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Four suspected 'violent islamists' arrested in Berlin ahead of Obama's visit


RT
Wed, 24 May 2017 14:13 UTC
German police
© Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
German police have detained four suspected Islamists during a raid in Berlin on Wednesday as the capital gears up for several mass events on the weekend, including a joint appearance by Chancellor Angela Merkel and former US president Barack Obama.

The early morning operation was aimed against a gang of armed drug traffickers, police said. A total of nine people were arrested in the raid, with four of those detained being members of a "violent Islamist" group, Reuters reported.

Thousands of extra visitors are expected in Berlin for the long weekend from May 25 to 28 as it hosts the national football cup final, the German Protestant Church Assembly - which commemorates the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation along with Obama's visit.
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No permission: China warns US patrol to leave disputed waters in South China Sea


RT
Thu, 25 May 2017 13:58 UTC
USS Dewey
© John Philip Wagner, Jr / USPACOM USS Dewey
The Chinese Navy has warned a US warship to leave, as it sailed within 12 nautical miles of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea "without permission." Beijing says that the latest US move disrupts the peace process in the region.

After the USS Dewey guided missile destroyer entered waters near the disputed land "without permission from the Chinese government," the country's navy "warned it to leave," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said at a news conference on Thursday, as cited by AFP.

China slammed the recent US patrol, saying that it "undermines China's sovereignty and security interests." Beijing urged Washington to "correct this mistake" and refrain from further provocations that can undermine the "peace and security of the region" as well as bilateral cooperation between the US and China.

"Stop taking further provocative actions that hurt China's sovereignty and maritime interests, so as to avoid hurting peace and security of the region and long term cooperation between the two countries," Lu Kang stated. He added that these patrols can "cause unexpected air and sea accidents," Reuters reports.
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Dollars

Trump organization not tracking all foreign cash at his hotels

Ari Melber , Meredith Mandell and Diana Marinaccio
NBC News
Wed, 24 May 2017 12:57 UTC
trump family
© Mandel Ngan / Agence France-PresseDonald Trump speaks alongside his adult children during the grand opening of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC on October 26, 2016.
Just before taking office, President Donald Trump promised to donate all profits earned from foreign governments back to the U.S. Treasury.

But MSNBC has learned the Trump Organization is not tracking all possible payments it receives from foreign governments, according to new admissions by Trump representatives. By failing to track foreign payments it receives, the company will be hard-pressed to meet Trump's pledge to donate foreign profits and could even increase its legal exposure.(Read the Trump Organization foreign profits pamphlet here)

The Trump Organization does not "attempt to identify individual travelers who have not specifically identified themselves as being a representative of a foreign government entity," according to a new company pamphlet. The policy suggests that it is up to foreign governments, not Trump hotels, to determine whether they self-report their business.

That policy matches what several sources told MSNBC — Trump Organization employees are not soliciting information about whether reservations or business is from a foreign government.
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Eye 2

MSM talking heads: Europe should 'get used to terrorist attacks', because "we have to"

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Thu, 25 May 2017 12:40 UTC
attentato allo stadio di manchester
© Daily Mirror
If the monster turns on the maker, then simply 'get used to it.'

After the summer 2016 Nice, France terrorist attack, that left 84 dead (several of them children), French Prime Minister Manuel Valls told France and the rest of the EU to "learn to live with terrorism".

Fast forward nearly one year later and another terrorist attack in Manchester, UK during the end of an Ariana Grande concert...and sure enough you have a BBC host speaking to MSNBC on the Manchester bombing, reiterated Valls words by telling her US hosts that "Europe is getting used to attacks, we have to."

Note to EU citizens, show complete subservience and tolerance to all migrants (including ISIS jihadists that have been armed and trained by the US, EU, Saudi Arabia and Turkey with the goal of overthrowing Assad in Syria), and if the monster turns on the maker, then simply 'get used to it.'
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Eye 2

Killary's drive for Libya war makes her directly responsibility for the Manchester atrocity

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Wed, 24 May 2017 12:15 UTC
hillary clinton
Crazed war-monger
The Clinton authored war on Libya has turned a once secular anti-terrorist Libya into a failed state which is the world's largest terrorist playground.

Hillary Clinton pushed Barack Obama into invading, occupying and ultimately destroying Libya in 2011. Even George Bush and Tony Blair publicly stated that Libya was a valuable partner in fighting and restraining al-Qaeda and ISIS style Salafist terrorists. Obama later admitted that not preparing for the consequences of a war which he was reluctant to fight, was the gravest mistake of his Presidency.

Libyan leader and political philosopher Muammar Gaddafi kept Libya not only safe but he created the highest living standards per-capita in African history. The government made sure that no one was without a home, literacy became among the highest in the world - higher than the US, private car ownership were subsidised, education and health care was free, there was zero unemployment, black men and Arab men lived in peace and Gaddafi's 'man made river' literally brought life to the desert in a country with no starvation and cheap food.
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Black Magic

Deep State sends Obama to Europe to Trump US president's first international tour and rally EU elites

Jon Henley, Kate Connolly and Julian Borger
The Guardian
Thu, 25 May 2017 10:05 UTC
obama holidays
Donald Trump makes his European debut as US president this week just as his predecessor, Barack Obama, returns to the continent for his first visit since relinquishing the White House in January.

While apparently unintentional, the coinciding visits serve to highlight Europe's radically different view of the two men. A Pew Research Center survey last June found 77% of Europeans had confidence in Obama - and 9% in the man who has now succeeded him.

The contrast will come into sharp focus on Thursday, when the current and former presidents have parallel public engagements in Europe, providing a split-screen comparison between their extreme differences.


Comment: Which is exactly why this is no coincidence.


Trump, on his inaugural foreign tour, which has also taken in stops in Saudi Arabia and Israel, has a lunch date with the newly elected French president, Emmanuel Macron, in Brussels. He's also got meetings and a dinner with EU and NATO leaders.

Comment: Who in Europe gets 'nervous' about the prospect of transatlantic hegemony, warmongering, terrorism, and austerity taking a hit? Not the ordinary people, that's for sure.

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Info

President Putin goes to Paris on 'unplanned visit'

Alex Gorka
Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 24 May 2017 20:58 UTC
Vladimir Putin
The announcement of President Putin's visit to France made on May 22 by Russia and France was quite a surprise. The date - May 29 - had not been known though the upcoming event is not exactly a bolt from the blue. The visit has been in the works for quite a long time.

The event has a special significance against the background of US President Trump's European voyage. The events roughly coincide in time. Brussels - the city to be visited by the US president - and Paris are in relatively close proximity. A Putin-Trump meeting in Europe before the G20 summit has been considered a possibility. President Trump may not fly straight home after the G7 summit in Sicily is over on May 27. He may drop over to Iceland, Slovenia, Malta or France on his way to Washington.

The Russian president's visit to France comes only three weeks after French President Emmanuel Macron was elected and seven months after a Russian-French summit in Paris was suspended after ex-President Hollande said he would see the Russian president only for talks on Syria. Together, Putin and Macron will open an exhibition organized by Russia's Hermitage Museum at Versailles, which is dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the visit to France by Russian Tsar Peter the Great.
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Wall Street

Former Anglo Irish Bank boss who blew up Irish economy acquitted of all charges


RT
Wed, 24 May 2017 20:48 UTC
Irish banker
© Clodagh Kilcoyne / ReutersFormer Anglo Irish Bank Chairman Sean Fitzpatrick
Former Anglo Irish Bank Chairman Sean Fitzpatrick, famously described by RT's Max Keiser as a "financial terrorist," is in the clear after being acquitted of all charges in a long-running multi-million euro loans case.

Fitzpatrick served as chief executive of the now-defunct Anglo Irish Bank for almost 20 years before taking up the position of chairman from 2005 until 2008. He resigned amid emerging details of secret loans he had taken out with the bank.

On Tuesday Judge John Aylmer at Dublin Circuit Court in Ireland acquitted Fitzpatrick of 27 charges of misleading the bank's auditors and furnishing false information about multi-million euro loans to him and to people connected to him between 2002 and 2007.

The judge strongly criticized the investigation by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) in his ruling, the Irish Times reports.

Comment: Iceland had the right idea

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Snakes in Suits

Mnuchin vows more sanctions against Iran, Syria, North Korea and Shaheen wants more sanctions on Russia


Sputnik
Wed, 24 May 2017 20:50 UTC
Steven Mnuchin
© AP Photo/ J. Scott Applewhite
The United States will continue to use all possible options to apply additional sanctions on Iran, Syria, and North Korea to ensure the nation's safety, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a congressional hearing on Wednesday.

"In the case of Iran, there is no question the sanctions is what brought them to the table...We will use everything within our power to put additional sanctions on Iran, Syria, and North Korea to protect American lives. And I can assure you it is the big focus of mine," Mnuchin stated.

In July 2015, Iran and the P5+1 countries — the United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom plus Germany - signed an agreement ensuring the peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear program in return for the gradual lifting of sanctions against Tehran.

Comment: If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

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Dollar

US government lost track of $1 billion worth of military equipment in Iraq


Sputnik
Wed, 24 May 2017 20:44 UTC
Iraqi special forces
© AP Photo/ Felipe Dana
The US government's shoddy tracking and record-keeping processes allowed $1 billion worth of military equipment to go missing from its assistance packages in Iraq, according to a new report.

Inefficient documentation processes covering the large datasets that track the US government's multi-billion dollar program to arm the Iraqi government resulted in "inaccurate visibility and accountability documentation for equipment worth more than $1 billion," a September 2016 internal government audit released Wednesday said.

Critics were quick to note the glaring issue of improperly monitoring millions of dollars' worth of sophisticated Pentagon-grade equipment in a region wracked with instability and violence. The audit, published online following an Amnesty International Freedom of Information Act request, "provides a worrying insight into the US Army's flawed - and potentially dangerous - system to a hugely volatile region," said Patrick Wilcken, Amnesty's Arms Control and Human Rights Researcher.

The audit was circulated among Pentagon brass in September of last year.
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