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FBI investigators will interrogate Hillary Clinton over email scandal, possibly before California primary


RT
Fri, 06 May 2016 11:51 UTC
Hillary Clinton
© Lucy Nicholson / ReutersClinton claims the scandal was caused by her reluctance to carry a second phone.
FBI investigators will interrogate Hillary Clinton in the coming weeks over her use of a private email server for state communications, according to officials cited by CNN late Thursday.

The news came after MSNBC interviewed the hacker "Guccifer", who exposed the server containing 2,200 emails, 22 marked "top secret", and claimed its security was easy to compromise.

Comment: See also: Killary Clinton above the law: Email scandal shows double standards, privilege of the elite

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Bad Guys

Erdogan's power grab sends Merkel back to square one regarding refugee deal

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Thu, 05 May 2016 02:33 UTC
erdogan Merkel
Turkish President Erdogan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
The resignation of the Turkish Prime Minister puts Angela Merkel's refugee deal in jeopardy.

The forced resignation of Turkish Prime Minister Davutoglu underlines the folly of Merkel's and the EU's appeasement of Turkish President Erdogan.

Davutoglu did not leave voluntarily. He was forced out by Erdogan who has been steadily concentrating power as he changes Turkey from a parliamentary to a Presidential republic. Obviously in such a system Erdogan has no use for a strong and independent minded Prime Minister which is why Davutoglu had to go.

Even saying all that understates the nature of what Erdogan is doing. There are many examples around the world of successful Presidential republics. In such cases the President works within a strong constitutional and institutional structure which defines what he can do.

What is happening in Turkey is that its already severely weakened constitutional and institutional structure is now being systematically dismantled by a politician - Erdogan - who accepts no limits on what he can do and who sees the law in purely functional terms as there to do what he wants.
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Stock Down

Is the worst yet to come? US billionaire warns of crisis worse than 2008


Sputnik
Fri, 06 May 2016 14:46 UTC
Wall Street street sign
© AFP 2016/ TIMOTHY A. CLARY
The current situation in the global economy is similar to the situation on the eve of the crisis of 2008, billionaire trader Stanley Druckenmiller said.

According to the businessman, the main risks stem from actions of the US Federal Reserve and the People's Bank of China.

He criticized the Federal Reserve for its "myopic policy" of low interest rates which has led to growing bullish sentiments in the market.

"The bull market is exhausting itself," he said at the Ira Sohn Investment Conference in New York.

Comment: Druckenmiller isn't the only one sending a warning:

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Jet3

Not interested: India dismisses US offer of F-16 fighter jets


Sputnik
Fri, 06 May 2016 14:37 UTC
US F-16 fighter aircraft
© AFP 2016/ SABAH ARAR
India's defense minister expressed that India is not interested in acquiring US F-16 fighter aircraft despite aggressive lobbying by Lockheed Martin.

In what can be seen as a sharp denial to the US, India has dismissed a proposal made by Lockheed Martin Corp to build F-16 fighter jets in India.

India's defense minister Manohar Parrikar said in Parliament, "The experience of flying against F-16 is what we require as we are not going to induct F-16, at least; as of now."

Comment: Meanwhile India is making other deals with Russia:

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Attention

About face: Merkel urges Europe to tighten border security citing threat of nationalism


RT
Fri, 06 May 2016 14:30 UTC
German Chancellor Angela Merkel
© Umit Bektas / Reuters
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the EU risks sliding into "nationalism" if it fails to secure its external borders against an immense wave of refugees. Merkel's call coincides with reports that Berlin is pushing to establish a Germany-led EU army.

At a joint press-conference with Italian PM Matteo Renzi on Thursday, Germany's leader called on her EU counterparts to step up joint efforts to stem the uncontrolled migration that has continued to plague Europe.

"Either we defend our external borders and we do it together or we risk falling back into nationalism," she said, emphasizing that the task of protecting common European frontiers "from the Mediterranean to the North Pole" should be shared by all European countries for the sake of Europe's future.
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Eye 2

NATO hell-bent on destroying relations with Russia


Sputnik
Fri, 06 May 2016 11:18 UTC
Patrik Bjukenen: SAD i NATO odbacile rusku ruku prijateljstva, danas optužuju Rusiju za odbijanje saradnje
NATO's recently unveiled plans to steeply increase its troop levels in Europe by deploying a third permanent brigade and 4,000 soldiers, mainly in Eastern Europe and the Baltic region, could drastically affect the bloc's already strained relations with Russia, Professor Hall Gardner told RT.

These initiatives have not been approved yet.

Permanent NATO bases are an issue of particular concern, the analyst added, because it is a major policy change for the alliance. The bloc has previously built up its military capabilities close to Russia's borders through rotational deployment.

"Moscow has a problem with just the idea of rotating forces. But, as I said, those aren't permanent and can be more easily drawn back than a proposed third permanent deployment. This is a major issue and it could undermine the NATO - Russia Founding Act," Gardner warned.

Comment: Further reading: "We'll respond totally asymmetrically" - Russia answers NATO with three new deployments

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Bad Guys

Refugee camp destroyed near Aleppo; the West a little too quick to blame Assad


RT
Fri, 06 May 2016 10:50 UTC
Syria
© Ammar Abdullah / Reuters
The UN has condemned the bombing of a Syrian refugee camp in Sarmada, a city 30km from Aleppo, in which dozens of civilians, including women and children, were allegedly killed or injured. A video has emerged showing the aftermath of attack.

Sarmada is located in Syria's northwestern Idlib province close to the Turkish border and is said to be controlled by rebel factions fighting the government of President Bashar Assad. The makeshift camp which was targeted is said to have been accommodating up to 2,000 people who fled war-torn areas seeking safety.

While no party has claimed responsibility for what reports have called an airstrike, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said US-led coalition warplanes were not on a mission in the stricken area, while stressing that "there is no justifiable excuse for carrying out an airstrike against innocent civilians who have already once fled their homes to escape violence."


Comment: There is no excuse for massacring innocent civilians, but that hasn't stopped the US from doing it time after time.


Comment: Why would Assad's forces utterly destroy a refugee camp near Aleppo, at a time when they are making massive headway to rout the West's terrorist proxies in the country? Sounds rather like something the West would do in order to justify further intervention in the country. It does coincide perfectly with the 'Aleppo Is Burning' propaganda campaign as it calls for a Syrian no-fly zone.

Will the world ever learn? Iraq was not responsible for 9/11, the anthrax attacks, and did not have weapons of mass destruction. Gaddafi was not murdering his own people. Assad did not use chemical weapons against his own people. But how quick was the West to blame these men for 'war crimes' and then proceed to commit the greatest crime of all - genocide against their people.

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Vader

Justifying covert aggression - America's biggest of all big lies

Eric Zuesse
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 06 May 2016 01:33 UTC
NATO bases
On April 26th, Reuters headlined from Romania, "'We're Not Here to Provoke,' Say US Pilots on Putin's Doorstep", and gave as an example:
"'We're not here to provoke anybody, we're here to work with our allies,' says Dan Barina, a 26-year-old pilot on his first trip to a region where tensions have risen markedly since Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Romania's neighbor Ukraine two years ago".
How can it not be 'provoking', when Russia now faces a threat from Obama and America's NATO alliance, that's vastly worse than what America had faced from the Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev and the USSR's Warsaw Pact alliance in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis? That was just one missile-base, 90 miles from the US - not dozens of them, some right on Russia's border. Are those American pilots idiots to believe their superiors' absurd statements about what their mission is, or is insanity the explanation here - or, is there even some third explanation possible for this oblivious statement from the American pilot? Perhaps those soldiers and airmen are simply drowning in (or drunk with) US propaganda? They really believe that Russia is moving too close to NATO, not that NATO has already moved too close to Russia? Really? The Reuters report said that NATO countries were doing this to protect themselves from "an increasingly aggressive Russia". Wow. But that's the line promoted by US President Barack Obama. And he's accepted as a decent person not only by the millions of voters in his own Democratic Party (though not in the Republican Party, which blames him for everything except the truth: that he is governing so far to the right that they have to concoct false 'leftist' reasons to criticize him); but, he's also respected even by the publics in Europe, where they suffer the flood of refugees from the invasions he leads. After all: one must never underestimate the power of propaganda, to warp the public's minds.
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Jet1

"We'll respond totally asymmetrically" - Russia answers NATO with three new deployments

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 06 May 2016 02:19 UTC
NATO Russia
Russia has wasted no time in responding to NATO's decision to deploy 4,000 troops to Russia's border. Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced that Russia will be deploying two new divisions to the West, and one to the South (reportedly with 10,000 troops each) in order to counterbalance NATO's increased military presence.
"The Defense Ministry is taking a number of measures to respond to the NATO military buildup at the Russian border. Before the year's end two new divisions will be formed in the Western Military District and one in the Southern Military District." Shoigu said.
Aleksandr Grushko, Russia's envoy to NATO said in response to NATO's plan "we are not passive observers, we consistently take all the military measures we consider necessary in order to counterbalance this reinforced presence that is not justified by anything. Certainly we'll respond totally asymmetrically."
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Star of David

IDF military chief who compared Israel to Nazi Germany, backtracks on comments

WIll Worley
Independent
Thu, 05 May 2016 00:00 UTC
Yair Golan
© www.israelhayom.comMajor General Yair Golan, IDF Deputy Chief of Staff
A senior military general has backtracked after appearing to draw parallels between "horrifying events" in Europe in the 1930s and modern Israeli society. Major General Yair Golan, the Israel Defence Forces' (IDF) Deputy Chief of Staff, was speaking at a Holocaust memorial service when he made the unexpected statement. However, following strong criticism of his comments, he has since denied he was attempting to make a direct comparison between Israel, its armed forces and Nazi Germany.

"It's scary to see horrifying developments that took place in Europe begin to unfold here," Maj. Gen. Golan told an audience of politicians and dignitaries. "Because if there is one thing that is scary in remembering the Holocaust, it is noticing horrific processes which developed in Europe - particularly in Germany - 70, 80, and 90 years ago, and finding remnants of that here among us in the year 2016."

"The Holocaust, in my view, must lead us to deep soul-searching about the nature of man. It must bring us to conduct some soul-searching as to the responsibility of leadership and the quality of our society. It must lead us to fundamentally rethink how we, here and now, behave towards the other."

"There is nothing easier and simpler than in changing the foreigner," the officer said, according to the Jerusalem Post and other reports. "There is nothing easier and simpler than fear-mongering and threatening. There is nothing easier and simpler than in behaving like beasts, becoming morally corrupt, and to act sanctimoniously."

"On Holocaust Remembrance Day, it is worthwhile to ponder our capacity to uproot the first signs of intolerance, violence, and self-destruction that arise on the path to moral degradation," Maj. Gen. Golan said.

Comment: This IDF general ventured out from under the mass Israeli delusion to speak to this particular crowd commemorating the holocaust. In doing so, he endeavored to jog the audience into a broader and more accurate depiction of today's Israeli mindset, policy and action, and alluded to why that is important. It may have been a warning of what lies ahead, an alerting of what already was unfolding. Instead, he found closed ears, closed minds and anger. Coming under fire from rightwing politicians, he was obviously given an ultimatum. He caved and walked it back. Israelis are not prepared to look in the mirror, not now, maybe never. As a general and an IDF deputy chief of staff, he might survive. But as a brave guest speaker with a conscience in a pathocratic environment...not his best career move.

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