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As U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt admits 'no Russian involvement in Odessa massacre', German government advisor Christoph Hörstel sez: 'CIA agents are all over place'

Jay Johnson
The Voice of Russia
Mon, 05 May 2014 23:01 UTC
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There is no evidence of Russia's involvement in the Friday massacre in Odessa, US Ambassador in Kiev, Geoffrey Pyatt had to admit Sunday as he spoke by telephone on a CNN program. "We don't have evidence of the Russian role in the tragedy that transpired on Friday", Pyatt said, answering the anchor's downright question on whether Moscow was what's been widely dubbed as the bloodiest day in the Ukrainian crisis. The Voice of Russia talked to Christoph Hörstel - Government Consultant and Publicist in Germany.
US Ambassador to Kiev Geoffrey Pyatt has said earlier today there's no evidence of Russia's involvement in the Friday's massacre in Odessa. Do you think it could be a sign the West starts to reevaluate Russia's role in the Ukrainian events?
Unfortunately, not. All the news I get is that the Western position is hardening. They are supporting the illegal government in Kiev with all its actions and there is a double-tongued policy when the Yanukovich government tried to restore order, there was a blast from the West side. And now we have in fact fascist groups being incorporated in a so-called anti-terror mission, which is for my feeling is terror mission against the people's defense forces, for example, in Slavyansk, and Odessa as well. And that means we have a double-standard policy in the West which is so crazy now because it is very aggressive and the aggression is not only against the Ukrainian people. The aggression is directed against Russia. That must be clear.
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Greek Supreme Court allows neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party to participate in European elections


The Raw Story
Sun, 11 May 2014 13:19 UTC
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The once fringe neo-Nazi party's popularity has surged in the wake of Greece's economic crisis
Greece's Supreme Court has allowed neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn to participate in upcoming European parliament elections, a party lawyer said on Sunday.

"We expected this decision. We have faith in Greek justice," lawyer Pavlos Sarakis told AFP.

The authorisation came despite an ongoing criminal probe against the political party, six of whose lawmakers including its leader are in prison awaiting trial.

Nearly all the party's 18 lawmakers are under investigation by Greek justice over serious crimes allegedly committed by the once-fringe party over the past two years, during its rise to prominence.

Comment: Regarding Golden Dawn's cache of past actions, this is a bad idea altogether.

But the plot thickens: Interesting, while the court ruling referred to above came out on Sunday May 11, the next day, Monday May 12, the supreme court received an envelop containing bullets and a threatening letter. From the Greek Reporter:
Shortly after 1pm Monday, an envelope arrived at the prosecutor's office of the Greek Supreme Court, which contained three 7.62 mm bullets - the caliber used in Kalashnikov guns - and a message written in ancient Greek, which stated: "Whoever took part in this scam, whether it is a Minister, judge or prosecutor should correct their statement within 15 days, and release anyone that it in custody. Otherwise, within 20 months, these bullets will come from afar."

The threatening note, hints at the detention of politicians and, in general, opposes the Greek justice system and politicians: "If you don't release all those who have been wrongly imprisoned in this case within the next 15 days, then in the next 20 months, the minister, the prosecutor or the investigator who were involved in the case, will mourn family members irrespective of sex and age. This time will be necessary to identify the targets. Injustice wipes out families."

The letter was signed by "Alepoudelis," which is the real name of the famous Greek poet Odysseus Elytis, who originated from Mytilene, the hometown of the Supreme Court Prosecutor, Efterpi Koutzamani. Police say they do not consider the incident as very serious threat, at least for now, and meanwhile the case has been taken over by the anti-terrorist unit.

Golden Dawn statements in regards to the bullets

In a statement issued shortly after 3pm Golden Dawn, spoke of a case of "funny provocation" which only plans to impress: "Golden Dawn denounces the people who are trying to create confusion and disorient public opinion. We condemn this funny provocation of sending a threatening letter to the Supreme Court. We want everyone to know that you can't stop Golden Dawn's rapid electoral rise in such ways."


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Rubio skeptical of human-caused climate change, gives Hillary Clinton an 'F'

Louise Radnofsky
The Wall Street Journal
Sun, 11 May 2014 13:07 UTC
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Senator Marco Rubio (R., Fla.)
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio told ABC's This Week that he believed he was ready to be president and would take an all-or-nothing approach to running if he does decide to go ahead, while also sounding skeptical notes on climate change and Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state - two likely hot issues in 2016.

Asked by ABC's Jonathan Karl if he thought he was ready, Mr. Rubio said quickly, "I do," before adding some qualifiers.

"I think that's true for multiple other people that would want to run. I mean, I'll be 43 this month, but the other thing that perhaps people don't realize: I've served now in public office for the better part of 14 years. And most importantly, I think a president has to have a clear vision of where the country needs to go and clear ideas about how to get it there. And I think we're very blessed in our party to have a number of people that fit that criteria."
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Good question by Ron Paul: Why is US involved in Ukraine?


RT
Mon, 12 May 2014 11:14 UTC
Ron Paul
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The United States is being hypocritical in its response to the armed clashes between Kiev and pro-Russian groups in eastern Ukraine, former Congressman Ron Paul wrote in a new column.

In the column, published by the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, the former libertarian lawmaker questioned the American role in the conflict unfolding in Ukraine, criticizing the US for blaming recent outbreaks of violence on Russian sympathizers rather than the Ukrainian military.

The column comes just a few days after the Ukrainian military killed about 20 people in Mariupol, where the country's Interior Ministry claimed that pro-Russia militants attempted to seize the local police building. Residents in the area, meanwhile, stated that local police did not want to take orders from Kiev, and that sparked a response by the military that ended up engulfing outsiders who arrived in support of the officers.

Following a statement by the US State Department that pinned the blame on pro-Russia separatists, Paul wrote the American government should not support Ukraine's use of military force against its own people, particularly if they are unarmed.
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US authorizes $1bn of American taxpayers' money to puppet regime Ukraine in loan guarantees


RT
Sat, 10 May 2014 10:35 UTC
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Washington granted Kiev authorities $1 billion in loan guarantees, which came into force on Friday. The loan comes amid Kiev's punitive military operation on eastern Ukraine, so far resulting in dozens killed and injured among the civilian population.

The warranties and conditions of the $1 bn loan guarantees, that the US is giving acting through its Agency for International Development (USAID), are to be issued on Monday, according to the US Federal Register.

The loan guarantees will be in accord with the agreement between the US and Ukraine made on April 14. The loan will apply to sums borrowed from Friday and thirty days after, not exceeding the total of $1 billion in principal amount and is to be repaid by Ukraine with interest.

On May 7 Ukraine received its first emergency rescue money from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The two-year program is to shell out over $17bn in aid to Ukraine's troubled economy. In total the international community has promised the coup-appointed authorities in Kiev $27bn.

The country gripped by riots has over $9 bn in debt, including the Ukraine's gas debt to Russia, which hit $3.5 bn in May. Russian energy minister Aleksandr Novak said in April that Ukraine's growing gas debt may lead to the failure of the country's transit obligations and the reduction of gas supplies to southeastern Europe.
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New Snowden documents to be released online next week

Dana Wollman
engadget
Thu, 08 May 2014 10:15 UTC
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Scroll to the bottom of Glenn Greenwald's blistering response to recent remarks by just-retired NSA chief Keith Alexander, and you'll find some very interesting news indeed. Greenwald, who shared the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Edward Snowden's NSA surveillance revelations, says he plans to publish previously unpublished NSA documents online next Tuesday, May 13th, with free access. The timing, it should be known, is not a coincidence: Greenwald's book, No Place to Hide, comes out that day. In fact, the documents that going online next week are ones he mentions in the book, but which weren't previously reported in the press. So, if you were expecting the entire trove to go public (and even Snowden has advised against that), you might still be disappointed. But if you've been following this Edward Snowden-NSA-Big Brother saga closely and have an appetite for even more revelations, you'll want to mark your calendars (and pre-order Greenwald's book, if we're correctly reading between the lines).
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The Liberation of Homs is the beginning of the end of the aggression against Syria and another Western foreign policy disaster

Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network
Mon, 12 May 2014 08:45 UTC
Entry of Republican Forces in the Old City of Homs.
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Entry of Republican Forces in the Old City of Homs.

The liberation of Homs, the third largest city of the Syrian Arab Republic, is not just an event among others in the war waged by NATO and the GCC on Syria. For Thierry Meyssan, the agreement reached between the Republic and its attackers suggests a quick exit from the war. It will probably be accompanied by a redistribution of regional roles.

Events follow and contradict each other in Syria. While at the beginning of the year, a smiling Washington sponsored the organization of the Geneva 2 Peace Conference, it sabotaged it from behind and yielded to all Saudi requests. The war seemed to be destined to last as long as the states of NATO and the GCC would finance it. Yet secretly, for two months, peace negotiations moved forward on the initiative of Iran. They bore their first fruit with the liberation of Homs which could mark the beginning of the end of the war of aggression.

To understand, one must remember the official discourse and replace the signs in the chronology of the negotiations that were taking place at the time. This is also an opportunity for me to correct previous statements that could not have been complete because of the secrecy of the talks.

Comment: See also:

Iran: Assad has won in Syria, and now the jihadists are returning home to Europe...

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Iran: Assad has won in Syria, and now the jihadists are returning home to Europe...

Simon Tisdall
The Guardian
Mon, 12 May 2014 08:15 UTC
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Homs, 'Shock and Awed', liberal-style
Iran and its close ally President Bashar al-Assad have won the war in Syria, and the US-orchestrated campaign in support of the opposition's attempt to topple the Syrian regime has failed, senior Iranian officials have told the Guardian.

In a series of interviews in Tehran, top figures who shape Iranian foreign policy said the west's strategy in Syria had merely encouraged radicals, caused chaos and ultimately backfired, with government forces now on the front foot.

"We have won in Syria," said Alaeddin Borujerdi, chairman of the Iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy committee and an influential government insider. "The regime will stay. The Americans have lost it."

Terrorism perpetrated by al-Qaida-linked jihadist groups and individuals armed and funded by Sunni Muslim Arab countries was now the main threat facing the Syrian people, Borujerdi said. Many foreign fighters who had travelled to Syria from Britain and other European countries could soon return. "We are worried about the future security of Europe," he said.

Comment: 150,000 dead, 9 million displaced, infrastructure ruined, ancient archaeology destroyed...

Mission accomplished?

Nope, another epic fail on America and Israel's part.

And now the chickens are coming home to roost.

The empire's going to reap just what it sowed...

Belgian government: Up to 5,000 European teenagers have been groomed to fight West's phony 'civil war' in Syria

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Ukraine, Russia and 'Westernia'

Alexander Dugin
Openrevolt.info
Sun, 23 Mar 2014 07:36 UTC
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Western Ukrainians, not right in the head
There are Ukrainians and Western Ukrainians. These are two different social, national, ethnic, and cultural groups. Ukrainians are a West Russian ethnos which recognizes its historic unity with Eastern Slavs and Velikorossy (a historic term meaning "Great Russes," often translated as "Greater Russians") as the core of the Eastern Slavs and the creators of an autonomous and powerful Eastern Slavic Orthodox State. Thus, Ukrainians are not simply "our people," they are a part of us and, ultimately, they are we ourselves. They are not different, they are the same.

Western Ukrainians are a sub-ethnos, which historically separated itself from the Western Russian population, formed in Volhynia and Galicia, having experienced significant Polonization and the influence of Catholicism (in the form of the Uniate - Eastern Catholic - Church). Western Ukrainians consider themselves an autonomous group, opposing themselves to other Eastern Slavs (first and foremost, these are Velikorossy, "moskali" (a derogatory term that means "Russians")), Orthodox peoples, but also Poles and Austrians. Therefore, they have never had (and will never have) statehood, since it is impossible to build a State on the basis of hatred toward all surrounding peoples.
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£4.7 billion corporation tax lost through evasion and avoidance as UK Royal Mail sold for £650 million less than true worth


UK Independent
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 07:33 UTC
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The Government is losing more than £1 in every £10 it tries to collect from companies to tax evasion and avoidance, official figures have revealed. A report from HM Revenue and Customs shows that the "tax gap" for businesses operating in Britain is around 13 per cent of total liabilities and costs the public purse £4.7bn a year.

The real loss is likely to be significantly higher, as HMRC does not count controversial "profit shifting" schemes - run by companies such as Google, Amazon and Starbucks - as tax avoidance. One expert tonight estimated the true figure could be as much as £12bn a year. The figures were published as ministers were accused of handing private investors a £700m "taxpayer subsidy" in the form of Royal Mail. Shares in the newly privatised company, which started trading today, closed 38 per cent higher than the Government's offer price of 330p, valuing the firm at £3.3bn.

Margaret Hodge, chairman of Parliament's powerful Public Accounts Committee, said she would be recalling the head of HMRC to give evidence about its failure to collect the tax it was due, describing the situation as "ridiculous". "I don't think they are assertive or aggressive enough," she said.

"I am really disappointed that, despite all the public concern expressed by hardworking people who do pay their taxes, there has not been greater success. What is so ridiculous is that these figures don't even include the tax avoidance that companies that Google and Amazon are responsible for, because HMRC don't even accept that it is money that they owe.
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