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Greece's Prime Minister hopes for 'true reset' with forthcoming visit to Russia

Alexis Tsipras and Vladimir Putin
Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras hopes his forthcoming visit to Russia will help boost trade and economic links hit by the EU sanctions against Moscow and the Kremlin's ban on food imports from the Union.

Greece doesn't support the sanctions against Russia as they are a "road to nowhere," Tsipras said in an exclusive interview for Russia's TASS news agency published on Tuesday.

The visit to Moscow due on April 8 is expected to give a fresh impetus to the Russian-Greek relations, Tsipras said.

"This is a possibility for their true reset," he said.

Tsipras singled out energy, trade, agriculture and tourism as the key areas offering opportunities for boosting bilateral relationship.

He went on to say the Russian ban on imports of agricultural produce from the EU has dealt a heavy blow to Greek farmers, inflicting a serious damage to the Greek economy.

"We are in a geopolitical environment of special tensions and have common challenges, and we need to look at how we treat them," the Greek Prime Minister said.

"The new European security architecture must include Russia," he said.

TV

U.S. 'emergency broadcast alert' confuses TV viewers nationwide

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The residents of about a dozen US states received a scare when an ominous message rolled across their TV screens announcing an 'emergency alert' with the names of their states - without any explanation or further information.

A test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) began shortly before noon on Monday and was seen by millions of television viewers in Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington, DC, Infowars reported.

EAS is a special department run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and the National Weather Service (NOAA/NWS).

The alert interrupted regularly scheduled television programs for 10 minutes with a listing of affected states and an announcement that the alert would remain in effect until midnight.

Comment: At least no zombies were involved this time:

'Zombie Apocalypse' hoax message on U.S. Emergency Alert System broadcast on 10 channels across 5 states

Update 2: Security experts doubt TV stations' "lax passwords" to blame for Zombie Apocalypse EAS hoax: Report sent to DHS last month warned of "multiple undisclosed authentication bypasses"


Vader

War on Yemen: US Imprimatur, Proxy Lies and an Impotent Body

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There is a perfect reason why United Nations officials and Western diplomats are fleeing Yemen. They are complicit in Saudi war crimes.
Thanks to their all-out support for the illegal invasion, calls for peace and diplomacy continue to fall on deaf ears as the medieval Saudi regime and its US-allied cohorts continue to unravel Yemen.

The United Nations or the so-called international community should hang their heads in shame. They have all largely pontificated over a non-existent Iran-Saudi proxy war at play in the impoverished nation. Reports from the ground highlight the deepening crisis for the country's 26 million residents, largely forgotten and caught in the cross-chairs of an unnecessary war.

We used to think that presidents are elected for one purpose only: To serve their nation. In Yemen it's the other way around. They are "chosen" to serve their foreign masters and launch war against their own people. Former president Abd-Rabbo Mansour Hadi - elected in a single-candidate system with "no" votes allowed - is such a politician. The Saudi puppet is the one that called for this nascent war after he resigned and fled the country!

Comment: This has been ongoing, for some time. It's similar to the U.S. bringing up North Korea as a great evil when it's convenient for them to do so, to distract people from what's going on elsewhere. For example, it could be said that since the war in the Ukraine is becoming unpopular to Western nations, distracting those nations peoples with this ongoing war, will help them forget the United States and its allies are supporting Nazi's in Ukraine.

From 2011: Axis of Evil drone strikes have killed over 130 in Yemen in recent weeks - Has President Saleh been ousted?


Wall Street

Repeal, don't reform the IMF!

Ron Paul
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A responsible financial institution would not extend a new loan of between 17 and 40 billion dollars to a borrower already struggling to pay back an existing multi-billion dollar loan. Yet that is just what the International Monetary Fund (IMF) did last month when it extended a new loan to the government of Ukraine. This new loan may not make much economic sense, but propping up the existing Ukrainian government serves the foreign policy agenda of the US government.

Since the IMF receives most of its funding from the United States, it is hardly surprising that it would tailor its actions to advance the US government's foreign policy goals. The IMF also has a history of using the funds provided to it by the American taxpayer to prop up dictatorial regimes and support unsound economic policies.

Comment: It seems only the destruction of the world will bring an end to the feeding piranhas of world banks.


Wall Street

Yemeni Army, Ansarullah Reinforcing Buildup in Aden

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More backup forces and equipment have been sent to Aden to help the army and Ansarullah in the war against the forces loyal to Saudi-backed fugitive President Mansour Hadi after Ansarullah conquered most parts of the city yesterday.
The military sources announced that backup forces have been sent from Al-Elm region to Al-Arish and then to the surrounding areas of Aden International Airport, Aden Al-Qad news website reported.

The Yemeni forces, backed by Ansarullah fighters, are on the verge of milestone victory by seizing control of the city of Aden in the South.

Fierce clashes are currently underway in Aden and the Army and revolutionary forces have managed to take control of many districts in the city, Al-Massa Press reported.

The Ansarullah forces have just regained control of the city of Taez, Yemen's third largest city in the North of Aden a few hours ago.

Aden is seen as the main stronghold of forces loyal to the ousted president, Mansour Hadi, as well as terrorist troops.

Comment: Anyone paying close attention knows the reasons behind this ongoing war.
Yemeni president says US and Israel behind unrest


Airplane

Friends of Germanwings crash pilot say he is being framed by Lufthansa to cover-up mechanical failings

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Andreas Lubitz - framed?
Friends of killer pilot Andreas Lubitz claim he is being framed for murder as part of an elaborate cover-up by his airline company to hide mechanical faults with the plane.

They have set up a Facebook page titled 'Andreas Lubitz A320, we are against the hunt' where they have been sharing their theories about the cause of the Alps disaster.

Some suggest the black box voice recorder had been tampered with by Germanwings parent company, Lufthansa, to make it appear as if Lubitz had deliberately crashed the plane.

Comment: For a run down of the evidence that suggests that we are not being told the whole truth about Germanwings crash, see Joe Quinn's article: Germanwings crash: Not the full story?


Blackbox

Best of the Web: From found to damaged to lost: Lufthansa now says flight data recorder on Germanwings Flight 9525 'may never be found'

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This is the first 'black box', the cockpit data recorder, from Germanwings Flight 9525. The second 'black box', the flight data recorder was earlier reported found but with its memory card missing... and now 'will probably never be found. Ever.'
Germany's national airline Lufthansa says that the flight data recorder which could provide key evidence about the causes of the Germanwings plane crash last Tuesday may never be found.

Speaking on Gunter Jauch, a popular Sunday night talk show, the Lufthansa manager Kay Kratky said "it could be that the damage was so serious that it [the flight data recorder] is sending no signal."

While the first black box, which contains audio recording from the cockpit was recovered soon after search and rescue teams arrived at the crash site, the second black box's whereabouts have remained elusive.

The plane is reckoned to have hit the crash site in the French Alps at a speed in the region of 800 kph, causing the plane to fragment and scatter over a wide area.

Comment: On March 25th, The New York Times reported that:
At the crash site, a senior official working on the investigation said, workers found the casing of the plane's other so-called black box, the flight data recorder, but the memory card containing data on the plane's altitude, speed, location and condition was not inside, apparently having been thrown loose or destroyed by the impact.
And yet, 5 days later, Lufthansa says it will never be found?

Germanwings crash: Not the full story?


Stop

What is war good for? Yemen refugee camp hit by airstrike

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© Reuters/Faisal MahmoodMembers of International Movement for Justice and Peace (IMJP) hold placards demanding peace in Yemen during a demonstration in Islamabad March 30, 2015.
45 people were killed and another 65 injured in an airstrike by a Saudi-led coalition at a refugee camp in Houthi-controlled northern Yemen on Monday, the International Organization for Migration (IMO) said.

The bombardment took place in the vicinity of the Mazraq refugee camp, Joel Millman, IMO spokesman told Reuters, citing the organization's staff on the ground.

It was not immediately clear how many of the casualties were civilians and how many were armed personnel, he added.

Comment: The only clear goal of this war is control of the oil flow and big money.


Pirates

ISIS publishes city 'kill list' - Most locations included don't make sense

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Talk about a psyop. More ISIS fear porn, anyone?

In an ongoing bid to scare the public with propaganda direct from our government's own creation, it is being publicized in the mainstream media that the Pentagon has responded to what has been dubbed ISIS's "kill list."

The newly released list includes a multitude of US cities, many of which make no sense unless I'm just not seeing it because I'm not a government-funded and -trained terrorist.

Here's the list of cities by state (copied and pasted spellings and all directly from News Channel 10 out of Amarillo, Texas):

Stormtrooper

ISIS air force: US bombs Iraqi military instead of ISIS

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US jets struck Iraqi forces instead of ISIL during an airstrike campaign in Tikrit, Iranian media reports.

US Air Force jets struck positions of Iraqi anti-ISIL forces during clashes near Tikrit, injuring several fighters, Iran's Fars News Agency reports.

The Iraqi army, together with militias, launched an offensive on the northern city of Tikrit on Thursday, after Iraq's Defense Minister Khalid Obeidi said that Tikrit was completely surrounded by the country's military and local militias.

On Wednesday, the Unites States began airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Tikrit. US forces previously were not involved in the Tikrit operation.


Comment: And they decide to show up when ISIS was in bad need of some support?


Comment: Related:

Number of ISIL Militants Rising Amid Coalition Airstrikes, Assad Says