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Ukrainian deputy foreign minister claims Kiev preparing for 'full-scale' war


Sputnik
Sat, 21 Feb 2015 15:02 UTC
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Ukrainian deputy foreign minister claimed Kiev was preparing for a "full-scale" war and urged Canada to send lethal assistance to the country in a radio interview.

Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said in an interview with Canadian radio that Kiev was getting ready for a full-scale war.

"We don't want to scare everybody, but we are preparing for full-scale war," Prystaiko claimed.


Comment: War is scary no matter how you slice it.


He also called on Canada to send lethal arms to Ukraine adding that the country has been training Kiev forces during the last ten years.

Comment: Will Canada step up its assistance to Ukraine in violation of the Minsk Agreements to help the US warhawks?

Meanwhile his boss, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, wants weapons in order to maintain peace!

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Nuke

IAEA forced to review Iran's alleged nuke arms program after CIA-planted 'evidence' was revealed


RT
Sat, 21 Feb 2015 14:32 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Press TVCentrifuges at Iran's Nantanz nuclear site.
Doctored blueprints for nuclear weapon components supplied to Iran by the CIA 15 years ago could force the IAEA to review its conclusions on Iran's atomic program, which was potentially based on misleading intelligence, Bloomberg reports.

The details of the Central Intelligence Agency operation back in 2000 were made public as part of a judicial hearing into a case involving Jeffrey Sterling, an agent convicted of leaking classified information on CIA spying against Iran.

"The goal is to plant this substantial piece of deception information on the Iranian nuclear-weapons program, sending them down blind alleys, wasting their time and money," a May 1997 CIA cable submitted to the court reads.

The intelligence in question pertains to fake designs of atomic components that were transferred to Iran in February 2000.

Comment: Smoke and mirrors courtesy of the intelligence agencies pursuing an agenda to produce certain outcomes.

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Bad Guys

What could possibly go wrong? Company presses forward on plans to ship fracking wastewater via barge in Ohio River, drawing objections from locals


DeSmogBlog.com
Sat, 21 Feb 2015 05:52 UTC
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A major dispute is brewing over transporting wastewater from shale gas wells by barge in the Ohio River, the source of drinking water for millions of Americans.

On January 26, GreenHunter Water announced that it had been granted approval by the U.S. Coast Guard to haul tens of thousands of barrels from its shipping terminal and 70,000-barrel wastewater storage facility on the Ohio River in New Matamoras, Ohio.

"The U.S. Coast Guard approval is a significant 'win' for both GreenHunter Resources and our valued clients," Kirk Trosclair, Chief Operating Officer at GreenHunter Resources, Inc., said in a statement announcing the Coast Guard's approval. "Our ability to transport disposal volumes via barge will significantly reduce our costs, improve our margins and allow us to pass along savings to our clients."

Outraged environmental advocates immediately objected to the news.

"Despite the thousands of comments from residents along the Ohio River opposing the risk of allowing toxic, radioactive fracking waste to be barged along the Ohio River, the Coast Guard quietly approved the plan at the end of 2014," said Food & Water Watch Ohio Organizer Alison Auciello.

"The Coast Guard is risking man-made earthquakes, drinking water contamination, leaks and spills. This approval compromises not only the health and safety of the millions who get their drinking water from the Ohio River but will increase the amount of toxic fracking waste that will be injected underground in Southeast Ohio."

But the company's announcement was in fact made before the Coast Guard completed its review of the hazards of hauling shale gas wastewater via the nation's waterways - a process so controversial given the difficulty of controlling mid-river spills and the unique challenges of handling the radioactivity in Marcellus shale brine that proposed Coast Guard rules have drawn almost 70,000 public comments.
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Arrow Down

With their puppet president in tatters NATO must be wondering 'What to do with Poroshenko?'


Moon of Alabama
Fri, 20 Feb 2015 14:32 UTC
Poroshenkon passit
© unknownPoroshenko
Despite the best that has been done by everyone — the gallant fighting of the military and naval forces, the diligence and assiduity of Our servants of the State, and the devoted service of Our one hundred million people — the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage, while the general trends of the world have all turned against her interest.

Emperor Hirohito acknowledging Japan's defeat
The Ukrainian puppet president Poroshenko should have delivered a similar speech. Indeed the war situation in Ukraine has developed not necessarily to his governments advantage. But the speech Proshenko gave (see below) was even more delusional than Hirohito's whitewashing.

Since six days ago several thousand Ukrainian government troops were surrounded in the Debaltsevo pocket. The only road out towards friendly lines was mined and under direct and indirect opposition fire. Several attempts to break out and also into the pocket were defeated with lots of lives and material lost.

Comment: One would imagine that, with all the Right Sector and neo-Nazi goons in Kiev, it would not be difficult for the State Department to replace Poroshenko. These Washington-backed goons have been dreaming up ways to replace him for a while now. A perverse desire for total domination doesn't just shake hands and call it quits.

Also see:

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Star of David

Netanyahu claims he knows 'details' of Iran deal and Psaki mocks him

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:40 UTC

Throwing down the gauntlet, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says that he knows the details of the proposed deal with Iran. On Wednesday, he had this to say, with Republican Senator David Perdue:
While Islamic State butchers the innocent, the Islamic Republic of Iran is relentlessly pursuing nuclear weapons with the express purpose of destroying Israel. The P5+1's latest proposal won't stop them. The Iranians of course know the details of that proposal, and Israel does too. So when we say that the current proposal would lead to a bad deal, a dangerous deal, we know what we're talking about, Senator. I'm open to hearing the positions and arguments of those who think differently, and I would hope that they would be open to hear the arguments of Israel as well.
Perdue was just elected in Georgia; this is his first trip as a sitting senator. He's been boning up on foreign policy:
"In my opinion the most dangerous thing to mankind's future is a nuclear Iran."
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Stock Up

New Eurasian Century: China pivots everywhere

Pepe Escobar
RT
Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:01 UTC
China
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The world's leading economy is on a roll as it enters a new year in the Chinese zodiac. Welcome to the Year of the Sheep. Or Goat. Or Ram. Or, technically, the Green Wooden Sheep (or Goat).

Even the best Chinese linguists can't agree on how to translate it into English. Who cares?

The hyper-connected average Chinese - juggling among his five smart devices (smartphones, tablets, e-readers) - is bravely advancing a real commercial revolution. In China (and the rest of Asia) online transactions are now worth twice the combined value of transactions in the US and Europe.

As for the Middle Kingdom as a whole, it has ventured much further than the initial proposition of producing cheap goods and selling them to the rest of the planet, virtually dictating the global supply chain.

Now Made in China is going global. No less than 87 Chinese enterprises are among the Fortune Global 500 - their global business booming as they take stakes in an array of overseas assets.
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Radar

Former Royal Air Force officers: UK "couldn't cope" if Russia attacked


RT
Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:26 UTC
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© RIA Novosti/Anton DenisovStrategic bomber Tu-95MS

Comment: The former military officers are absolutely correct. Russia would wipe the floor with the UK, but they would only do so after the UK/EU/U.S. had initiated fighting against them, not the other way around, despite this article focusing entirely on Putin choosing to attack the UK.


Britain could not withstand a military attack from Russia, according to the former head of the Royal Air Force (RAF) Sir Michael Graydon.

Another senior RAF officer claimed if Putin decided to attack the UK he would "saturate our defenses."

The warnings follow an incident on Thursday when RAF Typhoon fighter jets were scrambled to intercept two Russian long-range bombers in international airspace off the coast of Cornwall.

Russia's Defense Ministry said the flight was a planned air patrol conducted in accordance with international law.

While Prime Minister David Cameron rebuffed the incident as Russia "trying to make some sort of point," Graydon believes the threat is more serious.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, he said: "I very much doubt whether the UK could sustain a shooting war against Russia. We are at half the capabilities we had previously."

"They fly in these regions to check our air defenses and have probably worked out we are not as sharp as we were.
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Gold Bar

Financial system reset coming soon?

Willem Middelkoop
BullionStar.com
Tue, 17 Feb 2015 00:00 UTC
Putin holding gold
"Putin is the biggest gold bug", was the title of a recent Bloomberg op-ed by Leonid Bershidsky the founding editor of Vedomosti, Russia's top business daily. He explains why the Russian central bank has accumulated almost 100 tons of gold in the last four months of 2014. It is an acceleration of the gold buying program which started in 2007, a year before the Lehman collapse.

Comment: There is little doubt that a major reset is coming and that this reset will involve gold - and the death of the US Dollar is virtually guaranteed.

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Bomb

Libya, Egypt and ISIS: Could World War III start with a video?

Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
Tue, 17 Feb 2015 19:45 UTC
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EXTRAS: Jihadi John was unable to make it to the seaside, and was instead replaced by a local actor in the latest choreographed ISIS film production.
What's happened this week in Libya should come as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention over the last four years.

Geopolitically speaking and considering its proximity to Europe, this viper's nest has the potential to be even more perilous than Syria. At the beginning of the new year, we predicted that Libya would be the next major ISIS theater, paving the way for an eventual US or NATO intervention. 21WIRE's end-of-year feature article Game Changers: 2015 Predictions explains:
"Of all the emerging potential conflict fronts for central planning at NATO, this one looks by far the most promising. In classic Hegelian fashion, the Libyan disaster which NATO created back in 2011 is now ripe for a second clean-up round. Like Iraq, the country has been effectively split into 3 separate regions. Warlords and terrorist gangs have seized the power vacuum left by NATO's sloppy decapitation of the Gaddafi regime in 2011, and already NATO's puppet government has run for the hills, using what's left of their airforce to bomb their own cities".
From the onset, coverage of Libya has been riddled with misdirection and obfuscation. The warning signs have been visible since late 2011 (below).
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Heart

Russian PM Medvedev orders gas deliveries to Donbass after Kiev cuts supply to region in sub-freezing temperatures


RT
Thu, 19 Feb 2015 22:40 UTC
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Russia's prime minister has ordered the Energy Ministry and state-owned corporation Gazprom to prepare for natural gas deliveries to the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk Republics after the Kiev regime stopped selling fuel to the regions.

"There is a problem related to natural gas deliveries, caused by the decision of Ukrainian authorities that has not yet been canceled. The situation is that natural gas is not delivered to a number of settlements," Dmitry Medvedev told ministers at a cabinet meeting on Thursday.

"I would like the Energy Ministry and Gazprom to prepare their suggestions on rendering aid to these regions in the form of natural gas supplies. Of course this will be needed only if Kiev does not take urgent measures to resume gas supplies under the usual scheme."

"In any case, people must not freeze there. Prepare the necessary suggestions and report on what is done," Medvedev said.

Medvedev's press secretary Natalya Timakova told Interfax that Gazprom would send natural gas to Donetsk and Lugansk "on a commercial basis," but noted that the sources of financing were yet to be determined. The agency also quoted an unnamed source "acquainted with the situation" as saying that the possible scheme could include a bank credit.
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