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Flashback Leaked docs reveal plot to erode stability of Venezuela and undermine Maduro presidency


RT
Wed, 06 Nov 2013 22:17 UTC
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© Reuters/Jorge SilvaVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
Leaked documents have revealed evidence of a plot to destabilize Venezuela and undermine the rule of leftist President Nicolas Maduro. The papers appear to substantiate Caracas' claims of outside attempts to cripple the country through internal sabotage.

Documents obtained by a contributor to RT's Spanish channel, Eva Golinger, detail a structured plan to erode the stability of Venezuela with a view to "returning real democracy and independence that have been hijacked for more than 14 years."

The plans are allegedly the product of a conference between American company FTI Consulting and two right-wing Colombian groups affiliated with former President Alvaro Uribe in the Colombian city of Cucuta in June of this year.

Former President Uribe was an outspoken critic of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, referring to him openly on Twitter as a "dictator" and an "assassin."

The three groups propose an initiative they name "The Venezuelan Strategic Plan" and list the ways in which they can disrupt all facets of Venezuelan society in the run-up to December's regional elections.

"The suggested aims in the plan are especially geared towards the municipal elections on December 8," writes the document. In the elections the Venezuelan population will choose 335 mayors, 2,435 municipal councilors, 69 local indigenous representatives, 2 mayors and 20 district councils.
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CIA psy-ops manual suggests rebels should assassinate their own to create martyr

George Washington
Zero Hedge
Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:46 UTC
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Comment: One can't help but associate this story with the recent assassination of Boris Nemtsov. Clearly intelligence agencies understood the value of creating martyrs for a long time, so it's not a stretch to think that that is what occurred in Moscow.


A CIA "psychological operations" manual prepared by a CIA contractor for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels noted the value of assassinating someone on your own side to create a "martyr" for the cause.

The manual was authenticated by the U.S. government.

The manual received so much publicity from Associated Press, Washington Post and other media that - during the 1984 presidential debate - President Reagan was confronted with the following question on national television:
At this moment, we are confronted with the extraordinary story of a CIA guerrilla manual for the anti-Sandinista contras whom we are backing, which advocates not only assassinations of Sandinistas but the hiring of criminals to assassinate the guerrillas we are supporting in order to create martyrs.
Indeed, this is just one of scores of admitted false flag attacks by governments all over the world.

P.S. We're SURE this has nothing to do with this completely unrelated story:

Russian Opposition: Putin Did NOT Assassinate Opposition Leader
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Best of the Web: The U.S. push for war is about creating financial collapse

Dimitry Orlov
Club Orlov
Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:07 UTC
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Scanning the headlines in the western mainstream press, and then peering behind the one-way mirror to compare that to the actual goings-on, one can't but get the impression that America's propagandists, and all those who follow in their wake, are struggling with all their might to concoct rationales for military action of one sort or another, be it supplying weapons to the largely defunct Ukrainian military, or staging parades of US military hardware and troops in the almost completely Russian town of Narva, in Estonia, a few hundred meters away from the Russian border, or putting US "advisers" in harm's way in parts of Iraq mostly controlled by Islamic militants.

The strenuous efforts to whip up Cold War-like hysteria in the face of an otherwise preoccupied and essentially passive Russia seems out of all proportion to the actual military threat Russia poses. (Yes, volunteers and ammo do filter into Ukraine across the Russian border, but that's about it.) Further south, the efforts to topple the government of Syria by aiding and arming Islamist radicals seem to be backfiring nicely. But that's the pattern, isn't it? What US military involvement in recent memory hasn't resulted in a fiasco? Maybe failure is not just an option, but more of a requirement?

Let's review. Afghanistan, after the longest military campaign in US history, is being handed back to the Taliban. Iraq no longer exists as a sovereign nation, but has fractured into three pieces, one of them controlled by radical Islamists. Egypt has been democratically reformed into a military dictatorship. Libya is a defunct state in the middle of a civil war. The Ukraine will soon be in a similar state; it has been reduced to pauper status in record time—less than a year. A recent government overthrow has caused Yemen to stop being US-friendly. Closer to home, things are going so well in the US-dominated Central American countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador that they have produced a flood of refugees, all trying to get into the US in the hopes of finding any sort of sanctuary.

Comment: wow (in small letters). Didn't know "failure" could be so disgustingly complicated and yet "alluring"...like sheep-dung perfume. I guess you have to be one to get "whiff" the program. BTW, don't forget to stop and kill the roses...

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Alarm Clock

Best of the Web: Demonizing Russia paves the way for war

Seumas Milne
The Guardian, UK
Wed, 04 Mar 2015 19:38 UTC
Azov
© Alexander Khudoteply/AFP/Getty ImagesOn the ground, it has meant the rise of Ukrainian fascist militias such as the Azov battalion, now preparing to ‘defend’ Mariupol from its own people.
Politicians and the media are using Vladimir Putin and Ukraine to justify military expansionism. It's dangerous folly

A quarter of a century after the end of the cold war, the "Russian threat" is unmistakably back. Vladimir Putin, Britain's defence secretary Michael Fallon declares, is as great a danger to Europe as "Islamic State". There may be no ideological confrontation, and Russia may be a shadow of its Soviet predecessor, but the anti-Russian drumbeat has now reached fever pitch.

And much more than in Soviet times, the campaign is personal. It's all about Putin. The Russian president is an expansionist dictator who has launched a "shameless aggression". He is the epitome of "political depravity", "carving up" his neighbours as he crushes dissent at home, and routinely is compared to Hitler. Putin has now become a cartoon villain and Russia the target of almost uniformly belligerent propaganda across the western media. Anyone who questions the dominant narrative on Ukraine - from last year's overthrow of the elected president and the role of Ukrainian far right to war crimes carried out by Kiev's forces - is dismissed as a Kremlin dupe.
Ukraine has ignored the far right for too long - it must wake up to the danger
--Volodymyr Ishchenko
That has been ratcheted up still further with the murder of the opposition politician Boris Nemtsov. The Russian president has, of course, been blamed for the killing, though that makes little sense. Nemtsov was a marginal figure whose role in the "catastroika" of the 1990s scarcely endeared him to ordinary Russians. Responsibility for an outrage that exposed the lack of security in the heart of Moscow and was certain to damage the president hardly seems likely to lie with Putin or his supporters.
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Arrow Down

Hillary Clinton fired US Ambassador to Kenya for using personal email account


Poor Richard's News
Thu, 05 Mar 2015 18:51 UTC
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CNN finds some hypocrisy piled on top of Hillary Clinton's criminal activity (see video below).

Jake Tapper points out a very important detail in all of this. Hillary Clinton and her staff have only turned over a limited number of emails from her time as Secretary of State, but the Federal Records Act requires all communication conducted by cabinet officials to be permanently archived.

Clinton may claim that the remainder of emails on her private server (many of which are now likely destroyed) were just personal communications not related to her official duties, but this is an unacceptable excuse because she created this elaborate secret email account on the day of her Senate confirmation hearings. The email server was designed from the beginning to hide her official communications from the public record.
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Pilots are deserting Washington's remote-control war

Pratap Chatterjee
Tom Dispatch
Thu, 05 Mar 2015 08:01 UTC
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The U.S. drone war across much of the Greater Middle East and parts of Africa is in crisis and not because civilians are dying or the target list for that war or the right to wage it just about anywhere on the planet are in question in Washington. Something far more basic is at stake: drone pilots are quitting in record numbers.

There are roughly 1,000 such drone pilots, known in the trade as "18Xs," working for the U.S. Air Force today. Another 180 pilots graduate annually from a training program that takes about a year to complete at Holloman and Randolph Air Force bases in, respectively, New Mexico and Texas. As it happens, in those same 12 months, about 240 trained pilots quit and the Air Force is at a loss to explain the phenomenon. (The better-known U.S. Central Intelligence Agency drone assassination program is also flown by Air Force pilots loaned out for the covert missions.)

On January 4, 2015, the Daily Beast revealed an undated internal memo to Air Force Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh from General Herbert "Hawk" Carlisle stating that pilot "outflow increases will damage the readiness and combat capability of the MQ-1/9 [Predator and Reaper] enterprise for years to come" and added that he was "extremely concerned." Eleven days later, the issue got top billing at a special high-level briefing on the state of the Air Force. Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James joined Welsh to address the matter. "This is a force that is under significant stress -- significant stress from what is an unrelenting pace of operations," she told the media.

In theory, drone pilots have a cushy life. Unlike soldiers on duty in "war zones," they can continue to live with their families here in the United States. No muddy foxholes or sandstorm-swept desert barracks under threat of enemy attack for them. Instead, these new techno-warriors commute to work like any office employees and sit in front of computer screens wielding joysticks, playing what most people would consider a glorified video game.
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© imgarcade.comMilitary pilots control a reaper drone.
They typically "fly" missions over Afghanistan and Iraq where they are tasked with collecting photos and video feeds, as well as watching over U.S. soldiers on the ground. A select few are deputized to fly CIA assassination missions over Pakistan, Somalia, or Yemen where they are ordered to kill "high value targets" from the sky. In recent months, some of these pilots have also taken part in the new war in the Syrian and Iraqi borderlands, conducting deadly strikes on militants of ISIL.
Each of these combat air patrols involves three to four drones, usually Hellfire-missile-armed Predators and Reapers built by southern California's General Atomics, and each takes as many as 180 staff members to fly them. In addition to pilots, there are camera operators, intelligence and communications experts, and maintenance workers. (The newer Global Hawk surveillance patrols need as many as 400 support staff.)
The Air Force is currently under orders to staff 65 of these regular "combat air patrols" around the clock as well as to support a Global Response Force on call for emergency military and humanitarian missions. For all of this, there should ideally be 1,700 trained pilots. Instead, facing an accelerating dropout rate that recently drove this figure below 1,000, the Air Force has had to press regular cargo and jet pilots as well as reservists into becoming instant drone pilots in order to keep up with the Pentagon's enormous appetite for real-time video feeds from around the world.


Comment: The Scoreboard: Technology 1 / Human Evolution 0

"You never know who you're killing, because you never actually see a face. You just have a silhouette."

The Department of Justice White Paper "sets forth a legal framework for considering the circumstances in which the U.S. government could use lethal force in a foreign country outside the area of active hostilities against a U.S. citizen who is a senior operational leader of al Qa'ida or an associated force of al Qa'ida - that is, an al Qa'ida leader actively engaged in planning operations to kill Americans." What it doesn't justify is all the hits and misses (U.S. pre-emptive strikes) involving innocent men, women and children of foreign countries, or for that matter, innocent Americans abroad. As in the al-Zawarhiri strike(s), mentioned in the article, a total of 76 children and 29 adults paid the price of this particular pursuit. Track record for drone success of limiting the hit to the "suspected" target of a "suspected attack on Americans" seems to be murder first and see if the suspect was amongst the dead. "Oops, sorry." Why isn't this sort of preplanned "terror with deadly consequences" qualified as a terrorist operation? War crime? (Hint: Technically we're there, "technically" we're not. Rather convenient.)

"We are the ultimate voyeurs, the ultimate peeping Toms. I'm watching this person, and this person has no clue what's going on. No one's going to catch us. And we're getting orders to take these people's lives."

One thing is clear: Drone wars are not going away. They give an aggressor nation, such as the USA, access to places that are not officially American war zones and provide attack capabilities from safe and secret war-room offices half-a-world away. They destroy, maim, kill and, as we see from this article, the track record is appalling. This form of warfare is a one-way trajectory. How many other countries, terror organizations, psychopaths can we imagine getting on board with this type of warfare/entertainment? Why play video games when you can blow something up or kill someone with an airborne assassinator, never to be traced or suffer the consequences? Drones are being sold by the U.S. all over the world. This genie has left the bottle! The psychologically sick pilots who have walked off the job--maybe they're the ones who still have a conscience.

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Attention

The cleansing continues: Kiev 'sweeping' Mariupol, over a hundred arrested


Sputnik
Fri, 06 Mar 2015 14:02 UTC
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© picture-allianceVictoria Nuland, the face for the sponsored cleansing of Ukraine
Ukrainian hacking collective CyberBerkut has reported that they have obtained a series of documents from the Ministry of Information Policy in Mariupol, featuring correspondence about the need for a pro-Ukrainian social-psychological propaganda campaign, and noting that a "sweep" of the city is taking place.

According to the group, over 100 people have been arrested over the past few days.

CyberBerkut claims to have obtained correspondence belonging to Ukrainian Ministry of Information Policy Minister Tatyana Popova, one of which recommends a "pilot project of military-civilian administration" in the embattled city.

Comment: Cyberberkut also leaked US plans to arm Ukraine, and the possibility that false flags have been carried out in order to damage separatist credibility. Kiev is filled with, and supported by, fascist lunatics:

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Bad Guys

Empire of Chaos: Serbian politician says Europe will be divided into at least 3 alliances


Sputnik
Fri, 06 Mar 2015 13:06 UTC
Eurasia
Will Turkey take its place in the new Eurasian century?
The future of the European Union lies in at least three fragmented alliances around influential centerpieces, Sanda Raskovic Ivic, President of the Democratic Party of Serbia, told Sputnik.

"The EU will one day eventually fall apart on at least three alliances," Raskovic Ivic said.

The official's forecast comes amid increasing disagreement within the 28-nation bloc. Raskovic Ivic projected current differences of opinion in the European Union will lead to further division lines.

Comment: There has been evidence that France and Germany planned to use financial collapse to cram a 'superstate' down the throats of the rest of the EU. Perhaps more fundamentally, there is also evidence that the entire notion of a 'European Union,' as we see it today, was created in order to prevent a larger Eurasian integration.

The big question is, has the recent impact of the sanctions against Russia, along with the Ukrainian 'F*** the EU' crisis sponsored by the US State Department, woken up EU officials to their fate under the weight of the US' chains?

For more info, check out:

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DPR restores railway in Debaltsevo, Ukrainian media responds by calling them 'terrorists'


Sputnik
Fri, 06 Mar 2015 12:45 UTC
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Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council spokesman Andrei Lysenko has confirmed that the DPR has restored the railway junction in Debaltseve in a matter of 12 days, following earlier reports that it had been completely destroyed and turned into "the surface of the moon."

"The Debaltseve railway junction has been restored. On March 3rd, ammunition was seen being unloaded from trains," Lysenko stated on Friday, cited by Ukraine's Podrobnosti.ua.

On February 19, Lysenko had reported that the Debaltseve railway junction had been destroyed. "The strategic Debaltseve railway junction has ceased to have any significance for the local region. The entire railway hub has been turned into the surface of the moon: everything has been destroyed."

Comment: The Debaltsevo cauldron proved the effectiveness of the combined rebel forces in Ukraine. For more info, check out:

Grand analysis of the Battle for Debaltsevo
Defeat in Debaltsevo: Kiev's Stalingrad

And for more on the overall situation in Ukraine:

Q & A with Putin in Hungary (excerpts) Situation in Debaltsevo was predictable, compliance with Minsk essential
Interview with The Saker: Ukraine as we know it is gone forever

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Life Preserver

Greek government offers free food and electricity in first legislation

Renee Maltezou
Reuters
Tue, 03 Mar 2015 11:59 UTC
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Athenians, once enjoying an ordinary life, are now homeless
Greece's government submitted a bill to offer free food and electricity to thousands of poverty-stricken Greeks as its first legislative act in parliament, in a symbolic move to address what it calls a "humanitarian crisis".

Athens, which got a four-month extension of a financial rescue from the euro zone last month, has sought to assure its lenders that such measures will not burden the budget while showing Greeks that it is sticking to pre-election pledges.

"The deep recession due to austerity policies and the economic crisis in the past six years had a dramatic social impact," said the bill, which was tabled late on Tuesday. "This draft law aims at tackling the humanitarian crisis through measures which ensure access to basic goods."

During a cabinet meeting last week, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said that improving living conditions of those hurt by the crisis was the government's "foremost duty", but reiterated Athens was still committed to a balanced budget.

The government's first bill foresees the restoration of electricity connections in primary residences by the end of 2015. The long-term unemployed and families with young children will have priority. About 300,000 Greeks will get food vouchers.

A rent allowance of up to 220 euros a month for 30,000 households is also included in the bill, whose total cost is estimated by the government at about 200 million euros.

Comment: Despite Germany's/EU's war against Greece, and the opposition within the country, the new government has so far been able to implement programs that will at least relieve the huge humanitarian crisis that the "bailouts" caused.

IMF's Director Batista spills the beans: Greek bailout was 'to save German and French banks'

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