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Enough! Ecuador says USAID must leave by end of September


Press TV
Sat, 10 May 2014 04:36 UTC
USAID
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Ecuador has called for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to leave the country by the end of September.

In a letter obtained by the Associated Press on Thursday, Ecuador's government told the USAID that it "must not execute any new activity," nor widen any existing projects in the country.

The letter, dated November 26, 2013, was signed by Gabriela Rosero of Ecuador's international cooperation agency and was sent to the US Embassy in the Ecuadorean capital of Quito.

The letter was reportedly addressed to USAID program officer, Christopher M. Cushing.

Rosero said that the USAID must pull out by September 30, and that "the decision has been made."

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa suggested in December that the USAID's programs were no longer welcome in Ecuador, saying on one of his regular Saturday programs on television and radio that "we don't need charity."

In April, Ecuador ordered 20 US military staff working at the US Embassy in Quito to leave the country by the end of the month.

Comment: Beware of USAID agency bearing gifts

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No lost love: Goliath vs. Goliath: US court backs Monsanto against DuPont in Roundup patent war


RT
Sat, 10 May 2014 04:12 UTC
Dupont headquarters
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In the creation of its mass-distributed seed unit Pioneer, DuPont illegally employed technology developed by fellow agrochemical giant Monsanto, a US federal appeals court has ruled, affirming sanctions against DuPont.

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit let a lower court decision stand on Friday, agreeing that DuPont violated Monsanto's licensed seed technology, known as Roundup Ready, when it was developing its own seed to be tolerant of powerful, commonly-used herbicides.

Monsanto's Roundup Ready seeds are tailored to be able to withstand certain volumes of glyphosate-based herbicide, which Monsanto also makes. The companies are two of the top agribusiness titans competing for dominance through, among other products, so-called high-yield crops, most of which are genetically-modified organisms.

The appeals court agreed with a 2012 decision by the US District Court in St. Louis, finding that "DuPont had abused the judicial process and acted in bad faith," while adding that DuPont's actions were not considered "fraud on the court," Reuters reported.
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Globalization and decline of the West: Eurasianism, the state and rebirth of ethnic-socialism

Matthew Johnson
Eurasia Review
Fri, 09 May 2014 15:02 UTC
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Globalization is an economic movement aimed at the unification of peoples under a plutocracy. It is economic because it is driven by international trade and the constant search for new markets, raw materials and ever cheaper labor. Its arrogance has created a coherent and compelling body of writing that exposes its flaws. Russia serves as the instrument of the resistance against it, and therefore, she has been and will continue to be the target of globalist forces.

This paper argues that globalism is another word for western liberalism and "democracy." It is an inherently unjust regime of global rule that serves only the global oligarchy and insulates them from its consequences. It is presented as "inevitable" and as the result of impersonal forces. Neither claim is true, though the evils of globalization are not inconsistent with "rational" self-interest as defined by economics.

The resistance to this movement has been a bizarre coalition of mutually conflicting movements and personalities. This paper argues that, in order for globalism to be successfully challenged, a strong sense of ethnic, national or regional identity must emerge. Elements of the nationalist and Eurasianist doctrine provide some ideas on how societies can remove themselves from the destructive agenda of internationalism. In Russia's case, these are popular and, to an extent, are already developing in public policy.
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Junta in Kiev is unforgiving: Ukraine builds dam cutting off Crimea water supply


RT
Sat, 10 May 2014 04:01 UTC
Crimean Canal
© UnknownSatellite image of the North Crimean Canal

Recent satellite images show that Kiev is deliberately trying to cut off Crimea peninsula's water supply by building a dam. In the meantime Russian scientists are trying to find ways to supply Crimea with fresh water.

Experts from the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources are developing ways to supply fresh water to the Crimea from the Kuban River in the Krasnodar region to the North Crimean Canal which now receives limited water-flow, as Kiev tightens the lid on Simferopol.

"As one of options of providing the peninsula with water, we are considering an option of drawing water supply from the Kuban River and channeling it through the Strait of Kerch to the end portion of North Crimean Canal," director of the department of public policy and regulation in the field of water resources ministry of Russia Dmitry Kirillov told Ria Novosti.

He added in order to do so the transfer an underground pipeline has to be built in three segments, with each stretching about 130 kilometers.

The options of laying a pipeline through the sea bed of Kerch Strait on special supports or as part of a bridge is now only in the design stage. Transferring water stock from the Kuban River via the Kerch Strait is estimated to cost up to 100 billion rubles ($ 2.8 billion).
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Kiev junta's Nazi revisionism on Victory Day didn't go down too well in province next to Crimea: Watch what happened when Kherson governor described Hitler as 'liberator'


RT
Sat, 10 May 2014 03:11 UTC
Kherson governor
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Addressing the public on a Victory Day, the governor of Ukraine's southern Kherson region trampled on the feelings of many veterans and desecrated the memory of all those who perished during the war against Nazi Germany by calling Hitler a "liberator."

Governor of Kherson region Yuri Odarchenko was booed by thousands including WWII veterans when he told the previously cheering crowd that the Soviet Union tried to enslave Ukraine, while Hitler on the other hand tried to bring freedom to their land.

"Those [Soviet] aggressors justified their capture not only by their desire to seize others' territory and enslave the people, but they also put forward slogans about liberating nations and people that inhabit the lands which Hitler hoped to capture," Odarchenko told the crowd.

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Demented psychopath Tony Blair recites the Saudis' creed in his latest speech

Patrick Cockburn
The Independent
Sun, 27 Apr 2014 21:11 UTC
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Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the core group of al-Qa'ida, may well chortle in disbelief if he reads a translation of Tony Blair's latest speech on the Middle East delivered last week. If Blair's thoughts are used as a guide to action, then the main beneficiaries will be al-Qa'ida-type jihadist movements. Overall, his speech is so bizarre in its assertions that it should forever rule him out as a serious commentator on the Middle East. Reading it, I was reminded of a diplomat in Joseph Conrad's Secret Agent called Mr Vladimir who fancies himself an expert on revolutionaries: "He confounded causes with effects; the most distinguished propagandists with impulsive bomb throwers; assumed organisation where in the nature of things it could not exist."

The speech, entitled "Why the Middle East matters", is about the threat from radical Islam, what it consists of and how it should be countered. Mr Blair says that "there is a titanic struggle going on within the region between those who want the region to embrace the modern world and those who, instead, want to create a politics of religious difference and exclusivity." On one side stand those who want "pluralistic societies and open economies", on the other those who want to impose an exclusive Islamic ideology.
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Propaganda alert! Al Qaeda chief urges kidnappings of Americans


Yahoo! News
Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:43 UTC
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CIA asset: Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has called in an interview for militants to kidnap Westerners, especially Americans, to exchange them for jihadist captives.

In the second part of an interview with Al-Qaeda media arm As-Sahab, which the US-based SITE monitoring service said a jihadist posted on Twitter, Zawahiri was asked what Muslims should do to free militant prisoners.

"I advise them to capture Westerners and especially the Americans as much as they can, to exchange them for their captives," he replied.
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Warning to New Mexico residents: Your police are being taught to use more deadly force

Lily Dane
The Daily Sheeple
Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:17 UTC
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© UnknownNew Mexico police officers shot homeless man in the back.
The New Mexico State Police and the Albuquerque Police Department have come under fire in recent years for unjustified use of excessive force and for police-involved shootings.

Incidents have occurred with enough frequency in the state to trigger a Department of Justice investigation that launched in 2012 and is still ongoing.

The state's police forces have become infamous for shooting at minivans full of kids and for their penchant for Roswellian anal-probing of supsects.

Yet, the man who designs the training programs for the state's police departments doesn't see a problem. In fact, he has instituted a curriculum that puts LESS restraint on officers in deciding when to use deadly force.

Comment:
Third person reports being anally violated by New Mexico police

U.S. cops out of control: Albuquerque Police Department crack down on peaceful protest against police murder of yet another unarmed civilian just trying to live his life

New Mexico begins training cops to use more deadly force, not less

Homeless man shot to death by police while "illegally camping" in the foothills of New Mexico

Albuquerque police execute third person in five weeks, this time a teenager
SUSPECTED of stealing a truck

People hunters: Cops shoot another unarmed man in Albuquerque

Ex-Reporter Sues After Alleged Police Brutality Deleted Off Camera

New Mexico boy, 10, tasered by police for failing to do what he was told after refusing to clean officer's car at careers day

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War Whore

Ukraine crisis: Bloody assault in Mariupol by fascist Ukrainian army dashes hopes of avoiding civil war

Kim Sengupta
The Independent
Fri, 09 May 2014 19:03 UTC
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Caretaker government warns of further lethal action against 'terrorists'

The dead and injured are carried out of a burning building; more bodies lying in the street; prolonged exchanges of fire as armoured carriers smash through barricades; and, with the violence, anger and calls for revenge.

That was Mariupol after a day of bloody strife which slid Ukraine further towards civil war.

The country's caretaker government can be accused of trying to blow out flickering hopes of peace by launching a military operation' on one of the most revered anniversaries in the Russian speaking half of the country, the commemoration of victory over Nazi Germany.

The military action is accompanied by stridently aggressive rhetoric from politicians in Kiev who are crowing about the numbers of "terrorists" killed and threatening further lethal punishment.

By the evening there are differing body counts ranging from 20 to five, with around another 25 injured. But the accuracy of statistics has meant little in this confrontation. What matters is the perception. For many in this port on the Azov Sea, today greatly reinforced the view - relentlessly promoted by the separatist leadership - that fascists from the west of the country are coming to attack.
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U.S., NATO military buildup near Russian borders 'unprecedented' - Russian Defense Minister


RT
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 01:32 UTC
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© RIA Novosti/ReutersRussia's Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu (L) and U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (R)
Russia's Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has urged his Pentagon counterpart Chuck Hagel to help cool down the rhetoric over Ukraine and described NATO troops massing near Russian borders as "unprecedented."

Speaking to Hagel by phone on Monday, Shoigu also denied the accusations that there are Russian agents acting in Ukraine.

"The Russian minister has called for his colleague to help cool down the rhetoric [over Ukraine] as much as possible. He also unequivocally refuted baseless accusations that there are Russian sabotage and spy teams, purportedly destabilizing the situation in the south-east of the country," said a statement from the Russian defense ministry.

Instead, Shoigu classed the growth of NATO activity in Eastern Europe as "unprecedented", saying it was accompanied by "provocative" rhetoric about "containing" Russia.
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