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- No government rescue as first Chinese company defaults on domestic bonds (Guardian, March 7, 2014):

Analysts say Shanghai Chaori Solar default shows China is beginning to let market decide fate of weak borrowers

A solar-panel manufacturer has become the first Chinese company to default on domestic bonds, in a watershed moment for market forces in the world’s second largest economy.

There was no sign of a last-minute government rescue for Shanghai Chaori Solar, after the firm failed to repay the bulk of an interest repayment that was due on Friday.

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Tags: Bonds, China, Debt, Economy, Global News, Government, Politics

The Ukraine is on track to be the next country that will be raped & pillaged by the IMF financial mafia.

Greece has been warned before:

“The International Monetary Fund is that last thing you need. You will lose your sovereignty. It exercises terrorism. You will be raped in such a way, that it will be the worst pain you have ever felt.”

So get rid of your self-proclaimed puppet government or suffer.

- Pensions in Ukraine to be halved – sequestration draft (RT, March 6, 2014):

The self-proclaimed government in Kiev is reportedly planning to cut pensions by 50 percent as part of unprecedented austerity measures to save Ukraine from default. With an “empty treasury”, reduction of payments might take place in March.

According to the draft document obtained by Kommersant-Ukraine, social payments will be the first to be reduced.

“The Finance Ministry has prepared a plan for optimizing budget expenditures, which implies budget sequestration is to be in force before the end of March. For this purpose, in particular, it has been proposed to reduce capital costs, eliminate tax schemes and preferences and to cut social benefits, for example, 50 percent of pensions to working pensioners,” Kommersant-Ukraine reported.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Social Policy reported on December 1, 2013, that an average pension in Ukraine is $160.
Right after the formation, the self-proclaimed government in Kiev announced that the “treasury is empty”.

Ukraine’s new prime minister, Arseny Yatsenyuk, promised the government would do its best to avoid a default, adding that he expects an EU/IMF economic stabilization package soon. The plan has been formulated in record time, with the government’s strategy ratified in the Ukrainian parliament on February 27, and the document being sent for evaluation to the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade on March 3.

The European Commission offered Ukraine an 11 billion euro loan if Kiev agrees a deal with the IMF, European Commission President Jose Barroso announced on Wednesday. As a rule, help from financial organizations such as the IMF or the World Bank normally includes drastic austerity measures.

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Tags: Collapse, EU, Europe, Global News, Government, IMF, Pension, Politics, Retirement, Society, Ukraine

- Pentagon studies Putin body language for hint of intent (USA Today, March 6, 2014):

The movements of Russia’s leader and others are scrutinized to gain insights into their decision-making.

A Pentagon research team is studying the body movements of Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders in order to better predict their actions and guide U.S. policy, Pentagon documents and interviews show.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Global News, Government, Obama administration, Pentagon, Politics, Russia, U.S.

- Starved & evicted: Britain’s poor now treated worse than animals (RT, March 7, 2014):

If someone had told me a decade ago that the British government would deliberately starve my fellow countrymen in an attempt to bully them into slave labor jobs that wouldn’t even pay the bills, I would have laughed in their face.

But now I know I would have been the fool. This is indeed the breathtaking strategy of David Cameron’s LibDem-Tory coalition.

A vast underclass of between 5 and 10 million people has been created in Britain of desperate, destitute and now-dying people. While government and media alike tell of “hopeful signs” that the nation’s getting better off, they are just ‘talking it up’ from their ivory towers.

Even Lord Rothschild, who invests over 2 billion pounds of his own dynasty’s and other depositors’ cash through RIT Capital Partners, is ringing alarm bells this week: “With the world recovery still fragile and reliant to a large extent on policy support [QE/money printing]“, he warns, “it is not hard to envisage markets having to deal with shocks in the coming year.” Yes, “shocks.”

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Tags: Collapse, Economy, Global News, Government, Politics, Poverty, Society, U.K.

- America’s Staggering Hypocrisy in Ukraine (Common Dreams, March 5, 2014):

ince World War II – and extending well into the Twenty-first Century – the United States has invaded or otherwise intervened in so many countries that it would be challenging to compile a complete list. Just last decade, there were full-scale U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, plus American bombing operations from Pakistan to Yemen to Libya.

So, what is one to make of Secretary of State John Kerry’s pronouncement that Russia’s military intervention in the Crimea section of Ukraine – at the behest of the country’s deposed president – is a violation of international law that the United States would never countenance?

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Tags: Barack Obama, Crimea, Global News, Government, John Kerry, Obama administration, Politics, Russia, Sergei Lavrov, Ukraine

- Russia Threatens Retaliation To Sanctions, Announces Support For Crimean Referendum (ZeroHedge, March 7, 2014):

It appears Obama’s latest “one hour” conversation with Putin has just made things downshift from bad to worse.

Moments ago Russia accused the European Union of taking an “extremely unconstructive position” by freezing talks on easing visa barriers that complicate travel between Russia and the EU over Ukraine.

“Russia will not accept the language of sanctions and threats“ and will retaliate if sanctions are imposed, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement about agreements reached at an emergency EU summit on Thursday.

And assuring that the imminent Crimean referendum due in just over a week will rapidly deteriorate the current detente was overnight news that Russia’s upper house of parliament will support Crimea in its bid to join the Russian Federation, the speaker of the upper house of parliament said Friday. “If the people of Crimea decide to join Russia in the referendum, we, as the upper house, will certainly support this decision,” Valentina Matvienko said at a meeting with Vladimir Konstantinov, his counterpart in the Crimean parliament.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Crimea, Economy, Gazprom, Global News, Government, Obama administration, Politics, Russia, U.S., Ukraine

- Lawmakers ready to pass bill allowing acceptance of Crimea into Russian Federation (RT, March 6, 2014):

Several Russian parliamentarians have voiced their readiness to fast track a new bill on accepting new regions into the Russian state, and made it clear that the move was caused by fears over the fate of ethnic Russians in the Crimean Republic.

The draft law simplifies the procedure of accepting a part of a foreign state into the Russian Federation, and could be passed as early as next week, the head of the Fair Russia party Sergey Mironov told reporters on Thursday. Continue reading »

Tags: Crimea, Global News, Government, Politics, Russia, Ukraine

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Tags: Andrew Napolitano, Barack Obama, Constitution, Global News, Government, Healthcare, Law, Obama administration, Obamacare, Politics, Society, U.S.

- Russia Invades Ukraine: BAD — U.S. Invades Iraq: Good (Veterans Today, March 6, 2014):

“If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of america.  They don’t care for human beings.”
– Nelson Mandela, Iraq Speech 2003  

“Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman, or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed, or disappeared’, at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame.”
- Amnesty International, 1996  

“Hypocrisy, double standards, and “but nots” are the price of universalist pretensions.   Democracy is promoted, but not if it brings Islamic fundamentalists to power; on proliferation is preached for Iran and Iraq but not for Israel…..Double standards in practice are the unavoidable price of universal standards of principle”
- Professor Samuel Hungtington, “Clash of Civilization and the Remaking of the World Order”, (p. 184)

The Western Israeli Manufactured Ukrainian Crisis: The only way out of this crisis that allows Russia to save face and avoid any armed conflict is to allow the Ukrainian people to hold a referendum to determine their destiny and future as one nation or two nations with the east and south joining Russia.  Russia should keep its naval fleet in the Crimea; all talk of sanctions and isolation should cease, and the G8 Summit should be held as schedules. However, such a solution will be disastrous for the U.S. and Israel as the world would then demand that the Palestinians be allowed the same opportunity for “self determination”.  That’s why such a solution will be difficult for Israel and its lap dog U.S. Congress and Jewish media to fathom putting Obama in a difficult place.  His choice would be world peace or again kowtow to Israel, AIPAC, and Jewish Power.

The U.S. and Israel have historically always opposed “self determination” and freedom from colonial racist rule for many decades.  Both nations supported the racist colonial Apartheid regimes in Africa.  In fact the first veto the U.S. cast in the UN Security Council was to support the British Apartheid Regime in Rhodesia.

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Tags: Global News, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Military, Politics, Russia, U.S., Ukraine

- Obama Signs Executive Order Blocking Certain Russian Assets Due to Ukraine Crisis (Liberty Blitzkrieg, March 6, 2014):

Ok, so this seems like a very big deal and may represent a serious escalation in the soft conflict happening between the U.S. and Russia. As of today, the U.S. seems to be using financial warfare in its response. Not only does this Executive Order issued today appear to block certain Russian assets, it also imposes travel restrictions. The question on my mind now is, does Russia hold some of its treasuries in the custody of the Federal Reserve? If so, are these now frozen?

Here’s the text of the Executive Order (emphasis mine):

Executive Order — Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine

EXECUTIVE ORDER

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BLOCKING PROPERTY OF CERTAIN PERSONS CONTRIBUTING TO THE SITUATION IN UKRAINE

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,

I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, find that the actions and policies of persons — including persons who have asserted governmental authority in the Crimean region without the authorization of the Government of Ukraine — that undermine democratic processes and institutions in Ukraine; threaten its peace, security, stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity; and contribute to the misappropriation of its assets, constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat. I hereby order:

Section 1. (a) All property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person (including any foreign branch) of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State: 

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Tags: Banking, Barack Obama, Economy, Global News, Japan, Obama administration, Politics, Russia, Society, U.S., Ukraine

- Snipers Are Commonly Used as “False Flag” Terrorists (Washington’s Blog, March 6, 2014):

The powers-that-be often use agent provocateurs to disrupt protests and paint protesters as violent and unlikeable.

For example, violent provocateurs were deployed:

• At the North American leader’s summit in Quebec (and see this)

• At the G20 protests in London

• In the Palestinian village of Bil’in

• In Cairo Continue reading »

Tags: False flag, Global News, Government, Politics, Terrorism

Description:

Located near Carlsbad, New Mexico this Department of Energy (DOE) experimental nuclear waste dump is attempting to store leftover radioactive plutonium and americium from the US weapons program. On February 14, 2014 there was a nuclear safety failure at the site and the Department of Energy is not being honest about it. In this film Fairewinds Energy Education’s Arnie Gundersen pieces together what happened and points out Fairewinds’ major concerns about the facility, the accident and the lack of transparency at the DOE.

Related info:

- ‘WIPP Release Story Doesn’t Add Up … Accident Is Unbelievable’ – New Tests Show ‘High Level’ Release Underground – ‘Contains Things Far More Radioactive Than High Level Waste’

- WIPP Nuke Accident: Every Single Worker Contaminated With Plutonium & Americium

- South Central US Poisoned With Plutonium By New Mexico Nuke Garbage Dump (Veterans Today)

- Prepare To Evacuate! USAF Base Orders 1,200 Radiation Suits In New Mexico – Plutonium Cloud Was 330 MILLION Becquerels

- ’4.4 MILLION Disintegrations Of Alpha Radiation’ Incl. Plutonium Detected At Leaking U.S. Nuclear Site; ‘Highest Recorded Level’

- Airborne Plutonium Detected Outside Troubled U.S. Nuclear Facility – ‘Levels Are Highest Ever Detected’ Around Site

- Radiation Alarm At New Mexico Nuclear Disposal Plant – No One Able To Enter Facility Due To ‘High Radiation’ Levels

- ‘Unusually High’ Radiation Levels At U.S. Nuclear Site — Gov’t: ‘We’ve Never Seen A Level Like We Are Seeing … I Can’t Tell You The Amount’

- ‘Imminent Situation’ At U.S. Nuclear Site – Emergency Operations Center Evacuated Due To Fire Deep Underground – ‘One Of Most Serious Incidents’ On Record – Anonymous Footage Of Thick Black Smoke Coming From Ground

Tags: Americium, Arnie Gundersen, Carlsbad, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Health, New Mexico, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Plutonium, Politics, Radiation, U.S., WIPP

- Aid for the Ukraine “Will Be Stolen” – Former Ukrainian Minister of Economy (Testosterone Pit, March 5, 2014):

Secretary of State John Kerry jaunted to Kiev on Tuesday and offered the newly installed Ukrainian government $1 billion in aid. EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger announced the same day that the EU would help the Ukraine pay its gas bill of about $2 billion, owed Russian state-controlled Gazprom. On Wednesday, the rest of the EU aid package was announced: €11 billion, contingent on the Ukraine’s inking a deal with the IMF and implementing tough reforms. The IMF is still working on its own aid package.

As always, it’s about preventing a default during which bondholders and lenders, including numerous Western banks, hedge funds, and other speculators, would finally feel the teeth of a free market and be forced to take losses, big losses, perhaps big enough to sink a lender or two, which would be a welcome sign of housecleaning by market forces. But that won’t be allowed to happen. Instead, taxpayers in other countries will be shanghaied into bailing out these bondholders and lenders, but indirectly, under the guise of bailing out the Ukrainian people.

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Tags: Bonds, Debt, Global News, Government, IMF, Politics, Ukraine

Prepare for collapse.

In his budget for fiscal 2015, President Obama assumed courageously or just conveniently that the US economy would grow 3.1% in 2014, quite a jump after having lumbered along at 1.9% in 2013, and given what looks to be a soft start for the year. But according to the budget proposal, the economy would boom. It would be the fastest growth rate since 2005. It would be the most exciting economy in nine years.

That level of growth would solve a lot of problems. Citing the rebound in housing – the price bubble, apparently, though sales are plunging – along with strength in manufacturing and oil production, the budget statement claimed that there were “encouraging signs emerging across industries.” And so the economy “is moving forward and businesses are creating jobs, but our top priority must be accelerating that growth….”

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Tags: Barack Obama, Economy, Global News, Government, Obama administration, Politics, Stock Market, U.S., Wall Street

- The Russian Perspective: “There Will Be War In Ukraine” (ZeroHedge, March 6, 2014):

With Ukrainians living in the Crimea region voting to join Russia, the West calling for sanctions (well some of the West), boots still on the ground, and markets apparently of the belief that all is well in the world once again, we thought the Russian perspective on the next steps was useful…

Via Sergei Markov of The Moscow Times,

The current crisis is not about Crimea. It is about the rights of Russian-speakers throughout Ukraine whom the Kremlin wants to protect from violence and discrimination. Russia does not want a military intervention in Crimea and does not want to take Crimea from Ukraine. Continue reading »

Tags: Crimea, Global News, Government, Military, Politics, Russia, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin

- High-Probability Of Russian Assault Overnight, Ukraine Pravda Says (ZeroHedge, March 6, 2014):

On the heels of the Russian navy intentionally sinking a vessel blocking the Ukrainian navy from entering The Black Sea, Ukraine Pravda reports that it is “most probable that Russian troops will assault units in Ukrainian Crimea overnight continuing to the weekend.” Citing a source in the uniformed services, Ukraine Pravda warns that “despite reports that Russian troops ended in learning, active phase lasts. They did not return to the barracks,” and maintain “peak readiness.”

Via Ukraine Pravda (via Google Translate),

On the night of Thursday to Friday a great opportunity to assault Ukrainian part of the Russian special forces.

This “Ukrainian Pravda” reported a source in the uniformed services.

“Despite reports that Russian troops ended in learning, active phase lasts. They did not return to the barracks. Could maintain peak readiness by the end of the weekend,” – said the source. Continue reading »

Tags: Crimea, Global News, Government, Military, Politics, Russia, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin

- Vladimir Putin Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize (ZeroHedge, March 6, 2014):

It would appear the Norwegian Nobel Institute is starting to lose it. Just a few years after President Obama won the Peace Prize (while mired in overseas wars), the director of the prestigious entity announced today that Russian President Vladimir Putin, accused of invading Ukraine – suspiciously un-peaceful action – has been nominated for the Peace Prize. Putin joins NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai as a nominee for the award to be announced in October.

Via Voice Of Russia,

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Tags: Global News, Government, Nobel Peace Prize, Politics, Russia, Vladimir Putin

- Crimea Parliament “Accelerates Crisis”, Votes To Join Russia (ZeroHedge, March 6, 2014):

While the world is convinced that Putin’s Tuesday press conference was an admission of blinking to the west, the reality is anything but that, and hours ago Crimea’s parliament voted to join Russia on Thursday and its Moscow-backed government set a referendum within 10 days on the decision in what Reuters said is a “a dramatic escalation of the crisis over the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula.” To be sure, the Crimea – which has an ethnic Russian majority – affiliation to Moscow as opposed to Kiev is well-known, yet still the sudden acceleration of moves to bring Crimea formally under Moscow’s rule came as European Union leaders gathered for an emergency summit to seek ways to pressure Russia to back down and accept mediation. And now all Putin has to do is sit back and say the people have spoken and without spilling a drop of blood has effectively split the country in two parts, with the entire east of Ukraine, where pro-Russian sentiment also runs high – sure to follow Crimea. Just as we said from the very beginning.

From Reuters:

The Crimean parliament voted unanimously “to enter into the Russian Federation with the rights of a subject of the Russian Federation”. The vice premier of Crimea, home to Russia’s Black Sea military base in Sevastopol, said a referendum on the status would take place on March 16. The announcement, which diplomats said could not have been made without Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval, raised the stakes in the most serious east-west confrontation since the end of the Cold War. Continue reading »

Tags: Crimea, EU, Europe, Global News, Government, Politics, Russia, U.S., Ukraine, Vladimir Putin

- Ukraine Acting President Loses It Over “Crime Against Nation” Crimea Referendum (ZeroHedge, March 6, 2014):

Ukraine’s Acting President Turchynov is not happy about what his ‘fellow countrymen’ in the east are doing:

• *UKRAINE PARLIAMENT TO DISSOLVE CRIMEA LEGISLATURE: TURCHYNOV
• *UKRAINE PRESIDENT SAYS ONLY NATIONAL CRIMEA VOTE IS LEGAL
• *UKRAINE’S TURCHYNOV SAYS MARCH 16 REFERENDUM WOULD BE ‘FARCE’
• *TURCHYNOV CALLS MARCH 16 REFERENDUM ‘CRIME AGAINST NATION’

So how will he enforce that decision? Perhaps this is the instigation that Putin has been waiting for? Bonds and precious metals are suddenly bid on this news.

It appears things are escalating once again… Continue reading »

Tags: Crimea, Global News, Government, Politics, Russia, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin

- Report: “It’s a big lie, everybody in Japan knows” — Fukushima “far worse” than authorities admit, they must come clean about what really happened — Forbes Even Getting Suspicious? “Nuclear disaster at Fukushima perhaps the worst of all time” (ENENews, March 5, 2014):

Forbes, Feb. 27, 2014: “The nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan was perhaps the worst of all time.”

Seungkoo Choi, Secretary General of the Reactor Suppliers Lawsuit Plaintiff Team, Feb. 28, 2014: “The contaminated water is swirling all over the world through the Pacific Ocean right now. It is not under control. It is a big lie. Everybody in Japan knows it.”

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Tags: Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation

- Russia Today Anchor Quits Live On Air Over “Whitewashed” Coverage Of Putin (ZeroHedge, March 5, 2014):

Presented with little comment, suffice to add former Washington DC RT correspondent Liz Wahl’s comments that “personally she cannot be part of a network funded by the Russian government that whitewashes the action of Putin…“  At least RT was correct when it said yesterday that “Contrary to the popular opinion, RT doesn’t beat its journalists into submission, and they are free to express their own opinions, not just in private but on the air.”  One wonders if Ms. Wahl’s next stop will be MSNBC, FOX or CNN, where the truly unbiased coverage can be found.

Today’s drama takes to a entirely new level the statement voiced by another RT presenter who also denounced as “wrong” Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine.

“I can’t stress enough how strongly I am against any state intervention in a sovereign nation’s affairs,” Abby Martin declared in her news programme.

RT said it respected Ms Martin’s views, and that she would not be reprimanded.

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Tags: Abby Martin, Crimea, Global News, Government, journalist, Liz Wahl, Military, Politics, Russia, Russia Today, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin

- NSA Chief is Pushing for Legislation to Stifle the First Amendment (Liberty Blitzkrieg, March 5, 2014):

“Recently, what came out with the justices in the United Kingdom … they looked at what happened on Miranda and other things, and they said it’s interesting: journalists have no standing when it comes to national security issues. They don’t know how to weigh the fact of what they’re giving out and saying, is it in the nation’s interest to divulge this.”
- General Keith Alexander, Director of the NSA

Although General Alexander states the above with regard to the UK justice system, he clearly agrees with the assessment. Read the passage above again and think about how scary that statement is. It becomes clear that one of the reasons abuses at the NSA are so egregious is because of the attitude of the person in charge. Alexander genuinely thinks that intelligence officials know best, and should not be subject to any sort of accountability. You don’t need to be a card-carrying member of the ACLU to see how dangerous this perspective is. To endorse this notion that “journalists have no standing when it comes to national security issues,” is to effectively make illegal one of the most important free speech rights in any democracy. This sort of attitude represents the antithesis of American values.

Not only does General Alexander see things this way, apparently he is lobbying for Congressional legislation that would solidify this authoritarian view within the law itself.

For example, the Guardian reported yesterday that:

General Keith Alexander, who has furiously denounced the Snowden revelations, said at a Tuesday cybersecurity panel that unspecified “headway” on what he termed “media leaks” was forthcoming in the next several weeks, possibly to include “media leaks legislation.”

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Tags: Barack Obama, Constitution, First Amendment, Global News, Government, Keith Alexander, Law, NSA, Obama administration, Politics, Society, U.S.

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Yeah, sorry, I meant to just do a regular report but this just really pisses me off guys. ~Mel

Tags: Children, Education, Global News, Government, Politics, Schools, Society, U.S.

- Amnesty International Calls on International Community to Cut Off Arms to Israel (Veterans News Now, March 1, 2014):

Amnesty International  has released a report urging “the USA, the European Union and the rest of the international community to suspend all transfers of munitions, weapons and other equipment to Israel.”

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Tags: EU, Europe, Global News, Government, Israel, Politics, U.S.

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John Williams of Shadowstats.com says, “Don’t look for the U.S. dollar as the safe haven.” Williams contends, “Historically, the dollar has been the safe haven in a political or financial crisis, but that hasn’t been the case for four or five years now. Instead, what you have seen is a flight to other traditional safe havens such as gold and the Swiss Franc. The dollar has lost its magic. Nobody wants to hold it.” What about the Russians dumping the dollar in retaliation for U.S. sanctions because of the Ukraine invasion? Williams says, “So, if the Russians follow through and convince the rest of the world that they are going to do it and it looks like China may join them, a lot of countries will want to dump dollars and get out ahead of the crowd.”

On the overall economy, Williams says, “It is rolling over, and the numbers are starting to show we are starting into a new recession. Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with John Williams of Shadowstats.com.

Tags: Bonds, China, Debt, Dollar, Economy, Global News, John Williams, Russia

- What the US Media Won’t Tell You About Ukraine (Common Dreams, March 4, 2014):

As usual, America’s foreign correspondents are falling down on the job.

Stories devoid of historical context cast Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a naked act of neo-Soviet aggression. Considering that the relevant history begins a mere two decades ago, its omission is inexcusable.

The spark that led to the takeover of Crimea was not the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovich. It is what happened the day after.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Crimea, Global News, Government, Obama administration, Politics, Russia, U.S., Ukraine

FYI.

- The Full List Of People Who Think Putin Is The New Hitler (ZeroHedge, March 5, 2014):

When Hillary Clinton compared Russia’s incursion into Ukraine to the early days of Nazi Germany’s expansion, she joined an illustrious band who have compared Russian President Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler since the 2008 Georgia crisis.

Via The Washington Post,

Rubio

McCain

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): ”If you could go back in time, would you have allowed Adolf Hitler to host the Olympics in Germany? To have the propaganda coup of inviting the world into Nazi Germany and putting on a false front?”

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Tags: Global News, Government, Hillary Clinton, Obama administration, Politics, Russia, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin

- “Behind The Kiev Snipers It Was Somebody From The New Coalition” – A Stunning New Leak Released (ZeroHedge, March 5, 2014):

The last time a leaked phone call out of Ukraine was released about a month ago ostensibly by the Russian NSA equivalent, one between US assistant sec state Victoria Nuland and the US envoy to the Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, it was revealed that the real puppet masters behind the Maidan movement, and the true instigators of the Ukraine “revolution” were none other than the “developed” world superpowers, lead by the US. Also revealed were tensions between the US and EU strategies on how to overthrow the current government, culminating with the infamous “Fuck the EU.” Needless to say the US, which implicitly confirmed the recording, was angry at Russia and accused it of using dirty tricks.

That’s ironic, because when it comes to “dirty tricks” what is about to be presented, blows the top off anything Russia may or has done to date.

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Tags: Assassination, Catherine Ashton, Crime, Estonia, EU, Europe, Global News, Government, Kiev, Politics, Society, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych

FYI.

- China vows ‘iron fist’ response to deadly train station attack (Christian Science Monitor, March 2, 2014):

Beijing blamed Uighur separatists from restive Xinjiang Province for an attack in the southwestern city of Kunming that killed 29 people. State-run Xinhua news agency called it ‘China’s 9/11.’

For more than a year, the Chinese media have published regular reports of deadly violent incidents in the predominantly Muslim province of Xinjiang, in China’s far west.

More than 100 people died last year in clashes between the police and ethnic Uighurs identified by the government as terrorists seeking independence from Beijing.

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Tags: China, Crime, Global News, Government, Politics, Terrorism, Terrorists

- Russia’s 25,000-troop allowance & other facts you may not know about Crimea (RT, March 4, 2014):

Ukraine’s statement at the UN that ‘16,000 Russian soldiers had been deployed’ across Crimea sparked a MSM feeding frenzy that steadfastly ignored any hard facts that got in their way.

Especially unwelcome is the fact that the so-called ‘invasion force’ has been there for 15 years already.

The media many trust described in hysterical tones how the Autonomous Republic of Crimea was under a full-scale Russian invasion with headlines like: “Ukraine says Russia sent 16,000 troops to Crimea”, “Ukraine crisis deepens as Russia sends more troops into Crimea,” as well as “What can Obama do about Russia’s invasion of Crimea?”.

Facts, and ardent statements by top Russian diplomats were totally ignored by the western ‘war press’.

Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin pointed to the longstanding 25,000 troop allowance while FM Sergey Lavrov stressed the Russian military “strictly executes the agreements which stipulate the Russian fleet’s presence in Ukraine, and follows the stance and claims coming from the legitimate authority in Ukraine and in this case the legitimate authority of the Autonomous Republic Crimea as well.”

So here they are, the facts: Continue reading »

Tags: Corporate Media, Crimea, Global News, Government, Military, Politics, Russia, Ukraine