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Western hypocrisy hits all-time High

Luke Eastwood
Press TV
Tue, 02 Sep 2014 05:38 UTC
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Ukrainian troops are seen at their position during fighting with pro-Russian fighters in the eastern Ukrainian town of Ilovaysk.
While the western mainstream media hurls abuse at Russia and its government, blaming it for the crisis in Eastern Ukraine there is little mention of the role of USA and its NATO puppets in the continuing tragedy.

The USA, Canada and EU are happy to impose sanctions on Russia and provide military assistance, loans and intelligence to a Ukrainian government that was not elected (established by the violent coup aided by the CIA). However these countries are not willing to allow Russia to assist the Eastern-Ukrainians in any way - even with humanitarian aid.


Comment: Indeed, their propaganda would fall apart if they didn't spin the whole story of humanitarian aid convoys. So what do they do? Project their own inner landscape on Russia, claiming that these convoys are modern type Trojan horses. Offering no proof. Despite decades of lying and propaganda they expected everyone to fall for it.

Western propaganda exposed as Russian convoy 'invades' Ukraine with humanitarian aid


What is worse again is that while they condemn the Russians for not making the separatists lie down and accept an unelected and prejudiced government they also turn a blind eye to the constant bombing of unarmed civilians. Meanwhile, in Gaza the same thing is happening to the Palestinian people - they are being bombed consistently and it is again mostly unarmed civilians who are being injured or killed.
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OSCE: Still no troops or ammo crossing Russia-Ukraine border - Sorry NATO!


Itar-Tass
Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:08 UTC
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Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have registered no troops, ammunition or weapons crossing the Russian-Ukrainian border over the past two weeks, the OSCE report said on Wednesday.

"Throughout the week, the Observer Teams noticed a net increase of young people (both men and women) wearing military-style dress crossing the border in both directions but did not observe any weapons among these groups," the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission's report covering a period from August 20 to September 3 said.

The observers said they had regular interactions with supporters of the self-proclaimed republics. "Some discussed openly with the OSCE while others expressed their total mistrust toward the OSCE. At both Border Crossing Points, some supporters of the self-proclaimed republics explained that they are not allowed to cross the border with weapons," the report said.

The observers registered a decrease in helicopter sightings compared to last week but they were still observed at border crossing points flying at low altitude along the border.

"In either case, in as far as could be seen, the aircraft did not violate the Ukrainian airspace," the report said.

Comment: Contrast this with Obama's recent statement that "Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine are not a humanitarian or peacekeeping mission ... these are the facts that can be proved [and] they cannot be questioned." If they can be proved, prove it, because no one's buying your bullshit anymore, Obama.

As Russia and Novorossiya have said officially, yes, there are Russian volunteers among the NAF, just as there are Italians, French, Serbian, Spanish, even Canadian and British volunteers. But there are no 'troops and ammo' crossing the border. AsJeff Steinberg, Executive Intelligence Review from Leesburg, recently told PressTV:
I think it's also important to bear in mind that on Friday afternoon well after President Poroshenko was talking about a full-scale invasion by Russia involving, quote "hundreds of tanks," the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) monitors there on the border said that there is no such thing happening. They said that there are clearly streams of Russian volunteers who are crossing into eastern Ukraine as individual volunteers to assist the rebels who are fighting against the Ukrainian government.


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Conflicting reports about "permanent ceasefire" in Ukraine


Sky News
Wed, 03 Sep 2014 09:42 UTC
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The conflict will be at the top of the agenda at the Nato summit in Wales
Vladimir Putin says a ceasefire deal between Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels could be reached by Friday. The Russian President's announcement comes after conflicting reports that a permanent ceasefire agreement had been reached by the two sides this morning.

Following witness reports of loud artillery explosions near the Ukrainian city of Donetsk, the country's President Petro Poroshenko modified his statement to remove the word "permanent". It is unclear whether his actions were in response to reports of the explosion.


Comment: Poroshenko says one thing on one day, and something completely contradictory the next, so it's anyone's guess what his real intentions are. But if past events are any indication, he'll probably just continue to bomb civilians in Novorossiya until someone else stops him.


Reporting from Mariupol, Ukraine, Sky's Moscow Correspondent Katie Stallard said: "It's extremely unclear at this stage what exactly this ceasefire is supposed to be. No one we have spoken to on the ground seems to know about it.

"The Ukrainian president issued a statement this morning claiming he agreed with Vladimir Putin to a permanent ceasefire in the region. He has since slightly modified that statement and removed the word 'permanent'. A spokesman for President Putin said no such agreement has been reached, nor can it, because Russia is not a party to the conflict."

Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov was earlier quoted as saying the leaders' views "overlap to a considerable degree".

"The heads of state exchanged opinions about what needs to be done first in order to bring an end to the bloodletting in the southeast of the country as soon as possible," said Mr Peskov.

Comment: Ukrainian PM Yatsenyuk has rejected Putin's proposal as an attempt to "pull the wool over the eyes" of the international community in order to stave off further sanctions, further demonstrating Yats's own perverted worldview. 'Anyone calling for real peace must have an ulterior motive. I mean, who really cares about peace anyways?' Yats's proposal? Get all Russian troops, mercenaries, and 'terrorists' out of Ukraine, and build a 'Wall' between Ukraine and Russia. Yats really must be losing it (assuming he ever had 'it' to begin with)!

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Excellent idea! Candidates in elections must prove their sanity - MPs


RT
Thu, 04 Sep 2014 13:05 UTC
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A nationalist lawmaker suggests making politicians disclose their psychiatric problems to the public and punish those who try to hide them by removing them from polls.

Aleksey Zhuravlev, who heads the nationalist party Rodina (Motherland), and sits in the Lower House on the ticket of the center-left party Fair Russia, claims that the initiative was caused by personal experience.

"In the course of election campaigns, I sometimes encounter candidates who cause only bewilderment. I have to explain the simplest things to them - like what security is, what social solidarity and responsibility are, what healthy conservatism is. Sometimes our citizens say that certain deputies must be insane. It might be a figure of speech, but we cannot rule out that it could be an actual fact," Zhuravlev said in an interview with Izvestia daily.

"I think voters should know about psychiatric problems of the people who seek their support. The candidates must submit official papers about their mental condition to the elections commissions, and, if they conceal anything, this can be a reason for removal from polls," he added. The MP said that the regulations could be similar to the requirements concerning criminal records - candidates must report it in their papers and can be disqualified from the race if they fail to do so.

The motion received some support from other Fair Russia MPs and lawmakers representing the Communist Party.

In the same interview, Zhuravlev gave an example of a politician who should undergo a test. He claimed that the leader of the old and established Russian pro-democracy party Yabloko, Sergey Mitrokhin, had been recognized as unfit for military service for health reasons, with the suggestion that it was because of his mental condition.

However, Mitrokhin refuted Zhuravlev's allegations in press comments saying that his military ID had a "fit for service" marking and expressed readiness to undergo an independent psychiatric test at any time.

"I hope other deputies agree to pass the test together with me as their mental condition can really cause worries - almost every week they submit schizophrenic motions to the parliament and then vote for them," the Yabloko leader said.
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Larijani: US, UK chief sponsors of terrorism


PressTV
Thu, 04 Sep 2014 06:17 UTC
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Iranian Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani
Iran's Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani says the United States and the United Kingdom have engineered and sponsored terrorism around the world.

"History shows that the first terrorists in the world and in the region are the superpowers themselves," Larijani said, adding that the US and UK are chief among them.

The United States and European states have expressed concerns that the Western militants fighting in Iraq and Syria would pose a security threat once they decide to return to their countries. This is while the United States and its Western allies have been actively funding and training the militants.

The top Iranian parliamentarian pointed out that the superpowers express misgivings over terrorism while they themselves have created the ISIL terrorist group in Iraq and Syria.
Referring to the Western countries, he said, "You will never be upset about terrorism and you are lying because you yourselves were the founders of terrorism in the region."

Comment: Larijani is telling it like it is! For more information on the creation of ISIL/ISIS/IS, see:

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Editor of Veterans Today: Video of Sotloff beheading might be staged by Rita Katz


Press TV
Thu, 04 Sep 2014 05:38 UTC
Rita katz

Rita Katz: our source of all Muslim terror-groups/personas since the launching of the war against "terror" fiasco
Press TV has conducted an interview with Jim W. Dean, a senior editor with Veteran's Today, from Atlanta, about the West's direct support for the ISIL terrorist group slaughtering Syrians and their response to the recent killings of Western journalists. The following is an approximate transcript of the interview.

Press TV: Are you on the verge of another invasion by American troops to Iraq?

Dean: No, I'm afraid this has been really exaggerated. We have a lot of folks out there that don't like what America has done in the region and they have very good reasons for that; but they are kind of grasping... they are so angry that they try to grasp at anything that comes along that's going to bash America, but America's not, they have no need to because Iraq has a huge army.

All we're looking at and all really Iraq wants is of course American tax payers to pay for things; and they want airstrikes because they don't really have much of an air force.

Comment: Indeed, Sotloff was a dual American-Israeli citizen. As the Guardian reported yesterday:
The revelation of Sotloff's Israeli citizenship was disclosed by the country's foreign ministry on Wednesday morning. In a brief tweet, Paul Hirschson, a spokesman for the ministry, said: "Cleared for publication: Steven Sotloff was Israel citizen RIP."
Gilad Atzmon had a small comment on his blog today:
Ynet reports this morning on "the operation to hide Steven Sotloff's Jewish and Israeli background online."

The articles tells a story of a "worldwide network of friends included over 150 members, speaking 20 different languages, who scanned every post Steven has made on Facebook or Twitter and removed any mentions of his Israeli or Jewish connections." I can only think of one Jewish organization that could facilitate such an grand scale operation and it isn't JVP.

We also learned yesterday that Sotloff spent 3 years at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. An institute that is linked to the Mossad according to some media sources.

Israeli press comes short of linking Sotloff to the Mossad but it produces the necessary evidence that would make such a suggestion into a valid option.
Not surprised if true! Sotloff video found by group connected to Homeland Security and responsible for releasing fake bin Laden video

And who is this Rita Katz?

Private Jihad: How Rita Katz got into the business of inventing Muslim terrorists and hystericizing America

Is Israel Controlling Phony Terror News?

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Not surprised if true! Sotloff video found by group connected to Homeland Security and responsible for releasing fake bin Laden video

Kurt Nimmo
Global Research
Wed, 03 Sep 2014 05:10 UTC
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The group purportedly responsible for discovering the Steven Sotloff beheading video is an intelligence asset specializing in war on terror propaganda.

"The video was first obtained by SITE Intelligence Group (Search for International Terrorist Entities), also known as SITE Intel Group, a relatively under-the-radar yet apparently very powerful nonprofit research body that monitors jihadist movements," reports USA Today. "The Bethesda, Maryland, organization has published a shortened version of the beheading video and published a transcript on its news site, which has been largely inaccessible since news of the beheading broke, likely due to an uptick in Web traffic."

One of SITE's founders, Rita Katz, is a government insider with close connections to former terrorism czar Richard Clarke and his staff in the White House, as well as investigators in the Department of Justice, Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Homeland Security, according to SourceWatch. Her father was executed in Iraq as an Israel spy, a fact that suggests a connection to Israeli intelligence.
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Lavrov: Russia is for peaceful settlement


ITAR-TASS
Mon, 01 Sep 2014 15:29 UTC
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There will be no military interference to Ukraine, and Russia is for peaceful settlement. Sergei Lavrov, Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, has made this statement on Monday at an annual meeting with students and teachers of Moscow State University of Foreign Affairs.
"There will be no military interference. We are committed exclusively to the peaceful settlement of this deep crisis, this tragedy," Lavrov stated.
He noted that the demand to the militia to lay down arms was unrealistic.

The minister said that Washington and Brussels should demand that Kiev quit using heavy weaponry against civilians.

"The most important is that Washington and Brussels demand from Kiev the same that they demand in all other conflicts: to stop using heavy weaponry and aviation against civil facilities and civilians," the minister stressed.

Comment: Russia continues to offer peaceful solutions to the Ukrainian crises but it seems to fall on deaf ears.

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Russian Council Speaker to EU: Sanctions are counterproductive and more damaging to EU than Russia


ITAR-TASS
Mon, 01 Sep 2014 15:21 UTC
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Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko
Russia is ready to respond if the West whips up the spiral of sanctions, Valentina Matviyenko, Federation Council Speaker, upper house of Russian parliament, said on Monday.

She said any sanctions were counterproductive and mutually disadvantageous and their ultimate goal was "not only to tear Ukraine away from Russia and Russia from the European Union" but also "to weaken the European Union".

"The United States is securing its geopolitical interests with the Europeans' hands for there is a fierce competition for markets, economic and financial resources," Matviyenko said.

She said sanctions were sensitive to any country. "They are sensitive to us too, but they are not dramatic", she said.

"Russia has an enormous potential and possibilities. This is the time for us to collect ourselves and see where our weak points are and where we are particularly dependent on other countries and take real steps to preserve our economy and avoid negative developments in the country," Matviyenko said.
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Can you smell what The Caliph is cooking?

Pepe Escobar
RT
Wed, 03 Sep 2014 21:24 UTC
Soldier
© AFP Photo /Ahmad AL-Rubaye
Next week is the 13th anniversary of 9/11. And Washington is back to bombing... It's Iraq, all over again - an eerie echo of the most tragic of all post-9/11 developments: Shock and Awe.

Osama bin Laden, now arguably at the bottom of the Arabian Sea (according to the official spin), used to personify the intolerant Wahhabi worldview run amok. Then his Wahhabism married Sayid Qutb's Egyptian Islamism, personified by Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Qutb, killed by the Egyptian regime in the late 1960s, was the wayward prophet of a global jihad between Islam and the West. Yet his zealous sons - from Osama/al-Zawahiri to current Caliph Ibrahim of ISIS/IS [The Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS/ISIL] - went much further, their jihad targeting civilians and even Muslims.

Now Caliph Ibrahim has maneuvered Washington into renewed bombing in Iraq - and potentially bombing Syria. Obama does "Syraq". And yet, more crucially, what if Obama is doing Al-Qaeda's bidding?

This could all fit Osama's carefully laid-out trap - over the years - of finally managing to expel the US from the Middle East via a constant war of attrition, slowly bleeding the Empire of Chaos. Eric Margolis has alluded to this possibility here.
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