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Color revolution underway in Macedonia as Western propaganda mill goes into full-spin mode

Andrew Korybko
Oriental Review
Thu, 14 May 2015 17:25 UTC
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Funeral for police officer killed in Kumanovo. 11 May 2015
Terrorists attacked the Macedonian city of Kumanovo on 9 May, but one wouldn't know that by reading the Western media's reaction to the tragedy, despite the fact that they typically mention that 8 police officers were killed and another 37 wounded during the firefight. The media's disingenuous 'reporting' reeks of ulterior motives, which is evidenced most visibly by their reluctance to use the word terrorist without putting it in questionable quotation marks, but also takes more subtle forms such as casting suspicion on the government for complicity in the attack and/or inferring that the attack was some type of legitimate protest reaction.


Comment: Western backed death squads are shipped into the targeted country, in this case from US carved and occupied mafia state of Kosovo, where they attempt to 'stir things up,' while the media pins the blame for the incident on the targeted government. The idea is also to create anger and violence amongst the population itself.

It is obvious that the West along with their terrorist proxies work in tandem and are not in fact opposed to each other.


Western institutions like the EU and NATO are actually worse since they confer equal responsibility for the violence on both the terrorists (which they don't even refer to as) and the Macedonian security services, and even the UN has taken to echoing their sly sentiments with all three entities questioning the official course of events and demanding a "transparent investigation". The US and its main Western European NATO allies escalate the rhetoric and actually engage in a form of victim shaming against the country during its official two-day period of mourning by questioning its commitment to "democracy" and not showing any solidarity with it whatsoever in its fight against terrorism. This shameless act (and lack thereof) shows that they and all the previously mentioned actors are in fact implicit supporters of Albanian terrorism against Macedonia and strong proponents of the state destabilization.

Part I of the research demonstrates how unipolar information sources purposely manipulate their coverage of the latest terrorist attacks in Macedonia, while Part II begins by showing how this is also the case for the Western and pro-Western institutions of the EU, NATO, and the UN. The series continues by addressing how the US and its allies have tried to shame and intimidate Macedonia, and then concludes by identifying probable scenarios for how they plan on punishing the proud country for resisting their aggression.

Comment: In light of the anti-government protest announced by the opposition for the 17th of May, the following excerpt is from the book Subverting Syria: How CIA Contra Gangs and NGO's Manufacture, Mislabel and Market Mass Murder. It captures a couple crucial steps in the Pentagon's Unconventional Warfare doctrine. Here is an overview of the game plan as it applies to Syria:
- Fund NGO's to create a climate of protest in the target country

- Provocateurs organize demonstrations, then fire on protesters and security forces alike to stoke violence

- Staged and mislabeled video footage creates the illusion of repression by the regime

- Mass media endlessly repeat the Big Lie that the nation's leader is a brutal dictator - " Give a dog a bad name and hang him."

- Invade border towns with special forces death squads, the CIA Foreign Legion of Al Qaeda psychopaths, fanatics and guns for hire

- Foment a civil war on ethnic divides, and fabricate pretexts for military intervention by the UN, or NATO

- Bomb the country into the stone age, to be conquered and ruled by NATO's Islamic terrorist puppets - Eradicate Arab socialism and government for the people, replacing it with a corrupt clique beholden to Wall Street and London bankers

- US corporations write multi-billion-dollar contracts for "reconstruction" and "security," yielding an astronomical profit on the spoils of war - Isolate Lebanon, Palestine , Iraq and Iran, giving free rein for Greater Israel to dominate the Middle East
See also Joaquin Flores' take on it on RT's 'In the Now':



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Cowboy Hat

Game Theory analysis says Russia wins in struggle for Ukraine

Alexander Mercouris
Russia Insider
Thu, 14 May 2015 13:04 UTC
Putin plays chess with Obama
Putin out-plays Obama in Ukraine
Game Theory analysis confirms what we have been saying all along: In Ukraine, Russia holds all the strong cards.

The Western aim of a unitary Ukraine inside the EU and NATO and allied against Russia cannot happen.

Leonid Bershidsky elegantly summarises a paper that applies game theory to the Ukrainian conflict. Briefly, the paper says that Russia can destabilise Ukraine indefinitely, creating a "frozen conflict" there, and that the West cannot prevent it from doing so.
The West can in theory respond by: (1) military escalation; (2) sanctions; and (3) returning to business as usual with Russia.

The authors of the paper, and Bershidsky himself, appear to think the most likely outcome in the short term is (2) (sanctions), but with a measure of (3) (returning to business as usual), and with (3) prevailing over the long term. Option (1) (military escalation) is not ultimately viable.

We agree.

Bershidsky — rightly, in our opinion — sums up Kerry's visit to Moscow in that way: "Kerry has come to Russia so the sides can agree to disagree on Ukraine and move on to other issues such as Syria and Iran, where constructive interaction is still possible."

Latest reports say that Kerry has warned Poroshenko against any attempt to recover Donetsk airport, which appears to bear that out. It seems that some at least in the U.S. are now at last looking for ways to isolate the Ukrainian conflict from the rest of the U.S. Russia relationship, so that the U.S. can move forward in its relations with Russia on other questions.

This warning from Kerry is incidentally the first time the U.S. has publicly warned Ukraine against a military solution.

Reports that suggest European leaders are now also pressing Kiev to fulfill the political part of the February Minsk Memorandum by entering into substantive constitutional negotiations and by granting wide autonomy to Donbass (previously discussed by us in First Sign of Germany Putting Pressure on Kiev to Implement Peace Deal, Russia Insider, 27th April 2015, and by me on Radio Sputnik, 12th May 2015) point in the same direction.

It should be said clearly however that this is in no sense a "draw", as Bershidsky appears to suggest.
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Bad Guys

Netanyahu to fulfill promise of driving Palestinians from Jerusalem

Patrick Strickland
The Electronic Intifada
Mon, 11 May 2015 12:49 UTC
Netanyahu
© (Downing Street/Flickr)Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to step up settlement activities in Jerusalem.
The Israeli authorities have issued a new raft of demolition orders to Palestinians living in occupied East Jerusalem.

On Sunday, an Israeli court approved the demolition of eight Palestinian homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Semiramis. The court said the owners must destroy the homes themselves and pay fines of 49,000 shekels ($12,667) by 1 August, Ma'an News Agency reports.

The demolition orders in Semiramis were delivered just days after Israel announced that it will build 900 new homes in Ramat Shlomo, a Jewish-only colony in East Jerusalem,according to the anti-settlement group Peace Now.

In March, ahead of elections for Israel's parliament, the Knesset, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to expand settlements in the occupied city.

"We will continue to build in Jerusalem, we will add thousands of housing units, and in the face of all the [international] pressure, we will persist and continue to develop our eternal capital," Netanyahu said.

Rima Awwad, a member of the Jerusalemites Campaign, a group that campaigns for Palestinian rights in the city, said Netanyahu "campaigned on a platform of de-Palestinianization of the occupied city and he is now following through on his promise."
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Eye 2

New French 'anti-terrorist' legislation - Security agencies given power to tap communications without oversight

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 15 May 2015 12:48 UTC
Merkel und Hollande
© flickr.com/Eoghan Olionnain (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Can a new surveillance law help stop terrorists the government is already tracking and simply choosing not to stop?

France has announced that in the wake of the so-called "Charlie Hebdo Shooting," it will be passing a controversial new bill granting security agencies unprecedented powers to tap the communications of France's population without judicial overview.

Impossible to pass without having first provoked fear, hatred, division, and hysteria across the French population, and still facing stiff resistance from civil liberty activists, the bill's passage raises further suspicions regarding the fatal January 2015 shooting in regards to who organized the incident and who stood most to benefit.

Comment: The UK and France have been marching hand in hand with Washington - against Russia and against their citizenry. Check out:

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Eye 2

UK's new counter-terrorism law brings it even closer to an overt police state


Sputnik News
Fri, 15 May 2015 12:59 UTC
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© Flickr / Elliott Brown

A suspected terrorist is arrested every day in Britain. More than 700 British born extremists have traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State; half of them, according to Scotland Yard, are already back on British soil.

The Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner for specialist crime and operations, Mark Rowley, said: "ISIL and other terrorist groups are trying to direct attacks in the UK, encouraging British citizens to travel to Syria to fight and train, and are seeking, through propaganda, to provoke individuals in the UK to carry out violent attacks here.

"They are not aid workers or visiting relatives, they are people of real concern that are getting involved in fighting or are supportive of it. They are potential terrorist suspects."

Comment: The EU and Washington go to great lengths to prove that they care little to nothing about human rights, unless they can use them as an excuse to steal or murder. 'Terrorism' is another excuse for the same end. Check out the following video for a short and concise summary of the myth of terrorism:



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Snakes in Suits

Western media still going bonkers over 'Russian troops in Ukraine'

Alexander Mercouris
Russia Insider
Fri, 15 May 2015 13:07 UTC
donbass
Attempts to prove the presence of Russian soldiers in Ukraine are reaching surreal levels.

The Russian liberal opposition has released a report to that effect, which it seems was largely prepared by the murdered Russian liberal politician Boris Nemtsov before his death.

Reuters has also published a dispatch under the incendiary title Special Report - Russian soldiers quit over Ukraine, to essentially the same effect.

Comment: Rather than the big outcry about Russians going to help the Ukrainian people, why not a focus on the neo-Nazis ruthlessly killing them?

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Snakes in Suits

Greatest threat to free speech comes not from terrorism, but from those claiming to fight It

Glen Greenwald
The Intercept
Fri, 15 May 2015 13:25 UTC
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We learned recently from Paris that the Western world is deeply and passionately committed to free expression and ready to march and fight against attempts to suppress it. That's a really good thing, since there are all sorts of severe suppression efforts underway in the West — perpetrated not by The Terrorists but by the Western politicians claiming to fight them.

One of the most alarming examples comes, not at all surprisingly, from the U.K. government, which is currently agitating for new counterterrorism powers, "including plans for extremism disruption orders designed to restrict those trying to radicalize young people." Here are the powers which the British Freedom Fighters and Democracy Protectors are seeking:
They would include a ban on broadcasting and a requirement to submit to the police in advance any proposed publication on the web and social media or in print. The bill will also contain plans for banning orders for extremist organisations which seek to undermine democracy or use hate speech in public places, but it will fall short of banning on the grounds of provoking hatred.

It will also contain new powers to close premises including mosques where extremists seek to influence others. The powers of the Charity Commission to root out charities that misappropriate funds towards extremism and terrorism will also be strengthened.
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Boat

Best of the Web: Invading the Black Sea: Washington's belligerent military maneuvers in traditional Russian territory

Eric Draitser
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 15 May 2015 12:08 UTC
U.S. Navy cruiser Vella Gulf
© Reuters/Bogdan CristelA view of U.S. Navy cruiser Vella Gulf in the Black Sea port of Constanta June 5, 2014.
While the war in Ukraine has raged on for more than a year, the growing conflict between the US-NATO and Russia has taken on new dimensions. From economic warfare waged by the West in the form of sanctions, to the diplomatic rows over the commemoration of Victory Day in Moscow, more and more it seems that relations between East and West are fraying beyond repair. Though it may seem that this conflict is escalating into simply an extension of what was once known as the Cold War, the potential exists for a hot war of global dimensions.

Lost amid the cacophony of saber-rattling and chest-thumping in Washington and Brussels is the quietly emerging, and infinitely dangerous, military deployment in the Black Sea. Once seen as a no-go zone for the US and NATO, the Black Sea, with its expansive Russian shores, has recently become the site of a slew of provocative military moves by the US, and equally significant counter-moves by Russia. Adding fuel to this potential fire is the participation of Chinese naval assets in this quietly brewing cocktail of global conflict.

The presence of US military assets all throughout the Black Sea region is undoubtedly provocative as it is pushing perilously close to Russia's borders. The potential for escalation - premeditated or otherwise - puts the entire region, and indeed the entire world, at risk of catastrophe.

Comment: The US 'elite' believed they achieved the "end of history" and unrivaled power over the world. They were, and are, wrong. Check out:

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Black Cat

Unapologetic Nestlé CEO would take more water from drought stricken California if he could

Travis Gettys
The Raw Story
Thu, 14 May 2015 14:05 UTC
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Nestlé's chief executive officer said he would not consider moving his company's bottling operations out of California - which continues to struggle through a historic drought.

The corporate official said Nestlé would not follow Starbucks and stop drawing water from wells in the state - where personal use has been limited - and move elsewhere, reported KPCC-FM.

"Absolutely not," said CEO Tim Brown. "In fact, if I could increase it, I would."

Brown said the company's water bottling operations serve a growing consumer demand - and he's not willing to give up Nestlé's market share.

"If I stop bottling water tomorrow, people would buy another brand of bottled water," he said. "As the second largest bottler in the state, we're filling a role many others aren't filling. It's driven by consumer demand — it's driven by an on-the-go society that needs to hydrate. Frankly, we're very happy [consumers] are doing it in a healthier way."


Comment: That's a typical excuse that conscienceless executives make to absolve themselves of responsibility for actions that are detrimental to others. It would never dawn on this CEO to consider making a dramatic change in business practices that might inspire others to make positive changes as well, thereby improving life for the majority. And this explains much of what is wrong in our society, the world is run by people just like this.


Jay Famiglietti, a hydrologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, said the California water crisis is at least partly the result of a human behavior problem that could threaten water supplies in other areas.

Comment:

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Gold Coins

China requests IMF recommend renminbi as a reserve currency

Samuel Rines
The National Interest
Mon, 11 May 2015 00:00 UTC
Renminbi
China has made a request of the International Monetary Fund (IMF): It wants the IMF to recommend the Chinese renminbi as a reserve currency. Being a reserve-currency economy would give China easier and cheaper access to capital (something an indebted China is likely to cheer). But there are also drawbacks. Reserve currencies tend to be in high demand, pushing up the value of their currency relative to where it would otherwise trade. This makes exports less competitive and imports more competitive. China is unlikely to welcome such an outcome. Whether or not the IMF says "yes"—and to what extent—has the potential to shift the global economy toward a duopoly with two dominant reserve currencies—the U.S. dollar and the Chinese renminbi.

Comment: Renminbi or yuan?

See also Renminbi internationalisation: the long march continues, Even US corporations are fleeing the dollar Titanic, Billboards in Thailand

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