The Panama Papers

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From Wikipedia:

The Panama Papers are a set of 11.5 million confidential documents created by the Panamanian corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca (according to a 2012 Economist article, it is believed to be an industry leader in the country^[2]) that provide detailed information on more than 214,000 offshore companies, including the identities of shareholders and directors. The acting heads of state of five countries, namely Argentina, Iceland, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine and United Arab Emirates are identified in the documents, as are government officials, close relatives and close associates of various heads of government of over 40 other countries, including China, Brazil, France, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, United Kingdom and Syria.
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Comprising documents created since the 1970s, the 2.6-terabyte set was given by an anonymous source to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2015 and subsequently to the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).^[3] The papers were distributed to and analyzed by about 400 journalists at 107 media organizations in more than 80 countries. The first news reports based on the set, along with 149 of the documents themselves,^[4] were published on April 3, 2016.^[1] Among other planned disclosures, the full list of companies is to be released in early May 2016.<sup>[5]

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Pakistan PM's family hits back after Panama Papers leak

 <sup>By the Times of India
 
The family of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was defiant on Monday, defending their ownership of offshore companies after they were named in the Panama Papers, one of the biggest leaks in history.

The leak, comprising 11.5 million documents from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, shows how some of the world's most powerful people have secreted away their money in offshore jurisdictions.
 
Among those named are three of Sharif's four children -- Maryam, who has been tipped to be his political successor; Hasan and Hussain, with the records showing they owned London real estate through offshore companies administrated by the firm.
 
"Nawaz Sharif does not own any company but having companies in the name of his children also raises questions," Umar Cheema of the independent Center for Investigative Reporting in Pakistan (CIRP) told AFP.

The CIRP is partnered with the Investigative Consortium of Independent Journalists (ICIJ), which spent months poring over the documents ahead of Sunday's online release.
"There are more than 200 Pakistanis which our report has identified, and they include lawyers, lawmakers and some people from the judiciary," he said.

Opposition leader Imran Khan issued a swift call for action against Sharif after the release.

"Our stance vindicated again as Sharif's wealth stashed abroad exposed," he tweeted, adding the country's accountability watchdog, tax authorities and election commission "must take action".

But Sharif's son Hussain told the country's largest private broadcaster Geo that his family had done "nothing wrong".

"Those apartments are ours and those offshore companies are also ours," he said in comments aired by the channel Monday.

"There is nothing wrong with it and I have never concealed them, nor do I need to do that.

"It is according to British law and laws of other countries that it is a legal way to avoid unnecessary tax via offshore companies."

He left Pakistan in 1992, he added, and therefore is not resident, adding Pakistani tax law "says that if you are not staying in Pakistan for more than 138 days, then you are not required to declare your assets".

Regarding Khan's call for the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to investigate, he said "we voluntarily present ourselves before it or any other judicial and investigative institution in Pakistan".

And he issued one final dig at Khan, calling on him to provide "proof that the Prime Minister has not declared his assets".

"If he is successful in that then we are ready to accept our fault and undergo punishment," he said.

Nawaz Sharif's office has not yet responded to requests for comment by AFP.</sup>

Ali Nadir, a financial analyst, said the use of offshore companies was in many cases legitimate.

But, he added: "I believe political and business leaders will be hard pressed to take the privacy defence given the worldwide move towards a better track of money, tax evasion, laundering and corruption.

"This may also start more locally focused probes as there are likely to be disclosure issues."

The Panama Papers have whipped a storm of controversy over off-shore wealth, ensnaring political leaders, sports figures and underworld members across the globe in a snowballing scandal.

USA arming al-Qaeda

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How The U.S. Continues To Arm al-Qaeda

By Moon of Alabama

According to rebels in the Turkish border zone, weapons have flowed steadily into Syria since the ceasefire began. Even those who hope for a political settlement aren’t betting on one any time soon. Instead they’re stockpiling for the next round, which they expect will be as desperate as the last.
... “We ask the Friends of Syria and they give us,” [Colonel Hassan Rajoub, commander of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) Division 18], said with a smile. “They have just now given us new supplies of everything. But we want some special weapons to give us a little bit of leverage.”
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[S]everal FSA commanders said the United States had been forthcoming during the ceasefire period, replenishing arms stocks and leaving open the possibility that some anti-aircraft missiles might be released into northern Syria. “We expect a surprise,” said one satisfied commander.
... “The U.S. military commanders are always with us,” Rajoub said. “We ask. They are very cooperative. They understand our needs.”
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Around Aleppo, It’s Not Peace—Just a Break, Thanassis Cambanis, Century Foundation, March 28 2016

Hard-core Islamists in the Nusra Front have long outgunned the more secular, nationalist, Western-supported rebels. According to FSA officers, Nusra routinely harvests up to half the weapons supplied by the Friends of Syria, a collection of countries opposed to Assad, and has regularly smashed FSA factions that were corrupt and inefficient — or that Nusra thought were getting too strong or too popular.

Turning gossip from the UK into STATE policy by SERIOUS countries

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Mounting Evidence That Vladimir Putin Is Secretly Dating Every Woman on Earth

The Kremlin can't hide the truth forever!!!!!!
Dadamdaadamdumdum

Matthew Allen

By Russia Insider


New and highly credible reports of Vladimir Putin's "extracurricular activities" suggest that Russia's president has millions -- and possibly billions -- of secret girlfriends, according to an analysis of Putin's secret dating history by Russia Insider.
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The most recent and verified reports of Putin's womanizing involve Rupert Murdoch's ex-wife and a lady with an apartment in Moscow.

But recall: Putin is also secretly dating former gymnast Alina Kabaeva, and also some boxer lady.
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How the leader of the world's largest country finds time to elope with so many women is a closely-guarded secret.
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But the Kremlin can't hide the truth forever. The full extent of Putin's love life will eventually be uncovered by British tabloids, and then re-published by Foreign Policy.

Foreign Chinese military bases

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China plans to build bases in more countries after Djibouti

By Presstv.com

China says it is planning to construct global “support facilities” in more countries, after starting to build a logistics center in the African country of Djibouti.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the announcement during a news conference on the sidelines of an annual parliament meeting on Tuesday.
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“We are willing to, in accordance with objective needs, respond to the wishes of host nations and in regions where China’s interests are concentrated, try out the construction of some infrastructure facilities and support abilities,” he said.
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Last month, the Chinese Defense Ministry said Beijing had started construction on the base in Djibouti, which is seeking to become a shipping hub.
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Djibouti, which is located at the southern entrance of the Red Sea on the route to the Suez Canal, also hosts American and French bases.
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Deonme Turkey supporting ISIS terrorists, so that Turkey can be destroyed via Kurdi nationalism....which is backed by the USA

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And as the emails reveal from Hillary recently, create Etrez Israel: 

Turkey and ISIS - Like Peas in a Pod

The evidence of Turkish-ISIS collaboration is extensively documented

David L. Phillips

(OpEdNews)

By Russia Insider

Is Turkey collaborating with the Islamic State (ISIS)? Allegations range from military cooperation and weapons transfers to logistical support, financial assistance, and the provision of medical services. It is also alleged that Turkey turned a blind eye to ISIS attacks against Kobani.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu strongly deny complicity with ISIS. Erdogan visited the Council on Foreign Relations on September 22, 2014. He criticized "smear campaigns [and] attempts to distort perception about us." Erdogan decried, "A systematic attack on Turkey's international reputation, "complaining that "Turkey has been subject to very unjust and ill-intentioned news items from media organizations." Erdogan posited:

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Columbia University's Program on Peace-building and Rights assigned a team of researchers in the United States, Europe, and Turkey to examine Turkish and international media, assessing the credibility of allegations. This report draws on a variety of international sources -- The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, BBC, Sky News, as well as Turkish sources, CNN Turk, Hurriyet Daily News, Taraf, Cumhuriyet, and Radikal among others.

THE Allegations

Turkey Provides Military Equipment to ISIS
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• An ISIS commander told The Washington Post on August 12, 2014: "Most of the fighters who joined us in the beginning of the war came via Turkey, and so did our equipment and supplies."
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• Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, head of the Republican People's Party (CHP), produced a statement from the Adana Office of the Prosecutor on October 14, 2014 maintaining that Turkey supplied weapons to terror groups. He also produced interview transcripts from truck drivers who delivered weapons to the groups. According toKiliçdaroglu, the Turkish government claims the trucks were for humanitarian aid to the Turkmen, but the Turkmen said no humanitarian aid was delivered.
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• According to CHP Vice President Bulent Tezcan, three trucks were stopped in Adana for inspection on January 19, 2014. The trucks were loaded with weapons in Esenboga Airport in Ankara. The drivers drove the trucks to the border, where a MIT agent was supposed to take over and drive the trucks to Syria to deliver materials to ISIS and groups in Syria. This happened many times. When the trucks were stopped, MIT agents tried to keep the inspectors from looking inside the crates. The inspectors found rockets, arms, and ammunitions.
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• Cumhuriyet reports that Fuat Avni, a preeminent Twitter user who reported on the December 17th corruption probe, that audio tapes confirm that Turkey provided financial and military aid to terrorist groups associated with Al Qaeda on October 12, 2014. On the tapes, Erdogan pressured the Turkish Armed Forces to go to war with Syria. Erdogan demanded that Hakan Fidan, the head of Turkey's National Intelligence Agency (MIT), come up with a justification for attacking Syria.
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• Hakan Fidan told Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Yasar Guler, a senior defense official, and Feridun Sinirlioglu, a senior foreign affairs official: "If need be, I'll send 4 men into Syria. I'll formulate a reason to go to war by shooting 8 rockets into Turkey; I'll have them attack the Tomb of Suleiman Shah."
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• Documents surfaced on September 19th, 2014 showing that the Saudi Emir Bender Bin Sultan financed the transportation of arms to ISIS through Turkey. A flight leaving Germany dropped off arms in the Etimesgut airport in Turkey, which was then split into three containers, two of which were given to ISIS and one to Gaza.
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Turkey Provided Transport and Logistical Assistance to ISIS Fighters
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• According to Radikal on June 13, 2014, Interior Minister Muammar Guler signed a directive: "According to our regional gains, we will help al-Nusra militants against the branch of PKK terrorist organization, the PYD, within our borders...Hatay is a strategic location for the mujahideen crossing from within our borders to Syria. Logistical support for Islamist groups will be increased, and their training, hospital care, and safe passage will mostly take place in Hatay...MIT and the Religious Affairs Directorate will coordinate the placement of fighters in public accommodations." 
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• The Daily Mail reported on August 25, 2014 that many foreign militants joined ISIS in Syria and Iraq after traveling through Turkey, but Turkey did not try to stop them. This article describes how foreign militants, especially from the UK, go to Syria and Iraq through the Turkish border. They call the border the "Gateway to Jihad." Turkish army soldiers either turn a blind eye and let them pass, or the jihadists pay the border guards as little as $10 to facilitate their crossing.
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• Britain's Sky News obtained documents showing that the Turkish government has stamped passports of foreign militants seeking to cross the Turkey border into Syria to join ISIS.
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• The BBC interviewed villagers, who claim that buses travel at night, carrying jihadists to fight Kurdish forces in Syria and Iraq, not the Syrian Armed Forces.
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• A senior Egyptian official indicated on October 9, 2014 that Turkish intelligence is passing satellite imagery and other data to ISIS.
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Turkey Provided Training to ISIS Fighters
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• CNN Turk reported on July 29, 2014 that in the heart of Istanbul, places like Duzce and Adapazari, have become gathering spots for terrorists. There are religious orders where ISIS militants are trained. Some of these training videos are posted on the Turkish ISIS propaganda website takvahaber.net. According to CNN Turk, Turkish security forces could have stopped these developments if they had wanted to.
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• Turks who joined an affiliate of ISIS were recorded at a public gathering in Istanbul, which took place on July 28, 2014.
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• A video shows an ISIS affiliate holding a prayer/gathering in Omerli, a district of Istanbul. In response to the video, CHP Vice President, MP Tanrikulu submitted parliamentary questions to the Minister of the Interior, Efkan Ala, asking questionssuch as, "Is it true that a camp or camps have been allocated to an affiliate of ISIS in Istanbul? What is this affiliate? Who is it made up of? Is the rumor true that the same area allocated for the camp is also used for military exercises?"
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• Kemal Kiliçdaroglu warned the AKP government not to provide money and training to terror groups on October 14, 2014. He said, "It isn't right for armed groups to be trained on Turkish soil. You bring foreign fighters to Turkey, put money in their pockets, guns in their hands, and you ask them to kill Muslims in Syria. We told them to stop helping ISIS. Ahmet Davutoglu asked us to show proof. Everyone knows that they're helping ISIS." (See HERE and HERE.)
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• According to Jordanian intelligence, Turkey trained ISIS militants for special operations.
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Turkey Offers Medical Care to ISIS Fighters
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• An ISIS commander told the Washington Post on August 12, 2014, "We used to have some fighters -- even high-level members of the Islamic State -- getting treated in Turkish hospitals."
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• Taraf reported on October 12, 2014 that Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat, a founder of the AKP, said that Turkey supported terrorist groups and still supports them and treats them in hospitals. "In order to weaken the developments in Rojova (Syrian Kurdistan), the government gave concessions and arms to extreme religious groups...the government was helping the wounded. The Minister of Health said something such as, it's a human obligation to care for the ISIS wounded."
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• According to Taraf, Ahmet El H, one of the top commanders at ISIS and Al Baghdadi's right hand man, was treated at a hospital in Sanliurfa, Turkey, along with other ISIS militants. The Turkish state paid for their treatment. According to Taraf's sources, ISIS militants are being treated in hospitals all across southeastern Turkey. More and more militants have been coming in to be treated since the start of airstrikes in August. To be more specific, eight ISIS militants were transported through the Sanliurfa border crossing; these are their names: "Mustafa A., Yusuf El R., Mustafa H., Halil El M., Muhammet El H., Ahmet El S., Hasan H., [and] Salim El D."

Turkey Supports ISIS Financially Through Purchase of Oil
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• On September 13, 2014, The New York Times reported on the Obama administration's efforts to pressure Turkey to crack down on ISIS extensive sales network for oil. James Phillips, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, argues that Turkey has not fully cracked down on ISIS's sales network because it benefits from a lower price for oil, and that there might even be Turks and government officials who benefit from the trade.
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• Fehim Taştekin wrote in Radikal on September 13, 2014 about illegal pipelines transporting oil from Syria to nearby border towns in Turkey. The oil is sold for as little as 1.25 liras per liter. Taştekin indicated that many of these illegal pipelines were dismantled after operating for 3 years, once his article was published.
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• According to Diken and OdaTV, David Cohen, a Justice Department official, saysthat there are Turkish individuals acting as middlemen to help sell ISIS's oil through Turkey.
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• On October 14, 2014, a German Parliamentarian from the Green Party accusedTurkey of allowing the transportation of arms to ISIS over its territory, as well as the sale of oil.
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Turkey Assists ISIS Recruitment
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• Kerim Kiliçdaroğlu claimed on October 14, 2014 that ISIS offices in Istanbul and Gaziantep are used to recruit fighters. On October 10, 2014, the mufti of Konya said that 100 people from Konya joined ISIS 4 days ago. (See HERE and HERE.)
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• OdaTV reports that Takva Haber serves as a propaganda outlet for ISIS to recruit Turkish-speaking individuals in Turkey and Germany. The address where this propaganda website is registered corresponds to the address of a school called Irfan Koleji, which was established by Ilim Yayma Vakfi, a foundation that was created by Erdogan and Davutoglu, among others. It is thus claimed that the propaganda site is operated from the school of the foundation started by AKP members.
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• Minister of Sports, Suat Kilic, an AKP member, visited Salafi jihadists who are ISIS supporters in Germany. The group is known for reaching out to supporters via free Quran distributions and raising funds to sponsor suicide attacks in Syria and Iraq by raising money.
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• OdaTV released a video allegedly showing ISIS militants riding a bus in Istanbul.
Turkish Forces Are Fighting Alongside ISIS
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• On October 7, 2014, IBDA-C, a militant Islamic organization in Turkey, pledged support to ISIS. A Turkish friend who is a commander in ISIS suggests that Turkey is "involved in all of this" and that "10,000 ISIS members will come to Turkey." A Huda-Par member at the meeting claims that officials criticize ISIS but in fact sympathize with the group (Huda-Par, the "Free Cause Party", is a Kurdish Sunni fundamentalist political party). BBP member claims that National Action Party (MHP) officials are close to embracing ISIS. In the meeting, it is asserted that ISIS militants come to Turkey frequently to rest, as though they are taking a break from military service. They claim that Turkey will experience an Islamic revolution, and Turks should be ready for jihad. (See HERE and HERE.)
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• Seymour Hersh maintains in the London Review of Books that ISIS conducted sarin attacks in Syria, and that Turkey was informed. "For months there had been acute concern among senior military leaders and the intelligence community about the role in the war of Syria's neighbors, especially Turkey. Prime Minister Recep Erdogan was known to be supporting the al-Nusra Front, a jihadist faction among the rebel opposition, as well as other Islamist rebel groups. 'We knew there were some in the Turkish government,' a former senior US intelligence official, who has access to current intelligence, told me, 'who believed they could get Assad's nuts in a vice by dabbling with a sarin attack inside Syria - and forcing Obama to make good on his red line threat."
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• On September 20, 2014, Demir Celik, a Member of Parliament with the people's democratic party (HDP) claimed that Turkish Special Forces fight with ISIS.
Turkey Helped ISIS in Battle for Kobani
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• Anwar Moslem, Mayor of Kobani, said on September 19, 2014: "Based on the intelligence we got two days before the breakout of the current war, trains full of forces and ammunition, which were passing by north of Kobane, had an-hour-and-ten-to-twenty-minute-long stops in these villages: Salib Qaran, Gire Sor, Moshrefat Ezzo. There are evidences, witnesses, and videos about this. Why is ISIS strong only in Kobane's east? Why is it not strong either in its south or west? Since these trains stopped in villages located in the east of Kobane, we guess they had brought ammunition and additional force for the ISIS." In the second article on September 30, 2014, a CHP delegation visited Kobani, where locals claimed that everything from the clothes ISIS militants wear to their guns comes from Turkey. (See HERE and HERE.)
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• Released by Nuhaber, a video shows Turkish military convoys carrying tanks and ammunition moving freely under ISIS flags in the Cerablus region and Karkamis border crossing (September 25, 2014). There are writings in Turkish on the trucks.
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• Salih Muslim, PYD head, claims that 120 militants crossed into Syria from Turkey between October 20th and 24th, 2014.
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• According to an op-ed written by a YPG commander in The New York Times on October 29, 2014, Turkey allows ISIS militants and their equipment to pass freely over the border.
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• Diken reported, "ISIS fighters crossed the border from Turkey into Syria, over the Turkish train tracks that delineate the border, in full view of Turkish soldiers. They were met there by PYD fighters and stopped."
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• A Kurdish commander in Kobani claims that ISIS militants have Turkish entry stamps on their passports.
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• Kurds trying to join the battle in Kobani are turned away by Turkish police at the Turkey-Syrian border.
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• OdaTV released a photograph of a Turkish soldier befriending ISIS militants.
Turkey and ISIS Share a Worldview
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• RT reports on Vice President Joe Biden's remarks detailing Turkish support to ISIS.
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• According to the Hurriyet Daily News on September 26, 2014, "The feelings of the AKP's heavyweights are not limited to Ankara. I was shocked to hear words of admiration for ISIL from some high-level civil servants even in Şanliurfa. 'They are like us, fighting against seven great powers in the War of Independence,' one said." "Rather than the [Kurdistan Workers' Party] PKK on the other side, I would rather have ISIL as a neighbor," said another."
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• Cengiz Candar, a well-respected Turkish journalist, maintained that MIT helped "midwife" the Islamic state in Iraq and Syria, as well as other Jihadi groups.
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• An AKP council member posted on his Facebook page: "Thankfully ISIS exists... May you never run out of ammunition..."
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• A Turkish Social Security Institution supervisor uses the ISIS logo in internal correspondences.
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• Bilal Erdogan and Turkish officials meet alleged ISIS fighters.

ISIS created by the USA, as was al-Qaeda and the Taliban

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Evidence Is Mounting That Islamic State Is Offspring of the US

But does the world have the courage to face the facts?

By Peter Orzechowski

(KOPP Online)

by Russia Insider 

With the terrorist attacks of Paris and the bomb threats in Hannover, the Islamic State (IS) has shown that it intends to spread its war to Europe. The public is horrified, the mainstream media stokes public anxiety, but hardly anyone dares to say that the IS is a product of the United States — and yet the evidence is mounting.
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First let's listen to some opinions kept secret by our media. "The fact that the IS finances its numerous followers, supplies arms, and controls nearly 400,000 square kilometers in Syria and Iraq; is indicative of heavy financial, military, and logistical support," says Mosayeb Na'imi, political scientist and editor of the Arabic daily Al Vefagh/Al Wefag, to Sputnik Persian. [Hereafter the author refers to Mr Na'imi as "the expert"] According to the expert, the terrorists are being backed by those, "who are interested in continuing the Syria war." That would be the United States and the Gulf monarchies......Israel/Turkey.
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"Although the United States is publicly committed to fighting the IS, they finance other terrorist groups who share the Islamic State’s ideology and who have mass murders on their consciences: Ahrar al-Sham and the Al-Nusra Front. According to the expert, these terrorist groups would never have been able to bring large areas and oil reservoirs under their control without support from overseas. The assertion from Washington, that US planes had accidentally dropped food, drugs, and weapons on the terrorists, is for Na’imi nothing short of “a lie”.
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The expert comments, "The IS has very influential countries behind it; namely, the United States, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and their allies." If these countries had not helped, Turkey wouldn’t have made its territory available for the transfer of terrorists fighters. The IS wouldn’t have been able to grow to such a large degree.
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The fact that the United States only pretends to fight the terrorists is also obvious to Middle East journalist Hafsa Kara-Mustapha. The U.S. military commitment against the "Islamic State", which began more than a year ago, has neither weakened the terrorist militia, nor has it hindered their capacity to produce oil, says Kara-Mustapha to Sputnik Persian. "On the contrary, since the beginning of the U.S. operation, IS has even gotten bigger."
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In addition to aid from the Gulf countries, the illegal oil trade is an important source of funding for IS, says Emad Abshenass. According to the political scientist and editor of the newspaper Iran Press, the IS is to a “large extent” responsible for the drop in oil prices. The IS takes the oil from markets captured in Iraq and Syria and sells it to bootleggers at a below-market prices. The oil is smuggled into Turkey and Jordan, and from there to Israel and other "pro-Western" countries. 
According to [Abshenass], Turkey plays a decisive role.
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Abshenass says that IS generates a “colossal income” through the illegal trafficking of human organs. The organs are harvested from "infidels" and enemies of their ideology, then the organs are sold to smugglers.  He continues to say that objects of historical value and artefacts out of Syria and Iraq serve as another source of income. Kidnapping and both human and drug trafficking are also sources of income.
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"In the areas controlled by terrorists, the drug trade is part of the daily routine." Abshenass recalls the arrest of Saudi Prince Abdel Mohsen Bin Walid Bin Abdulaziz at the Beirut Airport. More than two tons of amphetamines and cocaine were discovered in the suitcases of the prince and his companions. According to the expert Abshenass, it was determined that the transport of these drugs was to be used to finance the IS.
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More information came to light on October 17. The news portal maxpark.com reveals that the Iraqi military found a large warehouse with U.S. weapons and missiles owned by the IS. The depot was discovered when the Iraqi military forces had reoccupied areas previously controlled by the IS.

Based on a published article at maxpark.com, the blog alles-schallundrauch.blogspot.ru reports the following: "Among [these discovered U.S. weapons and rockets,] TOW II advanced anti-tank missiles were found next to large amounts of ammunition. When a journalist asked about this, a spokesman for the Pentagon said that the U.S. arms had been ‘missing’ since the previous year. The spokesman disagreed with the suggestion that the United States had been deliberately supplying them to the IS.”
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Holger Strohm became famous in 1971 for his published Quietly Into Disaster, which became the “bible of the anti-nuclear movement”. Strohm was quoted in early summer, in the Swiss magazine Raum & Zeit, May/June 2015: "According to a former CIA operative, the IS is a product of the U.S. intelligence community — an army trained by Saudi Arabia and the U.S. military army (...) Besides U.S. Senator John McCain, the U.S. Air Force General Thomas McInernay has also admitted that the United States has created the IS."
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told the BBC in autumn 2014 that "Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates" were so determined to overthrow Assad and to launch a "Sunni-Shia proxy war," that they poured thousands of tons of weapons and hundreds of millions of dollars into the insurgency; "except that the people who were being supplied were Al-Nusra and al-Qaeda and the extremist elements of jihadis coming from other parts of the world."
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President Obama even admitted it himself July 8, 2015. He said during a press conference that they were training IS. According to his exact statement: "So, with the additional steps I ordered last month, we’re speeding up training of ISIL forces, including volunteers from Sunni tribes in Anbar Province.” He made this statement without immediate correction.
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General Wesley Clark, the former supreme commander of NATO forces in Europe, said in a CNN interview on February 2015: "The IS got started through funding from our friends and allies ... to destroy Hezbollah... It’s like a Frankenstein.” Referring to "friends and allies" Clark means those of the United States in the Middle East: Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. The backdrop that CNN used during the interview reads, "War with ISIS." It should read, “War on ISIS.”
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hinted at further support in mid-September 2015, when he declared that the Syrian army could form a decisive force in the struggle against the "Islamic State," and that the actions of the West pertaining to Syria were "counter-productive and absurd." He also pointed to internal sources in the US-led anti-IS coalition, where it was reported that U.S. officers often prevented air raids on IS-positions.
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"Internal sources of the U.S.-led anti-IS coalition have reported to Moscow that the USA shouldn’t authorize air strikes against confirmed IS positions.” That raises questions, says Lavrov. "Some of our colleagues in the coalition say that they receive information as to the exact position of where the Islamic State is staying, but the commander of the coalition [a U.S. officer] doesn’t approve any strikes. I could assume that the coalition has an objective other than their alleged fight against the Islamic State. "
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The United States’ entanglement with IS goes even further. The IS-fighters are not just trained, armed, and financed by the U.S. and its allies. They’re protected against air raids and they’re being supported militarily. On August 2, 2015, Britain’s Sunday Express newspaper headlined, “SAS dress as ISIS fighters in undercover war against jihadists” saying:
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“More than 120 members belonging to the elite regiment are currently in the war-torn country“ covertly “dressed in black and flying ISIS flags,” engaged in what’s called Operation Shader — attacking Syrian targets on the pretext of combatting ISIS.
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Over 250 UK (and perhaps U.S.) specialists are involved to communications support, the Sunday Express explained. British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said “(o)ur actions and surveillance capabilities are freeing up other countries to strike in Syria.”
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British SAS fighters are also in Saudi Arabia, where they and U.S. fighters train together terrorists to be used against Assad —- [not just in Saudi Arabia but] in Turkey, Jordan, Qatar and possibly Israel as well. American and British assertions what they’re training "moderate" rebels, serve as a cover for the direct cooperation with IS-terrorists. [These terrorists are] trained, armed, and funneled over the border and into Syria to fight against Assad. Now they have Anglo-American and Canadian air support and covert ground commandos.
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In an article published at Kopp Online May 20, 2015, the Canadian professor Michel Chossudovsky gives more evidence of U.S.-support for IS: "If they had wanted to eliminate the Islamic State brigades, they could have ‘carpet’ bombed their convoys of Toyota pickup trucks when they crossed the desert from Syria into Iraq in June 2014." [The source in English, Global Research, 2015]

The Donald is FAKE right, and destined to fail

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The point of the heading is not an endorsement of right-wing politics, but rather that the Donald is a fake right pied piper from Hamlin, directing the lemmings over the precipice, so that super greedy, neo-liberal bitch, Jewish, dike, Mena narcotics, Big Business absentee directorships, Wall Street pigmy, slave plantations in Haiti....Israeli cock sucker MONSTERESS will win the elections, ensuring a couple of more wars around the world from 2017.

The Donald is not necessarily good for the USA, WE DON'T KNOW.....BUT Hitlery is definitely not good for the world.

Another cogent observation by Scott Creighton.


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The Donald Hands Killary an Early Election Present

by Scott Creighton at American everyman.


 In 2008 the majority of the general population of the U.S. was angry about the illegal Iraq invasion and occupation. It was a point of contention on the right just as it was on the left. So what did the Republican Party decide to run against the Democratic Party nominee? John “the Flaming Warmonger” McCain.
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In 2012 people were up in arms about how an out of control financial sector deliberately destroyed our economy so they could reap the harvest of unending bailouts and rampant banking consolidation schemes. Republicans and Democrats alike lost massive amounts of their 401ks and many even lost their homes in the recession/depression brought on by the hedge-funders and banksters. So what did the Republican Party decide to run against President Peace Prize? Mitt “the Mormon Vulture Capitalist” Romney.
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Here we are in 2016 and the tide has turned against the billionaire class and the undemocratic influence they have in politics. It’s a major part of Bernie’s platform, so much so, even Killary is forced to get in on the act. It’s the major theme of the Republican front-runner’s campaign as well. But what is he? A billionaire. Trying to get into politics.
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Anyone notice a theme developing here? So the writer if it isn't obvious already is saying that the President is chosen by the power elite, before the elections, and what follows is a sham and a fraud....a rigged dog race
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It wasn’t that different back in 2000 and 2004. In 2000 the people, even the left, were getting sick of Slick Willy so the Dems ran his VP, a man so lacking in character and personality, that deficit became his defining trademark. And in 2004, when over half the country was singing “how great we are because we killed Saddam” along with “Let the Eagle Soar” the “We’ll Put a Boot Up Your Ass”, when we were banning the sale of French Fries because the French didn’t support our illegal invasion of Iraq, the Dems decided to put forward a candidate who famously threw his medals on the steps of congress back when he still had a soul and was a hippy peace activist.
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Today we have billionaire celebrity “reality” TV star and professional wrestler Donald Trump making ready to lose an election to the presumptive nominee from the fake left, Hillary Clinton and nobody bats an eye every time he does something to disenfranchise yet another large segment of the voting population.
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How many times to you have to hear Killary say “he’s not a serious candidate” before you understand that’s he’s not?
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She’s been quoting an American poet the last couple of days everywhere she goes, talking about Trump. “When someone tells you who they are, you should take their word for it”
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I agree completely, but with a little twist: When someone on the inside tells you what’s going on, you should take their word for it.
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Right at the time when it seems inevitable that Killary is going to be his competition, The Donald’s “campaign” (if you want to call it that) has entered the “let’s insult women as much as we can” phase. A couple weeks ago The Donald decided to threaten to “expose” Ted Cruz’s wife by laying out her Wiki page for all who cared to pay attention and then his campaign manager grabbed some reporter from Drudge of all places and did their level best to call her a liar with every breath they could muster until The Donald’s own staff release a video of his doing just that. The Donald stuck by his man. After all, who are his fans going to believe? Him or their lying eyes.
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Then yesterday The Comb-over decided to step it up a notch and he said, off the cuff, that he would favor punishing women for having abortions.
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That story is custom made for the first female president, don’t you think? I mean, aside from running against a war-monger in 2008 and a vulture capitalist in 2012, it don’t get any easier than that.
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You notice no one paid attention to a couple of other statements made yesterday?
John Kasich uttered what I call “the voice of Gladio” when he said the following to Anderson “Mockingbird” Cooper at a CNN town-hall meeting:

KASICH:  … Secondly, of course, I think, Anderson, that we need really good worldwide intelligence.  I think that the lemons we’re seeing can be turned into lemonade and I think a president of the United States can rally the civilized world to destroy these folks who are intent on destroying us.
And secondly, we talked about NATO.  That was another thing I talked about.  We need to change NATO from not just a military organization, but an intelligence-gathering and also a policing organization that works across boundaries.
… Now, look, it’s really important that we get these countries to pitch in and do more.  They’ll never do as much as we want.  I mean, I lived through a whole time when we would push them, pressure them.
Part of the problem is it’s their governments over there.  You know, there is too much socialism, there is too much political correctness.  That’s why they didn’t even catch this thing in Brussels.  And you know that the screw-ups that we saw with the intelligence. CNN

No one noticed. No one cared. Blame the socialists for false flag terrorism across Europe while talking about changing “their governments over there” and no one bats an eye at that. But talk about potential penalties for abortions and everyone goes crazy in this country.
Amazing.
(Is this the end of civilization? Will electing Killary spell the end of mankind?)

Chinese troops in Pakistan, finally

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This was a rumor and discussion between the two countries for a long time. It has the support of the Pakistan military.

China is Pakistan's best ally in all senses.

China provides military and strategic aid to Pakistan. 

China does not dictate to Pakistan or make demands.

The Chinese embassy in Islamabad is not a vipers nest of intrigue against Pakistan.

The Chinese do not promote military coups in Pakistan, against democratically elected governments.

The Chinese do not promote corrupt gangsters people in Pakistan.

The Chinese do not establish subversive NGO's in Pakistan which destabilize the state.

The Chinese do not send drones into Pakistan.

The Chinese do not commit terrorism in Pakistan.

The Chinese do not assassinate Pakistani leaders.

The Chinese respect and talk respectfully to their Asian brothers and others around the world. 

The Chinese want to lock Pakistan into its economic success and the SCO, which Pakistan will join this year.

INITIALLY Chinese troops were to be stationed in Gwadar, a strategic port where the Persian Gulf meets the Arabian sea so went the gossip, then the discussion moved to stationing a Chinese Brigade in FATA to fight the Chinese Uighurs and Uzbeks and al-Qaeda. Then there was a rumour that Chinese troops would be stationed in Gilgit-Baltistan to protect Chinese construction workers building dams, power stations and roads.

With the construction of the economic corridor between China and Pakistan worth some $50 billion, now there is some REAL possibility of Chinese troops in Pakistan. This is interesting for a country that has hosted in the past USA, Israeli, Arab and UK troops.

But China must be cautious and not overly naive about Pakistan. There are two Pakistan's which has baffled many experts. One is the hapless failed state of Pakistan, which is filled with very poor people....and the other is the Pakistan military. The Pakistan military has 1.1 million personnel, including paramilitaries and is the most powerful institution in the country.......not the elected PM, or the President.....or the Supreme Court.

Sadly this most powerful of institutions is the product of British colonialism, and the top officers are trained in the UK/USA. It was not disbanded and started afresh in 1947. What bastardised it even more is when the departing colonial power decided to create the infamous ISI within the Pakistan colonial armed forces in 1948. It was headed by a British officer from 1948-59. Thus the Pakistan military's world is seen through the prism of Washington.....which means terrorism, destabilization of Pakistan and neighbors 

INCLUDING supporting Chinese Uighur terrorists in China.  

This includes supporting the Afghan Taliban

This includes supporting ISIS in Pakistan/Afghanistan/China.

What may appear as common sense or what is Pakistan's best interests....for ordinary informed Pakistanis it is inverted in the twilight world of the Pakistan general staff. On the one hand they could be smiling and shaking hands with the Chinese for their shiny new weapons.....on the other they could be doing the dirty, for their gora sahib masters.

Presumably the Chinese troops stationed in Pakistan protecting the economic corridor will be fighting some of the elements mentioned above. 

But China is a big forgiving power which will treat Pakistan as yet another North Korea...a bothersome satellite that is strategically important.

This is a good development.

Can we hope for Chinese troops in Iraq, in the future? Second largest oil deposits, with the USA doing the dirty on them as per usual.......weak unpopular pro-American government in Bagdad.

Whilst the Iraqi governments forces fight ISIS, the USA supplies ISIS covertly.

Why does the JEWSA do this, risking exposer?

1. The USA does not trust MIT (Turkish Intelligence)......the main supplier of ISIS via Turkey

2. When the USA supplies from Iraqi bases the supply line is much shorter, quick and direct where there is a matter of urgency.

3. The more sophisticated weapons are supplied directly by the USA to ISIS, ensuring that the ISIS arms bazaar does not sell to the wrong people.......Russians, Syrians...

4. Whilst the ISIS operation in Syria is dominated by Turkey, the ISIS operation in Iraq is dominated by Israelis with over a 1000 active members of the IDF within its ranks.....and thus since the JEWSA is the best butt buddy of the Israelis the Americans give priority of supply through themselves to ISIS in Iraq....

........whilst they continue to marshal thousands of American troops who will pretend to fight ISIS in Iraq.

Iraq is resource rich, and near the silk road which can be linked to China through road and rail eventually....the Chinese government should embrace and seek out Sinophiles in Iraq.

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Chinese troops likely to be positioned in Pakistan: agency

By Khaama Press - 
 
Chinese troops will be positioned in Pakistan to protect the 3,000-km-long China-Pakistan Economic Corridor that connects the Gwadar Port in Balochistan to China’s Xinjiang region, NDTV reports.
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Besides, Pakistan has raised three independent infantry Brigades and two additional artillery regiments to protect the highway, security agencies have told New Delhi. A Brigade consists of least three regiments, each with about a 1,000 soldiers.

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The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor or CPEC starts from the restive Pakistani province of Balochistan, runs along the Makaran Coast turning north to connect Lahore and Islamabad, passes through Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and then runs into the Karakoram Highway, ending at Kashgar in the Xinjiang region of China.

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Although China’s People’s Liberation Army or PLA will be positioned to protect the highway, its presence in Pakistan is a cause of concern for India. New Delhi has earlier objected to the presence to Chinese troops in the Gilgit-Baltistan area and a substantial portion of the additional forces being raised in Pakistan and the Chinese PLA are likely to be deployed in that area of PoK.

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“We are closely watching these developments,” a top government official told NDTV, adding, “We have a fair idea of the number of Chinese troops that are likely to be positioned in Pakistan.”

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There are indications that Pakistan is seriously attempting to annex this region into a fifth province of Pakistan, government sources said.

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Pakistan’s moves to annex Gilgit-Baltistan have led to massive protest in the region and brutal crackdowns on the local population.

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The first phase of the CPEC is likely to be functional by December 2016 and it is expected to be completely ready in three years, giving China direct access to the Indian Ocean and beyond.

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The corridor is likely to be used, among other things, to transport fuel and petroleum products from the Gulf region into China. Its will shorten the route for China’s energy imports from the Middle East by about 12,000 km.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping had agreed to build the highway and committed a whopping US dollars 50 billion for the project, during his visit to Pakistan last April.

How to encourage the 5-7 million Iranian expat community with $2 trillion personal assets to return to their country

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The primary problem is the mullah puppet regime brought into power by the USA/UK.

Under this mullah regime an unprecedented number of Persians mostly middle class have left the country for foreign shores. Not since the Arab invasion of Persia in 638 AD have so many Persians left the country. 

What a huge tragedy created by the bastards in the USA/UK.

These 5-7 million Iranian expats are important for 2 reasons:

(i) These Iranians are middle class, and a modern state is really about the middle class...their size and wealth. A rich modern country has a huge middle class, with the middle class essentially running the country..........a poor country has a very small middle class, with a few very rich people at the top which is what the Jews in London/NY desire for their respective countries.........and for their satellites. It is easier for the elite to manage illiterate people than middle class people.

(ii) These expat Iranians of 5-7 million have assets worth $2 trillion from the sweat of their brow and the honest application of their skills. This sum is bigger than the current PPP GDP of Iran which is about $1.4 trillion.

The donkey mullah puppets of Iran OBVIOUSLY don't want these expat Iranians back, otherwise they wouldn't have let them go in the first place. They constitute a legitimate challenge to the utterly absurdistan mullah rule in Iran.

The mullahs in Persia inshallah will one day pass from the page of history, and the Iranian people will finally in the future learn to grapple with the snake like schemes against Persia from the USA/UK........and their dogs.

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Iranian expats hard to woo as Western firms seek foothold in Iran

LONDON | By Pamela Barbaglia Reuters and antiwar.com

International firms are hunting for Western-educated Iranians to take on executive jobs in the Islamic Republic after the removal of most sanctions, but are finding it hard to win them over.

 
 . Interviews with Western companies and headhunters as well as more than 20 Iranians living abroad showed that expatriates are waiting to see how promised reforms progress before deciding whether to go back, despite lucrative job offers.
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Many in the diaspora are put off by the poor quality of life and problems such as red tape, a murky business culture, security issues, pollution and a lack of international schools for their children. They are also concerned about their rights and protections under the Islamic Republic's judicial system.
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 Their reluctance is making life harder for conglomerates who need help to navigate Iran's complex business world, train the local workforce and bridge a cultural and linguistic gap with affluent local consumers in the country of 80 million.
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"This is the place where an expat who holds an MBA (Master of Business Administration) and has the right entrepreneurial attitude can make a real impact. Yet there's never been a queue of expats applying for jobs here," Giuseppe Carella, the Iran country chief of Swiss food group Nestlé, told Reuters.
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To nurture future managers, Nestlé sends local graduates overseas for several years, honing their skills away from Iran until they're ready to go back, Carella said.
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Expats remain a tiny minority of the about 1,000 employees at the firm's subsidiary in Iran, 15 years after its launch.
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President Hassan Rouhani met Iranian expatriates in New York last September and urged them to re-engage with Iran, weeks after Tehran agreed to curb its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of nuclear-related sanctions.
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During a visit to Singapore this month, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iranian nationals living abroad were "the best bridges for dialogue of cultures and civilizations".
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The Iranian diaspora is estimated by Iranian officials at between 5 and 7 million people, mostly living in North America, Europe and the Gulf.
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Some, like Paniz Golkar, a 26-year-old dual national of Iran and Canada, are tempted to return.
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"I feel it's my responsibility to go back. Iran needs professionals from all fields," said Golkar, who is due to finish her studies at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in April. "It will be challenging to prove myself as a woman in business but there are more career opportunities in Iran than anywhere else.
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"A lot of Iranians in California are talking about moving back, it's an option we can't ignore," she said.
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But there are many challenges to consider.
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Some expatriates whose families left Iran before or soon after the 1979 revolution are skeptical about career prospects and worry that Tehran's refusal to recognize their dual citizenship status makes them vulnerable to arbitrary arrest.
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Security forces have arrested some dual nationals who hold U.S. and European passports in recent years on unspecified national security charges.
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Others hesitate because of concerns over the bureaucratic regime, the lower standard of living in traffic-clogged Tehran and restrictions enforced by the "morality police" on Islamic dress and behavior codes.
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British-Iranian Ali Tehrani, 24, tried to relocate to Iran last October but was worn down by the challenge of securing permits and licenses and an exemption from military service, which in Iran is compulsory and lasts 24 months.
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"I quickly realized I didn't have the skill sets to navigate the bureaucracy in Iran," he said.
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A graduate of University College London who founded a human resources tech firm, KeyPursuit.com, he had hoped to launch an Internet start-up in Iran focusing on online payments. He abandoned the project after three months.
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A 2016 survey of 230 cities by consultant Mercer ranked Tehran 203rd for quality of living, worse than Pakistan's Islamabad and Kenya's Nairobi.
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Home to around 14 million people, Tehran's metropolitan area is often blanketed in smog and schools are frequently shut because air pollution keeps reaching alarming levels.
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Several Iranians based in the Gulf told Reuters that Western firms wanted to recruit them as they don't trust the local workforce because of concerns about corruption and breaches of security and intellectual property rights.
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"Loyalty remains one of the main issues when it comes to local staff," said a Tehran-based management consultant who requested anonymity. "Compensation is so low that people tend to have two or three different jobs, without any serious full-time commitment."
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Iran ranked 130th out of 168 countries on Transparency International's 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index.
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After watching many swings of the political pendulum in recent years, Iranians abroad also worry that the economic reforms led by President Rouhani may ultimately be blocked.
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Rouhani wants to modernize the economy with the help of foreign investment and wealthy rich expats owning assets worth an estimated $2 trillion. Gains by allies in parliamentary elections are expected to help him push through the reforms.
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But hardline allies of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said this month that Western business delegations have failed to deliver any benefit to Iran's economy.

COMPETITION TO WOO DIASPORA

Aware of expats' reservations, foreign firms are trying to woo Western residents with packages that can include high pay, family expenses and private school fees, and are billed as offering a faster career path than in the West.
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A Western-educated Iranian can earn in excess of $15,000 a month, up to about $250,000 a year, in a senior executive role at a Western conglomerate in Iran, several headhunters and executives told Reuters.
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For the same job at an Iranian firm, they said, locals would earn around $5,000 a month, up to about $100,000 a year.
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This compares to a minimum monthly wage for local workers of $225, according to a 2015 study by Tehran-based consultancy REF Group.
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Former science and technology minister Reza Faraji Dana said in 2014 about 150,000 of Iran's "highly talented people" were leaving annually, costing the economy as much as $150 billion a year.
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"For years Iran has had a brain-drain problem. Now people holding a Western degree can get high-profile jobs and move up through the ranks (in Iran) at a much faster pace than anywhere else," said Sarmad Afarinesh, an Austrian-educated Iranian whose Vienna-based company, Arhax Consulting, helps multinational firms enter Iran.
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Consultants who cater to Western conglomerates seeking access to Iran -- one business that is growing fast across all sectors -- can earn up to $10,000 a month without relocating permanently, headhunters say.
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Reza Joorabchi, a 35-year-old Iranian-Canadian who left Iran at the age of six months, moved back to Tehran in November to help Western firms crack the market.
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"Everybody is surprised that I've lasted for more than two months. The quality of living is so poor that many expats give up almost immediately," he said. "You need to have a thick skin to survive."
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Joorabchi said foreign companies must now distinguish between expats willing to live in Iran and those who are ready only to travel there.
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Many executives prefer to be based in Dubai where international companies have their Middle East headquarters.
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Dubai-based executive search firm Wise&Miller, which has placed senior managers at international companies such as Royal Dutch Shell, Unilever Plc, Heineken and Philips in the Middle East, is building a database of foreign-educated Iranians willing to relocate.
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It is "an increasingly crowded market," according to the company's co-founder, Marc Mulder, who says he approaches dozens of candidates each week using social media to establish a connection with Iranian professionals around the world.
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Hamid Biglari, a former Citigroup vice-chairman and financier with emerging market expertise now also advising investors on Iran, said the country needs to come up with incentives for people of Iranian origin to come back, such as issuing identification cards that would allow them to travel to and invest in Iran without a visa or dual citizenship.
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"More needs to be done to persuade the Iranian diaspora to re-engage with their land of origin," said Biglari, who left Iran in 1977.
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Their role could be similar to that of Indian expatriates in the United States who helped make India a global technology powerhouse, he said.
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"Iranians abroad can provide capital, knowledge and business connections, all of which are vital to rebuild the country."
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(Additional reporting by Sam Wilkin in Dubai, editing by Sinead Cruise, Timothy Heritage and Sonya Hepinstall)