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Kerry: Britain could stay in EU as it has no idea how to negotiate the Brexit


RT
Wed, 29 Jun 2016 19:16 UTC
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© Nicolas Asfouri / Reuters
Britain could remain in the EU for the foreseeable future, with Downing Street appearing not to know how to negotiate the divorce, US Secretary of State John Kerry said in Colorado at the Aspen Ideas Festival a day after speaking to Prime Minister David Cameron.

The UK will have to implement Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty in order to leave the EU, which would kick-start a process that could last months, if not years before an exit is formalized. This would involve a series of renegotiations of treaties and other headaches for Britain.

"This is a very complicated divorce," Kerry told the audience in Colorado, days after Cameron announced he was stepping down. The British PM feels "powerless" to negotiate the country's exit, which he had campaigned against. According to the US secretary of state, this is a "fair conclusion - to go out and start negotiating a thing that he doesn't believe in and he had no idea how he would do it."

According to Kerry, even the high-profile 'Leave' campaigners such as former London Mayor Boris Johnson are also in no hurry to leave. Whether this means that Brexit could be reversed remains unclear, Kerry said in answer to a reporter's question. "I think there are a number of ways" to go about mitigating the damage, he said.
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Green Light

Georgia: A transit corridor for ISIS

Anton Mardasov
Fort Russ
Tue, 28 Jun 2016 00:00 UTC
caucasus map
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Islamic state created a special purpose brigade tasked with carrying out terrorist acts in Europe, Central Asia and North Caucasus. Georgia is in the area of interest of the brigade — it plays the role of a transit country for militants. Terrorist attacks on its territory are not ruled out. This was recently reported by Georgian newspaper Rezonansi.

According to the publication, the unit includes 600 to 700 people, mainly foreign nationals, "so it's easier for them to move to a different country." The unit is personally curated by one of "Vice-Caliphs" of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the mastermind of the "European terrorist jihad", the Syrian Abu Mohammed al-Adnani.

As noted by military analyst, an expert on combating terrorism Vakhtang Maisaya, al-Adnani has already instructed his assistants to produce analytical reports and develop a strategy for conducting hybrid warfare. He says that details will be known later, as well as how they will execute their strategy, transfer militants, etc. In this regard, we note that on June 20th the foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Erlan Idrissov acknowledged that the extremists who carried out the attacks on gun shops and military base in Aktobe on June 5, followed al-Adnani's orders.

In another article, Rezonansi reported that "in different regions of Georgia, ISIS cells are already operating, which at this stage are engaged in indoctrination of the population. As stated by Caucasus expert Mamuka Areshidze, in the framework of a hybrid war the "Caliphate" activated emissaries in different countries of the world, including in Georgia. And for the last four months they have been particularly active. Earlier media reported that militants of the "Islamic state" are serving in Georgian army.

Comment: Georgia is yet another foothold in the making by IS and the Puppet Master Empire. Also infiltrated and in jeopardy: Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Russian North Caucasus regions and Central Asia. Turkey is complicit in these developments, but we already guessed that one. IS has become a wild fire blown far and wide by the West wind. Where it touches ground, it likely takes hold.

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Chess

Thierry Meyssan: Brexit is geopolitical bombshell - EU is finished

Thierry Meyssan [Translated by Pete Kimberley]
Voltaire Network
Tue, 28 Jun 2016 17:36 UTC
queen elizabeth and xi jinping
Favourable to the Brexit, Queen Elizabeth is now able to reorient her country towards the yuan.
No-one seems to comprehend the consequences of the British decision to leave the European Union. Those commentators who interpret party politics, and who forfeited their understanding of international challenges a long time ago, have been concentrating on the elements of an absurd campaign - on one side, the adversaries of uncontrolled immigration, and on the other, the «bogeymen» who have been threatening the United Kingdom with the direst of torments.

But the stakes of this decision have nothing to do with these themes. The discrepancy between reality and the discourse of the political media illustrates the disease from which the Western elite is really suffering - their incompetence.

While the veil is being ripped apart before our eyes, our elites do not understand the situation any better than the Communist Party of Soviet Russia could see the consequences of the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 - the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991, then the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon) and the Warsaw Pact six months later, followed by the attempts to dismantle Russia itself, in which it almost lost Chechnya.

In identical fashion, we will soon be witnessing the dissolution of the European Union, then NATO, and unless they pay close attention, the dismantling of the United States.
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War Whore

Secret reports of Turkish police confirm terrorists are being supplied with weapons, funding and training by Turkey


FARS News Agency
Tue, 28 Jun 2016 17:11 UTC
weapons transfers turkey syria
The secret reports of the Turkish police indicate that the Al-Nusra Front and ISIL terrorists use Turkey's both legal and illegal border crossings to transfer weapons and ammunition to Syria, media reports disclosed on Tuesday.

"Certain elements linked to terrorists in Syria are still shipping weapons and supplying their logistics from Turkey," the Turkish-language daily, Karshi, cited a police report to the country's public prosecutor about its operations in the city of Diyarbakir.

The newspaper, meantime, said that certain communities have also provided financial supports for the terrorists fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government.

The daily also said the Al-Nusra and ISIL terrorist groups have established bases in Turkey to train recruits, adding that many explosive devices are even manufactured and assembled on Turkish soils.

Earlier on Tuesday, Spokesman of a Turkish political party revealed the Turkish government, since the beginning of the crisis in Syria, has been smuggling weapons to the terrorist organizations in Syria using a large number of ambulance vehicles.

"Turkey is a main cause of the war against Syria due to its miscalculations and arbitrary policies which caused the bloodshed of innocents in Syria," the People's Democratic Party in Turkey (HDP) Ayhan Bilgen told Syrian media, pointing out that terrorists leave Turkish camps for fighting in Syria and return back to the camps in Turkey.

Comment: More evidence that the terrorists are surviving because Turkey allows it.

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Chess

Best of the Web: Pakistan and India set to join Shanghai Cooperation Organization, with Iran soon to follow

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Mon, 27 Jun 2016 17:15 UTC
shanghai cooperation organization
Away from the distractions caused by the British Brexit vote the process of Eurasian construction has just taken another big step forward with the agreement of India and Pakistan to join the Chinese and Russian led Shanghai Cooperation Organisation as full members.

Iran is expected to follow shortly, leaving the whole of Eurasia united under the umbrella of this organisation apart from a few small countries and the states of Europe which are part of the Western alliance. Even countries like Turkey and Azerbaijan, which are aligned with the West, now have have relations with it.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is not an "eastern NATO" - a sort of Warsaw Pact of eastern and central Eurasia - but neither is it the empty talking-shop Western commentators sometimes pretend it is.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation has a constitution and structure, and it most definitely does have a security dimension even if it is one which in theory is focused on anti-terrorism in Central Asia rather than in meeting any conventional security threat from the West.
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Erdogan finally apologises to Putin for shooting down Russian jet, potential for future meeting


RT
Wed, 29 Jun 2016 11:59 UTC
Putin and Erdogan sat together
© SputnikRussian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Turkish President Recep Erdogan
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayip Erdogan, discussed the possibility of meeting in person during a phone conversation, the Kremlin said. The meeting would be their first since Moscow-Ankara relations soured after the downing of a Russian jet over Syria.

"The Russian and Turkish presidents agreed to explore the possibility of having personal meeting..." the Kremlin said in a statement. The possibility of a face to face meeting taking place has also been confirmed by Erdogan's press service.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayip Erdogan, discussed the possibility of meeting in person during a phone conversation, the Kremlin said. The meeting would be their first since Moscow-Ankara relations soured after the downing of a Russian jet over Syria.

"The Russian and Turkish presidents agreed to explore the possibility of having personal meeting..." the Kremlin said in a statement. The possibility of a face to face meeting taking place has also been confirmed by Erdogan's press service.

Comment: The Russian Sukhoi Su-24M aircraft was shot down in November 2015, so this belated apology from Erdogan works out to be seven months late. It is interesting to see how the sudden apology from Turkey coincides with the Brexit result last week. It seems that Turkey may have lost faith in the stability of the EU, hence taking the mutually beneficial step toward re-establishing relations with Russia... which was obviously the wisest choice to make from the beginning.

See also: Putin instructs Russia to start normalizing ties with Turkey

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Chess

Russia and China sign agreement to build high-speed trains


RT
Mon, 27 Jun 2016 17:09 UTC
high speed train
© Maksim Blinov / Sputnik
An agreement to produce high-speed trains has been signed between Russian and Chinese firms, RIA Novosti reports, citing a company statement.

The companies involved are Russian Railways, Russian investment company Sinara Group, China Railway, and the Chinese state owned rolling stock manufacturer CRRC.

"The agreement envisages localization of production in Russia and a lifecycle service for high-speed trains," the statement said.

Under the deal, a plant will be built in Russia to produce 100 trains capable of reaching speeds of more than 300 kilometers per hour.
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Yoda

Putin: Russia ready to end ban on tourism to Turkey


RT
Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:55 UTC
turkish airlines
© Murad Sezer / ReutersA Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 aircraft to land at Antalya International airport, Turkey
President Putin has agreed to end the Russian ban on tourism to Turkey during a phone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to the Kremlin.

"However, it is advisable for Turkish authorities to take further steps to ensure security of Russian citizens in the country," the Kremlin quotes the Russian president.

Relations significantly deteriorated last November when Moscow introduced sanctions against Turkey in response to the death of a Russian pilot who was shot down in Syria last year.

They included introducing a visa regime, a permanent ban on charter flights to Turkey, as well as an embargo on agricultural products and the hiring of Turkish nationals. At the request of the Kremlin, Russian travel agencies stopped selling package tours to the country.

Comment: Looks like Erdogan finally realized the West was just using him for their own benefit and has smartly decided to admit his mistakes to Putin and curl up to the Bear for real support. One hopes that Putin forces Turkey to stop supporting the West's proxy army in the Middle East.

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Bulb

Best of the Web: French foreign minister calls for end to anti-Russian sanctions


RT
Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:49 UTC
lavrov ayrault
© Jacky Naegelen / ReutersFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault (R) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attend a news conference following their meeting at the Quai D'Orsay in Paris, France, June 29, 2016
Sanctions against Russia should be lifted as soon as possible, France's Minister of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday following a meeting with his Russian counterpart, while insisting that implementation of the Minsk agreements still remain key to the process.

"Sanctions is not a goal in and of itself," Jean-Marc Ayrault said in Paris, adding that his country looks forward to scrapping the restrictive measures against Moscow.

The process of lifting the Western sanctions on Russia is still related to Minsk agreements that aim to put an end to the crisis in southeastern Ukraine, Ayrault added, saying that "Russia should play a positive role" in their implementation.

Moscow and Paris have been closely working together "in the Normandy format," Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after the meeting. The countries' foreign ministries have been "closely cooperating" and their aides have been involved too, Russia's top diplomat said. The Normandy format includes Russia, France, Ukraine, and Germany.
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Bad Guys

Investigative Committee suggests destruction of athlete test results was done deliberately to discredit anti-doping system in Russia


RT
Mon, 27 Jun 2016 12:34 UTC
track athletes
© Sergey Guneev / Sputnik
The destruction of doping test results by the ex-chief of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov, may have been done deliberately to discredit the Russian anti-doping system, according to Russia's Investigative Committee.

"In December 2014, WADA [the World Anti-Doping Agency] sent a letter to Rodchenkov, saying that all doping tests which were kept in Moscow were to stay there to be unsealed if needed, " Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said during a radio interview with Russia's Vesti-FM.

However, the former chief of the anti-doping body for some reason "decided to destroy those doping tests."

"And now he's 'singing songs' from the US that someone made him do it. Judging by what he says, and how hysterically he comments on his actions, we can't exclude the possibility of this having been done purposefully, to discredit the entire anti-doping system."

The Russian Investigative Committee has meanwhile sent to the US a request to question Rodchenkov in the framework of the criminal case that was launched in Russia.

Comment: Seems like the ex-chief Rodchenkov was a stooge for Western interests who deliberately sabotaged Russia's anti-doping system in order to further the anti-Russian propaganda by claiming Russian athletes are all cheating and banning them from the Rio Olympics.

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