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Western states veto Kurdish participation in Syrian peace talks

RT
Tue, 05 Apr 2016 23:34 UTC

Russia's proposal to include Kurds in Geneva Syrian talks was vetoed by the UN Security Council's Western members, UN envoy Vitaly Churkin reported, saying this contradicts UN resolutions on Syrian reconciliation and ignores calls for inclusive talks.

Churkin warned that if the Syrian Kurds do not participate in the peace process, international efforts to bring peace to Syria could be undermined. "We are concerned that the Syrian Kurds, historically woven into the social fabric of the country, still have not been invited to the Geneva talks," he said, pointing out that by not inviting the Kurds, the West is violating the spirit of inclusiveness for the Syrian talks in the UN Security Council resolutions on Syria. The diplomat also slammed the actions of the non-permanent member Ukraine, whose opposition to the Russian draft "added its destructive share" to the final decision.

The UN's blocking of the participation of the Syrian Kurds in peace talks has been made "in order to please several regional players," the Russian Foreign Ministry has said. "This stance can't but provoke deep regret, all the more because it is at odds with the decisions of the International Syria Support Group and the UN Security Council resolution 2254," a statement from the ministry read. "It is evident that this has been done to please some of the regional players, for which ambitions are more important than the real stabilization of the situation in Syria," the statement added.

Russia will "insist on Kurdish participation in the next round of the Syrian talks," and this participation is essential, the Russian side believes.

Comment: Looks like the Western cabal wouldn't know the right side of this issue if it was labeled "The Right Side of This Issue." The wisdom of those who spoke out in favor of the Kurds being a part of the talks should have carried the day.

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Panama Papers response: Putin to declassify documents that bear some "very interesting names"

Fort Russ
Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:03 UTC

Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ.

You brought it upon yourselves.

Yesterday's Panamanian crib notes immediately received a fitting answer. Guys who are receiving grants from Soros Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation, their owners, and other interested parties were thinking that they were taking part in a hunt for the beast. Well, well. This time they were made to play ping-pong, but they didn't even notice it. So naive are they... They scattered the documents around 80 countries and 400 paid journalists to deducted names and addresses. Well, at least one of them was from the CBP (Foreign Intelligence Service) and a couple hundred from the GRU...And they've got their punishment, not them, of course, but their owners.

The Russian President said that he has decided to declassify many archival documents, and that he will sign the decree today. And it was signed. Here.

And he quietly added: "This, as far as I know, according to the information from archive agencies, concerns the period from 1930 to 1989. In these documents there are cases, excuse me, of snitches as well as the innocently repressed, with very interesting names, some documents will surprise society..."

In fact, what is happening is a test for society and the President. He passed an exam for the "leader of the nation", and society - for the "superpower". I have no doubt, personally, of the result. And also no doubt on the number of political cadavers that will appear soon in stupid Europe, which thought that she was taking part in the hunt for the beast, whilst the ambush was prepared for her.

Comment: Well this should be interesting.

Syrian Army about to open the fires of hell on al-Qaeda in Aleppo

Ziad Fadel
Syrian Perspective
Wed, 06 Apr 2016 17:53 UTC

Al-Shaykh Maqsood

Comment: In the last two days, more towns and militia groups have joined on to the Syrian truce; the total is now 58 towns and 47 armed groups. Yesterday, Russian specialists defused 158 explosives; today, 152. In the last two weeks, 26 civilians were killed and 38 wounded in the city of Aleppo and its suburbs.

This is it. This is the end. My sources in Aleppo tell me it is going to be the end of the rats in the province. I can confirm that thousands of troops are pouring into the area southwest of the city with a variety of soldiers some of them wearing the insignia of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hizbollah, Russia and even Chechnya. Putin and Khamenei have made the decision that the cease fire will not produce any results until the Turk-British-supported rodents are driven out of all Syria. This was a decision made during the last 7 days as it became clear Nusra/Alqaeda was making preparations to retake Highway 5 at Tal Al-'Ays by bringing forward large numbers of trucks, armored cars, pickups with 23mm cannons, various calibers of artillery and newly-acquired anti-aircraft missiles obtained from Saudi Arabia and manufactured in the United States and France. The joint operation is called "OPERATION FIRE FROM HELL". It will begin in less than 24 hours and my source tells me that thousands of citizens are leaving homes in areas controlled by the terrorists because they know the devastation will be complete.

Comment: International Military Review - Syria, Apr. 6

Russia's T-50 stealth jet able to penetrate enemy territory

Sputnik
Wed, 06 Apr 2016 17:57 UTC

© SPUTNIK/ MAKSIM BLINOV
A T-50 fighter performs demonstration flight during the International Aerospace Salon (MAKS 2015) in Zhukovsky near Moscow

Russia's fifth generation T-50 fighter jet is a multi-role plane capable of resolving an array of special tactical tasks, according to Givi Dzhandzhgava, head of the Ramenskoye Instrument Design Bureau.

In an interview with the Russian network Zvezda, Givi Dzhandzhgava, head and chief designer of the Ramenskoye Instrument Design Bureau, touted the Russian fifth generation T-50 fighter jet, also known as the PAK FA, as a sophisticated plane capable of solving a whole array of special tasks.

"PAK FA is a multi-purpose aircraft, which can, in addition to winning air superiority, solve a spate of tactical tasks. Thanks to its stealth characteristics, the T-50 will be able to penetrate deep into the enemy territory and conduct pinpoint strikes," Dzhandzhgava said.

Asked about feasibility of the PAK FA being armed with cruise missiles, he said that "sometimes it is necessary to destroy a target during subsequent strikes rather than the first one, something that you will be unable to fulfill with help of a cruise missile."

Austrian military ready to cooperate with Russia

Sputnik
Wed, 06 Apr 2016 17:51 UTC

Chief of the General Staff of the Austrian Armed Forces, Lt. Gen. Othmar Commenda said that Russia for Austria is much closer than other great powers.

The Austrian Armed Forces are ready to develop cooperation with Russia, despite recommendations of other world powers, the Chief of the General Staff of the Austrian Armed Forces, Lt. Gen. Othmar Commenda said Wednesday.

Commenda arrived in Moscow on Tuesday with the high-level Austrian delegation led by President Heinz Fischer.

"I'm not going to follow the guidance and obey someone's orders with whom to communicate and do not communicate. It is the reason why I wanted to visit you," Commenda told the head of Russia's General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, expressing gratitude for the invitation to visit Russia.

Wikileaks accuses Panama leaker ICIJ to be Soros-funded "soft-power tax-dodge", criticizes limited release of data

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 05 Apr 2016 17:33 UTC

The Anglo-American ruling elite invented tax havens!

Earlier today, for the first time we got a glimpse into some of the American names allegedly contained in the "Panama Papers", largest ever leak. "Some", not all, and "allegedly" because as we said yesterday, "one can't help but wonder: why not do a Wikileaks type data dump, one which reveals if not all the 2.6 terabytes of data due to security concerns, then at least the identities of these 441 US-based clients. After all, with the rest of the world has already been extensively shamed, it's only fair to open US books as well."

The exact same question appeared in an interview conducted between Wired magazine and the director of the organization that released the Panama Papers, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, or ICIJ, Gerard Ryle.

Putin has been fighting offshore capital flight for years

Scott
The Saker
Wed, 06 Apr 2016 16:52 UTC

Since the April 4th, we all have been enjoying the "revelations" coming from OCCRD, an organization funded by the George Soros' Open Society Foundation and the USAID, a front for C.I.A. operations and operatives. In brief, they claim that people known to President Putin personally shifted $2bln though some offshore shell companies to avoid sanctions on financial translations with Russia that were imposed by Obama regime.

For several years we have witnessing a frantic search for the "Putin's fortune" in banks and companies around the world. In 2014 it was estimated $400bln. In 2015 it shrunk to $40bln. This year, it's meager $2bln they are now talking about.

What all of these American and European small time neo-liberal crooks don't understand is that Vladimir Putin thanks to his work to restore Russia has already become a figure comparable to Saint Vladimir and Peter the Great. We don't need to wait for centuries to recognize his place in history.

The West refuses to understand that Vladimir Putin has already taken everything in Russia, but not in terms of money or wealth, but in terms of responsibility.

The Panama deception: America is the biggest tax haven in the world

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Wed, 06 Apr 2016 07:45 UTC

"Do what we say - not what we do!"

In his speech yesterday, following the Treasury's crack down on corporate tax inversions, Obama blamed "poorly designed" laws for allowing illicit money transfers worldwide. Since the speech came at a time when the entire world is still abuzz with the disclosure from the Panama Papers, Obama touched on that as well: "Tax avoidance is a big, global problem" he said on Tuesday, "a lot of it is legal, but that's exactly the problem" because a lot of it is also illegal.

There is one major problem with that: of all the countries in the world, it is none other than the country of which Obama is president, the United States, that has become the world's favorite offshore "tax haven" destination.

As Bloomberg, which first broke the story about Nevada's use as a prominent tax haven early this year, writes, "Panama and the U.S. have at least one thing in common: Neither has agreed to new international standards to make it harder for tax evaders and money launderers to hide their money."

Over the past several years, amid increased scrutiny by journalists, regulators and law enforcers, the global tax-haven landscape has shifted. In an effort to catch tax dodgers, almost 100 countries and other jurisdictions have agreed since 2014 to impose new disclosure requirements for bank accounts, trusts and some other investments held by international customers -- standards issued by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a government-funded international policy group.

Comment: Just another in the myriad of ways the US is egregiously hypocritical about what it says (or accuses others of), and what it actually does.

Austrian president calls for sanctions against Russia to be lifted

TASS
Wed, 06 Apr 2016 16:42 UTC

Austria considers it necessary to consider the ways of lifting sanctions introduced by the European Union against Russia, the country's President Heinz Fischer said on Wednesday.

"I always say that sanctions are not beneficial for both sides," he said at the meeting with Russia's State Duma Speaker Sergey Naryshkin.

"It is important to draw up a way to lift them in the near future and to overcome these sanctions," Fischer added.

Fischer stressed that Austria takes an active part in discussions on this issue inside the EU. "Our position in these issues is that it is necessary to consider the opportunity to develop cooperation with Russia in all the spheres," he added.

Rickards on the coming world financial reset

Greg Hunter
USAWatchdog
Wed, 06 Apr 2016 00:00 UTC

Jim Rickards

Financial expert and best-selling author James Rickards says another economic collapse is coming. Rickards contends, "It's very clear, and you can prove this scientifically. The next collapse will be bigger than anything in history or maybe since the Bronze Age or the fall of the Roman Empire. Why do I say that? . . . We have these things coming together. The system is larger. That means systemically it is exponentially more risky. The central banks don't have any dry powder, and it is just a matter of time before the collapse comes. In 1987, the stock market fell 22% in one day, not in a week or a month, but one day. Today, that would be the equivalent of a 4,000 point drop. . . . In 1998, the Long Term Capital crisis shut almost every stock and bond exchange in the world. In 2000, the Dot Com; 2007, the mortgage crisis; and in 2008, you had Lehman and AIG (failures). In other words, these events are not rare, and they happen every three, four or five, six or eight years. It's not like clockwork, but nobody should be surprised if it happened tomorrow. We've got the systemic scale. We've got exponential increase in risk. The central banks are out of dry powder, and it's been eight years since the last one. It's just a matter of time."

Comment: There is little doubt that a financial collapse and system reset is coming - initiated by a collapse in confidence. It might be wise to pay attention to the thinning gold market supply and the gold appetites of China, India, Russia, and those countries that are attempting to repatriate their gold stocks.

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Puppet Masters

Western states veto Kurdish participation in Syrian peace talks

Panama Papers response: Putin to declassify documents that bear some "very interesting names"

Syrian Army about to open the fires of hell on al-Qaeda in Aleppo

Russia's T-50 stealth jet able to penetrate enemy territory

Austrian military ready to cooperate with Russia

Wikileaks accuses Panama leaker ICIJ to be Soros-funded "soft-power tax-dodge", criticizes limited release of data

Putin has been fighting offshore capital flight for years

The Panama deception: America is the biggest tax haven in the world

Austrian president calls for sanctions against Russia to be lifted

Rickards on the coming world financial reset

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