Evening Update: Putin Warns Netanyahu And Netanyahu Warns Putin

The war or words between Netanyahu and Putin is heating up and one can almost see the tensions which will ultimately lead to the great battle of Gog-MaGog starting to simmer. 

It also looks like we're in the midst of another contraction as the pertinent news stores are back to a 1/2 day cycle:

G7 Sets Policy For Global Tax Regime

G7 agree to target tax evasion and avoidance ... George Osborne co-chaired the two-day meeting in ... The G7 group of industrialised nations have agreed that there must be collective action against tax evasion and avoidance, the UK's finance minister has said. Chancellor George Osborne said after the talks that it was "incredibly important" that firms and individuals paid the tax they owed. The members agreed on more policy issues than had been assumed, he added. The G7 comprises the US, Germany, the UK, Japan, Italy, France and Canada.

It will not be much noted by the mainstream press that this week's meeting of the G7 has attempted to harmonize tax collection worldwide.

As we follow dominant social themes, we were suspicious of Cyprus's planned implosion a few weeks ago and believed that it might be part of a larger, organized effort at rationalizing global taxation.

In a news conference held jointly with Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King, Mr Osborne said ... "We must put regimes in place... to deal with failing banks and to protect taxpayers and to do so in a globally-consistent manner," he said.

The issue of tax avoidance had been raised by Britain, Germany and other countries earlier this year. They asked the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - which advises rich nations on tax policy - to examine possible changes to address the problem of multinational companies using transfer pricing rules to shift profits into tax havens.

After World War II, the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Health Organization and numerous other globalist bodies were set up under the supervision of the West and particularly the US, which often acts as proxy for British interests.

Perhaps the most important organization of all was also expanded in post-war years, and that is the Bank for International Settlements.

Today, the BIS sets policy for upwards of 50 of the world's most powerful central banks and the addition of tax harmonization adds fiscal centralization to the world's long-term monetary harmony.

Step by step we see the expansion of the global financial infrastructure. It is indeed a global government in waiting.

The problem with such centralization is that it inevitability offers additional possibilities for abuse and corruption. When power is not disbursed but centralized, then human history shows us clearly it will be wielded in unfair and even evil ways. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Terrorist Super-Axis To Strike Within U.S.

On Tuesday, the source provided additional new information on the terrorists’ plan for a major attack – that it is to take place within weeks and is planned to be “spectacular,” using a new method. The information was immediately passed on to the appropriate U.S. agency.

Iran has given the go-ahead to operatives of three terrorist groups that have infiltrated the United States to carry out missions, including what is expected to be a Mumbai-style attack on a hotel where innocent bystanders would be killed, WND has learned.

A full report with many details of the missions has been passed on to U.S. officials.

Three targets have been chosen within America for imminent attack, and the terror teams have now cut communications with the operational center in Iran, a sign that they are moving ahead with the attacks, according to a high-level intelligence officer within the Islamic regime.

Putin Again Warns Netanyahu Hands Off Syria

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spent three hours with Russian President Vladimir Putin at his residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Tuesday, May, 14. He came for a last-ditch attempt to head off the supply of advanced Russian anti-air S-300 missile systems to Syria. Instead, the Russian leader turned the conversation around to focus implicitly on Israel’s air strikes against Damascus on May 3 and May 5. After their conversation he issued a warning: "In this crucial period it is especially important to avoid any moves that can shake the situation." 

This was clearly a hands-off caution to Israel not to repeat its attacks on Damascus. And, furthermore, after “shaking the situation” in Syria by its air attacks, Israel was in no position to demand that Russia avoid selling Syria advanced weapons.

The prime minister, for his part, warned that the entire Middle East was in a dangerous state of volatility.

Before Netanyahu’s arrival for the meeting, Moscow took two preparatory steps:

1. Russian diplomats leaked to the London-based Arab press a report that the S-300 missiles had already arrived in Syria. According to Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Moscow had delivered 200 launchers (probably missiles) and the Syrian missile teams already knew how to use them.

By this leak, the Israeli prime minister was being informed that his journey to Sochi was a waste of time and that the use of S-300 missiles for shooting down Israeli Air Force planes was no longer controlled by Moscow but by Damascus.

2.  The prominent strategic analyst, Viktor Kremenyuk of The USA and Canada Institute in Moscow, reported Tuesday that Netanyahu arrived in Sochi to indirectly let Putin know that “Israel would destroy the S-300s when they are delivered and start being assembled.”

The deputy director of an important Russian think tank which advises the Kremlin on North American policy does not tend to make idle comments.

 It is also unlikely that the Russian and Israeli leaders had a chance to work out reciprocal ground rules for the Russian officers supervising the S-300 missile operations in Syria to avoiding hitting Israeli Air Force jets or for Israeli bombers to refrain from destroying them. 

The S-300 is designed to shoot down planes and missiles at 200-km ranges.

Israel is concerned that Moscow may decided to send the six S-300 batteries carrying 144 missiles due for Syria along with Russian missile and air defense specialists. They will also be available for operating the missiles effectively for downing Israeli Air Force planes striking targets in Syria and Lebanon. 

Israel will be forced to think twice before attacking the S-300 batteries for fear of hitting the Russian officers. Putin is therefore placing a severe constraint on Israel’s operational freedom by spreading an anti-air missile cover over the Syrian, Hizballah and the Iranian Basij forces fighting for Bashar Assad.

Russia Not To Tolerate Further Israeli Attacks On Damascus

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, while in Shanghai, was given a sharp dressing-down by Russian President Vladimir Putin, a warning that Russia would not tolerate further Israeli attacks on Damascus and would respond.

Since Syrian air defense teams have already trained in Russia on the handling of the S-300 interceptor batteries, they can go into service as soon as they are landed by one of Russia's daily airlifts to Syria. Russian air defense officials will supervise their deployment and prepare them for operation.

Moscow is retaliating not just for Israel's air operations against Syria but in anticipation of the Obama administration's impending decision to send the first US arms shipments to the Syrian rebels.

Intelligence agencies in Moscow and the Middle-East take it for granted that by the time Washington goes public on this decision, some of the Syrian rebel factions will already be armed with American weapons. 

Fatah, Hamas Agree To form Unity Government Within 3 Months

Rival Palestinian political factions Fatah and Hamas agreed on Tuesday to form a national unity government within three months, a move that, if seen through, would end a six-year rift between the Islamist and secular parties.

Representatives of the two Palestinian groups met in Cairo on Tuesday for the first time in months in a bid to mend fences and form a single government. Hamas and Fatah have been at loggerheads since the violent Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip in June 2007 following Hamas’s surprising success in national elections the year before.

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