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The US is now the world's largest billionaire tax haven

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 01 Feb 2016 18:51 UTC
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Jacob Rothschild
'Let the American people go into their debt-funding schemes and banking systems, and from that hour their boasted independence will be a mere phantom." - William Pitt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the inauguration of the first National Bank in the United States under Alexander Hamilton.

The U.S. is quickly becoming known as the new Switzerland of international banking, due to its refusal to sign onto the new global disclosure standards, issued by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a government-funded international policy group.

The process of moving massive amounts of international capital from typical tax havens, into the U.S., is being driven by a familiar name in the world of international finance - Rothschild & Co.

Rothschild, a centuries-old European financial institution, manages the wealth of many of the world's most wealthy families and has been instrumental in helping move the global elite's wealth from traditional tax havens like the Bahamas, Switzerland and the British Virgin Islands to the U.S.
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Megaphone

UN human rights expert: Trans-Pacific Partnership is fundamentally flawed and out of step with today's human rights expectations


RT
Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:51 UTC
TPP protests
© Robert Galbraith / Reuters
The top United Nations expert on human rights has called on the 12 nations considering the Trans-Pacific Partnership to reject the massive trade agreement since in its current form it "is out of step with today's international human rights regime."

Acknowledging global opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) because of the agreement's "undemocratic pedigree,"Alfred de Zayas, the UN's independent expert on the promotion of democratic and equitable international order, said the largest trade agreement in decades "is fundamentally flawed and should not be signed or ratified unless provision is made to guarantee the regulatory space of States."

"I am concerned that notwithstanding enormous opposition by civil society worldwide, twelve countries are about to sign an agreement, which is the product of secret negotiations without multi-stakeholder democratic consultation," de Zayas said in a statement ahead of a February 4 gathering in New Zealand of trade representatives for the 12 Pacific Rim nations involved in the secretive TPP talks.

"Trade agreements are not 'stand-alone' legal regimes, but must conform with fundamental principles of international law, including transparency and accountability," de Zayas said. [Trade agreements] must not delay, circumvent, undermine or make impossible the fulfillment of human rights treaty obligations."
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Yoda

Lavrov: West's criticism of Russia's airstrikes in Syria are groundless


RT
Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:46 UTC
Lavrov

Ramil Sitdikov / Sputnik
Moscow is used to "unsubstantiated claims" coming from Western capitals, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said in a strong response to his British counterpart's statement that Russia is undermining international peace efforts in Syria.

"Concerning the statements from London and other Western capitals claiming that our Air Force operations in Syria are not contributing to the resolution of the conflict - we are used to such statements. They are completely groundless," Lavrov said following a meeting with United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Tuesday.

Such statements "reflect the anxiety of our Western partners that our Air Force is operating effectively in Syrian airspace,"he added.

On Monday, the head of the British Foreign Office, Philip Hammond, accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of undermining international efforts to end the Syrian civil war by bombing opponents of President Assad who are countering Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
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No Entry

Official: Withheld Hillary emails contain "operational intellligence", put lives at risk

Catherine Herridge, Pamela K. Browne
Fox News
Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:00 UTC
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Highly classified Hillary Clinton emails that the intelligence community and State Department recently deemed too damaging to national security to release contain "operational intelligence" - and their presence on the unsecure, personal email system jeopardized "sources, methods and lives," a U.S. government official who has reviewed the documents told Fox News.

The official, who was not authorized to speak on the record and was limited in discussing the contents because of their highly classified nature, was referring to the 22 "TOP SECRET" emails that the State Department announced Friday it could not release in any form, even with entire sections redacted.

The announcement fueled criticism of Clinton's handling of highly sensitive information while secretary of state, even as the Clinton campaign continued to downplay the matter as the product of an interagency dispute over classification. But the U.S. government official's description provides confirmation that the emails contained closely held government secrets. "Operational intelligence" can be real-time information about intelligence collection, sources and the movement of assets.
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Sheeple

Killary has no problem admitting she takes her orders from the Council on Foreign Relations

Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
Fri, 29 Jan 2016 18:35 UTC
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For those who may be unaware, the Council on Foreign Relations is essentially a sister organization to the Royal Institute of International Affairs, one of the primary Anglo-American policy developers, and functions as one of the most effective direct control mechanisms in the world in regards to government-based decisions and governmental policy. It is from the RIIA and the CFR, as well as the other relevant sister organizations set up in nations all across the world, that the direction in which the world will go is decided and implemented through a number of other front organizations, conferences, publications, foundations, and NGOs.

Politicians - Senators, Congressmen, Presidents, Prime Ministers, Parliamentarians - all attend their relevant organization's functions, participate in "discussions" and hold memberships in their CFR-related clubs for the purposes of receiving their "marching orders" from their bosses. As one might suspect, this is no different for Hillary Clinton.

While a list of members and participants of the CFR would be far too exhaustive a list to reproduce during the course of this study, it is nevertheless important to point out that not only is Dick Cheney a member of the organization, he was actually a director for a period of time.[1]

In fact, David Rockefeller was Chairman of the CFR until Peter G. Peterson, banker, hedge fund hyena, and Rothschild associate, took over the position.[2] [3] Robert Rubin later took the post but David Rockefeller has remained an honorary chairman ever since.[4]
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Stormtrooper

US proxy armies in Syria rely heavily on Saudi funding for support

Mark Mazzetti and Matt Apuzzo
NY Times
Sat, 23 Jan 2016 18:14 UTC
Obama shake hand Saudi Prince
© AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 13, 2015.
When President Obama secretly authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to begin arming Syria's embattled rebels in 2013, the spy agency knew it would have a willing partner to help pay for the covert operation. It was the same partner the C.I.A. has relied on for decades for money and discretion in far-off conflicts: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Since then, the C.I.A. and its Saudi counterpart have maintained an unusual arrangement for the rebel-training mission, which the Americans have code-named Timber Sycamore. Under the deal, current and former administration officials said, the Saudis contribute both weapons and large sums of money, and the C.I.A takes the lead in training the rebels on AK-47 assault rifles and tank-destroying missiles.

The support for the Syrian rebels is only the latest chapter in the decadeslong relationship between the spy services of Saudi Arabia and the United States, an alliance that has endured through the Iran-contra scandal, support for the mujahedeen against the Soviets in Afghanistan and proxy fights in Africa. Sometimes, as in Syria, the two countries have worked in concert. In others, Saudi Arabia has simply written checks underwriting American covert activities.
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Light Saber

Russian Security Council Chief Patrushev: US set wheels in motion for Crimea to join Russia with unconstitutional coup in Ukraine

Nikolai Patrushev
Russia Insider
Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:03 UTC
Nikolai Patrushev

Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, Nikolai Patrushev
Originally appeared at Moskovsky Komsomolets. Translated by Julie Rakhmetova and Rhod Mackenzie
Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, Nikolai Patrushev, is one of the most powerful persons in Russia. Before he took up his current position in 2008, for almost 10 years he was the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB). Не rarely speaks to journalists but when he does, he provides profound insight into the thinking of those that shape Russian foreign and security policies as this earlier interview published in RI shows. His recent interview to one of Russia's most popular dailies, MK, will gives you an idea of the questions journalists from Russia's supposedly 'intimidated' media ask their leaders.
Q— Isn't Russia conducting a foreign policy that only a superpower like the USSR could afford?

A— Of course, Russia is only one part of the former USSR, and it doesn't claim to be a superpower. Unlike the USA our goal is not to dominate the world. But that doesn't mean we should not defend our national interests, and that means having an efficient foreign policy.

The Russian Federation is not interested in confrontation with the West. It is the US that started this confrontation, and Europe accepts it. So the decision to walk it back depends not only on Russia. We are always ready to restart equal and mutually beneficial cooperation.
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Chess

New Russian aircraft appears in Syria - is Russia preparing for war with Turkey?

Translated by Carpatho-Russian
South Front
Tue, 02 Feb 2016 13:01 UTC
Ilyushin A-50 Mainstay AWACS

The distant radar-tracking detection and management aircraft (AWACS) A-50 based on the Il-76 may be used by the ASF [Aerospace Forces] of Russia in Syria. A representative of the United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation, developer of the aircraft, reported this to TASS on January 14.

According to the agency's confidant, this aircraft's main task is detection and tracking of aircraft targets and surface ships, notification of command points regarding the air and surface situation, and management of fighters and strike aircraft to guide them to air, land, and sea targets. This air command point is capable of tracking up to 300 targets at the same time.

The source also clarified that the aircraft can detect aircraft objects at a distance up to 650 km, and land objects up to 300 km. In addition, the agency's confidant emphasized that the Russian aircraft even surpasses the American AWACS (Airborne Warning And Control System) in a number of characteristics.

Comment: Further reading: State-sanctioned terror: Syrian Turkmens, Turkish nationalists, Russian jets & the battle for Bayırbucak

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Георгиевская ленточка

Russia the only country capable of helping Germany escape Washington's control


Sputnik
Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:21 UTC
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© REUTERS/ Michael Kappeler
Russia remains the only country that could hypothetically give Germany the chance to escape Washington's control, according to political analyst Andranik Migranyan.

In an interview with Sputnik, Andranik Migranyan, a political analyst and professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, touted Russia as the only country capable of giving Germany the opportunity to unencumber itself from the tight control of the White House in the foreseeable future.

Migranyan commented on recent remarks made by George Friedman, founder of the global intelligence company Stratfor, who said that Washington is closely monitoring the relations between Russia and Germany and will do anything to prevent a strategic partnership between the two countries.

Comment: Though a German-Russian integration would undoubtedly be in the best interests of Europe, any such effort appears to be effectively 'contained' by the growing anti-Russian and anti-refugee hysteria.

Further reading:

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Eye 1

Biden's son still buying up Ukraine's gas assets

Translated by Ollie Richardson
Fort Russ
Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:46 UTC
Hunter Biden
© Associated Press
Hunter Biden.
Entrepreneur Hunter Biden has acquired equity securities of a company in the country which his father, Vice-President of USA Joe Biden, called the most corrupt in the world.

An American businessman is increasing his assets in the energy sector of Ukraine through a third party.

According to available information, the Canadian firm Serinus Energy sold a 70 percent stake in KUB-Gas Holdings Limited company Resano Trading Ltd for $30 million, an affiliate of one of the largest Ukrainian gas companies Burisma Holdings.

Comment: Further reading:
"The credibility of the vice president's anticorruption message may have been undermined by the association of his son, Hunter Biden, with one of Ukraine's largest natural gas companies, Burisma Holdings, and with its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, who was Ukraine's ecology minister under former President Viktor F Yanukovych before he was forced into exile."
The paper reported that Britain's Serious Fraud Office, specifically forbade Mr Zlochevsky, as well as Burisma Holdings, the company's chief legal officer and another company owned by Mr Zlochevsky, to have any access to their British accounts, which in US Ambassador Pyatt's words held "US$23 million in illicit assets that belonged to the Ukrainian people."

But after Ukrainian prosecutors refused to provide documents needed in the investigation, a British court ordered the Serious Fraud Office to unfreeze the assets, which were immediately transferred to Cyprus. The company's legal costs were recouped.

Ambassador Pyatt called for an investigation into "the misconduct" of the Ukrainian prosecutors who wrote the letters. However, he did not mention Hunter Biden's connection to Burisma.

Biden warns Ukraine 'on the cusp' of ruin by rampant corruption


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