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RT Breaking the Set - Training African warlords, lethal air pollution and spotting psychopathy

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Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:12 UTC
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On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin remarks on the US Military's increased efforts in the manhunt for Ugandan war-lord Joseph Kony, raising questions about the US' larger role in Africa, citing reports of US military activity in nearly every country on the continent. Abby then talks about a new World Health Organization report on the lethality of air pollution, which killed 7 million people worldwide in 2012, and is most dangerous in developing countries like India and China. Abby then speaks with BTS producer, Manuel Rapalo, about the top characteristics of sociopathy, and which professions attract these types of individuals. BTS wraps up the show with an exclusive interview with former NASA Astronaut and ISS Commander, Leroy Chiao, about US-Russian cooperation in space, life on other words and the reality of the film 'Gravity'.

Source: RT
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Sherlock

Live by way of deception, die by way of deception? Berezovsky death: Police say suicide, family say murder, coroner records 'open verdict'


Russia Today
Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:43 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Andrew CowieBoris Berezovsky leaves London's
The coroner has pronounced an 'open verdict' on the death of fallen tycoon Boris Berezovsky, after a two day hearing during which "contradictory" evidence was heard.

"I am not saying Mr Berezovsky took his own life, I am not saying Mr Berezovsky was unlawfully killed. What I am saying is that the burden of proof sets such a high standard it is impossible for me to say,"Berkshire coroner Peter Bedford told a Windsor court.

Inquests held into potentially suspicious deaths require definitive evidence that the deceased took their own life, meaning that thousands of suicides each year are recorded as 'open verdicts'.

Nonetheless, the testimonies heard in front of the court painted a contrasting picture of the last moments of the life of the exiled former Kremlin power-broker, who died on March 23 last year.

Berezovsky's longtime bodyguard Avi Navama painted a picture of a man devastated by the loss of his last-chance 2012 court case against Roman Abramovich, which likely bankrupted him, and forced him to move to his ex-wife's mansion. Navama described Berezovsky as a "shell of a man" who would often ask strangers about tips for committing suicide in his final months.
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Snakes in Suits

YouTube ban: Turkish officials conspire to stage Syria attack to provoke war


RT
Fri, 28 Mar 2014 06:52 UTC
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© FP Photo / Adem AltanTurkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
"I'll make up a cause of war by ordering a missile attack on Turkey." This leaked conversation is coming back to haunt the highest echelons of the Turkish government as it plans a provocation in Syria, while scrambling to contain social media internally.

The leaked audiotapes that reveal Turkey's highest ministers staging an anti-Assad military intervention in Syria, have already caused YouTube to be shut down in the country, as well as leading to fevered accusations of treachery and betrayal of Turkey's political interests - "a declaration of war," as Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu put it.

This is of course after intelligence chief Hakan Fidan suggested seizing the opportunity to secure Turkish intervention in the Syrian conflict - a war that has already claimed 140,000 lives, and counting. In the conversation, Davutoğlu is heard saying that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sees any attack as an "opportunity" to increase troop presence in Syria, where it has staunchly supported the anti-Assad rebels.

Below is a transcript of that conversation in full. The video can be found below.
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G7 kaffeeklatsch meets in The Hague without Russia for the first time since 1998

Julian Borger and Nicholas Watt
The Guardian
Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:15 UTC
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Western countries and Japan have suspended their 16-year collaboration with Russia in the G8 group in response to the annexation of Crimea and have threatened sweeping sanctions in the event of any Russian military moves in the region.

The move, a clear and deliberate break from the post-Soviet status quo, was intended to underline Russian isolation. Leaders from the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan met in The Hague as the G7 for the first time since Russian was brought into the group in 1998 to seal east-west co-operation and lay the cold war to rest.

The G7 leaders issued a joint statement, under the title of the Hague Declaration,saying they would not attend a planned G8 summit in Sochi in June but would instead convene without Russia in Brussels. The group's foreign ministers would also boycott a planned G8 meeting in Moscow in April. The declaration said Russia's actions were not consistent with the "shared beliefs and shared responsibilities" that had made the formation of the G8 possible.

As Russian troops appeared to mass on Ukraine's eastern border, the G7 statement hinted at much broader sanctions if Russia made further expansionist moves.
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'Bishop of bling' resigns after spending £26m in Church funds to renovate his home


UK Independent
Fri, 28 Mar 2014 07:09 UTC
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"Bishop bling" representin' da katolic chuch: Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst!
A disgraced German bishop, who resigned over his misuse of Church funds, spent €213,000 (£176,000) on an ornamental fish tank.

The extravagant purchase was just one item listed in a report into Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst's spending.

The leadership of Germany's Catholic Church on Wednesday published the 108-page document detailing the Bishop of Limburg's renovation of his headquarters.

It revealed that the 54-year-old, dubbed the "bishop of bling", had poured at least €31 million(£26 million) of Church funds into his residence - more than five times the originally estimated cost of €5.5 million (£4.5 million).

This included €1.73 million (£1.4 million) on bronze window frames, €171,000 (£141,000) on a spiral staircase and €1.17 million (£966,000) on décor and artwork.

Comment: German bishop spends £26m of Church (read public) funds to renovate his home, resigns, and, when he's outed, is "punished" by being moved "elsewhere".

Response from the all new cool and groovy "my middle name's 'austerity'" Pope Francis?
"Pope Francis asked the (fleeced) flock in Limburg to accept the decision "with docility" and to work towards the restoration of a "climate of charity and reconciliation".
That's right, forget the outrage, just make with the "docility" sheeple, and don't forget to redouble your efforts to be more "charitable". IOW, suck it up losers! But keep praying and maybe the psycho pedo priests will all magically disappear.

Francie's not worried though, he knows that when he's done being his popeyness, he'll immediately get a job at the IMF.

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Bad Guys

Videos: This is Ukraine since the NATO Coup

William Engdahl
Boiling Frogs Post
Tue, 25 Mar 2014 17:24 UTC
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The events in Ukraine since the start of anti-Yanukovich protests last November have been reported in Germany and in the Western mainstream media such that we are led to believe the ousted Yanukovich regime was evil and the new regime are the good democrats. What has been deliberately censored from Western media is the reality on the ground. Here are a number of amateur videos filmed during and after the coup that paint an alarming picture of the new regime that now might join NATO if Washington has its way.

While thousands of honest Ukrainians protested peacefully for change and against the official corruption, the control of the opposition was always in the hands of brutal, organized neo-nazi groups such as Pravy Sektor (Right Sector) and, behind them, the hard-core trained killers of UNA-UNSO (Ukrainian National Assembly-Ukrainian National Defense Organization) headed by Andrei Shkil, former adviser of the corrupt Julya Timoschenko. The fascist thugs, in many ways comparable to the Black Shirts of Mussolini fascists, are tied intimately to the parliamentary party, Svoboda, of Oleh Tyahnybok.
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UK Independence Party leader says EU has 'blood on its hands' over Ukraine


RT
Thu, 27 Mar 2014 20:36 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Pool / Ian WestUK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage speaks during a debate over Britain's future in the European Union with British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in London on March 26, 2014.
The EU has blood on its hands after meddling in the Ukrainian crisis, once again revealing its imperial ambitions, Nigel Farage, leader of the euroskeptic UK Independence Party, said in a TV debate with Britain's deputy PM, Nick Clegg.

With EU parliamentary elections scheduled for May, Farage and Clegg clashed over the UK's membership in the European Union in a live televised debate Wednesday night on LBC Radio.

When the debate touched upon events in Ukraine, Clegg said that he was proud of the EU for reaching out to ex-Communist states in Eastern Europe and former "fascist dictatorships" on the Mediterranean.

Those states only managed to turn into "democracies because they became part of the family of nations within the EU," Clegg said.

But Farage responded with a completely opposite stance toward the armed coup that ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich in late February.

"We should hang our heads in shame," Farage said, adding that it was the British government that had encouraged the EU to pursue "imperialist, expansionist" ambitions in Ukraine.
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Diego Garcia - A brief history lesson: U.S. military forcibly transported inhabitants and gassed their dogs

Sherwood Ross
Global Research
Thu, 27 Mar 2014 20:22 UTC
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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.

By banning journalists from the area, the U.S. Navy was able to perpetrate this with virtually no press coverage, says David Vine, an assistant professor of anthropology at American University and author of "Island of Shame: the Secret History of the U.S. Military on Diego Garcia (Princeton University Press)."

"The Chagossians were put on a boat and taken to Mauritius and the Seychelles, 1,200 miles away, where they were left on the docks, with no money and no housing, to fend for themselves," Vine said on the interview show "Books Of Our Time," sponsored by the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover.

"They were promised jobs that never materialized. They had been living on an island with schools, hospitals, and full employment, sort of like a French coastal village, and they were consigned to a life of abject poverty in exile, unemployment, health problems, and were the poorest of the poor," Vine told interview host Lawrence Velvel, dean of the law school.

Their pet dogs were rounded up and gassed, and their bodies burned, before the very eyes of their traumatized owners, Vine said.
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Russia deploys warplanes to Belarus to fend off potential NATO threat


RT
Thu, 13 Mar 2014 20:16 UTC
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© RIA Novosti / Igor ZaremboSukhoi Su-27
Six Russian Sukhoi-27 fighter jets and three transport planes have been deployed at Bobruisk airfield in Belarus. Earlier this week Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko invited Russian forces to fend off potential NATO threat.

"In case of continuing build-up of military forces in countries bordering Belarus, the country will take adequate response measures," says a statement from the country's Defense Ministry in Minsk.

NATO is sending 12 F-16 craft in Poland, in the wake of the Crimea crisis, and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski has asked for an even greater US presence. Baltic states have also requested military assistance from NATO.

Just like their NATO counterparts, the Russian aircraft in Belarus will participate in a joint training exercise.
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Belgium taxpayers to pay more than €10m for Obama's visit

Leo Cendrowicz
The Guardian
Mon, 24 Mar 2014 16:18 UTC
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As Belgium's capital and host to the EU and Nato, Brussels is used to deploying heavy security when big names pop by. But US President Barack Obama's visit on Tuesday will strain the city like never before with €10m ($10.4m, £8.4m) of Belgian money being spent to cover his 24 hours in the country.

The president will arrive on Tuesday night with a 900-strong entourage, including 45 vehicles and three cargo planes. Advance security teams orchestrating every last detail have combed Brussels already, checking the sewers and the major hospitals, while American military helicopters were last week given the green light for overflights. The city hosts at least four EU summits a year, with each of these gatherings costing €500,000 in extra police, military and transport expenses. "But this time round, you can multiply that figure by 20," said Brussels mayor, Yvan Mayeur.

The city's four-stage security scale will be raised from two to three during the visit, Obama's first to the country. A tight cordon will surround The Hotel, the 27-storey former Hilton in the Toison d'Or shopping district where the president will spend the night.

Belgium itself is mobilising 350 police and military on motorbikes to secure the president's routes to EU and Nato summits on Wednesday, while a convoy of nine US helicopters will take Obama to an American first world war cemetery.
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