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Naval Reservist mishandled classified information just like Killary -- guess who was prosecuted?

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 15:21 UTC
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In a case that clearly highlights that the rule of law only applies to the general public — and not politically connected elites — the FBI announced they would not refer Hillary Clinton for prosecution under Section 793 of the U.S. code relating to her use of a private email server.

Section 793, subsection (f), "Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information," makes quite clear that intent is not a key consideration in a case like this when deciding whether to press charges:
Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer— Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
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DPR hopes elections will increase Europe's sympathy for their plight

Translated by J. Arnoldski
Fort Russ
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 12:41 UTC
finland recognize donetsk
© Agence France-Presse/Alexi FilippovCitizens of Finland protest to recognize the fledgling Donetsk People's Republic
Holding primaries in Donbass will increase Europe's interest in Donbass. Such an opinion was expressed by the deputy of the National Council of the DPR, Alla Barkhatnova.

"Alexander Zakharchenko has announced that primaries will be held, and we fully support this. A preliminary survey of the population is necessary so that people know that sooner or later elections will be held and now they need to decide for whom they are ready to vote," she explained.
In addition, the deputy is convinced that primaries are necessary for both the people of Donbass and for those who are planning to run.

"In his statement on the beginning of primaries, Alexander Zakharchenko made it clear to the Ukrainian government that if they will continue to not fulfill the Minsk Agreements and if the Minsk negotiations continue to be held in a counter-productive vein, then we, as an independent state, will do without Ukraine," Barkhatnova remarked.

Comment: Further reading:

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Bad Guys

From patriots to drunks to mercenaries: Analyzing the collapse of the Ukrainian Army

Yurasamy; Translated by J. Arnoldski
Fort Russ
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 12:34 UTC
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On June 24th, 2016 Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed Decree No. 271 on demobilization. This military discharge affects 17,000 military servicemen mobilized into the UAF in the framework of the 5th mobilization wave of 2015. Poroshenko stated that those demobilized will be replaced with contract soldiers, and that there is no longer any need for mobilizations. Meanwhile, in Donbass, the war is not over and there is every reason to believe that the end is still far off.

So why has Ukraine abandoned the idea of a "people's" army and is replacing it with contract soldiers, i.e., mercenaries?

Any army of the mobilized type, if it is not at war, decomposes. This rule has no exceptions. It was the idle sailors of the Baltic fleet and reserves who became the driving force of the February coup in Petrograd in 1917, as a result of which the 300 year Romanov dynasty was overthrown once and for all. Sitting in the trenches was the cause of unrest among the German and French armies. And if the second was cured by mass shootings, then the first followed the example of their Russian colleagues and forced Kaiser Wilhlem to abdicate, thus plunging Germany into revolutionary chaos.

Recently, one of the coordinators of the group "Information Resistance" (Tymchuk's group), Konstantin Mashovets, almost word for word repeated this well-known truth: "A mobilized army, if it is not fighting, begins to decompose. If you carry out a mobilizaiton, then you either have to fight or disband such an army. There is no medium here. Otherwise, the army will decompose and organize a revolution in the country with a Pinochet or something worse."

Comment: Ukrainian society is disintegrating and the army is in shambles. The chairman of the parliament is a former neo-Nazi commander, and the country has lost significant chunks of territory in the Donbass and Crimea due to the promise of mass repression. This is what the 'revolution of dignity' has brought the Ukrainian people. It's the ponerization process in real time, with pathological individuals spell-binding and corrupting the country.

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Just a Game? Worry about the return 'of' your money, not the return 'on' it

Bill Gross
Janus Capital Group
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 12:59 UTC
Monopoly game
If only Fed Governors and Presidents understood a little bit more about Monopoly, and a tad less about outdated historical models such as the Taylor Rule and the Phillips Curve, then our economy and its future prospects might be a little better off. That is not to say that Monopoly can illuminate all of the problems of our current economic stagnation. Brexit and a growing Populist movement clearly point out that the possibility of de-globalization (less trade, immigration and economic growth) is playing a part. And too, structural elements long ago advanced in my New Normal thesis in 2009 have a significant role as well: aging demographics, too much debt, and technological advances including job-threatening robotization are significantly responsible for 2% peak U.S. real GDP as opposed to 4-5% only a decade ago.

But all of these elements are but properties on a larger economic landscape best typified by a Monopoly board. In that game, capitalists travel around the board, buying up properties, paying rent, and importantly passing "Go" and collecting $200 each and every time. And it's the $200 of cash (which in the economic scheme of things represents new "credit") that is responsible for the ongoing health of our finance-based economy. Without new credit, economic growth moves in reverse and individual player "bankruptcies" become more probable.
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Snakes in Suits

Five revelations from Chilcot's damning report into the 2003 Iraq war


RT
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 12:40 UTC
copy of the executive summary of The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, by John Chilcot
© Peter Nicholls / Reuters
The long-awaited findings of Sir John Chilcot's inquiry into the invasion of Iraq by Britain in 2003 were finally published on Wednesday.

It has taken seven years, £10 million (US$ 13 million) and 2.6 million words to investigate whether it was right and necessary for the UK to invade Iraq, and whether the UK could and should have been better prepared for what followed.

RT has identified some of the main points of the report.
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Snakes in Suits

UK MP Alex Salmond: Corbyn coup was timed to distract him from calling for Blair's head over Chilcot report

Alex Salmond
The Herald
Sun, 03 Jul 2016 20:33 UTC
Jeremy Corbin
© Toby Melville / ReutersParty leader Jeremy Corbyn
In normal political times Wednesday would see the most dramatic event of the year.

Thirteen years after the Iraq war and seven years after the start of his Inquiry, Sir John Chilcot will deliver his findings. In particular for the relatives of the 179 service personnel who died, but also for everyone living with the consequences of this conflict, it has been a long time coming.

However, such has been the all enveloping chaos in Westminster too little attention has been paid to the coming Chilcot report. When the European roof is falling in on one Prime Minister it is difficult to concentrate on just how a previous one destabilised the planet.

Behind his increasingly furrowed brows Gordon Brown might be forgiven for thinking that his own rocky premiership will be reassessed as a period of relative calm between two great disasters.

It would be a mistake to believe that Chilcot and current events are entirely unconnected. The link is through the Labour Party.
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South Front: China's Middle East military capability, Russia's Sarmat ICBMs, and Syrian war developments (VIDEO)


South Front
Tue, 05 Jul 2016 23:08 UTC
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Syrian War Report - July 5, 2016: Russian Aircraft Carrier to Conduct Air Strikes

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OSCE complicit in Ukraine's capture of DPR mine sappers


Fort Russ
Thu, 30 Jun 2016 23:23 UTC
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DPR sappers
On the evening of 28th June, information appeared in the media about the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Shirokino near Mariupol capturing eight DPR soldiers, who allegedly led intelligence activities on the territory controlled by Ukraine. In addition, it was reported that in a special operation the Ukrainian military killed two of the militia.

Adviser to the head of the SBU Yury Tandit confirmed the information about the sabotage, stating that during the detention of the DPR military personnel, they were asked to surrender their weapons, and those who did not comply were killed on the spot.

Representative of administration of the Ukrainian President on issues of the so-called ATO Alexander Motuzyanik also commented on this incident. He reported that they were taken prisoner by soldiers of the 9th separate motorized rifle assault corps (Novoazovsk). He said the names of all the detainees captured, the youngest of them is only 21 years old, and the oldest is 49. Motuzyanik said that the militias were captured in the village of Vodyane, near Shirokino.

For its part, there is information about the capture near the village of Shirokino of eight DPR soldiers, and two are confirmed killed in the defence of the DPR. The Deputy Commander of the operational command of the DPR Eduard Basurin reported that it happened when the engineering unit of a separate unit of the DPR was conducting routine mine clearance in coordination with the OSCE mission in the area of the front of the Shirokino village. Specifically, in order to capture the bomb squad, the reconnaissance group of the 54th brigade of the UAF and a division of the volunteer unit of the Ukrainian army moved forward to the specified area.
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Bottom of the barrel: Saudi Arabia's reckless oil war has left their economy in shambles


Sputnik
Tue, 05 Jul 2016 23:13 UTC
Saudi Arabia Oil
© AP Photo/ John Moore
Riyadh appears to be falling victim to a crisis of their own making as their bid to undercut the world's oil market has left the country's economy in shambles.

Economic data suggests that Saudi Arabia may finally be feeling the effects of the oil war they waged against the world sending prices barreling into crisis levels in February below $30 per barrel and well below the country's own breakeven price of roughly $65 per barrel.

In the first quarter of 2016, real GDP growth decelerated to 1.5% year on year well below last year's first quarter figure of 3.3% growth signaling that the government's austerity measures imposed to withstand the shock they instilled in oil prices may soon trigger a recession in the Kingdom.

With oil prices recovering, Saudi Arabia's struggles are a promising sign for energy-rich countries around the world that may soon be able to look forward to a surge in oil prices if Riyadh starts to pull supply offline.
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Propaganda: German spy chief warns of 'possible' terror attacks


RT
Tue, 05 Jul 2016 22:34 UTC
propaganda
The German spy chief has confirmed the possibility of massive terror attacks in Germany as his agency has obtained information on 17 ISIS militants who had entered Europe under the guise of refugees. The biggest threat to Germany's security is the possibility of terror attacks similar to the shooting and bombing that took place in Istanbul last week, Hans Georg Maassen, the head of country's domestic intelligence agency, said in an interview to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Saturday.

"We can't rule out attacks like those in Istanbul also happening in our country," Maassen said. The German Special Services know about at least 17 Islamic State militants who entered the European Union pretending to be refugees, Maassen added. "There is strong evidence that... 17 people have arrived under Islamic State instructions," Maassen said.

Comment: More propaganda setting people against refugees by associating them with terrorists.

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