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Merkel's migrant deception

Vijeta Uniyal
Gatestone Institute
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 18:14 UTC
Angela Merkel meets with Recep Tayyip Erdogan
© RT video screenshot
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied," people use to say in days of the Soviet Union. Today, the same seems to be true for the European Union's migrant policy. When German Chancellor Angela Merkel engineered the EU-Turkey deal on migrants, it was widely described by the European politicians and the media as a "breakthrough". Merkel and other EU leaders agreed on offering a down payment of €3 billion to the regime of Turkey's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in return for its promises to "stem migrant flows".

In December 2015, nearly four months before the EU-Turkey agreement was even formalized, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán accused Chancellor Merkel of working on a "secret deal" with her Turkish counterparts. President Orbán was quite specific in his claims, apparently certain that Berlin would soon reveal the details to the public.

"Beyond what we agreed with Turkey in Brussels there's something that doesn't figure in the agreement," President Orbán said in December 2015. "We'll wake up one day -- and I think this will be announced in Berlin as soon as this week -- that we have to take in 400,000 to 500,000 refugees directly from Turkey."
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Bad Guys

Ukraine shoots itself in the foot again, caves into 'self-defeating' neo-Nazi demands

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 18:09 UTC
Ukraine neo-nazis
Ukraine does as radicals demand, legalises their blockade of Donbass and prepares to close Russian banks.

Weeks after ultra right radicals began blocking coal deliveries to Ukraine from Donbass, and after weeks of calling on the radicals to end the blockade, Ukraine's government in the form of Ukraine's National Defence and Security Council has legalised it, declaring all transport links with Ukraine blocked as of this afternoon.

The statement signed off by the Council's head Alexander Turchinov, the hardline Ukrainian official who as Acting President of Ukraine launched the so-called "anti-terrorist operation" ("ATO") to suppress the Donbass back in early 2014, attempts to link the legalisation of the blockade to the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics' retaliatory nationalisation of Ukrainian enterprises on their territories.
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Eye 2

Yemen: From Saudi violations of international law to Western complicity in genocide

Ms. Marwa Osman
RT
Tue, 14 Mar 2017 17:23 UTC
Grieving man in Yemen destruction
© Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
Genocide is taking place in Yemen at the hands of a coalition of Arab states led by Saudi Arabia, supported by the US and the UK, while the world is deaf to the screams and misery of Yemeni children.

As a university instructor in media studies, I always focus my students' attention on journalistic objectivity as a significant principle of journalistic professionalism. I teach them about fairness, disinterestedness, factuality, and non-partisanship, and how to encompass all of these qualities in a journalistic piece even if it were an Op-ed.

However, today I find myself compelled to take sides when I write about Yemen. For how can a journalist or a political writer be objective when writing about dead children? Children who have been bombed intentionally in homes, schools, and markets while the world is not only blind but also choosing to ignore the fact that the war on Yemen is a genocidal one.
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'Elaborate dinners, luxury travel and prostitutes': Navy officers charged in 'Fat Leonard' bribery case


RT
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:09 UTC
navy patch
© AFP
Eight US Navy officials have been charged in the 'Fat Leonard' bribery case which has plagued the military branch for years. They are accused of accepting "luxury travel, elaborate dinners and services of prostitutes" from a Singapore-based defense contractor.

Among those charged is Rear Admiral Bruce Loveless, recently retired from the Pentagon, as well as four retired navy captains, and a retired marine colonel.

The defendants were arrested across five states on Tuesday, according to authorities. They face charges including bribery, conspiracy to commit bribery, honest services fraud, and obstruction of justice and making false statements to federal investigators, according to a Tuesday release by the Department of Justice (DOJ).

The charges cover the period from 2006 to 2014, with the 79-page indictment listing the multitude of bribes allegedly provided to the defendants.

Those range from $600-per-night hotel rooms, $2,000 bottles of cognac and boxes of cigars, to $25,000 watches.
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Snakes in Suits

Trump 'true friend of Muslims,' Saudi prince says after meeting


RT
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:13 UTC
Donald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman
© Nicholas Kamm / AFP
Saudi Arabia's deputy crown prince is singing US President Donald Trump's praises after their meeting, calling him a "true friend of Muslims" and claiming the leader's immigration ban does not target Islam.

Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met with Trump at the White House on Tuesday, in what his senior adviser deemed a "historic turning point" in US-Saudi relations.

The adviser said in a statement that although Washington and Riyadh had previously "undergone a difference of opinion," the Tuesday meeting "put things on the right track, and marked a significant shift in relations."

Comment: And Trump approved of this meeting by: Trump Administration to approve arms sales to Saudi war criminals

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Snakes in Suits

US senators express faux outrage over military nude photos scandal


RT
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:54 UTC
marine general testify congress
© Aaron Bernstein / ReutersCommandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert Neller testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee
Amid a NCIS investigation of the scandal involving a Facebook group sharing naked photos of female Marines, top Navy and Marine officials faced angry senators demanding answers to the "toxic" behavior threatening to dishonor the US military's elite branch.

US Marine Corps Commandant General Robert Neller testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday in the 'Marines United' affair, describing the scandal as "perversion to our culture" and a "stain" on the USMC.

Last week, an investigative report discovered the existence of a secret Facebook page, accessible through the 30,000-member group, with "hundreds - possibly thousands" of photos of female Marines accompanied by salacious comments.

The scandal amounts to "insider threat," said acting Secretary of the Navy Sean Stackley, calling the posting of photos and comments "toxic predatory behavior" and "grievous breakdown of good order and discipline" that undermined unit cohesion. He described cyberbullying as a "cancer" that must be eradicated and an "attack on our core values."

Comment: This is the same group of politicians who have no problem authorizing the indiscriminate bombing of foreign citizens all in the name of imperial world control. They are most likely going back to their smoky backrooms to laugh about the nude photos and ask for a few themselves. Don't buy into the pretend moral outrage, it's for public consumption only.

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Attention

Epic Rachel Maddow fail: MSNBC's 'tax records' non-story reveals Trump made $150 million, paid 25% tax rate

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:23 UTC
Donald Trump and tax return graphic
While Rachel Maddow drones on with the coherence of Janet Yellen, losing thousands of viewers by the minute, the MSNBC anchor was promptly scooped not only by the White House which revealed her "secret" one hour in advance, but also by the Daily Beast which reported that its contributor David Cay Johnston had obtained the first two pages of Trump's 2005 federal income tax return, allegedly receiving them in the mail, and posted his "analysts" on his website, DCReport.org.

According to the documents, Trump and his wife Melania paid $38 million in total income tax, consisting of $5.3 million in regular federal income tax, and an additional $31 million of "alternative minimum tax," or AMT.

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Social media: UK's Home Office staff ordered to stop criticizing Trump prior to state visit


RT
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:45 UTC
DTrump
© Politiscope
Staff at the Home Office have been told to stop criticizing US President Donald Trump on social media ahead of his state visit some time later this year. In an email obtained by the Register and seen by the BBC, the staff at the Digital, Data and Technology unit of the Home Office was cautioned to comply with the civil service guidelines on impartiality.

The Home Office staff was ordered to "avoid commenting on politically controversial issues" in general and "giving personal opinions about the organization."

"A quick look through just a couple of known personal Twitter accounts of staff members shows that some are not compliant, stating that they work for the Home Office, posting HO work, whilst tweeting or retweeting negative posts about, for example, Donald Trump.

"We need to be careful here and ensure all our staff are following this guidance which reflects the Civil Service Code," the email added.


Comment: The Home Office is a ministerial department of the Her Majesty's Government of the UK.

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Eye 1

Federal judge: Sharing rules for spying on journalists, FBI not obligated to oblige


RT
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 00:51 UTC
Secret rules
© Twitter
A federal judge has ruled that not only is it okay for the FBI to spy on journalists, but that it can withhold information about its rules for snooping on reporters without a warrant.

The Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) sued the Department of Justice in July 2015, two years after the Associated Press reported that the DOJ had seized two months' worth of phone records of at least seven journalists ‒ and possibly more than 100 ‒ in an attempt to discover the source of a leak about a CIA operation that foiled a terror plot in Yemen.

As part of its probe, the DOJ investigated James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, as a possible "co-conspirator" in the leak of classified material. After AP reported that the DOJ secretly pursued a warrant to monitor the communications of the news wire's staff, AP President Gary Pruitt claimed that anonymous sources retreated into silence, afraid that they would become a target of a government leak investigation.


Comment: There is much the 'government' does that, with full divulgence, the American citizenry would vehemently disagree and overturn. But, in this controlled continuum, that day will never come.

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US Senate: Dr. Rand Paul introduces Tulsi Gabbard's 'Stop Arming Terrorists Act'


Activist Post
Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
Rand and Tulsi
© twitter
This week, U.S. Senator Rand Paul introduced the Stop Arming Terrorists Act (S. 532) to prevent American taxpayers' money from being used to directly or indirectly support armed militants who are allied with or often working under the command of al-Qaeda, ISIS, or other terrorist groups. The legislation serves as a companion bill to H.R. 608, which Representative Tulsi Gabbard (HI-2) reintroduced in January.

"One of the unintended consequences of nation-building and open-ended intervention is American funds and weapons benefiting those who hate us," said Dr. Paul. "This legislation will strengthen our foreign policy, enhance our national security, and safeguard our resources."

"For years, the U.S. government has been supporting armed militant groups working directly with and often under the command of terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda in their fight to overthrow the Syrian government. Rather than spending trillions of dollars on regime change wars in the Middle East, we should be focused on defeating terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda, and using our resources to invest in rebuilding our communities here at home," said Rep. Gabbard. "The fact that American taxpayer dollars are being used to strengthen the very terrorist groups we should be focused on defeating should alarm every Member of Congress and every American. We call on our colleagues and the Administration to join us in passing this legislation."

​You can read S. 532, the Stop Arming Terrorists Act, HERE, and you can find more information below:

Comment: Bravo. Finally some common sense. Should Congress actually pass this legislation means it would have to admit to the American public what it has been doing for the past couple of decades...Truth and Consequences! Which way will it wiggle?

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