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Passport

US tightens visa-free entry rules for dozens of 'friendly' nations


Sputnik
Fri, 07 Aug 2015 20:46 UTC
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In response to the growing threat of fighters traveling to Syria and Iraq to join terror groups such as the self-proclaimed Islamic State, the Department of Homeland Security has announced changes to its visa waiver program that will increase restrictions on residents of "friendly" countries entering the United States.

It used to be that if you were a citizen of France, or Germany, or any of the 28 countries participating in the visa waiver program, all you had to do to enter the US was fill out a special form at the airport and hand it to Customs and Border Protection before boarding your flight.

Now, however, with the looming threat of IS and the influx of fighters joining its ranks in Syria and Iraq, the Obama administration is concerned that Western citizens may receive training from terror groups while abroad and use it to attack the homeland.

Comment: Can't help but wonder if there is more to these new restrictions than the so called terrorist threat. Certainly there will be more tracking of everyone with biometric data.

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Gold Seal

Russia's bid to expand its Arctic borders and the Western media's predictably hysterical reaction

Danielle Ryan
Sputnik
Thu, 06 Aug 2015 19:12 UTC
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© AP PHOTO/ RTR RUSSIAN CHANNELAn operator of Russian mini-submarine plants a titanium capsule with the Russian flag during a record dive in the Arctic Ocean under the ice at the North Pole, in this image made from Russian television broadcast on Friday, Aug. 3, 2007
Russia has this week submitted a revised bid to the United Nations to expand its Arctic shelf borders — but if you'd been perusing some of the headlines in the Western press yesterday, you'd have been forgiven for believing that Vladimir Putin had launched an unprovoked attack on the North Pole.

Putin has made his "most audacious land grab bid yet," screamed the Daily Express. Russia launches "Arctic land grab," shouted the Mail Online. "Move over Santa: Putin claims the North Pole" wrote the Fiscal Times, before suggesting that polar bears might soon see "little green men" moving in.

Conservative blog, the Washington Free Beacon got it completely wrong, reporting that along with its bid, Russia had just planted its flag on the ocean floor — a purely symbolic move by Russia that actually happened in 2007.

To be fair, most of the pieces did then grudgingly explain that a number of other countries have also made claims to parts of the Arctic.
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Light Sabers

Obeying the U.S. master: Termination of Mistral contract with Russia denounced by French lawmakers


Sputnik
Thu, 06 Aug 2015 18:39 UTC
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On Wednesday, the Kremlin press service announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart had terminated the contract.

France's former Minister of Transport Thierry Mariani said that Paris had surrendered to the influence of the United States and Europe in deciding to terminate the Mistral contract with Moscow.

"Hollande has conceded, France has obeyed the United States and Europe. This is a day of mourning for what is left of our national independence," Mariani wrote in his official Twitter account.

The president of the National Front, the third-largest political party in France, Marine Le Pen, said that the country had seriously discredited itself when Hollande canceled the deal.

Comment: See also:

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Megaphone

Iran Foreign Minister: U.S. responsible for spread of terrorism across Middle East


Sputnik
Thu, 06 Aug 2015 18:29 UTC
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The US government is responsible for the spread of terrorism in the Middle East, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif said in a statement Thursday in response to US President Barack Obama's claims that Iran may fund terrorism.

Obama said in a speech on Wednesday that Iran may use the funds it would obtain from sanctions relief to fund "terrorist organizations."

"The developments of the past years showed that what has resulted in insecurity and the spread of extremism and terrorism in our region, have been the uncalculated policies and actions of the US governments and some of their allies in the region.... The US officials have on numerous occasions admitted this reality, but they are still trying to escape the realities by blaming others," Zarif said in a statement published on Foreign Ministry website.

Zarif condemned US attempts to use force and threats "as foreign policy tools," adding that the civilized world had successfully abandoned the idea.

Comment: As each day passes, more and more foreign leaders are coming out and saying what is obvious to most of the world, that the U.S. is the world's biggest terrorist organization

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Bad Guys

Regime change in China: Washington using NGO's to do its dirty work

Ekaterina Blinova
Sputnik
Thu, 06 Aug 2015 18:12 UTC
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The US would love to see regime change in China, but Washington understands that the Chinese government remains firmly in control, political analyst Eric Draitser told Sputnik; therefore, the US is throwing its NGOs into the fray to do the "dirty work."

Although Moscow and Beijing have in the past tolerated the activity of US-based NGOs in Russia and China, they have since come to view the organizations as provocative and destructive, and have at long last decided to bring them to the end, by passing legislation aimed at preserving the countries' sovereignty and independence.

Unsurprisingly, their moves have met with harsh criticism from the West.

"The main reason why the West is so upset about Russia and China's moves to curb the influence of foreign NGOs is because these NGOs represent a critical element of the West's projection of soft power in these countries, and around the world. The NGOs act as a de facto arm of western intelligence and governments, helping to further the objectives of Washington and its allies," US geopolitical analyst and Stopimperialism.com editor Eric Draitser told Sputnik.
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Newspaper

Foreign Policy magazine claims U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan in order to save it from Soviet occupation

Andrew Korybko
Sputnik
Fri, 07 Aug 2015 16:12 UTC
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The magazine Foreign Policy's provocative article makes it seem like the nuclear bombings were a godsend, and that the US humanely intended to save Japan from communism.

The month of August is somberly commemorated as the only time in the world when nuclear weapons were used in warfare, where the US dropped two bombs that killed over 200,000 people in two fatal moments: one on August 6 over Hiroshima, and yet again three days later over Nagasaki.

For 70 years, this occasion has been marked by respect for the many victims who tragically lost their lives during these attacks, but now an influential American international affairs outlet, Foreign Policy, has decided to spin the event, blaming the Soviet Union for what happened.


Comment: Another sign that the ant-Russian propaganda is getting out of hand.

USA dropped atomic bombs on Japan to 'send a warning' to Russia


In the article "Did Hiroshima Save Japan From Soviet Occupation?", Sergey Radchenko questions whether the nuclear bombings were actually good for the country, in that they may have saved it from Western bogeyman Joseph Stalin.

This callous inference is contradicted by the article's own conclusion, but nonetheless, it's worthwhile to examine why the magazine would find it fitting to denigrate the victims' memory in the first place with such a misleading and politically self-serving angle.

Comment: Last year the Foreign Policy magazine praised the Neo-Nazi battalions in Ukraine, referring to them as "fascist defenders of freedom."

Preparing For War with Ukraine's Fascist Defenders of Freedom

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Stormtrooper

U.S.-backed 'moderate rebels' refuse to fight Al-Qaeda in Syria

Kareem Shaheen
The Guardian
Thu, 06 Aug 2015 15:08 UTC
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© ReutersNusra Front fighters rest with their weapons behind sandbags in the Sheikh Maksoud neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria on Monday.
A group of Syrian rebels that includes fighters trained by the United States have declared their refusal to fight al-Qaida's affiliate in the country, the Nusra Front, following a series of kidnappings by the militant group.

A source in Division 30, which has endured a campaign of kidnappings by the Nusra Front, said they also oppose the American air strikes carried out in the last few days against the al-Qaida-linked fighters.

The statements complicate the American strategy in Syria, which has suffered a string of setbacks and delays, deploying just over 50 fighters dedicated to fighting the terror group Islamic State in the year since its programme to train and equip rebels began.


Comment: U.S. trains 60 moderate rebels in Syria - that's all they could find


"With all the immense military power the US has at its disposal, the start to the mission is nothing short of an embarrassment and if it has any hope of succeeding, it needs to show results fast," said Charles Lister, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center and an expert on Syrian insurgent groups.

Comment: The US charade is becoming more transparent with each day. US trained 'moderates' are basically aligned with Al-Qaeda and some 50 of these geniuses are supposed to stop ISIS and overthrow the government in Syria.

Is ISIS a creation of the US government? Do large hairy mammals relieve themselves in the woods?

There are No Moderate Syrian Rebels

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Eye 1

US citizen working in Russia speaks out: Media has failed us, 'we are heading closer and closer to a real war'

Jack Hanick
New York Observer
Thu, 06 Aug 2015 15:25 UTC
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The author, a native New Yorker, recently completed the development of a state of the art television network in Moscow, built without government funding. Its evening news program broadcasts to 65 million homes in Russia across eight time zones.

Previously he was a TV director in New York, for many years with Fox News. He won the New York Emmy in 1994 for best director, and his biography of Desmond Tutu also won a New York Emmy.

Currently he is Chairman of the Board of HellasNet, a group of TV stations in Greece.

America is heading for war with Russia. Some call the current situation "an increase of hostility" or "Cold War II." There are two sides to this story. I believe that American journalists from all political persuasions are not offering critical analysis. Understanding the Russian side and taking their arguments seriously can help prevent serious consequences.

Americans believe that Russians are fed propaganda by the state-controlled media. If Russians only could hear the truth, the thinking goes, they would welcome the US position. This is not so. There are more than 300 TV stations available in Moscow. Only 6 are state-controlled. The truth is that Russians prefer hearing the news from the state rather than the Internet or other sources. This is different from almost any other country. It is not North Korea where the news is censored. Each night during the Crimea crisis, anyone could watch CNN or the BBC bash Russia.

Comment: The Western elite have no intention of letting Russia claim a leading role in the world. They make unbelievable sums of money off of war and chaos, so don't expect the lies to stop anytime soon.

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Bad Guys

America continues to embrace tyranny with bill that allows Secretary of State to revoke passports

Janet C. Phelan
New Eastern Outlook
Tue, 04 Aug 2015 15:50 UTC
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
© Reuters / Yuri GripasU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
The US Congress took another step towards tyranny and away from legal and Constitutionally guaranteed protections this past week, when the House of Representatives approved HR 237.

This bill allows the Secretary of State, at his own discretion, to make a determination that an American citizen has terrorist affiliations and therefore to deny or revoke said citizen's passport.

According to HR 237, which is entitled the "FTO Passport Revocation Act of 2015," the Secretary of State may so revoke a citizen's travel rights without any invocation of due process. There will be no court hearing involved, and the individual will have no opportunity to object or to present evidence to the contrary.

Comment: For more on America's descent into the abyss, check out:

At least 4 million people dead due to America's global holocaust, "War on Terror"

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Eye 1

Shock! Lord Janner fails to appear at sex abuse trial


RT
Fri, 07 Aug 2015 10:38 UTC
Lord Janner
© ReutersTop UK Zionist Lord Janner
Criminal proceedings against Lord Janner began on Friday without the presence of the former Labour peer, who did not attend the initial hearing due to his medical condition.

However, the magistrate noted that Janner, who suffers from dementia, could be forced to attend future court sessions, despite his illness affecting his understanding of proceedings.

Janner, 87, faces 22 charges of child sex offences which are alleged to have taken place in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

He was initially declared unfit to stand trial, but the decision was reversed by a senior lawyer earlier in the year.

His lawyer Andrew Smith QC told the court hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court: "Lord Janner is not in attendance. The reason for that submission on his part is that he is unfit to face the court."

But the chief magistrate Howard Riddle said the court must hear evidence from medical experts before a decision allowing him to miss the hearing could be made.

Comment: Just how high up the Establishment hierarchy do these despicable allegations go? Recently, Ex-British PM Ted Heath was accused of raping 12 year old boy. He is the most high profile figure to be accused of historic child sex abuse to date - who is not alive! For more information on British peer, 'Lord' Janner: It remains to be seen whether real justice will be served in this case. For more information on the modus operandi of these depraved monsters who stalk the Establishment corridors of power, read:

UK 'Establishment': Unmasking psychopathic faces - Pedophilia and murder in VERY high places

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