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Allen Dulles and the Ukrainian fascists: Did the CIA/MI6 use of Nazis in Ukraine during the Cold War ever stop?

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Mykola Lebed, Ukrainian fascist, sadist and American intelligence officer.
According to Hitler's Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence and the Cold War by Richard Breitman and Norman Goda, U.S. intelligence documents released in 2010 reveal that on May 5, 1952, the Deputy Director of the CIA, Allen Dulles, well-known for running the Nazi Ratlines after World War II, which facilitated the escape of Nazi war criminals, wrote a letter to the U.S. Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization on the subject of Mykola Lebed, the chief of the secret police organization of Stephen Bandera's OUN-B (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists).

In the letter Dulles wrote that Lebed was of:
"inestimable value to this Agency in its operations. In connection with future Agency operations of the first importance, it is urgently necessary that subject be able to travel in Western Europe, before subject undertakes such travel, however, this Agency must be in a position to assure his reentry into the United States without investigation or incident which would attract undue attention to his activities. Your Service has indicated that it cannot give such assurance because of the fact that subject was convicted in 1936 of complicity in the 1934 assassination of the Polish Minister of the Interior and sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment.... Your Service has indicated that, if the subject reenters the United States on a reentry permit, an investigation must then be conducted.... In order to remove the obstacles to the fulfillment of this Agency's projected operations and pursuant to the authority granted under Section 8 of the CIA Act of 1949, I approve and recommend for your approval, the entrance of this subject into the United States for permanent residence under the above Act because such entry is essential to the furtherance of the national intelligence mission and is in the interest of national security."

Comment: There's an online documentary about Ukraine's fascist movement, beginning here. Clearly, the only way they could be sustained and organized down through the decades to the present day - without ever doing an honest day's work by the looks of things - is with American 'democratization' funding.


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Best of the Web: Propaganda psy-op? 'Worldwide Wave of Action': The 'Global Spring' begins

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An opposition supporter wearing a mask associated with Anonymous. The Ukrainian neo-Nazi Wolfrune symbol appears on the top of the mask.
"The Worldwide #WaveOfAction begins April 4th and runs through July 4th..."

Washington's Blog has brought to our attention a series of videos produced by "Wave of Action" and "Anonymous" concerning the launching of a "Worldwide Global Awakening", a so-called "Global Spring."

"What do you think, Powerful or Impotent? Genius or Idiocy? Productive or Counterproductive?" asks Washington's Blog.

The videos use powerful and emotional quotes, yet they fail to acknowledge the dramatic economic, social and geopolitical realities affecting humanity.

"Move out and do it". But in relation to what?

Does the Wave of Action have an Action Program?

Comment: Because anyone can be 'Anonymous', messages, memes and campaigns associated with its 'brand' are not uni-directional in terms of serving the imperial line. Like the Internet as a whole - which was essentially a creation of the U.S. military - Anonymous cannot be completely controlled. For example, 'Anonymous Ukraine' published a message clarifying that a U.S.-backed coup d'état took place in Ukraine, and further claimed responsibility for leaking emails that implicated the German agent Vitaly Klitschko's role in the fascist coup.

As in every other sphere, it comes down to discernment. New Agey, wishy-washy, pithy videos are generally a red flag that your emotional buttons are being pressed to keep you docile and acquiescent.


Bad Guys

FIRE everything and forget the future - elite psychopaths

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Oh, that feeling of being lied to that most of us had all those years - well it's safe to say it's not just a feeling any more.

Think of all the wonderfully dressed financial 'experts' we've seen on our televisions over the last seven years, all so confident, with the pretense and arrogance required to be a mainstream media pundit. At first it seemed funny and amusing - every prediction and statement muttered on air - all wrong, and completely off the mark. We knew they didn't know what they were talking about, and enjoyed a laugh at their expense. Only, now it's not funny anymore. Financial and political sock puppets have since left the port of ignorance, and are now permanently moored at the dock of deception.

Blowtorch the Economy

Known to many but understood by few, the Finance-Insurance-Real Estate economy has taken control in what are schizophrenically called the "advanced industrial/post-industrial" nations, AKA the "mature democracies" - where mega-debt, unemployment, slow-to-zero growth, extortionate energy tariffs and income inequality are the main features. Above all, a deregulation-happy, laisser-faire political mindset rules, and we're told that nothing can be done about the firestorm.

Dollar Gold

Tabloid sez: Obamas fight over her 'seeing the world on the American taxpayers' dime'

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In a major behind-the-scenes blowout, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle waged their worst White House fight ever over her lavish vacation trip to China!

Sources tell The Enquirer that Obama exploded when Michelle refused to cancel her pricey getaway - even after White House advisers warned him that the first couple's six-year string of extravagant vacations had already drained the U.S. Treasury of a whopping $150 million in taxpayers' money.

Instead of postponing her trip, a furious Michelle - still seething over the embarrassing "selfie" Barack recently snapped with a leggy blonde head of state - announced that she was taking her mother along for company.

She further declared that she didn't want reporters covering her activities overseas.

"This was a blowout of epic proportions - probably the nastiest White House fight they've ever had," a Washington, D.C., insider told The Enquirer

Cards

U.S. sanctions against Russia undermine America's global domination

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"Welcome to the digital world, where regions can achieve scale through cooperation within months. Inclusive globalization is clearly under threat", writes Patrick L. Young, an expert in global financial markets, in his article "Upside down: America's war on globalization?" Mr. Young believes that Russia has bright prospects regarding its future digital processing system that can become even more flexible than its American analog.

As a result of financial sanctions imposed by Obama on Russian financial institutions over Crimea, Visa and MasterCard stopped processing transactions for several Russian banks. Patrick L. Young thinks that this decision may hit back at the American economy. Obama has, in fact, undermined the idea of globalization: faced with a financial crackdown, Russia is likely to create its own payment processing system now, the expert says. That means that Visa and MasterCard are going to lose a big share of Russia's inner market.

Mr. Young is confident that Russia's domestic electronic payment system will be a success. The new digital networks are faster, cheaper and more efficient than the American payment legacy system based on analogue architecture, he says. For those who doubt that a Russian solution can be more flexible than the American one, Patrick L. Young cited the example of the Moscow Exchange:

Quenelle - Golden

With record low popularity rating, President Hollande promotes Manuel Valls as Prime Minister of new French government

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François Hollande's new prime minister, Manuel Valls, is a centrist and a bruiser. He will need these qualities if he is to help turn France round

Five years ago, in 2009, after Manuel Valls urged his unreconstructed party to drop the word "socialist" from its name, he was ordered by its leader to shut up or quit. Two years later, after explaining how painful it would be to remedy France's economic weaknesses, he scored less than 6% in the party primary for the 2012 presidential nomination. Yet on March 31st François Hollande, the French president, appointed the party's most heretical activist as his new prime minister, in place of the bland Jean-Marc Ayrault. It was a move as uncharacteristically bold as it is potentially encouraging for the cause of economic reform in France.


Comment: That is, he's the man who will have no compunction about unleashing extreme right-wing neo-liberal "austerity measures" on the French population in order to apply so-called "economic shock therapy".


That the ultra-cautious Mr Hollande has made such an appointment reflects how crushing was his defeat in the local elections held on March 23rd and 30th. Thanks to high unemployment, high taxes, low growth and inept government, the Socialists lost over 150 towns, mostly to the mainstream right, including Toulouse, which they thought safe, Roubaix and Tourcoing, two towns in the industrial north with a long left-wing heritage, and Limoges, held by the left ever since 1912. Marine Le Pen's populist National Front picked up eleven more town halls, including Fréjus and Béziers, to add to Hénin-Beaumont, which it won in the first round, a big step forward for her party. The only consolation for the Socialists was that Anne Hidalgo won Paris (coincidentally, she shares with Mr Valls the distinction of Spanish birth and family origins).

Comment: See also:

Who is Manuel Valls? France's Socialist Sarkozy

French Interior Minister Manuel Valls has a paranoid conspiracy theory: 'Comedian Dieudonne is financed by Iran'


Stock Down

Billionaire warns: Horrific stock market crash is coming, and the next bust will be 'unlike any other'

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© The AustralianGMO chief investment strategist Jeremy Grantham.
Another horrific stock market crash is coming, and the next bust will be "unlike any other" we have seen.

That's the message from Jeremy Grantham, co-founder and chief investment strategist of GMO, a Boston-based firm with $117 billion in assets under management.

Grantham pulls no punches when he discusses who he holds responsible for the coming financial carnage. In a recent interview with The New York Times, he calls Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen "ignorant" and said the Federal Reserve all but killed the economic recovery.

He also says that he isn't putting his clients' money into the market right now.

"We invest our clients' money based on our seven-year prediction. And over the next seven years, we think the market will have negative returns. The next bust will be unlike any other, because the Fed and other central banks around the world have taken on all this leverage that was out there and put it on their balance sheets. We have never had this before."

Chess

Oops! Moscow raises discounted gas tariff for Kiev twice this week, almost doubling it in three days

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Ukraine is in emergency talks with European Union neighbors on the possibility of importing natural gas from the West, following a leap in the price it pays for Russian supplies, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Friday.

The urgency of securing affordable supplies has grown since Moscow - which annexed Crimea from Ukraine last month - raised its discounted gas tariff for Kiev twice this week, almost doubling it in three days.

Yatseniuk told reporters that one possibility was "reverse flows", in which EU countries would send gas back down pipelines normally used in the transit of Russian supplies through Ukraine to the West.

"We are carrying out emergency talks with our European partners. One way to solve the problem is reverse gas from EU countries," he said, adding that the main candidates for imports were Slovakia, Hungary and Poland.

Stop

Leaner and meaner Russian Army on display in Crimea, rattling NATO, raising alarm

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© Pavel Golovkin/APRussian officers gesture to the driver of Russian tank T-72B at the Ostryakovo railway station near Simferopol, Crimea, on Monday.
But while the Russian Army's latest showing was far better than its blundering in Georgia in 2008, Crimea offered advantages that the Kremlin is unlikely to see elsewhere

The last time the Russian military machine was on public display in Europe, its performance did not impress. But this is no longer the force that NATO observed blundering its way through a brief but messy war with its tiny neighbor, Georgia, back in 2008.

A new, leaner and meaner Russian Army has been on display in Crimea and war-gaming on the Ukrainian border over the past month or so. Its vanguard is now made up of just a few elite divisions of highly-motivated, well trained, and fully equipped volunteer soldiers, capable of deploying swiftly anywhere in the former Soviet Union on the Kremlin's command.

And that fact is raising alarms about the potential for wider Kremlin aggression that haven't been heard in the West since the end of the cold war.

Comment: "F**k The EU" - U.S. State department blasts Europe; revealed as alleged mastermind behind Ukraine unrest


Airplane

Federal judge throws out drone strike lawsuit against Obama administration

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© APAnwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen, was killed in an American drone strike in Yemen.
A US federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the government by the families of three American citizens killed by drones in Yemen, saying senior officials cannot be held personally responsible for money damages for the act of conducting war.

The families of the three - including Anwar al-Awlaki, a New Mexico-born militant Muslim cleric who had joined al-Qaida's Yemen affiliate, as well as his teenage son - sued over their 2011 deaths in US drone strikes, arguing that the killings were illegal.