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The Saker's Ukraine Situation Report - May 22nd: Death squad murders conscripts who refuse to attack civilians

The Saker
The Vineyard of the Saker
Fri, 23 May 2014 01:24 UTC
Privat Bank Ukraine death squads
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Something really weird has just happened in the Ukraine. Everybody agrees that an attack took place on a checkpoint of the Ukrainian national guard near the city of Volnovakha (see map). 35 soldiers were wounded, 15 died (other figures quote 8 confirmed dead and an unknown number of evacuated bodies of attackers who got killed; one source says "13-20 fatalities"). The surviving soldiers say that out of 53 men, only 7 survived.

So far all the sources point to the same sequence of events. Here is what I pieced together:

A Ukrainian national guard unit (according to one source, the 51st motorized brigade which had been hastily made up with middle-aged reservists) brought in from the city of Vinnitsa. For three days they were were told to man a checkpoint, but today they were given the order to attack civilians in a nearby village. The unit refused and the commander announced that he would withdraw because "there were no terrorists here, only civilians". At around 5AM a black sedan, two jeeps and several vehicles (vans and armored) of the company Privat Bank (belonging to the Jewish oligarch Kolomoiski) carrying members of the "Donbass" and "Azov" death-squads drove to the checkpoint and opened fire with everything they had. The soldiers fired back as best they could. The attack lasted 15mins, after which the attackers put on some Saint George ribbons and beat up the surviving and wounded soldiers while telling them that they were from the Donbass Resistance forces. Not a single solider believed them.
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Vader

Jordan to host joint 'military training drill' with US and 24 other nations on Syrian border during Syrian presidential election


Morningstaronline.co.uk
Thu, 22 May 2014 20:30 UTC
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© Mohammad Hannon/APPro-fascist military forces to participate in Eager Lion military exercise in Amman, Jordan, Sunday, May 27.
Ukraine's referendums in the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk provinces earlier this month were met with condemnation from the West, especially the US.

Accusations of the electorate voting "at the barrel of a gun" were thrown at regions where almost 90 per cent in Donetsk and 96.2 per cent in Luhansk voted in favour of self-rule, on a near 90 per cent turnout.

Many did indeed vote at the barrels of guns. The guns of the junta in Kiev which, following a successful coup overthrowing an elected government, is now backed by the US, Britain, the EU and Nato.

The army was sent east to stop people voting. Its actions resulted in several deaths.

As the barrels of guns go, they don't get much bigger than those focused on the voters of Ukraine when the new regime holds its national elections on May 25.

The US warship Vella Gulf is expected to arrive in the Black Sea "on the eve of presidential elections," with US diplomats stressing that "the United States wanted to support the actions of the new Ukrainian authorities through the presence of US warships in the Black Sea."

In "support" of the elections the Vella Gulf is "armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles and anti-submarine and anti-aircraft Standard-2 and Standard-3 missiles. The ship carries a total of 122 missiles on board. The vessel also has two multi-purpose helicopters."

Comment: What can we expect during this 'military drill'? The psychopaths in Washington have become completely unhinged and it wouldn't be surprising to see yet another attempt to overthrow the Syrian government.

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Pistol

Kiev snipers: Mystery solved?

Henry Kamens
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 17 May 2014 14:45 UTC
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Georgian sniper during South Ossetia war.
Despite all the reporting on Ukraine, there is one aspect of the war which, perhaps not surprisingly, has not made it to most media outlets. The democratic West has largely ignored the revelation made by the Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet, in an intercepted phone discussion with EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton, that "that there is growing evidence that the snipers were under the control of the new Kiev authorities, and that the same snipers were shooting BOTH police and protesters!

It has also ignored Ashton's response: "Well, yeah, that's really terrible". So what is the EU going to do about it? How come the EU wants to interfere in everything else in Ukraine, but give nothing more than a throwaway remark to this institutional murder committed simply to inflame the conflict further?

Sources agree

I have Jewish-Ukrainian friend who has family in Ukraine, whose father and grandmother survived a concentration camp after being turned in to the Germans by their Ukrainian neighbours for being Jewish. Somehow they escaped from a ghetto work camp in East Ukraine before it was closed and its inmates sent to death camps in Poland.

This woman has family members working in the Security Services. Two days after the first deaths in Maidan Square she told me that, according to these family members, the snipers were killing members of both sides equally. The intercepted phone call has since confirmed this information.
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Obama lied again: FCC targets net neutrality


RT
Fri, 16 May 2014 15:49 UTC
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© Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
United States President Barack Obama's commitment to net neutrality is being questioned after the Federal Communications Commission officials appointed on his watch voted Thursday to advance a plan believed by many to be a blow to the open internet.

This week's three-two decision by the FCC to consider proposed rules regarding net neutrality isn't the final nail in the coffin of the open internet. Rather, the five-person panel agreed Thursday morning to open up for comments a proposal drafted by Chairman Thomas Wheeler that would set rules in place meant to address a federal appeals court's decision earlier this year that paved the way for the possibility of paid prioritization with regards to how Internet Service Providers, or ISPs, deliver web content to customers.

As the panel weighs Wheeler's plan, the public now has 120 days to offer their own critique before another vote is held. In the meantime, though, Pres. Obama is likely to draw fire from critics on his own in light of previous statements he made pledging to preserve and protect the open internet.
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Bad Guys

Coups and terror are the fruit of Nato's war in Libya

Seumas Milne
The Guardian
Thu, 22 May 2014 11:04 UTC
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© Str/AFP/Getty ImagesFirefighters and rescuers extinguish a fire following a bomb blast in central Jos, Nigeria.
Iraq may have been a blood-drenched disaster and Afghanistan a grinding military and political failure. But Libya was supposed to have been different. Nato's war to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi in 2011 was hailed as the liberal intervention that worked.

The western powers might have had to twist the meaning of the UN resolution about protecting civilians, the city of Sirte might have been reduced to rubble, large-scale ethnic cleansing taken place and thousands of civilians killed. But it was all in a noble cause and achieved without Nato casualties.

This wasn't Bush and Blair, after all, but Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy. The people were free, the dictator was dead, a mooted massacre had been averted - and all this without any obvious boots on the ground. Even last year the prime minister was still claiming it had all been worthwhile, promising to stand with Libyans "every step of the way".

But three years after Nato declared victory, Libya is lurching once again towards civil war. Over the past few days, the CIA-linked General Hiftar launched his second coup attempt in three months, supposedly to save the country from "terrorists" and Islamists. On Sunday, his forces stormed the national parliament in Tripoli, after 80 people were killed in fighting in Benghazi two days earlier.

Now Libya's chief of staff has called on Islamist militias to defend the government in advance of new elections. Since the country is overrun with militias far more powerful than its official forces, riven with multiple divisions and prey to constant external interference, the chances of avoiding full-blown conflict are shrinking fast.

Comment: If Hiftar was concerned about terrorists he'd be right to look at NATO as the source. But of course he is just an instrument of the same.

Also see: The Truthseeker: NATO false flags in Ukraine

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Cow Skull

Fracking Hell: The Untold Story

Link TV
YouTube
Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:14 UTC
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An original investigative report by Earth Focus and UK's Ecologist Film Unit looks at the risks of natural gas development in the Marcellus Shale. From toxic chemicals in drinking water to unregulated interstate dumping of potentially radioactive waste that experts fear can contaminate water supplies in major population centers including New York City, are the health consequences worth the economic gains?

Marcellus Shale contains enough natural gas to supply all US gas needs for 14 years. But as gas drilling takes place, using a process called hydraulic fracturing or "fracking," toxic chemicals and methane gas seep into drinking water. Now experts fear that unacceptable levels of radioactive Radium 226 in gas development waste.

Fracking chemicals are linked to bone, liver and breast cancers, gastrointestinal, circulatory, respiratory, developmental as well as brain and nervous system disorders. Such chemicals are present in frack waste and may find their way into drinking water and air.

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Vader

Flashback America is fracked! Pennsylvania schoolchildren, aged 7 and 10, given lifelong gag order on just TALKING about fracking!

Suzanne Goldenberg
The Guardian
Mon, 05 Aug 2013 18:04 UTC
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© Bloomberg via Getty ImagesA drill pipe at a shale gas operation in Pennsylvania
Two young children in Pennsylvania were banned from talking about fracking for the rest of their lives under a gag order imposed under a settlement reached by their parents with a leading oil and gas company.

The sweeping gag order was imposed under a $750,000 settlement between the Hallowich family and Range Resources Corp, a leading oil and gas driller. It provoked outrage on Monday among environmental campaigners and free speech advocates.

The settlement, reached in 2011 but unsealed only last week, barred the Hallowichs' son and daughter, who were then aged ten and seven, from ever discussing fracking or the Marcellus Shale, a leading producer in America's shale gas boom.
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Flashback Europe to ditch climate protection goals - make way for fracking

Gregor Peter Schmitz
Spiegel.de
Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:42 UTC
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© Spiegel.deEurope may be backing away from its ambitious climate protection goals.
The EU's reputation as a model of environmental responsibility may soon be history. The European Commission wants to forgo ambitious climate protection goals and pave the way for fracking -- jeopardizing Germany's touted energy revolution in the process.

The climate between Brussels and Berlin is polluted, something European Commission officials attribute, among other things, to the "reckless" way German Chancellor Angela Merkel blocked stricter exhaust emissions during her re-election campaign to placate domestic automotive manufacturers like Daimler and BMW. This kind of blatant self-interest, officials complained at the time, is poisoning the climate.

But now it seems that the climate is no longer of much importance to the European Commission, the EU's executive branch, either. Commission sources have long been hinting that the body intends to move away from ambitious climate protection goals. On Tuesday, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported as much.

At the request of Commission President José Manuel Barroso, EU member states are no longer to receive specific guidelines for the development of renewable energy. The stated aim of increasing the share of green energy across the EU to up to 27 percent will hold. But how seriously countries tackle this project will no longer be regulated within the plan. As of 2020 at the latest -- when the current commitment to further increase the share of green energy expires -- climate protection in the EU will apparently be pursued on a voluntary basis.

Comment: Note that this decision was made BEFORE the Ukraine crisis blew up in their faces and they came up with the narrative that they had to press ahead with fracking the life out of everything in order to 'save Europe from Russia'.

The elites in the US and EU are simply greedy dwarves who would ruin their own homeland because they feel no normal bonds to anyone or anything but themselves and their profits.

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Flashback Opposed to fracking? Then the corporatocracy considers you to be a terrorist

Dr Nafeez Ahmed
The Guardian
Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:13 UTC
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© Leon Neal/AFP/Getty ImagesAre the hundreds of peaceful protesters who blockaded the Cuadrilla oil drilling site outside Balcombe, West Sussex, dangerous "extremists"?

From North America to Europe, the 'national security' apparatus is being bought off by Big Oil to rout peaceful activism

Over the last year, a mass of shocking evidence has emerged on the close ties between Western government spy agencies and giant energy companies, and their mutual interests in criminalising anti-fracking activists.

Activists tarred with the same brush

In late 2013, official documents obtained under freedom of information showed that Canada's domestic spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), had ramped up its surveillance of activists opposed to the Northern Gateway pipeline project on 'national security' grounds. The CSIS also routinely passed information about such groups to the project's corporate architect, Calgary-based energy company, Enbridge.

The Northern Gateway is an $8 billion project to transport oil from the Alberta tar sands to the British Columbia coast, where it can be shipped to global markets. According to the documents a Canadian federal agency, the National Energy Board, worked with CSIS and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to coordinate with Enbridge, TransCanada, and other energy corporations in gathering intelligence on anti-fracking activists - despite senior police privately admitting they "could not detect a direct or specific criminal threat."

Now it has emerged that former cabinet minister Chuck Strahl - the man appointed by Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper to head up the CSIS' civilian oversight panel, the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC) - has been lobbying for Enbridge since 2011.

But that's not all. According to CBC News, only one member of Strahl's spy watchdog committee "has no ties to either the current government or the oil industry." For instance, SIRC member Denis Losier sits on the board of directors of Enbridge-subsidiary, Enbridge NB, while Yves Fortier, is a former board member of TransCanada, the company behind the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
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Monkey Wrench

Hot on the heels of its China breakthrough, Russia set to build eight nuclear power plants in Iran

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 22 May 2014 11:49 UTC
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Before anyone suggests that all Russia is focusing on is China at any and all costs, consider that as we have been saying since 2012, perhaps just as important to Russia (and China) strategically is Iran which has already lashed out against the Petrodollar on numerous occasions in the past, not only for its vast oil reserves, but for its even more strategic location in the heart of the Persian Gulf.

To be sure, the Eurasian crescent of Russia and China would be made all that much stronger if the two nations had a toehold on the Straits of Hormuz, and were able to shut traffic - either tanker or military, with the US Fifth Fleet located in Bahrain - into the Gulf at their bidding. Which is why it was not surprising that not even 24 hours after Russia and China announced the "holy grail" energy deal, that RIA reported Russia is already preparing to lock in the Tehran regime with a deal to build not one but 8 (!) more nuclear power plants in the country.

Comment: Until anything is signed this may merely constitute symbol politics, but what a diplomatic roar the Russian bear is sounding.

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