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Japan, Russia set up joint investment fund of $1B


RT
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 03:26 UTC
PutinAbe
© VOA News
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) have agreed to set up an investment fund for a total of $1 billion with roughly even share of assets involved, RDIF's CEO, Kirill Dmitriyev, said.

"Today we signed a very important document... on setting up a joint Russian-Japanese [investment] fund with JBIC worth $1 billion. RDIF will not have a controlling stake, but we will invest a sum close to half [of all assets]," Dmitriyev said. He added that the fund is going to play a "key role in financing joint Russian-Japanese investment projects." Infrastructure and agriculture were listed among the sectors where such joint projects were expected.

Earlier Thursday, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Trutnev said that Moscow and Tokyo were signing a memorandum on a joint investment platform in a bid to attract businesses to the special economic zone on the Kuril Islands, as well as to Russia's Far East and Russia in general.

The news follows the signing of the deal ironed out at a one-to-one meeting Thursday between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, which outlines joint activities on the disputed Kuril Islands suitable to both parties. Moscow has stressed that the sovereignty of the four islands that Russia obtained after WWII, which Japan has been claiming as its own Northern Territories, is not up for discussion.

A statement on joint economic activities in the new economic zone, which may include fishing, tourism, medicine and culture, is expected to be published on Friday.

Comment: Look at this, USA -- Just a couple of guys working things out...what a concept.

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Bad Guys

Obama joins chorus of fake news prattle blaming Russia for Killary loss

Alex Christoforou
the Duran
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:48 UTC
Obama Trever Noah interview
© The Daily Show
Obama has gone all in to blame Russia for Hillary Clinton's loss and the DNC hack that exposed Hillary Clinton for the corrupt cheat that we all knew, deep down inside, she truly was.

Notice how Obama talks only about the DNC hack and not the Wikileaks Podesta email leak. Also notice how Obama tries to justify his conveniently timed call for an investigation, by throwing it back onto Donald Trump.

Obama never states that he has irrefutable evidence that Russia hacked the DNC emails, and never even mentions once the Podesta emails...
"We determined and announced in October that it was the consensus of all the Intelligence agencies in law enforcement that organizations affiliated with Russian intelligence were responsible for the hacking of the DNC materials that were being leaked."
FYI...China, Israel, Germany, etc... also hack US institutions. US intelligence agencies hack governments all over the world.

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Dollars

Reward for info on murder of former DNC staffer Seth Rich reaches highest reward ever offered in D.C.


ABC7
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:55 UTC
Seth Rich
© Metropolitan Police DepartmentSeth Rich was killed on July 10, 2016 in Northwest D.C.
Jack Burkman, a GOP lobbyist, added $5,000 to an existing reward Monday for information on the murder of former Democratic National Committee employee Seth Rich.

Burkman previously offered a $100,000 reward in addition to a $25,000 offer from Metropolitan Police, according to PR Newschannel. In August, WikiLeaks offered it's own $20,000 reward for information on Rich's murder. The extra $5,000 brings the reward total to $150,000, which is the highest reward ever offered for a murder in Washington, D.C.

On Sunday, July 10, 2016 Rich, 27, was shot in the back while walking home in the Bloomingdale neighborhood in Northwest Washington.

Rich's parents held a news conference in November to address the search for their son's killer.

"Seth believed, one, that America is absolutely great and, two, what makes America great is its people. And he believed any problem we ever had, if we would worked together as equal human beings, we could solve our problems," Rich's mother said.

Comment: Was Seth Rich 'made an example of'? Podesta emails discuss this tactic

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Attention

Supercuts: The Hillary Clinton presidential defeat blame game

David Rutz
The Free Beacon
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:03 UTC
Hillary Clinton cross eyed
Hillary Clinton's defeat in the 2016 presidential election inevitably led to serious people discussing how such a catastrophic result could have happened. While some pointed to Clinton's persistent dishonesty over her private email server, running a poor campaign, or her establishment candidacy in a change year, other, deeper thinkers have found better scapegoats for keeping her from the White House. The main culprits for Clinton losing, if you take a gander at cable news, are the Electoral College, Russian hacking, FBI Director James Comey, and fake news:
  • The Electoral College, for being totally unfair, even though she employed a strategy to reach the requisite 270 electoral votes and was confident of the "Blue Wall" of states that would ensure her victory.
  • Russian hacking, which the CIA says was done during the campaign to help Trump win. When Mitt Romney called Russia the country's top geopolitical foe in 2012, President Obama and the liberal media roundly mocked him.
  • James Comey, who Clinton told donors slowed her momentum with his letter notifying Congress of newly discovered emails related to her private email server investigation. Clinton would never have been under federal probe, of course, if she had chosen not to use a private server to conduct State Department business.
  • Fake news, which means whatever the reader wants it to mean. Clinton said said such false stories have "real-world consequences."
Meanwhile, President-elect Donald Trump will take office in 37 days.

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Bullseye

Lord Truscott: Russophobia essential precondition for US policy of Middle East regime change


RT
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 18:29 UTC

The sole focus of Western foreign policy on regime change in Syria is extremely worrying - not only for Syrians, but beyond - as it feeds arms sales and necessitates a climate of unprecedented Russophobia in order to function, Lord Peter Truscott told RT.

As major parts of Aleppo are liberated, the information war between Russia and the West continues to heat up. "There is an information war going on," Truscott told RT, adding that "it occurs against the background of a level of Russophobia which I have not seen for many, many years."

Comment: See also:
Eva Bartlett completely dismantles mainstream narrative on Syria
From regime change to ISIS: 5 years of US meddling in Syria
Tense debate on RT as pro & anti-US intervention journalists face off over Aleppo

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Blue Planet

Ex-Yukos oil firm shareholders claim against Russia rejected by Swedish court


RT
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:20 UTC
Russia's lawyers at the European Court of Human Rights
© Vincent Kessler / Reuters Russia's lawyers at the European Court of Human Rights
Sweden's Supreme Court has denied an appeal by Spanish minority shareholders of the defunct oil firm Yukos, according to the head of the International Legal Protection Center, Andrey Kondakov.

The litigation started in 2007 when four Spanish shareholders of the bankrupt oil company filed a lawsuit claiming their assets in Russia had been expropriated. In 2012, an arbitration court ordered the Russian government to pay the former shareholders $2 million in compensation. Russia challenged the decision.

Two years later, the Stockholm District High Court upheld the verdict. Russia turned to the Svea Court of Appeals that overturned the decision in January. The Spanish shareholders then appealed to Sweden's Supreme Court.

Comment: For background, see also:

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Cheeseburger

Trump attacks Vanity Fair magazine over review of his restaurant


RT
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 13:46 UTC
Donald Trump
© Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
Vanity Fair is the latest media outlet to draw the ire of President-elect Donald Trump. The magazine gave one of his restaurants a negative review, sending Trump straight to Twitter to vent his disgust with the magazine.

The outlet's review of Trump Grill pulled no punches, with the headline, "Trump Grill Could Be The Worst Restaurant in America."

Journalist Tina Nguyen described the food as, "flaccid, gray Szechuan dumplings with their flaccid, gray innards," and "overcooked and mealy" steak, while the restaurant's cocktails "seemed to be concocted by a college freshman experimenting in their dorm room." The "stingy" decor also displeased Nguyen, who described a number of paintings on the wall looking like "they were bought from Home Goods."

The review was published Wednesday, and on Thursday Trump took to Twitter to seek revenge.

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Rocket

Syrian TV reports militants shelling evacuation corridor in eastern Aleppo


Sputnik
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:40 UTC
Aleppo
© Sputnik/ Ali HassanAleppo
Militants have shelled an evacuation corridor from eastern Aleppo in the Ramuse district, Syrian state-run TV reported. Syrian army was sent to the area.

Moreover, the evacuation of militants and their families from east Aleppo has been suspended as they violated an agreement by trying to take hostages with them, Al-Ikhbariya TV channel reported.

"There are reports that militants have violated the agreement and tried to take people hostage," a correspondent of TV channel reported.

"Terrorist groups in Aleppo shelled the the Ramuse district," the TV channel said.

According to the TV channel, militants shelled the exit from eastern Aleppo when a new convoy of buses evacuating people was ready to leave east Aleppo. Syrian servicemen have been sent to the area.
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People

Tense debate on RT as pro & anti-US intervention journalists face off over Aleppo


RT
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:13 UTC
Ruins of houses in eastern Aleppo (L) and Syrians celebrating in the streets of Aleppo following news of the city's complete liberation from the militants
© ReutersRuins of houses in eastern Aleppo (L) and Syrians celebrating in the streets of Aleppo following news of the city's complete liberation from the militants
Things got pretty tense at the RT studio as several distinguished journalists with long-standing opinions on the interventionist policy pursued by the US in Syria joined the debate on the media coverage of the developing situation in the city of Aleppo.

Independent British researcher and journalist Vanessa Beeley, who specializes in the Middle East and has worked in Syria; political opinion writer and columnist for The Hill Brent Budowsky, a fierce critic of Bashar Assad and Vladimir Putin; and Daniel McAdams, executive director at the Ron Paul institute, joined RT International's deputy head of news, Alexey Kuznetsov, and the host, Neil Harvey, to discuss the remarkably grim picture of the Syrian Army's liberation of eastern Aleppo presented by the Western mainstream media.

Comment: See also: Eva Bartlett completely dismantles mainstream narrative on Syria

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Bad Guys

Russian Reconciliation Center: 3,000+ militants & their families leave E. Aleppo on Day 1 of evacuation operation


RT
Fri, 16 Dec 2016 08:52 UTC
Evacuees from rebel-held east Aleppo, disembark from buses upon their arrival to the town of al-Rashideen, which is held by insurgents, Syria December 15, 2016
© Ammar Abdullah / ReutersEvacuees from rebel-held east Aleppo, disembark from buses upon their arrival to the town of al-Rashideen, which is held by insurgents, Syria December 15, 2016
On Thursday, nine convoys carried over 6,000 people out of eastern Aleppo on the first day of an evacuation operation to transport militants and their families out of the city, the Russian Reconciliation Center said in a press release on Friday.

By Friday, nine guarded convoys had taken a total of 6,462 people out of the city through a humanitarian corridor, including more than 3,000 fighters and 301 wounded.

A nighttime video from Ruptly news agency shows a convoy consisting of green buses carrying opposition fighters and their relatives through a special corridor that leads from eastern Aleppo's Salaheddin neighborhood to the Er-Rashidin-4 district on the western outskirts of the city.


In Er-Rashidin, the passengers were reseated on other buses, which took them on to the Idlib governorate.

Comment: See also:

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