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Best of the Web: Anti-Russia Hysteria: Brainwashed sheep's obsession with "villain" Vladimir Putin

Luboš MotlPilsen
the reference frame
Fri, 25 Jul 2014 00:00 UTC
Several people who largely share my appraisal of the events in Ukraine and around Ukraine have sent me lots of incredible photographs and articles showing that the "mainstream" Western media got completely obsessed with Vladimir Putin.
Maria Putin
© UnknownThis 29-year-old lady was threatened by a mayor to be deported from Holland and finally she fled the country by herself – taking BF Jorrit Faasen, 34, with her. In the current hysteria, the sufficient reason is the following: she is Maria Putin, Putin's daughter.
It's enough to search Google News for Putin if you want to obtain a rather incredible collection of totally nutty titles and whole articles about Putin. Just some of the titles (I didn't really have to filter it much):
US General Dempsey: Putin May 'Light a Fire' He Can't Stop in Ukraine

Dempsey: Putin's Moves Like 1939 Poland

Putin's voracious appetite is not sated

Putin's Pal [a nasty attack against Stephen Cohen]

Putin's inner circle sheds light on his "sinister, lonely life"

The growing calls to strip Putin and Russia of the 2018 World Cup

Putin's Crime, Europe's Cowardice

Vladimir Putin is responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. His next move will matter most of all.
I could go on and on and on, for hours. Vladimir Putin is perhaps the next Adolf Hitler, maybe Adolf Hitler on steroids. He must have personally shot the Dutch airplane down, too.

Comment: Currently there is a controversy going on about the identity of the woman in the above picture.
Mystery of Putin's daughter deepens after Russian embassy claims widely-used image of her with Kremlin leader is someone else

Whether she is Maria Putin or not, It is disheartening to see how western establishments goes after the family members of the politicians whom they want to take advantage of and use the same false flag tactics in the process.

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Yoda

Chechnya president bans Obama and 3 EU leaders from entering his country on account of State Terrorism


The Guardian
Sun, 27 Jul 2014 03:49 UTC
Chechen president
© Stringer/ReutersThe Chechen president, Ramzan Kadyrov, meets the actor Gérard Depardieu in Grozny last year but Barack Obama is not welcome
Although Russia has not responded to US sanctions over the Ukraine crisis by putting a travel ban on President Barack Obama, there is one part of the country he is now barred from entering: Chechnya.

On Saturday Ramzan Kadyrov, the president of the small Russian republic that has been the scene of two devastating separatist wars in the past 20 years, said he was placing Obama on a list of people banned from visiting.

The list also includes European Union figures José Manuel Barroso, Herbert van Rompuy and Catherine Ashton.

Kadyrov, wrote on his Instagram account that the ban was in response to US and EU actions in Ukraine, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, which he called "state terrorism".
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Propaganda

Victims' families used for propaganda? MH17 victim's credit cards used after crash, says report


The Malaysian Insider
Thu, 24 Jul 2014 21:23 UTC
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The wife of a Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 victim was stunned when she saw that her husband's credit cards were being used after the plane crashed in Ukraine last week, the Daily Mail reported. Cameron Dalziel's wife Reine has since cancelled her husband's credit cards upon noticing activity in his account, her brother told CNN.

Cameron Dalziel's wife Reine has since cancelled her husband's credit cards upon noticing activity in his account, her brother told CNN.

Cameron was a South African travelling on a British passport, who had moved with his wife and two children to Malaysia recently.

The report said that the "heartless" rebels, who allegedly shot the plane down, had been using victims' credit cards, answering their phones and looting their belongings, including jewellery, from the crash site.

Reine's brother, Shane Hattingh, told CNN that, "People are abusing it in the Ukraine. They have no respect for each other, look what they're doing. It's no surprise that they were treating the remains of people like that. It made me angry beyond words".

This only added weight to reports that the pro-Russian rebels have looted the MH17 crash site to sabotage the investigation into the disaster and to cash in on it, the Daily Mail reported.

It was previously reported that relatives of victims of the crash had called their mobile phones only to have them picked up by people with "eastern European-sounding voices".

They then proceeded to instruct the mobile phone companies to shut down the accounts.

Comment: It's worth noting the reports of stolen cell phones and credit cards being used only came days after Kiev forces had access to the victims belongings, not before.

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Stock Down

EU sanctions on Russia could cripple London


RT
Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:40 UTC
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© AFP Photo / John D. Mchugh
The EU plans to widen economic sanctions against Russia, but London, already on rocky ground with the EU, would be hit the hardest if tougher restrictions are slapped on Russia's big state banks.

If agreed, EU sanctions would apply to all Russian banks that are more than 50 percent state-owned. Sberbank, VTB, the country's two largest lenders, are both listed on the London Stock Exchange and have offices there.

If Russian banks get hit the ripples will be felt across the English Channel and in the heart of the world's financial center- the City of London.

Between 2004 and 2008, Russia's top two lenders raised $16.4 billion in floatations, and a ban would cost London hundreds of millions of pounds, The Times reports.

"The real question is, why is so much of the burden - even if it is not a massive one - falling on the UK? France and Germany might be talking tougher, but they do not quite seem to be following through with actions," Raoul Ruparel, a senior analyst at Open Europe, a think-tank, told The Times.
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Star of David

Israel takes 24-hour break from bombing Gaza as number massacred goes past 1,000


RT
Sat, 26 Jul 2014 17:32 UTC
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© @GarySpedding A before and after shot of Al-Shahayeeh neighbourhood in Gaza
Over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel started its military operation in Gaza, officials said. As world leaders called for a full truce, Israel extended the humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza for 24 hours.

The ceasefire has been prolonged until Sunday at midnight, the country's cabinet said late Saturday . However, Israel warned that it will retaliate if Hamas fires rockets from Gaza territory.


Comment: ...which means Israel will do what it always does: have some of its agents fire some shells into a field across the perimeter fence, then declare the 'ceasefire' broken and resume massive aerial bombardment of residential areas. Or just simply announce that 'some rockets were fired at us', and provide no evidence whatsoever.


The Palestinian death toll from Israel's 19-day operation has reached 1,032 people, Gaza's Health Ministry told AFP.

Despite the 12-hour cease-fire between Hamas and Israel set for Saturday, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has urged the Palestinians, who earlier left their homes in Gaza, to "refrain from returning."

"The IDF shall respond if terrorists choose to exploit this time to attack IDF personnel or fire at Israeli civilians," the military's spokesperson also said in a statement, adding that Israel will continue "the operational activities to locate and neutralize tunnels in the Gaza Strip" during the ceasefire.

Comment: Update July 27th:

As predicted, Israel has resumed massive aerial bombardment using the pretext that "rockets were fired from Gaza..."

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Propaganda

Despite near-total pro-Israeli coverage, Israeli ambassador to Washington is 'outraged' that US media didn't cite IDF rationale for blowing up UN schools in Gaza


CBS Miami
Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:40 UTC
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© CNN
The Israeli ambassador to the United States is claiming that the "media is not connecting the dots" to Hamas following a story of 15 Palestinians killed when a United Nations school they sought shelter in was shelled.

Appearing on CNN Thursday evening, Ron Dermer chastised the network for not including in their coverage about how Hamas was using schools to hide rockets.

"It would be a disservice to your viewers for a reporter from Gaza not to mention that in the last week we had two different UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) schools where we had actually rockets found in the schools and handed over to Hamas," Dermer said.

He then added: "Do you not think that it's relevant to report on CNN that the secretary-general of the United Nations yesterday warned against the use of U.N. schools and shelter for rocket missile deposits of Hamas?"


Comment: Again we see the psychopathic trait of Israel blaming the victim for what they are responsible for. Only the truly blind can ignore the murderous and massively destructive force at the foundations of Zionism.

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Light Sabers

Former UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott: 'Israel's bombardment of Gaza is a war crime'

John Prescott
The Mirror
Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:19 UTC

The former UK Deputy Prime Minister says the reaction to Hamas' rockets is brutally disproportionate and grossly indiscriminate.
Gaza
© Getty
Imagine a country claiming the lives of nearly three times as many as were lost in the MH17 plane tragedy in less than three weeks.

A nation which blasted a hospital, shelled and killed children from a gunboat as they played football on the beach and was responsible for 1,000 deaths, at least 165 of them children, in just two weeks.

Surely it would be branded a pariah state, condemned by the United Nations, the US and the UK. The calls for regime change would be ­deafening.

But these howls of protest are muted. The condemnation softened.

For this is Israel.

Israel's hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu trots out the same excuses. Hamas "militants" in Gaza fired their rockets first. Israel has a right to defend itself. It needs to protect its citizens.

And he's right on all three counts - but as always with Israel this is not the full story. The military action supposedly targeting Hamas is so brutally disproportionate and so grossly indiscriminate that it makes it impossible not to view Israel's actions as war crimes.

Comment: The original source for this article contained a reader poll, here are the results at the time of this publication.

gaza reader poll
© The Mirror


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Attention

Israel seeks ethnic cleansing of Palestinians


Press TV
Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:29 UTC
Gaza Massacre
© Press TV
A political analyst says Israel's relentless onslaught against the Gaza Strip is aimed at ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, Press TV reports.

In an interview with Press TV on Saturday, Scott Rickard, a former American intelligence linguist, said the Tel Aviv regime seeks to wipe the entire Palestine of its native inhabitants.
"This is genocide. This is ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people of Palestine," Rickard said, adding that Israel's crimes against Palestinians amount to "war crimes."
"They're basically trying to wipe out the entire Gaza infrastructure and reoccupy Gaza," the analyst added.

He also lashed out at the Egyptian government for helping the Israeli regime with its crimes against Palestinians by keeping the Rafah border crossing closed.
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Light Saber

Jon Snow: The (war on the) children of Gaza

Jon Snow
Channel 4 News
Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:44 UTC
Jon Snow recounts the scene in Gaza's al-Shifa hospital, where doctors struggle to treat adults and children wounded by Israeli attacks.


Comment: Jon Snow is a well known reporter from one of the major news channels in the UK. After several days spent in Gaza this week reporting on the murderous attacks rained down upon the civilian population of Gaza by Israel, his horror and anger at the inhumanity he has been witness to is all too plain to see.

With conscience comes the courage to act.

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Arrow Down

How the NSA is actively helping Saudi Arabia to crack down on dissent

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:57 UTC
Abdullah and Obama
© Ron Edmonds/APBarack Obama and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah in 2010.
It is not an exaggeration to say Saudi Arabia is one of the most oppressive, authoritarian regimes on the planet. Despite having been the main foreign instigator pushing for conflict in Syria, as well as its increasingly disturbing ties to the attacks on 9/11, it remains one of the U.S. government's closest allies.

I've covered some of the human rights abuses of the Saudi regime on several occasions due to the fact that it so clearly exposes the total hypocrisy of U.S. foreign policy. The most recent example was the recent sentencing of human rights lawyer and activist Waleed Abu Alkhair to 15 years in prison for "inciting public opinion," i.e., effectively utilizing free speech.

I covered this in detail in the post: Saudi Human Rights Lawyer and Activist Jailed for 15 Years for Free Speech Under New "Anti-Terror" Law.

Thanks to revelations from Edward Snowden, we now know that our taxpayer money is directly funding the ability of this autocratic regime to brutalize its citizenry.
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