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U.S. unwilling to cooperate with Russia on Syrian ceasefire violation protocol, Russia will unilaterally monitor ceasefire from now on

Lieutenant General Sergei Rudskoy
Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 16:39 UTC
Sergei Rudskoy

Comment: The Syrian ceasefire is playing out as predicted. Relatively few groups joined on. Those who did have largely abided by the truce agreements; residents are returning to towns, aid is flowing into rebel-held areas, and fighting has diminished in the towns and villages in question. But last week, the Russian military revealed that groups included on the U.S.'s list of truce-abiding groups have been violating the ceasefire. After being stonewalled by the U.S., the Russians are now vowing to take the ceasefire into their own hands starting tomorrow. Here's the U.S. response:
"We have seen the media reports on alleged Russian concerns over ceasefire violations," the official stated. "Whoever is making such statements must be misinformed, because these issues have been discussed at length already, and continue to be discussed, in a constructive manner."
Perhaps this "U.S. official" considers stonewalling to be a constructive attitude towards a situation on which lives depend.


On February 25, the Russian Defence Ministry sent a draft proposal on ceasefire observe and control in Syria through military-diplomatic channels to the US representatives following provisions of the Joint Russian-American agreement on ceasefire in Syria.

The document contains consultation process between the Russian Federation and the United States of America in case of receiving information about ceasefire violations and usage of military force against formations, which violate ceasefire obligations systematically. The Russian Defence Ministry considers that such procedures are to form an effective mechanism for controlling and suppressing potential ceasefire violators in Syria.

Having received viewpoint of the US representatives, the Russian side developed a compromise draft agreement and sent it on March 5. Moreover, the Russian party suggested holding consultations as soon as possible in order to let experts approve the text of the agreement.

However, the Russian-American consultations, which had been held in Amman on March 18, showed that the American party was not ready for particular discussion and approving of the agreement text.
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War Whore

U.S. officials report ISIS operative Omar al-Shishani is dead (UPDATE: Iraqis confirm report)

Barbara Starr
CNN
Tue, 15 Mar 2016 09:53 UTC
Omar al-Shishani
© CNN

Comment: And how do they know he is dead (again)? Because he is their asset and they are in constant communication with their assets? Is he dead or is he not dead? Omar "the Chechen" dies again! Pentagon claims US airstrikes killed ISIS commander

Update 21 March 2016

The Iraqi military have confirmed Shishani's death, saying the found his body:
"Army forces found 10 bodies of IS terrorists during the clearing of Albu Obaid area east of Ramadi. One of them belongs to the IS commander Abu Omar al-Shishani," Alsumaria TV channel reported, citing Iraqi commander in Anbar Ismail Mahlaui as saying.

Two U.S. officials told CNN that the Obama administration has assessed that ISIS senior operative Omar al-Shishani is dead.

The officials said he was injured in a U.S. airstrike last week and then died subsequently, though they wouldn't say how they know he is dead.
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Yoda

Putin's brilliant strategy in Syria stands in stark contrast to American exceptionalism and neo-colonialism

Catherine Shakdam
RT
Sun, 20 Mar 2016 16:26 UTC
Russian Su-25
© Dmitriy Vinogradov / ReutersA Russian Su-25 attack aircraft takes off from the Khmeimim airbase in Syria
The world stood still this week when Moscow said it would begin withdrawing its forces from Syria. The question on everyone's lips: What made Russia abandon its position in the ME?

While many may have smirked at the news that Russia was calling back its boys from Syria just 22 weeks into its intervention, make no mistake: President Vladimir Putin's decision was a strategic one.

Without political dealing, leaning and wrangling, Russia did what Russia set out to do in the first place: create a space within which Syria would be able to safely negotiate, devise and carve its future - away from foreign interventionism, latent neo-colonialism, and of course the danger of radicalism.

In Oct. 2015 Putin said: "Our goal... is to stabilize the legitimate power in Syria, and to create conditions for the search for political compromise." And he wasn't kidding. I understand that it might come as a shock to many, but some state officials occasionally tell the truth and follow through with their pledges.
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Dollars

Helicopter money - hyperinflation to follow?

Mehreen Khan
The Telegraph
Sat, 19 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC
helicopters
The lords of finance are losing their touch.

Institutions which dragged the world from its worst depression since the early 20th century are finally seeing their magic desert them, if conventional wisdom is to be believed.

Eight years on the from the Great Recession, voices as authoritative as the International Monetary Fund and the Bank of International Settlements - dubbed the 'central bank of central banks' - have called time on the era of extraordinary monetary policy.

Having hoovered up $12.3 trillion (£8.5 trillion) in financial assets and carried out 637 interest rate cuts since 2008, central banks have been stunned back into action in the last six weeks.

Comment: Up and to the point where that "ammunition" no longer has value and hyperinflation destroys the currency.

If you haven't done so, now would be a very good time to get your financial house in order and prepared for the economic chaos that is likely just around the corner.

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Wolf

Donald Trump: A mafia don with a pompadour

F. William Engdhal
New Eastern Outlook
Sun, 20 Mar 2016 13:25 UTC
trump dumm
© Reuters
Every four years Americans get to vote for a President. The last President who might have made a positive difference to the country and the world was John F. Kennedy. Just before his assassination, JFK was moving to disengage from Vietnam. He was in a back-channel dialogue with Soviet head Nikita Khrushchev to insure a repeat of the 1962 Cuba Missile Crisis, a near-nuclear war by miscalculation, would never happen (bad for US military-industrial complex and the Rockefellers among others). In short, he was starting to deviate from The Program.

JFK as we all know was assassinated on November 22, 1963 at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. His assassins included networks of Allen Dulles' CIA, including a then-young CIA agent named G.H.W. Bush; elements of the Mafia around New Orleans mafia boss Carlos Marcello; elements of the Dallas Police; mafia-CIA-linked gangster night club owner, Jack Ruby; Texan political boss, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; networks of the Pentagon. The only one who was innocent was the one Ruby rubbed out to silence him: Lee Harvey Oswald.

That was fifty three years ago. I was in Dallas the day Kennedy was shot. The TV scenes are burned in my memory as national trauma like with most Americans back then.

Since then the United States of America, the land of the free and home of the brave, has gradually become a nation of confused, angry, lost souls who no longer know why we should exist as a nation. We've lost sight of what happened to our moral purpose so beautifully described in the documents of our founding fathers at the end of the 18th Century. All we do with our rage, frustration and growing feeling of impotence as a people is to project that rage on the world in the form of making wars, wars, wars everywhere - Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, wars on our border to Mexico, wars in our cities, and on and on. We don't even bother to know for what moral purpose the war anymore. We long ago dispensed with the moral open protests that were so prevalent during the 1960's and 1970's during the Vietnam War.
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MH17 deception: BUK bow-tie found by Dutch journalist likely planted


What Happened to Flight MH17?
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 16:13 UTC
mh17 buk fragment
Dutch RTL Nieuws journalist Jeroen Akkermans published a breaking story in March 2015 on MH17. He reported that he found parts of a BUK missile and warhead fragments at the crash site. He found these parts at November 10 or November 11, 2014 and had them analyzed by independent experts.

One interesting part found by Akkermans was a bow-tie shaped piece of rusted material. It looks like to be shrapnel part of the BUK warhead. One of the experts who looked at this fragment was Nicolas De Larrinaga of Janes. His quote published by RTL is "From the hour-glass form we can gather all the characteristics of an impact of a 9N314 warhead fragment. This fits perfectly."

However, judging by the exact position where the bow-tie was found by Akkermans, the fact the bow-tie was loose on the floor and the fact that the wreckage piece was turned over by people since the crash, it is likely this bow-tie was planted by someone.
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Heart - Black

The EU's lack of humanity evident in Greece as they push 5,000 refugees off Lesbos Island


Sputnik
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 16:01 UTC
refugee child crying
© AFP 2016/ Ozan Kose
The port of Piraeus in Athens shows the "effects of Europe's utter failure to respond collectively and compassionately to people seeking protection," according to Human Rights Watch after more than 5,000 migrants were pushed off the Greek island of Lesbos and sent to temporary shelters on the mainland.

Piraeus, the busiest port in Athens is now home to the thousands of men, women and children transported from the islands with nowhere to go. Around 875 new refugees arrived at four Greek islands over the weekend — and a ferry transported 1,169 migrants to the mainland near Athens.

According to campaign group Human Rights Watch, over 4,000 men, women and children are sleeping in old warehouses, tens and under trucks. They are just some of the 44,000 people who are trapped in Greece following border closures along the Western Balkan route, where more than 10,500 people remain stuck on the country's border with Macedonia.
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South Front: Russian ground troops - the preparation for future wars


South Front
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:57 UTC
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Russia Defense Report: Fighting Next Wars

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The ever-curiouser case of the pathetic MH-17 "investigation"

Robert Parry
Consortium News
Wed, 16 Mar 2016 15:32 UTC
Malaysia Airways Boeing 777
© Aero Icarus from Zürich, SwitzerlandA Malaysia Airways’ Boeing 777 like the one that crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014.
The curious mystery surrounding the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, gets more curious and more curious as the U.S. government and Dutch investigators balk at giving straightforward answers to the simplest of questions even when asked by the families of the victims.

Adding to the mystery Dutch investigators have indicated that the Dutch Safety Board did not request radar information from the United States, even though Secretary of State John Kerry indicated just three days after the crash that the U.S. government possessed data that pinpointed the location of the suspected missile launch that allegedly downed the airliner, killing all 298 people onboard.

Although Kerry claimed that the U.S. government knew the location almost immediately, Dutch investigators now say they hope to identify the spot sometime "in the second half of the year," meaning that something as basic as the missile-launch site might remain unknown to the public more than two years after the tragedy.

The families of the Dutch victims, including the father of a Dutch-American citizen, have been pressing for an explanation about the slow pace of the investigation and the apparent failure to obtain relevant data from the U.S. and other governments.
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Star of David

Israel wants Kurds to have their own state. Why?


Sputnik
Sun, 20 Mar 2016 16:34 UTC
Ayelet Shaked
© AP PHOTO/ GALI TIBBONThe Minister of Justice of the Jewish State, Ayelet Shaked, advocates the creation of a Kurdish state that is to weaken Iran and Turkey.
In a region where the Kurds have few allies, one country stands out: high-ranking Israeli politicians, including Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, have voiced their support for an independent Kurdish state, an idea that the countries where the Kurds live - Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran - strongly oppose.

Surprising as it may seem, Israel has long promoted cordial relations with the Kurds, particularly the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq (KRG). "Kurdish leaders believe that Israel can be their best lobby in the West for the project of a Kurdish state," Ofra Bengio, an expert on the Kurds, wrote for the American Interest. The Israelis are also rumored to have provided weapons and training to the KRG.

In addition, Israel helped the KRG by purchasing Kurdish oil in 2015 at a time when Baghdad threatened to sue anyone, who would trade with the Kurds. Security concerns should also be taken into account. After all, Israel's neighbors are not the biggest fans of the Jewish state. "The tectonic changes that have taken place in Iraq and Syria, and Kurdish feats on the battleground, have proven that the Kurds are a formidable barrier against dangerous anti-Israeli forces emanating from both Sunni and Shi'a Islamist radicals," the analyst observed.

Interestingly, the Kurds want to keep the relations with Israel afloat, yet they don't want to make it public. For its part, Israel does not make a secret of the fact that it is supporting the Kurdish cause.

"We must openly call for the establishment of a Kurdish state that separates Iran from Turkey, one which will be friendly towards Israel," Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said in late January. She also called the Kurds "a partner for the Israeli people." This is not an isolated comment from an Israeli official. But in a region as complicated as the Middle East, one could hardly blame the Kurdish politicians for being careful.

Comment: It is more likely Israel supports the Kurds in order to gain a buffer with Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey, as well as a formidable fighting force in the neighborhood at Israel's beck and call. As with all long-term plans, Israel in the past (1963-75) supplied Kurds with arms and training and had (have?) military and intel operatives active in Kurd areas in Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria (denied by Israel). Has Israel, in any way, fought for/with the Kurds while Erdogan is bombing their cities? No. Has Israel confronted Turkey, Iran or Syria on behalf of the Kurds, sending in military resources? No. So, it looks like Israel wants the Kurds for decoys, front fighters, a buffer zone. It is not above Israeli motives to clandestinely foment volatile relations between Kurds and Turkey or Iran in order to create a barrier for themselves using another entity as its shield. The Kurds, internationally unsupported, identify with another former stateless nation that tells them what they want to hear. A fragmented Syria with a Kurdistan segment would suit Israel just fine.

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