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Victoria 'f*ck the EU' Nuland to discuss implementation of Minsk accords in Moscow


ITAR-TASS
Sun, 17 May 2015 15:10 UTC
Victoria Nuland
© ITAR-TASS/ Maxim Nikitin
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland will visit Moscow on May 17-18 to discuss with Russia's representatives the implementation of the Minsk agreements, says a statement released by the U.S. Department of State on Saturday.

Nuland is expected to meet with senior Russian government officials to discuss the next steps aimed at implementing the Minsk agreements following her visit to Kiev on May 14-16 and also the meetings held by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Sochi.

She will also discuss bilateral issues with Russian officials and meet with civil society representatives, the U.S. Department of State says.

Comment: It is interesting to see the US increase it's participation on the Minsk Agreements implementation. Something must have gone wrong with their original plan.

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Stock Up

Iran to supply Europe with crude oil once sanctions lifted


Sputnik News
Sun, 17 May 2015 15:00 UTC
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© Flickr/ Pieter van Marion

Iran has reportedly signaled its readiness to start supplying crude oil to Europe after sanctions are lifted against it.

Tehran said on Sunday that it is ready to start exports of crude oil to Europe as soon as the economic sanctions against Iran are lifted, sources said.

In an interview with the Iranian news agency IRNA, Mohsen Qamsari, the director for international affairs of the National Iranian Oil Company, said that Iran can ship almost half of the supplies of crude previously consumed by the European market.

Comment: Normalized relations between Iran and the rest of the world could spell trouble, since Israel has been whipping up anti-Iranian hysteria for quite some time. Don't forget what happened when France began voicing displeasure with the anti-Russian sanctions. Psychopaths kill, lie, torture, and cheat to get their way. Check out:

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Snakes in Suits

France's Hollande salesman extraordinaire

Finian Cunningham
Sputnik
Thu, 14 May 2015 14:54 UTC
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© REUTERS/ Enrique de la Osa
French President Francois Hollande touched down in Havana this week proclaiming it a historic moment as the first Western leader to visit isolated Communist Cuba.

Hollande said it was an "emotional occasion" to witness the "opening up of Cuba". His visit, which will include meetings with Cuban President Raul Castro, follows a "historic handshake" last month between America's Barack Obama and the Cuban leader in neighbouring Panama.

That meeting with Obama was hailed as the moment that Cuba "came in from the cold". It was reported as marking the end of decades of economic isolation imposed by Washington on the Caribbean socialist state. The American president followed through on promises to remove Cuba from America's terror blacklist. He has also overseen the partial lifting of travel and financial restrictions.
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Dollars

Bill and Hillary earned close to $30 million in the last 16 months


RT
Sun, 17 May 2015 14:45 UTC
hillary clinton
© Reuters/Mike Blake
Bill and Hillary Clinton earned roughly $30 million since January 2014, mostly from giving speeches on the lecture circuit to corporations, banks and other organizations, according to disclosures filed with federal elections officials.

While Hillary Clinton recently announced her run for president in 2016, Bill Clinton has given three speeches this week for the American Institute of Architects, Univision Management and Apollo Management Holdings, the New York Times reported.

Currently, the average fee for the former president is $250,000, whereas records show Hillary Clinton earns $235,000 on average.

Comment: The disconnect of the elite: Hillary claims she and Bill were 'dead broke' when they left the White House



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Snakes in Suits

Obama & Gulf States summit: Party time with Wahhabi Atlanticists

Pepe Escobar
RT
Sat, 16 May 2015 14:32 UTC
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© Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
U.S. President Barack Obama hosts a working session of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) at Camp David in Maryland May 14, 2015.
US President Barack Obama's GCC summit at Camp David this week looked like a better fit for the annals of surrealism than geopolitics.

The GCC petrodollar racket - Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman - was screaming for a "security deal" with Washington similar to the "special relationship" with Israel. Well, that won't happen because it would require US congressional approval, a no-no considering the Israel lobby runs the overwhelming majority of the US Congress.

So their next best option was to scream to get a kind of formal NATO alliance; well, that is almost the case, as in the war on Libya, which was a de facto NATO-GCC operation. Call it Wahhabi-Atlanticism.
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Quenelle - Golden

'Naval Cooperation 2015' begins: Russian and Chinese warships arrive in the Mediterranean Sea


Sputnik News
Sun, 17 May 2015 13:45 UTC
chinese navy syria
© Sputnik / Yulia Kaminskaya

Russian and Chinese warships have arrived in the sea area allocated for the "Naval Cooperation 2015" military drills, they have replenished their stocks and currently hove to at their set locations.

Russia and China has kicked off the active phase of their naval drill in the Mediterranean Sea.

"Russian and Chinese warships have arrived in the sea area allocated for the "Naval Cooperation 2015" military drills," Deputy Commander in Chief of the Russian Navy Vice Admiral Alexandr Fedotenkov said on Sunday.

Comment: These exercises are defense against a third party. This third party just happens to be pointing a "missile shield" in Russia's face, whipping up color revolutions in China, sabotaging Russia's pipeline projects (and shooting their EU partners in the foot in the process), and attempting a complete ethnic cleansing in Ukraine.This is just a handful of the atrocities committed by the regime in Washington in the past few years. Also see:

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Bad Guys

Washington's actions will force Russia to expand its nuclear arsenal - Russian official


Sputnik News
Sun, 17 May 2015 12:32 UTC
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© Sputnik / Host photo agency

Mikhail Ulyanov, the Director of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control at the Russian Foreign Ministry, warned that US measures undermining global strategic stability may force Russia to grow its nuclear arsenal instead of carrying out further disarmament.

Speaking at the Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in New York on Friday, Ulyanov stated that the US proposal to reduce the total number of deployed warheads by a third is based on their understanding that they will remain able to adequately defend themselves and their allies. Unfortunately, the official noted, "US actions have led to the appearance of completely contradictory factors which, in some circumstances, may even push Russia to begin increasing [its nuclear arsenal]."

Ulyanov clarified that "at the moment, we are not planning to do so, but what is being done by the Americans makes it very difficult, and maybe impossible, to see real prospects for further steps toward nuclear disarmament."

Comment: Washington is pathologically persistent in its financial/proxy wars against Russia, but Russia is not playing around. Check out:

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The Truth Perspective: China supports Russia, Kerry visits Sochi


Sott.net
Sat, 16 May 2015 18:00 UTC
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This week, join our hosts as they discuss Kerry's recent visit to Sochi, the Russia-China alliance, and other topics.

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South Front Ukraine Crisis News: Kiev concentrates heavy weapons and ammo along front line, violating Minsk agreements


South Front
Fri, 15 May 2015 16:25 UTC
south front
Ukrainian troops have set up field depots holding up to 2,000 tons of munitions along the line of engagement with the DPR. Moreover, DPR reconnaissance has reported movement of Uragan and Grad multiple rocket launch systems, infantry combat vehicles, self-propelled artillery units towards the engagement line, therefore Kiev's side continues to scale up heavy weapons and munitions in the zone of conflict.

More provocations from Ukrainian troops are being reported around the Donetsk airport after Ukrainian Self-styled President Petro Poroshenko announced plans to seize the Donetsk airport, Eduard Basurin, a spokesman for the defense ministry of the DPR said on Thursday. "Following Poroshenko's pronouncements, provocations have become more frequent, shelling of Gorlovka resumed after a lull since February. Poroshenko's words are meant to continue escalation," Basurin stated. On May 11, Kiev's president Petro announced plans to take the Donetsk airport under Kiev's control. The question arises: has he ever heard about Minsk agreements?


Comment: Foreign Policy update: Syria War:



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Bullseye

Macedonia terrorist raid may be linked to country's support of Russia - Lavrov


RT
Sat, 16 May 2015 11:25 UTC
destroyed house in Macedonia
© Reuters/Marko Djurica
A man stands inside a destroyed house in Kumanovo, Macedonia, May 11, 2015.
Moscow 'can't help thinking' the recent terrorist attack in Macedonia has something to do with the country's objection to anti-Russian sanctions and participation in the Turkish Stream gas pipeline project, the Russian foreign minister said.

Sergey Lavrov was referring to the events in the city of Kumanovo not far from the Kosovo border, where a raid by gunmen last week resulted in street battles that left 18 people dead, including eight police officers. At least 30 people, most of them Kosovar Albanians, have been charged over the attack in the ethnically diverse city with a strong Albanian presence.

"We are greatly concerned with the latest events in Macedonia, and the situation in Kosovo does not give us any ground for optimism," Lavrov said on Friday during his visit to Serbia. "We are seriously concerned that those were the result of a well-planned terrorist act."

The EU "should not play ostrich and try to present the case as if there were no organizational force behind it," he added, saying officials in Brussels are apparently embarrassed that all their efforts to stabilize the situation in former Yugoslavia have been ineffective.

Comment: A Color revolution in Macedonia?

US - Russia Round 3: The struggle for Macedonia

Color revolution in Macedonia and the Western backed propaganda

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