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Western attempts to sabotage Russia's Eurobond backfire

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Sun, 31 Jul 2016 11:59 UTC
Russia VTB bank finance
Russia's VTB Group's office tower across the Moscow River.
Euroclear agrees to provide depository services to the Russian Eurobond, confirming that Russia is now able to raise Eurobond financing as it pleases.

On 27th May 2016 I wrote an article for The Duran taking vigorous issue with the stories being spread in the Western media that Russia's Eurobond issue was a failure. I pointed out that a Eurobond issue that was three times over-subscribed could not by any stretch be called a failure, especially when carried out against a backdrop of Western sanctions and an orchestrated campaign by Western governments to sabotage the issue.

I also said that one part of the campaign by Western governments to sabotage the issue - the attempt to engineer a denial of clearing services by the two big Western depositories, Euroclear and Clearview - was unsustainable given the legality of the issue, and that any attempt to persist with the denial of such services would expose Euroclear and Clearview to legal action which they would find impossible to defend. I predicted that in light of this it was only a matter of time before Euroclear and Clearview reversed themselves and agreed to provide depository services for the Eurobond.
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Turkey deploys 7,000 armed police to 'inspect' Incirlik Air Base


South Front
Sun, 31 Jul 2016 12:08 UTC
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AlMasdarNews reports: Some 7,000 armed police with heavy vehicles have surrounded and blocked the Incirlik Air Base in Adana used by NATO forces, already restricted in the aftermath of a failed coup.

Pictures have emerged showing large trucks entering the airbase with the Turkish police subsequently closing the entrance and exit of the airbase.

Rumours suggest the police were deployed to halt a suspected 2nd coup although this is unconfirmed for now.

No further details have emerged yet.

Comment: Turkish officials are saying the military is conducting a "security check" and that there is nothing wrong. Armed soldiers and riot police armored vehicles have been photographed at the base.
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Russia conducts investigation of documents in Moscow office of PricewaterhouseCoopers


TASS
Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:03 UTC
PricewaterhouseCoopers
© Mikhail Fomichev/TASSPricewaterhouseCoopers is one of the private companies assisting in the UK's propaganda war against Russia
"Russia's Investigative committee is now conducting an investigation in the office of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Moscow regarding the persons that are linked with the company's client. Investigative activities are held as usual. PwC fully cooperates with the investigators as part of the probe," the company's representative said.

Earlier TASS reported referring to a source with law enforcement agencies, that the investigation is under way in the office of PwC in the north of Moscow.

"Inspection of documents is going in the company's office as part of pre-investigation check," the source said. He did not elaborate on the reasons behind the inspection.

Comment: A respected Wall Street analyst who has been investigating the Clinton Foundation's finances alleges the "Big Four" accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers was a willing participant in a scheme by the Clintons and their associates to become personally enriched by the foundation, a crime known as inurement. "Clinton Foundation filings for all years from inception through 2013 are materially incomplete, inaccurate, misleading and therefore fraudulent," Ortel concludes in his report on PWC's work with the foundation.

WND also reported that before Hillary Clinton completed her first year as President Obama's secretary of state in 2010, Ortel calculates $17 million went missing from Clinton Foundation financial reports. As WND reported May 12, based on Ortel's findings, a prominent lawyer and a top government watchdog in the nation's capital are calling for the Clinton Foundation to be shut down. In his first report, Ortel found what he characterizes as an elaborate system devised by the Clintons to enrich themselves through schemes such as skimming tens of millions of dollars from U.N. levies imposed on airline travelers.

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Best of the Web: Wolf in sheep's clothing: Who and 'what' is Fethullah Gülen?

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 25 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Zaman DailyFethullah Gulen.
Since the failed coup attempt in Turkey of July 15 there has been much speculation in western media that it in fact was all engineered by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to provide him with the pretext to impose emergency rule and to jail any and all opposition to his rule. At this point evidence still suggests that that was not at all the case. Rather, as I wrote at the time when it was clear the coup attempt was collapsing, it was a coup initiated by the CIA acting through their primary asset inside Turkey, the networks of their fugitive Turkish asset Fethullah Gülen.

When we examine more closely "what" is Fethullah Gülen he is anything but the grandfatherly image of a 75-year-old soft-spoken Islamic moderate, scholar and Imam. His networks have been called the most dangerous in Germany by Islamic experts and have been banned in several Central Asian countries. Now, too, in Turkey. What's becoming clear is that the failed coup was in fact a dry-run, a dress rehearsal by Gülen's controllers in Langley to see how Erdogan would react, in order to recalibrate and prepare for a more serious attempt in the future. Washington was not at all happy with the foreign policy turn of Erdoğan turning to reconcile with Russia and possibly also with Syria's Assad.

Fethullah Gülen is not a "who" but, rather, it is a "what." The what is one of the most extensive and elaborate surrogate warfare networks ever created by the United States intelligence community, spanning countless nations including the United States and Germany, as well as the historic Turkic regions of Central Asia from Turkey up to the Uyghur peoples of China's oil-rich Xinjiang Autonomous Province.
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Cold War 2.0: Russian news show exposes CIA agents operating in Moscow (Video)

Enrico Braun
Russia Insider
Fri, 29 Jul 2016 17:56 UTC
CIA spy caught on camera russia
FSB saw them coming a mile away
These guys look more like the three stooges, than professional intelligence officers

I wrote early in July about several farcical escapades of the so-called Central Intelligence Agency in Russia's capital.

If this agency has any intelligence, I don't know where or how they ever put it to use.
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Will China step in to fix Afghanistan? Taliban delegation visits China for talks


Reuters
Sat, 30 Jul 2016 20:22 UTC
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A delegation from the Taliban visited China earlier this month to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, where the insurgent movement is fighting the Western-backed government in Kabul, sources in the Taliban said.

A delegation led by Abbas Stanakzai, head of the Taliban's political office in Qatar, visited Beijing on July 18-22 at the invitation of the Chinese government, a senior member of the Taliban said.

"We have good terms with different countries of the world and China is one among them," said the Taliban official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

"We informed Chinese officials about the occupation by invading forces and their atrocities on Afghan people," he said. "We wanted the Chinese leadership to help us raise these issues on world forums and help us get freedom from occupying forces."
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Propaganda alert: Russia plans to "seize" Aleppo after civilian evacuation


RFE/RL
Sat, 30 Jul 2016 19:32 UTC
Aleppo
© AFPSyrian rebels pose with the children they're holding hostage in Aleppo.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov denied allegations that Russia and Syria are preparing to storm Syria's Aleppo after clearing civilians out of the city under the guise of a humanitarian operation.

U.S. officials and Syrian rebel groups have suggested Russia's and Syria's creation on July 28 of so-called "safe corridors" where they have invited an estimated 250,000 civilians trapped amidst fighting to evacuate may be part of a plan to depopulate the city so that the Syrian army, which has surrounded and besieged the city, can seize it.

"I categorically deny the allegation that some storm is being prepared," Ryabkov told Interfax late on July 29.

"Our American partners, due to their own stagnancy and suspiciousness toward Russia, are beginning to attribute some nonexistent designs to us. We cannot accept that things should be formulated this way. We are pursuing the ends that have been declared - not more but not less," he said.

Comment: The reason for the outcry is that it seems to have taken the Americans by surprise. And it doesn't fit their narrative of choice. The Russians and Syrians covered all bases: humanitarian aid, safe passage for civilians, safe passage for militants who don't want to surrender, full amnesty for militants who do surrender. There's no way the Russians and Syrians come out looking bad, so the West and their minions have had to work overtime to come up with ways to spin this straightforward humanitarian operation, and you can see just how far they're willing to stretch the truth and spout absurdities to get there.

1) Some civilians have already used the corridor (i.e., Russians and Syrians look good), 2) 14 metric tons have been distributed at the checkpoints (i.e., Russians and Syrians look good), 3) some militants have already surrendered and received amnesty (i.e., Russians and Syrians look good - they keep their word), 4) rebels are preventing other civilians from leaving and using them as human shields (i.e., rebels and Americans look bad), 5) no reports of the Russians and Syrians killing civilians at the checkpoints (i.e., Americans look bad - they're opportunistic liars of the worst sort).

For a glimpse into just how far a "Contra"/death-squad-loving mind can slip into hysterical delusion, just take a glance at Bild journalist Julian Roepcke's Twitter account. Hard to know whether to laugh, cry, or scream.

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Thailand: US-funded election 'monitors' exposed

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 30 Jul 2016 19:29 UTC
Thai soldiers
Thailand faces an upcoming referendum regarding a new national charter meant to put the country back on track after over a decade of political conflict revolving around US-backed proxy Thaksin Shinawatra. Shinawatra and his foreign sponsors have increased pressure on the Thai government as the vote in early August nears. This includes maneuvering into place overt fronts engaged in political agitation, and leveraging the West's monopoly over the international media to portray any attempt to crackdown on such fronts as heavy-handed and unjust. Bangkok-based English newspaper the Nation in their article, "Thai junta refuses to accredit election monitors in referendum vote," reports that:
The Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) said that repeated attempts to gain accreditation to monitor the August 7 referendum, Thailand's first trip to the polls since the military took power in 2014, were met with silence.
What the Nation does not report is who ANFREL is, who funds them, or the obvious conflicts of interest involved in their "monitoring" work across all of Asia, including Thailand.
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The truth about the Aleppo siege: It's the rebels' own fault

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Sat, 30 Jul 2016 19:23 UTC
aleppo
© AFP 2016/ GEORGE OURFALIAN
The Syrian rebels and their Western and Arab backers, through their continued intransigence, provoked a joint Syrian-Iranian-Russian attack on them that they could never defeat.

Following the Syrian army's encirclement of the jihadi rebels in eastern Aleppo a predictable outcry has begun in the West in which the Syrian government and Russia are being accused of aiming to starve Aleppo into submission. The Syrian-Russian plan for setting up humanitarian corridors of the city is being derided, and there are mounting calls for the siege to be lifted.


Comment: See: Concern trolling the siege of Aleppo: Offering civilians safe passage is only good when the U.S. does it


As a general rule Western governments and the Western media tend not to make such calls when the besiegers are Western militaries or are aligned with the West. They did not for example demand an immediate stop of the shelling and sieges of population centres and cities in eastern Ukraine by the Ukrainian army during the conflict there. Nor did they make similar demands during the Iraqi military's recent US-backed siege of the Daesh controlled Iraqi city of Ramadi.

In passing I should say that there is some dispute about the number of people in the rebel controlled area of eastern Aleppo. Most reports say the number is 300,000. However the Guardian's Martin Chulov - a journalist who tends to be sympathetic to the rebels - puts the number much lower, at about 40,000.
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Corbett interview: Christoph Germann on the Turkish coup fallout

James Corbett
The Corbett Report
Sat, 30 Jul 2016 19:23 UTC
From the Turkish Armed Forces's Chief of Staff hanging the plot on Erdogan to the drama at Incirlik and the NBC psyops, Christoph Germann of the New Great Game blog is here to update us on all the latest news, views and reactions to this month's failed coup attempt in Turkey.

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