EU Politicians Slam New Tax Deal That Lets Big Business Avoid Probes

Members of the European Parliament are not impresse with the European Commission's proposed transparency rules that will oblige multinational declare their profits on a country-by-county basis in an effort to stamp out tax evasion, because they will not apply to 90 percent of companies

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The new rules – coming in the wake of the LuxLeaks and Panama Papers that found widespread use of tax havens by multinationals, including Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple, to move profits offshore, will actually help such corporate giants avoid paying taxes in countries in the EU where those transactions took place and where taxes should be paid.

Other tax dodges include the use of so-called "sweetheart deals" in countries like Luxembourg and Ireland, where the tax regime is more benign that in other states and the UK, where tax officers will negotiate discounts on standard tax rates if corporate lawyers threaten to move jobs abroad. These procedures – which are totally legal – are known as "aggressive tax planning."

The European Commission has proposed making companies report their actual profits on a country-by-country basis. However, critics say the new tax arrangement – for multinationals with a total consolidated group revenue of at least US$847 million – will only involve passing tax information between member states' tax agencies and will not be made public or available to journalists.

 Transparency International EU says that setting the threshold for companies covered by the reporting requirement at US$847 million in annual consolidated turnover would – according to the OECD’s estimates – exclude 85-90 percent of multinationals from the reporting requirement. A lower threshold would cover more companies, providing more data on the activities of multinationals and ensuring a more level playing field.

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Did the Nevada Democratic Party Just Steal Another State From Bernie Sanders?

The big story of this US Presidential Election year started way back in January with the Iowa caucus, the show that kicked off the whole process. For the Democrats, whose task it to find a successor to the woefully inept Barack Hussein Obama, with the Democratic Party caucus vote producing no clear winner. The anointed one, Madame Vinegar Tits herself, Hillary Clinton was in a tie with the Washington outsider and bookies' outsider, the maverick and perpetual rebel Bernie Sanders.

What did the Democrats do to decide the issue. They showing their consummate amateurism they decided to settle the election in the precincts that were too close to call on the toss of a coin. And the Clinton camp won five out of six. with the coin coming down on heads five times in a row.

Since then the email scandal (servergate) has gone over the top, accusations of cronyism when she was Secretary of State have emerged, The Clinton Foundation, the charity Hillary set up when first lady, is being investigated for misappropriation of funds, and now there's this:

May 16, 2016   |   Claire Bernish(ANTIMEDIA) Nevada — In what might best be described as a minor electoral coup, the Nevada Democratic Party did its utmost to ensure a caucus victory for Hillary Clinton — and it appears they succeeded. “We need civility in the Democratic Party — civility,” bemoaned Sen. Barbara Boxer to the largely outraged crowd, amid boos and shouts of “recount,” in the Paris hotel in Las Vegas on Saturday. “When you’re booing me, you’re booing Bernie Sanders,” asserted Boxer, a Hillary supporter, fanning the flames. “You know something, I grew up in Brooklyn and I’m not afraid of bullies. I’m for Hillary Clinton because she’s for all of us. So keep yourselves booing and boo yourselves out of the election.”

Boxer’s obstinate fealty to Clinton did nothing to pacify the thousands milling about, jeering — especially when she added, “We had our Nevada Caucus and Hillary Clinton won.”
As Nevada State Democratic Party Chairwoman and member of the national DNC’s Executive Committee, Roberta Lange, stood at the podium before thousands of mostly irate party members, an unidentified woman — as captured in video footage uploaded to Facebook — made a request on behalf of the crowd:

“I am asking you to have a recount. 9:30 was too soon for a preliminary vote. The petition did not get to everyone.”

Many attendees demanded that 64 excluded Sanders delegates, listed in a “minority report,” be allowed to participate. But Lange instead swiftly called for a voice vote to implement a temporary change of party rules on a permanent basis. Then she took it upon herself to affirm the result — which, as video shows the obstreperous reaction, was at least debatable — abruptly adjourned the meeting with an impotent slam of the gavel, and simply walked out, leaving pandemonium in her wake.

Stunned at Lange’s unceremonious departure, the throngs of Sanders devotees screamed incredulously at the now vacant podium, demanding an explanation for what had just taken place. Murmurs showed resolve to wait in the convention room until just democracy could be carried out — to no avail.

Shortly after Lange’s exit, which was followed by other party officials who then had to be escorted by police offstage, hotel security and armed local law enforcement officers appeared at the front of the auditorium.
“I don’t know if anyone can see this,” says Adryenn Ashley, who uploaded video to Facebook as events unfolded. “I don’t know if you can hear this, but there are 20 armed sheriffs here to help them steal the election … They’re saying leave now or else.”
At one point, a Hillary T-shirt-adorned woman even called for Bernie supporters to be ‘arrested.’
As hotel security can be heard on video saying, as officers ushered the outraged attendees from the meeting floor, “it is now in the hands of the attorneys,” and “[p]lease leave peacefully. Please leave, it is not safe here.”

But as one Sanders supporter rightly intoned, “If we do not leave, it becomes a big issue. I’m not leaving.”
Eventually, attendees disbursed — however disenfranchised they felt.

In the aftermath, those aforementioned 64 excluded delegates secured Clinton’s win by 33 — with final tallies on the day at 1,695 attending for Hillary to Sanders’ 1,662.
So contentious were the totals that Nevada Democratic convention credentials committee co-chair, Leslie Sexton, claimed the action by the state party rules committee “violates the spirit and values of our state and our nation.” As reported by RealClearPolitics, she continued:

“The credentials minority report is based on the challenge of 64 Sanders delegates. Contrary to the procedures and precedents set by the committee, nearly none of these 64 people were presented with the opportunity to be heard by the committee or to demonstrate that they are registered Democrats. Without the opportunity to be heard, no delegate could be stricken. The actions of the credentials committee violate the spirit of the Nevada state delegate plan which encourages full participation in the delegate process, and it violates the spirit and values of our state and our nation.”

Perhaps Sexton absolutely characterizes the disenfranchisement of the voting public as the primary season rolls on, as state after state reports innumerable complaints from voters. Or perhaps, her statement evidences a larger pattern of usurpation of the vote — as state after state reports mysteriously cleansed voter rolls, registration ballot shortages, inexcusably long lines, and inexplicably under-trained volunteers — who often sport candidate-specific paraphernalia, in direct conflict with established electoral law.

As outrageous as the Nevada State Convention might have seemed, it stands as yet further evidence that votes will be taken by whom the establishment deems pertinent to the narrative. If the DNC touts Hillary Clinton then, voters be damned, she will be their nominee.

With rumors a contested Democratic National Convention may be in the works, it would seem more pertinent than ever to examine how vehemently the establishment guards its go-to candidate — something with which past supporters of Ron Paul have well familiarized themselves.
It now stands virtually impossible to deny — elections are nothing more than a rigged theater of political appeasement.

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And there is still the nasty smell of Banghazi hanging around.

I have never liked the Clinton's, its nothing to to with Bill's behaviour, I'd be a hypocrite if I condemned a man for womanising, there's just that sense of entitlement thing about them that taints so many 'liberals' and left wingers, that "Don't do as I do, do as I say" authoritarianism. And if the Obama years have been a disater for the USA, socially, economically and globally, don't make the mistake of thinking this stupid, arrogant, self centred, solipsistic woman cannot be a one thousand times worse President. Can you imagine Vladimir Putin's reaction if the tries to play the woman card or act the spoiled rich bitch in high level negotiations?


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The inevitable outcome of politically correct thinking in politics

The Canadian Revenue Agency actually commented on this one.>

Something to ponder ... but, worth a broad smile !
Amazing, but true, if you think about it! The importance of
accuracy in your tax return,


The CRA has returned the Tax Return to a man in Canada after he apparently answered
one of the questions.

In response to the question, .."Do you have anyone dependent on you?"
The man wrote:

"2.1 million illegal immigrants, 1.1 million> crackheads, 4.4 million unemployable scroungers, 80,000 criminals in over 85 prisons plus 450 idiots in Parliament, thousands of 'politicians' and an entire group that call themselves 'Senators'
The CRA stated that the response he gave was unacceptable.

The man's response back to CRA was, ... "Who did I leave out ?


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Germany Involved in NATO War Games Near Russian Border

In a move that must be considered as deliberate provocation, NATO has organized a large-scale military manoeuvres in former Soviet Republic Estonia, close to the border with Russia. German soldiers are actively involved in the exercises, German business newspaper Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (DWN) reports.

Military exerises - image source wikimedia commons

More than 5,000 soldiers from Germany, Estonia, USA, Netherlands, Great Britain, Lithuania and Latvia are currently engaged in the NATO war games, according to DWN,. Operation "Spring Storm" is taking place 30 kilometers away from the Russian border and will go on until May 20.

Germany's participation in NATO's military activities comes only a couple of weeks after the Bundeswehr announced its plans to deploy soldiers in Lithuania as part of NATO's mission aimed at "containing" possible Russian aggression. From that we sense the warmonger Barack Obama's sticky dabs all over this latest povocation. But while the US President makes implicit military threats, which don't phase the Russians at all, Russia. China and Iran are playing an altogether more subtle game as they undermine the US economy.

Ahead of the militry exercise Raimonds Graube, commander of the army  in Latvia, called Russia's political leadership "unpredictable" and appealed to NATO to be ready for a corresponding response. Which is bollocks of course, Russia has ignored every threat and provocation, the real joker in the pack is Turkey, a NATO member which has acted as Washington's proxy in attacking Russia, has illegally funded, armed and supported the ISIS terrorist group and is using the immigration crisis to blackmail the EU.

The US has activated a new component of its missile defense shield in Europe at the Deveselu military base, in Romania, earlier this week. The move raised concerns among Russian politicians who view NATO's military buildup along the Russian borders as a threat to the country's security.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said the system could be used to launch cruise missiles, thus violating the 1987 INF Treaty between Washington and Moscow and criticized the West for a very one-sided approach to the issue of missile defense. And thus we see it is the USA and NATO that is making the aggressive moves and violating the terms of treaties. The fact that former Soviet states like Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania had been seduced into NATO and the EU violates a 1991 treaty, so we should be aware which side in this new cold war is really threatening world peace. 


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Can this woman possibly be a fit and proper person to serve as President Of The USA

 While US mainstream media have been obsessing over transgender rights and whether chicks-with-dicks should be allowed to use the same toilet facilities as women and little girls, the American democratic process has been dragged further into the mud (if that was possible) and the candidacy of Hillary Clinton look to be in greater jeopardy than ever despite her having almost certainly won the primaries campaign by a big enough majority of delegate to secure the nomination. As new scandals relating to the horribly corrupt, money grubbing, elitist  Mrs. Clinton, the latest being the inquiry into her charitable foundation which seems to have been spending more money on hospitality (bungs) for Clinton cronies than on good works, the biggest embarrassment, the one that could ultimately land her in jail, the FBI investigation concerning her use, while serving as Secretary of State, the USA's top ranked foreign relations officer, of a private email server set up in her home on which top secret information was allegedly handled and from which such information has been deleted in an attempt to obstruct the course of justice..

 Despite Bernie Sanders’ apparent annoyance with the “damn emails,” the scandal getting in the way of serious political debate (when it comes to the real campaign Donald Trump will have no suh scruples, he'll go for the throat) their dominance of the Democratic campaign just entered a new dimension.

Judge Andrew Napolitano revealed on during the week that Russia has possession of around 20,000 of Clinton’s emails, leaving open the possibility her deletions might not have been permanent after all (oh come on, with software available free of charge on the web, I can recover data that has been overwritten three times - the coders claim five but I've never tried that.

“There’s a debate going on in the Kremlin between the [Russian] Foreign Ministry and the [US] Intelligence Services about whether they should release the 20,000 of Mrs. Clinton’s emails that they have hacked into,” Napolitano told Fox News’commentator Megyn Kelly in an interview .

Clinton’s claims she employed the personal email server only for mundane communications and non-sensitive State matters having been proved to be blatant lies, the deletions of 31,830 emails, have suddenly become remarkably relevant.

As the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s questionable email practices deepens, the question of who had access to what information previously located on the former secretary of state’s server is now more critical than ever. But if the Russian government did, it is not looking good for the woman who only a few weeks ago had double digit leads in most polls and was being hailed by her supporters as America's first woman President.

One person who definitely had access to top secret documents on Clinton's private server was Romanian hacker Guccifer, who on being extradited to the United States, revealed he had easily and repeatedly accessed Clinton’s personal server, and he wasn’t the only one.

“For me, it was easy,” the hacker, whose given name is Marcel Lehel Lazar, exclusively told Fox News; “easy for me, for everybody.”

If Guccifer and Napolitano are right, Russia may, indeed, have possession of highly-sensitive information courtesy of Clinton’s arrogant failure to adhere to the obligation to use a government email account during her tenure as secretary — a situation worsened by the now-mendacious claim no sensitive information had been sent through the personal account.

In fact the Kremlin having obtained potentially top-secret material may be the tip of a gargantuan iceberg. Using a readily available program, the Romanian hacker also claimed he observed “up to 10, like, IPs from other parts of the world” during sessions on Clinton’s personal server. If just one of those unknown parties was connected to Russia, who the other nine might be could be central to the FBI’s decision whether or not to charge Clinton for mishandling classified information.

Adding yet another nail in the coffin case against Hillary on Thursday, the Hill reported conservative watchdog Judicial Watch revealed, pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, frustration with technical difficulties in obtaining a secure phone line led the secretary to direct a top aide to abandon the effort and call her without the necessary security in place. While specific allegations have not yet been proved they form evidence of a flagrant disregard for national security apparently peppering Clinton’s practices during her time at the State Department. The woman thinks she is above the law. Of such stuff are tyrants made.

A new aspect of the scandal emerged hot on the heels of these developments. It was revealed during the week that employees at the Department of Justice, the main agencie tasked with investigating Clinton’s allegedly improper use of private email servers, gave $75,000 in donations to the presidential front-runner.  

“Hillary’s donations from the Department of Justice completely swamp those of the other candidates, in fact, as Sanders’ total from 51 donors was just $8,900 and Trump garnered an inconsequential $381,”, David Bossie, president of watchdog group, Citizens United, reported

“Attorney General Lynch must appoint a special counsel to determine if Hillary Clinton or her agents broke the law and compromised our national security. This investigation needs to be conducted free of political influence once and for all.” Bossie demanded.

People within the Democratic Party opposed to Clinton's candidacy  have previously pointed to Lynch personally donating over $10,000 to Democratic candidates as evidence of a conflict of interest and sufficient reason the Justice Secretary should be excluded from overseeing the investigation of Clinton’s emails.” Ultimately, this disregard for professional ethics, typical of the Obama Administration, represents a deeply-rooted, systemic problem in American government, where accountability is often flouted and transparency laws are obfuscated to protect the oligarchy.



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Hollande Survives Confidence Vote As France Slides Deeper Into Chaos

French President Francois Hollande suvived a 'no - confidence' vote today but now faces deepening divisions within his own party as well as in the French population.  Continuing mass protests by students and trade union members showed the battle of over his reforms to the country's labour laws are far from finished. Hollande has hardened opposition to his reforms after bypassing the French parliament to push them through.

France has been paralyzed by a series of nationwide strikes – particularly by students – against French

The President (le petit crapaud) proposed reforms to the highly complex French labour laws – known as the Code du Travail – in order to give employers more flexibility.

The no-confidence motion proposed by conservatives in the lower house of the French Parliament fell 42 votes short of the 288 required for victory, but with twenty four members of Hollande's socialist party voting against him, he will take no comfort having survived the attempt to unseat him. The outcome will further deepen divisions within the socialists.

Holland now has to decide what disciplinary action he is going to take against the rebels within his party – including former ministers Benoit Hamon or Aurelie Filippetti.

 The labour reforms were largely directed at making companies take on more workers on permanent contracts, rather than temporary ones, a trend caused by European Union labour laws which make it almost impossible to fire an unsatisfactory worker. by pushing the laws through Hollande also hoped to bring down the unemployment rate from ten percent. The proposals would grant employers more flexibility to lay-off workers and and allow employees to work far longer than the current 35-hour week, and thus swell their pay packets through overtime pay.  France's 35-Hour Week Under Threat as Presidential Hopefuls Signal Change

Other reforms include a cap on severance pay for workers dismissed by a company. The current cost of sacking workers mean that companies are risk-averse to doing so, leaving them less flexible and – in some cases – less productive. Employers are also more likely to contract out work to non EU nations such as Algeria, India, Vietnam and Indonesia. Opponents say the reforms would undermine workers’ rights on pay, overtime and breaks.

Any reforms to French law would normally have to pass to the upper house of the French Parliament, where the Republicans have a majority, paving the way for a political ping-pong match, but Hollande's Prime Minister Manuel Valls has won cabinet approval to invoke the rarely-used Article 49.3 of the constitution which allows the reform bill to bypass parliament.

This immediately brought protest from opponents who accused Hollande of behaving like a socialist dictator caused riots in Paris, Nantes and Bordeaux. Hollande is set to face further strikes and protests in what is becoming a major stand off between government and people.



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EU Turkey Migrant Deal Set To Fail

Turkish
Blackmailer and extortionist ,
gangster terrorism facilitator President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was turning the screws on the EU last night as resistance grew to his latest blackmail scam, to gain visa free access to the EU for Turkish citizens in return for help with controlling the flow od illegal immigrants. Previously Erdogan has obtained €billions in hard cash, political concessions and indulgences of his illegal oil for arms trade with ISIS in return for help, which has simply not been forthcoming, in controlling the flow of migrants into Europe.

Migrants demanding to be allowed to cross EU border (picture source: Wikimedia commons)

Erdogan failed to agree with European leaders over the latest migrant deal on Thursday, accusing the bloc of setting new hurdles for visa-free travel and threatening Ankara would flood Europe with migrants if the EU did not yield to all his demands (which get more outrageous which every concession he gets, isn't that just typical behaviour from blackmailing gangsters? .

In Berlin, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker also dug in his heels, saying the agreement would collapse unless Ankara fulfilled its commitments, including making agreed changes to its anti-terror law. As Turkish anti terror laws stand, any criticism of the Erdogan regime or support for his opponents is treated as terrorism. The stand-off has put the agreement in doubt. Brussels is desperate for it to succeed, but insists Turkey meets 72 criteria, including narrowing its legal definition of terrorism.

The EU, Kurdish independence campaigners and various human rights groups have accused Turkey of using its broad anti-terrorism laws to stifle dissent while Ankara says the laws are necessary to battle Kurdish militants at home and Islamic State in neighbouring Iraq and Syria.

“We had finished the issue of visa free travel with EU, we had inked the deal, then they came up with these 72 criteria and included the counter-terror laws in it,” Erdogan said. Telling Turkey to soften its counter-terrorism laws was tantamount to asking it to give up its struggle against terrorism, he said in a speech. "Either we will improve our relations with the EU, or we will set a new path for ourselves. We prefer to build the new Turkey with our EU friends, but now we will wait for the decision of our EU friends."

The EU negotiators showed no signs of giving ground. Jucker said, "We put great value in the conditions being met. Otherwise this deal, the agreement between the EU and Turkey, won’t happen. If Mr Erdogan decides to deny Turks the right to free travel to Europe, then he must explain this to the Turkish people. It will not be my problem, it will be his problem."

All one needs to understand about Erdogan and the Islamic Turks is the Armenian genocide of 1915. 1.5 million people killed because they were not Muslim. That is Europe's future if Erdogan is given the keys to Europe's migration of Muslims. Pro - Turkey and pro - globalism voiced may say it happened a hundred years ago, but even as I type, Erdogan's criminal regime are carrying on a genocidal campagin against the Kurds, not only in Turkish territory but in Kursish areas of Iraq and Syria too. Erdogan has used the conflict in Syria and the war with ISIS as a mask to conceal his efforts to complete the genocide of the Kurds.

The EU position is not without hypocrisy however, Jean - Claude drunkard & Co. ask Turkey to do away with laws designed to stifle free speech when new laws are being imposed on the European democracies that criminalise any questioning or criticism of the holocaust narrative, climate change, EU 'open borders' immigration policy and Islamic extremism. Domestic politicians in Europe should be resisting this fast track to fascism the EU ruling bureaucracy is taking, but most of them have sold out to the corporate - financial cartel that is driving a move to global totalitarian government. We only have the anti EU parties like UKIP, Front National, AfD, Danish Peoples' party and Sweden Democrats and a few leaders like Hungary's Viktor Orban to fight for freedom and national sovereignty and freedom. Flooding Europe and north American with third world immigrants in order to bring about collapse of the social orders to do just that here with respect to telling it like it is about the activities of third world freeloaders?

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Turkey Threatens To Unleash Migrant Wave On Europe

The new Turkish Sultan, Erdogan The Magnificent (Original artwork: Brother Bastion)

For all Hausfrau - Volksfurher Merkel's sucking up to Turkey's gangster President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was wasted effort. The crook who in collaboration with the USA and Brussels caused the deaths of thousands and displaced upwards of a million people according to conservative estimates by helping fund ISIS (and making himself a very rich man in the process) by illegally trading stolen crude oil of behalf of the terrorists, who has facilitated the illegal entry of terrorists and economic migrants into the EU by neglecting to control his country's borders, who has illegally made war on the Kurds, using the conflict with ISIS in Syria and Iraq as a diversion, and who has blackmailed EU leaders for several billion Euros in return for help (which has not been forthcoming) in controlling the flow of migrants is now threatening to increase the migrant flow if the EU does not yield to his latest demands.

One of the main stumbling blocks for EU bureaucrats like Jean - Claude Juncker, Martin Schulz and Donald Tusk, and national leaders including David Cameron, Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande, all of whom are desperate to get Turkey into the EU no matter what the consequences may be for citizens of existing member stateshas been Erdogan's refusal to countenance the EU’s demand for Turkey to change its current terrorism laws. Many Europeans feel Turkey is planning to escalate conflict with Turkey’s Kurdish minority and use that as an excuse to pursue Erdogan's territorial ambitions in Kurdish territory in Syria and Iraq. Turkey's terror laws also allow the persecution of journalists and academics even if there are no terrorist related allegations. The Committee on Civil Liberties and Justice in the EU Parliament has been requested by the EU Commission to provide rapid advice on the subject.

One of Merkl's biggest mistakes was to forget that she speaks only for Germany and not for all EU nations when she promised visa free travel within the EU's Schengen Zone. Making such a promise was way beyond her pay grade as was her pledge to Erdogan to fast track full EU membership for the human rights abusing, terrorist supporting, Islamist, Turkish regime. In fact, when those promises were made several European states which a hundred years ago existed under the brutal rule of The Ottoman Empire said unequivocally that they will veto attempts to get Turkey into the EU.

In response to that impasse Turkish President Erdogan, like the gangster and blackmailer he is, has once again threatened that migrants will resume crossing into Europe if his visa-free travel demands are not met. It has been a turbulent week in Turkey after the resignation under duress of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, and the continued centralisation of power of power in the hands of Erdogan and members of his family. Disaffection with Erdogants increasingly despotic ways may be putting his regime, Turkey's political stability and the migrant deal between the European Union (EU) and Turkey in danger.

While this is not the first time that the Turkish president has threatened to scrap the deal, the determination to resist Erdogan's blackmail and keep this terrorist state out of the EU among many member states, plus Turkey's refusal to implement human rights reforms are putting a June deadline for visa-free travel in jeopardy.

Burhan Kuzu, a deputy in Mr Erdogan’s AKP party, has warned European leaders that they should consider their decisions carefully, posting this threat online:, "when they pick the wrong decision, we will release the refugees," Germany's N-TV reports.

The EU has always made its position absolutely clear, visa-free travel could only happen if 72 conditions were met by the Turks, which the former Turkish Prime Minister had agreed to. Now that the Prime Minister is gone the Erdogan crony who replaced him immediately warned EU leaders that Turkey will do what it wants to do and if the EU does not comply with Turkish demands there will be consequences. Meanwhile Turkey is moving towards a referendum that will potentially merge the powers of the offices of President and Prime Minister, another factor which the future of the deal seems ever more uncertain.


While the migrant deal has stemmed the flow of much of the migrants from Turkey into Greece, various European leaders are not keeping their hopes up about the longevity of the deal due to the demands made by Ankara.

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After Yugoslavia NATO changed from a mutual defence alliance to an organisation for military aggression.

After the break up of the Soviet Union, a point in history when many in the west mistakenly thought Russia had ceased to be a major power and the USA unilaterally declared victory in the cold war, people around the world looked forward to an era of peace and prosperity. They could not have been more wrong, in fact even the most cursory examination of history will show that Russia has seldom been an aggressor.

The formation of The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation  (NATO) and the development of nuclear weapons that delivered 'mutually assured destruction' kept us safe we were told as thousands of millions (this was before inflation made millions into small change for governments) were poured into pointless exercises in one upmanship. But what was the real driver of it all? 

While that period from 1945 to 1990, with its arms race and the balls out politics of 'the space race' was sold to voters and taxpayers in the west as being necessary expenditure to counter the threat of Soviet expansionism, the Soviet Union has never had territorial ambitions. The establishment of satellite states around its borders after World War Two was really a reaction to yet another invasion of Russia by a European power.

Something happened in the years after the break up of the Soviet Union however that has made the world a more dangerous place now than at any time since 1938. Having served politicians well since 1945 as a defensive alliance, the USA dominated NATO changed and became a part of the US Neocon drive to achieve global dominance.

There's an interesting new publication from Global Research pinpointing the exact event that first revealed the new role for NATO, defined for it presumably by the US Shadow Government, that faceless cabal of financiers, corporate investors, academics and old political dynasties that really calls the shots in Washington. Here's a taster ...

The world is enveloped in a blanket of perpetual conflict. Invasions, occupation, illicit sanctions, and regime change have become currencies and orders of the day. One organization – the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) – is repeatedly, and very controversially, involved in some form or another in many of these conflicts led by the US and its allies. NATO spawned from the Cold War. Its existence was justified by Washington and Western Bloc politicians as a guarantor against any Soviet and Eastern Bloc invasion of Western Europe, but all along the Alliance served to cement Washington’s influence in Europe and continue what was actually America’s post-World War II occupation of the European continent. In 1991 the raison d’être of the Soviet threat ended with the collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War. Nevertheless NATO remains and continues to alarmingly expand eastward, antagonizing Russia and its ex-Soviet allies. China and Iran are also increasingly monitoring NATO’s moves as it comes into more frequent contact with them.

Read all and order the book from Global Research

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Pundits Said It could Not Happen: Trump Now Tied With Hillary In Latest National Poll

The Experts have developed a habit of being wrong in their predictions about the progress of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Following Trump's not yet official victory in the contest for the Republican nomination, the consensus among mainstream media commentators was that loudmouth businessman would "never" be able to catch up to Hillary's support at the national level". This too now appears to have been a mistake.

According to the Reuters/Ipsos poll released earlier today, Donald Trump's support has surged since his competitors, too far behind in numbers of delegates won to have any realistic chance of overtaking him, quit the race and he is now statistically tied (the 1% difference is withing the margin of error) with Democrat Hillary Clinton among U.S. voters, in what Reuters describes as "a dramatic turnaround since he became the Republican party's presumptive presidential nominee."

In the survey (charts linked above), 41 percent of likely voters supported Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, and 40 percent backed Trump, with 19 percent as yet undecided. The poll had an error marging of plus or minus 3 percentage points suggesting that it is possible that Trump may have already overtaken Hillary nationally.

What makes the reversal particularly notable is that as recently as last week, Mrs Clinton led Trump by around 13 points in the poll. With more negative publicity attaching itself to Hillary and her campaign every week as the scandals refuse to go away, it is possible Donald Trump has already overtaken her and will continue to gather momentum as he did in the Republican primaries campaign.

Surprisingly perhaps, according to deeper analysis of the poll, nearly half of Bernie Sanders' supporters are willing to cast their vote for Trump compared to only a quarter for Hillary, in what is shaping up as a presidential election in which it is not so important that the winning candidate will not be the one who is most liked, but least disliked.

As this blog has said since January, the success of Sanders and Trump was not due primarily to their policies or personal qualities (although by political standards Bernie seems to be an honest man,) but to the fact that they were anti - establishment candidates and rode the wave of anger and repugnance voters feel towards the cosy, self serving consensus of the political establishment.

The results signal that a close fight is shaping up between the two White House rivals as the campaigns get very dirty. More importantly perhaps, it promises a lot of entertainment because the "debates" between Hillary and Trump (who reputedly hate each other) will surely break all political TV and media records, even as American society and global influence decay like Dracula on a sunny day.

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