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European parliament report: 'cooperation with Russia is more preferable than confrontation'

Jon Benton
The Parliment
Thu, 22 Jan 2015 22:22 UTC
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Ioan Mircea Pașcu has presented a report to the European parliament arguing that in the long run cooperation with Russia is more preferable than confrontation.

Parliament's rapporteur on the strategic situation in the Black Sea and the annexation of Crimea by Russia Ioan Mircea Pașcu has delivered his report to parliament's security and defence subcommittee.

In his report, Pașcu has argued that the annexation of Crimea by Russia is, "completely changing the strategic situation in the Black Sea". He claimed that Russia's move into Ukraine was prompted by NATO's eastward expansion.

Russia's annexation of Crimea and encroachment into eastern Ukraine has been met with widespread condemnation across the world. Its actions in the region have breached several international agreements to which it is party to, including the Helsinki accords, the Paris charter and the Budapest memorandum - the first two of which guarantee national sovereignty, while the latter protects Ukraine's independence and borders.

Comment: Of course no mention of the illegal coup in Ukraine by US/NATO/EU. Wonder what 'cooperation' really means?

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Bad Guys

Pentagon dispatches first batch of US forces to train Syrian 'rebels'


RT
Sat, 24 Jan 2015 00:00 UTC
Syrian rebel fighters
© Reuters/Hosam KatanSyrian rebel fighters.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is sending the first wave of about 100 US forces to the Middle East in the coming days to train and equip Syrian opposition fighters battling Islamic State militants.

The US troops, mostly special operations forces from the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM), will begin arriving in countries outside Syria in the next few days, Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said on Friday.

Comment: Since 2011, the US has been training and arming Syrian rebels to topple the legitimate Syrian government. The Syrian rebels failed in their objective. Next, the US secretly supported ISIS, which declared war against Syria's Assad regime. The US deployed troops in Iraq under the pretext of "fighting ISIS". That too had limited success in eliminating Syrian government forces. Now, it is openly deploying troops to support Syrian rebels.

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People

Greece's anti-austerity Syriza party wins elections


RT
Sun, 25 Jan 2015 21:50 UTC
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© Reuters/Marko DjuricaSupporters of opposition leader and head of radical leftist Syriza party Alexis Tsipras cheer at exit poll results in Athens, January 25, 2015.

Greece's radical leftist party, Syriza, is leading the country's parliamentary election, claiming 36.5 percent of the vote, and leaving the ruling New Democracy party in second place with 29.22 percent, according to the first official results.

The votes have so far been counted at 25 percent of polling stations across the country, the Interior Ministry of Greece said.

The exit-polls earlier revealed that Syriza, has won between 35.5 and 39.5 percent of the vote in the national parliamentary election, leaving the New Democracy party more than 10 per cent behind.

The New Democracy party, led by Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, has received between 23 and 27 percent of the vote.
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Sibel Edmonds on 'Gladio B' and the Paris shootings

Jim Corbett
The Corbett Report
Wed, 21 Jan 2015 18:55 UTC
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Sibel Edmonds of BoilingFrogsPost.com joins us today to discuss a range of issues, from terror operations in Xinjiang to Gladio B in Belgium and her reaction to the Paris shooting. We also talk about her new podcast, Probable Cause, and what she is hoping to accomplish with it.


Comment: See also:

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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: Weekly Broadcast - 25 January 2015


Sott.net
Sun, 25 Jan 2015 19:00 UTC
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Welcome to the radio network of SOTT.net, your media source for independent, unbiased, alternative news and commentary on world events. Each Sunday on the SOTT Radio Network, SOTT.net editors Joe Quinn and Niall Bradley host the Behind the Headlines talkshow, analyzing global impact events that shape our world and future. Connecting the dots to reveal the bigger picture obscured by mainstream programming, Behind the Headlines is current affairs for people who think.

From the crisis in Ukraine to the ISIS in Iraq, from increasingly extreme weather to surviving in a world ruled by psychopaths, your hosts, their colleagues (and occasional guests) explore the deeper truths driving world events by exposing the manipulations behind what passes for 'news'.

Behind the Headlines airs live this Sunday 18 January 2014 from 2-4pm EST / 11am-1pm PST / 7-9pm UTC / 8-10pm CET.

Running Time: 01:54:00

Download: MP3

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Stormtrooper

Military-clad English-speakers caught on camera in Mariupol shelling aftermath


RT
Sun, 25 Jan 2015 16:10 UTC
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© YouTube video by Телеканал МТВ
Armed people in uniform speaking fluent English with no accent have been spotted in Mariupol in the aftermath of the rocket hit, fuelling allegations that foreign private military contractors are serving among Ukrainian troops.

The port city in eastern Ukraine, under Kiev's control, saw a surge of violence on Saturday, when several rockets hit a residential area in the east of the city, reportedly killing 30 civilians. Numerous videos from the scene showed destruction in the aftermath of the attack, for which local militia and Ukrainian troops blamed each other.

But among footage shot in Mariupol, there are some videos showing armed men in military uniform, who speak English fluently.

One video uploaded on YouTube is apparently raw footage of a local news channel MSN (Mariupol News Service). One episode shows a man passing resolutely by the camera.
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The threat of Boko Haram and NATO's obliteration of Libya

Ajamu Baraka
The Black Agenda Report
Sun, 25 Jan 2015 15:38 UTC
Libyans in Benghazi last year in front of a Libyan flag, right, and a Qatari flag painted on the wall.
© Bryan Denton for The New York TimesLibyans in Benghazi last year in front of a Libyan flag, right, and a Qatari flag painted on the wall.
This article was first published by Black Agenda Report on May 14, 2014 and by Global Research on May 16, 2014.

You can't understand the threat posed to Nigeria by Boko Haram, or the ghastly destruction of Syria over the past three years, outside the context of "the vicious NATO obliteration of the state of Libya." One huge crime begets many consequences, including the death of the U.S. ambassador in Benghazi. The Left should be outraged at Obama policies - in North Africa, in Syria, and in backing neo-fascists in Ukraine.

Seemingly out of nowhere, Boko Haram burst into the awareness of people around the world as a shadowy group of Islamists with the ability to carry out audacious attacks that paralyzed the army of the most populous country in Africa. People now want to know the group's origins, where they came from, why they are kidnapping girls and how they became such a powerful threat. All important questions - but questions that cannot be answered by just looking at the internal politics of Nigeria, as important as those are, because Boko Haram is incomprehensible when decontextualized from the destabilization, death and destruction unleashed across Africa from the Sahel into West Africa as a result of one historic event - the vicious NATO obliteration of the state of Libya.

Comment: Placing any hope within this diseased system is a waste. Real hope rests in the choices we make on a daily basis - do we honor the truth of the world that we live in, or do we live like sheeple?

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Vader

SOTT Exclusive: Goldman Sachs couldn't do God's work without City of London, the Western oligarchy's 'European Headquarters'

Niall Bradley
Sott.net
Sun, 25 Jan 2015 17:56 UTC
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© galleryhip.comThe British Empire’s seamless integration into a US-led Western Empire has been so successful that its enemies rarely know what they’re fighting against. Above, the ‘belly of the beast’ in Europe, the City of London, Inc.
Noam Chomsky once wrote, regarding censorship, that while you will not find the truth on the front pages, it's very often in plain sight on the business pages. The following gem in yesterday's Guardian isn't quite 'splainin' things up front, but with geopolitics and Western oligarchs' 'balance-of-power' strategy in mind, it's not difficult to see what 'God's emissary' was getting at:
Britain must remain in Europe, says Goldman Sachs president

The Guardian - Sat, 24 Jan 2015

The head of one of the world's leading investment banks has said Britain should remain in the EU, describing London as "a great financial capital of the world".

Goldman Sachs' president and chief operating officer Gary Cohn said it is the best thing "for all of us" that the financial services industry stays in London.
"All of us", of course, refers to other Western oligarchs like Cohn.
Mr Cohn told the BBC: "I think for the UK it's imperative to keep the financial services industry in London."We all want to stay in London - it is our European headquarters.
i.e., London is the Western oligarchy's base of operations for ruling over Europe.
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Bad Guys

Propaganda Alert! Davos elites warned about 'catastrophic' cyberattacks


Phys.org
Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:51 UTC
Cyber Attacks
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Attacks on power plants, telecommunications and financial systems, even turning all of Los Angeles' traffic lights green: Davos elites were warned Saturday of the terrifying possibilities of modern cyber terrorism.

Eugene Kaspersky, who heads the Kaspersky Lab security group, said the possibilities of individuals being hacked would only increase in future as more devices, such as "smart" televisions, are hooked up to the Internet.

"What you call the Internet of Things, I call the Internet of Threats," he told the assembled global political and business movers-and-shakers.

"The worst of the worst scenarios is an attack on a big infrastructure, a power plant. If there's no power, the rest of the world doesn't work," Kaspersky cautioned.

Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves said that criminals could bring about chaos in a much lower-level way.

"You can wreak havoc in all kinds of ways," said Ilves, who added that it was the duty of governments to give citizens powerful encryption tools to protect their data.

He told an anecdote about traffic authorities in Los Angeles who went on strike and also set all the lights to red, sparking gridlock.

"But what if someone turned all the lights green?" he asked.

In the wake of the cyberhack on Sony late last year, cybersecurity has been a hot button topic at the four-day World Economic Forum in the swanky Swiss ski resort.


Comment: See: Was Sony hack an inside job Experts call FBI findings into question and SOTT Exclusive N Korea offers US joint investigation into SONY cyberattack US counters with sanctions and blacklisting


The conclusion, in Ilves's words: "Basically nothing is safe."

Comment: The rhetoric on cyber attacks has been steadily increasing, with even larger cyber security exercises being held. Could a cyber false-flag attack be imminent?

As well as "extremist groups such as Islamic State" already being linked to "modern cyber terrorism"; recently Admiral Mike Rogers, the director of the U.S. National Security Agency warned:
China and "probably one or two" other countries have the ability to invade and possibly shut down computer systems of U.S. power utilities, aviation networks and financial companies


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Bad Guys

Flashback Fear, Inc. The roots of the Islamophobia network in America

Wajahat Ali, Eli Clifton, Matthew Duss, Lee Fang, Scott Keyes, and Faiz Shakir
Center for American Progress
Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:57 UTC
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© Getty Images/Bill PuglianoAnti-Muslim graffiti defaces a Shi'ite mosque at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan.
On July 22, a man planted a bomb in an Oslo government building that killed eight people. A few hours after the explosion, he shot and killed 68 people, mostly teenagers, at a Labor Party youth camp on Norway's Utoya Island.

By midday, pundits were speculating as to who had perpetrated the greatest massacre in Norwegian history since World War II. Numerous mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic, speculated about an Al Qaeda connection and a "jihadist" motivation behind the attacks. But by the next morning it was clear that the attacker was a 32-year-old, white, blond-haired and blue-eyed Norwegian named Anders Breivik. He was not a Muslim, but rather a self-described Christian conservative.

According to his attorney, Breivik claimed responsibility for his self-described "gruesome but necessary" actions. On July 26, Breivik told the court that violence was "necessary" to save Europe from Marxism and "Muslimization." In his 1,500-page manifesto, which meticulously details his attack methods and aims to inspire others to extremist violence, Breivik vows "brutal and breathtaking operations which will result in casualties" to fight the alleged "ongoing Islamic Colonization of Europe."

Breivik's manifesto contains numerous footnotes and in-text citations to American bloggers and pundits, quoting them as experts on Islam's "war against the West." This small group of anti-Muslim organizations and individuals in our nation is obscure to most Americans but wields great influence in shaping the national and international political debate. Their names are heralded within communities that are actively organizing against Islam and targeting Muslims in the United States.

Comment: Who benefits from the demonization of Islam in the west? Looks like the 1%, the war profiteers, and Israel. After 9/11 they worked on the United States. Now they are working on Western Europe.

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