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Eye 2

Israel, Turkey and ISIS team to steal energy from Syria

Maram Susli
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00 UTC
Bibi Erdogan
The discovery of the Leviathan gas field within Israeli and Cypriot waters has made Israel a potential energy exporting nation. However the means to transport the gas to the large energy markets of Europe continues to elude Israel. Recent talks between Turkey and Israel about plans to build a gas pipeline, through Turkey and into Europe, have been extensively reported.

Many of the reports claim the discussions are the results of the thaw in relations between Turkey and Israel. The rift was supposedly caused by Israel's attack on the MV MarMara, the aid ship attempting to break Israel's siege on Gaza in 2010, and the execution of 8 Turkish citizens on board the ship. But even during this period of "tense" relations, discussions about the gas pipeline were still being held between Turkey and Israel. Trade between the two states went up by 25%.

The tense relations were a facade, a face saving measure that allowed Turkish President Erdogan to portray an image of a patriotic defender of Turkish citizens, and a champion of Islam and the Palestinian cause. During the initial uproar of the flotilla incident, Erdogan promised the next flotilla would be escorted by the Turkish navy. Instead Erdogan blocked the Mavi MarMara from heading to Gaza. Far from defending the Palestinian cause, Turkey continued to produce Israel's Military combat boots which are used in the occupation of the West bank. Relations with Turkey improved even though Israel's treatment of Palestinians did not improve. This reveals the extent of which Turkey's foreign policy is drenched in hypocrisy.

Comment: A very dirty game is being played out by Israel and Turkey that, sooner or later, may come to the awareness of many more masses of people. And all hell will break loose when it does (even more than it has already).

See also: The man behind the curtain: Israeli colonel captured among ISIL terrorist forces in Iraq

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Beaker

Latest on the Lugar Bio laboratory in Tbilisi: It's getting worse by the day

Henry Kamens
New Eastern Outlook
Tue, 02 Feb 2016 22:36 UTC
People in hazmat suites
Introduction by Gordon Duff, Editor of Veterans Today:

Today people are getting sick with Swine Flu and Zika all over the world, with Ebola hanging back while we await the next outbreak. Diseases occur naturally, but since World War II governments have spent billions weaponizing different viruses to be used alongside the usual crop of diseases, the old bacterial standbys like anthrax or smallpox and train loads of poison gas.

A bio-chemical warfare "medical research" facility, like the one in Tbilisi, is almost exactly the same as a fully-fledged bio-chemical warfare production facility. All that would be required is to use one portion of a research facility for this purpose, maybe a few secret labs and underground or outbuilding production facilities which are easy to hide. How you tell one from the other is by examining the plans, the security protocols and the budget. You then look at the management of the facility, its history and examine what diseases it "researches."
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Nuke

What could go wrong? UN nuclear agency suggests using radiation to fight Zika mosquitos


RT
Tue, 02 Feb 2016 22:19 UTC
Aedes aegypti mosquito
© Paulo Whitaker / ReutersDon’t blame zika – the problem runs much deeper.
Aiming to prevent the further spread of the dangerous mosquito-borne Zika virus in Brazil, male insects might be exposed to X- or Gamma rays to irradiate their sperm, the UN's nuclear agency announced on Tuesday.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the so-called Sterile Insect Technology (SIT) can help tackle the outbreak which has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO). IAEA experts are set to meet with Brazilian officials on February, 16, Reuters reported.

Comment: So genetically modified mosquitos aren't enough, now that want to nuke them and see what kind of monster can be developed.

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Treasure Chest

Need more war: Pentagon requesting $7.5 billion for anti-Daesh fight, up 50% from 2016


Sputnik
Tue, 02 Feb 2016 22:02 UTC
Ashton Carter
© AFP 2016/ YURI GRIPAS
The US Department of Defense (DOD) will spend 50 percent more in fiscal year 2017 on its fight against the Daesh, US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said on Tuesday.

"Because we are accelerating the [anti-Daesh] campaign, DOD is backing that up and we need to back it up in our budget with a total of $7.5 billion in 2017, fifty percent more than in 2016," Carter said at the Economic Club in Washington, DC. "This will be critical as our updated coalition military campaign plan kicks in."

Comment: As the economies of the world slow down, the military-industrial complex wants more business apparently. Or they see Russia in a new light and want more money to upgrade the US military.

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Eye 1

UN set to announce decision on WikiLeaks founder Assange's release on Friday


RT
Tue, 02 Feb 2016 11:43 UTC
WikiLeaks founder Jullian Assange
© Suzanne Plunkett / Reuters
The UN is set to announce whether it will order the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday, the whistleblower site has tweeted.

Assange submitted a complaint against Sweden and the United Kingdom to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in September 2014.

The WikiLeaks founder has been living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for over three years, after being granted asylum by the South American country.

He remains holed up in the embassy to avoid possible extradition to Sweden, where he faces an allegation of rape.

Comment: See also: US Deep State's draconian measures to criminalize citizens

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Russia imposes travel ban on 5 former US officials over their role in torture


RT
Tue, 02 Feb 2016 19:48 UTC
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
© Natalia Seliverstova / SputnikThe Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Smolenskaya-Sennaya Square in Moscow.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has imposed a travel ban on five former law-enforcement officials from the US citing their role in the "legalization and use of torture and indefinite detentions." The ministry said the move is a retaliatory measure.

Criticizing US President Barack Obama's administration's decision to add more people on the so-called 'Magnitsky list', "which has been for a long time used for unreasonable accusations against Russian officials," the ministry said that Washington's recent move "strikes a blow at bilateral relations."

"The US continues to destroy [these relations'] grounds, regularly spreading false information against Russia," the foreign ministry's information and press department said in a statement on Tuesday.

All five are former officials, who Moscow says are connected to the "legalization and use of torture and indefinite detention of prisoners."

Saying that the five US nationals, including former US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales are now banned from entering Russia, the ministry added that Washington should deal with the human rights situation in its own country in a better way.

"We are talking about a policy that has allowed the keeping of Russian citizen [Ravil] Mingazov in Guantanamo prison without a trial for over 13 years," the statement said.
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Star of David

Police State: Israel adopts legislation allowing police to stop and search any person without reason


RT
Tue, 02 Feb 2016 19:12 UTC
IDF soldiers
© Ammar Awad / Reuters
Police in Israel have been told they can stop and search any resident they choose, even if the person has not been behaving suspiciously. The legislation adopted by the Knesset has caused an outcry among opposition groups, who say it will increase discrimination.

The law had previously stated that police officers were only allowed to search someone if they had sufficient reason to believe that the person could be carrying a weapon. Nissan Slomiansky, a member of the Knesset, also stated that the legislation made sure that officers could only stop an individual if they could visibly see a bulge in the person's clothing that suggested they could be hiding a knife or gun, the Times of Israel reported.

The bill was passed by the Knesset following a vote of 39 in favor to 31 against.

It will now mean that police will be able to search an individual without reasonable suspicion and solely based on a judgment that a person could be about to carry out a terror attack.
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Compass

UN chief Ban Ki-moon continues to slam Israel gov't policies and says 'don't shoot the messenger'


Yahoo News
Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:00 UTC
Ban Ki-moon
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Israel "don't shoot the messenger" as he renewed criticism of the "humiliating" Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.

Ban said in an opinion piece published in the New York Times that Israel cannot keep "lashing out at every well-intentioned critic" of its policies and that he had "pointed out a simple truth."

"Palestinians -- especially young people -- are losing hope over what seems a harsh, humiliating and endless occupation," he said in the editorial posted on the website late Sunday

Comment: See also: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon gives blistering critique of Israel over 'stifling' occupation

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Dollar

The US is now the world's largest billionaire tax haven

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 01 Feb 2016 18:51 UTC
rothschild nevada
Jacob Rothschild
'Let the American people go into their debt-funding schemes and banking systems, and from that hour their boasted independence will be a mere phantom." - William Pitt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the inauguration of the first National Bank in the United States under Alexander Hamilton.

The U.S. is quickly becoming known as the new Switzerland of international banking, due to its refusal to sign onto the new global disclosure standards, issued by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a government-funded international policy group.

The process of moving massive amounts of international capital from typical tax havens, into the U.S., is being driven by a familiar name in the world of international finance - Rothschild & Co.

Rothschild, a centuries-old European financial institution, manages the wealth of many of the world's most wealthy families and has been instrumental in helping move the global elite's wealth from traditional tax havens like the Bahamas, Switzerland and the British Virgin Islands to the U.S.
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UN human rights expert: Trans-Pacific Partnership is fundamentally flawed and out of step with today's human rights expectations


RT
Tue, 02 Feb 2016 18:51 UTC
TPP protests
© Robert Galbraith / Reuters
The top United Nations expert on human rights has called on the 12 nations considering the Trans-Pacific Partnership to reject the massive trade agreement since in its current form it "is out of step with today's international human rights regime."

Acknowledging global opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) because of the agreement's "undemocratic pedigree,"Alfred de Zayas, the UN's independent expert on the promotion of democratic and equitable international order, said the largest trade agreement in decades "is fundamentally flawed and should not be signed or ratified unless provision is made to guarantee the regulatory space of States."

"I am concerned that notwithstanding enormous opposition by civil society worldwide, twelve countries are about to sign an agreement, which is the product of secret negotiations without multi-stakeholder democratic consultation," de Zayas said in a statement ahead of a February 4 gathering in New Zealand of trade representatives for the 12 Pacific Rim nations involved in the secretive TPP talks.

"Trade agreements are not 'stand-alone' legal regimes, but must conform with fundamental principles of international law, including transparency and accountability," de Zayas said. [Trade agreements] must not delay, circumvent, undermine or make impossible the fulfillment of human rights treaty obligations."
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