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CrossTalking with Joshua Tartakovsky, Dmitry Babich and Jim Dean.
Puppet Masters
CrossTalking with Joshua Tartakovsky, Dmitry Babich and Jim Dean.
Comment: It needs to be said: the UK has a culture of paedophilia in high places. And it's not the only country. While news of this latest scandal makes the headlines, the high-profile investigation into paedo MPs continues. As Tony Gosling writes for RT, the problem is systemic and inquiries are set up to fail. The child abusers run free. Make no mistake, these are the same sorts of people running western civilization into the ground, fomenting chaos in the Middle East, and demonizing Putin in order to make the way clear for criminal oligarchy and psychopathic license.
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Roger Stone, leader of Rotherham council, who has stepped down from his position.
Roger Stone, leader of Rotherham council, who has stepped down from his position.
Children in the town were systematically identified by gangs as vulnerable, seduced with drugs and drink, brainwashed into believing they were in a relationship with an adult and then used for sex, often raped before sometimes being trafficked to nearby cities to work as prostitutes.
The brutal violence that surrounded this depraved process was shocking. Children who refused to acquiesce to ever more macabre demands were doused in petrol, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and told they would be next if they told anyone.
While some of this will be familiar to a British public which has been appalled by the revelations tumbling out of high-profile child abuse cases since 2010, Jay's report lays bare a mephitic hole in Yorkshire.
Over 16 years, she says, a "conservative estimate" is that 1,400 children were sexually exploited in the town. Girls as young as 11 were gang-raped by men.
This level of abuse appears to make Rotherham the nation's child sex exploitation capital. If the town's experience was replicated across the country, England would have 19,000 children criminally abused by gangs every year. The children's commissioner thinks that at the moment the figure is about 2,000.
Comment: A small sample of world-wide terrorism sponsored and financed by the American government and paid with the precious tax payer's money!
While the US government still claims it is fighting a "War on Terror", it is often forgotten that the US government has a friendly relationship with many terrorist groups around the world. This relationship is not merely historical, but current.
The US government often supports terrorists who are fighting against government which oppose the United States. Many terrorists, who commit all kinds of violent crimes against humanity, are being directly supported by the US government at this time.
Here are ten examples of US government supported terrorists from around the world.
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File photo. Ukrainian army soldiers from battalion "Aydar"
File photo. Ukrainian army soldiers from battalion "Aydar"
"It is clear the militia has achieved a major success in intercepting Kiev's military operation, which represents a grave danger to the population of Donbass and which has already led to the loss of many lives among peaceful residents," the Russian leader said in a statement.
As a result of militias' counter-offense, large numbers of Ukrainian troops - many of whom were taking part in Kiev's so-called anti-terrorist operation "against their will" and "just following orders" - have been surrounded, the President added.
"I call on the militia groups to open a humanitarian corridor for Ukrainian service members who have been surrounded, so as to avoid any needless loss of life, giving them the opportunity to leave the combat area unimpeded and reunite with their families, to return them to their mothers, wives and children, and to quickly provide medical assistance to those who were injured in the course of the military operation," Putin said.
Comment: Putin is doing what he can to stop the senseless killing that the US has goaded the Ukrainian regime into. Despite what the West is saying this is an internal conflict and Putin can only give advice to the militia, but has no authority over them. Putin's call is an encouragement to the militia to show mercy, something that is rare in today's world and something that the US and the West have not shown in their many war adventures over the last 50 years.
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The facts prove that Russia's Mi-8 helicopter crashed in South Sudan was shot down, Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin said on Wednesday.
"All data says the helicopter was shot down," he said.
On Tuesday, August 26, Russia urged the UN Security Council to adopt a statement that would condemn the incident and demand guilty persons be brought to justice, Churkin said.
Earlier in the day, the Russian Foreign Ministry demanded an immediate investigation into the crash of Russia's Mi-8 cargo helicopter in South Sudan.
Comment: Churkin is right to ask for an investigation, given the current climate and the interesting coincidence that the U.S. has had a few troops in that area since 2013:
New dawn for "America's Africa": Obama deploys first contingent of US ground troops to South Sudan
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US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
- MERKEL SAYS U.S. CAN'T SOLVE ALL THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS ANYMORE
"Even a superpower can't solve all of the problems alone anymore," German Chancellor Angela Merkel says.Merkel did not stop there...
- PUTIN, MERKEL URGE DE-ESCALATION IN UKRAINE, KREMLIN SAYS
- PUTIN, MERKEL DISCUSSED GAS TRANSIT VIA UKRAINE, KREMLIN SAYS
- PUTIN INFORMED MERKEL OF NEW EAST UKRAINE AID PLAN: KREMLIN
- MERKEL URGES HOLLANDE TO CONTINUE REFORMS IN FRANCE
- MERKEL SAYS HOLLANDE HAS CHANCE TO REVIVE FRENCH ECONOMIC POWER
Comment: It's about time Merkel admitted the fact that following the dictates of the U.S. will ultimately damage the European Union and its member states. But is it of any use?
- U.S.-German secret treaty means Berlin is Washington's vassal until 2099
- Former German intelligence chief: In 1949 West Germany signed up to become United States vassal, NATO contemplated false-flag nuclear attack to 'cement' deal
Comment: We are not the only ones that see that all this media hype about a "Russian invasion" is nothing but propaganda reminiscent of Iraq's WMDs fabrications. And we know the fate of Iraq and the Iraqis ever since!
The authors of this NYT piece, Ukraine Reports Russian Invasion on a New Front, are not really convincing when presenting these reports by the Ukrainian government as truthful:
The latest incursion, which Ukraine's military said included five armored personnel carriers, was at least the third movement of troops and weapons from Russia across the southeast part of the border this week, further blunting the momentum Ukrainian forces have made in weakening the insurgents in their redoubts of Donetsk and Luhansk farther north. Evidence of a possible turn was seen in the panicky retreat of Ukrainian soldiers on Tuesday from a force they said had come over the Russian border.The "momentum" the Ukrainian troops had was never as big as the Ukrainian government had claimed. A few motorized brigades ran through open territory held by few insurgents and when coming to a halt at their primary target were immediately cut off and surrounded. Their morale is bad, their equipment old, ammunition is low and the entire aim of their campaign is dubious. Now even a few weak counterattacks, the "counteroffensive", have them on the run.
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Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for the Ukrainian military in Kiev, said the Russian armored column entered the town of Amvrosiyivka, south of Donetsk, expanding what Western and Ukrainian officials have described as one of the main fronts in a multipronged counteroffensive directed by Russia.
Comment: Think back, if you can, to the headlines when you woke up just two days ago.
In case you're having trouble recalling anything from two days ago - thanks in large part to the disorienting effects of having the entire Western media screaming the same Big Fat Lie in unison - here's what you were being told:
"10,000 RUSSIAN TROOPS INVADE UKRAINE!"Not only was this in no way true, the real story they were trying to drown out were the complete routing of Kiev's forces in the breakaway republics of Novorossiya...
Ukraine on verge of collapse as Kiev forces capitulate: U.S. 'catapults the propaganda' with another desperate 'Russian invasion' ploy
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Better Together leader Alistair Darling (L) and First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond debate over Scottish independence at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow August 25, 2014.
Better Together leader Alistair Darling (L) and First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond debate over Scottish independence at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow August 25, 2014.
Ahead of the televised debate between First Minister Alex Salmond and the pro-UK campaign leader Alistair Darling on Monday night, Stiglitz told an audience at the Edinburgh International Book Festival that the three main UK parties were "bluffing" when they ruled out Scottish National Party (SNP) calls for a post-independence currency union.
All three main parties in Westminster reject the notion of a shared currency union with an independent Scotland. Carwyn Jones, the Labour First Minister of Wales, said he would "strongly oppose" a currency pact.
"For the most part, I think these are bluffs," Stiglitz said. "Whatever the outcome, there's going to be a negotiation and people are going to be looking at what's in the best interests of both parties, and there will be negotiations."
"I have been a little bit shocked at how much of it is based on fear, trying to get anxiety levels up and how little of it has been based on vision," the US economist added, suggesting Scotland could still prosper even if it had to use the pound without a pact or if it established its own currency.
"There are many currency arrangements that can work," he said. "I think this is a lot of to do about nothing."
Stiglitz, a former World Bank chief economist and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to then-US president Bill Clinton, offered Salmond some useful ammunition during the final televised debate of the referendum campaign.
Christine Lagarde, the chief of the International Monetary Fund, was placed Wednesday under official investigation for negligence in a French corruption probe that dates back to her days as France's finance minister.
In a statement after a fourth round of questioning before magistrates, Lagarde said she would return to her work in Washington later in the day and said the decision was "without basis."
She and her former chief of staff face questions about their role in a 400 million-euro ($531 million) payment to a businessman.
"After three years of proceedings, dozens of hours of questioning, the court found from the evidence that I committed no offense, and the only allegation is that I was not sufficiently vigilant," she said in her statement.
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) and Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko (R) shake hands during a summit in Belarus' capital of Minsk on August 26, 2014
Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) and Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko (R) shake hands during a summit in Belarus' capital of Minsk on August 26, 2014
Following an intense round of direct talks between President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko, the head of the Russian state said that both leaders were able to reach an agreement on the resumption of consultations on energy and gas.
Yet Putin said, there are "a lot of concrete questions," stressing that while Russia fully complies with all the conditions of the gas contracts with Ukraine, the actions of Naftogaz create risks for gas transit to Europe.
In June, Russia's national gas company Gazprom stopped gas deliveries to Ukraine over chronic late payment and an unpaid bill of over $5 billion.
Comment: While Obama accuses Russia of supplying its forces to the East Ukrainian crisis, Putin has started negotiations with Ukraine to resolve the economic issues.
Comment: As is mentioned in the show, when all the schemes of the West fails, whether it be regime change in Syria or in Ukraine, then blame the Russians. The ones that is going to pay for this mess in Ukraine is going to be the West, apart from the Ukrainians, who were led astray by their wishful thinking and of course the Western/Ukrainian media onslaught.