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Brazilian President Rousseff dismisses her cabinet after impeachment


Sputnik
Thu, 12 May 2016 21:54 UTC
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff
© REUTERS/ Ueslei Marcelino/File
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff dismissed officials in her government, including her chief of staff, in an executive decision published in the official gazette of the government on Thursday.

The 104-page order lists Acting Chief of Staff Eva Chiavon and her predecessor Jaques Wagner, as well as Finance Minister Nelson Barbosa among others, who have been removed from their posts.

The upper house of the Brazilian parliament voted 55-22 earlier on Thursday to start impeachment proceedings against Rousseff after she was accused of concealing the country's budget deficit ahead of the 2014 re-election.

Comment: Not only Rousseff is having troubles, 60% of the senate members are under investigation.

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Retired Turkish general defies Erdogan: 'NATO should not be part of Black Sea security mechanism'


Sputnik
Thu, 12 May 2016 21:48 UTC
NATO warships in Black Sea
© AFP 2016/ DANIEL MIHAILESCU
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned on Wednesday NATO's insufficient military presence in the Black Sea and urged the Alliance to enhance cooperation in the region.

NATO's engagement in the area would destabilize the security mechanism established by the 1936 Montreux Convention, retired Turkish Air Force Lt. Gen. Erdogan Karakus said.

According to him, the security issues in the region should be tackled in full accordance with the document and tacking into account the interests of Black Sea nations, particularly Russia.

"The Black Sea should be turned into the sea of stability. I told the NATO secretary general that you are absent in the Black Sea and that is why it has nearly become a Russian lake. We should perform our duty as we are the countries with access to the Black Sea. If we do not take action, history will not forgive us," Erdogan said in Istanbul.
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Pro-Kiev witch-hunt site 'Mirotvorets' leaks personal info of 'terrorist-collaborating journalists' - press groups outraged


RT
Thu, 12 May 2016 21:10 UTC
journalists outed Ukraine
© Andrei Stenin / SputnikJournalists and members of the self-defense forces on the frontline near the village of Marinovka at the Ukrainian-Russian border.
Governments, NGOs and journalists across the globe have condemned a leak of personal data of more than 4,000 media staff, accused by pro-Kiev activists of "collaborating with terrorists" for their reporting from war-torn eastern Ukraine.

The names on the list include people working for respectable outlets, such as news agencies AFP, AP and Reuters, broadcasters BBC, CNN, CCTV, Deutsche Welle and Al Jazeera, newspapers, including the New York Times, Gazeta Wyborcza and Kyiv Post, news websites Vice News and Daily Beast and many others. RT journalists are on the list too.

"This is a very alarming development which could further endanger the safety of journalists, who report on issues of public interest and they should not be harassed for doing their job," said OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović.

Some of the journalists, whose data was leaked, have complained they have started to receive threats.
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Snakes in Suits

Watch Hillary Clinton lie through her teeth for 13 straight minutes

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Thu, 12 May 2016 14:21 UTC
Hillary Clinton liar
Hillary Clinton: Liar

Comment: If there is still any doubt in you, dear reader, that Hillary Clinton isn't a liar extraordinaire, a political animal with only the most self-serving ambitions, and willing to do or say nearly anything to serve the very worst impulses of the elites, watch the following video. But be warned, you'll want to keep a barf bag at the ready...


This is simply spectacular.

Watch until the end, it gets better and better.


Comment: ... and she is quite likely going to be the next President of the United States.

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Alleged 9/11 mastermind's defense claims evidence destroyed, collusion between prosecution and judge


RT
Thu, 12 May 2016 10:19 UTC
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
© WikipediaDid he confess guilt because of 183 documented cases of waterboarding in one month?
Suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's defense team is calling for the entire prosecution at Guantanamo Bay to relieve themselves of their duties after suspicions arose that they secretly destroyed evidence in the long-running case.

They also believe the entire case against Mohammed should be dismissed, based on the alleged actions of the prosecution, which the defense labeled as "at least the appearance of a collusion." "Now, and indeed over other matters previously, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's military commission is fatally flawed," lead defense attorney David Nevin told the Guardian.

US President Barack Obama's term is nearly up, and if the defense gets its way, it will be the new administration that has to figure out what to do with the suspect, who has been in custody for 12 years now for his suspected role in the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, DC.

The prosecution is seeking the death penalty for Mohammed, who confessed under interrogation to being the architect of the attacks.

Comment: Was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed really the architect of 9/11 or just the accused? As long as he hasn't come to trial, as long as the government can string this out with ridiculous laws preventing transfer of detainees to US soil for due process, as long as extreme torture provides confessions, as long as the military and FBI can co-opt the attorneys and rig the system, as long as judges can destroy evidence, the guilty remain secure from inquisition and prosecution while the sheeple of the USA are spoon-fed lies and remain in the dark.

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'Congressman X' writes tell-all book about Washington DC's inner workings, rattles insiders


RT
Thu, 12 May 2016 18:18 UTC
Congressman X
© Jim Young/Reuters
Washington DC insiders are trying to guess the name of the mysterious "Congressman X," whose tell-all memoir exposes the inner workings of US politics. The book is already a political best-seller, although it has yet to be published.

Confessions of Congressman X is currently available for pre-order, and the 84-page booklet is scheduled for publication on May 24. The $10 paperback is already outselling books by politicians Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren and Barack Obama in Amazon's "Congress" category - though it still trails behind JFK's Profiles in Courage.

"I've come to the conclusion the whole Washington scene represents a diminishment of civilization. Our country's in a free-fall to mediocrity, and Congress is leading the way," says a brief introduction on the book's website.

Several excerpts have been made available on the site, leaving no doubts as to the author's opinions of voters, fellow legislators and the American public in general.

Comment: A "free-fall to mediocrity" seems to be understating things a bit, but it is interesting to see various people in politics come out and speak truth to how deeply Washington is mired in a wasteland of short-sightedness, corruption and, ultimately, psychopathology.

For one: Former Bush official Lawrence Wilkerson exposes the unfixable corruption inside the establishment and says "America's ship is sinking"

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Big surprise: New U.S. proposed laws on corruption, tax evasion have glaring loopholes

Dave Johnson
Common Dreams
Thu, 12 May 2016 00:00 UTC
offshore tax haven
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The Treasury Department released a new rule and several proposals last week that they said are intended to address the problem of corruption and dirty money in secret U.S. shell companies.

A White House news release announced what it called "several important steps to combat money laundering, corruption, and tax evasion, and called upon Congress to take additional action to address these critical issues." (A White House fact sheet is available here.)

The new rules at first glance appear strong. But after examining the details, several watchdog groups are warning that the new regulations and proposals leave open several glaring loopholes, and even practically provide instructions for how to get around the regulations.

The New Rules

Reuters has the story on the new rules, in" U.S. issues rule requiring banks to identify shell company owners":
The Obama administration is issuing a long-delayed rule requiring the financial industry to identify the real owners of companies and proposing a bill that would require companies to report the identities of their owners to the federal government, U.S. officials said on Thursday.

The Customer Due Diligence (CDD) rule, in the works since 2012, and the proposed legislation are meant to hinder criminals from using shell companies to hide ownership and launder money, finance terror, and commit other threats to the global financial system.

[. . .] The final CDD rule will require banks, brokers, mutual funds and other financial institutions to collect and verify the identities of the real people, or "beneficial owners," who own and control companies when those companies open accounts.
The new rule requires banks to do more checking to find out who owns corporations that are getting bank accounts, so "shell corporations" can't hide their owners. According to the White House, the rule will require "financial institutions to know and verify the identities of the natural persons (also known as beneficial owners) who own, control, and profit from companies when those companies open accounts."

Comment: The Panama deception: America is the biggest tax haven in the world

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Pepe Escobar: Panama Papers leak was about consolidating global financial flow strictly with the Empire

Pepe Escobar
telesur
Tue, 10 May 2016 19:04 UTC
Maurcio Macri
© ReutersArgentine President Maurcio Macri is a victim, argues Pepe Escobar
So this is the way the Panama Papers end. Not with a bang—as in "Putin hiding US$2 billion"; you all remember the original headlines. But with a whimper; everyone lining up to duly access a prosaic database and find out the names of nearly 320,000 entities/offshore companies/trusts/foundations engaged in beautifying the finances of the rich and powerful.

The Soros-financed International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has not exactly fulfilled its mandate of heaping dirt on selected BRICS nations and the odd enemy of imperial interests/values—based on a NSA-style hack of Mossack Fonseca.

So what's left is for everyone to freely peruse names and addresses of companies in 21 jurisdictions—including Hong Kong and Nevada in the U.S. Yet don't expect to see bank account numbers, phone numbers or compromising emails.

Panama—where no one can flush a toilet without the U.S. government knowing about it—is for suckers; the real elite, connected (or profiting) even indirectly from the real Masters of the Universe and the liquid modernity enablers of top of the line turbo-capitalism use hack-proof Luxembourg, Virgin Islands or Cayman Islands connections - not to mention secure, Empire-based Delaware and Nevada loopholes.

Fictional scenarios, anyway, will continue to prosper, such as the myth the Panama Papers leak came from one John Doe—an "anonymous" whistleblower who allegedly contacted the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and the ICIJ with a mini-manifesto titled "The revolution will be digitized".
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ISIS slept underground, covert fortifications in now liberated Shaddadi, Syria


RT
Thu, 12 May 2016 01:50 UTC
ISIS bunker
© www.thetimes.co.ukISIS safe from surface strikes in underground bunkers.
Extensive networks of underground tunnels and bunkers, dug out by ISIS terrorists to store ammo and weapons, have also served as sleeping quarters and shelters against airstrikes, an RT crew has discovered touring the liberated Syrian town of Shaddadi.

For nearly two years the town of Shaddadi in northeastern Syria was a stronghold of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). In February, fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition of Kurdish and Arab militias, battled the jihadists for 10 days before liberating the city in fierce fighting, supported by anti-terror coalition airstrikes.

Touring the remains of the war-torn city, the RT crew were impressed to glimpse for themselves a warren of tunnels and underground bomb shelters built by now-vanquished radical Islamist fighters. Militants used them to burrow under enemy positions to plant explosives, create underground bunkers or run pipes to export illicit oil shipments.

IS also designed a comprehensive network of trenches so that fighters could avoid getting exposed as they maneuvered around the city undetected. In every house that RT visited, the crew discovered an underground facility. Furthermore the level of underground fortifications varied among the hierarchy of ISIS fighters, with rookie foreign recruits being forced to hide in less secure structures, while the elite were offered well-reinforced concrete bunkers.

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The wrath of Khan: London's new Muslim mayor denounces Trump's idiocy


RT
Thu, 12 May 2016 18:36 UTC
Trump Khan
© ReutersBritain's newly elected mayor Sadiq Khan (L) and Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Newly-elected London Mayor Sadiq Khan has snubbed Republican nominee Donald Trump's suggestion he will allowed entry to the US as an exception under any future country-wide ban on Muslims, labelling Trump's views "ignorant." The first Muslim mayor of a major Western city denounced Trump's proposed ban, arguing it risks radicalizing Muslims around the world.

Khan's comments came after Trump said he was happy to see the Labour politician elected mayor of London. Asked by the New York Times about his proposed temporary ban on Muslims, Trump said: "There will always be exceptions."

Khan, however, rebuffed the offer on Tuesday and said it was not the solution. "This isn't just about me - it's about my friends, my family and everyone who comes from a background similar to mine, anywhere in the world," the London mayor said.
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