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Putin meets the Press : There is no political future for President Yanukovych

President Putin
© RT
Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that Viktor Yanukovych has no political future. "I think he doesn't have any political future. I told him that," Putin said while meeting with journalists in Novo-Ogaryovo. He added that "we will only be able to develop ties with Ukraine after the situation comes back to normal and the presidential election takes place."

Russia is not going to go to war with the people of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. When asked by journalists whether he is concerned about the fact that sending Russian troops to Ukraine may trigger a war, Putin said: "No, I am not concerned about that because we are not going and will not go to war with the people of Ukraine."

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An important second listen to the "F--k the EU" Ukraine recording

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U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland (left) and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt (right) caught cooking the Ukraine coup
At the start of February, a very important conversation between Assistant US Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt was leaked, the infamous "f----the EU" recording. During the clip, Nuland and Pyatt discuss their desired outcome for the crisis in Ukraine. Now that 3 weeks have passed since the leak and events have developed, it is instructive to listen to the recording once again. (See below.) Keep in mind that this leak was made on February 2, which means the conversation occurred before that date. Viktor Yanukovych did not lose power over the Ukrainian government until more than three weeks later February 24th.

The recording reveals Nuland and Pyatt discussing whether Vitali Klitschko, sometimes referred to as "Klitsch" in the recording, should be named the deputy prime minister and seems to assume that Arseniy Yatseniuk, sometimes referred to in the recording as "Yats," will become prime minister. Since that conversation, Yatseniuk has, indeed, become prime minister. Anybody that tells you that the US is not running the "revolution" from behind the scenes is blowing smoke.

Bad Guys

USAID involved in getting Ukraine coup up and running

USAID
© EPA
The US online whistleblower magazine Pando has leaked documents suggesting the American government, in the form of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), could have played a role as force multiplier in the overthrow of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych, having funded a host of opposition groups prior to the revolution.

Pando published financial documents, showing numerous funding entries for NGO activities across Ukraine, including in Poltava, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Ternopil, Sumy, and elsewhere, mostly in the Ukrainian-speaking west and center. The list also names US-based contributors, such as billionaire George Soros, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his Omidyar Network foundation, as well as the National Endowment for Democracy, which is funded largely by the US Congress.

Comment: Ukraine was a playbook CIA coup d'état according to Prof Francis Boyle


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What sanctions? UK prepares to rule out sanctions against Russia amid threat to global economy

Secret document
© Steve Back
The secret briefing document
Britain is preparing to rule out trade sanctions against Russia amid fears that the Ukraine crisis could derail the global economic recovery.

Stock markets around the world fell sharply on Monday as Russian aggression intensified yet again following last month's revolution in Ukraine.

There are growing international fears that Vladimir Putin is preparing to launch an all-out invasion of eastern Ukraine and Crimea after military bases were said to have been given an ultimatum to surrender on Tuesday morning.

Russia sought to justify its action in Crimea by producing a letter from the Viktor Yanukovych, the deposed Ukrainian president, asking Mr Putin to intervene.

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Gazprom warns European gas "supply disruptions" possible

We had previously warned that Putin's "trump card" had yet to be played and with Obama (and a quickly dropping list of allies) preparing economic sanctions (given their limited escalation options otherwise), it was only a matter of time before the pressure was once again applied from the Russian side. As ITAR-TASS reports, Russia's Gazprom warned that not only could it cancel its "supply discount" as Ukraine's overdue payments reached $1.5 billion but that "simmering political tensions in Ukraine, that are aggravated by inadequate economic conditions, may cause disruptions of gas supplies to Europe." And with that one sentence, Europe will awaken to grave concerns over Russia's next steps should sanctions be applied.

It would appear this is the most important map in Europe once again...
Russian gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine
© RIA Novosti

Comment: The US knew all along that a lack of gas for Europe would be a possible consequence, but the US do not care about Europe and yet Europe still repeats the anti-Russian propaganda that comes from the US.

"F**k The EU" - U.S. State department blasts Europe; revealed as alleged mastermind behind Ukraine unrest
Ukraine: One "regime change" too many for U.S. neoncons?


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Putin orders Russian troops home from surprise war games

Putin overseas military exercise
© RIA Novosti / Michael Klimentyev
March 3, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin supervises the military exercises at the Kirillovsky test range in Leningrad Region. Left: Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu, right: Chief of the Russian Army's Main Department of Combat Preparation Ivan Buvaltsev.
President Putin has ordered troops sent last week to a surprise military exercise in western and central Russia to return to their bases.

Putin ordered the return after a Defense Ministry report, which said the exercises have been conducted successfully, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the media.

The surprise military drills in Russia's central and western territorial commands were launched last Wednesday.

They involved 150,000 troops, 90 aircraft, 880 armor, 80 warships and other hardware.

On Monday the last phase of the drill was witnessed by Putin, who visited the Kirillovsk military range in Leningrad region in north-western Russia.

Arrow Down

Biotech is creating GMO human babies: What could possibly go wrong?

GMO Baby
© Natural Society

With the human race slowly being killed off by GMO food, environmental poisons, petroleum, plastics, chemtrails, pharmaceuticals, vaccinations, radiation, and weaponized warfare, the powers that be are working on new strain of stronger 'humans' to carry on our existence. Forget designer babies with specific gene preferences determined by parents, we're talking about the utter transformation by a technocracy of the human genome. It is called transhumanism and scientists in the UK and US have already submitted proposals to legally create GMO babies. Actually, GMO human embryos have already been created.

Techno-eugenics, you might call it - a way to appropriate humanity for the use of an elite class. It seems innocuous at first - using stem cells to help women with fertility issues get pregnant or to help develop a healthy fetus in a woman who has damaged DNA, but it isn't something to be taken lightly, or without deep moral concern.

The same energy that created the atom bomb could have been used for less malevolent purposes, and this is no different. Sure, a bionic arm for a Vietnam vet who has lost his due to an IED explosion is a good thing - but 'improving' upon the human form until we look more like Iron Man than a human being? What is the good in that? For some, it is considered our destiny.

To understand transhumanism, you have to understand the philosophical leanings of some of its earliest members. Julian Huxley, brother of Aldous who authored Brave New World, first used this word: Transhumanism. Huxley was a member of the British Eugenics Society, eugenics being the touchstone of this movement.

Cardboard Box

Ukraine, like Hungary, will lose much by leaving socialism for capitalism

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No Capitalism
In 2004 Hungary joined the EU, expecting streets of gold. Instead, four years later in 2008 Hungary became indebted to the IMF. The rock video by the Hungarian group, Mouksa Underground, sums up the result in Hungary today of falling into the hands of the EU and IMF.

The song is about the disappointing results of leaving socialism for capitalism, and in Hungary the results are certainly not encouraging. The title is "Disappointment with the System Change."

USA

Ukraine: One "regime change" too many for U.S. neoncons?

Ukraine Protests
Is "regime change" in Ukraine the bridge too far for the neoconservative "regime changers" of Official Washington and their sophomoric "responsibility-to-protect" (R2P) allies in the Obama administration? Have they dangerously over-reached by pushing the putsch that removed duly-elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych?

Russian President Vladimir Putin has given an unmistakable "yes" to those questions - in deeds, not words. His message is clear: "Back off our near-frontier!"

Moscow announced on Saturday that Russia's parliament has approved Putin's request for permission to use Russia's armed forces "on the territory of the Ukraine pending the normalization of the socio-political situation in that country."

Putin described this move as necessary to protect ethnic Russians and military personnel stationed in Crimea in southern Ukraine, where the Russian Black Sea Fleet and other key military installations are located. But there is no indication that the Russian parliament has restricted the use of Russian armed forces to the Crimea.

Unless Obama is completely bereft of advisers who know something about Russia, it should have been a "known-known" (pardon the Rumsfeldian mal mot) that the Russians would react this way to a putsch removing Yanukovich. It would have been a no-brainer that Russia would use military force, if necessary, to counter attempts to use economic enticement and subversive incitement to slide Ukraine into the orbit of the West and eventually NATO.

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Sez Who?: Russia blocks 13 websites linked to Ukraine protests

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© AP
Pro-Russian activists remove the Ukrainian flag (center) to replace it with a Russian one on an administration office in the center of Donetsk, Ukraine, on March 1, 2014. Supporters of new Ukrainian authorities and pro-Russia demonstrators clashed in Kharkiv and Donetsk, a mostly Russian-speaking region in eastern Ukraine.
Russia's Internet monitoring agency has blocked 13 Internet pages linked to the Ukraine protest movement that helped oust the country's Russia-leaning president last week.

Roskomnadzor said in a statement published online Monday that it had been ordered by the general prosecutor's office to shut down the pages on Russia's leading social media website, VKontakte. The agency said the groups "propagandized the activity of Ukrainian nationalist groups," and accused them of encouraging "terrorist activity" and "participation in unsanctioned mass actions."

The largest pro-demonstration group, which has more than 500,000 members, was not accessible to users on Russian territory on Monday.

Comment: According to a March 2nd article from the Moscow Times, it is 4 websites that have been blocked.
The Federal Mass Media Inspection Service, or Roskomnadzor, blocked four web sites after new amendments came into force and allowed them to cut off access to online sources suspected of extremism without a court sanction."