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Ukrainian situation seen from the inside, an interview with Tetiana Montyan

Tatzhit Mihailovic
Fort Russ News
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 07:53 UTC
Ukraine sold
© Latuff Opera Mundi
Tetiana Montyan has been studying Ukrainian government institutions for a long time, and as such her insights are quite valuable.

I've covered her background when translating her interviews previously (links below); in short, she's a Ukrainian nationalist, but not in the same vein as the brainwashed Soros/State Department pawns currently running Ukraine. She actually wants Ukraine to succeed, and as such, her interviews basically consist of condemnation for the current Ukrainian regime, their Western backers, a few curses towards Yanukovich's gang for not resisting enough, etc.

Well worth the time.

Comment: At one moment she says she is surprised at how lame the response from the EU has been in relation to the US, how dependent they are. She comments on the difference between the 1 billion US Dollars recently allotted by the IMF and the 30+ billions of help sent to Israel that has 7 million people compared to the 40 million of the Ukraine. People and countries certainly are not equal.

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US troops use white phosphorus munitions in Iraq to 'obscure' Kurdish forces offensive


RT
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 12:37 UTC
white phosphorus munitions
© Reuters
The US forces are reportedly using white phosphorus munitions against Islamist militants in Iraq, despite widespread perception of the weapon as indiscriminate and able to cause horrific injuries to civilians.

Images posted on a Pentagon-run public affairs website Dvids show a US Army artillery unit firing white phosphorus munitions in Iraq, identified by the Washington Post as M825A1 155mm shells.

The M825A1 shells are generally used to create a smokescreen lasting for up to 10 minutes, or make signals and markings for friendly troops. But when used indiscriminately in civilian-populated areas, white phosphorus munitions can cause severe burns.

"Coalition forces use these rounds with caution and always in accordance with the Law of Armed Conflict," Colonel Joseph Scrocca, public affairs director for the US-led coalition, told the newspaper in an emailed statement on Wednesday.

"When M825A1 rounds are employed, they are done so in areas free of civilians and never against enemy forces," he said, adding that the shells are being used for "screening and signaling" only.
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Snakes in Suits

GOP lawmaker Chaffetz complains Clinton staffers handed immunity deals 'like candy' by FBI


RT
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 12:23 UTC
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
© Carlos Barria / Reuters
Hillary Clinton's former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, and two other staff members, were granted partial immunity deals in exchange for their cooperation with the FBI, according to a Republican congressman.

"No wonder they couldn't prosecute a case. They were handing out immunity deals like candy," House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) told Associated Press on Friday.

The now-closed FBI investigation was over Clinton's use of a private email server when she was secretary of state.

Chaffetz, who has been looking into Clinton's email practices, and who requested the immunity agreements from the Justice Department, said they showed Mills had given federal investigators access to her laptop on the condition that whatever they found couldn't be used against her.
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Harsh consequences from IMF loans set in for the people of Ukraine


Sputnik
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 08:45 UTC
Kiev
© Flickr/ Alexxx Maley
Starting in 2017, Ukraine will have the lowest official salaries in Europe, according to calculations by lawmaker Oleksander Vilkul. Meanwhile, Ukrainian politicians and economists have begun investigating the conditions attached to the IMF's recent $1 billion loan tranche, and are discovering that more austerity reforms are the order of the day.

Taking to the podium in Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, Vilkul complained that for ordinary Ukrainians, "life is getting worse and worse. A good example of this is the genocidal budget for 2017: The minimum wage of $60 [1,550 hryvnia] is the lowest in Europe. In 2013 it was three times higher."

The lawmaker also noted that the government plans to further reduce social benefits, while further hiking utilities prices, all under the guise of Ukraine's obligations to the International Monetary Fund. "We are for international cooperation, but this should not entail consequences such as an increase in the retirement age, and the growth of utilities rates and [consumer] prices. Our men live an average of 65 years. Do you want to make it so that they die immediately after retirement?" Vilkul asked.

Last week, the IMF agreed to provide Ukraine with a $1 billion loan tranche, increasing the country's total external debt to $68 billion (71% of its GDP). However, many Ukrainian economists and lawmakers are more concerned about the conditions of the latest loan. On Tuesday, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko accused Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman of signing the IMF memorandum without reading it. The memorandum, she said, was written only in English, which Groysman does not know.

Comment: Delusions can hold only for so long. Sooner or later reality sets in and unfortunately this cost is usually payed by the people. Ukrainians were sold on a lie that Western alignment would solve many of their problems. Had they taken a sincere look at modern history they would know that deeper ties with the United States means they are to be reduced to a slave state that cripples the development of their country while lining the pockets of the international elite. Of course many were speaking of this very type of thing happening when the illegal coup first occurred, but it seems that we as human beings are intent on experiencing our lessons the hard way.

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Druzhba 2016: First ever military drills between Russian and Pakistani forces kick off in Cherat, Pakistan


Sputnik
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 10:36 UTC
Soldiers of special forces of Pakistan army training
© AP Photo/ B.K.Bangash
The Pakistani Army and the Russian Ground Forces have come together in military exercises for the first time, with around 70 personnel from Russia's Southern Military District (SMD) mechanized infantry brigade, stationed in the Karachaevo - Cherkessian Republic, and a total of 200 troops in total taking part on both sides. The drills will take place at the Army High Altitude School in northern Pakistan's Rattu and at a special forces training center in Cherat.

"Personnel from the Southern Military District mechanized infantry brigade have arrived at a field camp base in the Cherat range to take part in the first large-scale Russian-Pakistani Druzhba-2016 exercise...The exercise will take place between September 24 and October 10, 2016, at the Cherat training range," the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

Russian troops arrived on board an Il-76 military transport aircraft, fully equipped with mountain gear and ammunition.

Comment: See also: Russian troops arrive in Pakistan for first ever joint military drill

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Retired Russian General: Expect the worst in US' war against Russia

Leonid Reshetnikov & Andrey Afanasyev
Russia Insider
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 06:08 UTC
Leonid Reshetnikov
Leonid Reshetnikov

The author is Director of an influential think tank, the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS), and a retired lieutenant general of Russia's foreign intelligence service

Andrey Afanasyev: Some experts say that the incident in Syria was not just an effort to provoke Russia, but to involve it in a global conflict. Are today's American or their elites in favor of this?

Leonid Reshetnikov: We need to take into account that Americans like using well-tested methods. This was the scheme they used in Syria, where they just signed a truce; Russia is busy with elections, no one expects an attack, so they think they'll probably get away with it: "We'll see how Russia responds". They did the same thing in Georgia on August 8, 2008, thinking it would go unnoticed because of the Olympics, and Russia would not dare respond...

Comment: Further reading:
Even disregarding the infighting and departmental rivalries, there is a power structure in the U.S. which goes beyond any individual group, whether the Pentagon, CIA, FBI, State Department, etc. Peter Dale Scott, among others, calls it the 'deep state' - a network of individuals in the public and private spheres who wield a disproportionate amount of influence on policy. This is the "CIA within the CIA", and the interconnections with Wall Street, private intelligence firms, Big Oil, big banks, arms manufacturers, and so on.

SOTT News Snapshot: Syria ceasefire failure is entirely the U.S.'s fault


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Russia confirms US drone present in 'zone of attack' on UN convoy


TASS
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 06:14 UTC
predator drone
© US Airforce
Facts available to the Russian Defense Ministry prove unambiguously a US Predator drone from Turkey's Incirlik airbase was present in the zone of attack on the UN humanitarian convoy in Syria, Gen Igor Konashenkov said on Thursday.

He said it in a comment on the claim by the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen Joseph Dunford who told members of a Senate committee the US military did not have proof to support the suppositions that the convoy had been bombed by Russian warplanes.

"This hasn't been concluded but my judgment would be they did it," Gen Dunford said.

Comment: Further reading: US blames Russia and Syria for UN-Red Crescent aid convoy attacked near Aleppo, will 'revise' cooperation with Russia

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Employee callers to Wells Fargo ethics line intimidated and fired

Matt Egan
CNNMoney
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 03:14 UTC
wells fargo bank scandal
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Millions of phony accounts. Fake bank card PIN numbers. Fictitious email accounts.

Wells Fargo admitted to firing 5,300 employees for engaging in these shocking tactics. The bank earlier this month paid $185 million in penalties and has since apologized.

Now CNNMoney is hearing from former Wells Fargo (WFC) workers around the country who tried to put a stop to these illegal tactics. Almost half a dozen workers who spoke with us say they paid dearly for trying to do the right thing: they were fired.

"They ruined my life," Bill Bado, a former Wells Fargo banker in Pennsylvania, told CNNMoney.

Bado not only refused orders to open phony bank and credit accounts. The New Jersey man called an ethics hotline and sent an email to human resources in September 2013, flagging unethical sales activities he was being instructed to do.

Eight days after that email, a copy of which CNNMoney obtained, Bado was terminated. The stated reason? Tardiness.
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Pirates

Crimes against nature & humanity: Monsanto merges with Bayer - shady historical origins

Dr. Vandana Shiva
Global Research
Sun, 18 Sep 2016 20:43 UTC
India is steeped in synthesized controversy, created by Monsanto on the first GM crop supposedly-approved for commercialisation in India. Engaged in litigation on many fronts, Monsanto is trying to subvert our Patent Law, our Plant Variety and Farmers Rights Act, our Essential Commodities Act, our Anti Monopoly Act (Competition Act). It is behaving as if there is no Parliament, no Democracy, no Sovereign Laws in India to which it is subject. Or, it simply does not have any regard for them.

In another theatre, Monsanto and Bayer are merging. They were one as MOBAY (MonsantoBayer), part of the Poison Cartel of IG Farben. Controlling stakes of both corporations lies with the same private equity firms.

The expertise of these companies are those of war. IG Farben - Hitler's economic power and pre-war Germany's highest foreign exchange earner - was also a foreign intelligence operation. Herman Shmitz was President of IG Farben, Shmitz's nephew Max Ilgner was a Director of IG Farben, while Max's brother Rudolph Ilgner handled the New York arm of the 'VOWI' network as vice president of CHEMNYCO.
IG Farben
© National Archives, Washington, DCI.G. Farben board member Fritz ter Meer (fifth from right) explains to Adolf Hitler the significance of synthetic rubber, Berlin, 1936,
Paul Warburg - brother of Max Warburg (Board of Directors, Farben Aufsichsrat) - was one of the founding members of the Federal Reserve System in the United States. He was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Max Warburg and Hermann Schmitz played a central role in the Farben empire. Other "guiding hands" of Farben Vorstand included Carl Bosch, Fritz ter Meer, Kurt Oppenheim and George von Schnitzler. Every one of them were adjudged 'War Criminals' after World War II, except Paul Warburg.
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Almaz Antey hands over radar data on MH17 inquiry, other countries should follow suit


RT
Thu, 22 Sep 2016 22:03 UTC
mh17 plane
Russian arms producer Almaz-Antey announced it has handed over radar data on the MH17 crash inquiry. Moscow urged its international partners to share their relevant information as well.

Russia corporate group Almaz Antey, which is also a producer of the BUK missile system, announced it had handed over the relevant radar data on the MH17 crash to Russian law enforcement agencies.

In its official statement, the company said the data in question is "the so-called initial radar images of the airspace in raw form." That includes the registration of movements in the airspace over Eastern Ukraine on the day when the Malaysian Boeing went down in the area.

On Thursday, the official representative of the Russian Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, announced that Russia will pass this fresh batch of information on the MH17 crash to the Dutch-led international investigators.

Comment: For further reading see:

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