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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: Iranian nuclear power - What's the big deal?


Sott.net
Sun, 12 Apr 2015 18:00 UTC
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For some 10-15 years, the 'Iranian nuclear issue' has been a recurring 'crisis' in world politics. Media focus on this topic appears to wax and wane as US-Israeli bellicosity rises and falls - one day, war is a sure thing; the next, Iran is 'our partner'. Recently, a 'framework agreement' was agreed between Iran and the permanent UN Security Council member-states: Iran will 'reduce its uranium enrichment capacity' in exchange for 'phased sanctions relief'.

As the world goes from crisis to crisis, we wonder; what makes Iran's pursuit of nuclear technology such a critical issue? This week on Behind the Headlines we're hoping to get to the heart of the matter, taking into account Saudi Arabia's invasion of Yemen, a parallel theater of 'conflict management', and Greece's 'pivot' towards Russia.

We're live this Sunday, 12 April 2015, from 2-3:30pm EST / 11am-12.30pm PST / 7-8.30pm UTC / 8-9.30pm CET.

The Behind the Headlines talkshow takes place each Sunday on the SOTT Radio Network, the radio network of SOTT.net, your media source for independent news and commentary on world events. Analyzing global impact events that shape our world and future, and connecting the dots to reveal the bigger picture obscured by mainstream programming, Behind the Headlines is current affairs for people who think.

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Dominoes

US agribusiness, GMOs, Ukraine and the plundering of the planet

Colin Todhunter
Global Research
Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:00 UTC
Ukraine grain
© business-in-ukraine.com.uaBeautiful Ukraine grain. Now you see it...soon you won't.
Small family/peasant farms pro­duce most of the world's food. They form the bedrock of global food pro­duc­tion. Yet they are being squeezed onto less than a quar­ter of the planet's farm­land. The world is fast los­ing farms and farm­ers through the con­cen­tra­tion of land into the hands of rich and pow­er­ful land spec­u­la­tors and agribusi­ness corporations.

By def­i­n­i­tion, peas­ant agri­cul­ture pri­ori­tises food pro­duc­tion for local and national mar­kets as well as for farm­ers' own fam­i­lies. Big agritech cor­po­ra­tions on the other hand take over scarce fer­tile land and pri­ori­tise com­modi­ties or export crops for profit and for­eign mar­kets that tend to cater for the needs of the urban afflu­ent. This process dis­places farm­ers from their land and brings about food inse­cu­rity, poverty and hunger.

What big agribusi­ness with its indus­trial model of glob­alised agri­cul­ture claims to be doing - address­ing global hunger and food short­ages - is doing noth­ing of the sort. There is enough evi­dence to show that its activ­i­ties actu­ally lead to hunger and poverty - some­thing that the likes of GMO-agribusiness-neoliberal apol­o­gists might like to con­sider when they pro­pa­gan­dize about choice, democ­racy and hunger: issues that they seem unable to grasp, at least beyond a self-serving super­fi­cial level.


Comment: Another of humanity's productive and long-proven working systems infiltrated, overrun and ruined by self-serving, authoritarian pathological units.


Comment: "Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet." —Fidel Castro, 1998

The global food industry is not organized to feed the hungry; it is organized to generate profits for corporate agribusiness. Back in 2008, six companies controlled 85% of the world trade in grain, three controlled 83% of cocoa, three controlled 80% of banana trade and corn had a complete lock enabling ADM,Cargill and Bunge to decide how much of each year's crop goes to make ethanol, sweeteners, animal feed or human food. Over the past three decades, agribusiness companies have insidiously engineered a massive restructuring of global agriculture via market power, governments, the World Bank, IMF and the World Trade Organization. The changes have lined their pockets, while making global hunger worse and food crises inevitable. Millions of people are starving in countries that export food while the industrial agriculture shift has driven millions of people off the land and into urban slums, unemployment and poverty...not to mention the effects of biodiversity loss...

Kill off the consumers and who will be left to buy all the franken food grown from your tainted earth and poisoned water??? Big Agra...not so smart.

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Safe

Best of the Web: Meet the secretive group that runs the World

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:01 UTC
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First unofficial meeting of the BIS Board of Directors in Basel, April 1930.
Over the centuries there have been many stories, some based on loose facts, others based on hearsay, conjecture, speculation and outright lies, about groups of people who "control the world." Some of these are partially accurate, others are wildly hyperbolic, but when it comes to the historic record, nothing comes closer to the stereotypical, secretive group determining the fate of over 7 billion people, than the Bank of International Settlements, which hides in such plain sight, that few have ever paid much attention.

The following is an excerpt from TOWER OF BASEL: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World by Adam LeBor. Reprinted with permission from PublicAffairs.

Comment: So who guides the BIS?

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Satellite

Russia's space defense troops spot foreign spying satellites disguised as space junk


RT
Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:46 UTC
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A group of electronic reconnaissance satellites disguised as space junk has been disclosed by Russian aerospace defense troops. The devices were put into orbit to spy specifically on facilities on Russian territory.

"Most recently, experts of the Main Space Intelligence Center disclosed a tyro group of electronic reconnaissance satellites. This satellite constellation is being developed to carry out communications surveillance of the facilities based inside Russian Federation territory," commander of the Space Command, Major-General Oleg Maidanovich, informed Zvezda TV channel.

The developed satellites were disguised as space trash, which is a normal practice, noted the commander.

Major-General was reluctant to report on state affiliation of the exposed space vehicles, saying "So far, there is no need for this."

Maidanovich said that one of the top priority tasks of the space command is to reveal satellite constellation in development.

Comment: Amazing, all this wasted money and technology on spying.

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Star of David

Solar panels in Khan al-Ahmar illegally removed by Israel, only source of village electricity


IMEMC
Sun, 12 Apr 2015 00:07 UTC
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Solar panels finally brought electricity to the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank, but the residents' joy was short lived.

A few weeks after the panels were installed, Israeli authorities confiscated them, indicating the latest chapter in Israel's long battle to quash the strategically located village.

PNN reports that, on Wednesday, policemen and Israeli soldiers escorted employees of the Israeli Civil Administration (the governing body of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank) on a trip to Khan al-Ahmar, a Bedouin village located a few kilometers from occupied East Jerusalem. There, they dismantled 11 solar panels, most of which had just been donated and installed by the Palestinian NGO Future for Palestine to give this village a few hours of electricity a day.

Comment: The psychopathic drive is relentless.

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Dollars

Heinous waste of money officially begins

Andy Borowitz
The New Yorker/The Borowitz Report
Sat, 11 Apr 2015 21:33 UTC
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Washington —The two major political parties' unconscionable waste of money officially commences this weekend, as Democrats and Republicans will soon begin spending an estimated five billion dollars of their corporate puppet masters' assets in an unquenchable pursuit of power.

The billions, which could be spent rebuilding the nation's crumbling infrastructure, improving schools, or reducing the scourge of malaria in Africa, will instead be squandered in a heinous free-for-all of slander and personal destruction, alienating voters as never before.

The media will inevitably focus on the personalities of the bloated roster of narcissists lusting after the White House, but scant attention will be paid to the Wall Street bankers, industrial polluters, and casino magnates whose grip on American democracy will remain vise-like.

While attention this weekend turns to the Democrats, the Republicans remain quietly confident about their chances of purchasing the nation's highest office. In the words of one top operative, "Our billionaires can beat their billionaires."
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Dominoes

Ukraine falling apart: Did Odessa just declare independence?


Fort Russ
Thu, 09 Apr 2015 20:38 UTC
Source: Antifashist - Translated from Russian by Alexey Tatu
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A parallel government was formed in Odessa, declaring its secession from Ukraine and the formation of the Odessa People's Republic. This information was distributed by the "Agency of Information Reports". (http://vg-news.ru/)

According to the publication, the editorial office is in posession of a document entitled the "Declaration on the State Sovereignty of the Odessa People's Republic". The document is dated on April 6, 2015:
In light of tragic events that took place in Kiev (in February 2014) and Odessa (in May 2014), we declare a unilateral exit of the Odessa People's Republic from Ukraine, and the urgent formation of the Cabinet of Ministers. As the head of state, I emphasize that this measure is designed to protect the democratic values of the region from attacks by right-wing formations, brought to the territory of the former Odessa region on the orders of the so-called authorities in Kiev.

Until the normalization of the situation, the Cabinet of Ministers of the Odessa People's Republic will be represented by the following public officials:

Defense Minister: Shilov N. A.

The Minister of Internal Affairs: Luzgin, A. A.

The Minister of Health: V. S. Evseev

The Minister for Civil Defense and Emergencies: Zharkov D. N.

The Minister of Culture and Tourism: Shevchenko M.K.

Military Commandant of Odessa: Kovalenko P.S.

The Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Odessa People's Republic, Kovalenko P. S. (signed)

April 6, 2015
"Anti-fascist" at the moment has no confirmation of this information from other sources. Once this information becomes available, details will be published. Please follow our updates.

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Gold Coins

BRICS and AIIB bank pose threat to Bretton-Woods dollar system - Engdahl


Sputnik
Fri, 10 Apr 2015 20:29 UTC
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Washington's policy makers have been ignoring the needs of the world's emerging economies for too long, treating them as a group of banana republics, noted F. William Engdahl, a historian and researcher, adding ironically - "they haven't had their eyes checked since 1944 apparently."

"At the 2014 BRICS summit in Fortaleza, Brazil, the five heads of state declared bluntly, 'We remain disappointed and seriously concerned with the current non-implementation of the 2010 International Monetary Fund reforms, which negatively impacts on the IMF's legitimacy, credibility and effectiveness,' the historian pointed out.

Indeed, in 2010 China, Brazil and other fast-emerging countries proposed a reform pledging to double the funds of the IMF in exchange for greater voting rights for such states as China, Russia, India, Brazil and some other countries.
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SOTT Focus: The Truth Perspective: Our World Is A Freak Show


Sott.net
Sat, 11 Apr 2015 18:00 UTC
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Broadcasting from deep in the heart of the American Empire, join your hosts Harrison Koehli and Elan Martin, and fellow Sott.net editors, as they discuss everything from current events and the latest machinations and manipulations of the global elite to history, science, and religion, and how it all fits together.

This week, join our hosts as they discuss the freak show world we live in, where practically everything we think we know is wrong, where obvious lies get peddled as truth, and the truth is almost always the total opposite of what we are told, in science, politics, history, religion, and more.

The Truth Perspective is brought to you by the SOTT Radio Network and SOTT.net, your one-stop source for independent, unbiased, alternative news and commentary on world events.

Live every Saturday from 2-4pm EST / 11am-1pm PST / 8-10pm CET.

Running Time: 02:03:00

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Bulb

French intelligence dismisses Russian invasion of Ukraine hypothesis


RT
Sat, 11 Apr 2015 14:35 UTC
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© Reuters/Gleb GaranichA Ukrainian serviceman rides on a self-propelled howitzer near Artemivsk
France's intelligence chief has questioned NATO's claims of Russia preparing to attack Ukraine as their agents failed to spot any activities signaling this - either before or after the crisis began.

A statement by the chief of France's military intelligence, General Christophe Gomart, was published on the National Assembly's website.

"NATO announced that the Russians were about to invade Ukraine. But, according to French intelligence, there is nothing to corroborate this hypothesis - we determined that the Russians were deploying neither command posts nor logistical facilities, including field hospitals, needed for a military incursion," General Gomart told a parliamentary hearing.
Général #ChristopheGomart du #DRM condamne les mensonges de la foutaise #USA et du #KievJunta http://t.co/Vgq60V0kgS pic.twitter.com/jra3Wy9O6m

— ☭ #VivaSAA Rafiq ☭ (@Rafiq_al_Taneen) April 11, 2015
NATO's top brass has been incanting mantras about a "Russian invasion" ever since the crisis in Ukraine began a year ago. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, as well as his predecessor Anders Fogh Rasmussen, have lashed at Russia on numerous occasions, claiming that the Russian military is present on the ground in Ukraine, but failing to provide evidence supporting these claims.

Comment: The French are saying what the rest of the intelligence community already knows, that there is no evidence at all to back up U.S./NATO claims of Russian aggression in Ukraine. It is all propaganda and lies.

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