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Malorossiya: Information war ploy or real revolution?

Eduard Popov - translated by Jafe Arnold
Fort Russ News
Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:13 UTC
Alexander Zakharchenko
On July 18th in Donetsk, the leader of the Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, proclaimed the founding of a new state, Malorossiya ("Little Russia"), in the place of Ukraine which was declared to have finally "demonstrated its bankruptcy." According to Zakharchenko, the establishment of a new, independent state in the likes of Malorossiya could help stop the conflict in Donbass.

As the DPR's Minister of Revenues and Duties, Alexander Timofeev, has stated, the proclaimed Malorossiya will be a federal state featuring broad autonomy, its capital in Donetsk, and the flag of Bogdan Khmelnitsky as its state flag. According to Timofeev, a constitution will be adopted at a popular referendum. The minister also emphasized that the creation of Malorossiya does not contradict the Minsk Agreements.

The Constitutional Act on the Establishment of Malorossiya declares that the established state will maintain a non-aligned status but will continue to pursue accession to the Union State of Russia and Belorussia. The document also enumerates the social policy of the new state in considerable detail, emphasizing struggling against oligarchy, developing people's control in the economy, establishing state concerns, etc. The founding document also declares that elements of direct democracy will be introduced alongside criminal liability for propagandizing the ideas of Ukrainian Nazism and its collaborators (OUN-UPA, etc.).
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How dare he! German FM concludes EU needs new 'detente policy' for Russia, current sanctions-based approach 'unrealistic'


RT
Tue, 18 Jul 2017 20:27 UTC
Sigmar Gabriel
© Ismail Zitouny / Reuters
The EU policy towards Moscow, presently based on strict sanctions, is "unrealistic," the German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has said, adding, that he "ardently supports" the idea of a new "de-escalation policy" in relations between Europe and Russia.

"Why cannot we dare to lay a new foundation to the disarmament and arms control [policy] instead of rushing into a giant arms race?" Gabriel rhetorically asked, referring to the western countries' relationship with Russia, in an interview with the German Focus magazine.

"Even though it goes against many things nowadays," he "ardently supports the idea of the new eastern and détente policy" towards Russia, as advocated by then West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and aimed at normalizing relations with the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe, particularly East Germany, in the late '60s and early '70s during the Cold War era.

Gabriel also said the current European stance towards Russia envisages that anti-Russian sanctions could be lifted only after the Minsk agreement is fully implemented. This is an "unrealistic" approach, the German foreign minister underlined.
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Info

Duterte to sign off on long-delayed Muslim self-rule for Mindanao in counter-extremism drive


RT
Tue, 18 Jul 2017 18:19 UTC
Rodrigo Duterte
© Romeo Ranoco / Reuters
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to push through long-delayed legislation giving autonomy to predominantly-Muslim parts of the embattled southern island of Mindanao.

It's hoped the move will stem the rise of extremism in a region which has seen 500 people killed and thousands more displaced during the most recent conflict between Philippines forces and militants linked to the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in the island's capital city of Marawi.

"This moment is a significant step forward in our quest to end centuries of hatred, mistrust and injustice that cost and affected the lives of millions of Filipinos," Duterte said in a speech Monday, as cited by Reuters.
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Snakes in Suits

The improper association of Victor Pinchuk with Hillary, Bill and Chelsea Clinton covered up by the US media, Department of Justice and the IMF

John Helmer
Dances With Bears
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 18:34 UTC
Hillary Clinton in sheeps clothes cartoon
Never in the field of American conflict with Russia has so much wool pulled over the eyes been owed to so few sheep. That was during the losing presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. Now, in the investigations of President Donald Trump and his family, it's a case of so many sheep producing so little wool.

The case of the $13 million paid to the Clinton family by the Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk, in exchange for personal favors and escalation of the war against Russia, was reported in detail throughout 2014. Click to read the opener, and more.

Early this month there has been fresh investigation of Pinchuk's money links with the Clintons, owing to the start of Ukrainian government inquiries into the theft of billions of dollars of International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans to Ukraine - money then transferred to Ukrainian commercial banks including Pinchuk's Credit Dnepr bank, and then loaned to offshore entities controlled by Pinchuk but apparently not repaid. Theft of the IMF money was first reported here in connection with Igor Kolomoisky's operation of Privat Bank.
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IMF: Greek debt will be unsustainable after 2030 and credit system will need additional funding of 10 billion euros

EIRINI CHRYSOLORA
ekathermini.com
Sun, 16 Jul 2017 20:07 UTC
imf emblem
The International Monetary Fund has again found that Greece's debt is unsustainable under every scenario, according to the report the Executive Council will be discussing on Thursday to decide on the Fund's participation in the Greek program, sources say.

The word from Washington is that the Fund's technocrats have included various scenarios in their debt sustainability analysis (DSA), including one that incorporates the eurozone's commitments for short-term measures and a high primary surplus, but none see Greece's debt becoming sustainable.

Washington sources suggest that the Executive Council will tell the eurozone that unless creditors offer more debt-relief measures, the IMF will not be able to participate in the Greek program with funds.
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Five reasons the Malorossiya declaration is a modest proposal that the EU, Russia and US should support

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:37 UTC
Alexander Zakharchenko
Alexander Zakharchenko
Today's Malorossiya declaration gives most international parties who are observing the conflict in Donbass, most of what they have wanted for years. On inspection, the proposals are the opposite of radical, they are entirely reasonable. They do not require the Russian Federation to absorb new territory and it would restore human rights in Ukraine/Malorossiya to pre-2014 levels or better.

Predictable condemnation of the declaration of the state of Malorossiya has come from EU states, the Kiev regime and even Russian officials. But on closer inspection, Malorossiya could be a win-win situation for Europe, Russia, the United States and for the people of Malorossiya.

Here's why.

1. Malorossiya to remain sovereign from the Russian Federation

For those who have been following measures that many politicians in Donbass and The Russian Federation have taken to integrate the bureaucratic, financial and logistical ties between Donbass and Russia, today's announcement does not call for Malorossiya to become part of the Russian Federation.

Comment: See also: Leaders of Donetsk declare new state of Malorossiya

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USA

'We the people' are the enemy in the eyes of the American police state

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 18:32 UTC
"Monsters in movies are us, always us, one way or the other. They're us with hats on. The zombies in George Romero's movies are us. They're hungry. Monsters are us, the dangerous parts of us. The part that wants to destroy. The part of us with the reptile brain. The part of us that's vicious and cruel. We express these in our stories as the monsters out there. The zombies are back. They are hungry. And they are lurking around every corner."—Filmmaker John Carpenter
Zombies
© A Government of Wolves
RIP George Romero (1940-2017).

Romero—a filmmaker hailed as the architect of the zombie genre—is dead at the age of 77, but the zombified police state culture he railed against lives on.

Just take a look around you.

"We the people" have become the walking dead of the American police state.

We're still plagued by the socio-political evils of cultural apathy, materialism, domestic militarism and racism that Romero depicted in his Night of the Living Dead trilogy.

Romero's zombies have taken on a life of their own in pop culture, as well.

Indeed, you don't have to look very far anymore to find them lurking around every corner: wreaking havoc in movie blockbusters, running for their lives in 5K charity races, and putting government agents through their paces in mock military drills arranged by the Dept. of Defense (DOD) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC).

In fact, the CDC put together a zombie apocalypse preparation kit "that details everything you would need to have on hand in the event the living dead showed up at your front door."

Zombies also embody the government's paranoia about the citizenry as potential threats that need to be monitored, tracked, surveilled, sequestered, deterred, vanquished and rendered impotent.
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Ex-Met chief warns Tory austerity leaving police officers struggling to collect terrorist intelligence


RT
Tue, 18 Jul 2017 18:10 UTC
British Police
© Neil Hall / Reuters
Britain's counterterrorist strategy may be at risk as the police force is stretched to near "breaking point," leading officers struggling to collect intelligence on terrorism, the former head of the Metropolitan Police has said.

Paul Condon, who headed the Met between 1993 and 2000, is the latest senior official to hit out at the government's slashing of the police force, which has seen tens of thousands of officers cut in the past seven years.

Prime Minister Theresa May ordered a reduction of 20,000 offices back when she was home secretary in 2010.
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Snakes in Suits

Plan C: Senate GOP turns to Obamacare repeal only as revised healthcare bill draft falls apart again


RT
Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:42 UTC
Healthcare activists
© Yuri Gripas / ReutersHealthcare activists get a police warning during a protest to stop the Republican health care bill at Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 17, 2017.
With the Republicans' flagship legislative goal of repeal-and-replace in tatters, they offered competing ideas for what to do next about the Affordable Care Act (ACA, better known as Obamacare).

"We will now try another way to bring the American people relief from Obamacare," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) said on the Senate floor on Tuesday. "In the coming days the Senate will take up and vote on a repeal of Obamacare combined with a stable two-year transition period as we work towards patient-centered healthcare."

The repeal-only bill was voted on previously in 2015, but vetoed by then-President Barack Obama.

At the time, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the repeal would lead to 18 million people losing their health insurance in the first year following enactment of the bill, with premiums increasing 20 to 25 percent.
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Network

US court upholds 'gag' rules on FBI surveillance of social media users


RT
Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:34 UTC
Computer users
© Nicolas Armer / Global Look Press
Privacy advocates suffered a stinging defeat by a federal appeals court which ruled in favor of the FBI's nondisclosure surveillance requests enforced on social media and tech companies.

A three-judge panel of the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reached a unanimous decision and ruled against privacy advocates while agreeing with a lower court ruling that the FBI, using gag orders, may issue secret national security letters requesting customer data.

Credo Mobile, a phone network operator, and CloudFare, a content distributor, had sued for the right to notify their customers of five national security letters (NSL's) sent between 2011 and 2013.

The ruling stated that this does not violate free speech protections in the First Amendment of the Constitution.
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