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Crimean officials say EU decision to ban imports was made under US influence and will have no effect on Crimean economy

The Voice of Russia
Tue, 24 Jun 2014 06:27 UTC

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Sergei Aksyonov
Sanctions against Crimea deprive EU countries of the opportunity to work in the local market and profit from it, acting Crimean Head Sergei Aksyonov said.

"They deprived themselves of markets to sell their products and of the opportunity to participate in investment program of Crimea," Aksyonov told reporters in Simferopol on Tuesday.

The stance of the European Union, which banned imports from Crimea and Sevastopol, is not constructive, Aksyonov said.

"It is a dead-end stance to punish citizens for the opinion on what country they should be in," he said.

The EU decision to ban imports from Crimea was made under US influence, Aksyonov said. "General agitation over Crimea's accession to Russia has calmed down in the EU. As far as I understand in this case the US authorities push this stance," he said.

Crimea's accession to Russia is irreversible, he said.

Monsanto: The complete history of the world's most evil corporation

E Hanzai
Global Research
Sun, 22 Jun 2014 06:28 UTC

Of all the mega-corps running amok, Monsanto has consistently outperformed its rivals, earning the crown as "most evil corporation on Earth!" Not content to simply rest upon its throne of destruction, it remains focused on newer, more scientifically innovative ways to harm the planet and its people.

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The company is founded by John Francis Queeny, a member of the Knights of Malta, a thirty year pharmaceutical veteran married to Olga Mendez Monsanto, for which Monsanto Chemical Works is named.

1901: The company is founded by John Francis Queeny, a member of the Knights of Malta, a thirty year pharmaceutical veteran married to Olga Mendez Monsanto, for which Monsanto Chemical Works is named. The company's first product is chemical saccharin, sold to Coca-Cola as an artificial sweetener.

Even then, the government knew saccharin was poisonous and sued to stop its manufacture but lost in court, thus opening the Monsanto Pandora's Box to begin poisoning the world through the soft drink.

Summary of US vs Syria: How to lose a war in 3 years

Tony Cartalucci
The Land Destroyer
Tue, 24 Jun 2014 05:59 UTC

The government in Damascus and the Syrian Arab Army have begun restoring order across the country after over 3 years of devastating fighting. The so-called "capital of the revolution," the city of Homs, has been reclaimed by government forces and people have begun returning home. A recent election carried out across Syria and throughout expatriated Syrian communities around the world portrayed widespread support for the government in Damascus and more over, the idea of Syria as a nation itself.

It is becoming increasingly difficult for the West to prolong recognizing the obvious, that the Syrian government has prevailed. In a recent TIME Magazine article titled, "In Syria, Victory is Written in Ruin," it admits:

Defying expectations that he would be the next domino to fall in the Arab Spring's chute of regional dictators, Assad stands stronger than ever. His military, augmented by fighters from the Lebanon-based Shi'ite militia Hizballah, funded in part by Iran and armed with Russian weapons and ammunition, has consolidated control over a strategic corridor connecting the capital, Damascus, to the coast.

TIME then attempts to make excuses as to why Syrians support the government. The article claims:

...the war's toll has more and more Syrians turning, reluctantly, toward the regime. Not because they support Assad but because they are desperate to return to some semblance of normal life.

But perhaps the most deliberate distortion TIME makes is its revision of how the war unfolded in the first place. It claims:

For the rebel brigades and exiled opposition leaders, the involvement of extremist groups was an unfortunate stain on an otherwise pure uprising against tyranny. To the regime, it was proof of a foreign-funded scheme to destabilize Syria.

The disconnect of the elite: Hillary claims she and Bill were 'dead broke' when they left the White House

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog
Mon, 23 Jun 2014 05:52 UTC

During a recent interview with Diane Sawyer, Hillary Clinton claimed that Bill and her were "dead broke" when they left the White House. And then on Sunday, Hillary told the Guardian that they are not "truly well off" despite having earned about a hundred million dollars since leaving the White House and owning a couple of luxury homes. This is yet another shocking example of how disconnected our political elite have become to the rest of the American people. Perhaps Hillary Clinton is not "truly well off" when compared to some of the ultra-wealthy individuals that she rubs shoulders with at Democratic fundraisers, but according to numbers provided by the Social Security Administration, the Clintons would easily be in the top 0.01% of all income earners in America since leaving the White House. So was Hillary Clinton joking, or is she really this out of touch with ordinary Americans?

Russia urges UN to probe into oil exports by terrorists in Syria, Iraq

ITAR-TASS
Tue, 24 Jun 2014 02:35 UTC

Russia's Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin

Russia believes that the UN Security Council should examine the problem of illegal exports of crude oil from Iraq and Syria, the revenues from which replenish the financial resources of terrorist organizations, including the fast-growing Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin said Monday upon the results of a meeting devoted to the situation in the Middle East.

He said the Russian delegation indicated during the conference, which had been partly held behind closed doors, that the terrorists' activity was not confined to a single country.

"We also called the Security Council's attention to the problem of financing terrorism," Churkin said. "In the case of ISIS, the militants' ability to export oil especially rings an alarm because it enables them to engage in terrorism."

Comment: For more on terrorists' oil shipments see: The fight for oil in Iraq: Jihadism and the petroleum industry

The fight for oil in Iraq: Jihadism and the petroleum industry

Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network
Tue, 24 Jun 2014 01:24 UTC

While the Western media portray the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant as a group of jihadists reciting the Qur'an, the ISIL has started the oil war in Iraq. With the help of Israel, it has cut off Syria's supply and guaranteed the theft of oil from Kirkuk by the local government of Kurdistan. The sale will be assured by Aramco who will camouflage this diversion as increased "Saudi" production.

For the Atlanticist press, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). which has just invaded the north and west of Iraq. is a group of jihadists led by their faith, the Koran in one hand and a Kalashnikov in the other. For those who have suffered their abuses, including in Syria, it is a private army of mercenaries, composed from the four corners of the Earth and managed by American, French and Saudi officers - dividing the region to allow easier control by the colonial powers.

Germany gives up on trying to get back its gold from NY Fed

Birgit Jennen
Bloomberg
Mon, 23 Jun 2014 01:33 UTC

Germany has decided its gold is safe in American hands.

Surging mistrust of the euro during Europe's debt crisis fed a campaign to bring Germany's entire $141 billion gold reserve home from New York and London. Now, after politics shifted in Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition, the government has concluded that stashing half its bullion abroad is prudent after all.

"The Americans are taking good care of our gold," Norbert Barthle, the budget spokesman for Merkel's Christian Democratic bloc in parliament, said in an interview. "Objectively, there's absolutely no reason for mistrust."

Ending talk of repatriating the world's second-biggest gold reserves removes a potential irritant in U.S.-German relations. It's also a rebuff to critics including the anti-euro Alternative for Germany party, which says all the gold should return to Frankfurt so it can't be impounded to blackmail Germany into keeping the currency union together.

Comment: So after recovering only a miserable 5 tons of its gold (less than 10% of the gold it scheduled to repatriate) in all of 2013, Germany appears to have gotten the message. The talk about trusting the ~~fox to guard the hen house~~ Fed to keep their gold seems to be just a way for Angela Merkel and her cronies to save face. What else could they do?

Consume, Conform, Obey: What Homeland Security's targeting of anti-consumerist activities says about the government's desires

Tim Cushing
Tech Dirt
Mon, 23 Jun 2014 15:25 UTC

At some point in time, the DHS and members of its Joint Terrorism Task Force must have viewed ~~Joe Dante's~~ John Carpenter's cult classic They Live and saw in it a blueprint for future actions. If you're not familiar with the premise, an average guy construction worker is given a pair of sunglasses that reveal the world for what it actually is -- controlled by aliens who pacify the populace by subliminally pushing them to obey, conform and consume.

Remember a few weeks back when we discussed the DHS Fusion Centers' use of powerful investigative tools like Twitter searches and The Google to investigate such harmful Occupy Wall Street-related activities like not participating in Black Friday sales or cutting up people's credit cards (at their request). Anti-consumerist is anti-government, apparently. It makes for a great conspiracy theory -- one that implies the government is actually run by corporations.

It doesn't seem to be much of a "theory," though. Given the number of active revolving doors that accomodate lobbyists, representatives and board members every time someone shouts "Change places!" there's little evidence out there to dispel this perception. The business of government is apparently business. The FBI worked with banks and Wall Street itself to ferret out certain Occupy protesters, going so far as to keep an assassination plot against Occupy leaders under wraps.

The Fusion Centers' ability to treat nearly every submission with complete credulity has only added to the mismanaged mess, which resulted in the agency's underlings breathlessly exchanging Facebook links to planned disruptions like protests of irresponsible lending processes and the singing of Christmas carols at a "high-profile, undisclosed location."

Obama's favorability falls below Bush, Carter

RT
Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:21 UTC

United States President Barack Obama has landed himself a last-place spot according to a new poll that measured the favorable ratings of the five living former and current American commanders-in-chief.

Results from a Gallup poll released over the weekend suggest that Bill Clinton is the living US president viewed in the most positive light, earning himself a favorable rating of 64 percent.

According to the poll, 63 percent of Americans think favorably of former president George H.W. Bush, who beat out his son George W. Bush by 10 whole percentage points. Among the living former US presidents, Jimmy Carter came in last place with a 52 percent favorable rating over 32 percent unfavorable and 16 percent with no opinion.

The current commander-in-chief, Barack Obama, was considered favorable by only 47 percent of the Americans polled by Gallup. Obama is also the only president who's unfavorable rating - 52 percent - surpassed the proportion of those who think positively of him, earning himself a net-negative reading.

On the Gallup website, however, writers there say the implications of the latest survey aren't anything to be taken too seriously.

"Americans are largely forgiving of former presidents, as each of the four living ex-presidents had times in office when they had job approval ratings below 40 percent, if not 30 percent," pollsters write on the Gallup site.

"Obama's current favorable ratings are the worst of his presidency, and they are worse than former presidents' ratings. No matter how popular or unpopular he is when he leaves office in a little more than two years, Americans' views of Obama personally should improve once he becomes a former president."

The results also clash to a degree with a separate survey taken last November by Gallup in which pollsters asked for Americans to describe the last 11 presidents as leading administrations that were outstanding, average or poor. According to the results of that poll, 28 percent of Americans said Pres. Obama will go down in history as being an "outstanding/above average" president, coming in fifth place behind Presidents Kennedy, Reagan, Clinton and Eisenhower. According to that survey, Americans believed they would go on to remember the Obama administration as being more successful than that of Carter and both Bush presidents.

US military with X-ray guns: What could possibly go wrong?

RT
Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:12 UTC

The company behind the backscatter imaging technology rampant in American airports is back with a new invention: a handheld X-ray "gun" capable of seeing through various types of material.

According to national security website Defense One, the device has been dubbed the "Mini Z" portable scanner and it's capable of capturing transparent images and sending them to other devices, such as laptops or tablets. The scanner's manufacturer, American Science and Engineering (AS&E), is currently offering the device to the US military, law enforcement agencies and border patrol officials.

Comment: "American Science" creating technology for law enforcement, military, and the border patrol. A distinctly revealing notion it seems.

Comment: Despicable. Pathocratic control and oppression through surveillance does not equal safety despite what is parroted to the populace.

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Puppet Masters

Crimean officials say EU decision to ban imports was made under US influence and will have no effect on Crimean economy

Monsanto: The complete history of the world's most evil corporation

Summary of US vs Syria: How to lose a war in 3 years

The disconnect of the elite: Hillary claims she and Bill were 'dead broke' when they left the White House

Russia urges UN to probe into oil exports by terrorists in Syria, Iraq

The fight for oil in Iraq: Jihadism and the petroleum industry

Germany gives up on trying to get back its gold from NY Fed

Consume, Conform, Obey: What Homeland Security's targeting of anti-consumerist activities says about the government's desires

Obama's favorability falls below Bush, Carter

US military with X-ray guns: What could possibly go wrong?

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