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2015 will be all about Iran, China and Russia

Pepe Escobar
Sputnik
Fri, 02 Jan 2015 02:33 UTC
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Western hegemony vs Eurasian integration
Fasten your seat belts; 2015 will be a whirlwind pitting China, Russia and Iran against what I have described as the Empire of Chaos.

So yes , it will be all about further moves towards the integration of Eurasia as the US is progressively squeezed out of Eurasia. We will see a complex geostrategic interplay progressively undermining the hegemony of the US dollar as a reserve currency and, most of all, the petrodollar.

For all the immense challenges the Chinese face, all over Beijing it's easy to detect unmistakable signs of a self-assured, self-confident, fully emerged commercial superpower. President Xi Jinping and the current leadership will keep investing heavily in the urbanization drive and the fight against corruption, including at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Internationally, the Chinese will accelerate their overwhelming push for new "Silk Roads" -- both overland and maritime -- which will underpin the long-term Chinese master strategy of unifying Eurasia with trade and commerce.
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Snakes in Suits

Prince Andrew sex case claim: Duke of York is named in underage 'sex slave' lawsuit over claims of forced sexual relations

Andrew Griffin
The Indepedent
Fri, 02 Jan 2015 01:22 UTC
Prince Andrew
© Matthew Lloyd - WPA Pool/ Getty ImagesPrince Andrew, Duke of York arrives at the Royal Albert Hall on 8 November 2014 in London
A woman has alleged that she was repeatedly forced to have sexual relations with Prince Andrew as part of a lawsuit that claims an American investment banker passed her around rich and powerful friends as a "sex slave" while she was still underage. A Buckingham Palace spokesman has said the claims are "categorically untrue".

The accusation was made in a lawsuit brought by women who say they were exploited by Jeffrey Epstein, an American multi-millionaire who was convicted of soliciting sex with an underage girl in 2008, reports the Guardian.

The woman filed the case anonymously, and is understood to have been 17 at the time, which is considered a minor under Florida law.

The prince is not a named party in the legal claim, and has not had any opportunity to respond to the allegations. He has previously denied any sexual contact with young women associated with Epstein or any knowledge of his behaviour.

Comment: If these elites were sane and rational, they could maintain their position of power for centuries to come. However, greed and amassing personal wealth is not enough; these human-looking creatures simply have to indulge every dark, destructive desire. When the people find out what has been and is really going on, the sadism that characterizes the psychopathic mindset will also be their undoing.

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Sayonara! Azerbaijan gives Radio Free Europe the boot - raids office, closes bureau


Voice of America
Sat, 27 Dec 2014 21:39 UTC

Comment: Read this report, then read it again, while keeping in mind that Radio Free Europe was at first an openly acknowledged CIA operation, until 1972 after which it fell under the purview of the Board for International Broadcasting. It is 'overseen' by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the "independent" entity responsible for U.S.-government-related international broadcasting. (John Kerry happens to be on the board of directors.) Leopards don't change their spots.


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Azerbaijani authorities detain RFE/RL's Baku bureau staff during an office raid, Dec. 26, 2014.
Azerbaijan police raided the Baku bureau of U.S.-government-funded Radio Free Europe early Friday, shutting down the office and ordering its journalists to stop working.

RFE chief editor Nenad Pejic called the raid "a flagrant violation of every international commitment and standard Azerbaijan has pledged to uphold."

He told VOA that officials from the state prosecutor's office took documents and questioned staff members from Radio Azadliq into Friday evening.
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Eye 2

Propaganda! U.S. continues to spread myth that North Korea hired hackers from Russia to take down 'The Interview'

Mark Hosenball and Jim Finkle
Reuters
Tue, 30 Dec 2014 13:46 UTC
Interview poster
© AFP Photo / Christopher Polk
U.S. investigators believe that North Korea likely hired hackers from outside the country to help with last month's massive cyberattack against Sony Pictures, an official close to the investigation said on Monday.

As North Korea lacks the capability to conduct some elements of the sophisticated campaign by itself, the official said, U.S. investigators are looking at the possibility that Pyongyang "contracted out" some of the cyber work. The official was not authorized to speak on the record about the investigation.

The attack on Sony Pictures is regarded to be the most destructive against a company on U.S. soil because the hackers not only stole huge quantities of data, but also wiped hard drives and brought down much of the studio's network for more than a week.

Comment: With no evidence to support their claims, the U.S. fabricated a story out of thin air to again vilify both North Korea and Russia, call for more strict cybersecurity legislation, and divert attention from a massive protest movement across the country against police brutality.

Joseph Goebbels must be turning in his grave from envy!

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Snakes in Suits

Poroshenko: Does he want peace or war?

Joshua Tartakovsky
Fort Russ
Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:26 UTC
poroshenko
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What is one to make of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's recent statement that violence and force have failed in suppressing the Donbass and that negotiations must be carried out? Poroshenko said that there is no military solution to the war in Donetsk and Lugansk while qualifying his statement by saying that if Russia will launch an intervention, Ukraine will introduce martial law. Poroshenko's statement that "we haven't got the resources for an offensive today" can be interpreted to mean that either he is planning to get the resources in the future or attempting to appear pragmatic so as to deflect accusations from ultra-nationalists that he betrayed their cause. Poroshenko also said that he would meet the leaders of Russia, Germany and France in Kazakhstan on January 15 (incidentally the same day in which anti-Russian government protests are expected to be held in Moscow and around the world) to discuss a settlement.

Comment: In sum, prepare for more of the same. And to get an idea of what that 'same' really is, just watch this: Don't miss this the previous documentary by the same filmmaker, either:

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Gift

Backfired sanctions: Argentina and UK Falklands spat spiced up by Russian jets


RT
Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:00 UTC
Su-24
© Reuters/China DailyA Sukhoi jet fighter Su-24.
The Falkland Islands - a UK overseas territory Argentina lays claim to - have been allegedly reviewing their defenses after news Russia may offer Argentina fighter jets. Moscow could swap them for beef and wheat, UK's Daily Express says in its report.

The deal reportedly involves a lease/lend of twelve Sukhoi Su-24 all-weather attack aircraft, which NATO calls "Fencer A". The jets will be able to do air patrols over the Falklands' capital, Port Stanley. According to the tabloid, Ministry of Defense officials fear Buenos Aires will take delivery of the planes well before the 2020 deployment of the Navy's 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth and its F-35B fighters, leaving a "real window of vulnerability."

Up to 1,500 troops, backed by a naval warship that visits throughout the year, are permanently based on the Falklands, along with four RAF Typhoon jets, plus anti-aircraft and artillery batteries.

Comment: Another kick from Master Putin!

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Che Guevara

'No more waiting': Palestine to set date for joining ICC, other intl bodies


RT
Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:11 UTC
UN resolution
© AFP Photo / Kena Betancur
Palestine is planning its next steps after the UN Security Council failed to adopt the Arab coalition's bid for the creation of a Palestinian state and an end to Israeli "occupation," officials said.

The Palestinian Authority could also schedule a date for applying to join the International Criminal Court and other international agencies, negotiator Saeb Erekat said, adding that officials would hold a "very serious meeting" on Wednesday.

"There will be no more waiting, no more hesitation, no more slowdown," Erekat said. "We are going to meet and make decisions."

Fatah's Central Committee and the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) will decide whether to sign the Rome Statute by the ICC, a senior Palestinian source told the Times of Israel.
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Eye 1

Germany secretly feeds U.S. information on possible jihadists

Greg Miller
The Washington Post
Tue, 30 Dec 2014 00:00 UTC
Activists in Berlin
© Sean Gallup/Getty ImagesActivists in Berlin protesting for more information about the cooperation between the National Security Agency and the German federal intelligence service hold a banner calling for former NSA employee Edward Snowden to come to Germany to testify in this September file photo.
In a crescendo of anger over American espionage, Germany expelled the CIA's top operative, launched an investigation of the vast U.S. surveillance programs exposed by Edward Snowden and extracted an apology from President Obama for the years that U.S. spies had reportedly spent monitoring German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone.

In an address to Parliament last year, Merkel warned that U.S.-German cooperation would be curtailed and declared that "trust needs to be rebuilt."

But the cooperation never really stopped. The public backlash over Snowden often obscured a more complicated reality for Germany and other aggrieved U.S. allies. They may be dismayed by the omnivorous nature of the intelligence apparatus the United States has built since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, but they are also deeply dependent on it.

Over the past year, Germany has secretly provided detailed information to U.S. spy services on hundreds of German citizens and legal residents suspected of having joined insurgent groups in Syria and Iraq, U.S. and German officials said.

Comment: It is interesting to observe how Germany justifies its policies to be a subordinate to the US over useless, manufactured US intelligence.

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Eye 2

Britain's Prince Andrews accused of having sex with underage girl - case makes its way to US court


RT
Fri, 02 Jan 2015 18:34 UTC
Prince Andrews
© ReutersBritain's Prince Andrews
Prince Andrew, son of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, has been accused of having sexual relations with an underage girl in a case submitted to a US court on Friday.

The woman involved in the case, who has not been named, told a court in Florida she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew multiple times by disgraced US multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein.

The statement is part of a wider case against Epstein, who is accused of "loaning out" the then-teenager to his friends and associates.

Comment: A representative for Prince Andrews once stated it was "unwise" for him to associate with Epstein, a convicted pedophile. But both were part of a much larger network of pedophiles and sex offenders, otherwise known as high-ranking politicians, who are categorically "unwise":
  • The former president [Bill Clinton] was friends with Jeffrey Epstein, a financier who was arrested in 2008 for soliciting underage prostitutes
  • A new lawsuit has revealed how Clinton took multiple trips to Epstein's private island where he 'kept young women as sex slaves'
  • Clinton was also apparently friends with a woman who collected naked pictures of underage girls for Epstein to choose from
  • He hasn't cut ties with that woman, however, and invited her to Chelsea's wedding
  • Epstein has a host of famous friends including Prince Andrew who stayed at his New York mansion AFTER his arrest
This is obviously not a problem of a lack of resources to investigate these crimes. It's a problem of priorities - and psychopaths in power have very different priorities than normal people do.

Also see:

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Airplane

Al-CIAda magazine urges 'lone wolf' terror attacks on major Western airlines


RT
Tue, 30 Dec 2014 00:00 UTC
airplane
© Reuters / Stefan Wermuth
Al-Qaeda has issued the latest edition of its online magazine, encouraging Islamic jihadists to carry out lone wolf attacks on major Western airlines, as well as providing a step-by-step bomb making guide and advice on how to evade airport security.

The English-language Inspire magazine was established in 2010, and is believed to be an Al-Qaeda publication in the Arabian Peninsula. Set up to influence Western jihadists with little or no command of Arabic, the magazine is alleged to be the brainchild US jihadist preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in a drone strike in 2011.

Sheikh Nasr Al-Ainsi, writing in the latest edition on Christmas Day, tells readers that 'lone mujahedeen' are the "West's worst nightmare".

The article, "Destination airport, and Guess What's on the Menu?" gives tips to potential jihadists on how to make a bomb, evade airport security and then publicize their actions. The writers also outline potential targets.

Comment: It will be interesting to see what the CIA will deliver to its citizens from its 'menu'.

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