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Masks Slipping: Former White House spokesman's almost unbelievable response when pressed on Benghazi emails

Jason Howerton
The Blaze
Fri, 02 May 2014 18:54 UTC
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When grilled by Bret Baier on the newly-released Benghazi emails on Thursday, former White House national security spokesman Tommy Vietor apparently didn't know how to respond.

"Dude, this was like two years ago," he said at one point.

The latest Benghazi emails reveal an apparent coordinated effort to portray the Benghazi terror attacks as the result of a video to minimize the political fallout and protect President Barack Obama.

Baier asked Vietor why, if it means nothing as the White House claims, the new emails weren't released with other emails months ago. Instead, Judicial Watch had to wrestle the emails - described as a "smoking gun" by some - from the White House.
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Turkish PM offers condolences to Armenians for genocide

Joachim Hagopian
Global Research
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:43 UTC
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Today April 24th is considered Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day by Armenians throughout the world. Yesterday for the very first time in history on the eve of the 99th year anniversary of the Armenian genocide, the Turkish government abandoned its century long official wall of denial when the Turkish Prime Minister Recap Tayyip Erdogan expressed his condolences to Armenians around the world who lost ancestors at the hands of Ottoman Turks. It was a historic gesture welcomed by many including a handful of prominent and outspoken Turkish historians who have been encouraging the government to change its longstanding policy of denying that Turks ever killed Armenians at all. After reading his conciliatory message before the Turkish parliament, Erdogan received a warm reception from his ministers and legislators.
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Netanyahu pushes to define Israel as nation state of Jewish people only

Peter Beaumont
The Guardian
Sun, 04 May 2014 14:03 UTC
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© Oliver Weiken/AFP/Getty ImagesBinyamin Netanyahu, centre, at the weekly meeting of his cabinet.
PM proposes rare change to basic law in response to 'constant and increasing assault' on aspects of Israel's legitimacy

Binyamin Netanyahu will push ahead with a rare change to Israel's basic laws - which amount to the country's constitution - to insist Israel is "the nation state of one people only - the Jewish people - and of no other people".

At Sunday's weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said the civil rights of minorities, including Arabs, would be guaranteed, and the move was vital at a time when aspects of Israel's legitimacy were "under a constant and increasing assault from abroad and at home".

Netanyahu proposed the change last week during a visit to Tel Aviv's Independence Hall, attracting fierce criticism from political rivals and support from some of his allies. The move follows a Palestinian refusal in peace talks to recognise the status that Netanyahu described.

The proposed law would be in addition to Israel's declaration of independence of May 1948 - the anniversary of which is celebrated on Tuesday - which defines Israel as a Jewish state.

Most of Israel's basic laws deal with procedural issues relating to elections, the appointment of the prime minister, state payments and the administration of the judiciary, but some laws have been more controversial, including the 1980 law that designated Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
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Chase Bank exploiting FDIC warning to close accounts of adult entertainment industry workers

David Ferguson
The Raw Story
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:17 UTC
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Chase Bank sent hundreds of letters this week to account holders who work in the adult entertainment industry informing them that they have until May 11 to close their accounts and find another bank.

XBiz.com, an industry newsletter, reported on workers who received the notices, including performer Teagan Presley.

"I got a letter and it was like please cancel all transactions, please fix your automatic pay account and make sure everything's taken care of by May 11," Presley told XBiz. "I called them and they told me that because I am, I guess, public and am recognizable in the adult business, they're closing my account. Even though I don't use my account, it's my personal account that I've had since I was 18, when it was Washington Mutual before Chase bought them out."
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Anonymous Ukraine battling illegal coup govt in Ukraine - funded and directed from the West: Releases Klitschko e-mails showing treason

John Robles
Voice of Russia
Sun, 23 Feb 2014 17:56 UTC
Vitaly Klischko
© EPAThe face of a traitor: Vitaly Klischko
Anonymous Ukraine is battling the forces in Ukraine that are funded and directed from the West and attempting to overthrow the democratically elected government of the sovereign country of Ukraine.

Anonymous Ukraine is operating in what can only now be described as a war zone and the security measures they are forced to take are extreme. A member of Anonymous Ukraine who wishes to remain anonymous spoke to the Voice of Russia about the operations and the recent release of e-mails between Vitaly Klischko and the Lithuanian Presidential advisor. The e-mails show that Klitschko was intentionally planning to destabilize the country, is being instructed and funded from abroad and has his accounts in Germany.

Comment: What a grovelling, sycophantic, bootlicking excuse for a human! This man deserves to be in prison, along with everyone else who conspired to sell their country down the tubes.

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Israel halts peace talks so it can continue to torture and murder Palestinians

Anne Gearan and Ruth Eglash
The Washington Post
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:40 UTC
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Israel broke off peace talks with the Palestinians on Thursday, saying that a planned reconciliation between the moderate faction participating in the talks and the militant Islamist group Hamas made negotiation impossible.

The rupture appeared to be the final blow to an ambitious U.S.-sponsored effort to frame a peace treaty this year. Israeli-Palestinian talks that began last summer under heavy American pressure were already sputtering and were due to expire next week.

The negotiations, always a long shot, marked the first deep involvement by the Obama administration to address the in­trac­table conflict. The direct Israeli-­Palestinian talks, often with a U.S. mediator present, had been the most sustained and substantive such discussions in more than five years.
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Ukraine crisis: Kremlin insists it cannot control pro-Russian separatists and calls for dialogue with West

Oliver Poole
The Independent
Sun, 04 May 2014 16:00 UTC
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Pro-Russian protesters hold a vigil for dead comrades in Donetsk
The Kremlin said yesterday it was receiving "thousands" of pleas for help from Ukraine, warning that it could not control pro-Russian separatists in the country and now required help to resolve the worsening violence.

As Russian troops continued to conduct exercises near the Ukrainian border and the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, demanded the Russian government do more to defuse the situation or risk further economic sanctions, a Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, was quoted as saying that Russia had "lost its influence" over separatists in the region.

Speaking in Moscow yesterday, Mr Peskov said: "People are calling in despair, asking for help. The overwhelming majority demand Russian help. All these calls are reported to [President] Vladimir Putin."

He made clear that the Russian government blamed the West for the worsening situation, while stressing the need for "dialogue" towards a peaceful resolution. "Kiev and its Western sponsors are practically provoking the bloodshed and bear direct responsibility for it. Those who recognise this junta as a legal power become an accomplice to this crime."

Comment: Lavrov is completely right. It's absurd to demand Russia control the anti-Kiev protestors in Ukraine. If a group of Russian citizens were threatening Kiev, on Russian soil, it might be different. But the fact of the matter is that the West (mainly the U.S. and their Kiev Kronies) created this problem from the get-go. It is THEIR responsibility to solve it, within the confines of international law and human decency. The won't, of course, but that too is their problem. As will be the consequences.

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Russian Parliament demands war crimes tribunal for Kiev authorities for bloodbath in Odessa


ITAR-TASS
Sat, 03 May 2014 15:49 UTC
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© ITAR-TASS/Sergey FadeichevIrina Yarovaya, chair of the Duma Security Committee
The Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament) said the Kiev authorities were committing war crimes and therefore must face a military tribunal.

"I think this is an organised criminal group that has been acting like this since the very beginning, committing war crimes. For these atrocities they must be brought to justice as war criminals and they must be tried by an international military tribunal," Irina Yarovaya, chair of the Duma Security Committee, said on Saturday, May 3.

She believes that any support for 'the self-proclaimed Kiev authorities who ordered the extermination of their own people means compliance in this mass killing of people".

Duma Deputy Speaker Sergei Neverov is convinced that "there is no justification" for what happened in Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and Odessa in Ukraine.

"It's awful that the unleashing of civil war Ukraine is supported by the West that in no time has forgotten human rights and democratic values, of which EU countries and the United States claimed to be the advocates. Now no one has any doubt as to who is sponsoring unrests in Ukraine and who sponsored them from the start," he said.

Comment: The Western leaders remain dear to reasonable proposals because they're psychopaths. Once again, Russia is making their stance clear: international law must be obeyed. It is not just a combination of words to be conveniently parroted when it's in the West's interests.

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Surprised? Jim Fetzer says all NSA intel goes directly to Israel


PressTV
Sun, 04 May 2014 15:42 UTC
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A political analyst says the US National Security Agency (NSA) directly sends all of the intelligence that it gathers to Israel.
The US National Security Agency (NSA) directly sends all of the intelligence that it gathers to the Israeli regime, a political analyst tells Press TV.

"We now know that all of the NSA's spying is going directly to Israel," James H. Fetzer, a professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, said in a Saturday interview.

"I believe that all of our allies should discontinue sharing their intelligence with the Unites States unless they are willing that it should go directly to Tel Aviv," the analyst said.
"It would be advisable for the Unites Nations to undertake an exploration of this because it appears to be a violation of national sovereignty for one nation to be spying on the communications of its highest executive officials," Fetzer added.
He said even if the UN passed a resolution against spying, there would be no guarantee that the two countries would stop their illegal acts of espionage.
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Ukraine military engages self-defense fighters in Slavyansk


RT
Sun, 04 May 2014 15:16 UTC
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© Reuters/Baz RatnerA Ukrainian soldier points his weapon at an approaching car with APCs behind him at a checkpoint near the town of Slavyansk.
Anti-government protesters are reportedly conducting a battle with Ukrainian military forces on the outskirts of the eastern town of Slavyansk in the Donetsk region. Self-defense fighters say they will push the troops out of the town.

"There was a gunfight near the railway station about half-an-hour ago. From there it moved to Malinovka district," a representative of the local self-defense headquarters told Interfax. According to the source, protesters managed to drive the troops to the outskirts of the town, and "plan to dislodge them from there."

One activist, called Natalia, confirmed to RT that currently there is shooting near the villages of Malinovka and Andreevka.

She said that self-defense is currently "pursuing" National Guard troops, Rights Sector militants and "mercenaries."

"So, we are now conducting an offensive rather than a defensive operation," Natalia said. The "operation" is aimed at the "destruction" of the troops' camps in the area.

Earlier, Ukrainian troops who are continuing their special operation in Slavyansk, took control of a local TV broadcasting center, the country's Interior Ministry said, as cited by Itar-Tass.

Meanwhile the Donetsk region self-defense forces say they have managed to regain some of the areas, previously seized by Ukrainian troops. That's according to Miroslav Rudenko, one of the Donbass self-defense leaders, who was interviewed by Interfax.

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