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EU new agency: Border force plan to curb refugee influx even if the country does not consent


Press TV
Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:01 UTC
refugees
© AFP
Police escort refugees and asylum seekers as they walk to a refugee center after crossing the Croatian-Slovenian border near Rigonce.
The European Union (EU) is set to unveil on Tuesday controversial proposals for a new border and coastguard agency in a bid to curb the record influx of refugees into the continent.

The European Commission said on Tuesday that it will propose a new military force consisting of at least 1,500 armed troops aimed at slowing the record flow of nearly one million refugees and asylum seekers to Europe this year. According to reports, the planned force will be granted powers to intervene even when the host country does not consent.
"In urgent situations, the Agency must be able to step in to ensure that action is taken on the ground even where there is no request for assistance from the Member State concerned or where that Member State considers that there is no need for additional intervention," said a draft of the proposal according to AFP.
The plan also stipulates that the EU could send in teams of guards in case of a surge at a particular border, or where a member state has a "deficiency" in the management of its borders and fails to respond to warnings from Brussels, the de facto capital of the EU. The plan is being drafted by the European Commission, the powerful executive arm of the EU and, is supposed to replace the EU's unarmed Frontex agency.

Comment: One more nail in the "sovereignty coffin" as we come to realize the NWO is already here and unfolding before our eyes. Are refugees just the latest ploy to move The Plan along? Who is pulling the strings?

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Bad Guys

ISIS invades Afghanistan & establishes ruthless control over several districts

Martin Berger
New Eastern Outlook
Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:48 UTC
isis in Mark's truck

"Hey, how'd my truck get in the hands of terrrorists!?"
The increase in the level of terrorist activities of ISIL in Afghanistan has recently been the topic of various reports being published in the international media. Along with the massacre of the local population which seems to be a trademark of this Islamist group it has recently entered in a direct confrontation with the Taliban. It's now safe to assume that there's well over two thousand ISIL militants operating in Afghanistan.

A significant number of reports suggests that ISIL militants that infiltrated Afghanistan are engaged in recruiting locals, spreading radical propaganda, and establishing training camps. Additionally, some articles suggest that former members of the Taliban are pledging their allegiance to ISIL in the southern provinces of the country.

Thus, The Independent quotes the statement of the Afghan army General Qadam Shah Shahima that said that ISIL managed to overshadow ISIL in the Afghan province of Helmand.

Comment: See also:

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Airplane

In privatization deal Germans take over 14 Greek airports


RT
Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:54 UTC
Greek airport
© Alexandros Avramidis / Reuters
Greece has signed its first major privatization deal granting control of over a dozen regional airports to a German company. The agreement is part of international creditors' demands to privatize state assets to secure €86 billion in bailout funds for Athens.

The €1.23 billion contract gives a 40-year lease to the Frankfurt airport operator Fraport. The German firm could upgrade and operate a cluster of airports, including those on the popular tourist islands of Corfu, Mykonos, Rhodes and Santorini.

Comment: These privatizations will not be a "win-win" for Greece or their people. The privatization companies will only have their own interests and profits in mind. If these self interests fail, these companies will shut down the assets. If these companies succeed, the profits will be drained to their own pockets and not for Greece.

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Bullseye

Russia to finalize S-300 air defense system delivery to Iran


Press TV
Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:57 UTC
S-300 system
© AFP
Russian surface-to-air missile system S-300, displayed in Suvorovskaya Square, Moscow.
Russia has reaffirmed its determination to honor all its obligations with regard to the timely delivery of S-300 air defense systems to Iran. "Iran is fulfilling its obligations on advanced payments, while we are fulfilling our obligations on timely deliveries," Vladimir Kozhin, President Vladimir Putin's aide on military-technical cooperation said on Monday. Kozhin said Moscow will continue the deliveries to Iran through 2016.

On December 3, Kozhin said Russia had started the shipment of its S-300 air defense systems to Iran as part of a long-running contract between Tehran and Moscow. "The contract is being implemented, (deliveries of S-300s) are starting," Russia's TASS news agency quoted Kozhin as saying back then. Russia committed to delivering the systems to Iran under a USD-800-million deal in 2007.

Moscow, however, refused to deliver the systems to Tehran in 2010 under the pretext that the agreement was covered by the fourth round of the United Nations Security Council sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. The resolution bars hi-tech weapons sales to Tehran. Following Moscow's refusal to deliver the systems, Iran filed a complaint against the relevant Russian arms firm with the International Court of Arbitration in Geneva.

In April this year, President Vladimir Putin lifted a previous ban on the delivery of S-300 to Iran. On November 9, Russia signed a new contract to supply Iran with the systems by the end of the year for the first time since the 2010 freeze on supplies under the UN Security Council resolutions. The development came after Iran and the P5+1 states - Russia, China, France, Britain, the US and Germany - reached a landmark agreement on Tehran's nuclear program in July.

Comment: Russia does what it says it will do, honorable commitments delivered as promised.

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Snakes in Suits

'Wack-job populist' Saakashvili gets water thrown in his face by 'corrupt' interior minister


RT
Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:43 UTC
Mikheil Saakashvili (L) Arsen Avakov
© Sputnik
Mikhail Saakashvili, the ex-Georgian president who is now governor of Odessa, got a glass of water thrown in his face by Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov as an angry slanging match over who is more corrupt spilled over into violence.

The news of the incident comes less than a week after Ukraine's prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, was dragged violently from the rostrum by his crotch by another MP during a parliament session.

The water fight between Saakashvili and Avakov occurred right in front of the country's president, Petro Poroshenko, who was present at a session of reform council.
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Bad Guys

Emergency meeting to be held after U.S. gave air cover to ISIS, attacked Russian coalition

Mike Whitney
CounterPunch
Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:27 UTC
Putin
© Unknown
Would you be willing to defend your country against a foreign invasion?

That's all Putin is doing in Syria. He's just preempting the tidal wave of jihadis that'll be coming his way once the current fracas is over. He figures it's better to exterminate these US-backed maniacs in Syria now than face them in Chechnya, St Petersburg and Moscow sometime in the future. Can you blame him? After all, if Washington's strategy works in Syria, then you can bet they'll try the same thing in Beirut, Tehran and Moscow.

So what choice does Putin have?

None. He has no choice. His back is against the wall. He has to fight. No one in Washington seems to get this. They think Putin can throw in the towel and call it "quits" at the first sign of getting bogged down. But he can't throw in the towel because Russia's facing an existential crisis. If he loses, then Russia's going to wind up on the same scrap heap as Afghanistan, Iraq or Libya. You can bet on it. So the only thing he can do is win. Period. Victory isn't an option, it's a necessity.

Comment: NATO has declared war on Russia - there's no doubt about that. They created an army of devils in the Middle East and North Africa, and Russia is keen on wiping it out. How Russia will respond to this aggression is still up in the air, but it's in everyone's best interest that they, and the truth, win out. Check out:

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Light Saber

al-NusRats positions destroyed in Aleppo


FARS News Agency
Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:37 UTC
Syrian Army
The army destroyed positions of al-Nusra Front terrorists in the city of Aleppo in Northern Syria on Tuesday. The army destroyed al-Nusra-linked terrorists' positions in the neighborhoods of al-Sheikh Lutfi, Hanano, Karm al-Tahhan and al-Jazmati in Aleppo city. There were no more details available.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Syrian army troops destroyed strongholds of terrorists in several areas across the province of Aleppo as the army intensified its anti-terrorism operations against the foreign-backed militants. A military source said the terrorists' vehicles and positions in Tal Istabl, Nejarah, Rasel al-Kabir, Khan al-Assal and al-Atareb in the countryside of ‪Aleppo were destroyed in the military operations.

The militants suffered heavy death toll in the army's attacks, informed sources said. However, there were no immediate reports of the exact number of the dead terrorists.
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Windsock

Kerry: Resolve differences and make 'real progress' between US and Russia regarding Syria


Press TV
Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:28 UTC
kerry Lavrov
© AFP
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in a meeting of hands...so far. Minds, apparently, will take longer.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that he wants to make "real progress" in removing differences between Washington and Moscow to resolve the years-old crisis in Syria.


Comment: Kerry speaks as though there are other qualifiers of progress he is more familiar with, such as: fake progress, insincere progress, dubious progress, reverse progress..."real progress," not so much...but he wants to :-)


Kerry, who arrived in Moscow on Tuesday, made the remarks at the start of his talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. "I look forward to making real progress," he said, adding "I think the world benefits when powerful nations with a long history with each other have the ability to be able to find common ground."

He said that the US and Russia have, in the past, been able to resolve any differences they had on different issues. "Even when there have been differences between us we have been able to work effectively on specific issues," he told Lavrov.


Comment: Sounds a bit like couple's counseling. (And, he also has that special quality of speaking and saying nothing.)


Kerry, who will later meet President Vladimir Putin, plans to raise concerns about Russia's continued bombing of Daesh (ISIL) targets and the fate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to a State Department official. "We don't have a full meeting of the minds yet (on Assad)," the official told reporters. "We will talk about some of the details of a transition...in the hopes of narrowing the differences between us."


Comment: It is so obvious that neither President Assad, nor the Syrian people who elected him, get a say in this historic decision...according to Kerry.


Comment: The longer Kerry can drag this out, the longer ISIL can do the US/NATO/Israeli bidding. As soon as a deal is made, the "set-up" has to change.

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Bomb

Syrian Army repels terrorists attacks in Hama - over 100 militants dead


Sputnik
Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:15 UTC
Syrian Army
© AP Photo/ Alexander Kots
The Syrian Army repelled a string of attacks on their fighting positions by militants from the Jaish al-Fatah terrorist group in the northern part of Hama province, the Army reported. Over 100 terrorists were killed.

"Fierce combat lasted for 24 hours. We were fighting armed groups that came close to the army positions in the villages of al-Buida, al-Massana, Zlin, Zor and al-Zlakiyat in northern Hama. All attacks were repelled. Over 100 terrorists were killed, two armored vehicles and several cars equipped with heavy machine guns were destroyed," the report read.

The Syrian national news agency SANA, citing a military source, reported that 13 technicals, three artillery guns, 23 mortar firing sites and 20 trucks with homemade missile launchers were destroyed in fighting in northern Hama.

Comment: Also see:

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Magnify

Actions and reactions intensify: Pivotal week for the world as the Federal Reserve decision looms?

Bill Holter
jsmineset.com
Tue, 15 Dec 2015 12:34 UTC
End Fed
This week shapes up as one which could go down in the history books! Markets last week were tumultuous from weak equities, illiquid credit markets, FOREX markets in disarray and commodities hitting the skids ...yet the Federal Reserve is intent on hiking rates? Have they taken this position because the markets are strong? Or because the economy ...anywhere on the planet is overheating?

Before looking at "this week", I have seen it said by many, "the Fed must raise rates to have any credibility left". This is true to an extent but there is one core reason and one of their own making. You see, the fake data and outright lies have been coming out of Washington in such regularity and magnitude the Fed has been painted into a corner. They either raise rates "because things are so good" or they don't ...as a sign things aren't so good. It has been for this reason I have had an eye out looking for some manufactured (false flag) event that takes the Fed off the hook. Time is getting short prior to Wednesday's meeting and announcement ...but there still is time.

It is quite interesting how China has devalued their yuan this past week prior to the Fed meeting. They also announced they will monitor the Yuan's value versus global currencies rather than just versus the dollar, in essence "de pegging" against the dollar. The weak yuan has been blamed for much of the past weeks volatility and weaknesses in financial markets. A rate hike by the Fed will only double down on the weakness. Also of interest in China are the numerous "disappearances". For weeks there have been important individuals in the financial industry who have just disappeared. The latest fear was China's equivalent of Warren Buffett had been disappeared. It turns out he is being held and assisting "investigations". In the words of Warren Buffett himself, we only find out who was swimming naked when the tide goes out!

Comment: As the geopolitical actions and reactions between the United States, the Western establishment and Russia intensify, you can expect any decision by the Federal Reserve to change the interest rate has a component meant to enable the goal of the Empire of Chaos to dominate and enslave the world. The individuals in charge or the Federal Reserve and those behind the key decisions made by the Fed are not stupid and incompetent as some portray them to be. Yet they are corrupted to the core and and hide behind the justification of protecting the national security of the United States for all of their manipulations of markets and lies told to the American people about the strength of the economy.

The Fed seems poised to raise rates, yet raising rates now would seem to be a disaster in the making with the world economy, which includes the United States, plunging and turmoil hitting credit markets. It seems such a decision to raise rates, if it is enacted, would be in effect the pulling of the plug and throw the United States and world economies into further distress. This can be seen as part of a plan coordinated with the rest of the defense military industrial complex of the United States and the global banksters, specifically the Bank of International Settlements and those behind such organizations, they are executing in order to fulfill their agenda of a new world order and one world government dominated by psychopaths.

Is Russia and their alliance with China enough to stop such plans? Time will tell.

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