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War Whore

The looting of Ukraine has begun

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This supporter of the Ukraine joining the EU has received her reward: a 50% cut in her pension.
According to a report in Kommersant-Ukraine, the finance ministry of Washington's stooges in Kiev who are pretending to be a government has prepared an economic austerity plan that will cut Ukrainian pensions from $160 to $80 so that Western bankers who lent money to Ukraine can be repaid at the expense of Ukraine's poor. It is Greece all over again.

Before anything approaching stability and legitimacy has been obtained for the puppet government put in power by the Washington orchestrated coup against the legitimate, elected Ukraine government, the Western looters are already at work. Naive protesters who believed the propaganda that EU membership offered a better life are due to lose half of their pension by April. But this is only the beginning.

The corrupt Western media describes loans as "aid." However, the 11 billion euros that the EU is offering Kiev is not aid. It is a loan. Moreover, it comes with many strings, including Kiev's acceptance of an IMF austerity plan.

Remember now, gullible Ukrainians participated in the protests that were used to overthrow their elected government, because they believed the lies told to them by Washington-financed NGOs that once they joined the EU they would have streets paved with gold. Instead they are getting cuts in their pensions and an IMF austerity plan.

Chess

21st Century U.S. imperialism: Crimea, this time

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George Washington warned against "foreign entanglements." Was it because he had a premonition of the cluelessness and ineptitude of his successors in the Bush years and in the Age of Obama?

If so, the Bush-Cheney - now Obama - War on Terror shows how right he was. It might as well have been concocted deliberately to encourage Islamists to attack Western targets. The ill will it has created will be a factor in world politics for generations to come.

It has also diminished the liberal protections Washington and his contemporaries prized. Privacy rights have suffered the most.

Was that the idea all along? It could be.

Bush and Cheney certainly saw to it that their successor would have a hard time changing course. Did Obama even want to? There is no sign of it. He and his advisors have carried on with unbridled gusto.

Briefcase

Issa walks out of IRS scandal hearing - Cummings calls proceedings 'Un-American'

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© Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesA House hearing on the IRS targeting of conservative groups erupted into an argument between Rep. Elijah Cummings and House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa just moments after former IRS official Lois Lerner invoked her Fifth Amendment right not to testify in regards to her role in the tax scrutiny scandal.
A House hearing on the IRS targeting of conservative groups erupted into an argument between Rep. Elijah Cummings and House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa just moments after former IRS official Lois Lerner invoked her Fifth Amendment right not to testify in regards to her role in the tax scrutiny scandal.

The spat began as Rep. Issa, R-Calif., stood up to adjourn the hearing, but Rep. Cummings requested to ask a "procedural question." While making a statement, Issa asked Cummings to yield when the Maryland Democrat became incensed at the California Republican.

"Mr. Chairman, you cannot run a committee like this," Cummings appealed.

"If you will sit down and allow me to ask a question," Cummings insisted. "I am a member of a Congress of the United States of America."

"I am tired of this," Cummings continued, as Issa signaled to have his microphone cut off. "You cannot just have a one-sided investigation. There is absolutely something wrong with that, and it is absolutely un-American."

Bad Guys

Long-nosed Hypocrite Barack Obama accuses Putin of breaking international law

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Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama traded accusations over the crisis in Ukraine on Tuesday, with the Russian leader seeking to blame the Americans for the growing international standoff as the US president all but accused Putin of breaking international law.

The barbed exchanges, a sign of the escalating tensions between Washington and Moscow, came as Putin delivered his first public remarks on the crisis - ruling out a war days after his forces took control of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, but reserving the right to use force to protect Russian speakers in the east of the country "as a last resort".


Comment: You can hear and read what Putin had to say on the matter here: A true statesman: Vladimir Putin press conference, March 4, 2014 - video and transcript


Speaking from his country residence outside Moscow, Putin gave a robust performance during which he portrayed Kiev as being in the grip of "terror, extremists and nationalists" rampaging on the streets. Putin described what is broadly seen as a Russian land grab in Crimea as "a humanitarian mission".

Obama and John Kerry, the US secretary of state, responded in apparent disbelief after Putin maintained there were no Russian forces occupying Crimea. "He really denied there were troops in Crimea?" said Kerry after arriving in Kiev, where he offered $1bn in loan guarantees to the new Ukraine government.

Eye 1

MP Robert Halfon compares Ukip support for Muslim policy as "literally akin to the Nazis"

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© Andrew Parsons/Press AssociationConservative MP Robert Halfon (right) pictured with party leader, David Cameron, in Harlow.
Ukip has done the Conservative party a favour by "cleansing" it of people with extreme views, a Tory MP says.

Robert Halfon accused Ukip MEP Gerard Batten of supporting a policy "literally akin to the Nazis" by suggesting Muslims should sign a charter rejecting violence.

In an interview with The House magazine, the Harlow MP claimed there was a "sinister element" to Nigel Farage's party.

Halfon also ridiculed former Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom, who sits as an independent after calling women at a meeting "sluts" and hitting the Channel 4 News journalist Michael Crick on the head with a party conference programme.

Halfon said: "To me there are two kinds of Ukip - the Godfrey Bloom guy who's like a cross between Sid James and Bernard Manning, and then there's a much more sinister element, like the MEP who said every Muslim has got to sign a declaration of non-violence, which to me is literally akin to the Nazis saying Jews should wear a yellow star."

Eye 1

Manufacturing Contempt for Venezuela

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© ReutersViolent opposition protests last month.
The Venezuelan opposition has been skillfully using Twitter and Facebook to disseminate horrifying photos and testimonies of alleged government violence and abuse against protesters over the last few weeks. The problem with these allegations and images which have gone viral globally, and even used by media outlets, is that they are fabrications; many of the most viral photos allegedly from Venezuela have actually depicted images from places such as Syria, Chile, Brazil - and even a US-based porn site.

"Initial, inaccurate information will be retweeted more than any subsequent correction," wrote Craig Silverman, journalist and founder of the blog Regret the Error, for the Poynter Institute in a post in 2010. Silverman's insight reveals the dangers, often ignored, about the use of Twitter and social media as a news source, as well as a tool for liberation and uprisings.

Megaphone

Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich says U.S. is responsible for provoking Ukraine crisis

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© Reuters / Jonathan ErnstDennis Kucinich
Diverting from the typical Western line against "Russia's invasion of Crimea," former Ohio congressman and Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich said it was driven by covert action by the United States.

Kucinich made the comments Tuesday evening while speaking to Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, arguing American meddling in Ukraine's affairs is what sparked the current situation in the first place and that Ukrainians were being exploited by Western powers.

Asked how he'd handle the tense standoff if he were president, Kucinich said the following:

"What I'd do is not have USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy working with U.S. taxpayers' money to knock off an elected government in Ukraine, which is what they did. I wouldn't try to force the people of Ukraine into a deal with NATO against their interest or into a deal with the European Union, which is against their economic interest.""So, it's the USA's fault that Putin rolled in? We made them do it?" O'Reilly asked.

Eagle

'This is what you cook for Ukraine?' U.S. State Department's junior spokesperson Jen Psaki grilled over boss's leaked phone call

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Senior US State Department official Victoria Nuland has allegedly been caught giving a harsh message to the EU while discussing Ukrainian opposition leaders' roles in the country's future government. The phone call was taped and posted on YouTube. US officials refused to confirm or deny the tape's authenticity, but State Department spokesperson Jan Psaki said that she "didn't say it was inauthentic." While being grilled about this and other tape-related statements, Psaki hinted that the tape could have been leaked by Moscow.


Bad Guys

The Presstitute Media, the looting of Ukraine, and the future of the world

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The emperor without clothes dares rattling its toothless sabers. It would be hilarious if it weren't so sad. - Sad, because the presstitute media has converted the western populace into mindless stooges, a brainwashed western population to the point of losing sense of reality, of right and wrong; blinded to the point of screaming into the bullhorn of Washington's Assassin in Chief.

Their numbed minds can't imagine a reverse scenario: Russia destabilizing, say Mexico in the emperor's 'backyard' (as Obama is infamously known to call Latin America), to install a puppet government of their liking. - Imagine!


Comment: Imagine! But as we know, these days it's only really the US and it's cronies who have the time and inclination for such activities. Well somebody's got to rape and loot the world!


MIB

Ukraine: Secretive Neo-Nazi Military Organization Involved in Euromaidan Sniper Shootings

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NATO's stay-behind unit in Ukraine?
The events in Ukraine since November 2013 are so astonishing as almost to defy belief. An legitimately-elected (said by all international monitors) Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovich, has been driven from office, forced to flee as a war criminal after more than three months of violent protest and terrorist killings by so-called opposition.

His "crime" according to protest leaders was that he rejected an EU offer of a vaguely-defined associate EU membership that offered little to Ukraine in favor of a concrete deal with Russia that gave immediate €15 billion debt relief and a huge reduction in Russian gas import prices. Washington at that point went into high gear and the result today is catastrophe.

A secretive neo-nazi military organization reportedly linked to NATO played a decisive role in targeted sniper attacks and violence that led to the collapse of the elected government.