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Ukraine crisis: Kremlin insists it cannot control pro-Russian separatists and calls for dialogue with West

Oliver Poole
The Independent
Sun, 04 May 2014 16:00 UTC
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Pro-Russian protesters hold a vigil for dead comrades in Donetsk
The Kremlin said yesterday it was receiving "thousands" of pleas for help from Ukraine, warning that it could not control pro-Russian separatists in the country and now required help to resolve the worsening violence.

As Russian troops continued to conduct exercises near the Ukrainian border and the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, demanded the Russian government do more to defuse the situation or risk further economic sanctions, a Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, was quoted as saying that Russia had "lost its influence" over separatists in the region.

Speaking in Moscow yesterday, Mr Peskov said: "People are calling in despair, asking for help. The overwhelming majority demand Russian help. All these calls are reported to [President] Vladimir Putin."

He made clear that the Russian government blamed the West for the worsening situation, while stressing the need for "dialogue" towards a peaceful resolution. "Kiev and its Western sponsors are practically provoking the bloodshed and bear direct responsibility for it. Those who recognise this junta as a legal power become an accomplice to this crime."

Comment: Lavrov is completely right. It's absurd to demand Russia control the anti-Kiev protestors in Ukraine. If a group of Russian citizens were threatening Kiev, on Russian soil, it might be different. But the fact of the matter is that the West (mainly the U.S. and their Kiev Kronies) created this problem from the get-go. It is THEIR responsibility to solve it, within the confines of international law and human decency. The won't, of course, but that too is their problem. As will be the consequences.

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Russian Parliament demands war crimes tribunal for Kiev authorities for bloodbath in Odessa


ITAR-TASS
Sat, 03 May 2014 15:49 UTC
Irina Yarovaya
© ITAR-TASS/Sergey FadeichevIrina Yarovaya, chair of the Duma Security Committee
The Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament) said the Kiev authorities were committing war crimes and therefore must face a military tribunal.

"I think this is an organised criminal group that has been acting like this since the very beginning, committing war crimes. For these atrocities they must be brought to justice as war criminals and they must be tried by an international military tribunal," Irina Yarovaya, chair of the Duma Security Committee, said on Saturday, May 3.

She believes that any support for 'the self-proclaimed Kiev authorities who ordered the extermination of their own people means compliance in this mass killing of people".

Duma Deputy Speaker Sergei Neverov is convinced that "there is no justification" for what happened in Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and Odessa in Ukraine.

"It's awful that the unleashing of civil war Ukraine is supported by the West that in no time has forgotten human rights and democratic values, of which EU countries and the United States claimed to be the advocates. Now no one has any doubt as to who is sponsoring unrests in Ukraine and who sponsored them from the start," he said.

Comment: The Western leaders remain dear to reasonable proposals because they're psychopaths. Once again, Russia is making their stance clear: international law must be obeyed. It is not just a combination of words to be conveniently parroted when it's in the West's interests.

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Surprised? Jim Fetzer says all NSA intel goes directly to Israel


PressTV
Sun, 04 May 2014 15:42 UTC
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A political analyst says the US National Security Agency (NSA) directly sends all of the intelligence that it gathers to Israel.
The US National Security Agency (NSA) directly sends all of the intelligence that it gathers to the Israeli regime, a political analyst tells Press TV.

"We now know that all of the NSA's spying is going directly to Israel," James H. Fetzer, a professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, said in a Saturday interview.

"I believe that all of our allies should discontinue sharing their intelligence with the Unites States unless they are willing that it should go directly to Tel Aviv," the analyst said.
"It would be advisable for the Unites Nations to undertake an exploration of this because it appears to be a violation of national sovereignty for one nation to be spying on the communications of its highest executive officials," Fetzer added.
He said even if the UN passed a resolution against spying, there would be no guarantee that the two countries would stop their illegal acts of espionage.
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Ukraine military engages self-defense fighters in Slavyansk


RT
Sun, 04 May 2014 15:16 UTC
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© Reuters/Baz RatnerA Ukrainian soldier points his weapon at an approaching car with APCs behind him at a checkpoint near the town of Slavyansk.
Anti-government protesters are reportedly conducting a battle with Ukrainian military forces on the outskirts of the eastern town of Slavyansk in the Donetsk region. Self-defense fighters say they will push the troops out of the town.

"There was a gunfight near the railway station about half-an-hour ago. From there it moved to Malinovka district," a representative of the local self-defense headquarters told Interfax. According to the source, protesters managed to drive the troops to the outskirts of the town, and "plan to dislodge them from there."

One activist, called Natalia, confirmed to RT that currently there is shooting near the villages of Malinovka and Andreevka.

She said that self-defense is currently "pursuing" National Guard troops, Rights Sector militants and "mercenaries."

"So, we are now conducting an offensive rather than a defensive operation," Natalia said. The "operation" is aimed at the "destruction" of the troops' camps in the area.

Earlier, Ukrainian troops who are continuing their special operation in Slavyansk, took control of a local TV broadcasting center, the country's Interior Ministry said, as cited by Itar-Tass.

Meanwhile the Donetsk region self-defense forces say they have managed to regain some of the areas, previously seized by Ukrainian troops. That's according to Miroslav Rudenko, one of the Donbass self-defense leaders, who was interviewed by Interfax.

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David Lindorff: It would be a scary mistake for the U.S. to ignore Russian threats


Press TV
Fri, 02 May 2014 10:29 UTC
The United States would be committing a big mistake should it ignore Russia's threat of taking action to repel anti-Moscow moves over the crisis in Ukraine, an analyst says.

David Lindorff, an American investigative journalist, was talking to Press TV two days after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow reserves the right to take appropriate action if the West continues its anti-Russia moves.
"So for the US not to take seriously Russia's announcement that it is going to defend its southern border from that kind of interference, it would be a very scary mistake," Lindorff stated.
The analyst said European countries heavily depend on Russia's gas, which is delivered to them via a pipeline cutting through Ukraine.

"Russia holds some of the higher cards in this kind of high stakes Poker with economic sanctions," he added.
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Extinguisher

Pro-West radicals set Trade Unions House on fire in Odessa, Ukraine - 39 people die


RT
Sat, 03 May 2014 14:33 UTC
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39 anti-government activists have died in a fire at Odessa's Trade Unions House. Some burned to death, while others suffocated or jumped out of windows, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry reported. The building was set ablaze by pro-Kiev radicals.

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A total of 46 people have died in Odessa's violence on Friday and almost 200 others have sustained injuries, Odessa Region prosecutor Igor Borshulyak told journalists on Saturday.

39 of the dead lost their lives in the fire at the Odessa Trade Unions House, according to the Ukrainian emergencies agency.

"31 of the dead were found inside the building, eight more were found outside by law enforcement officers," the agency's statement reads.

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Ontario liberal insiders paid millions through taxpayer-funded contracts

Adam Radwanski
The Globe and Mail
Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:27 UTC
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© Fred Lum/The Globe and MailQueens Park, home of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
A gap in transparency has allowed millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded contracts to be awarded to friends and allies of political operatives in Ontario without the checks, balances and disclosures that accompany a public tendering process.

A Globe and Mail review has found a pattern of payments, about which little information is available, involving a tight circle of advisers that surrounded former premier Dalton McGuinty during his time in office. Among them were payments of more than $50,000 in the same year to two different companies in the name of the former premier's campaign director; money repeatedly directed to a high-profile strategist through his then-wife's business; and more than $300,000 paid to a former chief of staff shortly after he was pushed out of his job.

While there is no indication that any of the transactions were illegitimate, the lack of transparency makes it difficult to determine what services were provided at taxpayers' expense.
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War Whore

Best of the Web: Prepping for a Ukrainian massacre a la Iraq

Robert Parry
ConsortiumNews.com
Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:27 UTC
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© Alexei Nikolsky/AP
Exclusive: As the rhetoric rages out of control, worsening violence in Ukraine grows more likely. Official Washington is readying the American people to view the slaughter of eastern Ukrainians as justified because they are "terrorists" and linked to the hated Russians, Robert Parry reports

Between the anti-Russian propaganda pouring forth from the Obama administration and the deeply biased coverage from the U.S. news media, the American people are being prepared to accept and perhaps even cheer a massacre of eastern Ukrainians who have risen up against the coup regime in Kiev.

The protesters who have seized government buildings in ten towns in eastern Ukraine are being casually dubbed "terrorists" by both the Kiev regime and some American journalists. Meanwhile, it's become conventional wisdom in Official Washington to assume that the protesters are led by Russian special forces because of some dubious photographs of armed men, accepted as "proof" with few questions asked by the mainstream U.S. news media.
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The clock is ticking on the U.S. dollar - time for war


Northerntrutherseeker.blogspot.com
Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:06 UTC
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© Forexcrunch.com
I have stated in my rants and several previous articles the obvious about the insane push for war by the criminal US administration... They are now running scared and know that their days are numbered due to the potential total collapse of the US economy that could happen as early as this coming summer!

To help people understand the insanity of the US government, and their push for World War III to basically save their collective butts, I want to present the following very important article from the Voice Of Russia website, at www.voiceofrussia.com. This important article again shows clear evidence and exactly what I have been saying for a very long time that the US administration will indeed cause World War III to occur just to divert the American public's attention away from their own collapsing economy! Here is that article right here for everyone to view for themselves... My thoughts and comments to follow:
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Oscar

Confederacy of Dunces: While carnage unfolds in Ukraine, Obama mocks Putin at annual White House Correspondents dinner


The Guardian
Sun, 04 May 2014 11:55 UTC
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© Jewel Samad/AFP/GettyBarack Obama at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
The US president, Barack Obama, joked about the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and issues much closer to home as he headlined the White House Correspondents' Association dinner Saturday night.

The annual tradition has the president mocking others and himself as celebrities mingle with journalists and politicians.

Obama made fun of conservative television hosts' talk about Putin's bare chest and a comment from one last year about Putin being headed for a Nobel peace prize. "To be fair, they give those to just about anybody these days," said Obama, who received the prize in 2009.

The president also joked about opposition claims that he had been born overseas rather than in the United States. Looking ahead to a possible successor, Obama said it will be a lot harder for Republicans to prove that Hillary Rodham Clinton was born in Kenya.


Comment: If you want a glimpse into the American mindset and character, look no further than the annual White House Correspondents' dinner! While a leader like Vladimir Putin annually spends several hours answering ordinary peoples' questions, the American president makes bad jokes, ridiculing real issues and poking fun at things that should be taken very seriously. WMD, drones, death and destruction are all fair game for the glib 'leader of the free world'! If Obama had a SHRED of real decency, he would return his Nobel prize and start doing community service.

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