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Yatsenyuk threatens moratorium on $3bn debt to Russia - Ukraine bluffing?


RT
Tue, 27 Oct 2015 23:51 UTC
Yatsenyuk
© Pavel Palamarchuk / RIA Novosti Victoria "F*ck the EU" Nuland's boy 'Yats', wants to welsh on Ukraine's debt to Russia
Kiev will suspend payments on Russian debt if Moscow does not agree to restructure the loan due in December, said Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk in an interview with Handesblatt. The Kremlin has repeatedly said it's not interested.

If Moscow doesn't make concessions by October 29, Ukraine will refuse to pay the loan, said Yatsenyuk.

"This $3 billion was in reality a bribe from Russia, so that President Viktor Yanukovich would stop the Association Agreement with the EU," he added.

Ukraine has repeatedly said that its debt to Russia is private. The current IMF policy only allows member states to miss payments to private investors. Kremlin insists that Kiev's debt is a state one and is ready to go to court if Ukraine fails to pay in December.

The question of Russian debt is crucial to Ukraine, because the country's possible default would put into jeopardy a $17.5 billion loan promised by the IMF.

Comment: Ukraine can't afford to defend itself in court. Russia isn't likely play around either. Regardless, it will be interesting to see what the IMF does.

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Reality bites: Two promoters of the "Syrian Revolution" give up


Moon of Alabama
Tue, 27 Oct 2015 21:34 UTC
FSA gun runners
Jihadists on the "Free Syrian Army": "The best arms sellers we have are the FSA. If they get a good weapon they sell it to us."
Two prominent fans and promoters of the unicorn Free Syrian Army and its "revolution" are giving up.

Since the start of the regime change operation in Syria Jenan Moussa, who works for the UAE based Al Aan TV, is an ardent fan of the "moderate rebels". Her embedded reports about them were more one sided anti-regime propaganda than journalism. She is quite prominent with over 100,000 followers on Twitter.

But her honeymoon with the FSA seems to be over. She finally recognizes that the FSA is a mere weapon courier service between the CIA and Saudis on one side and al-Qaeda and the Islamic State on the other:

@jenanmoussa
This is main problem of FSA in Hama/Idlib: Yes, FSA still exists, but they dont control territory. If they disobey radicals, FSA is out. >
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U.S. backed "moderate" terrorists behead captured Syrian soldiers and threaten minority groups

Leith Fadel
Al-Masdar News
Mon, 26 Oct 2015 23:00 UTC
Syria beheading
© n/aU.S. foreign policy spokesman
The U.S. backed moderate rebel fighters from the "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) have released more images from the Hama Governorate's northern countryside; this time, the images include the mutilated heads of captured Syrian Arab Army (SAA) soldiers that were executed by these alleged "moderates" over the weekend.

In addition to the images released, the U.S. backed moderate rebels that are allied with the Syrian Al-Qaeda group "Jabhat Al-Nusra" and formerly with the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) also issued a threat to the Syrian 'Alawi (Twelver branch of Shi'i Islam) population, which included a promise that they would behead more Syrian Arab Army soldiers, who they consider all Alawis, despite the army being predominately Sunni.

Comment: Nothing to see here, it's only "moderate" beheading and mutilation - courtesy of the U.S.

For more on "moderate terrorists" see: The myth of "moderate terrorists": Deconstructing the NATO narrative on Syria

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The psychopathic Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the rise of America's secret government: The Devil's Chessboard book review

Prof. Edward Curtin
Global Research
Mon, 26 Oct 2015 22:10 UTC
CIA seal
© n/a
Review of David Talbot's book

This is a bold and profoundly important book, not only for the portrait of the evil spymaster Allen Dulles, but even more so for its examination of the legacy he spawned - the creation of a cabal hidden behind the public face of the United States government that secretly runs the country today on behalf of wealthy elites.

The psychopathic Allen Dulles was the enforcer for this group, called "the power elite" by C. Wright Mills in the 1950s. In recent years, especially since September 11, 2001, as its power has expanded, it has been given different names - the deep state, the national security state, deep politics,etc. - but that has not diminished its power one jot. Like a patient who goes to a doctor seeking a label for vague yet disturbing symptoms, people may feel relief from the naming, but the dis-ease continues until the root cause is eliminated. Aye, there's the rub!

Comment: For more on Kennedy and the Secret Government see: John F. Kennedy and the Monolithic and Ruthless Conspiracy

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Head of Russia's security services: ISIS rooted in Arab Spring - deception by 'certain world powers' allowed organization to grow


RT
Wed, 28 Oct 2015 20:41 UTC
ISIS
© Unknown
Islamic State evolved from the Arab Spring and gained momentum due to the duplicity of certain world powers, the head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has told a meeting of top security heads of ex-Soviet states (CIS) in Moscow on Wednesday.

There are world powers that are using Islamic State (IS, former ISIL/ISIS) as a kind of "terror battering ram" to ensure their interests in Asia and Africa, said FSB director Aleksandr Bortnikov. In pursuing their goals with IS, these countries have put the world on the verge of a global religious and civilizational crisis, he added.

The outcome of this global conflict could be disastrous, Bortnikov stressed. Russia's security agency chief also said that with parts of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan joining Islamic State, there is an imminent threat of the terrorists invading Central Asia.

"The escalation of tension in Afghanistan is causing serious concern. Numerous IS gangs that are part of the Taliban movement are currently concentrated on the northern borders of that country. Some of them have joined Islamic State, which has dramatically intensified the threat of a terrorist invasion of Central Asia," said the FSB chief.

Comment: Further reading For a comprehensive history of the psy-op known as "Arab Spring":

2011 - Year of the Dupe

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Mush for brains: The Empire's strategy a debacle as ally Turkey bombs US-armed rebels

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 27 Oct 2015 21:34 UTC
PKK kurdish fighters
© Azad Lashkari/ReutersKurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters. Syrian Kurds are the most effective ground force against ISIS in Syria
A little over a week ago in "Full Metal Retard: US Launches 'Performance-Based' Ammo Paradrop Program For Make-Believe 'Syrian Arabs'" we outlined what is perhaps the most hilarious Pentagon scheme designed to arm rebels in Syria to date (and that's saying something).

Following the comical demise of the latest "train and equip" program, the US is out of options for supporting the opposition in Syria and so Washington decided to go back to Old Faithful: the Kurds.

But that presents a problem.

The US is now flying sorties from Incirlik and Turkish autocrat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hates the Kurds and has gone out of his way to make it clear that Ankara doesn't distinguish between the PKK and the YPG. For the uninitiated, here's the problem broken down in bullet points:
  • The US is flying from a Turkish airbase
  • Access to that airbase came with NATO's tacit approval of Erdogan's move to crack down on the Kurdish PKK operating in Turkey (that crackdown is designed to bolster support for the government ahead of elections next month)
  • Both the US and Turkey designate PKK as a "terrorist" group
  • BUT while Ankara equates the PKK with the Kurdish rebels battling ISIS in Syria, Washington actually supports those same rebels, setting up a conflict of interest
Now clearly, this is beyond absurd. That is, Turkey only got NATO's support for the politically motivated crackdown on the PKK because Ankara agreed to bundle said crackdown with a military campaign against ISIS. But the Syrian Kurds are the most effective ground force of them all when it comes to combating Islamic State. Because those Syrian Kurds are aligned with the PKK, Turkey is effectively trying to say its army is fighting ISIS, the PKK, and YPG all at once even as both the PKK and the YPG are also fighting ISIS.

Comment: When this level of incompetence is reached the Empire is really tottering. But it will still wreak a lot of death and destruction before it falls.

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Mush for brains: NORAD loses track of surveillance blimp, scrambles F-16s to locate it

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 28 Oct 2015 21:09 UTC
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While the world was focused on just what excuse Yellen will come up with not to hike rates after 7 consecutive years of ZIRP, and how many new "mandates" the Fed would come up with to justify its now traditional lack of action, moments ago a far more unexpected development took place when a 243-foot blimp used by NORAD in its surveillance of the east coast has become untethered from its mooring in Maryland and it's now flying somewhere over Pennsylvania, according to NORAD spokesman Lt. Joe Mavrocki.

The airship broke free around 11:45 a.m. Wednesday and has approximately 6,700 feet of tether attached to it.

DefenseOne adds that the Air Force has scrambled two F-16s from the Atlantic City Air National Guard base to track the blimp, which officials say is holding at 16,000 feet.

Comment: The US military can't even keep track of their own billion dollar projects, how can anyone expect them to competently fight a war against terrorists?

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Russia planning ahead: Warns France of Ukraine gas shortage


RT
Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:21 UTC
pipeline station
© David W Cerny / Reuters
Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak has told his French colleague that Ukraine could face a gas shortage this winter. Moscow is trying to avoid a gas crisis similar to the winter of 2006 which left parts of Europe without heat.

"In relation to Ukraine's gas supplies; more than $400 million has been transferred by Naftogaz to Gazprom. The commensurate volume of gas has been supplied to Ukraine,"Novak told French Energy Minister Segolene Royal in Moscow on Wednesday.

Comment: See also:

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South Front: ISIS advance in Syria, US bombs Iraqi serviceman, chaos continues in Yemen (VIDEOS)


South Front
Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:27 UTC
south front
The Russian Air Force struck terrorists' positions in Daraa province for the first time in the past month. Russia's fighter jets hit the terrorists' positions in the strategic hilltops of Tal al-Harra and Tal Antar near Deir al-Adas. Then the SAA carried out attacks on the strategic hilltop of Tal al-Alaqiya and managed to fully destroy the terrorists' positions in the sector. Also, the Russian airstrikes targeted the ISIS and al-Nusra positions in the Golan Heights in Quneitra province.

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Best of the Web: The myth of 'moderate terrorists': Deconstructing the NATO narrative on Syria

Eva Bartlett
ingaza.wordpress.com
Sat, 10 Oct 2015 19:35 UTC
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Over the past five years, the increasingly ridiculous propaganda against President al-Assad and the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has ranged from the scripted (OTPOR fomented -"revolution") "peaceful protesters under fire" rhetoric, to other deceitful lexicon like "civil war," and "moderate rebels."

As the intervention campaigns continue with new terrorist and "humanitarian" actors (literally) constantly emerging in the NATO-alliance's theatre of death squads, it is worth reviewing some of the important points regarding the war on Syria.

Million Person Marches

On March 29, 2011 (less than two weeks into the fantasy "revolution") over 6 million people across Syria took to the streets in support of President al-Assad. In June, a reported hundreds of thousands marched in Damascus in support of the president, with a 2.3 km long Syrian flag. In November, 2011 (9 months into the chaos), masses again held demonstrations supporting President al-Assad, notably in Homs (the so-called "capital of the 'revolution'"), Dara'a (the so-called "birthplace of the 'revolution'"), Deir ez-Zour, Raqqa, Latakia, and Damascus.

Mass demonstrations like this have occurred repeatedly since, including in March 2012, in May 2014 in the lead-up to Presidential elections, and in June 2015, to note just some of the larger rallies.

In May 2013, it was reported that even NATO recognized the Syrian president's increased popularity. "The data, relayed to NATO over the last month, asserted that 70 percent of Syrians support" the Assad government. At present, the number is now at least 80 percent.
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