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Dodging the public: State Dept. releases (buries) Clinton emails on New Year's Eve, PLUS misses court mandated quota


RT
Thu, 31 Dec 2015 21:30 UTC
Hillary Clinton
© Brian Snyder / Reuters"Nothing classified. Really."
If one fancies a long read, the State Department is releasing 5,500 pages of Hillary Clinton's emails on New Year's Eve - falling short of the court-ordered quota by 2,000 pages. This batch of emails won't be searchable until January, either.

As a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, the agency was ordered in June to release all 54,000 pages of emails that Hillary Clinton sent during her term as Secretary of State, using a private server.

The monthly quotas set by US District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras mandated the release of 43,000 pages, or 82 percent of all messages, by the end of December, with the remaining emails made public by the end of January 2016.

On Thursday, the State Department announced that the December batch would fall short of the mark, at only 5,500 pages.

"We have worked diligently to come as close to the goal as possible, but with the large number of documents involved and the holiday schedule we have not met the goal this month," the agency said in a statement on New Year's Eve.

"To narrow that gap, the State Department will make another production of former Secretary Clinton's email sometime next week."

Moreover, unlike the previous releases the new batch will not be searchable by subject, author or recipients. Reporters will have to manually review each message.

Comment: More dodging and weaving on behalf of Killary.

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Foreshadowing the next false flag? FBI arrests patsy in Daesh-linked terror plot in upstate NY


Sputnik News
Thu, 31 Dec 2015 20:19 UTC
Chancelor Suttler V for Vendetta threat level cower in fear
Due to this most recent terror plot that was foiled (and also created) by the FBI, the US government is raising the terror threat level to "Cower in Fear"
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested 25 year-old Emanuel Lutchman for attempting a New Year's Eve terrorist plot in New York State in coordination with Daesh (Islamic State), the US Department of Justice announced in a press release on Thursday.

"The FBI thwarted Emanuel Lutchman's intent to kill civilians on New Year's Eve," Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Buffalo Division Adam Cohen said.


Comment: According to an article in International Business Times:
Lutchman and the other person — who was secretly working with the FBI — allegedly discussed planting a bomb inside the restaurant/bar, kidnapping and killing people and wearing masks to avoid identification. The duo bought masks, gloves, zip ties, knives, duct tape, a machete and ammonia at Walmart Tuesday night. Lutchman later said, "we just gotta do it, man."
Sounds like yet another patsy set up by the FBI to take the fall for a terror plot that they created, in order to make them look like they're doing something pro-active (they're not), while also terrorizing people with the idea that terrorism can happen to them anywhere, at any time.


Comment: Creating fake terror plots seems to be the modus operandi of the FBI. Could this be a setup for an upcoming Daesh/ISIS false flag terrorist attack on the US?


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India's PM Modi visits Moscow: What it means

Ajay Goyal
Russia Insider
Sun, 27 Dec 2015 19:59 UTC
Putin and Modi
Symbolic gifts from Putin to Modi: a manuscript by great pacifist Mahatma Gandhi and a Bengali sword.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has concluded his first visit to Moscow. It was one of the PM's unusual foreign trips. Adoring crowds in Sydney, Dubai, London and New York fill stadiums and cheer his every word. We see him hugging leaders and his selfies with them go viral, showing good chemistry with Barack Obama, David Cameron, Xi Jinping and Shinzo Abe as well as with business leaders of the two countries.

In contrast, his meetings with Vladimir Putin are more business-like. A year of high level exchanges and background work by ministers and diplomats resulted in nearly 16 high level agreements which are estimated to be worth US $100 billion in Russian exports to India over the next decade.

The uncharacteristic one day event, low on symbolism, was cobbled together to fit in with the very different foreign policy priorities of Russia and India. Indian business is cooler toward Russia than Russia's private sector is toward India. And while the Indian diaspora are in leadership positions in Silicon valley and London, Moscow's Indian community has shrunk to a few dozen from its high of 50,000 in the early 1990s.
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Normandy Four agrees to extend Minsk deals to 2016


ITAR-TASS
Thu, 31 Dec 2015 19:51 UTC
Poroshenko press conference
© Mykola Lazarenko/Ukrainian presidential press service/TASS
The Normandy Four has agreed to extend the validity of the Minsk Agreements to 2016 after a phone conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

"The leaders thoroughly discussed the still tense and unstable situation in southeast Ukraine in the context of implementation of the agreements coordinated in Minsk February 12, 2015," the Kremlin reported.

"They agreed to extend their validity to 2016. The importance was noted of further work of the Contact Group to fully and comprehensively implement the Minsk Package of Measures," it said.

Comment: Ukraine has nothing to show of any progress in the Minsk agreements and the West seems to have lost interest.

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The U.S. refuses to accept that the world is becoming multipolar


Sputnik
Tue, 29 Dec 2015 00:00 UTC
US Pacific fleet
© Flickr
The United States doesn't want to admit that humanity has entered the age of a new multipolar world, according to an El Pais article.

Over the past 15 years the world has changed dramatically. When George W. Bush was elected as the president of the United States in 2000, the only concern Washington had was the regime of Saddam of Hussein in Iraq, the article, translated into English by the website Whattheysayaboutusa.com, said.

Since then things have dramatically changed. Now we have open rivalries between the three great powers — the United States, Russia and China — and the ongoing crisis in the Middle East as a result of the Iraq War, the Arab Spring and the rise of Daesh (Islamic State), El Pais said.
"A multipolar world had become a true possibility — if only international organizations would acknowledge it," the article said, referring to the fact that Western-led international organizations, such as the G-20 and the IMF, refuse to fully recognize the power of new emerging economies.

Comment: The arrogance and wishful thinking of the neoconservatives driving U.S. foreign policies make them blind to the fact that these policies are failing to achieve their aims. Their relentless drive for global domination is only bringing the world closer to WWIII, which is unlikely to end as they imagine.

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Silencing truth: Department of Defense plans legal changes to crack down on whistle-blowers


Sputnik
Wed, 30 Dec 2015 00:00 UTC
whistleblower
After a year marked by repeated cyberattacks into US government databanks, the Department of Defense is tightening up its Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) to prevent future breaches and leaks, legal and cyber analysts told Sputnik.

Former CIA counterterrorism officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou told Sputnik on Tuesday that the change in the Code seemed focused on bringing military legal procedures up to date to deal with the burgeoning field of cybercrime and cyberespionage.

"It may be that the law was outdated and didn't include 'cybercrime," Kiriakou said.

The Defense Department has proposed a reform in the US Code of Military Justice to introduce punishment for specific computer offenses for the first time.

Retired US Army Major Todd Pierce, an author and expert on military law and civil liberties, told Sputnik the reform seemed to be focused on serving military personnel who became whistleblowers such as Chelsea Manning, rather than on civilian contractors such as Edward Snowden.

Comment: The history of the U.S. government's attacks, intimidation, and murder of whistleblowers

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Iran denies it fired rockets close to US aircraft carrier - 'This false news is psychological warfare'


RT
Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:48 UTC
USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier
© Kristina Young / ReutersThe aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman
Tehran has officially denied that its Revolutionary Guards' patrol vessel launched rockets in imminent proximity to the USS Harry S. Truman and its convoy entering the Persian Gulf, calling the allegation an act of "psychological warfare."

On Tuesday, reports emerged that last Saturday the US aircraft carrier was intimidated after missiles were launched by an Iranian patrol vessel on a parallel course with the American naval convoy.

"The naval forces of the Guards have not had any exercises in the Strait of Hormuz during the past week and the period claimed by the Americans, for them to have launched missiles and rockets,"Reuters quoted Revolutionary Guards spokesman Ramezan Sharif as saying.

Comment: It's more of the same baseless allegations, repeated ad nauseam in the media, that led up to the Iraq war, the Libyan invasion, and the current Syrian intervention. The psychos in power will use every trick in the book to attempt to demonize and destabilize their targets.

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Bad Guys

Poland passes 'national media' law allowing for all-out media crackdown


RT
Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:38 UTC
Poland EU
© Przemek Wierzchowski / Agencja Gazeta / Reuters
The EU, European journalists organizations and the OSCE media rep have slammed Poland's new media law, which gives government more control over public TV and radio and the right to appoint officials to top broadcast posts "to shield national interests."

In another step by the newly-elected Law and Justice party (PiS) government to gain a firmer grip on state institutions, a "national media" law was passed in Warsaw on Wednesday.

The new law will come into effect immediately after President Andrzej Duda signs it. The bill would give the powers to the treasury minister to replace current senior public broadcasting officials at Polskie Radio and Telewizja Polska (TVP) with any other candidates.

It also terminates the terms of the current management of the national broadcasters.

Comment: As if Western media weren't already pure propaganda:

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USA

Obama to slam new 'friend' Iran with fresh sanctions over contested ballistic-missile program

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:19 UTC
US Treasury Building in Washington, DC
© Karen Bleier / AFP
Spot what's wrong with the following sentence: "The Obama administration is preparing to impose its first financial sanctions on Iran since it forged a landmark nuclear agreement in July."

That's from WSJ and it underscores how truly absurd the relationship between Washington and Tehran has become. Just as the US is preparing to lift crippling international sanctions against Iran in connection with the country's nuclear program, The White House is set to slap new sanctions on the country to punish the Iranians for advances in ballistic-missile development.
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Russia signed agreement to build oil rigs for Iran in the Persian Gulf


RT
Thu, 31 Dec 2015 10:39 UTC
Oil Rig
© Raheb Homavandi CJF / Reuters An Iranian man points to an oil production platform at the Soroush oil fields in the Persian Gulf, 1,250 km (776 miles) south of the capital Tehran
Russian and Iranian ship-building companies have signed an agreement for construct oil rigs in the Persian Gulf, PressTV has reported. Under the agreement, the Russian Krasnye Barrikady (Red Barricades) shipyard will build rigs for exploration and production of oil and gas, according to Hamid Rezaian, Managing Director of Iranian shipbuilder ISOICO. The Russian company will also share some of the technology.

"We are ready to provide ISOICO with the necessary equipment thanks to the financial and insurance support of the Russian government," said Alexander Ilyichev, CEO of Krasnye Barrikady. He added that Iran was also interested in ordering new oil tankers for operation in the Caspian Sea.

The deal was signed during a big foreign exhibition in Iran earlier this month. Representatives of 80 leading Russian companies showed off their products at the event. The ISOICO head said in November the company was waiting for the lifting of Western sanctions from Iran. The shipbuilder plans to unveil a range of joint projects with major world shipbuilders, including those of South Korea, Italy, China, German and Turkmenistan. Sanctions against Iran are yet to be lifted, as the International Atomic Energy Agency has to confirm that Iran has met its obligations. Iran and the six international mediators (the US, UK, France, Germany, Russia and China) signed a deal in July to settle the standoff over Iran's nuclear program.

Tehran has already announced a package of contracts and plans of increasing oil exports to pre-sanctions level of 2.2 million barrels per day once the sanctions are lifted.

Comment: Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vasili Nebenzya said it best:
"There are unilateral sanctions of the USA against Iran which we don't regard ourselves bound with while the calls to give up the development of relations with Iran greatly look like competitive rivalry.."
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