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Western proxy army: UK MP says 700 Brits among ISIS terrorists


ITV
Sat, 16 Aug 2014 05:44 UTC
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© David Jones/PA WireMP for Stratford on Avon Nadhim Zahawi is on a visit to Kurdistan in northern Iraq
Iraq-born Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi has said that local leaders in northern Iraq estimate that between 500 and 700 Britons are fighting with the Islamist militants.

He told Channel 4 News that he was seeking further information after a high-ranking official told him one had been found "with a Liverpool Football Club membership card" and another carrying a different UK-related membership card.
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Pirates

G'day mate! Aussie terrorists pouring into Syria and Iraq


RT
Sat, 16 Aug 2014 05:30 UTC
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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said he's "not happy" that a suspected 19-year old jihadist managed to slip through airport security on his brother's passport and fly to the Middle East, before he was picked up in the UAE.

The teenager, 19-year old Ahmad Saiyer Naizmand from Sydney, managed to board a flight for the United Arab Emirates, where he was picked up on arrival and deported.

Abbot said the 19-year old "did arouse concerns" when he went through immigration, which is why Australian officials alerted people in the UAE.

"While this person did get out of Australia, he wasn't able to make his way to the ISIL battle front, so that's a little bit better than the previous occasion," Abbott told reporters.

He was referring to a case last December when a convicted terrorist, Khaled Sharrouf, 33, used his brother Mostafa's passport to leave Australia to fight with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, which used to be known as ISIL, despite the fact that the Australian government had banned him from leaving the country because of the threat he posed.

Comment: In this age of total surveillance, they're obviously not "slipping past authorities".

They're being groomed, financed, trained and flown to the Middle East BY said authorities, which puts a different slant on Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott recently decrying a photo of a boy holding a decapitated Syrian soldier's head as "barbaric".

If that's what you really think, THEN STOP SENDING PSYCHOPATHS THERE!

See also:

UK, Aussie jihadists call to join ISIS militants in Iraq, Syria

Australian police issue arrest warrants for citizens fighting in Syria

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Star of David

USrael's EU handmaiden backs Iraq partition plan by arming Kurds


RT
Sat, 16 Aug 2014 05:25 UTC
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© Reuters / Azad LashkariKurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters
The EU's foreign affairs council has said after a meeting in Brussels that some of the bloc's members will respond to the Iraqi Kurds' call for military aid, given they have Baghdad's consent. The EU also reiterated its commitment to Iraqi unity.

Prior to the EU statement France said it will send weapons to the Kurds. France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said he had called for the meeting in Brussels Friday to push for more European help for the Kurds and the Iraqis in their fight against Islamic State militants.

"I asked for this meeting so that all of Europe mobilizes and helps the Iraqis and the Kurds," he said on arriving in Brussels.

Italy and the Czech Republic have also backed the idea. While Germany and Holland have said they can't rule out the idea as long as the Islamic State (IS) threat continues.

"The Kurds need our support. It is important for us for there to be a European agreement," said Federica Mogherini, Italy's foreign minister.

Defense issues are normally the territory of individual EU states but the persecution and massacre of Iraqi minorities, including the Christians and the Yazidis, has led to promises of action rather than words in European capitals.

Comment: "Greater Israel": the plan is on track

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Card - MC

Goodbye Visa, so long Mastercard! Russia launches China UnionPay credit card


RT
Fri, 15 Aug 2014 21:34 UTC
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Forget Visa and MasterCard. After the two American credit system payment companies froze accounts without notice in March, Russia has been looking for an alternative in China UnionPay.

China UnionPay plans to have 2 million cards in Russia in the next three years.

Instead of seeing the small Visa and MasterCard logo on credits cards, ATMs, and retail outlets, Russians will start to see the three words "China. Union. Pay."

China UnionPay first emerged in 2002 on the domestic Chinese market as an alternative to Visa and MasterCard, but quickly expanded internationally, and now is already number one in terms of quantity of cards in the world.

Russia's biggest banks - VTB- Gazprombank, Promsvyazbank, Alfa Bank, MTS, and Rosbank- are already making technical preparations, running tests on Union Bank cards.

"VTB24 already serves China UnionPay cards in its ATM network and now the bank is in negotiations with this payment system to start acquiring retail merchants," VTB24's press office said in a statement.
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Evil Rays

Brainwashed against their own best interest: Germany puts curbing Russia ahead of commerce

Alison Smaleaug
New York Times
Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:31 UTC
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© Markus Schreiber/Associated PressPhoto Chancellor Angela Merkel has kept German businesses, which have strong interests in Russia, apprised of shifts in her thinking on relations with Moscow.
Over recent months, something significant has happened in Europe: In the crisis over Ukraine, Germany has assumed leadership not just in its familiar fashion of trying to coax Russia away from belligerence and bluster, but also in standing firm and imposing sanctions on Moscow even if they hurt German business.

Perhaps even more remarkable is that Germans, long anxious to preserve commercial, energy and cultural ties with their vast eastern neighbor, have gone along. Seventy percent of 1,003 adults polled last week by Infratest dimap for the public broadcaster ARD approved of stricter sanctions; just 15 percent viewed Russia as a reliable partner in a poll with a three-percentage-point margin of sampling error.

In marked contrast to France's leadership, Chancellor Angela Merkel and her government - a united "grand coalition" of center-right and center-left - have kept German businesses apprised of any shift in thinking and made it clear throughout that tougher sanctions would be imposed if Russia fell further out of line.

The political upheaval over Ukraine has already affected Germany's economy, slowing down growth and throwing into question the country's ability to sustain its long record of robust performance even amid anemic recovery elsewhere in the European Union, economists said. The sanctions that would restrict trade between the countries are likely to cause further damage.
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Vader

Psychopathic Israel-trained police "occupy" Missouri after killing of black youth

Rania Khalek
The Electronic Intifada
Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:29 UTC
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The killing of Michael Brown in Missouri last weekend prompted this Chicago protest against police violence.
Since the killing of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson police in Missouri last weekend, the people of Ferguson have been subjected to a military-style crackdown by a squadron of local police departments dressed like combat soldiers. This has prompted residents to liken the conditions on the ground in Ferguson to the Israeli military occupation of Palestine.

And who can blame them?

The dystopian scenes of paramilitary units in camouflage rampaging through the streets of Ferguson, pointing assault rifles at unarmed residents and launching tear gas into people's front yards from behind armored personnel carriers (APCs), could easily be mistaken for a Tuesday afternoon in the occupied West Bank.

And it's no coincidence.

At least two of the four law enforcement agencies that were deployed in Ferguson up until Thursday evening - the St. Louis County Police Department and the St. Louis Police Department - received training from Israeli security forces in recent years.
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Arrow Up

Order out of chaos: The doctrine that runs the world

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market
Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:46 UTC
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From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States), this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing.

It played, as a modern writer, Mrs. Webster, has so ably shown, a definitely recognizable part in the tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire."

- Winston Churchill, February 1920, in an article that appeared in the Illustrated Sunday Herald
The concept of conspiracy frightens some people, so much so that they are willing to overlook any and all evidence that world events are for the most part directed, rather than chaotic and coincidental. For those who are uneducated and unaware, explanations for the terrible tides of politics and war generally revolve around a false understanding of Occam's razor. They argue that the theory states that the "simplest explanation" is usually the correct one for any particular problem or crisis. But Occam's razor actually states that the simplest explanation according to the evidence at hand is usually the correct answer for any given problem. That is to say, the simplest explanation must conform to the evidence, or it is likely not correct.

Unfortunately, "skeptics" of directed conspiracy often turn a blind eye to evidence that is contrary to their simple explanations, while arguing that simplification is its own vindication. In other words, they don't feel the need to defend their simplistic world view because, in their minds, simplicity stands on its own as self-evident. There was a time when men believed that the planets revolved around each other because they were tied together by long glass strings, and this was evident to them because it was the simplest explanation they could come up with. The thinking of skeptics of the New World Order and concerted globalization is much like this.

Comment: The world conspiracy described here is one that is 'out of this realm', because it is beyond the ken of humans (or psychopaths, especially psychopaths) to control, direct or manage.

Putin's statements can in no way be taken to imply "avid support" for the IMF. What if he makes plain-pudding - "boring", even - statements about restructuring international finance because he knows you can't 'upset the markets' or you'll make too many enemies too fast and torpedo your efforts to bring about a fairer system in which the power of oligarchs everywhere is reined in, at least a bit?

Sorry, world conspiracy theorists, but that is the best that can be hoped for in this world.

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Stock Down

French banking sector faces turbulent times

Anustup Roy
PressTV
Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:42 UTC
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The French banking sector is reeling from fresh shocks after the New York Supreme Court announced it will uphold charges against Societe Generale.

British Bank Northern Rock says the French banking giant sold financial products with misleading advice before the subprime crisis started in the US. But Societe Generale says it is not responsible for products it was selling. Meanwhile, the 6.6 billion euro fine paid by another French bank BNP Paribas has led to France's national current account deficit to rise to 7.4 billion euros. That's almost double the deficit figures in May.

Local media reports show the bank's Chairman may resign in the coming months following the heaviest penalties ever paid by a French bank. These fines and court cases have made French banks watchful of where they put their feet. But seeing a total turn around within the banking sector in France may take months, if not weeks.

At a time when the French economy has officially come to a standstill, a weakened banking sector is one of the worst case scenarios of the country's economy.


Comment: For more insight on why the French banking sector is at heads with the US see:

End of the $Dollar: France lashes out against US dollar, calls for 'rebalancing' of world currencies

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Snakes in Suits

Texas Gov. Perry indicted on charge of abuse of power

Manny Fernandezaug
The New York Times
Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:31 UTC
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© Tony Gutierrez/Associated PressGov. Rick Perry last week.
Austin - Gov. Rick Perry of Texas was indicted on two felony counts on Friday by a state grand jury examining his handling of a local district attorney's drunken driving arrest and the state financing for a public corruption unit under the lawyer's control.

The indictment was returned late Friday in Austin.

The investigation centered on Mr. Perry's veto power as governor. His critics asserted that he used that power as leverage to try to get an elected official and influential Democrat - Rosemary Lehmberg, the district attorney in Travis County - to step down after her arrest for drunken driving last year. Ms. Lehmberg is Austin's top prosecutor and oversees a powerful public corruption unit that investigates state, local and federal officials; its work led to the 2005 indictment of a former Republican congressman, Tom DeLay on charges of violating campaign finance laws.
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Bad Guys

Ukraine will receive reverse gas flow supplies from Slovakia but will only receive one quarter of what it usually gets from Russia


RT
Fri, 15 Aug 2014 18:57 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Sergey Bobok
Ukrtransgaz, Ukraine's national pipeline operator, has completed all the necessary construction to accept 27 million cubic meters of gas per day from Slovakia through 2019. The operations are due to start on September 1.

All technical aspects and negotiations have been agreed upon by Ukraine's Uktransgaz and Slovakia's Eustream AS, Ukraine's state oil and gas company Naftogaz said on Wednesday.

Natural gas will flow from Slovakia to Uzhgorod, a town in western Ukraine. Though the natural gas will help Ukraine with its depleting natural gas reserves, the 27 million cubic meters is still only 1/4 of what Moscow used to send every day.

Deliveries from Slovakia could satisfy up to 20 percent of Ukraine's natural gas demand, which in 2013 was 55 billion cubic meters.

The two companies first signed a Memorandum of Understanding on April 28, 2014 to provide reverse flow gas supplies to Ukraine.
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