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More than 9,000 killed, 21,000 injured In Ukraine's criminal war against Donbass


Novorossia
Sat, 04 Jun 2016 12:45 UTC
poroshenko
© Ukrainian Presidential Press Service
A total of 9,371 people have been killed - both civilians and military - and more than 21,500 others have been injured in a conflict in the Donbass region (eastern Ukraine) since mid-April 2014, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said in its report published on Friday.

"In total, from mid-April 2014 to 15 May 2016, OHCHR recorded 30,903 casualties in the conflict area in the Donbass region (eastern Ukraine), among Nazi Ukrainian armed forces, civilians and members of the armed groups. This includes 9,371 people killed and 21,532 injured," the report reads.

"After two years, the situation in the Donbass region (east of Ukraine) remains volatile and may develop into a 'frozen conflict', creating a protracted environment of insecurity and instability; escalate, with dire consequences for civilians living in the conflict affected area; or move towards sustainable peace through the meaningful implementation of the Minsk Package of Measures," the report reads.

Comment: Further reading: Russia demands end to shelling of Donbass, increased monitoring of the conflict

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Bad Guys

Al-Nusra front terrorists deliver massive strike on Aleppo homes and airport killing civilians


Sputnik
Sat, 04 Jun 2016 12:30 UTC
Shelling in Aleppo
© Sputnik/ Mikhail Voskresenskiy
"Armed units of the Al-Nusra Front terrorist group delivered a massive strike on the neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsood, Al-Muhafaza and Al-Zahra and on Al-Nayrab airport in Aleppo. The terrorists also hit the Syrian Arab Army position in the city of Hndarat," a representative of Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria said on Saturday.

"A police station and a number of residential buildings were destroyed as a result of a shelling of [Aleppo's] Sheikh Maqsood quarter by militants from terrorist groups. More than 40 civilians, police and military personnel were killed and about 100 sustained injuries," the spokesman said.

According to him, Nusra Front group, outlawed in Russia, also carried out a massive artillery strike on Aleppo airport and the Syrian Army positions near the town of Handrat.
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Snakes in Suits

NATO convinces Warsaw to create 35K paramilitary force to fight 'Russian threat'


Sputnik
Sat, 04 Jun 2016 12:10 UTC
Polish army cadets
© AFP 2016/ JANEK SKARZYNSKI
The Polish military plans to recruit civilian volunteers to form a National Guard-style paramilitary force aimed at preparing for a "hybrid war" with Russia, the Polish Defense Ministry has announced.

The first batch of volunteers will be recruited in September, German news resource Spiegel Online has reported.

The state will pay each volunteer 500 zlotys (about €125 a month), and they will undergo regular weekend training. The volunteers will be commanded by professional soldiers.

"The territorial defense force is our response to the threat associated with hybrid warfare," Grzegorz Kwasniak, the Defense Ministry official responsible for creating the new group, said at a press conference on Thursday.
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No Entry

Families of UK soldiers killed in Iraq must pay £770 for copy of 2-million-word Chilcot report


RT
Fri, 03 Jun 2016 16:10 UTC
Slimebag Chilcot
© Luke MacGregor/RuetersJohn Chilcot
Military families who lost sons and daughters in the Iraq war are told they must pay £767 for a hard copy of Sir John Chilcot's Iraq Inquiry report. The revelation comes as a critical play based on the much-delayed publication opens in London.

Families have been informed that although they can obtain a free executive summary, a hard copy of the 2 million-word report will cost them dearly.

The news has outraged families of the war dead.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, David Godfrey, whose grandson Rifleman Daniel Coffey was killed in 2007, called the charge "scandalous." He said former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who took the UK into the war, should pay for copies for bereaved families.

"It's an absolute insult to all of us families. It's just heart-breaking, to say the least," he said.Godfrey said he could not afford to attend the official release in London in July, let alone buy a copy of the report.

Rose Gentle, whose son Gordon was killed on operations, asked the Mirror: "Have we not paid enough times with the lives of our sons?"

Roger Bacon, whose son Matthew died in 2005, told the paper the news "does beggar belief that it is going to cost that amount of money in the first place. Who has the money to pay for something like this?"


Comment: Families of slain Iraq soldiers to 'sue Blair' if Chilcot report reveals failings, but they will pay for the privilege. After the money-making invasion and destruction of Iraq, the subsequent deaths of millions in the Middle East, here the psychopaths are again, making money on suffering and death.

Whatever happened to those WMDs Blair told us that Iraq had, anyway? Is that question answered in this 2-million-page report?!

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Bad Guys

Doublespeak: US tells Russia not to target Al-Qaeda branch in Syria because 'moderate rebels' are there


RT
Sat, 04 Jun 2016 11:49 UTC
Al-Qaeda branch in Syria
© Hosam Katan / Reuters
Washington has asked Moscow not to conduct airstrikes against al-Nusra Front, which is Al-Qaeda's branch in Syria, for fear that members of the "moderate opposition" could also be hit, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has reported.

"They [the US] are telling us not to hit it [al-Nusra Front], because there are also 'normal' opposition groups [on those territories]," Lavrov said in an interview with local Russian media that was published on the Russian Foreign Ministry's website.

The minister also stressed that "such opposition groups should leave terrorist positions," adding that "we have long agreed on that." Russia first set a deadline for the "moderate" opposition to leave territories occupied by al-Nusra Front extremists, but then agreed to give them more time to withdraw.

In the interview, Lavrov said that Russia believes that taking specific and more effective measures to fight the Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL) and al-Nusra Front terrorist groups should be the top priority for Russia and the US if the Syrian crisis is to be resolved.
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Green Light

Families of slain Iraq soldiers to 'sue Blair' if Chilcot report reveals failings


Sputnik
Tue, 31 May 2016 14:48 UTC
Chilcot report
© AP/Matt Dunham
The family members of the slain victims of the Iraq War have vowed to sue Tony Blair, if Chilcot report reveals failings of the government.

The families of the British soldiers killed during the Iraq war plan to sue former Prime Minister Tony Blair if evidence from the long-awaited Chilcot Inquiry suggests that the equipment used during the war was inadequate.

The relatives of the service men and women, whose lives were lost during the Iraq War, are deciding whether to take legal action against the former Prime Minister. One family member, Roger Bacon, father of an army service man who was killed in a roadside bomb blast, said that if the report suggests that equipment provided during the war was substandard then they plan to take Blair to court.

The controversial Iraq War started in 2003 when the US and the UK invaded the country to stop its leader Saddam Hussein, as they believed he was harboring weapons of mass destruction.

Saddam was eventually captured and then killed, however since the start of the war, until it finished in 2011, thousands of Iraqi people lost their lives. Many were displaced, soldiers were killed or suffered due to the violent fighting. It was, as some believe, the war that led to the rise of Daesh, also known as ISIL, who have also massacred many people.

Comment: Blair and Bush agreed attack on Iraq one year before invasion - leaked memo

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Jet5

Syrians welcome the presence of Russia

Afra'a Dagher
The Duran
Fri, 03 Jun 2016 08:02 UTC
pro assad putin syria
© bbc
Far from seeing Russian soldiers as occupiers, the Syrian people see them as saviours and welcome their presence.

It was a hard and breathtaking moment for the people of Syria when US President Obama announced in August 2013 that the US was preparing a military strike against Syria. It seemed that the US was about to go to war against Syria on the false pretext of the Syrian government's "alleged use of chemical weapons" against its own people. Obama even called it "the worst chemical weapons attack of the 21st century".

The US plan however ran into a storm of opposition.

Russia and China had consistently opposed US attempts to obtain a UN Security Council Resolution to attack Syria, repeatedly exercising their power of veto in the Security Council to block US proposed Resolutions making threats and calling for sanctions against Syria. Both of these countries made absolutely clear that they adamantly opposed any repeat of the "Libyan scenario" - ie. the NATO war of aggression against Libya - in Syria.

Come August 2013 and these two countries - Russia and China - stood their ground. Both made it crystal clear that they strongly opposed Obama's plan for a strike against Syria.
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Cupcake Pink

Corruption of science: Scientific studies under fire over bias, influence


RT
Thu, 02 Jun 2016 07:59 UTC
Man and a microscope
© Kim Kyung Hoon
A study showing that sweets were good for kids turned out to be sponsored by candy makers, adding to a long history of scientific research being funded by parties with vested interests in particular outcomes.

The 2011 study made headlines for its findings that children who eat candy tend to weigh less than those who don't. Researchers tracked the health 11,000 children between the ages of two and 18 from 1999 to 2004, by looking at government databases which asked them to recall what they ate in the past 24 hours. It found that kids who ate sweets were 22 percent less likely to be overweight or obese than kids who did not, with adolescents who indulged being 26 percent less likely to be above a healthy weight.

Funding for the study was provided by a trade association that represented candy manufacturers such as Nestle, The Hershey Company and The Wrigley Company, the Associated Press reported Thursday.

The study itself had openly admitted its limitations, with its authors writing that the information it used "may not reflect usual intake" and "cause and effect associations cannot be drawn."

Carol O'Neil, author of the study and a professor at Louisiana State University's School of Nutrition and Food Sciences, said that she hoped industry group could "do something" with the paper, as it was "thin and clearly padded," according to emails obtained by AP.

This question of funding bias isn't new in the food industry. In the past year, 156 of the 168 industry-funded studies reviewed by Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition at New York University, found that they produced results that were favorable to companies that sponsored them, AP reported.

Comment: See also: The Corruption of Science in America

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War Whore

Over half of every tax dollar you give to Uncle Sam is spent on the military industrial complex

Phillip Schneider
Waking Times
Fri, 03 Jun 2016 18:31 UTC
military industrial complex
Most people probably don't think too much about this, but are you aware of just how much of your income is being used to fuel the military industrial complex?

Conveniently omitted from the corporate/state-run media organizations is the fact that some 53 percent of your tax dollars are spent on the military. That's right, more than half of the money you give to Uncle Sam for the privilege of being American income is spent directly on military.

In 2011 the budget for the US Government was over 3 trillion dollars, while military spending included a $717 billion request from the pentagon, $200 billion towards "overseas contingency funding" for the two major conflicts we are engaged in, and $40 billion in black budget intelligence which includes the CIA, NSA, and other agencies where the amount of money given is never fully disclosed.
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Star of David

Rooting out lefties under guise of 'targeting anti-Semitism': British Labour Party purge continues


RT
Thu, 02 Jun 2016 10:42 UTC
Livingstone
© Neil Hall / ReutersFormer London mayor, Ken Livingstone: The truth be told!
Ken Livingstone claims embittered Blairite Labour MPs pushed for his suspension after comments he made about Hitler and Zionism, and said party leader Jeremy Corbyn had no say whatsoever in the move. Speaking at the Oxford Union on Wednesday, Livingstone maintained the comments, which saw him chased and harangued by a Blairite MP, were factual.

In April he was attacked and eventually suspended for claiming that Hitler had been a supporter of Zionism in the context of the 1932 Haavara Agreement between Germany's Zionist leaders and the Nazi regime to remove Jews from the country.

"I think this has been largely manufactured by people trying to undermine Jeremy Corbyn," he told the Union. If someone says something anti-Semitic they will be expelled but you can't expel someone for telling the truth," he argued. He said his views on the agreement were as logical as "1+1=2." He also said he had been told of his suspension by unelected party officials and that Jeremy Corbyn had nothing to do with the process. At the time Corbyn said the comments were "inappropriate."

Comment: Apparently people in high places or important positions must dumb down to the lowest common knowledge denominator, whether true or false...a sad commentary on our times.

What's really going on in the UK is that the British media is going bonkers over Labour members' "anti-Semitic comments" because it's part of a slow-motion coup against "the number one threat to the UK", Jeremy Corbyn.

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