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Attention

EU threatens countries with visa caps if they don't take more refugees


TRT World
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 12:00 UTC
The arrival of more than a million refugees from war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East since 2015 has caused political ructions across Europe.
© (Reuters Archive)The arrival of more than a million refugees from war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East since 2015 has caused political ructions across Europe.
German newspaper "Die Welt" reports the European Commission plans legislation that would use the threat of visa cuts to force countries outside the bloc to co-operate on repatriating failed asylum seekers.

The European Commission is planning legislation that would use the threat of denied visas to encourage countries outside the bloc to co-operate on repatriating failed asylum seekers, the German newspaper Die Welt reported on Tuesday.

The arrival of more than a million refugees from war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East since 2015 has caused political ructions across Europe, placing governments under pressure to send back more of those who fail to win asylum protection in Europe.

Comment: "Europe can go f*ck itself": Italy's right party leader sees rise in popularity

Also check out Sott radio's: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis

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Ex-spook James Clapper allegedly leaked the fake news of Russia collusion to CNN

Sara Carter
saraacarter.com
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:22 UTC
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper allegedly leaked information to CNN early last year regarding the classified briefings given to then President-Elect Donald Trump and President Barrack Obama on the salacious dossier claiming the Russians had compromising information on the president-elect, according to government sources, who noted the evidence of the leak was collected during the House Intelligence Committee's Russia investigation.

Clapper, who was one of four senior Obama administration officials to attend the briefing with the presidents, also stated his "profound dismay at the leaks" in an official statement issued in January, 2017 and warned that the leaks were "extremely corrosive and damaging" to national security, according to his press release.

Comment: Is 'Russia Collusion' Narrative About to Come Crashing Down?

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Arrow Down

Poroshenko tells EU to ditch vital Nord Stream 2 after Ukraine breached gas contract with Russia


RT
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:08 UTC
Ukraine uses Gazprom dispute in bid to scupper Nord Stream 2 pipelineUkraine uses Gazprom dispute in bid to scupper Nord Stream 2 pipeline
© Denis Sinyakov / Reuters
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has once again urged European policymakers to scrap plans for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which would bypass Ukraine and deprive it of transit fees.

He told EU officials that the Russian energy monopoly Gazprom was an unreliable partner for Europe. According to Poroshenko, the European Union and Ukraine should boost cooperation to increase their energy security.

"Ukraine once again appealed to the European Commission, the EU member states, to abandon intentions to build the Nord Stream 2, as the project compromises the energy security of Ukraine and the EU," he said at a joint briefing with the EU's diplomatic chief, Federica Mogherini.


Comment: Seems like Europe isn't in much of a position to barter: Russia to the rescue! Britain receives another gas delivery after record cold causes shortage and 400% price increase


Comment: Meet US puppet in Ukraine, Poroshenko:

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Bad Guys

UK rumoured to launch cyber attack, Russian Embassy warns them to "consider the consequences of such a reckless move"


RT
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:22 UTC
Russia flag crowd
© Alexei Nikolsky / Global Look Press
Bad blood is continuing to rise between the UK and the Kremlin. The UK Russian Embassy has warned May's government to choose its next step carefully as rumors swirl that Britain is planning a cyber attack on Russia.

The claims come as Theresa May's midnight deadline ticks ever closer. On Monday afternoon, Theresa May took to the House of Commons to address the issue on everyone's lips - the poisoning of ex-Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his thirty-three-year-old daughter, Yulia.

May warned Russian President Vladimir Putin to explain why a Russian-developed nerve agent was used to attack a British citizen on UK soil, or face consequences.

Comment: The psychopaths that run the British establishment aren't very creative in poisoning another asset (and his daughter) and yet again attempting to blame Russia, but their actions do show how desperate they're becoming:

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Bad Guys

"Fear Has Large Eyes" and the Sergei Skripal affair


Adeyinka Makinde Blog
Wed, 07 Mar 2018 20:25 UTC
Vladimir Putin
"We did not reject our past. We said honestly: 'The history of the Lubyanka in the twentieth century is our history...' - Nikolai Patrushev, director of the FSB, Excerpt from an interview in Komsomolskaia Pravda, December 20, 2000.

The secret services of Russia have garnered an enduring reputation for ruthlessness.

Whether dealing with internal opponents (Think: Ivan The Terrible's Oprichnina, the Tsarist Okhrana, Felix Dzerzhinsky's Cheka and the NKVD terror orchestrated by the likes of Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Yezhov and Lavrenti Beria) or the external apparatus (Think: Viktor Abakumov's SMERSH, the role of the KGB in smashing anti-Soviet movements in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, as well as the exploits of the GRU, Soviet military intelligence), the apparatus' of espionage and counter-espionage have set unenviable standards in uncompromising brutality.

The extraordinarily repressive capacities of the gulag system was of course immortalised by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago and the Lubyanka has become synonymous with Bolshevik terror replete with a signature style of execution every bit as emblematic as revolutionary France's guillotine: a bullet to the back of the head.

Yezhov's name provided the label for the most brutal part of Stalinist terror in the 1930s, the Yezhovshchina. That term was the invention of a scared, scarred and cowed populace. But the protagonists of terror have not shirked from either publicly extolling the merits of the wielding of terror or in revealing the ruthless objectives of particular institutions created to promote the security of the state.

Comment: See also:

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Turkish FM Cavusoglu: 'Breaking point in relations with US'


RT
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 21:01 UTC
Erdogan and Trump
© Michael Reynolds / Global Look Press
Turkey is "at breaking point in relations with the US," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said. The two major NATO partners have recently been at loggerheads over various issues.

"People in Turkey have a very negative attitude towards the US because it doesn't keep its word [and] constantly lies,"Cavusoglu stated addressing the students at Moscow State Institute of International Relations on Tuesday.

The relations between our countries are "at breaking point," he said, reminding that back in February both states had established working groups to normalize bilateral ties.

Comment: The Turkish-language Hürriyet Daily News quoted diplomatic sources as saying that the US has agreed on the gradual withdrawal of the Kurdish gunmen from Manbij in two days of talks between delegations from Washington and Ankara on March 8-9.
It further said that a final agreement over the plan could be reached during a meeting between Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Washington scheduled for March 19.

Other Turkish sources said that the US tried to discuss a halt in Operation Olive Branch by the Turkish forces in Northern Syria during the talks with Ankara officials as a precondition for the Kurdish retreat from Manbij.

No independent source has yet confirmed the revelation.
See also: Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu: Ankara-Washington ties at very critical point - Turkey will close Incirlik airbase if needed

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Attention

What does Secretary of State Tillerson's firing mean?

Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
PompeoTillerson
© Win McNamee/Getty/InterceptPompeo • Tillerson
Senator Chuck Schumer (D, NY) says Tillerson's firing indicates that the Trump administration is disintegrating. I understand why Senator Schumer sees it that way, especially following all the other dismissals and resignations.

I see it differently. The firing of Secretary of State Tillerson, the movement of CIA Director Pompeo to Secretary of State, and the promotion of Gina Haspel, who oversaw the secret CIA torture prisons in Thailand, indicate that the military/security complex has closed its grip on the Trump regime. There will be no more talk of normalizing relations with Russia.

The combination of the Israel Lobby, the neoconservatives, and the military/security complex have proven to be too powerful for peace to be established between the two nuclear powers. If you look at Trump's administration, the above three forces are those in charge.

Comment: See also:

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Life Preserver

It's time to get over the Russophobia

Patrick Buchanan
Creators
Fri, 09 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
PutinTrump
© Spero NewsPresidents Putin and Trump
Unless there is a late surge for Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin, who is running second with 7 percent, Vladimir Putin will be re-elected president of Russia for another six years on March 18. Then we must decide whether to continue on course into a second Cold War, or engage Russia, as every president sought to do in Cold War I.

For our present conflict, Vladimir Putin is not alone at fault. His actions have often been reactions to America's unilateral moves.

After the Soviet Union collapsed, we brought all of the Warsaw Pact members and three former republics of the USSR into our military alliance, NATO, to corral Russia. How friendly was that? Putin responded with his military buildup in the Baltic.

George W. Bush abrogated the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty that Richard Nixon had negotiated, Putin responded with a buildup of the offensive missiles he put on display last week.

The U.S. helped to instigate the Maidan Square coup that dumped over the elected pro-Russian government in Ukraine. To prevent the loss of his Sebastopol naval base on the Black Sea, Putin countered by annexing the Crimean Peninsula.

After peaceful protests in Syria were put down by Bashar Assad, we sent arms to Syrian rebels to overthrow the Damascus regime. Seeing his last naval base in the Med, Tartus, imperiled, Putin came to Assad's aid and helped him win the civil war.

Comment: Far and away, the fiction of 'Russiaphobia' has increased its usefulness and its scope to unimagined levels, overachieving its purpose many times over. It is now a political syndrome based on nothing at all.

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Evil Rays

SOTT Focus: Skripal Likely Poisoned by British Intelligence in Effort to Smear and Silence Russian World View

Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 19:34 UTC
British military salisbury Skripal
British military personnel investigating the poisoning of Sergei Skripal on 11 March in Salisbury
The anglo-American establishment hates Putin because he took the broken pieces of a Soviet Union that was supposed to be one more Western vassal state and fashioned them into a modern, sovereign Russian Federation capable of pushing back against the Western vision of a unipolar world, a Pax Americana at gunpoint.

In radically transforming and strengthening both the Russian economy (making it largely immune to various types of economic attacks) and the Russian military, Putin effectively robbed the global empire of its manifest destiny to rule the globe unchallenged. In response, the empire-builders set out to do whatever it takes to destroy Putin and modern Russia. Yet due to Putin's expert moves on the global chessboard, the empire-builders find themselves with only one effective string to their collective bow with which to take Putin down: black propaganda and dirty tricks.

One example of this black propaganda campaign is the desperate attempts made by the US and its allies over the past 5 years to frame Russia (and Vladimir Putin personally) for carrying out chemical weapons attacks in different parts of Syria. On every occasion, Western governments and media failed to adequately convince Western populations that the allegations were accurate, or at least convince them that anything Putin was doing in Syria was worse than what they themselves were doing. Many people retain the ability to detect blatant BS when they smell it, apparently.
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Knesset in chaos: Netanyahu's coalition on verge of shattering


Sputnik
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 23:43 UTC
Netanyahoo
© Reuters/Eddie KeoghPM Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition is on the verge of breaking, as one party in the ranks has announced their intention to vote against a compromise bill regarding exempting Orthodox Jewish men from military service.

The leadership of Yisrael Beiteinu, a secular conservative party, announced that they would vote against the bill that was hashed out by their coalition partners of Likud (Netanyahu's party) and the religious United Torah Judaism (UTJ).

The bill in question is meant to grant a military exemption to Haredi (literally means "in awe of God," often called "ultra-Orthodox" in English but not without controversy) students attending a yeshiva (a traditional Jewish school for the study of the Torah and Talmud).

Haredi groups have been opposed to conscription for a wide variety of reasons, among them pacifism, the importance of preserving Jewish religious studies, and the integration of men and women in the Israel Defense Force (IDF) which flies counter to the sequestration of unmarried men and women in Orthodox Judaism.
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