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Did Turkey dispatch its military to Mosul, Iraq in order to protect ISIS' oil trade?

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sat, 19 Dec 2015 13:55 UTC
Turkey
© Unknown
A few weeks after shooting down a Sukhoi Su-24M tactical bomber jet operating in Syrian airspace, Turkey sent a heavily armed battalion into the Zilkan military base in Iraq. The move can be seen as a compensation for the weakening of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL / ISIS / IS / DAESH) and the ISIL's oil smuggling infrastructure. It can also be viewed as a Turkish preparation for the aftermath of the future defeat of the ISIL in Iraq.

Ominous Timing: Turkish Dispatch to Mosul

Amidst the Russo-Turkish row, the Turkish government dispatched a Turkish battalion of twenty-five M-60 Patton tanks to the Mosul District of Iraq's Ninawa Governorate. The Turkish press even announced that Ankara had declared that it was establishing a permanent military base inside Iraq's Mosul District. The Iraqi federal government reacted immediately by calling the Turkish move a hostile act that violated international law and Iraqi sovereignty.

Comment: More on Mosul, and the shady developments in the area:

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Turkey is arresting, mistreating, and deporting the refugees the EU paid it to accept

Stephen Lendman
Global Research
Sat, 19 Dec 2015 14:12 UTC
Turkey Erdogan
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Turkey is a valued NATO member, a close US ally. Last month, the EU bribed Turkey with 3 billion euros and promised help to join the bloc in return for accepting refugees from Syria and other war-torn countries its member states don't want.

EU leaders called the deal a key way to stem the tide of asylum-seekers. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said it marked a new beginning in Ankara/Brussels relations.

Given Turkey's horrific human rights record and unsavory history, especially under Erdogan, distrust remains high.

Agreement terms call for Ankara to increase Aegean Sea patrols in areas bordering Greece and Bulgaria, crack down on human smuggling gangs, and accept refugees turned away by EU countries.
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Bad Guys

Crazy Erdogan meets with Crimean blockade organizers: Naval provocation imminent?


Sputnik
Sat, 19 Dec 2015 14:09 UTC
Ukraininan ship
© AFP 2015/ VIKTOR DRACHEV
Turkish and Ukrainian media have reported that President Erdogan has met with two of the organizers of the so-called Crimean blockade. Earlier this week, another of the masterminds behind the failed 'food' and 'electricity' blockades promised that the radicals would organize a 'naval blockade'. Is a provocation imminent? What will Turkey's role be?

On Thursday, the Russian-language edition of the Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency news service unceremoniously reported that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had met with Mustafa Dzhemilev, one of the key organizers of the so-called 'food' and 'electricity' blockades of Crimea.

Erdogan and Dzhemilev, a Ukrainian lawmaker and key figure of the Mejlis movement, which claims to represent the Crimean Tatar community, met in a hotel in the southern Turkish city of Konya, speaking for about 40 minutes, Anadolu Agency reported. Deputy Prime Minister Yalcin Akdogan was also said to be in attendance.
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Attention

Libyan Armed Forces seeks Russia's help in battling terrorism


Sputnik
Sat, 19 Dec 2015 14:00 UTC
Libya soldier fighting ISIS
© AFP 2015/ MOHAMED EL-SHEIKHI
The Libyan Armed Forces' Commander Brigadier General Khalifa Hafter has voiced his country's readiness to cooperate with Russia in fighting terrorism, according to the Iranian news agency FARS.

"We welcome support from Russia in fighting terrorism," the agency quotes Hafter as telling reporters after his meeting with United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Chief Martin Kobler in the city of Marj, Northeastern Libya.

The military leader assured that if Russia proposes a plan for fighting terrorism in Libya, Tripoli will cooperate with Moscow, adding that "Russians are serious in [the] fight against terrorists".

Comment: There is little chance Russia will become involved in Libya without a formal government in place.

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Evil Rays

How Congress quietly passed CISA, the 'second Patriot Act,' into law

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Fri, 18 Dec 2015 12:49 UTC
Yes we scan

Update: CISA is now the law: OBAMA SIGNS SPENDING, TAX BILL THAT REPEALS OIL EXPORT BAN

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Back in 2014, civil liberties and privacy advocates were up in arms when the government tried to quietly push through the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, a law which would allow federal agencies - including the NSA - to share cybersecurity, and really any information with private corporations "notwithstanding any other provision of law." The most vocal complaint involved CISA's information-sharing channel, which was ostensibly created for responding quickly to hacks and breaches, and which provided a loophole in privacy laws that enabled intelligence and law enforcement surveillance without a warrant.

Ironically, in its earlier version, CISA had drawn the opposition of tech firms including Apple, Twitter, Reddit, as well as the Business Software Alliance, the Computer and Communications Industry Association and many others including countless politicians and, most amusingly, the White House itself.

In April, a coalition of 55 civil liberties groups and security experts signed onto an open letter opposing it. In July, the Department of Homeland Security itself warned that the bill could overwhelm the agency with data of "dubious value" at the same time as it "sweep[s] away privacy protections." Most notably, the biggest aggregator of online private content, Facebook, vehemently opposed the legislation however a month ago it was "surprisingly" revealed that Zuckerberg had been quietly on the side of the NSA all along as we reported in "Facebook Caught Secretly Lobbying For Privacy-Destroying "Cyber-Security" Bill."

Even Snowden chimed in:

Comment: Yet another "win" for those that would seek to wed corporate interests with those of the national security surveillance state - in other words, fascism. So much for the recent court rulings that deemed such powers unconstitutional.

See also:

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Dollars

US foreign policy driven by the desire for war profits

Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts Org
Fri, 18 Dec 2015 06:53 UTC
The Horrors of War
© The Gurch 25
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, explains that US foreign policy is driven by the desire for war profits. Vast numbers of people die and debts multiply for no other reason except the profits of a few armaments manufacturers. Washington and its presstitutes call this "freedom and democracy."

Watch it, below...

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Bad Guys

Russian Duma speaker calls for NATO dissolution, calls it 'cancer of Europe'


RT
Thu, 17 Dec 2015 13:27 UTC
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State Duma Speaker Sergey Naryshkin has said that Russia is very concerned by continuing NATO expansion, adding that global security would benefit significantly from the dissolution of the military bloc.

"My attitude to this organization is special - I see it as a cancerous tumor on the whole European continent. It would only be for the better if this organization is dissolved," Naryshkin said during a meeting with Serbian lawmakers on Thursday.

This dissolution could be conducted in several stages, the Duma speaker suggested. "First of all, the USA should be excluded from the bloc and after this it would be possible to painlessly disband the whole organization," he said. "This would be a good step towards greater security and stability on the whole European continent."

Comment: Yet another step towards 'plausibly deniable' covert aggression aimed towards Russia. Naryshkin sees things as they are, not as the mouthpieces for Western hegemony would like him and others to think.

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Roses

Putin's recollection of his family during WWII: "Life is such a simple, yet cruel thing"

Vladimir Putin
Russia Insider
Sat, 09 May 2015 00:00 UTC
This article originally appeared at Russian Pioneer Translated by Kristina Aleshnikova

Putin with parents
© UnknownVladimir Putin and his family
Frankly, my father did not even like to touch on the subject of the war. It was more like I was simply nearby when the adults were discussing or recalling things among themselves. All my knowledge about the war - about what happened to my family - arose out of those overheard conversations between adults. Still, there were times when they spoke to me directly.

My father was a sailor. He was called up in 1939 and served in a submarine squadron in Sevastopol. On his return, he worked in a factory in Peterhof where he lived with my mother. I think they even built some kind of little house there.

When war broke out he was working in a military company, which entitled him to an exemption from conscription. However, he applied first to join the party and then again to be sent to the front. He was dispatched to a NKVD sabotage squad. It was a small contingent of 28 people who were sent into the nearby rear to carry out acts of sabotage - blowing up bridges, railway tracks, etc. Almost immediately they ran into an ambush - someone betrayed them. They entered a certain village, then left it, and when they returned some time later the Nazis were already waiting for them. They were chased through the woods. My father survived by hiding in a swamp where he spent hours under water breathing through a reed. I remember this from his story. He said that while he was in the swamp breathing through the reed, he could hear the German soldiers passing by, just a few steps away from him, and how the dogs were yapping...
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Eye 2

Killary has received more money from arms manufacturers than any other presidential candidate


teleSUR
Mon, 14 Dec 2015 21:33 UTC
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton has received more money from arms and military service companies than any other candidate during the 2016 presidential campaign, data from Open Secrets shows.

All but one of the world's 10 biggest arms producers have contributed to Clinton's previous campaigns, giving her — along with the top Republican receiver Ted Cruz — a significant margin over the other candidates.

The numbers, collected by the Federal Election Commission and compiled by Open Secrets, also reveal that Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders make the list of top 20 senators and top six presidential candidates to receive money from arms and defense companies.

Most of the funding is channeled through Political Action Committees, which have no limits to how much they donate. About 18 percent comes from individual contributions, totaling almost US$10 million between all of the companies.

Comment: Those donations come with conditions. Killary has to promise to continue bombing countries, civilians, and vital infrastructure. She is the perfect stooge for the military-industrial complex, since she has shown every willingness to do exactly those things. The US military in her hands is a scary notion, but really anyone who is elected president signs up for the exact same thing. Either you continue the foreign policy of destroying foreign nations in the name of US hegemonic control, or you'll be replaced by someone who will.

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Yoda

Putin to Turkey: Now that S-400 is in Syria, try to violate Syrian airspace


Sputnik
Thu, 17 Dec 2015 21:28 UTC
s-400
© Sputnik/ Dmitriy Vinogradov
With Russia's deployment of the S-400 anti-aircraft system, Turkey will not be able to violate Syria's airspace with impunity, as they had previously done, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday at his annual press conference.

"They [Turkish authorities] thought that we would turn tail and run! No, Russia is not that country. We have increased our presence in Syria, have increased the number of combat aircraft deployed there. There was no Russian air defense system there - now there's the S-400. If before, Turkey had constantly violated Syrian airspace, let them try it now."

Following the incident involving the Russian Su-24M bomber which was shot down by a Turkish F-16 over Syria on the Turkish border, Russia deployed its latest anti-aircraft missile system - the S-400 to Syria, also deploying the missile cruiser Moskva and the submarine Rostov-on-Don off the shores of Syria in the Mediterranean.

The S-400 Triumf (NATO reporting name SA-21 Growler) is Russia's next-generation air defense system, carrying three different types of missiles capable of destroying aerial targets at short-to-extremely long range.

In late November, the S-400 systems were deployed at the Hmeimim airbase near the Syrian port city of Latakia to protect anti-terror operations by Russia's Aerospace Forces. The decision was made one day after Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24 aircraft.
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