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'U.S. thinks its superior, rules only apply to inferior Nations' - sez former Australian PM


Information Clearing House
Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:32 UTC
America feels it can break international law, that what America does is right. Rules are made for other people, for countries like Russia or countries like Australia, but whatever America does is right because America does it. Now that's in the American psyche:


Oksana Boyko (OB): Hello and welcome to Worlds Apart. Politics is an art of compromise, or at least it used to be. In the current standoff between Russia and the West over the Ukraine, both sides accuse each other of intransigence and keep raising the stakes. After years of paying lip service to the non-zero sum approach, are we back to the geopolitics of all or nothing? Well to discuss that, I'm now joined by one of the world's most senior statesmen and a former Australian prime minister, Malcolm Fraser. Mr Fraser, thank you very much for being on the show.

Malcolm Fraser (MF): Good afternoon.
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Propaganda

Brainwash level - 'neocons': Staged Liz Wahl psy-op exposure explodes on Twitter


RT
Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:58 UTC
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Remember the Mainstream's frothing over Liz Wahl's resignation from RT? How she was feted by the networks, supported by the beast, and embraced heartily by neo-con Russia-haters?

Turns out things might not be as spontaneous as they seem - in fact, in the paranoid world of neo-con American journalism things are very rarely spontaneous. They're usually nasty, angry, ugly exchanges full of trolly self-righteous butthurt.

Rania Khalek & Max Blumenthal revealed that tweets, likely by mouthpiece Jamie Kirchick at the neo-con think-tank FPI, pre-empted Wahl's RT stage exit.

Not only that, but that Kirchick, along with Buzzfeed's Rosie Gray (who coincidentally also published an RT hit-piece recently) and Eli Lake, are knitted into a cosy set of self-supporting neo-con relationships with lobbyists and foreign policy hawks.

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Bad Guys

Nationalists threaten Ukrainian top cop with 'revenge' over far-right leader murder


RT
Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:50 UTC
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© FacebookAleksandr Muzychko (C)
Ukrainian nationalist party Right Sector has announced it holds the acting Interior Minister Arsen Avakov accountable for the death of notorious radical militant Aleksandr Muzychko and will avenge it, Ukrainian media reports.

"We will take revenge on Arsen Avakov for the death of our brother," said Rovno coordinator of the Right Sector Roman Koval, as cited by charivne.info news portal. "The shooting of Sashko Bilyi [Muzychko's nom de guerre] is an assassination ordered by the minister. Muzychko never received any notices concerning criminal offences and was never summoned anywhere."

Earlier, Muzychko, also known as Sashko Bilyi, was proclaimed dead after a police raid against his gang in Rovno, western Ukraine.

During the raid, Muzychko opened fire wounding an officer. He continued shooting even despite being injured in the leg, the Interior Ministry said.

"When [the police] attempted to detain him, they found out he was wounded. The medics who arrived at the scene proclaimed Muzychko dead," First Deputy Interior Minister Vladimir Yevdokimov said.
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Bullseye

Obama, Kerry: U.S. political "leadership" psychopath War Criminals

Carl Herman
Washington's Blog
Sat, 08 Mar 2014 10:42 UTC
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Psychopath: diminished empathy and remorse, disinhibited behavior, meanness, criminality, violence, disregard for moral beliefs, untruthfulness, superficial charm and good "intelligence."

War Crime: serious violation(s) of the laws of war giving rise to individual criminal responsibility, often in concert with Crimes Against Peace for Wars of Aggression and Crimes Against Humanity

"You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests. This is an Act of Aggression that is completely trumped up in terms of its pretext. It's really 19th Century behavior in the 21st Century." - US Secretary of State, John Kerry on Meet the Press, March 2, 2014.

"The steps Russia has taken are a violation of Ukraine's sovereignty, their territorial integrity - a violation of international law." - US President Barack Obama, March 3, 2014
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No Entry

Turkey blocks use of Twitter where wiretapped recordings have been leaked

Kevin Rawlinson
The Guardian
Thu, 20 Mar 2014 10:30 UTC
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© Adem Altan/AFP/Getty ImagesTwo weeks ago Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested that a total ban on all social media sites like Facebook or Twitter was in his thoughts.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatens to 'root out' social media network where wiretapped recordings have been leaked

Turkey restricted access to Twitter hours after its prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, threatened to "root out" the social media network where wiretapped recordings have been leaked, damaging the government's reputation ahead of local elections.

Some users trying to use Twitter were taken to a statement apparently from Turkey's telecommunications regulator (TIB).

The statement cited four court orders as the basis for blocking the site, where some users in recent weeks have posted voice recordings and documents purportedly showing evidence of corruption among Erdoğan's inner circle. It said that action had been taken against Twitter as a "protection measure".

But Turkish telecoms watchdog BTK said on Friday that the ban came after complaints were made by citizens that the social media platform was breaching privacy.
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Pistol

Was the Boston Marathon witness purposely executed while trying to flee a brutal FBI interrogation?

Dave Lindorff
Counterpunch
Mon, 24 Mar 2014 08:23 UTC
Ibrahim Todashev, 27, a Russian immigrant friend of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was shot and killed last May 22 in the middle of the night by the FBI at the violent end of a five-hour interrogation in his home in Orlando. Now the FBI, ten months later, is claiming that its agent was attacked by Todashev, and was justified in killing him. But a CounterPunch investigation raises grave questions about what happened in that apartment.

While it's of course conceivable that this was just a hugely botched investigation by two inept FBI agents, our investigation suggests that Todashev may have been killed trying to flee a brutal interrogation, and that he may have even been deliberately executed by the FBI.

Questions raised in this case range from why FBI agents failed to follow Bureau's long-established interrogation protocol, leaving just one agent to question the witness, to why a suspect known to be a competitive mixed martial arts expert was left unrestrained during a hostile and high-pressure interrogation, how Todashev was shot, including a bullet to the top of the head, and finally to how he could have been shot seven times, clearly with intent to kill given where he was hit, if he was considered by the Bureau to be a key witness in the Boston Marathon case.

The FBI and other law enforcement sources, as I reported earlier in the online publication WhoWhatWhy.com, have leaked a series of widely at odds explanations to selected mainstream news media organizations as to how and why Todashev was shot and killed. Initially Bureau sources leaked to reporters that he had variously grabbed a sword off the wall, or left the room and returned from the kitchen with a pipe or a broomstick, or alternatively with a knife.
Todashev bloodstains
© unknownBlood stains at the exit point from the room where Todashev was interrogated, leading towards foyer and the apartment’s front door. Was Todashev killed trying to escape a brutal grilling?

Comment: For further reading see:

Were The Boston Marathon Bombers 'Mind Controlled'?

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Monkey Wrench

The pathetic Ukrainian operetta: Ukrainians on the verge of a nervous breakdown

Dmitry Orlov
Club Orlov
Tue, 25 Mar 2014 04:46 UTC
Acting Ukrainian Defense Minister Igor Tenyukh
© ReutersActing defense minister Igor Tenyukh has resigned his post in Ukraine.
Ukraine's defense minister has resigned (via El País).
"Since some don't like the decisions I have made, I am not going to stay in this post," he said before the Supreme Rada (Parliament) in Kiev. The deputies, which initially rejected his resignation, ended up accepting it after an emergency meeting among the different political parties... In his speech before the Rada, he offered a new - and disheartening - tally of desertions: only 4,300 of the 18,800 [Ukrainian] soldiers in Crimea will continue in the Ukrainian army; the rest have accepted the offer by the Russians to join their armed forces.]
In this intercepted phone call Yulia Tymoshenko, a likely Ukrainian presidential candidate (but there will be no elections*) talks about using nuclear weapons on the eight million Russian citizens who live in Ukraine.

Good thing these "Ukrainians" don't have any nuclear weapons, but they do have plentiful baseball bats and AK47s looted from armories in the west of the country. Listening to the tone of her voice (these Ukrainian nationalists are speaking together in pretty good Russian, by the way; they are both urbane and Ukrainian is a village dialect) I almost feel sorry for her. Except that she is talking about murdering people like me (my father was born in Kiev, so I have the right to a Ukrainian citizenship). Ahem, President Putin, do you have a moment?

[* And the reason there will be no election is that if the election were held today, the people in power would get maybe 5% of the popular vote.]

In his novel The White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov, writing of the events of 1918 in Ukraine, characterized Ukrainian politics as a "pathetic operetta." We appear to be at just that point yet again.

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Hourglass

Chain reaction? Is Crimea's shift the first of a long series?

Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network
Wed, 26 Mar 2014 04:30 UTC
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Beyond the emphatic cries of the West against the accession of the Crimea to the Russian Federation, the real issue is whether this is an orphan event or whether it foreshadows a turning of Eastern Europe toward Moscow. With only enslavement to the Brussels bureaucracy to offer, Brussels fears that its current clients may be attracted by Moscow's freedom and money.

Westerners bellow to denounce the "military annexation" of the Crimea by Russia. According to them, Moscow, returning to the "Brezhnev doctrine" threatens the sovereignty of all States which were members not only of the former Soviet Union, but also of the Warsaw Pact, and is about to invade as it did in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Is this true ? Obviously, the same Westerners are not convinced of the imminent danger. Though they equate the "annexation" of the Crimea by Vladimir Putin to that of the Sudetenland by Adolf Hitler, they do not think that we are heading towards a Third World War.

At most, they have enacted ​​theoretical sanctions against some Russian leaders - including Crimean leaders - blocking their accounts in case they should wish to open such in Western banks, or prohibiting them from traveling there, in case they yearned to do so. True, the Pentagon has sent 22 fighter jets to Poland and the Baltic States, but it does not intend to do more than this posturing for the moment.
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Stormtrooper

NYPD refuses to divulge transparency guidelines handbook


RT
Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:11 UTC
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© Reuters / Lucas Jackson

The handbook that guides the New York City Police Department's transparency policies for records requests, ultimately informing the public as to how the department operates, is being kept private based on certain statutes that "prohibit disclosure."

MuckRock editor Shawn Musgrave, writing for Gothamist, reported that he was denied access to the NYPD's freedom of information handbook - which steers the department's protocol for adhering to the New York state Freedom of Information Law - despite a public records request seemingly in compliance with state law.

"Invoking attorney-client privilege, the records access officer ruled that a handful of statutes 'prohibit disclosure' of freedom of information reference materials," Musgrave wrote, describing a February 28 letter he received from NYPD Records Access Appeal Officer Jonathan David that cemented the rejection of a records request submitted two months earlier.

The secretive, opaque stance from the NYPD is nothing new, Musgrave noted. Last year, it was revealed that the largest police department in the United States - and the "seventh biggest army in the world" according to Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2011 - had for the last decade applied a "secret" designation to internal documents that it wanted to keep from the public. Yet that label is not legally binding in New York state.
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Books

Wikipedia exposed: Bullying and harassment tactics of activist editors in a wiki war- a case study

Rome Viharo
Wikipediawehaveaproblem.com
Sat, 21 Dec 2013 21:54 UTC
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© RomeViharo.comRome Viharo
Introduction

According to a tiny handful of Wikipedia editors and admins, I'm the engineer of a vast and co-ordinated global social media experiment for creating conflict. I'm a 'fringe' promoter, a conspiracy theorist, a charlatan for 'pseudoscience' and hold 'views' outside the mainstream. I'm also a well known internet troll with an anti-social personality disorder and am borderline autistic, a ringleader for countless sockpuppets and in bed with PR agencies as well as just being plain old incompetent. According to them, as colorful as such a description it is, I'm just that sort of 'peculiar person'. This description of me was then used to get admins on Wikipedia to ban me indefinitely from the platform in addition to further off Wikipedia site harassment.

I'm not that interesting of a person to get this much scrutiny. I am a casualty of a 'wiki' war. The article I was editing is not even something controversial, it was not an article about Israel/Palestine, Islam, Jesus or JFK conspiracy theories. I was simply editing a biography of a living person - a notable individual who has as many detractors as he does supporters.

If this reads to you like another case of online harassment, it is. If you think that Wikipedia must have clear policies and guidelines against this sort of thing - they do. If you think admins should guard and protect against this from happening - they didn't.
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