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Gold Bar

The Ukraine gold heist


Thetruthseeker.co.uk
Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:40 UTC
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© 21st Century Wire
As the dust settles in Kiev, another money trail has been revealed...

According to reports out of Kiev (see links below), the US has quietly transfers 33 tons of Ukrainian gold out of the country and back to vaults in the US. Presumably, this sovereign wealth transfer would be counted as partial "collateral" for a fresh round of IMF, US FED, and ECB paper debt that is currently being organised for dumping into the Ukraine's economic black hole.

Multiple inquiries to US Federal Reserve administrators into the location of the Ukraine's gold have been met with the proverbial 'pass the buck', making tracking and tracking the final resting place of these 33 tonnes very difficult indeed - but one can expect that the NY Fed is probably the institution who has masterminded this financial heist.

Comment: Ukraine's Gold Reserves Secretly Flown Out and Confiscated by the New York Federal Reserve?

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Vader

Big Bad Bully: Israel threatens annexation against Palestinian move to join UN agencies


Al-Akhbar
Wed, 02 Apr 2014 11:55 UTC
idf protest
An Israeli minister threatened on Wednesday to annex further territory in the occupied West Bank in retaliation for renewed Palestinian action to join United Nations agencies and international treaties.

"If they are now threatening (to go to UN institutions), they must know something simple: they will pay a heavy price," Tourism Minister Uzi Landau told public radio.

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday said he had begun steps to join several UN agencies, abandoning a pledge to freeze such action for the duration of peace talks - which end in just four weeks.

Abbas announced a request to join "15 UN agencies and international treaties."
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USA

Noam Chomsky: Security and State Power

Noam Chomsky
Truthout
Mon, 03 Mar 2014 11:18 UTC
This article, the first of two parts, is adapted from a lecture by Noam Chomsky on Feb. 28 sponsored by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in Santa Barbara, Calif.
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© Prime Minister's Office/FlickrJoint National Security Council meeting, May 25, 2011
A leading principle of international relations theory is that the state's highest priority is to ensure security. As Cold War strategist George F. Kennan formulated the standard view, government is created "to assure order and justice internally and to provide for the common defense."

The proposition seems plausible, almost self-evident, until we look more closely and ask: Security for whom? For the general population? For state power itself? For dominant domestic constituencies?

Depending on what we mean, the credibility of the proposition ranges from negligible to very high.

Security for state power is at the high extreme, as illustrated by the efforts that states exert to protect themselves from the scrutiny of their own populations.
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Chalkboard

Russia wants detailed answers on NATO troop movement in Eastern Europe


RT
Thu, 03 Apr 2014 10:38 UTC
A NATO AWACS aircraft
© Reuters / Ina FassbenderA NATO AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control Systems) aircraft takes-off for a flight to Poland from the AWACS air base in Geilenkirchen near the German-Dutch border April 2, 2014.
Russia expects detailed explanations from NATO regarding expanding its military presence in Eastern Europe, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The statement comes after NATO bloc announced boosting its military presence in the area.

"We have addressed questions to the North Atlantic military alliance. We are not only expecting answers, but answers that will be based fully on respect for the rules we agreed on," Lavrov told reports at a joint briefing with Kazakhstan's FM Yerlan Idrisov.

The statement came after the NATO chief, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said the bloc will deploy more troops to Eastern Europe. According to him, NATO is considering "revised operational plans, military maneuvers and adequate troop reinforcements." This military buildup was approved by many eastern European countries. On April 1, Polish PM Donald Tusk praised the NATO presence in the country.

After the announcement of deploying troops in Ukraine, NATO also said that it is suspending all military and civilian cooperation with Russia over the Ukrainian crisis, a move that was immediately blasted by Moscow who said that neither Russia, not NATO would benefit from such a step. Russia called this move reminiscent of Cold War language.
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Blackbox

Finding scapegoats: Kiev detains Berkut officers in murky 'Maidan snipers' probe


RT
Thu, 03 Apr 2014 10:27 UTC
Dead bodies of sniper attack in Kiev
© AFP Photo / Alexander ChekmenevDead bodies lay on the ground during clashes with riot police in central Kiev on February 20, 2014 in Kiev.
Ukrainian prosecutors have detained several Berkut riot police officers, saying they may be behind the mass killings by unidentified snipers in Kiev on February 20. The new twist adds further mystery to the politically-loaded investigation.

The detainees belonged to 'Berkut black company', acting Prosecutor General Oleg Makhnitsky told journalists on Thursday.

The General Prosecutor's office explained that unlike regular Berkut troops, which went unarmed to the confrontation with anti-government protesters, the special operations unit was issued with sniper rifles to provide cover for their Berkut comrades.

"Their task was, as they explained, although we don't fully believe them, to shoot back at advancing protesters and allow the regular Berkut troops retreat," acting Deputy Prosecutor General Aleksey Baganets said.

A total of 12 officers were detained in the investigation, including the commander of the unit. The alleged involvement of other Ukrainian police and security units in the mass killings is still under investigation.

Comment: See also:
Getting closer to the truth: Estonian Foreign Ministry confirms authenticity of leaked call on Kiev snipers
BREAKING! Kiev snipers hired by new coalition, not Yanukovych - Estonian FM to EU chief Ashton
Leaked phone call that reveals conspiracy is now denigrated as "Conspiracy Theory" by MSM

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Yoda

Venezuela president extends his hand to the people of America and calls for peace

Nicolas Marudo
The New York Times
Tue, 01 Apr 2014 10:17 UTC
maduro
© Agence France-Presse/Luis AcostaVenezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro
According to the United Nations, Venezuela has consistently reduced inequality: It now has the lowest income inequality in the region. We have reduced poverty enormously - to 25.4 percent in 2012, on the World Bank's data, from 49 percent in 1998; in the same period, according to government statistics, extreme poverty diminished to 6 percent from 21 percent.

We have created flagship universal health care and education programs, free to our citizens nationwide. We have achieved these feats in large part by using revenue from Venezuelan oil.

Read more at the NY Times

Comment:
Breaking through the propaganda front: CNN's Christiane Amanpour interviews Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro blames the United States for deadly anti-government riots

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Bullseye

Own goal again: US senators fail to kick Russia out of 2014 World Cup


RT
Thu, 03 Apr 2014 10:13 UTC
© AFP Photo / Yasuyoshi ChibaGeneral view of Mario Filho "Maracana" stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Football's world governing body FIFA, has refused to kick Russia out of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, after two American senators said the country should be barred due to its actions in Ukraine.

Dan Coats and Mark Kirk wrote a letter to the organization based in Zurich in March asking for Russia's membership to be suspended, and for the country to be barred from competing in this year's World Cup in Brazil, as well as losing the right to host the event in four years' time.

In a letter to the two senators, FIFA said participation in the World Cup is based on sporting merit and only a violation of FIFA statutes and regulations could lead to a suspension from a competition.

Coats, a Republican senator from Indiana, was deeply disappointed by the ruling, saying, "FIFA suggests that outrageous misbehavior by member states does not matter because such decisions are irrelevant to soccer."

The 70-year-old, who was US ambassador to Germany for four years, cited Yugoslavia's expulsion from the 1992 European Championships in Denmark due to its behavior in the Balkan wars as a precedent, as this was not connected to the playing field.

It seems the American still plans to continue his protest.

"I continue to call upon FIFA leadership to impose the same punishment on Russia," Coats added.

Comment: The US senators seem oblivious to the fact that if outrageous behaviour is the criterion for not participating in international sporting events, then the US would find themselves terminally banned from all sporting events.

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Stormtrooper

Tyranny: Ukrainian leadership to hire US mercenaries to suppress people in eastern regions


Voice of Russia
Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:56 UTC
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© RIA
Private military company will be in charge of suppressing protest movements in Eastern Ukraine, said a source in the country's Security Service. According to him, the name of the company is Greystone Limited.

According to a source cited by ITAR-TASS, Ukrainian authorities believe that the Security Service is not able to suppress the protest mood and neutralize the leaders and activists of the pro-Russian movement in the eastern regions. In particular, the source said, the acting president Alexander Turchinov shares this opinion. "Therefore it was decided to attract foreign mercenaries, who will serve as political police and state security protection, " said the representative of the Security Service.

He informed that the initiative to attract mercenaries belongs to oligarchs Igor Kolomoisky and Sergei Taruta, appointed governors of Dnepropetrovsk and Donetsk regions.

Not so long ago, during a meeting with Turchinov, a plan to stop the protest movements in the eastern regions was discussed. Kolomoysky noted: "why reinvent the wheel if there are real people who understand how and how much to pay," said the source.

According to publicly available information Greystone Limited is a structural part of Blackwater, that was later renamed into Academi. According to military experts, the company is associated with the CIA and the US Defense Department. Its employees participated in the war in Afghanistan after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, the company has appeared in Iraq and became involved in training the new Iraqi armed forces and police, as well as support of the occupation forces.

Voice of Russia, TASS

Comment: Imagine if the elected president of Ukraine Yanukovych had hired Russian mercenaries to take care of the Maidan protests. Then you would have heard the word dictator used across the Western media.

Here we have a Western puppet government wanting to use US hired thugs to quell kill the pro Russian protest because this thing called free speech and self-determination is getting pretty annoying and yet to the Western governments all is fine and dandy.

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Nuke

Argentinian President: UK turned Malvinas into NATO nuclear base


Press TV
Thu, 03 Apr 2014 01:20 UTC
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has accused Britain of turning the disputed Malvinas Islands, known as the Falklands to the British, into a nuclear base for NATO.

Fernandez made the remarks while addressing an event marking the 32nd anniversary of the beginning of the war with Britain over the islands on Wednesday.

"The truth about Malvinas is that it constitutes the biggest NATO nuclear military base in the South Atlantic. This is the truth they cannot keep hiding," the Argentine president told war veterans and supporters during the event.

Comment: Argentine president condemns Western policy on situation in Crimea and reminds the West of the Falkland referendum

What the British did to Malvinas, sounds like what the U.S. and U.K. did to Diego Garcia:
In order to convert the sleepy, Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia into a dominating military base, the U.S. forcibly transported its 2,000 Chagossian inhabitants into exile and gassed their dogs.


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Bad Guys

Hawaii may cut health benefits to Pacific islanders affected by nuclear testing


RT
Wed, 02 Apr 2014 02:41 UTC
american first H bomb
© AFP PhotoPicture taken on November 01, 1952 of the explosion of the american first H bomb, in the Eniwetok Atoll, in the Marshall Islands.
A US federal court has granted Hawaiian lawmakers permission to slash benefits for residents whose families formerly lived on a string of Pacific islands that the US military used as a nuclear test site in the decades after World War II.

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit removed an injunction Tuesday that prevented the state from reducing the health benefits paid out to residents of Micronesia, Palau, and the Marshall Islands, where a number of people claim they are still suffering from health problems caused by the military tests.

In the years between 1946 and 1958, at least 67 nuclear weapons tests were conducted on the small group of atolls located north of Australia and just east of the Philippines. Over 7,200 Hiroshima-sized bombs were dropped on the Marshall Islands alone. The "Bravo Test" of 1954 dropped a bomb 1,000 times more powerful than the atom bomb used to decimate the Japanese city.

Not long after, families in Micronesia and other Pacific islands began birthing stillborn babies and children with birth defects. Others suffered the early onset of cancer, sterility, and illnesses they likely could have avoided had radiation not permeated the mostly isolated region.
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