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Remember Abu Hamza, the one-eyed, hook-handed, firebrand preacher from Finsbury Park Mosque? Turns out he has always worked for the British government


RT
Fri, 09 May 2014 09:00 UTC
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"It's a war, innit? All's fair in war, right? So wha' if this geezah's actually one of ours? Serves you righ' for bein' fooled!"
The notorious Islamic radical preacher Abu Hamza secretly worked for British intelligence, his lawyer told a US court during trial on multiple terrorism-related charges. Theories exist that in exchange MI5 had allowed him to preach his message.

The arguments presented by the defense are in stark contrast to the image of Hamza established over more than ten years. Taking the stand on Wednesday, the preacher flatly denied any association with Al Qaeda or other terror groups.

With a hook for a hand, and notorious for his hate-filled speeches outside London's Finsbury Park Mosque, Abu Hamza is intensely disliked by the US government. He stands accused of multiple counts of terrorism, including the plot to organize a Jihadi training camp in the state of Oregon and advocating violence in Afghanistan in 2001. He is further accused of 11 other counts in relation to the taking of 16 hostages in Yemen in 1998.

After spending in excess of £1 million of taxpayer money on trying Hamza in the UK for more than eight years, the British finally extradited him to the US in 2012 after he served six years back in the UK for inciting hatred and advocating murder. In America, he was to face much more serious charges of funneling money and recruits to Al Qaeda elements in Afghanistan, the plot to set up an extremist training camp in the US and involvement in a situation in Yemen that ended in hostages and three dead Britons.

Comment: Indeed, he was in it for the money and the day he could ditch the ridiculous costume and stop playing a role for his employer.

That's the War on Terror for you folks, a lie from start to finish.

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Red Flag

Russia marks 69th anniversary of defeat of Nazism with spectacular Red Square military parade (VIDEO full ceremony)


RT
Fri, 09 May 2014 08:58 UTC
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© RIA Novosti/Grigory SysoevT 90 tanks during the V-Day Parade on Red Square, Moscow.
Russia has celebrated the 69th anniversary of Victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War (WWII) with a traditional May 9 military parade on Moscow's Red Square, which featured 11,000 troops, 149 military vehicles and 69 warplanes.

The clock on the Kremlin's Spasskaya tower rang its chimes at 10:00 AM Moscow time to signal the start of the Victory Day parade.

The right to bring out the official flag of the Russian Federation and the Victory banner this year went to the servicemen of the Preobrazhensky regiment, which has been carrying the honor guard service in Red Square for over 55 years.

The original Victory Banner is the red flag, which was mounted by Soviet troops atop the Reichstag building in Berlin on May 9, 1945 as a symbol of victory over the Nazis.

After Russia's defense minister, Sergey Shoigu, inspected the servicemen gathered for the parade, he reported to the commander-in-chief of the Russian armed forces, the country's president, Vladimir Putin.


Comment: Yesterday, May 8th 2014, the Russian military filmed and broadcast an intensive series of missile drills:



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Penis Pump

'Netanyahu fear-mongering over Iran's nuclear program', says former head of Israel's nuclear program


Press TV
Fri, 09 May 2014 09:01 UTC
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
© UnknownIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

The former head of Israel's nuclear program says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fear-mongering about Iran's nuclear energy program for his own political gain.

In an interview with Israel's Ynet, Israeli Brigadier General Uzi Eilam criticized Netanyahu's policies on Iran and said he is making a fuss over the Islamic Republic's nuclear energy program for personal political advantages.
"Netanyahu and other politicians have struck terrible, unnecessary fear into the hearts of the Israeli public," said Eilam, who headed the Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) from 1976-1985.
"Netanyahu is using the Iranian threat to achieve a variety of political objectives," he added.
He said that Israel should give the diplomatic process alongside sanctions a serious chance, warning that a possible attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would "be the opening salvo in all-out war."
"What good would bombing do?... Bombing would achieve the direct opposite of what we desired," he added.
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Pistol

'Kill all Russians!' Kiev militia attacks unarmed civilians in Donetsk Republic city of Mariupol


RT
Fri, 09 May 2014 08:38 UTC

Armed Ukrainian men have surrounded Mariupol City Council building. Reports suggest they were deployed to dismantle barricades, but as anti-Kiev activists tried to negotiate, the armed men opened fire.

In footage from the scene, a group of armed men is seen guarding barricades and the building, freed of protesters. They shoot in the air from time to time. As a man approaches them and tries to speak, a military-clad man aims his weapon at the ground and starts shooting, close to the protester's feet.

"The man tried to prevent them from dismantling barricades, military started shooting. First two shot were in the air, the third - in his foot," local "0629" news website reported. It said the man was taken to a hospital.

A crowd of locals gathered outside the building as, they said they heard the shooting. According to media estimates, by 14:00 local time nearly 200 people came to the city council. They chanted anti-government slogans and shouted at police accusing them of letting armed men freely shoot in the city.

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One of the local residents gunned down by the Kiev militia
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Stock Down

Fall of the dollar hidden by false East/West paradigm

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.com
Wed, 07 May 2014 01:07 UTC
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Despite popular belief, very few things in our world are exactly what they seem. That which is painted as righteous is often evil. That which is painted as kind is often malicious. That which is painted as simple is often complex. That which is painted as complex often ends up being disturbingly two dimensional. Regardless, if a person is willing to look only at the immediate surface of a thing, he will never understand the content of the thing.

This fact is nowhere more evident than in the growing "tensions" between the elites of the West and the elites of the East over the crisis in Ukraine.

I am continually astonished at the refusal of many otherwise intelligent people to consider the evidence or even the possibility that there is, in reality, no fundamental political or philosophical conflict between the power brokers of the East and the West. As I outlined in great detail in Russia Is Dominated By Global Banks, Too, the truth is they are both working toward the same goal; and both ultimately benefit from an engineered and theatrical display of international brinksmanship.
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Propaganda

Ukraine crisis: Mayor of second city Gennady Kernes fights for life after murder attempt is predictably blamed on Kremlin by Western propaganda

Kim Sengupta
The Independent
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 07:33 UTC
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© APKharkiv Mayor Gennady Kernes had emergency surgery after yesterday’s shooting.
The day began with the police station and administration building Konstantinovska being overrun; next the airport at Kramatorsk was attacked with rocket propelled grenades and then the mayor of Kharkiv was shot in the back. It ended in a vicious ambush on a demonstration in Donetsk. While America and the European Union impose new sanctions on Russia, violence and turmoil continues unabated in eastern Ukraine.

The attempted murder of Gennady Kernes, the mayor of the country's second-largest city, raised fears that prominent public figures were being targeted for assassination. Last night he was "fighting for his life", said his spokesman, after emergency surgery, with blame for the shooting leveled at both the Kremlin and extreme right wing groups.

Mr Kernes, a colourful character who regularly posted photographs of himself on social media taking part in sporting activities, was gunned down while he was out cycling, jogging, or swimming according to differing accounts of what took place. Valeriy Boyko, the director of Surgery institute in Kiev, where he was being treated, said the mayor "had suffered a very serious wound with a number of organs damaged".
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Die

Russia won't repeat 'Crimea scenario' in southeastern Ukraine sez Russian Deputy FM


RT
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 10:21 UTC
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© RIA Novosti/Andrey SteninSergey Ryabkov
Russia is not going to repeat "The Crimean scenario" in southeastern Ukraine, said the country's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov.

"I think what happened in Crimea turned out to be a big shock for Western partners. They can't tolerate it. And they see the same scenario in southeastern Ukraine," he told Gazeta.ru.

According to Ryabkov, the Kiev authorities should give people from southeastern Ukraine a chance to participate in shaping the future of their own country.

"It's a normal desire [to decide your country's future]. It is the basis of any democratic process," he added.
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Snakes in Suits

Air France exec, 'Alain D.', wife used airline to run prostitution racket worth millions


RT
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 08:52 UTC
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© AFP photo DDP/Martin Oeser
An executive at Air France used the airline to run a lucrative prostitution ring. The official, who was assisted by his wife, trafficked women from Brazil and subjected them to forced prostitution in trendy areas of Paris, local media reports.

Alain D., the only name the 54 year-old is known by at this time, has been charged on Tuesday with his Brazilian wife, Claudia, 51, and another accomplice, also from Brazil. They stand accused of human trafficking, pimping and organized crime, according to a Saturday report by Le Parisien. The three are now being kept at prisons in Val-de-Marne and Essonne, police sources told the French newspaper.

The business had been generating 2 million euro a year since 2010. Alain D. had managed flight crews at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport, and was in a position to get sizeable discounts on tickets he used to transport women back and forth between France and Brazil, according to vice squad detectives.
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Pirates

Unknown attackers destroy referendum ballots, printing equipment in Donetsk


ITAR TASS
Thu, 08 May 2014 14:15 UTC
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© ITAR-TASS/Konstantin Sazonchik
Unknown persons overnight destroyed about a million ballots printed for a referendum on independence in the Donetsk Region, local police said on Thursday.

Witnesses said unknown persons broke into a printing house and destroyed 800,000 ballots prepared for a referendum planned for May 11. The attackers also destroyed printing equipment.

A similar incident occurred in another printing house in Donetsk, where unknown people stole about 300,000 ballots and damaged printing equipment.

The attacks were committed by radicals from the Right Sector extremist organization, witnesses said. The attackers were in modern army uniform with yellow and red-and-black bands with Right Sector marks.

There were several groups of attackers, whose aim was to prevent printing of ballots for the referendum, police noted.
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Chess

Diplomacy: Putin displays Ukraine chess mastery

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times Online
Fri, 09 May 2014 05:37 UTC
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Russia's celebrations of the 69th anniversary of the defeat of fascism in World War II come just days after Ukrainian neo-fascists enacted an appalling Odessa massacre. For those who know their history, the graphic symbolism speaks for itself.

And then a geopolitical chess gambit added outright puzzlement to the trademark hypocrisy displayed by the self-proclaimed representatives of "Western civilization".

The gambit comes from - who else - Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is now actively mixing chess moves with Sun Tzu's Art of War and Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. No wonder all those American PR shills, helpless State Department spokespersons and NATOstan generals are clueless.

Unlike the Obama administration's juvenile delinquent school of diplomacy - which wants to "isolate" Putin and Russia - a truce and possible deal in the ongoing Ukrainian tragedy has been negotiated between adults on speaking terms, Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, then discussed and finally announced in a press conference by the president of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Didier Burghalter.
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