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Russian report on U.S. genocide of Hiroshima and Nagasaki declassified

Kristina Rus
Fort Russ
Wed, 05 Aug 2015 19:37 UTC
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Russian Historical Society has published a report of the Soviet ambassador to Japan on the aftermath of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the Archive of Foreign Policy of Russia in time for the 70-th anniversary of the attacks. The report was recorded a month after the attacks.

The following are the highlights of the report:

The train terminal and the city of Hiroshima were destroyed so much that there was no shelter to hide from the rain.

The city was a scorched plain with 15-20 cement buildings left standing.

Several dozen thousand people huddled in the dugouts on the outskirts of the city.

People who came to help the victims during the first 5-10 days died.

A month after the bombing grass began to grow and new leaves appeared on the burned trees.

Glass windows in the cement building of police department, which was left standing, blew out inward. The ceiling was bulging upwards.

Comment: America is doing its best to live up to its legacy of cold-blooded mass murder. See also: Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 70 years ago the US 'elite' murdered 500,000 Japanese civilians to 'send a warning' to Russia

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Arrow Up

Voice of sanity: Influential German figures urge government to abandon confrontational relations with Russia


Oriental Review
Wed, 05 Aug 2015 00:00 UTC
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A couple of weeks ago a group of influential German figures, the members of Willy Brandt Circle, have signed an Open Letter to SPD (German Social-Democrats) Bundestag delegates and cabinet ministers urging them to abandon the confrontational course in relations with Russia. The authors reviewed the degrading EU-Russia ties in the context of Ukraine's crisis which was the direct result of mutual misunderstandings and controversies. Hereby ORIENTAL REVIEW publishes an exclusive English translation of the Letter in full:

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Europe is experiencing the worst crisis since the end of the East-West conflict. Not only dealing with Greece and the thousands of refugees heighten tenses across the continent, but also the ceasefire negotiation process in Ukraine remains fragile. As long as the conflict over the future of Ukraine is unsolved, the real danger of escalation is on the table.

A comprehensive peace treaty for Europe, envisioned by the Charter of Paris 1990, is still needed. Europe has no interest in aggravating old controversy between the United States and the USSR, bringing Russia to its knees. There is a difference between the European and the American interests: pan-European problems cannot be solved without Russia or even against Russia. Recent history shows: Russia and the peoples of the Soviet Union contributed more than anyone to the liberation of Europe from fascism and later to the unification of Germany. Therefore, Germany has a special responsibility to win Russia as a negotiating partner in the European peace order.
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South Front military review: ISIS in Iraq, Novorossia updates


South Front
Wed, 05 Aug 2015 16:58 UTC
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The Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), supported by U.S.-led Coalition, have continued to report advances north and south of Ramadi while simultaneously repelling ISIS's attacks east of the city. ISIS employs a mobile defense and deploys SVBIEDs against the ISF south and east of the city. These attacks are aimed to reverse the ISF's momentum. ISIS uses the same strategy of a mobile defense, which it tried in the east of Tikrit earlier this year.

While the Iraqi government and ISF remained focused on Anbar, attacks by ISIS on civilians continued in Diyala. Moreover, the tensions are currently running high in allareas recaptured from ISIS, where Sunni communities were divided in terms of whether they resisted or cooperated with ISIS. It indicates that the US-backed Iraq government's attepmts to gain support of the Sunni groups in recaptured territories are far from a success.

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Eye 1

NSA documents obtained by Snowden confirm existence of ECHELON spying program


RT
Mon, 03 Aug 2015 19:01 UTC
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© Kieran Doherty / ReutersGCHQ's ECHELON facility at Bude, Cornwall
NSA documents obtained by whistleblower Edward Snowden confirm the existence of ECHELON, a secret surveillance network spying on satellite communications. Set up by the US and the UK in the 1960s, ECHELON was the precursor of today's global dragnet.

The revelations vindicated the work of British investigative journalist Duncan Campbell, who first wrote about ECHELON's existence in 1988 and continued writing about the program for the next 27 years.

NSA newsletters cited by The Intercept confirm that the program was set up in 1966, just a year after the first communication satellites were launched into Earth orbit. The dragnet was codenamed FROSTING, and consisted of two sub-programs. While TRANSIENT was targeting Soviet Union's satellite communications, Western satellite signals were to be harvested by ECHELON. Eventually, all satellite surveillance was merged into FORNSAT, a global program exposed by the Snowden revelations.

Writing in The Intercept, Campbell explained how he stumbled upon the existence of ECHELON during a 1987 trip to the US. A computer systems manager named Margaret Newsham, formerly employed by Lockheed Martin on a NSA contract, told him about the existence of a colossal surveillance scheme operated by the NSA and the UK's Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ.
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Bad Guys

MH-17 cover up: Pilot's body and coroner's report blocked from being released publicly and to family of pilot

Eric Zuesse
Global Research
Wed, 05 Aug 2015 18:12 UTC
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It might be the decisive piece of evidence proving who and what and how and why the MH17 Malaysian airliner over the conflict zone in Ukraine on 17 July 2014 was shot down, but the pilot's corpse has been hidden even from the people who have the most right to see it.

The corpse of the pilot of the MH17 Malaysian airliner might contain in it bullets, or bullet-residues, that can prove a Ukrainian military jet intentionally fired into the pilot; or else it might contain only missile-shrapnel, which would be consistent only with the plane's having been erroneously shot down by a ground-based missile such as the Ukrainian government says it was; but the Malaysian government has prohibited anyone to see it โ€” not even his relatives, who are still trying to find out how and who murdered their loved-one and the 297 other people who were aboard that tragic plane on July 17th of 2014.

Until recently, the Malaysian government itself had had no access to the coroner's report on the corpse: it was done by a Dutch coroner, in Holland.

The corpse has been hidden from everyone, and the Malaysian Government isn't even being permitted, by the other four nations on the official investigatory commission, to say anything to anyone outside the commission โ€” not even to the pilot's family. The coroner's report on the pilot's body exists, but has been seen by no one outside of the now 5-nation investigatory commission. (The commission was originally just Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, and Ukraine, but Malaysia was recently added. The Dutch government heads the commission. The Dutch government had helped to install the current Ukrainian government, whose Air Force is a suspect in having possibly shot down the MH17 airliner. Netherlands, along with the U.S., and also along with George Soros's International Renaissance Foundation, had funded Hromadske TV, which propagandized heavily for forcing the democratically elected Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, to leave his Presidency before the next election would be held, and which then propagandized Ukrainians heavily for the ethnic cleansing operation to get rid of the residents in Ukraine's Donbass, the only area of Ukraine that had voted 90%+ for Yanukovych. So: the Dutch government had actually helped to install the current Ukrainian government โ€” which might have shot down the MH17, and yet which is a member of the official 'investigation.')
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Vader

Pentagon propaganda: Freedom of Information request reveals vast government influence on movies, television, and video games

David Swanson
Washington's Blog
Tue, 04 Aug 2015 16:05 UTC
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© Reuters/Kevork DjansezianKeith Urban, Jennifer Lopez, Harry Connick, Jr., of "American Idol"
The U.S. Army and Air Force public relations offices have responded to a Freedom of Information Act request by releasing huge lists of movies and television shows that they have assessed and, at least in many cases, sought to influence. Here's the Army's PDF. Here's the Air Force's PDF.

The shows and films, foreign and U.S. made, aimed at foreign and U.S. audiences, including documentaries and dramas and talk shows and "reality" TV, cross every genre from those obviously related to war to those with little discernable connection to it.

Films show up in theaters without any notice that they have been influenced by the Army or Air Force or other branch of the military. And they carry ratings like G, PG, PG-13, or R. But the Army's until-now-secret assessments of films also give them ratings. Every rating is positive and cryptic. They include:
  • Supports Building Resiliency,
  • Supports Restoring Balance,
  • Supports Maintaining our Combat Edge,
  • Supports Adapting Our Institutions,
  • Supports Modernizing Our Force.

Comment: More solid evidence that the government is heavily involved in controlling the popular culture in the U.S. and around the world. See also:

The Pentagon-Hollywood Connection: Propaganda, censorship, and bribery
CIA and Pentagon have long-running influence over Hollywood's representation of military
Ironman, Black Hawk Down, Transformers all altered according to Pentagon 'requests'
Argo: Hollywood as extension of CIA propaganda

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Eye 2

At least 4 million people dead due to America's global holocaust, "War on Terror"


Mint Press
Wed, 05 Aug 2015 15:28 UTC
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A study released earlier this year revealed the shocking death toll of the United States's "War on Terror" since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but the true body count could be even higher.

Published in March by Physicians for Social Responsibility, the study, conducted by a team that included some Nobel Prize winners, determined that at least 1.3 million people have died as a result of war since Sept.11, 2001, but the real figure might be as high as two million. The study was an attempt to "close the gaps" in existing research, including studies like the Iraq Body Count," which puts the number of violent deaths in that country at about 219,000 since 2003, based on media reports of the time period.

Investigative journalist Nafeez Ahmed, writing in April for Middle East Eye, explained some of the ways the previous figures fell short, according to the physicians' research:

Comment: In its self-righteous "war against terror" the US has managed to destroy at least 4 million innocent civilians, all while stealing their resources and decimating their countries and cultures. The sheer number of dead should really make the West ill with shame, guilt, and remorse. But many still hide behind the phony excuse of fighting 'terrorism' in order to hide from reality. Meanwhile the body count grows daily.

History certainly does rhyme, thanks to psychopaths always finding their ways into positions of authority. For more on this global holocaust, check out SOTT's Holocaust 2.0 series:

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Snakes in Suits

Political war breaks out in Germany over whistle blower 'treason plot'


Sputnik
Wed, 05 Aug 2015 13:41 UTC
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A bitter row has broken out in Germany between the Ministry of Justice and the Attorney General's office over a treason investigation into two journalists, who exposed the role of the German secret service in the mass surveillance of its citizens.

The Federal Minister for Justice, Heiko Maas, has called on the Federal Prosecutor General Harald Range to step down from his post after he ordered the investigation.

"I have told federal prosecutor Range that my trust in his ability to fulfill the office has suffered lasting damage and therefore, in agreement with the chancellery, I will request his retirement today," Maas said.

Comment: Looks like the German politicians are embarrassed that their secret mass surveillance program has been revealed and are pointing fingers at each other. When we look at the definition of treason:
The betrayal of one's own country by waging war against it or by consciously or purposely acting to aid its enemies.
we see the politicians believe that being exposed on their secret programs aimed at control of the population is seen as betrayal by the whistle blowers. The accusation of treason by Netzpolitik is really quite absurd; they are not waging war against the country or aiding any enemies of Germany. So who really is waging war? Are the German people considered the enemy here? It would appear so.

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Best of the Web: Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 70 years ago the US 'elite' murdered 500,000 Japanese civilians to 'send a warning' to Russia


RT.com
Wed, 05 Aug 2015 11:21 UTC
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Blackened bodies, mothers who couldn't recognize their charred children and those still alive screaming with pain - these are horrific details the survivors of nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki recall ahead of 70th anniversary of the tragedy.

The US was the first nation to use nuclear weapons against an enemy target when they dropped atomic bombs on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II on August 6 and 9, 1945.

More than 80,000 civilians died immediately as a result of the Hiroshima bomb - a device nicknamed 'Little Boy' by the US Air Force - and other 80,000 were believed killed in the Nagasaki attack by 'Fat Man'. Thousands died from radiation sickness in the months and years following the blasts.

As of August 2014 the memorials in Hiroshima and Nagasaki list the names of more than 450,000 people who died in the tragedy: 292,325 in Hiroshima and 165,409 in Nagasaki.

Chiyoko Kuwabara, a survivor of Hiroshima atomic bombing, told RT that she was only 13 years old when the tragedy happened but the moments that changed her life forever still "linger in her memory."
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Pakistan tests Modi's mettle with Gurdaspur terror attack

C. Christine Fair
Huffington Post
Tue, 04 Aug 2015 23:25 UTC
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© Sameer Sehgal/Hindustnan TimesWailing family members of deceased Punjab police home guard jawan during cremation who was killed in a terrorist attack at Dina Nagar police station on July 28, 2015 in Amritsar, India.
When it was obvious that Narendra Modi would become India's prime minister, Pakistan grew alarmed. Modi's party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, is the party that gave India its nuclear status. Indians voted for Modi and the brave India he promised in hopes that his government would not indulge Pakistani predations, and punish them instead.

Pakistan has developed one core strategy in dealing with India over the decades: deploy Islamist militants to attack India while seeking cover from retaliation under its nuclear weapons. It should be noted that while Pakistan is most notorious for supporting Islamist terrorists, it also supports religious and ethnic insurgencies within India as well. Pakistan not only seeks to use terrorism to illegitimately acquire territory in Indian Kashmir, it also wants to resist India's rise in the international system. Until the Modi administration, Pakistan has remained fairly confident that India will not respond militarily to punish Pakistan for its state-sponsored terrorism or to deter it from doing so in the future.
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