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U.S.Dept of Agriculture buying unknown amount of submachine guns and high-capacity magazines


RT
Thu, 15 May 2014 17:49 UTC
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© Reuters/Ricardo Morales
The United States Department of Agriculture is probably one of the last federal agencies you'd expect to request a substantial amount, if any, of firearms, but that's precisely what it did last week.

In a solicitation posted on the government's Federal Business Opportunities website on May 7, the Agriculture Department requested an unknown number of submachine guns. The department also states it wants to get its hands on weapons with night sights in the front and the rear and magazines with a 30-round capacity.

The solicitation, which also calls for the submachine guns to be lightweight and feature slings, says:

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector General, located in Washington, DC, pursuant to the authority of FAR Part 13, has a requirement for the commerical [sic] acquisition of submachine guns, .40 Cal. S&W, ambidextrous safety, semi-automatic or 2 shot burts [sic] trigger group, Tritium night sights for front and rear, rails for attachment of flashlight (front under fore grip) and scope (top rear), stock-collapsilbe [sic] or folding, magazine - 30 rd. capacity, sling, light weight, and oversized trigger guard for gloved operation."
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Newspaper

More lies about Ukraine from the New York Times: Primitive prejudice, stupidity and reflexive compliance

Patrick Smith
Salon.com
Thu, 15 May 2014 12:54 UTC
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© AP/Evan Vucci

However Ukrainians settle their drastic differences - and they can, providing all sides find the will to do so - a large and welcome consequence of this crisis falls to Americans. This is summed up in a single word. Ukraine gives us the gift of revelation.

We Americans are destined to discover who we are in this century, as opposed to who we tell ourselves and others we are. The great dodge of the American century, chiseled in granite with Woodrow Wilson's famous line, "The world must be made safe for democracy," will lose its power to propel. This was a fairly easy call long before the events of the past six months on Russia's southwest border. In Ukraine we start to see how this will occur, what forms it may take, and what we will find when we look.

I did not see this coming, to be honest. It was Victoria Nuland's famous-but-not-to-be-mentioned "'F' the EU" appearance on YouTube in February that turned things. We have since had full-frontal porn of an American subversion op, the ensuing coverup, then the media's supine cooperation in the coverup, then the full-frontal of everybody in the bedroom. Even the coverup is not covered up.

American-sponsored coups have flopped before, goodness knows. The list is long. But this failure takes us further than ever before up the creek that smells, in my view.

At writing, the provisional government in Kiev has reluctantly opened talks on decentralizing the Ukrainian political structure. Hardly was this in Washington's plan, but the Obama administration will nonetheless have considerable influence on the outcome in Ukraine as it backs out the gate it crashed, as I am convinced it will before this is over.
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Quenelle

Resistance instead of protest: Forcing and not asking or begging leaders to make better decisions

Joost van Steenis
downwithelite
Tue, 13 May 2014 00:00 UTC
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Resistance is forcing leaders to take different decisions. Protest is asking and begging them to change decisions. Resistance is part of a revolution that wants change, protest is part of a revolt that shows the dissatisfaction of the 99%. Resistance challenges the power, protest appeals to the conscience of leaders.

When a country is occupied by a foreign power protest is senseless. Authorities do not listen to protests and the only way to achieve something is by resistance. In Western democracies protest can have some success but not when it concerns important subjects. When a lot of money (for the 1% and their lackeys) is involved protests fall on deaf ears. The Anti-Nuclear Movement, actions against fracking or against genetically modified food were not very successful. Efforts to restrict the use of cars because it uses too much precious materials and fossil energy are failing. Withdrawing support for regimes that suppress the own population (and the lack of support for freedom movements in those countries) is also nearly without positive result. Human Rights are unimportant when trade agreements are discussed. Money stands first and not the interests of the 99%. Protest actions give maybe some power to action leaders who want to be embedded in the political game but do not change the life of rank and file activists. This is in contradiction to the idea that all people have the same status.

Comment: This blogger is definitely right when he points out that protests no longer, if they ever did, accomplish anything. The question then becomes, if many are seeing the same problems and issues in the world today, how to resist? And how just does one define resistance anyway? What are the actions that one takes? What steps need to be made? And what does one need to know?

In a nutshell:
  • that the devastating wars that are perpetrated by politicians of the U.S. government and its military...
  • that the economic enslavement perpetrated by the banks and financial institutions of this planet...
  • that the health-destroying products and methods of big agro and big pharma...
  • that the administration of modern medicine by corrupt and colluding government organizations...
  • that the out-of-control and brutal nature of today's "policing"...
  • that the insanely Orwellian nature of the modern security state...
  • and that the lies perpetrated around the nature of the catastrophic environmental changes we are seeing, among many other things....
...are all the products, or the by-products, or heavily influenced by: psychopaths. Yes, psychopaths. Snakes in suits. Moral defectives. Humanoids with no conscience or sense of responsibility towards the normal people of the world who just want to live their lives peaceably; without the threat of looming world war, without having to worry about being brutalized by "peace officers", without having to worry if what they eat will unravel their DNA, and the list goes on...

This is literally a multi-pronged war against Humanity. And if we can't see all the many ways that the baddies are arraying against us, an individual is likely to fall prey.

So back to the question - how to resist? The answer is simple. Just arm yourself to the teeth: with Knowledge - especially about psychopaths. Share it with others who also want to know. And don't underestimate it's fire power.

Join the Resistance.

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Telephone

Powerplay and cover-up: Kiev protégé allegedly behind Mariupol and Odessa massacres leaked tapes reveal


RT
Thu, 15 May 2014 09:54 UTC
Ihor Kolomoisky and Oleg Tsarev
© RIA Novosti / Natalia Seliverstova / Mikhail MarkivIhor Kolomoisky and Oleg Tsarev
Two leaked tapes have emerged on the internet where Kiev-appointed governor allegedly threatens an ex-presidential candidate who called for a referendum. The official may also be behind the Odessa massacre and Mariupol shootings, the leak adds.

On the first tape, which appeared on May 14, an oligarch and governor of the city of Dnepropetrovsk in southeastern Ukraine, Igor Kolomoisky, allegedly called ex-presidential candidate Oleg Tsarev and started threatening him. He told Tsarev to leave Ukraine immediately, saying it was in connection with the killing of Bogdan Shlemkevich, a soldier from Ukraine's National Guard on May 9 in Mariupol, southeastern Ukraine. He was shot in clashes between anti-government protesters and soldiers sent by Kiev in an 'antiterrorist' operation in eastern Ukraine.

Tsarev, a Dnepropetrovsk businessman and People's Deputy of Ukraine, submitted his candidacy as self-nominee for the presidential election scheduled for May 25. He is standing for federalization of the country as well as for referenda in all parts of Ukraine. He withdrew his presidential candidacy on 29 April in a protest against Kiev.

"We prayed for [Bogdan] Shlemkevich who was killed in Mariupol and they say that Tsarev is guilty," Kolomoisky told the ex-candidate.

The Dnepropetrovsk governor says that now Tsarev and his family will be hunted down and killed.

"They put $1 million for your head, they will go after you everywhere," Kolomoisky told him. "Tomorrow they will look for your people and relatives," said the Ukrainian oligarch.



Comment: A transcript of the conversation can be found below.


Comment: Here is a rough translation of the first leaked tape done by a Sott reader:
Kolomoisky: Hello,
Tsarev: Hello.
Kolomoisky: Where are you? Still there?
Tsarev: Still there.
Kolomoisky: How are you?
Tsarev: Fine.
Kolomoisky: We've got a serious accident. One Jew from Dnepropetrovsk Jewish community died.
Tsarev: What happened?
Kolomoisky: Well, one Jew from Dnepropetrovsk Jewish community died. I am at the synagogue now.
Tsarev: What was he doing there?
Kolomoisky: It doesn't matter what he was doing. They say that your head costs a lot of money now [censored].
Tsarev: Mine?
Kolomoisky: One million dollars. Yours. Yes. They say they will be searching you everywhere. Just wanted to tell you this. I wanted to tell you that you'd better stay in Moscow, do not return.
Tsarev: Let me tell you one thing. In Africa there is such ...
Kolomoisky: Tomorrow they will be catching your people here.
Tsarev: In Africa there is such ... poison...
Kolomoisky: Listen, I don't give a [censored] what is there in Africa. Don't tell me this crap. I'm telling you we've been praying in synagogue before the Shabbat. We've been praying for Shlemkevitch, the Jew who was killed in Mariupol [censored].
Tsarev: So...
Kolomoisky: They say Tsarev is to blame [censored]. And tomorrow they will search for all your relatives first [censored]. Tell them to leave [censored]. Because we will hang them right in the square [censored]... I'm telling you, tell Markov that he shouldn't come here either. To Ukraine, I mean. No way. Hallo.
Tsarev: Don't phone me anymore, Igor.
Kolomoisky: Not to phone you? OK. Bye, Tsarev. That's it.
And here is the translation of the other phone conversation:
Telephone conversation between President of Customs Union Suppliers Association Oleg Noginsky with Ian Borisovich Epstein, the honourable consul of Israel in Ukraine, carried out by the former staff of the SSU (Security service of Ukraine) nowadays calling Integrated CyberMilitia of Donetsk, Lugansk and Kharkov regions. Conversation took place on May 10, 2014 at 11:18 pm.
The statements which publication can lead to undesirable consequences are removed from audio recordings.

Ian: Hallo.
Noginski: Hallo. Ian Borisovich, good evening. I beg your pardon. Happy holiday. Did I wake you up?
Ian: Oh, no. It's not too late. Happy holiday you too. Wish you peace, good health and well-being...
Noginski: Ian Borisovich, I'm calling because of a serious problem, it makes me really concerned.
Ian: What happened?
Noginski: Well, the 9th of May in Mariupol, did you see what happened there? Certain Shelemchak was killed there.
Ian: Who was it?
Noginski: A Jew from Dnipropetrovsk. At least if we can trust Kolomoysky. But what is even worse, Mr. Kolomoysky called Tsarov and told him that broadly speaking that day in all synagogues of Ukraine it was announced to all right Jews that there will be a reward for the head of Tsarov's and Russian separatists. When I heard the word 'synagogue'...
Ian: You don't say so. That can't be. I just know that... Today I went to a synagogue. We were reading prayers. Everything was, so to say...
Noginski: Ian Borisovich, I'm not saying that, surely, it didn't happen in the synagogues... But when he is speaking about it... I don't know whether he was recorded or not. In case his words appear in the media, can you imagine what happens in that case?
Ian: Did Kolomoyskyi say it was Tsarov exactly?
Noginski: Yes. A million ($) for his head. He also said that the next day his family would be hanging. His relatives. Listen, I just repeat his words... You know, Oleg, he is not like anybody else, he never lies. And he sent it to me late in the evening, he was deeply shocked. Another man who was by his side at that moment told me the same.
Ian: Terrible. No, I just can't understand how a Jew... Jews in general, so to say, must not allow themselves anything of the kind... Gave him a personal call?
Noginski: Yes, he likes it. He called Markov (Ukrainian MP (deputy) Igor Markov) recently, told him how he would get burned in case he comes to Odessa. That's kind of his amusement. I'm not sure but I feel like he went crazy, seriously. By the way, that's a totally proved out fact that he paid those guys in Odessa. Totally. And it was done to seat Palytsia as governor. Even at the "Fatherland" (Party of Tymoshenko) headquarters they prove it out... The situation went out of hand. Their task was to beat them up, give them the works so that they all get to the hospital, and the camp was to be totally destroyed.
Ian: Well, you know, there were the guys of Avakov (Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine). They could have done it all.
Noginski: Well, there was an agreement. In case... it all still keeps voiced. There was an agreement. He came up and said, 'Why are you fiddling around that Odessa'? There was that 'Kulikovo Field' all the time, non-stop. 'You better give Odessa to me and it will be just like in Dnipropetrovsk.' So to say, no one will dare to show up. They said, 'OK'.
Ian: He used to come to Odessa. He has already been in Odessa.
Noginski: He is still there. And has been busy during the recent three days with what makes 16 people dead who had been arrested and stayed alive after the 'Trade Unions House'. Two people were put a knife near the building. And so forth.
Ian: Well, Oleg, I just, you know, can't believe that Benya (Kolomoysky nickname) is able to do that.
Noginski: You know, many people here say they feel he went kind of crazy. These days, you know, Korban is actively trying to take Tsarov's property. Well, there's nothing I can add.
Ian: I just don't know him, that's why I cannot say anything. I don't know him.
Noginski: Well, he is a good friend of Benya... And Filatov (first assistant of Kolomoysky) already gives a reward for "moskals" (Russians) and already pays. I just... Ian Borisovich, the thing it that Benya's affairs are up to him. He can do whatever he likes. In case he imagines himself second Hitler... Well, I think there will be a second Nazi Germany on the territory of a small piece of Ukraine. Benya will be a multibillionaire and the owner of this territory. But what Jews in the rest of the world will do... I just think it is necessary to publicly back off from this process right away.
Ian: What do you mean? What process?
Noginski: From Kolomoysky. From Benya.
Ian: Well, how?
Noginski: Just report that in this case the world Jewish community, firstly, has nothing to do with personal position of Mr. Kolomoysky, secondly, a) don't back up neither Odessa, nor Mariupol, nor any other and sincerely sympathize with them. And thirdly, state that in case any of Jews is noticed in Nazi crimes, we will be first to deal with it.
Ian: Thank god, there hasn't been any problem with it lately.
Noginski: The more so because of one man who decided to become a billionaire, a multibillionaire or imagined himself to be an owner of Ukraine...
Ian: No, the matter is that the synagogues are... They should be standing apart from all these things. A synagogue is a place for meeting, it's a prayer place. It should deal with inner life of Jews. That's it. This is so to say what a synagogue is about. So, dealing with so to say politics, dealing with such things and backing up...
Noginski: I mean... You know, I've got such feeling that standing apart is not an option for us.
Ian: Come again.
Noginski: We can't help standing apart. By the way, I asked Oleg not to make it public. His first thought was to make it public.
Ian: No. By doing this he will definitely bring reproach on Jews right away.
Noginski: You don't say so! It will start a huge wave of tension. The more so, it will start all over the world.


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Stormtrooper

Paris Match exposes the hands of fascists in Krasnoarmeysk killings

Alfred de Montesquiou, with two Paris Match photographers.
Paris Match
Thu, 15 May 2014 08:49 UTC
Andrey Denisonko
© Paris MatchAndrey Denisenko, one of the leaders of the nationalist group Pravy Sektor, seen here entrenched in the town hall at Krasnoarmeysk on Sunday, may 11, talking to the crowd who wants to get in to take part in the referendum.
Members of the Ukrainian ultra-nationalist group Pravy Sektor took part in a commando-style raid against the Donbass referendum last Sunday, killing two unarmed civilians in the town of Krasnoarmeysk, an investigation by Paris Match has found.

Rumours had spread among separatists for several weeks about radical Pravy Sektor (or « Right Sector ») militants hiding amid government forces loyal to Kiev to perpetrate actions targeting pro-Russian groups in eastern Ukraine. Though a small political force, Pravy Sektor played a significant part in the street fights the lead to the downfall of former president Viktor Yanukovitch during the Maidan Revolution in Kiev last February. Formed as an alliance of tiny far-right groups, the movement is described as « fascist » by the pro-Russian populations of eastern Ukraine, which regularly accuse its militants of stirring trouble by any means. These accusations have been constantly repeated by numerous Russian media close to the Kremlin, and have become an important part of the ferocious disinformation war currently playing out in Ukraine. But they had, till now, essentially not been substantiated, to the point of being poked at as a farce on twitter and the Internet.
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Mr. Potato

The Ukraine round table discussion: the farce continues

The Saker
Vineyard of the Saker
Thu, 15 May 2014 08:31 UTC
So they finally did meet as the OSCE had wanted. Who "they"? Well, whomever the junta invited, but not the representatives of the southwestern Ukraine, that's for sure. The BBC made it look really "diverse" with this photo:

Round table discussion in Kiev
© ReutersThe beauty of "diversity"- all that is missing is a Ukrainian Hare-Krishna
The beauty of "diversity"- all that is missing is a Ukrainian Hare-Krishna. I have found no list of participants. All I know is that the one key party to any such negotiations was not present. I am not sure whether this was because the proud junta did not want to talk to "terrorists" or because the said "terrorists" did not want to talk to the "occupying power" of their sovereign state. What is certain is that such "negotiations" are a total waste of time, which nobody in the Ukraine can afford.

According to one website "the talks lasted 2 1/2 hours and ended inconclusively". Amazing? What could they possibly have "negotiated" about and what kind of "conclusion" would anybody have expected?!

Anyway, if you find out:

1) the list of people attending the talks and
2) what topics were discussed

I would be most grateful if you could post that info in the comments section.

Many thanks and kind regards,

The Saker
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Evil Rays

Bankers killing bankers for the insurance money and another look at insider trading around 9/11

Max Keiser
RT
Thu, 15 May 2014 03:47 UTC
New York Stock Exchange
© Reuters / Brendan McDermid
Two big, macabre stories came out of Wall Street recently: the rash of banker deaths by apparent murder and/or suicide, and speculation that bank CEOs themselves are behind the trend to cash in on the insurance.

It turns out that banks take out life insurance policies on their employees, and those policies pay out death benefits to the banks - not the families. In other words, to add to the banks' other crimes, they appear to also be involved in the "suicides" and deaths of their own, as a way to fatten their bottom line and bonuses.

Should we be surprised by this banker-on-banker death scam? After all, wasn't this what 9/11 was all about?

A new book by James Rickards, 'The Death of Money' (read: 'Death of Bankers'), opens with a timeline starting three days before the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers and describes them from a first-person account from inside the CIA, which was monitoring trading on airline stocks (specifically 'put options'), from traders who were profiting from the 9/11 disaster.

Jim Rickards is both a Washington insider and a Wall Street insider. He's a hedge fund manager and a lawyer who, amongst other roles, advised the government during the collapse of Long Term Capital Management (LTCM), as well as during the release of the hostages during the Iran Hostage Crisis of 1981. If anyone has the inside track on the Wall Street-Washington corridor of corruption, it's Mr. Rickards. And in his new book, he provides an eyewitness account of 9/11 insider 'terror trading' that was missing from the government's own report. Rickards is an unimpeachable source, and he has done a great service by blowing the whistle on this scandal, at least partially.
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Life Preserver

Russia bans police, emergency and military employees from traveling abroad

Thomas Nilsen
Barents Observer
Tue, 13 May 2014 12:00 UTC
Police officers, fire fighters and other law enforcement employees in Murmansk or Arkhangelsk can forget about visiting friends or take a tourist trip to other Barents countries.

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© Thomas NilsenFire fighters are part of Russia's Ministry of Emergencies.
Russia's Ministry of Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters has issued travel restrictions to all employees like the country's firefighters, ambulance drivers and rescue troopers, reports LifeNews.

A similar travel ban is imposed for parts of employees under the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) including tens of thousands of police officers, prison guards, and other law enforcement agencies like the Federal Drug Control and the Federal Migration Service. Others listed are people with access to state secrets, like certain employees of the Foreign Ministry. According to estimates, they are around 250,000 people.

The two reasons given to explain the travel ban are to take measure to prevent leaks of secrets and secondly, to prevent the possibility of being arrested by U.S. law enforcement agencies.
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Newspaper

The London silver fix is officially dead - Beginning of the end of precious metals manipulation?

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 14 May 2014 23:02 UTC
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Following a crackdown on precious metal manipulation by various European regulators (mostly Germany's BaFin, recall "Precious Metals Manipulation Worse Than Libor Scandal, German Regulator Says"), which led to the shocking outcome that Deutsche Bank would pull out of the London gold and silver fixing committees, the London Silver Market Fixing company ended up with a most curious outcome: it would have just two members: HSBC and Bank of Nova Scotia. And, as an even more shocking result, overnight the London Silver Fix announced that after August 14, 2014 it will no longer exist - the first of many victories for all those who have fought for fair and unmanipulated precious metal markets.

From the press release:

The London Silver Market Fixing Limited (the 'Company') announces that it will cease to administer the London Silver Fixing with effect from close of business on 14 August 2014. Until then, Deutsche Bank AG, HSBC Bank USA N.A. and The Bank of Nova Scotia will remain members of the Company and the Company will administer the London Silver Fixing and continue to liaise with the FCA and other stakeholders.
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Dollar Gold

Ukraine seeks to issue $1 billion bonds backed by US taxpayers

Ben Edwards and Alexander Kolyandr
The Wall Street Journal
Wed, 14 May 2014 22:16 UTC
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Cash-strapped Ukraine is set to gain some much-needed financial support from the U.S. with a bond deal that will allow the country to borrow in global debt markets at ultra-cheap rates.

Ukraine's government said on its website Wednesday that it is setting out plans to raise $1 billion from a sale of five-year bonds that will be backed by the U.S.

The maximum yield will be 2.9%, the government said. By contrast, Ukraine's existing bonds maturing in six years are yielding about 11%, according to Tradeweb. Five-year U.S. Treasurys yield 1.593%, meaning that Ukraine's U.S.-backed bonds will be cheaper for investors to buy for essentially the same risk. Bond yields move in the opposite direction to prices. Separately the European Union Wednesday also raised 100 million euros ($137 million) from selling bonds, proceeds of which will be lent to Ukraine.

The funds will help Ukraine meet pressing bill payments, such as the cost of natural gas imports from Russia.
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