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NATO's war propaganda is a crime against humanity not freedom of speech

Christopher Black
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 21:30 UTC
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The reaction of the media in the Nato countries to the murder of Boris Nemtsov reveals the next phase of the war against Russia. Defeated at Debaltsevo, defied by Russia, lectured by China, the Nato warlords need something immediate and dramatic to guide the imaginations of their peoples towards war. The constant propaganda offensive aimed at Russia is accelerating and is increasingly designed to identify Russia and its people not with the Russian government, but with a single man and, with the murder of Nemtsov, that man is now labelled assassin.

Across the broad spectrum of the "western" media in the past days there has appeared one story after another designed to make the average citizen believe that President Putin was personally involved in the killing. The facts of the case do not matter. The Nato governments deny any involvement in a provocation but their immediate denunciations, the morning following the murder, of Russian democracy, of Russian government, and of President Putin, convict them all on the charge of exploiting the murder as surely as if the assassins' bullets were theirs.

The labelling of resisting leaders as criminals has been used frequently in the west since the days of the Roman Empire and once a foreign leader is so labelled a war soon follows. In recent history the Americans and their Nato lieutenants identified President Milosevic as a criminal for simply refusing Nato's diktats. They did the same with Saddam Hussein, with Muammar Gaddafi and murdered them all, one way or another.

Comment: The lessons of WWII and Nazi Germany are plentiful and applicable to our own times as we see so many of the same dynamics play out today.

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USA

United States of Europe: American military aggressively invades - er, occupies - Baltic states

Howard Koplowitz
International Business Times
Mon, 09 Mar 2015 21:19 UTC
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© ReutersAn Abrams main battle tank, for U.S. troops deployed in the Baltics as part of NATO's invasion of Eastern Europe aka Operation 'Atlantic Resolve', arrive at the port in Riga, Latvia, on March 9, 2015.
The United States is sending 3,000 soldiers near Russia's doorstep for training exercises with the militaries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the Associated Press reported Monday. The deployment by the Pentagon comes amid rising tensions with Russia on the crisis in Ukraine, in which most of the West accuses Moscow of instigating the military conflict between pro-Russia separatists and the Ukrainian military.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are all NATO countries that gained membership in the alliance in 2004. About 750 U.S. tanks, helicopters and other equipment are scheduled to arrive in the Latvian capital of Riga next Monday, Army Col. Steve Warren told the AP. The military exercises are expected to last three months, although Army Gen. John O'Conner said the equipment will stay "for as long as required to deter Russian aggression," according to the Russian news agency Tass.

The exercises were planned as the three countries become increasingly concerned over Russia's aggression in eastern Ukraine, according to the AP. "The presence of our allies in Latvia is a confirmation of solidarity and security in the region," said Latvian Defense Minister Raimonds Vejonis, according to Tass.

Comment: Indeed, it's "a confirmation of solidarity and security" for the ruling elites in the region.

Estonian media is reporting that US tanks have already rolled in to Estonia:

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War Whore

F-35 Joint Strike Fighter project: The Pentagon's $1 trillion failure


RT
Wed, 11 Mar 2015 04:29 UTC
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The laundry list of problems affecting the Pentagon's F-35 fighter jet reportedly includes a high rate of false alarms from its large array of sensors. The expensive defense project is being criticized for producing an unreliable and unaffordable weapon.

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has a number of sensitive sensors, and engineers have a hard time teaching its software to interpret the data they provide. The information must be checked against so-called threat libraries, and files of signatures of known threats.

At the moment the fusion between the two is far from being complete, reports Breaking Defense, and the system currently produces many false alarms. The military online magazine cites an Air Force officer familiar with the integration effort for the service's version of the jet, the F-35-A, who said that the problem would not be fixed by the initial operating capability (IOC) deadline of mid-2016.

Comment: Imagine what could be done with $1 trillion, if it was spent on, say, building lovely neighborhoods?


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Passport

Reality check for Nuland: 98% of Crimean Tatars got Russian passports


Sputnik
Sat, 14 Mar 2015 15:50 UTC
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Sergei Aksyonov, the head of the Republic of Crimea, has rebuffed Victoria Nuland's recent claims that Crimean Tatars are among those who have refused to surrender their Ukrainian passports.

The absolute majority of the Crimean Tatars still residing in Crimea, totaling between 97 and 98 percent of the ethnic minority, have received Russian passports, according to the head of the Republic of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov.

About 3,000 people living in the Peninsula have refused to exchange their Ukrainian passports for Russian ones since the region's unification with Russia.

Comment: Nothing coming out of Nuland's mouth is based on reality.

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Red Flag

CIA Director says Washington against 'collapse' of Syrian Government


Sputnik
Sat, 14 Mar 2015 15:20 UTC
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CIA Director John Brennan has said that the United States does not want to see the collapse of President Al-Assad's government in Syria, which he warned may help Islamist militants seize power.

Washington is unwilling to see the demise of Syria's government because it may finally lead to Islamist militants coming to power in Syria, according to CIA Director John Brennan.

He said that Washington is concerned about a possible ouster of President Bashar al-Assad due to the rise of the Islamic State, which has already seized large areas of Iraq and Syria, forcing millions to flee the country.

"I think that's a legitimate concern, Brennan said, in reference to the White House's fears over who might succeed Assad in the future.

Comment: There doesn't appear to be a consensus in Washington about Assad but they are supplying IS and the Syrian "non-extremists" weapons and food. Assad is being left on his own to defend Syria against the oppositions.

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Eye 1

State Dept. forced to shut down email after cyber attack

Justin Fishel and Lee Ferran
ABC News
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 03:03 UTC
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© Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The US Department of State logo is displayed inside the media briefing at the US Department of State in Washington.
The State Department shut down large parts of its unclassified email system today in a final attempt to rid it of malware believed to have been inserted by Russian hackers in what has become one of the most serious cyber intrusions in the department's history, U.S. officials told ABC News.

"The Department is implementing improvements to the security of its main unclassified network during a short, planned outage of some internet-linked systems," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement to ABC News.

The outage could last though the weekend, according to officials. But as of now there is no time limit and no real indication of when the system will be back online.

Last November, the State Department conducted similar repairs to its system stemming from a cyber-attack it suffered the month before. The attack targeted the unclassified email system and is believed to have been executed by Russian hackers.

Officials stress that throughout this process, including the attack in October, there was never any compromise to the department's classified systems.

News of this latest outage comes as presidential hopeful and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in the midst of a political controversy stemming from her exclusive use of a private email address and home-based server during her tenure as the nation's top diplomat.

In a news conference Tuesday where she addressed the email scandal, Clinton said her server was guarded by the Secret Service and "there were no security breaches."

Comment: Oh those eeeevil Russian hackers (they had to be Russian of course). Jen Psaki has run interference for the famously quoted Victoria Nuland, and lately has become another symbol of an incompetent State Dept. Her main job seems to be demonizing Russia and excusing the latest failure of US foreign policy. This is more of the same.

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U.S. asks Vietnam to stop helping Russian bomber flights

David Brunnstrom
Reuters
Wed, 11 Mar 2015 02:56 UTC
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The United States has asked Vietnam to stop letting Russia use a former U.S. base to refuel nuclear-capable bombers engaged in shows of strength over the Asia-Pacific region, exposing strains in Washington's steadily warming relations with Hanoi.

The request, described to Reuters by a State Department official, comes as U.S. officials say Russian bombers have stepped up flights in a region already rife with tensions between China, U.S.-ally Japan and Southeast Asian nations.

General Vincent Brooks, commander of the U.S. Army in the Pacific, told Reuters the planes had conducted "provocative" flights, including around the U.S. Pacific Ocean territory of Guam, home to a major American air base.

Comment: More moves in the global chess game.

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Passport

Ukraine's ex-PM, Russian political analyst, 12 individuals latest target for US sanctions


TASS
Wed, 11 Mar 2015 02:05 UTC
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Sanctions were also imposed against Eurasian Youth Union and Russian National Commercial Bank

US has imposed sanctions on former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and 13 more people in connection with the situation in Ukraine, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.

Sanctions were also imposed against Eurasian Youth Union and Russian National Commercial Bank. Russian public figure, leader of the International Eurasian Movement Alexander Dugin was also put on the sanctions list.

Former Ukrainian Health Minister Raisa Bogatyreva, Ukrainian businessman and politician Sergey Abruzov and acting head of Russia's Federal Migration Service in Sevastopol Oleg Kozyura were also included in the blacklist.

US also imposed sanctions against representatives of the militia in the east of Ukraine, including deputy foreign minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Rpeubic (DPR) Ekaterina Gubareva, head of the DPR Central Election Commission Roman Lyagin and former DPR defense minister Alexander Khodakovsky.

US earlier introduced sanctions against largest Russian banks, including VTB, Sberbank, VEB, Gazprombank, Bank of Moscow and Rosselkhozbank.

Comment: While it problematic for the sanctioned banks not to have access to funds held in western banks, it likely that the individuals on this petty blacklist don't really care. Why should they want to visit such a corrupted, degenerate region?

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Dollar

Why the dollar is rising as the global monetary bubble craters

David Stockman
Contra Corner
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 22:06 UTC
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Contra Corner is not about investment advice, but its unstinting critique of the current malignant monetary regime does not merely imply that the Wall Street casino is a dangerous place for your money. No, it screams get out of harms' way. Now!

Yet I am constantly braced with questions about the US dollar and its impending demise. The reasoning seems to be that if America is a debt addicted dystopia - and it surely is - won't the US dollar sooner or later go down in flames as the day of reckoning materializes? Won't you make money shorting the doomed dollar?

Heavens no! At least not any time soon. The reason is simply that the other three big economies of the world - Japan, China and Europe - are in even more disastrous condition. Worse still, their governments and central banks are actually more clueless than Washington, and are conducting policies that are flat out lunatic - meaning that their faltering economies will be facing even more destructive punishment from policy makers in the days ahead.

Comment: When the music stops, there won't be enough chairs. In fact there might not be any chairs.

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Vader

CIA director Brennan blames 'social media' for 'strength' of ISIS


Rt
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 21:53 UTC
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The internet has "greatly amplified" the Islamic State's campaign of terrorism and has consequently stifled attempts to diminish the spread of the extremist group's ideologies, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency says.

Speaking Friday at the Council on Foreign Relations, CIA Director John Brennan said the group calling itself the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) has been so successful at staying intact and afloat largely because it has embraced new tools, such as social media, which enable it to achieve a transnational diffusion of ideas in real time over the web.

"What makes terrorism so difficult to fight is not just the ideology that fuels it, or the tactics that enable it. The power of modern communications also plays a role," Brennan said. "New technologies can help groups like ISIL coordinate operations, attract new recruits, disseminate propaganda and inspire sympathizers across the globe to act in their name."


Comment: We don't suppose he would mention who funds and supplies the 'Islamic State'?


Comment: So if social media is essentially controlled by - or, at least, its users, groups and threads monitored, crafted and vectored by - the CIA and associated US and UK govt agencies, does this mean they're to blame for the strength of ISIS?

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