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Israel to investigate submarine deal with Germany


Sputnik
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 19:04 UTC
Shipyard workers and German soldiers attend the christening of the
© AFP 2016/ CHRISTIAN CHARISIUS / DPAShipyard workers and German soldiers attend the christening of the "U36" new submarine of the 212A class for the German Marine at the ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems shipyard in Kiel, northern Germany
The investigation relates to a major conflict of interest at the heart of a multibillion-dollar submarine purchase by the Israeli government from German submarine manufacturer ThyssenKrupp.

In November 2016, the attorney general ordered police to look into allegations of improper conduct related to the deal — upon completion of their investigation, in which evidence gathered suggests figures involved in the deal had committed "crimes pertaining to public corruption," the attorney general asked the ministry to launch a full-fledged investigation.

No names have been released, but it's likely the investigation involves Netanyahu's personal lawyer, David Shimron — he simultaneously represented ThyssenKrupp and Netanyahu at the time of the sale.

The ministry stressed Netanyahu himself is not a suspect in this particular case, but the Prime Minister is currently being investigated in a number of corruption cases. Key accusations include Netanyahu accepting €1 million (US$1.1m) from French fraudster Arnaud Mimran during his 2009 election campaign, questionable foreign trips taken between 2003 and 2005, when he was Finance Minister, receiving gifts from Israeli businessman and Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan, and a secret deal with Amnon Moses, publisher of Israel's top-selling newspaper Yediot Aharonot.

The discussed deal, which was never completed, would've seen Netanyahu receive positive coverage in return for helping curb the activities of Yedioth's competitor, the pro-Netanyahu freesheet Israel Hayom.

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Rocket

Russian President Putin and Turkish President Erdogan to discuss the purchasing of S-400 air defense missile systems in Moscow


Sputnik
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 18:42 UTC
S-400 regiment enters on duty in Crimea
© Sputnik/ Sergey MalgavkoS-400 regiment enters on duty in Crimea
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Russia on March 9-10.

"The President will arrive to discuss economic issues, which means that economic interactions are in priority: relations in trade, tourism, atomic power plant construction, plus Turkey's defense, namely the purchase of S-400 systems," Cevik told Rossiya-24 TV channel.

Earlier, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed the visit. "Yes, such talks are being planned," Peskov said.

Turkey has become the latest country interested in purchasing the S-400. On February 20, Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov said that Russia and Ankara are discussing a possible S-400 deal, with both sides currently focused on the financial aspect of the agreement. A day later, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that the talks were "successfully moving forward."


Comment: Ankara considers buying S-400 air defense systems from Moscow


Comment: See also: Crises over? Putin says his talks with Erdogan were constructive and important

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Light Saber

Russia, China vetoes bid by Western powers to impose UN sanctions on Syria


RT
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:58 UTC
UN Security Council
© Eduardo Munoz / Reuters
Russia and China have vetoed a UN Security Council proposal that would have banned the supply of helicopters to the Syrian government, and blacklisted eleven Syrian military commanders over allegations of toxic gas attacks. The proposed resolution, put forward by Britain, France and the United States, was put to the vote of the international body on Tuesday despite an earlier pledge by Russia to use its power the quash the proposal, the seventh time it has done so since the conflict first erupted in Syria since 2011.

Bolivia voted against the text, while Ethiopia, Egypt and Kazakhstan abstained, according to Reuters. Speaking from the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek earlier on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia considers it unnecessary to impose any more penalties against the government of Bashar al-Assad.

Comment: Five years of devastating civil war and strict economic sanctions have plunged over 80 percent of Syrians into poverty, up from 28 percent in 2010. Russian humanitarian aid to Syria warms the hearts of many.
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Yoda

Putin: Russia will not support "inappropriate" sanctions against Syria


RT
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 17:25 UTC
putin assad handshake
© Alexei Druzhinin / RIA Novosti / Kremlin / ReutersRussian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
Russia considers it inappropriate to introduce new sanctions against Syria and will not support such a proposal, President Vladimir Putin has stated.

"As for sanctions against the Syrian leadership, I think the move is totally inappropriate now. It does not help, would not help the negotiation process. It would only hurt or undermine confidence during the process," he said.

The UN Security Council will vote on Tuesday on a proposal by Western powers to ban the supply of helicopters to the Syrian government, and to blacklist Syrian military commanders over allegations of toxic gas attacks.
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Fireball

Elitist thinking congressman admits that America needs immigrants to "pick crops" for wealthy consumers

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 09:42 UTC
Jared Polis
Colorado Governor Jared Polis
Democrat representatives plan to troll President Trump at his speech before Congress.

Tucker Carlson interviewed Jared Polis, a Democrat Colorado Congressman on why he has chosen to bring a "dreamer" under Obama's DACA laws to President Donald Trump's upcoming speech to Congress.

Democrat party lawmakers like Polis want to make a point by inviting immigrants in protest of Trump's immigration executive order.

What was revealed during the interview with Carlson, was nothing new about the liberal left's endless whining about Trump, but the truth as to why elite globalists (and their puppet congressmen) are so pro-open borders.
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War Whore

Fake News? Unnamed Pentagon sources claim raid by US military in Yemen that killed 25 civilians yielded no significant intel


RT
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:17 UTC
military helicopter
© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
A US raid in Yemen that resulted in the deaths of one Navy SEAL and at least 25 civilians has been found to have yielded no significant intelligence. This comes after weeks of the White House doubling down on the mission and praising its success.

The Yemeni raid earlier this month has been the subject of three investigations by the Pentagon, but defense officials told NBC News on Monday they have yet to find any valuable intelligence from the mission.


Comment: Perhaps the purpose of the raid was not, in fact, to gain intelligence but merely to instill terror and fear into the Yemeni civilian populace by murdering civilians, including children. This is a war crime that should be investigated, yet not a single mainstream media outlet is criticizing the US military for its boldly illegal action of attacking a sovereign nation without authorization from Congress to do so. Bear in mind it's certainly possible that this raid was not conducted under the orders of the current POTUS.

Remember, we're being told that the raid yielded no intel by "unnamed Pentagon officials," who aren't the most reliable bunch these days. It could very well be that this is another #fakenews story to undermine the Trump Administration. So what was the point of the raid? A few weeks back Niall Bradley outlined a pretty reasonable explanation:
While Trump's spokesman characterized the operation as "successful", anonymous US intel officials laid the blame for why "almost everything went wrong" at Trump's feet, telling the media that "Trump approved his first covert counter-terrorism operation without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup preparations." As a result, the mission found itself dropping into "a reinforced al-Qaeda base defended by landmines, snipers, and a larger-than-expected contingent of heavily armed Islamist extremists."

With the American public abruptly exposed to the reality of 'boots on the ground' in Yemen, Trump - who campaigned, among other things, on the basis of reining in military adventures abroad - was left holding a bloody knife. [...]

The Pentagon is seriously asking us to believe that after 8 years of conducting periodic airstrikes, cruise missile strikes and drone strikes against Yemeni civilians and rebels in a hi-tech war in the poorest country in the Middle East, one week into his presidency, it gave executive oversight and operational planning for an apparently hare-brained mission to 'collect hard-drives' from 'AQAP terrorists' hiding out in a village barely located within Saudi-backed, loyalist-held territory... to President Donald 'Celebrity Apprentice' Trump?

I have serious doubts that he was fully briefed on the operation, then "gave it the green light." Nothing better illustrates the lack of real power held by US presidents - especially in foreign policy - than the seamless (and, in this case, apparently reckless) military actions carried out by the US, NATO and Gulf Monarchies during the transition from Obama to Trump

The operation left at least 25 civilians dead, nine being children, and has come under intense scrutiny after the father of the deceased Navy SEAL, Ryan Owens, criticized President Donald Trump for the mission.
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Snakes in Suits

The Clinton system to discredit Donald Trump

Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:33 UTC
David Brock
David Brock is considered to be one of the masters of agit-prop (agitation & propaganda) in the 21st century. A personality devoid of scruples, he is able to defend a cause as well as destroy it, according to the needs of his employer. He is at the head of an empire of mass manipulation.
The campaign waged against the new President of the United States by the sponsors of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the destruction of the Greater Middle East is on-going. After the Womens' March on 22 January, a March for Science is scheduled to be held not only in the USA, but also throughout the Western world on 22 April. It's goal is to show that Donald Trump is not only a misogynist, but also an obscurantist.

The fact that he is the ex-organizer of the Miss Universe pageant, and that his third wedding was to a model, is apparently enough to prove that he holds women in contempt. The fact that the President contests the role played by Barack Obama in the creation of the Chicago Climate Exchange (a long time before his Presidency) and rejects the idea that climatic disturbances are caused by the expulsion of carbon into the atmosphere attest to the fact that he understands nothing about science.
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Stock Down

Investors increasingly believe the Eurozone will continue to fall apart


RT
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:08 UTC
SOS call
© Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters
The number of investors predicting the eurozone will lose at least one member this year has increased, according to the Frankfurt-based Sentix research group. The risk of contagion is regarded to be even bigger than during the debt crisis in 2012/13.

The group's 'euro break-up' index is based on 1,000 investors. The index rose to 25.2 percent in February from 21.3 percent in January, according to the report quoted by Reuters. This means every fourth investor predicts a euro break-up in the next twelve months.

The risk of contagion has risen above 45 percent, more than during the peak of the 2012/13 eurozone debt crisis, Sentix said.

"After two years absence, the euro crisis is back in the spotlight. However, this time is different. The protagonists have multiplied as France and Italy now join Greece as likely exit candidates," said Sentix researched Manfred Huebner.
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Light Sabers

Trump: Obama and his people behind protests and White House leaks


RT
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:04 UTC
trump obama
© Jack Gruber / Reuters
Donald Trump says Barack Obama is behind the leaks of classified information from the White House and violent protests against the new administration. Obama's behind it "because his people are certainly behind it," Trump said in an interview with Fox News.

During the 'Fox and Friends' interview, to be aired on Tuesday, the new Republican president was asked whether he thought his predecessor was behind massive protests that have ripped through the country since Trump's inauguration in late January.

"I think he is behind it. I also think it's politics, that's the way it is," Trump replied in the clip released on Monday night.

"I think that President Obama is behind it because his people are certainly behind it," Trump added.
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Attention

The most important bank in the world

James Corbett
The Corbett Report
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:00 UTC
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
© EarthSky
The most important bank in the world received a huge deposit of 50,000 last week. Not 50,000 dollars; 50,000 seed samples.

The most important bank in the world is, of course, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a repository of the planet's genetic legacy dug into the permafrost in the side of a sandstone mountain on Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole.

The seed vault's administrator, The Crop Trust, describes the vault as "a fail-safe seed storage facility, built to stand the test of time—and the challenge of natural or man-made disasters," and boasts that it "represents the world's largest collection of crop diversity."

Informally known as the "Doomsday Seed Vault" the idea is that the permafrost of a remote North Atlantic archipelago is a safe place to store copies of the most important seed varieties on the planet, including some of the world's most important staple crops like potato, rice, wheat, lentil and chickpea.

The latest deposit of 50,000 seed samples come from Benin, India, Pakistan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Netherlands, the U.S, Mexico, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus and the U.K. and include 15,000 samples that were withdrawn from the bank in 2015 and returned by researchers who had lost access to their own gene bank in Syria during the ongoing terrorist insurgency.

But here's the real question that you don't see addressed in any of the fake news coverage of this recent deposit in the establishment press: What "natural or man-made disasters" does The Crop Trust envision wiping out the genetic heritage of the earth, exactly, and who is "The Crop Trust" anyway?

Well, the second part of that question is easy enough to answer.
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