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The greatest leader Britain never had: Tony Benn knew the rules, but would not play the game

Gary Younge
The Guardian
Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:42 UTC

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Tony Benn: ‘What is the final corruption in politics? Earlier, it was to get into cabinet, before that, to be popular, but later on, the final corruption is this kindly, harmless old gentleman …'

His lifelong belief in socialism inspired several generations of socialists and radicals, and infuriated the establishment

The conductor was striding through the early train from Paddington to Penzance apologising as we shuddered to a halt just east of the Tamar. "I'm sorry for the delay," he told Tony Benn, sitting opposite me. "There was a lightning strike on the line ahead."

"Lightning strike!" said Benn, assuming industrial action. "What's it about?"

"It's about God, sir," said the guard, referring to the harsh weather of the previous night, and the two men smiled at each other.

That night I stayed in Cornwall. The prospect of spending nine hours on a train in one day was too draining. Benn came straight back, arriving in Paddington around 11pm so he could be up at 6am the next day to drive to Burford to address a Levellers rally. Around the time I was ordering my second round of sandwiches from the buffet car on my way back from Cornwall, he was heading back to London from Burford to speak to a pro-Palestinian demonstration, when his car exploded on the motorway. I was 33; he was 77.

When I next saw him I suggested, in jest, that he slow down, if only to stop me looking bad. He laughed and said he planned to work right up to the end. "The last entry in my diary will be: 'St Thomas's hospital: I'm not feeling very well today'," he said. He even had plans for his gravestone. "I'd like it to say: 'Tony Benn - he encouraged us.'"

U.S. proxy army: More weapons 'stolen' from Ukrainian military bases

RT
Sat, 15 Mar 2014 09:35 UTC

Fears of possible armed assaults and provocation in Ukraine and neighboring countries are on the rise after yet another report that rocket grenade launchers, firearms and munitions have been stolen from a military warehouse in western Ukraine.

A source in the Ukrainian Interior Ministry told RIA Novosti that the coup appointed Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has recently been notified that a large cache of guns and ammunition was missing from one of the military warehouses.

"Reports to Avakov indicate that over 5,000 Kalashnikov rifles, 2,741 Makarov handguns, 123 light machineguns and 12 Shmel rocket launchers were stolen from the Interior Troops' depots in the Lvov Region in late February," the source said.

"The investigation has also established that 1,500 F-1 hand grenades and a large number of munitions are missing," it added.

Here's what the richest man in the world thinks about Snowden and NSA surveillance

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:05 UTC

So Bill Gates recently gave an interview to Rolling Stone magazine. The vast majority of the interview focused on his philanthropic efforts, with a particular focus on poverty and climate change. However, several questions were brought up on illegal NSA surveillance in general, and Edward Snowden in particular.

His answers reveal one of the biggest problems facing America today, which is the fact that the billionaire class as a whole does not question or rock the boat whatsoever. They criticize only when it is convenient or easy to do so, never putting themselves at risk for the sake of civil liberties and the Constitution.

In mosts cases, this is due to the fact that they themselves are the characters pulling the strings of the political class in Washington D.C. So when it comes down to it, their policies ultimately become our policies.

It is also important to note that Microsoft was a particularly eager participant in NSA spying from the very beginning. For example, according to the following PRISM slide provided by Edward Snowden, we see that Gates' company was the first to become involved. In fact, they were participating a full six months before Yahoo!, while Apple didn't join until a year after Steve Jobs died.

Crimea and Western 'values' on display

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times Online
Sat, 15 Mar 2014 08:38 UTC

Every sane sentient being knows that Ukraine's "unity" is not worth a new hot or warm war. Or even the current Western-peddled Cold War-style hysteria. Especially when Russia, once again, fights fascism - as embodied by some of the key players now in power in Kiev, and the US and EU's response is to relentlessly demonize Russia.

Crimea - historically, culturally, sentimentally - is Russian, conquered by Catherine the Great from the Ottomans in 1783. Sevastopol was founded by Catherine. If a swing band would play a version of I Left My Heart in Sevastopol, all hearts involved would be Russian.

Yet those eminent Western practitioners of state idolatry have ruled that the population of Crimea has no right to conduct a referendum to decide its future - be it rejoining Russia or remaining in Ukraine with a huge degree of autonomy, according to the 1992 constitution. The eminences could not possibly admit that does not suit their geopolitical power play.

Thus the current Mass; a ritualistic, hysterical invoking in unison of "international law" (Obama), (distorted) history and even morality (in the US's case, considering the historical record, a positively dreadful joke).

Was Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 redirected to Diego Garcia?‏

Hamad Subani
Cabal Times
Wed, 12 Mar 2014 07:33 UTC

It has now become fairly evident that the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing is not accidental. In fact, there is a strong possibility that the flight was commandeered to the US military base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. A bizarre "extraordinary rendition"?

Why did Flight 370 try to hide its whereabouts?

MH370 was a 777-200 service carrying 239 passenger and crew on a regular Kuala Lumpur to Beijing service. To recap, it left KL at 12.40 am, it disappeared as a commercial radar trace at 1.22 am close to the area where such radar visibility to the Malaysia air traffic control system drops off, and was never observed as entering Vietnam controlled air space on a path intended to cross that country to the South China Sea and continue past Hong Kong toward its destination. The transponders on Flight 370 was switched off immediately after it was outside the visibility of Malaysia's air traffic control! To quote a poster GarageYears on a forum for professional pilots:

FM Lavrov complains about fascist censorship: Refusal to admit Russian journalists to briefing by Obama, Yatsenyuk unacceptable

ITAR-TASS
Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:23 UTC

US President Barack Obama meets Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk

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"The White House evidently does not want to hear acute questions that do not fit a scenario developed beforehand," spokesperson for Russia's Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich stated

Russia called unacceptable and discriminatory the refusal to admit Russian journalists to a news conference by U.S. President Barack Obama and interim Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk appointed by Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich stated on Friday.

"It looks like that Washington that likes so much to speak about the freedom of speech and rights of journalists is not prepared to follow these principles preferring to deal with only "reliable" media outlets spreading information "necessary" for them," the diplomat said.

"The White House evidently does not want to hear acute questions that do not fit a scenario developed beforehand, for instance, those about crimes of neo-Nazis from Right Sector (far-right Ukrainian movement) who are behind Arseniy Yatsenyuk's "government"," Lukashevich noted.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk has paid a visit to the United States where he met Barack Obama on March 12 discussing financial and economic aid to Ukraine. Upon results of the meeting Yatsenyuk and Obama gave a news conference to which representatives of Russian media outlets were not admitted.

Comment: Press conferences with Obama are in stark contrast to those with Putin, where all questions are allowed to being asked. Obama only wishes those journalists present who are sure not to ask any challenging questions.

For a contrast see:
A true statesman: Vladimir Putin press conference, March 4, 2014 - video and transcript

War whore McCain: Russians will 'end Putin's imperial dreams'

Press TV
Sat, 15 Mar 2014 06:59 UTC

US Republican Senator and former presidential candidate John McCain suggests that people in Russia will finally oust President Vladimir Putin.

"Eventually, Russians will come for Mr. Putin in the same way and for the same reasons that Ukrainians came for Viktor F. Yanukovych," the hawkish senator wrote in an op-ed in The New York Times on Friday. "We must prepare for that day now."

He was referring to the ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, who left the Ukrainian capital of Kiev in February.

"He [Putin] does not accept that Russia's neighbors, least of all Ukraine, are independent countries. To him, they are Russia's "near abroad" and must be brought back under Moscow's dominion by any means necessary," McCain said.

"If Ukraine can emerge from this crisis independent, prosperous and anchored firmly in Europe, how long before Russians begin to ask, "Why not us?" McCain claimed.

Comment: McCain is emboldened by the overthrow of the democratically elected government in Ukraine to dream of also being able to overthrow the democratically elected government in Russia. Putin has an approval rating above 60%, unheard of in the US and obviously a cause for jealousy. McCain can rightly be called a terrorist, for his support for terrorists in both Syria and Libya apart from the neo-Nazis in Ukraine. McCain does not believe in democracy but prefers violence.

Ukraine's Gold Reserves Secretly Flown Out and Confiscated by the New York Federal Reserve?

Prof Michel Chosssudovsky
Global Research
Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:00 UTC

A Russian Internet news site Iskra ("Spark") based in Zaporozhye, eastern Ukraine, reported on March 7, that "Ukraine's gold reserves had been hastily airlifted to the United States from Borispol Airport east of Kiev".

This alleged airlift and confiscation of Ukraine's gold reserves by the New York Federal Reserve has not been confirmed by the Western media.

David Cameron's elitist cabinet saturated with Etonians and other private school alumni

Tamara Cohen and Dan Bloom
Mail Online
Sat, 15 Mar 2014 01:51 UTC

The number of old Etonians in David Cameron's inner circle is 'preposterous', said Education Secretary Michael Gove yesterday.

The dominance of one school in public life did not exist in any other country and its continuation in Britain was 'ridiculous', he argued.

Mr Gove, who is soon to become the first Conservative education chief to send his daughter to a state secondary school, suggested that children should be given the impression that anyone can get to the top.

Prof Kevin Barret calls the US Ukraine coverage: an Orwellian theater of hate

Voice of Russia
Sat, 15 Mar 2014 05:46 UTC

The outright lies being printed and broadcast in the western press regarding the situation in Ukraine is just the next level from a war on truth begun with the events of 9-11. Since that time the US Government and its subservient media has been pounding the American people with extreme Orwellian propaganda, that pays no attention to the reality of anything, According to Professor Kevin Barret in an interview for the Voice of Russia.

Dr. Barret says that now, for the first time in his lifetime, we are seeing that applied to a non-Muslim country. He calls the demonization of Muslims: Orwellian theater of hate style of propaganda which has now gone completely over-the-top, is hateful, is totally unconcerned with facts and has been turned against Russia.

Hello, this is John Robles. You are listening to an interview with Dr Kevin Barrett, he is a Doctor and a Professor in Arabic and Islamic Studies, and the co-founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for Truth. He is also the owner and manager of truthjihad.com. This is part 1 of a longer interview, you can find the rest of this interview on our website at voiceofrussia.com.

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Puppet Masters

The greatest leader Britain never had: Tony Benn knew the rules, but would not play the game

U.S. proxy army: More weapons 'stolen' from Ukrainian military bases

Here's what the richest man in the world thinks about Snowden and NSA surveillance

Crimea and Western 'values' on display

Was Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 redirected to Diego Garcia?‏

FM Lavrov complains about fascist censorship: Refusal to admit Russian journalists to briefing by Obama, Yatsenyuk unacceptable

War whore McCain: Russians will 'end Putin's imperial dreams'

Ukraine's Gold Reserves Secretly Flown Out and Confiscated by the New York Federal Reserve?

David Cameron's elitist cabinet saturated with Etonians and other private school alumni

Prof Kevin Barret calls the US Ukraine coverage: an Orwellian theater of hate

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