biggest bridge builders.
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Nuke

Iran and Russia agree to start building two new nuclear power plants this month


Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 15:35 UTC
Hassan Rohani and Ali Akbar Salehi
© AFP
Iranian President Hassan Rohani (left) walks with Iran's Atomic Energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi at the Bushehr nuclear power plant.
Iranian news agencies are reporting that Iran and Russia have agreed to start building two nuclear power plants in Iran's southern city of Bushehr this month.

"Operations to build two new nuclear power plants in Bushehr will start on September 10 and it will take 10 years for the power [units] to be completed," Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said on September 1, according to IRNA and Press TV.

Construction of the power plants will cost an estimated $10 billion, and when complete, they will save Iran about 22 million barrels of oil per year, he said.

Russia built the existing 1,000-megawatt reactor at Bushehr on the Gulf coast that came online in 2013.

In November 2014, it signed a "cooperation contract" to help build the two new reactors on the same site, along with plans to eventually construct nine reactors across Iran.

Under the deal, the total number of reactors at the Bushehr site could rise to five.
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Biohazard

Crime pays: Corrupt Killary stooge Debbie Wasserman Schultz wins Florida primary

Pam Martens and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 15:35 UTC
Wasserman Schultz

Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Killary
Democratic primary voters in South Florida's 23rd Congressional District ignored the Democratic National Committee scandal that has engulfed Debbie Wasserman Schultz and gave the incumbent a 56.46 percent win over her Democratic challenger, Tim Canova, who claimed 43.54 percent of the vote. Unfortunately for Canova, who had the backing of Senator Bernie Sanders and his supporters, Independents were not allowed to vote in this closed primary.

Wasserman Schultz will still have to compete against a Republican rival, Joe Kaufman, in the November 8 general election. Her District is heavily Democratic, however, and she is expected to achieve an easy win - unless new scandals arrive between now and election day.

Canova is a law professor at Nova Southeastern University. This was his first endeavor in running for public office. His strong showing in this race and his ability to raise $3.3 million from predominantly small donors around the country suggests that voters have not heard the last from Tim Canova.

Comment: Further reading on this sorry excuse for a human being:

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Attention

Turkey threatens Brits who join Kurdish militias as 'spies, crusaders and terrorists'


RT
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 15:20 UTC
Briton Jamie Read (left)
© facebook.com
Briton Jamie Read (left) reportedly fighting with Kurdish militia in Syria against the Islamic State.
British citizens who have volunteered to fight Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) alongside Kurdish militias are merely "crusaders" who will be treated as terrorists and killed if necessary, Turkish government officials have warned.

Yunus Akbaba, a spokesman for the Turkish PM Binali Yildirim, said the same applied to Westerners from other nations, including Turkey's NATO allies.

"These are terrorist groups and anyone fighting under their banner will be considered terrorists," he said of the YPG, which is a proscribed group in Turkey.

"It is the responsibility of the countries where they come from to prevent them from joining these groups. Turkish forces will confront them if they are fighting under the banner of terrorist groups, regardless of whether they are members of allied countries," he told Middle East Eye on Thursday.
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Info

Bloomberg interview: Putin says euro area may shrink after Brexit sets a precedent

Simon Kennedy, John Micklethwait and Olga Tanas
Bloomberg
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 14:56 UTC
Putin
© Bloomberg
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the euro area could someday shrink in size if its stronger members sought to close ranks.

"I don't rule out that there could be some decisions made that would consolidate a group of countries with equal levels of development and, thereby, in my opinion, strengthening the euro," Putin said in an interview in Vladivostok, on Russia's Pacific coast.

Putin pointed to Russia keeping 40 percent of its currency reserves in euros as evidence that it wasn't in his country's interest for the 19-member bloc to "collapse." He praised the leading economies for a "very pragmatic approach" to solving the bloc's problems.
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Info

Bloomberg interview: Putin sees opening with Japan on World War II island dispute

John Micklethwait, Ilya Arkhipov and Anthony Halpin
Bloomberg
Fri, 02 Sep 2016 14:45 UTC
Vladimir Putin
© Jeremy Liebman/BloombergBusinessweek
Russian President Vladimir Putin struck a conciliatory tone before talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on a territorial dispute that's prevented the countries from signing a World War II peace treaty.

Resolving the conflict over four islands occupied by the Soviet Union in the final days of the war should be part of "setting the stage for the development of inter-governmental relations for the long term," Putin said in an interview on Thursday as he prepared to meet with Abe at the Eastern Economic Forum in Russia's Pacific port city of Vladivostok on Friday.

"We're not talking about some exchange or some sale," Putin said. "We are talking about finding a solution where neither of the parties would feel defeated or a loser."
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