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Georgia summons ex-president and U.S. puppet Saakashvili for questioning in criminal investigations


RT
Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:54 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Vasily MaximovFormer Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili
The Prosecutor General's Office of Georgia intends to question former president Mikhail Saakashvili as a witness in a number of criminal cases. After resigning Saakashvili left Georgia last November and currently lives and lectures in the US.

Saakashvili has been summoned to come to the prosecutor's office in Tbilisi next Thursday, on March 27, at 10 AM local time (6 AM GMT).

"As investigations of a number of criminal cases have entered a terminal stage, the prosecutor's office is facing the necessity to question Mikhail Saakashvili as a witness in these cases," a statement from the prosecutor's office said on Saturday. No comments from Saakashvili's representative have been available so far.

The prosecutor is waiting for Saakashvili, who is currently lecturing at Boston's Tufts University, to answer questions regarding as many as 10 instituted criminal proceedings.
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Pistol

Time to grab guns and kill damn Russians - Tymoshenko in leaked tape


RT
Mon, 24 Mar 2014 16:42 UTC
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© Reuters/Cathal McNaughtonYulia Tymoshenko
Ukrainians must take up arms against Russians so that not even scorched earth will be left where Russia stands; an example of former Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko's vitriol in phone call leaked online.
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Vader

Western neo-colonialism: Bomb strikes Libyan capital's international airport


RT
Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:51 UTC
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© Reuters / Ismail ZitounyPassengers look at a flight information monitor after the reopening of the airport in Tripoli March 21, 2014.
A bomb exploded in the major airport of Libya's capital, Tripoli, sparking further concerns about the widespread violence that has plunged the crisis-torn country into chaos.

Unidentified people managed to get onto the runway at Tripoli International Airport, plant an explosive device at dawn and detonate it using a timer, said Transport Minister Abdelqader Mohammed Ahmed.

"When security and the airport protection force arrived they found a timer," he said, adding that the explosion was "small."

The authorities immediately closed the airport, which is considered to be one of the best-guarded places in the country. Flights, both local and international, were immediately canceled.
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War Whore

Western neo-colonialism: Double bombing hits Iraq after Friday wave of attacks claimed 50 lives


RT
Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:47 UTC
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© AFP Photo / StrIraqis gather around smoke rising from a building following a double car bomb explosion southeast of Baghdad on March 18, 2014.
At least seven people have been killed in a double bombing in Iraq on Saturday, after the bloodshed on the previous day took the lives of at least 50 people in a string of attacks, making it one of the deadliest since the beginning of the year.

At least five policemen and two civilians have been killed and 18 people injured in a double bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit. A roadside bomb exploded in a commercial street, while a few minutes later a car bomb struck policemen who arrived to inspect the first blast.

The attacks come after the deadly Friday events, in which the crisis-torn country was hit by multiple terror attacks.

In the first suicide attack on Friday, an unidentified gunman rammed an explosives-laden tanker into police HQ in the village of Injana, in Diyala province in north-eastern Iraq, 120 km north of Baghdad. According to Al Jazeera, twelve people were killed - including the battalion commander, Brigadier Ragheb al-Omari and his assistant, and dozens were injured.
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People 2

Russia prepares first bill targeting sexual harassment - punishable by fines and deportation


RT
Fri, 07 Mar 2014 10:11 UTC
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© RIA Novosti/Dmitry Korobeinikov"Hands off!" Russian anti-harassment poster
Lawmakers are ready to list sexual harassment as an offence punishable by fines for Russian citizens and deportation for foreigners.

The bill has been prepared by MP Oleg Nilov representing the center-left party Fair Russia. The lawmaker told the Izvestia daily that his main objective was to relieve women of psychological stress caused by sexual harassment on the part of bosses and strangers.

"Even a single verbal insult must carry a punishment. But of course the fact must be proven - the victim must file a report with the police and have witnesses to confirm the claims - in this case the punishment will be inevitable. The bill will make women's life easier," Nilov told the newspaper.

In its current form the draft bill allows sexual harassment and unwanted flirting in open and a concealed form to be punished by fines of between 30,000 and 50,000 roubles ($830 - $1400). Repeat offenses carry fines of between 80,000 and 100,000 roubles ($2,200 - $2,800). Foreigners found guilty of harassment will have to pay the same fines as Russians but also face deportation from the country.
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Chess

Russian lawmakers passed motion to impose sanctions on all Russian MPs


RT
Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:15 UTC
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The State Duma has passed a motion suggesting that the US and EU extend the freshly introduced sanctions to all Russian MPs rather than a limited group of officials, defying western pressure just hours before Russia and Crimea signed a federation treaty.

The motion was supported by a unanimous vote on Tuesday morning. It was prepared the day before by all four parliamentary parties after representatives of the United States and the European Union said they were slapping sanctions, such as visa bans and asset freezes, on a number of Russian officials who are seen as "key ideologists and architects" of the policy towards Ukraine.

The State Duma motion reads that the US President's decree was limiting the rights of Russian citizens and that similar discriminatory measures were approved by foreign ministers of the EU nations.

In a speech MP Mikhail Markelov (Fair Russia) called the move by the US State Department, President Obama and the European Union "an absurd attempt", and suggested that the US punished all lower house members. "As long as they stress that MP Lyudmila Mizulina is on the blacklist, they should also impose sanctions on all 436 MPs who voted for the law that protects our children from gay propaganda," Markelov noted.
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Wreath

Crimea: Putin's Triumph

Israel Shamir
Global Research
Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:00 UTC
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Nobody expected events to move on with such a breath-taking speed. The Russians took their time; they sat on the fence and watched while the Brown storm-troopers conquered Kiev, and they watched while Mrs Victoria Nuland of the State Department and her pal Yatsenyuk ("Yats") slapped each other's backs and congratulated themselves on their quick victory.

They watched when President Yanukovych escaped to Russia to save his skin. They watched when the Brown bands moved eastwards to threaten the Russian-speaking South East. They patiently listened while Mme Timoshenko, fresh out of jail, swore to void treaties with Russia and to expel the Russian Black Sea Fleet from its main harbour in Sevastopol.

They paid no heed when the new government appointed oligarchs to rule Eastern provinces. Nor did they react when children in Ukrainian schools were ordered to sing "Hang a Russian on a thick branch" and the oligarch-governor's deputy promised to hang dissatisfied Russians of the East as soon as Crimea is pacified. While these fateful events unravelled, Putin kept silence.
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Red Flag

Ukrainian activists blocked Ukrainian military from reaching Russian border


RT
Tue, 18 Mar 2014 10:19 UTC
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© Reuters / Valentyn OgirenkoTanks drive during a military drill conducted by Ukrainian servicemen near the city of Mykolaiv, also known as Nikolayev, in southern Ukraine, northwest of the Crimean peninsula March 14, 2014.
Dozens of volunteers from the Donbas Region in eastern Ukraine have been setting up checkpoints to prevent Ukrainian military personnel from reaching the Russian border, one of the organizers of the movement told RT.

The unarmed activists are being coordinated by a local group called People's Militia of Donbas and there are currently over 20 posts that have been set up on various roads in the region, the group's Deputy Director Sergey Tsyplakov told RT.

The purpose of the posts is to prevent the Ukrainian military equipment from reaching the eastern border with Russia, averting further escalation of the conflict.

"There are 10 to 30 people at each post and they continuously switch with one another," Tsyplakov said.

The majority of the checkpoints have been set up alongside the police posts and "the road police is helping out." But, in more isolated spots there are more volunteers taking initiative. "People are helping around with tents and firewood," Tsyplakov added.
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Wall Street

The Wall Street Guide to feeding on other people's money

Pam Martens
Wall Street on Parade
Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:36 UTC
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© Business Insider
In case you haven't figured it out yet, there is a right way and a wrong way to help yourself to other people's money on Wall Street. The right way propels you into the one percent replete with mansions and yachts, your name memorialized on buildings, a golden parachute, an office and car for life fronted by defrauded shareholders and regular invitations to appear on CNBC and lecture others on how to structure the financial system.

Then there's the wrong way - as Gary Foster found out the hard way in June 2012 when he was sentenced to eight years in the slammer for embezzling more than $22 million from Citigroup and compounding his lack of etiquette in the most unforgiveable fashion - he wired the funds to Citigroup's arch rival, JPMorgan Chase.

Foster broke multiple etiquette rules for stealing money on Wall Street. First, his crime was too simple. He made it just too easy for prosecutors to explain to a jury how he wired funds from various corporate accounts at Citigroup, using fake contract numbers, to his personal accounts at JPMorgan. A man lacking so little criminal creativity is eschewed on Wall Street; he clearly has no future there so he might as well go to jail.

Foster broke another etiquette rule when he had the audacity to buy a luxury home in Tenafly, New Jersey rather than Greenwich, Connecticut. You're just not going to build an adequate Rolodex of connections to get you out of jail in Tenafly.
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Pirates

Western supported banditry: Half of KAMAZ trucks seized by Right Sector militants lost


ITAR-TASS
Mon, 24 Mar 2014 09:05 UTC
Rights Sector steal trucks in Ukraine
© UnknownUkrainian National Guard to replenish truck fleet with confiscated Russian vehicles
Twenty-two of 43 KAMAZ trucks seized by Right Sector militants were lost in Ukraine's Chernihiv. The producer tried to ship the trucks to Kazakhstan. The lost vehicles were guarded by supporters of Ukrainian ultra-radical nationalist organization, said Oleg Afanasyev, spokesperson for KAMAZ OJSC on Monday.

Ukrainian National Guard to replenish truck fleet with confiscated Russian vehicles "After we filed a complaint against people impeding the trucks to be taken out the country, Ukrainian law enforcement agencies have filed a criminal case under article 'Arbitrary behavior'," the spokesperson said.

He added that on the recent weekend (March 22-23), the shipment of seized trucks was divided into two parts: 21 vehicles were left on a parking guarded by the police, and the rest was transferred for keeping to supporters of the Right Sector. After that, the trucks were lost. Representatives of the carmaker said the vehicles could be taken away from the city.
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