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Just good sense: Scottish officials condemn West's support for Neo-Nazis in Ukraine

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Western leaders do not know what they are doing by backing neo-Nazis who overthrew the democratically elected president of Ukraine, Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) leader Colin Fox has told RIA Novosti.

"There is a history there, in that part of the world, where the Nazis invaded Ukraine and some people collaborated with them and other people, rather more nobly, resisted the Nazis," Fox said.

"You are seeing the remnants and the explosion of that today, a deep seated hatred," Fox told RIA Novosti.

People

With UN special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi's resignation Russia wants Syrian talks to continue without artificial delays

Lakhdar Brahimi
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UN and Arab League representative for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi resigns
There should be no artificial break in settlement of the Syrian conflict, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told ITAR-TASS on Wednesday in connection with the resignation of the UN and Arab League Special Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi.

"Russia assumes that Brahimi's follower on the post will continue his course," said the diplomat. "We believe there should be no artificial delays in the political process, there is a need to maintain the positive dynamics achieved in the previous rounds," Gatilov noted.

The most important thing was that the Syrian government was ready to continue the dialogue, he added. "We absolutely encourage and support Damascus and believe there is no other alternative than to continue the inter-Syrian dialogue on all aspects of crisis settlement," he said.

Comment: See also:
The Liberation of Homs is the beginning of the end of the aggression against Syria and another Western foreign policy disaster
Iran: Assad has won in Syria, and now the jihadists are returning home to Europe...


Dollar Gold

The Fed is 'The Great Deceiver': U.S. central bank just laundered $141 billion through Belgium

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Is the Fed "tapering"? Did the Fed really cut its bond purchases during the three month period November 2013 through January 2014? Apparently not if foreign holders of Treasuries are unloading them.

From November 2013 through January 2014 Belgium with a GDP of $480 billion purchased $141.2 billion of US Treasury bonds. Somehow Belgium came up with enough money to allocate during a 3-month period 29 percent of its annual GDP to the purchase of US Treasury bonds.

Certainly Belgium did not have a budget surplus of $141.2 billion. Was Belgium running a trade surplus during a 3-month period equal to 29 percent of Belgium GDP?

No, Belgium's trade and current accounts are in deficit.

Did Belgium's central bank print $141.2 billion worth of euros in order to make the purchase?

No, Belgium is a member of the euro system, and its central bank cannot increase the money supply.

So where did the $141.2 billion come from?

Comment:

Confused about the money system? Listen to Ellen Brown on SOTT Talk Radio : Web of Debt: How the banking system controls the world


Bad Guys

Kiev military unit shoots at Russian journalists near Kramatorsk as self-defense forces destroy 2 APC and kill 6 soldiers near surrounded village

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© RIA Novosti/Mikhail Klementyev
Ukrainian armed forces have opened fire on journalists from Russia's LifeNews working near the city of Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, where fighting broke out between self-defense forces and Kiev's army.

The shooting began around 1 p.m. as three members of a LifeNews crew tried to enter the village of Oktyabrskoe following the fighting. The village is located some 20 kilometers from Kramatorsk.

"We saw that machines were gone and the shooting stopped like half-an-hour ago. We tried to enter the premises of the village to find out what happened to locals, if they needed help, and if there were wounded among them," reporter Oleg Sidyakin told RT. "But as we got closer to the outskirts of the village, we ran into an armored troop carrier with a Ukrainian flag on it and armed people in black uniforms. We were going in a car with 'TV' stickers, indicating that were are press. We stuck hands out of windows, but first there came one shot and then machine gun fire."

Sidyakin said he did not know where the shots were aimed - in the air or above their heads - but still decided to turn away and move to a safer location, in order to avoid provoking armed people.

"I had to make such decision because I could not put in danger the lives of a driver and a cameraman," he said.

Blackbox

Scandal erupts: UN-marked strike helicopter 'used by Kiev junta against militia'

UN helicopter in Ukraine
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Screenshot from a video showing a white-painted Mil Mi-24 strike helicopter allegedly used by Kiev troops in their military operation against Donetsk regional militia.
The UN has voiced concerns over the apparent use of UN-marked helicopters by Kiev troops in their military operation against Donetsk regional militia. A video of a white-painted Mil Mi-24 strike helicopter with UN logo has emerged.

When inquired about the United Nations' stance on the use of peacekeeper-marked military hardware in non-peacekeeper operations, the office for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's spokesperson said such use would violate UN rules.

"It is the responsibility of Troop Contributing Countries (TCCs) that provide Contingent Owned Equipment to peacekeeping missions to remove all logos and signage bearing the UN's name once such equipment has been repatriated to the home country or is no longer being used for official UN purposes," the office told RT.

It added that UN-marked aircraft can be used for missions tasked by the UN and that UN's Departments of Peacekeeping Operations and Field Support is in contact with the Ukrainian authorities to clarify the issue.

A video of a UN-marked Mil Mi-24 strike helicopter was published on Tuesday by LifeNews television. It said its correspondents covering Kiev's military operation in the Donetsk Region took the video near Kramatorsk. LifeNews said at least three combat Mi-24 and one transport Mi-8 helicopters carrying UN colors were spotted in the area.


The Ukrainian military has provided equipment for several UN peacekeeping missions, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Evil Rays

Ban on free speech: Ukraine's presidential frontrunner Poroshenko urges to lay mines at TV towers to prevent Ukrainians from watching Russian TV

Poroshenko
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Ukrainian presidential nominee Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday called on the authorities in Kiev to go as far as laying mines at television towers to block access to Russian television channels for Ukrainians.

"Today, we need to protect TV towers and lay mines there if necessary. Anyway, it is impossible to allow our people to be exposed to the Russian propaganda because that is creating a big problem," Poroshenko said in a live interview with Ukraine's ICTV television channel.

Poroshenko thanked all Ukrainian television channels for an initiative to remove all TV series and films about the Russian army from air.

Poroshenko earlier told media he had provided assistance to Euromaidan protesters in Kiev. "Euromaidan" is the unofficial name for anti-government protests in Ukraine that started when President Viktor Yanukovych refused to sign an association agreement with the European Union last year to study the deal more thoroughly.

Comment: For every day that passes the fascist junta in Kiew displays to the world and their own population, who they really are: Deluded fascist with serious symptoms of psychopathic pathologies.


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The real roots of Xinjiang terror

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Uyghur disenfranchisement is played upon to foment Islamic radicalism and political separatist sentiment. The East Turkestan Islamic movement seeking to wrest Xinjiang from China's control offers a number of parallels to the shadowy "Al Qaeda" terror organization, including a mysterious leader living in a secret mountain base in Pakistan's lawless border region and, as FBI whistleblower and BoilingFrogsPost founder Sibel Edmonds revealed in last year's series on Gladio B, direct support from NATO-associated Gladio operatives seeking to destabilize a geostrategic region in an ongoing, under-the-radar war for control of Central Asia.

Find out more about the 'real' roots of China's Xinjiang terror in this week's EyeOpener Report with James Corbett.

Wall Street

The lawsuit that has Wall Street running scared

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Traders on the New York Stock Exchange
Variety reports that Sony Pictures is close to snagging the movie rights to the new book by Michael Lewis, "Flash Boys," which builds the case that high frequency trading firms and Wall Street mega banks are conspiring with U.S. stock exchanges to rig the market against the average investor and the pension funds holding their meager retirement benefits.

If Sony is smart, it will delay release of the film until it can replicate some real-life courtroom drama from the epic battle that is likely to ensue from a class-action lawsuit in the matter that was filed last month on April 18 in Federal Court in the Southern District of New York.

The plaintiff in the lawsuit has elicited snickers from the moneyed crowd on Wall Street. It was filed on behalf of the city of Providence, Rhode Island, an area founded in 1636 that became one of the original thirteen colonies, and is not typically known for hobnobbing with the hedge funds of Greenwich, Connecticut or the Wall Street suspender crowd in New York.

Better Earth

Russia targets space station project in retaliation for U.S. sanctions

International Space Station
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Docking completed on the International Space Station

Russia casts doubt on the long-term future of the International Space Station, a showcase of post-Cold War cooperation, as it retaliated on Tuesday against U.S. sanctions over Ukraine.


Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Moscow would reject a U.S. request to prolong the orbiting station's use beyond 2020, and bar Washington from using Russian-made rocket engines to launch military satellites.

Moscow took the action, which also included suspending operation of GPS satellite navigation system sites on its territory from June, in response to U.S. plans to deny export licences for high-technology items that could help the Russian military.

"We are very concerned about continuing to develop high-tech projects with such an unreliable partner as the United States, which politicises everything," Rogozin told a news conference.

Bad Guys

Barack Obama and the Monsanto betrayal

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Under the selective radar of mainstream media, Barack Obama has been carving out a whole new level of support for Monsanto and other destructive biotech giants.

From Scott Creighton,
Obama Pitches India Model of GM Genocide to Africa:

"At the G8 Summit held two weeks ago at Camp David, President Obama met with private industry and African heads of state to launch the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, a euphemism for monocultured, genetically modified crops and toxic agrochemicals aimed at making poor farmers debt slaves to corporations, while destroying the ecosphere for profit."