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EU agreement change: Turkey has no mandate or commitment to respect human rights


Sputnik
Sat, 19 Mar 2016 14:03 UTC
Erdogan and finger
© shoebat.com"My way or the highway. Take it or leave it."
The EU and Turkey have reached an agreement on limiting migration to Europe during the talks in Brussels on Friday, various officials said. The Ankara government agreed to take back all undocumented migrants that had arrived to the European Union in exchange for Syrian refugees registered in Turkey on a one-for-one basis. In return, Ankara is expecting the introduction of visa-free regime in summer 2016 and financial assistance of six billion euros from the EU.

Other conditions of the deal included the protection of refugees as well as the respect for human rights and compliance with the Geneva Convention. However, Turkey apparently managed to soften the EU's demands in this field.

In the original draft of the agreement, Turkey had a "commitment" to "meet international standards" in the field of human rights. However, in the final document approved on Friday the wording was changed, with Ankara having to protect "all refugees" according to "relevant" international standards and not deport them to dangerous countries of origin, German newspaper Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (DWN) reported, referring to AFP.

What exactly the "relevant" standards are is a matter of interpretation. Human rights organizations fear that the new initiative could lead to waves of refugees' mass deportations.

Turkish authorities have been repeatedly accused of not fulfilling human rights and democracy standards. As was earlier mentioned by ECA report, even in the EU the respect for migrants' human rights often "remains theoretical and is only rarely translated into practice".

Comment: The fact that Turkey, with its track record, can get away with these demands doesn't say much about the EU. If anything, the EU seems desperate to find solutions, no matter what the cost to its reputation or the refugees. If Erdogan's massacre of Kurds in Turkey, Syria and Iraq is any example, human wrongs do not provide examples of human rights. "Relevant" international standards? In Erdogan's case, we have yet to see the bottom. Lowering the stipulation in the agreement is a big and potentially costly mistake.

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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: From the invasion of Iraq to the refugee crisis: 'Reshaping' the planet through phony terror


Sott.net
Sun, 20 Mar 2016 17:00 UTC
iraqis
Today marks the 13th anniversary of the post-9/11 invasion of Iraq. March 20th, 2003 was the date on which the Western Empire began its insane quest to 'reshape the Middle East' through violent intervention. This week on Behind the Headlines, we'll be looking back at the bloody mayhem the Iraq War unleashed, and discussing its ongoing ramifications as it continues spreading today, not least in Turkey, where yet another 'suicide' bombing took place this week.

Unlike the American 'Mission Accomplished' three months after invading Iraq in 2003, the Russian equivalent in Syria this week appears to have some basis in reality. We'll be exploring what it means for the balance of power in the Middle East, and also discussing whether there is any connection to yet another Russian passenger airplane falling out of the sky near the conflict zone in southeastern Ukraine yesterday.

This show aired live from 1pm-2.30pm EST / 5-6.30pm UTC / 6-7.30pm CET

Running Time: 01:35:08

Download: MP3

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Retrospective: How Russia ruined US plans in Crimea

Viktor Sokirko
Fort Russ
Sat, 19 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC
Boy with Russia flag
© news.yahoo.comCrimea returns to Russia.
Sanctions as revenge for Crimea: American plans that were ruined 2 years ago

Crimea is compared with an aircraft carrier for a reason — those controlling the peninsula can control the territory of all the countries of the Black sea basin. Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Georgia, Ukraine, Russia. Well, Russia now itself controls all of this space. However, if two years ago, thanks to popular referendum, Crimea did not return to the Russian shores, today it could [be flying] the star-spangled banner.

All the financing of Maidan in Ukraine was driven by one particular goal, for which the U.S. State Department spared neither suitcases with dollars, nor cookies from Mrs. Nuland - Crimea. American missile defense system in Crimea would close the entire South and South-West Russia from the possibility of using ballistic missiles that serve as a deterrent to so-called American preventive nuclear strike. No coincidence that the much-touted project of European missile defense, which badly battered the nerves of our politicians and military, has flopped after the restoration of status quo in Crimea.

Americans have coveted the Crimea. Perhaps not as the 53rd state of the USA, but as a military base with broad capabilities - for sure. And would pay up the rapidly impoverished Kiev for the next hundred years enough to silence the government and Crimean Tatar Majlis, and to restrain the appetites of Turkey for the peninsula.

On February 13, 2014, when tires and Berkut troops were burning on Maidan, a U.S. Navy squadron led by an aircraft carrier "George Bush", carrying 90 aircraft and helicopters on board, escorted by 16 warships and three nuclear submarines left Norfolk for the Aegean sea. Ten days later, when President Yanukovych was deposed of power in Kiev, the squadron went through the Bosphorus into the Black Sea.

Its further course lay to the shores of Crimea, where American sailors had hoped to see along the walls of the Russian Black sea fleet base the star-spangled banners and young Crimean girls wearing vyshivanki, short skirts greeting them with bread and salt. But Americans never saw the Crimean shores — they were not welcomed. "Polite people" already appeared in Crimea, and the Russian navy was conducting exercises nearby.


Comment: 'Polite People' were masked soldiers in unmarked green army uniforms - spontaneous self-defense groups or special forces - two different theories.


Comment: When one door closes, sometimes another doesn't open...as the case with Crimea. All the "effort" the US spent in acquiring bully rights in Ukraine did not ultimately give them what they truly wanted: Dominance in the Black Sea via military bases in Crimea. Kudos to the Russians for outplaying the US, regaining control of its territory and, respectively, the reciprocal loyalty of the Crimean people.

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'No' to normalisation: Resistance the only true choice

Seif al-Din Abdel-Fattah
Middle East Monitor
Fri, 18 Mar 2016 13:38 UTC
Moshe Yaalon
© www.washingtontimes.comIsraeli Defense Minister H.E. Moshe Ya'alon at AIPAC conference in Washington, D.C.
Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon admitted in his speech at the annual AIPAC conference, the largest Zionist lobby supporting Israel in the US, that the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi and the installation of Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi was planned, in cooperation with generals in the Egyptian and Gulf armies and intelligence agencies. He also said that Israel's interests will always be served by having military regimes in the Arab world, especially in Egypt.

He apologised that the military regimes usually disregard democracy in Egypt but called on the lobby to provide more support for Al-Sisi. Ya'alon also explicitly said: "We decided to allow General Al-Sisi, who was the defence minister at the time, to take over power by mobilising the army in order to become a president. The West should consider this of strategic interest for them as well."


Comment: As in threat or methodology? Westerners have been blind to the manipulations of Zionists for decades, and for centuries before they were even Israel - like a slow creep in plain sight unnoticeable until it culminates in some sort of change almost impossible to reverse. The West is no longer what it set out to be and rings hollow at its core. The boiled frog.


This is not the first testimony made by the Israeli occupation's generals and rabbis regarding the need to keep Al-Sisi as president of Egypt in order to serve Israel's interests. The archive of relations between the two countries is full of flattery and statements of complete support for this government, which Israel has dreamed about for years, according to Wael Qandil. The coup was an opportunity for Israel to practice its extortion in order to continue its normalisation strategy.
With regards to relations between Arab countries and Israel, normalisation means that these countries, or their institutions or figures carrying out cooperative projects, have economic and trade exchanges and spread the culture of acceptance of the enemy in a context of political poisoning and cultural normalisation while the occupation continues. Normalisation in this case not only means allowing for natural relations to develop between the oppressor and the oppressed in the absence of justice and continued occupation and settlement activity. It also means that those who normalise relations with Israel are voluntarily stripping Israel of its label as an enemy and instead accuses those resisting the Israeli occupation of hostility.

Comment: What a strategic setup and eyeopener! Zionist strategy is dripping with self-service and psychopathy, both devious and insidious. Only an informed and united global public stands a chance against its centuries-long methodology of bending the world to its bidding. Fragmented, clueless, we all will lose. "One world, under Israel, invisible, with tyranny and servitude for all," the Normalization Pledge of Allegiance.

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Jon Rappoport: The matrix of technocracy

Jon Rappoport
jonrappoport.wordpress.com
Tue, 15 Mar 2016 20:11 UTC
matrix
"The cartels of the world become the cartels of the mind." (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)

"If you are nothing more than a biological machine, then what you think doesn't matter. There is no you. Confirming this, deciding this, is the technocrat's wet dream." (The Magician Awakes, Jon Rappoport)

Many independent researchers, writers, and broadcasters have exposed the operation called technocracy. I want to give particular thanks to Patrick Wood, whose investigations are essential. His most recent book is Technocracy Rising.
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Britain slams Israeli settlement expansion in West Bank


The Palestine Information center
Thu, 17 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC
Israeli settlements
© Unknown
Britain on Thursday condemned the Israeli government's decision to further expand settlements in the West Bank, calling the move "an obstacle to peace".

"We condemn the Israeli government's decision to take over 585 acres of land in the West Bank as 'state land'. Such steps clearly damage the diminishing prospects for a two state solution," a British Foreign Office spokeswoman said in a statement.

The British government deemed the appropriation of the land as "illegal," urging Israel to reverse the situation. "The UK and our international partners have consistently called for an end to settlement expansion, which is illegal under international law and an obstacle to peace," the spokeswoman noted.

Comment: See also:
Russian Foreign Ministry: New expropriation of Palestinian territory land by Israel illegal
Italians sign petition calling for "Nuremberg for Israel" over genocide of Palestinian
Israel ignores international law (again), will begin drilling in illegally occupied Golan Heights, steal Syrian oil with help of Al Qaida affiliate

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Obama's visit to Argentina: US to release secret files linked to brutal 'Dirty War'


RT
Sat, 19 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC
Dirty War victims
© Juan Pablo Sanchez Noli / ReutersHuman rights activists and relatives of people who disappeared during the 1976-1983 "Dirty War".
The Obama administration is set to declassify military and intelligence records related to Argentina's seven-year "Dirty War," potentially shedding light on the US role in a brutal chapter of the Latin country's history.

"President Obama, at the request of the Argentine government, will announce a comprehensive effort to declassify additional documents, including for the first time military and intelligence records," US national security adviser Susan Rice said in a speech to the Atlantic Council in Washington on Thursday.

The cache of declassified records will come from the Department of Defense, Department of State as well as from the presidential libraries at the National Archives.

Comment: See also:
Letter to Obama: US should apologize for its support to "dirty war" that killed over 20,000 people in Argentina

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Deutsche Bundesbank continues Germany's repatriation of gold reserves from abroad


Sputnik
Sun, 20 Mar 2016 13:18 UTC
Raw gold bars
© Sputnik/ Vitaliy Bezrukih
Deutsche Bundesbank has already delivered the precious metal valued at approximately 11.5 billion euros to Frankfurt. The country is planning to bring back half of the country's gold reserves by 2020.

The German central bank accelerated the withdrawal of Germany's gold reserves from overseas repositories, president of the Bundesbank Jens Weidmann said Sunday.

According to Weidmann, the bank is working on a new concept of the gold storage adopted by Germany in 2013, according to which at least half of the total gold reserves of the country should be transferred to Frankfurt until 2020.
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Crumbling US empire drives Russia and China to buy more gold


Sputnik
Sun, 20 Mar 2016 12:57 UTC
Gold bars
© Sputnik/ Pavel Lisitsyn
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. John Henry Newman Central bankers have been on a massive Gold Buying Spree led by Russia and China.

One must remember that not only Putin is ex-KGB officer, but he is also an economist and holds a black belt in judo. Judo teaches you to use your opponent's momentum to defeat him or her, and that appears to be what Putin is doing. He has this administration running circles, by the time they figure out what he is up to, it is too late to do anything. Putin and China can see that the writing is on the wall that the days of US holding the top spot are numbered.

Our economy is in shambles and only appears to look strong because of the hot money that is holding it up. Regarding illusions, it is a perfect illusion and for now, the masses have bought it, but Russia and China have not.
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Flashlight

Was bodyguard of Hugo Chávez a drug-running CIA agent?

Nil Nikandrov
Libya 360°
Sun, 20 Mar 2016 03:02 UTC
Chavez CIA
© Unknown
The journalist Eva Golinger (US - Venezuela) has repeatedly questioned the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. The website aporrea.org quotes her statement:
Everything that Washington was trying to achieve during the administration of Hugo Chávez is today being realized in his absence. The cancerous illness from which Chávez suffered was unusually aggressive and suspicious, and every day turns up more evidence that it is possible Chávez was murdered.
The first signs of cancer were found in Chávez in May 2011. In June he underwent two surgeries at a specialized center in Havana. His Cuban surgeons found and removed a malignant tumor that had metastasized with sinister persistence, despite all preventive measures. New operations were needed. This athletic man, who was full of strength and physically robust, passed away on March 5, 2013 at the age of 58.
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