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More obstruction from Kiev: Heavy firing keeps experts from MH17 site

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© AFP Photo / Bulent KilicChief of Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Alexander Hug walks with separatists at a railway station in the eastern Ukrainian town of Torez.
International experts have been unable to visit the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, due to heavy fighting in the Donetsk area. Kiev and anti-government forces are blaming each other for hampering the investigation.

"We heard indications there's fighting going on," said Alexander Hug, deputy head for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring mission in Ukraine.

"The situation on the ground appears to be unsafe...we therefore decided to deploy tomorrow morning," he added.

Hug expressed concerns that the fighting near the village of Grabovo in Ukraine's Donetsk region will "most likely affect crash site."

Forensic experts arrived in Ukraine to recover the remains of passengers that have not yet been returned to the Netherlands for identification.

The Malaysian jet was carrying 298 people, the majority of them Dutch citizens, when it crashed on July 17. Coffins with the remains of 227 victims have already been delivered to the Netherlands.

Although the fighting is disrupting the investigation, the Netherlands, Australia, and Malaysia have ruled out sending an international armed mission to secure the crash site.

"We concluded there was a real risk that an international mission would immediately be involved in the conflict in Ukraine," Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said.

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Political Ponerology in action: The world is doomed by western insouciance

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This is a small sample of the destruction that pathocrats create. Left: Bodies of people killed during shelling by Kiev forces in Lugansk, July 18th. Right: on the same day 3 children from the same family, exterminated in Gaza.
European governments and the Western media have put the world at risk by enabling Washington's propaganda and aggression against Russia.

Washington has succeeded in using transparent lies to demonize Russia as a dangerous aggressive country led by a new Hitler or a new Stalin, just as Washington succeeded in demonizing Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the Taliban in Afghanistan, Qaddafi in Libya, Assad in Syria, Chavez in Venezuela, and, of course, Iran.

The real demons - Clinton, Bush, Obama - are "the exceptional and indispensable people" above the reach of demonization. Their horrific real crimes go unnoticed, while fictitious crimes are attributed to the unexceptional and dispensable people and countries.

The reason that Washington demonizes a leader and a country is to permit the creation of circumstances that Washington can use to act with force against a leader and a country.

Vader

Flashback Dark journalism: Fox News vs Diana Buttu


This article was posted on Youtube in July 2012, and Gilad Atzmon brought it to our attention when he re-published it today. Despite the date, the video is still relevant because it displays the bullying by so called journalists that people like Diana Buttu have to suffer for daring to publicly share the truth about Palestine. The Fox News and zionazi propaganda pawn wants her to deny what she witnesses in Gaza, and agree with him that it is all Hamas' fault, poor Israelis are just defending themselves! When she doesn't? He cuts her off. Just like today's mainstream "journalism"....

Mr. Fish illustrates the situation in Gaza quite aptly, just as described by Diana Buttu:
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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: Israel - Global Pariah or Promised Land?

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This week on SOTT Talk Radio Niall and Joe discussed the ongoing conflict in Israel/Palestine and other major recent events in world news. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the world's longest running conflict, yet very few people know its actual history, when and why it began and why it continues to this day. Even fewer have any understanding of how, because of the conflict, the state of Israel and its 'intelligence agency' the Mossad, has wielded and wields vastly disproportionate (relative to its size and population) power on the world stage and has thereby contributed significantly to the course of our modern civilization.

Other topics discussed on this show include the recent spate of 'downed' commercial aircraft, the ongoing information war between the 'West' and Russia over Ukraine, and much more.

Running Time: 02:20:00

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Vader

Best of the Web: Nato leaders maneuvering to construct Iron Curtain between Russia and the West

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NATO leaders are currently acting out a deliberate charade in Europe, designed to reconstruct an Iron Curtain between Russia and the West.

With astonishing unanimity, NATO leaders feign surprise at events they planned months in advance. Events that they deliberately triggered are being misrepresented as sudden, astonishing, unjustified "Russian aggression". The United States and the European Union undertook an aggressive provocation in Ukraine that they knew would force Russia to react defensively, one way or another.

They could not be sure exactly how Russian president Vladimir Putin would react when he saw that the United States was manipulating political conflict in Ukraine to install a pro-Western government intent on joining NATO. This was not a mere matter of a "sphere of influence" in Russia's "near abroad", but a matter of life and death to the Russian Navy, as well as a grave national security threat on Russia's border.

A trap was thereby set for Putin. He was damned if he did, and damned if he didn't. He could underreact, and betray Russia's basic national interests, allowing NATO to advance its hostile forces to an ideal attack position.

War Whore

We have no opinion on mass murder of children: Irish government abstains from vote on Gaza slaughter

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You'd have to have a heart of stone not to feel just a little sympathy for Charlie Flanagan, the Foreign Affairs Minister. It's true that the murdered Palestinian children and their distraught relatives have a greater claim on our solidarity - but, Charlie Flanagan, at this stage of 
his life, well, he's been finding out how humiliating it can be to be an Irish minister.

Last week, Charlie had to stand over the Irish Government's decision to abstain on a United Nations vote on the Gaza slaughter. UN member states had a choice - intervene in the slaughter or stand idly by. Intervening by resolution mightn't achieve much, but there was a stark difference between voting for the resolution and not doing so.

It really doesn't matter how appalled and shocked we say we are about the deliberate slaughter of civilians. If we're asked to allow the UN to hold a formal inquiry and we shrug our shoulders we're saying, yeah, sorry about the dead kids - appalled, shocked - but we have other fish to fry.

As the slaughter continues, the Israelis and their enemies lay down ceaseless barrages of propaganda. Turn on a radio or TV and there's always some wide-eyed zealot from one side or the other speaking with intense sincerity in terms that are only loosely related to reality.

Comment: At least some in Ireland still know how to make a stand. This new mural has appeared on the Falls Road in West Belfast:

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Best of the Web: Take that, America! International teams find 'no violations' by Russia along Ukrainian border

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© RIA Novosti / Sergey KuznecovRussian troops file photo

Inspectors who came to check the state of Russian troops along the Ukrainian borders have found no violations, Russia's Ministry of Defense said. This came as a response to the US alleging 15,000 Russian troops have amassed in the area.

"It has come to our attention that new allegations by top US officials as to the alleged amassing of Russian troops along the Ukrainian border have been voiced," the statement by the Defense Ministry read, following allegations by the US Permanent Representative to NATO, Douglas Lute, and State Department spokeswoman, Marie Harf.

"The last four months have witnessed 18 separate inspections along the Ukrainian border with the Russian Federation, all in line with the Vienna Open Skies Treaty and the Vienna agreement of 2011."

The statement goes on to list the international makeup of those inspections, which included representatives from the US, as well as NATO and Ukraine. The inspections also included flybys and visits to any military units that might have aroused suspicion.

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Snowden's latest leak: NSA and Saudis teaming up

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© AFP Photo/Bilal QabalanThe Saudi interior ministry building in Riyadh
The National Security Agency has increasingly been working hand-in-glove with the repressive Saudi Arabian government since 2013, sharing intelligence and assisting with surveillance, according to the latest Snowden leak.

Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden sent a top secret memorandum to The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald that describes the secretive US agency's relationship with Saudi Arabia. The NSA primarily works with the Saudi Ministry of Interior (MOI) and Ministry of Defense (MOD).

After the first Gulf War in 1991, the document says, the NSA had "a very limited [signals intelligence (SIGINT)] relationship" with the Saudi government, but is now "experiencing a period of rejuvenation."The increased cooperation came after Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper approved an expansion of the SIGINT relationship in December 2012.

Even before that authorization, however, the NSA was collaborating with the Saudi Defense Ministry on a "sensitive access initiative" that began in 2011, and focused on "internal security and terrorist activity on the Arabian Peninsula." It was conducted "under the auspices of CIA's relationship with the MOI's Mabahith (General Directorate for Investigations, equivalent to FBI)."

Now the NSA offers "technical advice on SIGINT topics such as data exploitation and target development" to the MOI's Technical Affairs Directorate, "as well as a sensitive source collection capability," and analytical and technical support. The US agency also provides "a sensitive decryption service to the Ministry of Interior against terrorist targets of mutual interest."

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Obama-Bibi affair on the rocks due to wiretapping?

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday hit out at the United States for what he described as "unacceptable" wiretapping of his predecessor Ehud Olmert, as reported in the media.

"Given the close relations between the United States and Israel, there are things we cannot do, and that is unacceptable for us," Netanyahu said at a meeting of his Likud party.

Netanyahu said he had asked for the reports to be verified.

The New York Times reported last week that in monitoring more than 1,000 targets in upwards of 60 countries between 2008 to 2011, US and British intelligence agencies tapped the communications of then premier Olmert, among other foreign leaders, according to secret documents revealed by intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.

Comment: It is interesting to see Netanyahu "upset" over such "news", since by now it is widely known that all NSA-collected info makes its way to Israel and the agency itself seems to be more concerned with Israel's security than that of the U.S.:
A document suggesting that the U.S. National Security Agency may put the interests of Israel above those of the United States was released Wednesday by journalist Glenn Greenwald.

The document is one of the many slides leaked by NSA defector Edward Snowden, currently a fugitive from American law in Moscow.

Greenwald, who published many of Snowden's revelations over the last year, released his book "No Place to Hide" on Wednesday. Concurrently with the release of the book, Greenwald made public slides that Snowden obtained from the NSA. One of them deals with intelligence relations with Israel.

"Balancing the SIGINT exchange equally between U.S. and Israeli needs has been a constant challenge in the last decade; it arguably tilted heavily in favor of Israeli security concerns. 9/11 came, and went, with NSA's only true Third Party CT relationship being driven almost totally by the needs of the partner," one slide reads.

Another slide states, "The Israelis are extraordinarily good SIGINT partners for us, but ... they target us to learn our positions on Middle East problems. A NIE [National Intelligence Estimate] ranked them as the third most aggressive intelligence service against the U.S."

These statements imply that the NSA is providing Israel with information much more than Israel is providing the United States with information. Writing in The Guardian last September, Greenwald noted that "the National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about U.S. citizens."

Greenwald also pointed out that while Israel is one of America's closest allies, it is "not one of the inner core of countries involved in surveillance sharing with the U.S. - Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. This group is collectively known as Five Eyes."



MIB

Famous cyclist killed in hit and run in Russia

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A famous US cyclist who biked across dozens of countries supporting the message of peace died in a car accident in the Russian city of Ivanovo, local police said on Friday.

Ron McGerity, a 60-year-old American who has been living in Geneva, traveled at least 120,000 kilometers (75,000 miles) over the past 15 years, visiting 61 countries along the way.

The cyclist died on Thursday in a hit-and-run accident in Russia's central Ivanovo region, located some 254 kilometers (157 miles) from Moscow.