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Light Saber

Putin vows to end bloodshed in eastern Ukraine


Press TV
Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:39 UTC
Russian President Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to do everything to stop the ongoing violence in eastern parts of neighboring Ukraine.

Speaking in Crimea on Thursday, the Russian president described the violence in eastern Ukraine as fratricide.
"The country has sunk into bloody chaos in a fratricidal conflict," Putin said, adding, "We will do our best to end this conflict as soon as possible so that the bloodletting in Ukraine ends."
The Russian president also lashed out at Western governments for pressuring Russia over Ukraine. Putin said Moscow will withdraw its participation in such organizations as the European Court of Human Rights, should the West threaten Russia's national interests.

President Putin also said he has signed off on establishing a Russian military task force in Crimea.
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Bad Guys

EU denies bullying Russia's trade partners over food ban


RT
Wed, 13 Aug 2014 06:51 UTC

The EU is not working to thwart Russian trade with Latin America and elsewhere in the world, EU spokesman Peter Stano tells RT.

Russia is seeking out new suppliers to fill the substantial gap left after it banned food imports from the EU, US, Australia, Canada, and Norway. However, the EU is reportedly trying to interfere and persuade other countries not to gain from the EU's misfortune.

The Financial Times reported the EU is allegedly working to try and convince Brazil, Chile, and other Latin American countries not to meet Russia's demand for agricultural products.
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MIB

Brandon Martinez: ISIL/ISIS is being aided and abetted by Israel


FARS News Agency
Sat, 09 Aug 2014 08:17 UTC
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Brandon Martinez, a Canadian journalist and freelance writer, believes that the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) is the co-product of the Israeli regime and the United States who are supporting it financially and militarily.
According to Brandon Martinez, ISIL is pursuing a Zionist agenda that was set out in 1980s by a fanatic Israeli strategist Oded Yinon who had envisaged the balkanization of the Middle East nations that are not supportive of Israel's expansionistic, imperial agenda.

"Recently we saw Israel bomb several Syrian military sites to aid the ISIL insurgency in the south of the country, which illustrates quite clearly that ISIL is being aided and abetted by Tel Aviv as part of a broader Zionist destabilization plot in Syria," said Brandon Martinez in an interview with Fars News Agency.

"Israel's ultimate agenda, as outlined in the [Oded] Yinon document and other Israeli geopolitical manifestos, is to have Muslims and Arabs fighting and squabbling amongst themselves so that nobody can challenge its hegemony and also so that it can get away with the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine with little protest from the outside world," he added.

As said by Mr. Martinez, it's in the best interests of Israel to ignite infighting and dispute among the Muslims and Arab nations, while in effect the different Muslim denominations, including the Shiites and Sunnis, are not at odds and always lived in peaceful coexistence as long as the foreign powers don't pit them against each other.

Comment: Also see:
- ISIS in Iraq stinks of CIA/NATO 'dirty war' op
- Psycho 'Reality Creators' open 'gates of hell' in Iraq with proxy Jihadis

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Mr. Potato

'Buy firewood & coal': MP warns Ukrainians after US, EU get access to national gas pipes


Rt.com
Fri, 15 Aug 2014 08:19 UTC
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The decision by the Ukrainian parliament to allow companies from the US and EU to co-manage the country's gas pipelines could lead to the country being left with no gas supplies in the coming winter, an MP has warned in an emotional online address.

Nikolay Rudkovsky, an independent MP in Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada, believes the law allowing 49 percent of Ukraine's national gas transportation system (GTS) to be managed by foreign companies is a big mistake.

"People, my advice to you is: buy firewood and coal! After the Law on reforming the management system of the united gas transportation system of Ukraine (#4116) was passed today, our country has been left with almost no chances of staying with gas," Rudkovsky said on Facebook, following the Rada session.

"Don't the MPs understand that we are now guaranteed to have a winter with no heating?" he asked.

Comment: With an ice age on the way, this is not the best time for Ukraine to leave itself without any heating for the winter. First the Kiev junta antagonize Russia by refusing to pay their gas bill, then they give 49% control of their pipelines to the US government that is obviously going to act in its own anti-Russian interest rather than the interest of the people of Ukraine. In short, the people of Ukraine and their feckless (un) elected government appear unable to stop shooting themselves in the foot.

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Heart - Black

Video: Donetsk residents record white phosphorus shelling


RT.com
Fri, 15 Aug 2014 08:14 UTC

Citizens of Donetsk have recorded multiple videos of white glowing particles raining on residential quarters. The locals allege that Ukraine's military has shelled their city with internationally prohibited phosphorus incendiaries.

On Thursday night, people in the Lenin district of the city of Donetsk saw a flow of white fire pouring down from the dark sky alongside the now-familiar sound of bombing, RIA Novosti reported.

They suspect these have been incendiary shells stuffed with white phosphorous, similar to those reportedly used by the military during the blockade of another eastern city of Slavyansk in June.

So far there have been no official reports from the scene about the results of the night shelling of Donetsk, which could confirm whether white phosphorous munitions have really been used against densely-populated areas.
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Light Saber

Palestine can sue Israel at ICC: Lawyer


Press TV
Wed, 13 Aug 2014 07:38 UTC
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© UnknownGilles Devers, French lawyer and International Rights specialist
A French lawyer says there are still legal channels to prosecute Israel for its war crimes in Gaza at the International Criminal Court (ICC) after Palestine's initial case was rejected last week, Press TV reports.

Gilles Devers had filed a case at the ICC on behalf of Palestine in late July following Israel's attacks on Gaza, but the case has been rejected.
"The Foreign Minister of Palestine Mr. [Riyad] al-Maliki went to The Hague and then I learned that the case was rejected. The court's prosecutor said she decided to reject the case, because Palestine has not signed the Rome Statute and therefore cannot file a case," Devers said in an exclusive interview with Press TV.
The Rome Statute, adopted on July 17, 1998, established the ICC and entered into force on July 1, 2002.
"The court's prosecutor said that the 2009 Declaration of Competency was no longer valid, because between then and now Palestine has become a non-member observer state at the United Nations," Devers said, adding, "Several professors of law have said this has no connection with the case filed by the Palestinians in July. The ICC is independent after all. Therefore, we are going to launch a fresh procedure, asking the prosecutor to work with the Palestinian minister of justice."
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Bad Guys

ISIS in Iraq stinks of CIA/NATO 'dirty war' op

William Engdahl
RT
Tue, 24 Jun 2014 05:51 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Karim SahibIraqi Kurdish forces take position near Taza Khormato as they fight jihadist militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) positioned five kilometers away in Bashir, 20 kms south of Kirkuk
For days now, since their dramatic June 10 taking of Mosul, Western mainstream media have been filled with horror stories of the military conquests in Iraq of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, with the curious acronym ISIS.

ISIS, as in the ancient Egyptian cult of the goddess of fertility and magic. The media picture being presented adds up less and less.

Details leaking out suggest that ISIS and the major military 'surge' in Iraq - and less so in neighboring Syria - is being shaped and controlled out of Langley, Virginia, and other CIA and Pentagon outposts as the next stage in spreading chaos in the world's second-largest oil state, Iraq, as well as weakening the recent Syrian stabilization efforts.

Comment: Also read SOTT editor Joe Quinn's article: Psycho 'Reality Creators' open 'gates of hell' in Iraq with proxy Jihadis

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Gold Coins

Jim Rickards on currency wars and gold


GoldSeek
Wed, 13 Aug 2014 00:00 UTC
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Jim Rickards
In his latest Gold Videocast, Peter Schiff meets with Jim Rickards, author of The Death of Money, for an exclusive interview about gold's role in the international currency wars.

Jim Rickards is Chief Global Strategist at the West Shore Funds, and Director of The James Rickards Project, an inquiry into the complex dynamics of geopolitics + global capital. In The Death of Money, Rickards shows why another monetary system collapse is rapidly approaching - and why this time, nothing less than the institution of money itself is at risk. Fortunately, it's not too late to prepare for the coming death of money. Rickards explains the power of converting unreliable money into real wealth, such as gold and other long-term stores of value.
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Briefcase

Finnish president going to meet Putin with hat in hand after Russia's counter sanctions


RT
Thu, 14 Aug 2014 02:10 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Lehtikuva / Heikki SaukkomaaFinnish President Sauli Niinisto
Finland will impose no additional sanctions on Russia in response to Moscow's ban of food imports from some EU countries, said Finnish Prime Minister before the presidents of the two countries are set to meet on Friday in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

The Russian President will meet his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinist in Sochi, on Russia's Black Sea coast, where Putin has a residence on Friday, the president's press service said. Niinist is the first president of a European country to visit Russia in an official capacity since the escalation of the crisis in Ukraine.

The heads of state are to discuss the "peaceful settlement of the internal political crisis in Ukraine and measures to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe", the Kremlin said. Among other issues the presidents will talks about the current state and prospects of bilateral cooperation between Russia and Finland, the Kremlin added.

Comment: The Finnish government probably realized that they were shooting themselves in the foot by participating in a trade war with Russia upon order from the US and is backing down. Good thinking!

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Attention

Kiev's slaughter continues: 70+ civilians killed in Donetsk in 3 days


RT
Thu, 14 Aug 2014 00:07 UTC
Lugansk
© RIA Novosti / Valeriy MelnikovA car hit by a shell during an artillery attack by the Ukrainian Security Forces in Lugansk.
Over 70 people have been killed in the Donetsk Region, and 116 others have been wounded over the last three days of fighting in eastern Ukraine, according to a statement by regional authorities.

The Ukrainian army has been shelling Donetsk and its suburbs overnight as well. On Tuesday, the military seized a key train station near Donetsk.

Many civilians are also feared dead after Kiev authorities resumed shelling of eastern districts in Lugansk, the city council reported. No figures for the number of casualties are known yet.

"According to residents' reports, eastern Lugansk came under intensive artillery attack on Wednesday," the city council said on its website. "Witnesses say that as a result of the shelling, many civilians have been killed and wounded."

The city has been without water, electricity and fuel for almost two weeks.

Fifteen people were killed and 19 injured in mortar fire in Donetsk region's village of Zugres on Wednesday, local authorities said, citing health officials. Among those killed were three children.


Comment: Like Israel, Kiev targets civilians, killing women, children, and the elderly. And like Israel, they get away with it.

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