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Flashback Russia, Israel and Media Omissions

Alison Weir
CounterPunch
Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:33 UTC
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© Reuters/AFP/Getty ImagesRussia's President Vladimir Putin and Boris Berezovsky. Berezovsky can not manipulate Russia to serve Israel's interests since Putin came to power and put a stop to the Oligarchs' anti-Russian plans.
As is often the case with AP's coverage of news having to do with Israel, there's a serious omission in its reporting on the Russia-Israel connection even when it involves oil and the United States.

The day after the State of the Union Address, two Interpol fugitives attended the "National Prayer Breakfast" held in Washington DC. The day before that, these fugitives from the law were the guests of honor at an hour-long meeting of the International Relations Committee on Capitol Hill, invited by ranking Democrat Tom Lantos (Calif.)

You would think it would be hot news when wanted men being hunted by European police suddenly pop up in the US particularly on Capitol Hill and at events attended by the US president.

Comment: A relevant background story to the events that we witness today.
Camouflaged Israeli soldiers on Maidan Square

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Rightfully so, Russia slams EU over threat of sanctions


Press TV
Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:57 UTC
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© Agence France-PresseRussian Foreign Ministry
Russia says it will not capitulate to the European Union's threat of sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine and will retaliate if the restrictions are imposed.

The remarks were made in a statement released on Friday by the Russian Foreign Ministry, in which Moscow also accused the bloc of taking an "extremely unconstructive position."
"Russia will not accept such language of sanctions and threats, but in the event of their implementation in practice they will not be left without a response," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in the statement, adding, "At this delicate moment...the EU has taken an extremely unconstructive stance by refusing to cooperate with Russia in areas important for our countries' citizens and business circles."

Comment: China and India are not alone: Germans, Czechs, Greeks, Cypriots oppose sanctions against Russia

Thing is, this entire "sanctions against Russia" shtick is so ridiculous, simply because Russia holds all the cards!

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Camouflaged Israeli soldiers on Maidan Square


Voltairenet.org
Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:00 UTC
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© Voltaire"Delta", the commander of the camouflaged Israeli unit.
According to the Israeli website alyaexpress-news.com, a unit of 35 armed and masked men and women on Maidan square is commanded by four former Israeli Army officers, who wear a kippah under their helmets.

The site claims that these former officers, who live today in Ukraine, joined the movement since the beginning of the events alongside the Freedom Party (Svoboda), although the latter has a reputation for being virulently anti-Semitic.

With the help of the Israeli Embassy, this intervention force reportedly also handled the transfer of 17 seriously injured persons to Israel for treatment.
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As Russian troops in the Crimea, Ukraine hit 16,000, U.S. Department Of Defense orders them to go home


TheTradersWire.com
Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:00 UTC
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While it has gotten to the point where the propaganda is so bad on both sides of the Ukraine crisis, that any numbers thrown about are ridiculous, made up gibberish more fabricated than anything the Chinese Department of Truth or US Bureau of Labor can possibly goalseek, it is worth pointing out that according to AP, Ukraine's ambassador to the UN said 16,000 Russian troops are now deployed in the Ukraine. This was "revealed" at the third emergency Security Council session meeting in the last four days, shortly after Ukraine's fugitive president requested Russian soldiers in the strategic Crimea region "to establish legitimacy, peace, law and order," Russia's U.N. ambassador said Monday, contradicting the president's own comments last week.

However, while Russian hypocrisy is to be expected - after all they are the "Evil Empire" to quote a famous actor and president - it is the humor from the self-appointed moral watchdog of all the world's evils, the US, that was the highlight of today's UN session:
"U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power dismissed Moscow's contention that it intervened militarily in Crimea to protect the human rights of Russian civilians there as "baseless," insisting there is no evidence of any threats against ethnic Russians in Ukraine."

"One might think that Moscow has just become the rapid response arm of the High Commissioner for Human Rights," she told the council. "Russian military action is not a human rights protection mission."
Speaking of high commissioners for human rights, at least Russia never invaded a country using made up WMDs as pretext, and did not almost launch World War III to satisfy a nat gas-rich ally over a fabricated YouTube clip. Oh, and all that "innocent civilian casualty" drone stuff too.
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Dissent among EU ranks: Germans, Czechs, Greeks, Cypriots oppose sanctions against Russia


LaRouche Irish Brigade
Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:36 UTC
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The Greek, Cypriot Opposition Leaders Denounce EU's Ukraine Policy and Sanctions against Russia.

In a statement released following the meeting in Athens between Panos Kammenos, leader of the Independent Greeks party, and Giorgos Lillikas, leader and founder of the Citizens Movement of Cyprus, and former Cypriot Presidential candidate, denounced the EU support for the unelected, nondemocratic government of Ukraine and proposal for sanctions against Russia. They also attack the European Union bailout and memorandums imposed on Greece and Cyprus.

Kammenos stated that the two leaders expressed concern for the situation "that has emerged in Ukraine with the recognition of an undemocratically non-elected government from the EU side" and expressed that they are "particularly concerned by the debate that is imposing an embargo, particularly with regard to equipment, because this potential embargo essentially affect only two countries in the European Union: Cyprus and Greece."
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Scandalous! Secret Sarkozy recordings spark uproar in French right party

Sophie Louet
Yahoo! News
Wed, 05 Mar 2014 11:19 UTC
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© Reuters/Yves Herman
Recordings made in secret by Nicolas Sarkozy's campaign adviser posted on Wednesday have thrown the former French president's UMP party into disarray, weeks before local elections in which it hoped to claw back terrain from the ruling Socialists.

In the recordings posted on the right-leaning Atlantico web site, Sarkozy can be heard discussing electoral strategy, a cabinet reshuffle and his public image in the run-up to France's 2012 presidential election, which he lost.

While the excerpts are more intriguing than incriminating, analysts said more revelations from what are apparently hours of recordings could hurt his chances of staging a political comeback in time for presidential elections in 2017.

The lawyer for campaign manager Patrick Buisson confirmed the authenticity of the recordings to Reuters but denied allegations his client leaked them, and said they were stolen.

A former editor of a far-right magazine who helped engineer a right-ward shift to Sarkozy's campaign, Buisson made the tapes as a matter of historical record and because he could not take written notes, said his lawyer Gilles-William Goldnadel.
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Washington D.C. Mayor outraged over Secret Service's 'disrespect' for citizens


CBS News - Washington DC
Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:56 UTC
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© Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty ImagesDistrict of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray
D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray is outraged over the United States Secret Service's decision to close streets that created severe traffic problems in the nation's capital.

WNEW Senior Correspondent Mark Segraves obtained a copy of a letter Gray sent to USSS Director Julia Pierson on Tuesday after the mayor learned the southbound lanes of 14th Street NW had been closed for several blocks. The roadway is considered one of the busiest in the city.

"These actions create gridlock in and around this area that will cause tremendous inconvenience to tens of thousands of District workers and visitors especially during rush hour," the letter reads. "To treat the District with such disrespect is simply unacceptable."

Tuesday's closure marked the second time in a year USSS officials closed streets around the Willard Hotel due to visiting dignitaries. Such VIPs typically stay at Blair House which is currently closed for renovations.
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No money, no jobs: Growing desperation in Europe

Patrick L Young
RT
Mon, 03 Mar 2014 08:24 UTC
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© Reuters / Jon NazcaGonzalez and her children stand in a street with their dogs and belongings after Spanish riot police evicted them from an unoccupied building of flats in Malaga.
​The EU's inability to deliver repeated promises of prosperity continue to ring hollow. After five bitter years of recession, now the bloc can barely register anemic growth.

After so long in the economic doldrums, the fabric of the Mediterranean is being torn apart. Following massive bailouts to Greece and Spain, Cyprus' savers were pillaged. France and Italy dangle by a thread over the economic abyss. Eurozone unemployment is 12.1 percent, with current predictions merely shaving that to 12 percent by year's end. (The UK and US are already approaching 7 percent, and falling).
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War Whores want your money: Military's top general propaganda on nation's defense

James Rosen
McClatchy - Washington Bureau
Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:00 UTC
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© Oliver Douliery/Abaca Press/MCTChairman of the Joint Chief of Staff General Martin Dempsey, September 3, 2013 in Washington, D.C.
The nation's top military commander painted a dark picture Tuesday of future U.S. defense capabilities clouded by shrinking Pentagon budgets and adversaries' technological advances that he said would erode American battlefield superiority.

Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, provided his sobering views as part of the Quadrennial Defense Review, a congressionally mandated evaluation of U.S. military strength issued every four years.

Dempsey predicted that it would become increasingly difficult to balance the competing demands of protecting allies abroad, securing Americans at home and deterring future wars.

"The smaller and less capable military outlined in the QDR makes meeting these obligations more difficult," he said. "Most of our platforms and equipment will be older, and our advantages in some domains will have eroded. Our loss of depth across the force could reduce our ability to intimidate opponents from escalating conflicts."

Dempsey added: "Moreover, many of our most capable allies will lose key capabilities. The situation will be exacerbated given our current readiness concerns, which will worsen over the next three or four years."

Comment: "Washington has had the US at war for 12 years: Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, and almost Syria, which could still happen, with Iran waiting in the wings. These wars have been expensive in terms of money, prestige, and deaths and injuries of both US soldiers and the attacked civilian populations. None of these wars appears to have any compelling reason or justifiable explanation. The wars have been important to the profits of the military/security complex. The wars have provided cover for the construction of a Stasi police state in America, and the wars have served Israel's interest by removing obstacles to Israel's annexation of the entire West Bank and southern Lebanon." - Paul Craig Roberts

Washington drives the world toward war

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DNC attendees can't name a single Hillary accomplishment - She's a Useless Eater

Matt Vespa
CNS News
Wed, 05 Mar 2014 09:27 UTC

Last week, the Democratic Party had their winter meeting and MRCTV's Dan Joseph decided to ask DNC committee members and guests if they're ready for Hillary--and why.

Some said she had about a hundred moments of greatness when she served under President Obama - but, strangely, couldn't name a single accomplishment of hers, besides marrying Bill Clinton.

Another attendee mentioned Clinton's stance on abortion as a reason to be super excited for Hillary Clinton in 2016. As for her accomplishments, none came to mind, but she noted that Obama saw a reason for her to be nominated as Secretary of State.
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