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Saudi Arabia threatens to blockade Qatar unless it shuts down Al Jazeera, cuts ties with Muslim Brotherhood, expels local branches of U.S. think-tanks, and quits funding Muslim terrorists

Michael Jansen
Irish Times
Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:54 UTC
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© Reuters Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal attends an Arab foreign ministers emergency meeting to discuss the Syrian crisis at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo March 10th.
Riyadh wants to contain radical groups and media at odds with foreign jihad policy

Saudi Arabia has threatened to blockade neighbouring Qatar by air, land and sea unless Doha cuts ties with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, closes global channel al-Jazeera, and expels local branches of the US Brookings Institution and Rand Corporation think tanks.

The threat was issued by Riyadh before it withdrew its ambassador to Doha and branded as "terrorist organisations" the brotherhood, Lebanon's Hizbullah and al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and Jabhat al-Nusra.

Although the kingdom has long been the font of Sunni ultra-orthodox Salafism and jihadism, it now seeks to contain radical movements and media and other organisations giving them publicity.

King Abdullah has decreed that any Saudi who fights abroad could be jailed for 20-30 years, and those who join, endorse or provide moral or material support to groups classified as "terrorist" or "extremist" will risk prison sentences of five to 30 years.

Comment: Well, well, well... something is definitely up!

Is the House of Saud paranoid that it's next up for regime change?

How easy would it be to redirect those jihadi nutjobs the Saudis helped create (and are funding to this day!) back into Saudi Arabia?

Tune in to SOTT Talk Radio tomorrow, Sunday March 16th, when we'll be discussing this and other big moves on the geopolitical chessboard.

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Best of the Web: Ukraine Crisis: The truth you're not hearing from Western media

StormCloudsGathering
scgnews.com
Sat, 15 Mar 2014 15:55 UTC
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The European and American public are being systematically lied to about the Ukraine crisis. Storm Clouds Gathering bring you the condensed truth on recent events in Ukraine.

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Leading German politician blasts Merkel's support of illegitimate Ukraine govt: 'They are fascists!'


RT
Fri, 14 Mar 2014 03:31 UTC
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© AFP PhotoGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel and Gregor Gysi (R), parliamentary group leader of the left-wing "Die Linke" party
The recognition of Kosovo independence set a precedent that gives Crimeans, as well as Basques and Catalans, a right for self-determination, German opposition leader said, lashing out against Angela Merkel's support of sanctions against Russia.

Gregor Gysi, a parliamentary head of the largest lower-house opposition party in Germany - the Left Party - has spoken out on Thursday against German Chancellor's unquestioning support of the coup-appointed Ukrainian government.

"They formed a new government..... Immediately recognized by president Obama by the EU and German government as well. Miss Merkel! The vice- prime minister, the defense minister, minister of agriculture, environment minister, the attorney general.. They are fascists!" he stated.
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China abstains and Russia vetoes US-sponsored UN resolution declaring Crimea vote invalid


RT
Sat, 15 Mar 2014 12:17 UTC
Liu Jieyi, China's Ambassador to the United Nations
© UnknownLiu Jieyi, China's Ambassador to the United Nations
Russia has vetoed a UN Security Council's resolution declaring the upcoming referendum on the future status of autonomous republic of Crimea invalid and urging all states not to recognize its results.

China abstained as 13 council members supported the resolution and Russia voted against.

The draft resolution noted that the Ukrainian government in Kiev has not authorized the referendum and said that it cannot be valid.

"This referendum can have no validity, and cannot form the basis for any alteration of the status of Crimea; and calls upon all States, international organizations and specialized agencies not to recognize any alteration of the status of Crimea on the basis of this referendum and to refrain from any action or dealing that might be interpreted as recognizing any such altered status," the documents reads.

Moscow has a veto right as one of five permanent members of the Security Council.

It was "no secret that Russia would vote against the US draft resolution," Russia's envoy at the UN Vitaly Churkin said ahead of the voting. He added that Moscow would respect the choice of Crimeans.

"We cannot accept its basic assumption: to declare illegal the planned March 16 referendum where there residents of the Republic of Crimea should decide on their future," Churkin said, explaining Moscow's decision to veto the proposed document.
"The philosophy of the authors of the draft runs counter to one of the basic principles of the international law - the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples enshrined in the Article 1 of the UN Charter," the Russian diplomat said.

Comment: The vote shows how polarised the UN security council is. Where is India or Brazil in this setting? To equal the UNSC with the international community is a big distortion of affairs. Wonder what the NAM countries and the other members of the BRICS would vote. Russia is not so isolated as the West wishes it to look.

In the meantime, the US sponsored neo-nazi army is losing no time in arming itself to the teeth:
U.S. proxy army: More weapons 'stolen' from Ukrainian military bases

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The greatest leader Britain never had: Tony Benn knew the rules, but would not play the game

Gary Younge
The Guardian
Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:42 UTC
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© Nick Rogers/RexTony Benn: ‘What is the final corruption in politics? Earlier, it was to get into cabinet, before that, to be popular, but later on, the final corruption is this kindly, harmless old gentleman …'
His lifelong belief in socialism inspired several generations of socialists and radicals, and infuriated the establishment

The conductor was striding through the early train from Paddington to Penzance apologising as we shuddered to a halt just east of the Tamar. "I'm sorry for the delay," he told Tony Benn, sitting opposite me. "There was a lightning strike on the line ahead."

"Lightning strike!" said Benn, assuming industrial action. "What's it about?"

"It's about God, sir," said the guard, referring to the harsh weather of the previous night, and the two men smiled at each other.

That night I stayed in Cornwall. The prospect of spending nine hours on a train in one day was too draining. Benn came straight back, arriving in Paddington around 11pm so he could be up at 6am the next day to drive to Burford to address a Levellers rally. Around the time I was ordering my second round of sandwiches from the buffet car on my way back from Cornwall, he was heading back to London from Burford to speak to a pro-Palestinian demonstration, when his car exploded on the motorway. I was 33; he was 77.

When I next saw him I suggested, in jest, that he slow down, if only to stop me looking bad. He laughed and said he planned to work right up to the end. "The last entry in my diary will be: 'St Thomas's hospital: I'm not feeling very well today'," he said. He even had plans for his gravestone. "I'd like it to say: 'Tony Benn - he encouraged us.'"
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U.S. proxy army: More weapons 'stolen' from Ukrainian military bases


RT
Sat, 15 Mar 2014 09:35 UTC
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© Reuters / Eduard Kornienko
Fears of possible armed assaults and provocation in Ukraine and neighboring countries are on the rise after yet another report that rocket grenade launchers, firearms and munitions have been stolen from a military warehouse in western Ukraine.

A source in the Ukrainian Interior Ministry told RIA Novosti that the coup appointed Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has recently been notified that a large cache of guns and ammunition was missing from one of the military warehouses.

"Reports to Avakov indicate that over 5,000 Kalashnikov rifles, 2,741 Makarov handguns, 123 light machineguns and 12 Shmel rocket launchers were stolen from the Interior Troops' depots in the Lvov Region in late February," the source said.

"The investigation has also established that 1,500 F-1 hand grenades and a large number of munitions are missing," it added.
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Here's what the richest man in the world thinks about Snowden and NSA surveillance

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:05 UTC
Bill Gates
© Mashable
So Bill Gates recently gave an interview to Rolling Stone magazine. The vast majority of the interview focused on his philanthropic efforts, with a particular focus on poverty and climate change. However, several questions were brought up on illegal NSA surveillance in general, and Edward Snowden in particular.

His answers reveal one of the biggest problems facing America today, which is the fact that the billionaire class as a whole does not question or rock the boat whatsoever. They criticize only when it is convenient or easy to do so, never putting themselves at risk for the sake of civil liberties and the Constitution.

In mosts cases, this is due to the fact that they themselves are the characters pulling the strings of the political class in Washington D.C. So when it comes down to it, their policies ultimately become our policies.

It is also important to note that Microsoft was a particularly eager participant in NSA spying from the very beginning. For example, according to the following PRISM slide provided by Edward Snowden, we see that Gates' company was the first to become involved. In fact, they were participating a full six months before Yahoo!, while Apple didn't join until a year after Steve Jobs died.
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Crimea and Western 'values' on display

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times Online
Sat, 15 Mar 2014 08:38 UTC
Obama
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Every sane sentient being knows that Ukraine's "unity" is not worth a new hot or warm war. Or even the current Western-peddled Cold War-style hysteria. Especially when Russia, once again, fights fascism - as embodied by some of the key players now in power in Kiev, and the US and EU's response is to relentlessly demonize Russia.

Crimea - historically, culturally, sentimentally - is Russian, conquered by Catherine the Great from the Ottomans in 1783. Sevastopol was founded by Catherine. If a swing band would play a version of I Left My Heart in Sevastopol, all hearts involved would be Russian.

Yet those eminent Western practitioners of state idolatry have ruled that the population of Crimea has no right to conduct a referendum to decide its future - be it rejoining Russia or remaining in Ukraine with a huge degree of autonomy, according to the 1992 constitution. The eminences could not possibly admit that does not suit their geopolitical power play.

Thus the current Mass; a ritualistic, hysterical invoking in unison of "international law" (Obama), (distorted) history and even morality (in the US's case, considering the historical record, a positively dreadful joke).
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Was Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 redirected to Diego Garcia?‏

Hamad Subani
Cabal Times
Wed, 12 Mar 2014 07:33 UTC
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© UnknownDiego Garcia air base
It has now become fairly evident that the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing is not accidental. In fact, there is a strong possibility that the flight was commandeered to the US military base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. A bizarre "extraordinary rendition"?

Why did Flight 370 try to hide its whereabouts?

MH370 was a 777-200 service carrying 239 passenger and crew on a regular Kuala Lumpur to Beijing service. To recap, it left KL at 12.40 am, it disappeared as a commercial radar trace at 1.22 am close to the area where such radar visibility to the Malaysia air traffic control system drops off, and was never observed as entering Vietnam controlled air space on a path intended to cross that country to the South China Sea and continue past Hong Kong toward its destination. The transponders on Flight 370 was switched off immediately after it was outside the visibility of Malaysia's air traffic control! To quote a poster GarageYears on a forum for professional pilots:
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FM Lavrov complains about fascist censorship: Refusal to admit Russian journalists to briefing by Obama, Yatsenyuk unacceptable


ITAR-TASS
Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:23 UTC
US President Barack Obama meets Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk
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"The White House evidently does not want to hear acute questions that do not fit a scenario developed beforehand," spokesperson for Russia's Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich stated
Russia called unacceptable and discriminatory the refusal to admit Russian journalists to a news conference by U.S. President Barack Obama and interim Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk appointed by Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich stated on Friday.

"It looks like that Washington that likes so much to speak about the freedom of speech and rights of journalists is not prepared to follow these principles preferring to deal with only "reliable" media outlets spreading information "necessary" for them," the diplomat said.

"The White House evidently does not want to hear acute questions that do not fit a scenario developed beforehand, for instance, those about crimes of neo-Nazis from Right Sector (far-right Ukrainian movement) who are behind Arseniy Yatsenyuk's "government"," Lukashevich noted.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk has paid a visit to the United States where he met Barack Obama on March 12 discussing financial and economic aid to Ukraine. Upon results of the meeting Yatsenyuk and Obama gave a news conference to which representatives of Russian media outlets were not admitted.

Comment: Press conferences with Obama are in stark contrast to those with Putin, where all questions are allowed to being asked. Obama only wishes those journalists present who are sure not to ask any challenging questions.

For a contrast see:
A true statesman: Vladimir Putin press conference, March 4, 2014 - video and transcript

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