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EU opts to prolong its own economic misery - agrees to sanction Russia until January 2016


RT
Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:34 UTC
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The EU Council has agreed on a six-month extension of economic sanctions against Russia, according to a TASS source in Brussels.

"The decision to prolong sanctions till January, 2016 was ratified by the Committee of Permanent Representatives of Member States of the EU," said the source Wednesday.

The EU Council did not discuss the issue of tightening economic sanctions, added the source. The six-month extension is expected to be unanimously ratified at the foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg on Monday.

The EU summit in March adopted a declaration of intent to prolong the economic sanctions against Russia, but no formal decision had been made.


The EU's decision to prolong sanctions against the Russian Federation was expected; nothing will change in relations between Moscow and Brussels, said the Chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy Fyodor Lukyanov.

"It seems to me that even if Moscow had any hopes the EU would change its stance after signing ... the Minsk Agreement a few months ago then it became clear that there is nothing to be expected. Therefore, there will be no disappointment," he said.

Comment: Extending sanctions will only play into Russia's favor, as it will continue to develop it's domestic manufacturing and agricultural sectors. They also give the Russian people another rallying point to support Putin's policies.

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Snakes in Suits

You've been warned: Calls for mandatory 'National Service' for Americans aged 18-28 has begun

Mike Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Wed, 17 Jun 2015 12:43 UTC
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CHAPTER ONE

War is a Racket

WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

- From Major General Smedley Butler's War is a Rackett
This is one of the most important articles I will write all year. The statists are coming for your kids, and the conditioning has already begun.

Comment: What a terrible situation America has gotten itself into.

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Propaganda

IMF "trained" Greek journalists in Washington D.C. to spin stories in favor of IMF and European Commission

Alexrpt
Red Pill Times
Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:30 UTC
Panagiotis Roumeliotis
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Greece's former representative to the IMF, Panagiotis Roumeliotis, has testified that Greek journalists attended seminars funded by the IMF and were instructed to present the IMF in a favorable light.

In what can only be described as a shocking testimony, Greece's former representative to the IMF, Panagiotis Roumeliotis, in front of the special parliamentary committee on the Greek debt, said that several Greek journalists were "trained" in Washington D.C. in order to support the positions of the IMF and the European Commission in Greek media.

Roumeliotis testified that...
"The IMF trained" greek journalists so that "Greek journalists can promote the positions of the IMF and the European Commission in Greek media."

Comment: For more context on the Greek debt crisis:


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Heart - Black

Court rules government can secretly steal organs from dead people and not tell the families

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 17 Jun 2015 02:55 UTC
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In an extremely unsettling ruling, a New York appeals court has ruled that your family members' organs can be kept by the medical examiner without having to notify the family of the deceased.

The divisive ruling left the seven-member appeals court divided 5-2, with all justices wanting the state legislature to ultimately decide the issue.

The morbid case ensued after a New York medical examiner, doing a routine autopsy on 17-year-old vehicular accident victim Jesse Shipley, kept the brain of the teenager, only to have it be discovered by classmates on a school field trip two months later.

The organ was only discovered after a classmate of Shipley's, on a field trip to the Staten Island morgue, noticed a brain in a jar of formaldehyde type fluid labeled with Shipley's name on the outside of the container. The classmate then informed Shipley's sister Shannon.

The right to claim the remains of deceased loved ones harkens back to old English common law and is called the "right of sepulcher," according to The Guardian.

Although his parents did agree to have an autopsy done, in which the brain is removed, they were completely taken by surprise to find out that the body of their child, released to them by the medical examiner, and eventually buried, was missing the brain.

The brain was eventually returned to the family and they then held a second funeral for their son. The family then sued the city for emotional distress, citing that they should have been made aware that their son's brain had permanently removed from the body.
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Greece: Truth Committee on Public Debt just declared all debt to the Troika "illegal, illegitimate, and odious"


Zerohedge
Wed, 17 Jun 2015 15:54 UTC
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Zoe Konstantopoulou, Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament, Sofia Sakorafa, Member of the European Parliament and Eric Toussaint, Debt Truth Committee Scientific Coordinator.
It was in April when we got a stark reminder of a post we first penned in April of 2011, describing Odious Debt, and why we thought sooner or later this legal term would become applicable for Greece, because two months ago Greek Zoi Konstantopoulou, speaker of the Greek parliament and a SYRIZA member, said she had established a new "Truth Committee on Public Debt" whose purposes was to "investigate how much of the debt is "illegal" with a view to writing it off."

Moments ago, this committee released its preliminary findings, and here is the conclusion from the full report presented below:
All the evidence we present in this report shows that Greece not only does not have the ability to pay this debt, but also should not pay this debt first and foremost because the debt emerging from the Troika's arrangements is a direct infringement on the fundamental human rights of the residents of Greece. Hence, we came to the conclusion that Greece should not pay this debt because it is illegal, illegitimate, and odious.
As we predicted over four years ago, Greece has effectively just declared that it will no longer have to default on its IMF (or any other debt - note that the dreaded "Troika" word finally makes an appearance after it was officially banned) simply because that debt was not legal to begin with, i.e. it was "odious."

Comment: The above report and findings are crackerjack and lightning on paper; a real document and testament to this moment in time when the people of Greece took a stand for itself and its struggle for sovereignty. Integrity. Now let's see how the Troika responds to this rigorous and truthful examination of the problem that they have foisted on the Greeks. Probably with three words: Deny. Deny. Deny. But that's really it for them. The jig appears to be up -- unless, of course, they decide to overplay their hand further - which they may actually do.

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Vader

U.S. continues war plans as Pentagon hires anti-Russian group to develop more aggressive policy


Sputnik
Wed, 17 Jun 2015 21:13 UTC
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As the United States continues to move more heavy weaponry into Eastern Europe, a group advocating a more aggressive policy in the region has been hired by the Pentagon to develop future military alliances there.

On June 5, the military's Office of Net Assessment commissioned the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) for a study and war games called Gaming Allies: Geostrategic Change and Alliances, Pentagon records obtained by USA Today show.

The contract announcement said CEPA will conduct "a study on shifting dynamics in US alliance networks in East Asia, the Middle East and Central and Eastern Europe."


Comment: The shifting dynamics are simply that Russia and China are two countries that are finally showing a willingness to stand up to Western imperialism.


Prior CEPA studies have called for abandoning the policy of "strategic patience" in favor of moving defenses closer to the borders with Russia on behalf of countries like Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia — all NATO members.
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War Whore

Possibly insane? McCain says not arming Ukraine 'shameful chapter' in U.S. history


Sputnik
Wed, 17 Jun 2015 21:02 UTC
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Former presidential candidate John McCain revealed what he believes to be most shameful chapter of his country's history. Is it the invasion of Iraq, might you ask? Or using chemical weapons in Vietnam? Or dropping atomic bombs on Japan? The answer is none of those. Senator McCain mostly regrets not starting yet another war - this time, in Ukraine.

In a bizarre attempt to reinterpret history, US Senator John McCain said that the US not providing Ukraine with weapons for its armed conflict is "one of the most shameful chapters in American history."

McCain, a war veteran and overall-armed-conflict-supporter himself, was clearly aiming for biggest impact with his audience when he made the rather ridiculous statement on John Cats' Roundtable Radio Show. It was somewhat expected of the man who called for the Iraq invasion in 2003, something more than half of the American public views as a huge mistake today.

Not only that, but over 50 percent of Americans are against arming Ukraine. Yes, that does leave senator McCain with a little over 40 percent of the country's population to impress with his warmongering rhetoric, but even they might be skeptical when they consider the fact that one of the world's youngest nations is also one of the most bellicose.
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Target

George Soros: An American oligarch's dirty tale of corruption

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 12 Jun 2015 19:18 UTC
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Rarely does the world get a true look inside the corrupt world of Western oligarchs and the brazen manipulations they use to enhance their fortunes at the expense of the public good. The following comes from correspondence of the Hungarian-born billionaire, now naturalized American speculator, George Soros. The hacker group CyberBerkut has published online letters allegedly written by Soros that reveal him not only as puppet master of the US-backed Ukraine regime. They also reveal his machinations with the US Government and the officials of the European Union in a scheme where, if he succeeds, he could win billions in the plunder of Ukraine assets. All, of course, would be at the expense of Ukrainian citizens and of EU taxpayers.

What the three hacked documents reveal is a degree of behind-the-scene manipulation of the most minute details of the Kiev regime by the New York billionaire.

In the longest memo, dated March 15, 2015 and marked "Confidential" Soros outlines a detailed map of actions for the Ukraine regime. Titled, "A short and medium term comprehensive strategy for the new Ukraine," the memo from Soros calls for steps to "restore the fighting capacity of Ukraine without violating the Minsk agreement." To do the restoring, Soros blithely notes that "General Wesley Clark, Polish General Skrzypczak and a few specialists under the auspices of the Atlantic Council [emphasis added—f.w.e.] will advise President Poroshenko how to restore the fighting capacity of Ukraine without violating the Minsk agreement."

Comment: The story at the end of the article, about Soros posing as a gentile in order to help confiscate the property of Hungarian Jews sent to concentration camps, provides the necessary window into what Soros is. This is the face behind the mask of Western oligarchy. "The Republic is a mere name, without form or substance..." Humanity can do better, can't it? But first, the republic must fall.

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Light Saber

Key BRICS economic strategy document near completion as summit approaches


Sputnik
Wed, 17 Jun 2015 19:07 UTC
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One of the key documents outlining an economic partnership strategy for the BRICS nations, which will be discussed at an upcoming summit in the Russian city of Ufa is nearly complete, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.

"We have never doubted the focus of BRICS on economic issues and therefore this is why, when the preparation for Russia's chairmanship in the association began, naturally the topic of what our contribution would be and what added value the Russian chairmanship would give came up. The development of the economic partnership strategy has already begun, and this document is practically finished," Ryabkov told RIA Novosti.

Ryabkov said the document would not be a declaration from the parties involved, but is quite detailed.
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Dominoes

Grexit plan: The next great European financial crisis has begun

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Tue, 16 Jun 2015 00:00 UTC
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The Greek financial system is in the process of totally imploding, and the rest of Europe will soon follow. Neither the Greeks nor the Germans are willing to give in, and that means that there is very little chance that a debt deal is going to happen by the end of June. So that means that we will likely see a major Greek debt default and potentially even a Greek exit from the eurozone. At this point, credit default swaps on Greek debt have risen 456 percent in price since the beginning of this year, and the market has priced in a 75 percent chance that a Greek debt default will happen. Over the past month, the yield on two year Greek bonds has skyrocketed from 20 percent to more than 30 percent, and the Greek stock market has fallen by a total of 13 percent during the last three trading days alone. This is what a financial collapse looks like, and if Greece does leave the euro, we are going to see this kind of carnage happen all over Europe.

Officials over in Europe are now openly speaking of the need to prepare for a "state of emergency" now that negotiations have totally collapsed. At one time, it would have been unthinkable for Greece to leave the euro, but now it appears that this is precisely what will happen unless a miracle happens...

Comment: After literally decades of political and economic subjugation it looks as though Greece is finally standing up for itself in a way that is sure to stick it to the Western Elite class. That the IMF et al. has painted itself into this corner through its greed and malevolence is their own problem. Although things are likely to get worse before they can get any better, a Grexit may just be the spur to motivate other nations of the EU to fight for their own economic and social well being. Watch as the dominos fall in all directions.

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