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US Defense Dept: Mustard gas experiments done on WWII soldiers

Karen Graham
Digital Journal
Mon, 22 Jun 2015 20:08 UTC

National Public Radio has announced the U.S. Department of Defense has finally admitted they carried out race-based tests on American troops during WWII as part of its research on the effects of mustard gas.

Exposure of soldiers to chemical, biological and radiological agents or devices during a war has always been a concern, not just in the U.S., but with other countries.

During WWI, the most notable substance used was mustard gas, and later, in Vietnam, the U.S. used Agent orange, a defoliant that has since been attributed to numerous illnesses, many of them with long-term effects.

It could be said that WWII was one war where dangerous chemicals were seldom used on the battlefield.

But, it has now been revealed that 60,000 U.S. military personnel were exposed to mustard gas, and not at the hands of the enemy.

A total of 60,000 enlisted men were part of a secret government program that wasn't declassified until 1993 that tested mustard gas and other chemical agents on U.S. troops during WWII.

As hypocrisy reigns supreme in the West, a community of outcast nations form alliances in the East

Wayne Madsen
Strategic Culture Foundation
Mon, 22 Jun 2015 20:56 UTC

The European Union has hypocritically extended sanctions on Russia and the Russian autonomous Republic of Crimea in support of the politically- and economically-failed state of Ukraine. At the same time, the EU has threatened the sovereignty of Greece for failing to adhere to confiscatory and usurious financial policies set by the banking gnomes of Frankfurt and London, the same bankers that are propping up a corrupt government in Kiev. Nothing spells hypocrisy more than what is taking place in Europe at the direction of the «Eurocrats» of Brussels, their military centurions in NATO, and their overall puppet masters in Washington.

While the Group of 7 leaders gathered at Adolf Hitler's favorite vacation spot, Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps, their host, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, warned Greece to reach an austerity-ridden financial loan deal with the European «troika» of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), EU, and European Central Bank or face swift retaliation from the global bankers. Meanwhile, Ukraine was offered generous IMF and European bail out deals in return for steering the country further into the clutches of the EU and NATO. Only among the G-7 is Greek Prime Minister Alex Tsipras seen as more of an international problem than either Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko or Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. However, it is not only in pressuring Greece, the cradle of democracy, and in backing an all-but-failed state, Ukraine, that the G-7 becoming an irrelevant relic of the past while stumbling and bumbling on the international stage.

Russia will provide Greece with financial assistance if it's needed

RT
Mon, 22 Jun 2015 19:37 UTC

© Reuters / Grigory Dukor
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2015 (SPIEF 2015) in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 19, 2015.

With the Greek government locked in negotiations with international creditors - the IMF, the ECB and the European Commission - over its €240 billion debt, fears are mounting that the country could default on its massive loan and exit the Eurozone.

On Friday, Russia and Greece signed a deal to create a joint company for the construction of the Turkish Stream pipeline across Greek territory, which will supply 47 billion cubic meters of gas a year. Russian President Vladimir Putin said the EU should "applaud" the deal since it will help create desperately needed new jobs in Greece.

On the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich spoke to RT about cooperation between Russia and Greece, as well as other topics.

Snowden docs: NSA and GHCQ worked to subvert security software companies that helped protect against government surveillance

RT
Mon, 22 Jun 2015 20:03 UTC

US and British spy agencies worked to reverse-engineer antivirus software in order to "exploit such software and to prevent detection of our activities." Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab was particularly targeted.

Citing documents leaked by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden more than two years ago, The Intercept reported Monday that the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) teamed up to subvert antivirus and security software made by the likes of Kaspersky Lab.

In addition, 23 total security firms -- including the antivirus company F-Secure of Finland, Avast from the Czech Republic, and DrWeb of Russia -- were targets of the NSA's "Project CAMBERDADA."

The spy agencies sought to remain ahead of the software companies -- which often flag state-sponsored malware -- in order to give the US and UK governments an advantage during official hacking operations.

Kaspersky Lab was a particularly crucial target, according to the Snowden documents.

Top Russian security official: U.S. would like Russia to cease to exist as a country

RT
Mon, 22 Jun 2015 19:41 UTC

Russia's extreme wealth doesn't allow the US to rest, prompting Washington to invent a putative "Russian threat" and scheming against Moscow through the Ukrainian crisis, the head of Russia's Security Council, Nikolay Patrushev, told Kommersant daily.

The US is not a universal evil, yet Washington takes the decision whom to appoint as such, says Patrushev, who has been Security Council chief since 2008. Today Washington names Russia as one of the greatest threats to the world, along with the terrorists of Islamic State and the deadly Ebola virus.

There are a great deal of examples of Russia fruitfully cooperating with the US in many aspects, including such burning issues as countering terrorism and reaching a deal on the Iranian nuclear program, Patrushev said. But under the far-fetched pretext of the "Russian aggression in Ukraine"Washington has suspended such contacts, he said.

The US is forcing EU member states to impose anti-Russian sanctions and policies, Patrushev said.

Putin speech at SPIEF: We are expanding freedom and making Russia more open

President of Russia
Fri, 19 Jun 2015 19:15 UTC

Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the 19^th St Petersburg International Economic Forum. The session's motto wasTime to Act: Joint Efforts for Stability and Growth.

Let me repeat the point that we are responding to the restrictions imposed from outside not by closing off our economy, but by expanding freedom and making Russia more open. This is not a slogan; this is the substance of our actual policies and of the work that we are doing today to improve the business environment, find new partners, open up new markets, and take part in big integration projects.

India, China and the rest of the BRICS will no longer wait for a seat at the table

Shashi Tharoor
Huffington Post
Mon, 22 Jun 2015 19:16 UTC

Sailing down the Moscow River on a cool evening earlier this month, I found myself in intense conversation with the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chinese National People's Congress. Meanwhile, South African and Brazilian parliamentarians were swaying to Russian music and a guide pointed out the sights. The first parliamentary forum of the BRICS countries -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- had come to a convivial conclusion.

Before the meeting opened, many wondered whether the five parliaments could possibly find common ground. What on earth could India's fractious and rumbustious Lok Sabha, with its impassioned debates and disruptions, have in common with China's decorous NPC, a rigorously controlled echo chamber for Communist Party decisions? Membership in the new BRICS grouping, many believed, did not provide a strong enough basis for cooperation.

Such skepticism has been leveled at the BRICS grouping itself from its inception, with some dismissing it as the only international organization invented by an investment bank. Specifically, the term BRIC was coined more than a decade ago by then-Goldman Sachs analyst Jim O'Neill, who did not initially count South Africa among the ranks of the major emerging economies.

We didn't see last two world wars coming either

David Swanson
Information Clearing House
Sun, 21 Jun 2015 00:00 UTC

Books about how World War I started, and to a lesser degree how World War II started, have tended in recent years to explain that these wars didn't actually come as a surprise, because top government officials saw them coming for years. But these revised histories admit that the general public was pretty much clueless and shocked.

The fact is that anyone in the know or diligently seeking out the facts could see, in rough outline, the danger of World War I or World War II coming years ahead, just as one can see the threats of environmental collapse and World War III approaching now. But the general public lacked a decent understanding prior to the first two world wars and lacks it now on the looming dangers created by environmental destruction and aggressive flirtation with World War III.

Comment: When will countries learn to just say "NO!" As long as the PTB, coupled with unyielding military-industrial complexes are in charge, we are all expendable, and the cost to nations, generations, ideals, morals, way of life...pay the supreme price cycle after cycle. We are once again asleep at the wheel and not in charge of our destiny.

Analyzing NATO's perpetual war with Russia

Russia Insider
Mon, 22 Jun 2015 17:06 UTC

The latest scoop from Reuters begs for a few words:

The United States and its NATO allies are preparing militarily for the prospect that their rift with Russia could outlast President Vladimir Putin, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Sunday.

Carter, speaking at the start of a week-long trip to Europe, said the United States hoped Russia would return to a forward- looking course and noted areas of diplomatic cooperation with Moscow, including talks over Iran's nuclear program.

But ongoing changes to NATO's military posture, which are meant in part to deter a Russian intervention, illustrate preparations for longer lasting tensions, he said.

"The adaptations I was talking are specifically in anticipation that Russia might not change under Vladimir Putin, or even thereafter," Carter said before landing in Berlin.

A common line of argument in respectable western policy circles is "if only Putin were gone," followed by a deep sigh of regret. Apparently they have no appreciation for just how moderate Putin is when it comes to foreign policy — and how drastically different the geopolitical scene could be with someone else in Kremlin.

Comment: Putin tackled the challenges of post-Soviet Russia, took her back from rapacious oligarchs, and has defended her autonomy ever since. In a system where striving for autonomy leads to death (remember civil rights and MLK Jr., or African autonomy and Gaddafi) Putin is Western 'leadership's' natural enemy. He represents a freedom they cannot control, and therefore he, and the country he governs, are, through no fault of their own, in their cross-hairs.

Comment: Also see:

NATO's soft war on Russia

Russian politicians react: Extension of sanctions freezes Russia-EU political conflict

US stooge NATO leading fascist charge towards attack on Russia

Knesset member, former ambassador to the US Michael Oren: Obama abandoned Israel

Times of Israel
Tue, 16 Jun 2015 04:23 UTC

Knesset member and former ambassador to the US Michael Oren on Monday penned a scathing attack on US President Barack Obama's policies toward Israel, claiming that while both he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made mistakes, "only one leader made them deliberately."

In an article in The Wall Street Journal headlined "How Obama Abandoned Israel," Oren, who served as Israel's ambassador in Washington during Obama's first term in office, recounted various gaffes committed by the Israeli government. Currently a lawmaker with the Kulanu party, Oren cited the announcement of settlement expansion on the eve of visits by top US officials, the now infamous "lecture" Netanyahu gave Obama during a photo op in the Oval Office in 2011, and the prime minister's speech to Congress earlier this year.

Oren absolved Netanyahu of some of the incidents, claiming that some missteps were taken by mid-level staffers without the prime minister's knowledge (e.g., two instances where settlement expansion was announced just as Vice President Joe Biden was scheduled to arrive in Israel). Netanyahu even apologized to Biden personally for the timing, Oren noted.

Obama, on the other hand, deliberately deviated from several long-held traditions in the US-Israel relationship, aired disagreements in the media, and pointedly skipped over Israel on his first Middle East tour after being elected, he said.With these very public displays of dissatisfaction with Israel, Obama violated the "no sunlight," as Oren referred to it, principle of not airing discord between the two governments.

Comment: Where there is "no sunlight" there may be a ray of hope.

Ehret an idiot beyond belief

smertzasmert

.. .. are wheel barrel sales are up too?

Jibrish

I doubt any pureblood would object to the "vaccinated" being masked, but if they (the "vaccinated") still feel unsafe then maybe their problem is...

HashAttack2

I said this would happen...now they are looking to mandate companies with less that 100 employees...shits getting real, people[Link]

Bezel Bub

it's all a lie ! :O

cracker

Puppet Masters

US Defense Dept: Mustard gas experiments done on WWII soldiers

As hypocrisy reigns supreme in the West, a community of outcast nations form alliances in the East

Russia will provide Greece with financial assistance if it's needed

Snowden docs: NSA and GHCQ worked to subvert security software companies that helped protect against government surveillance

Top Russian security official: U.S. would like Russia to cease to exist as a country

Putin speech at SPIEF: We are expanding freedom and making Russia more open

India, China and the rest of the BRICS will no longer wait for a seat at the table

We didn't see last two world wars coming either

Analyzing NATO's perpetual war with Russia

Knesset member, former ambassador to the US Michael Oren: Obama abandoned Israel

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