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NATO uses old images taken in August 2013 to claim that Russian troops are deployed on Ukrainian borders - Russian Military


Voice of Russia
Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:52 UTC
Russian troops on Ukraine's border in 2013
© NATONATO wants to justify it's existence and what better way than to show a big build up of Russian troops on Ukraine's border. Fact is that the pictures are from August 2013. The military adventures of recent years by NATO, shows that it likes to use fake pictures and videos in order to justify invasions and gaining support at home for unpopular wars
An official in the Russian military general staff said on Thursday that NATO satellite photographs purporting to show Russian forces concentrated near the Ukrainian border were taken in August 2013, state-run news agency RIA reported, citing a source in Russian military forces.

The report came hours after NATO unveiled photographs it said showed Russian deployments of some 40,000 troops, along with tanks, armoured vehicles, artillery and aircraft. It said the pictures were taken between March 22 and April 2.

"Satellite imagery of Russian troops allegedly amassed at present on the border with Ukraine dates back to August 2013, a high-ranking source in Russia," General Staff said Thursday.

NATO's Headquarters of Allied Command Operations released earlier on Thursday a series of satellite photos showing large contingents of tanks, artillery, attack helicopters and war planes purportedly being observed by the Alliance in specific locations along the Ukrainian border.

"In reality, the images released by NATO show units of Russia's Southern Military District taking part in various exercises last summer, including near the borders with Ukraine," the source said.

The Southern Military District hosted a number of military drills last summer, including parts of large-scale Combat Commonwealth-2013 air defense exercise, which involved units from a joint air defense system of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
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Ukraine: Georgian general claims Maidan snipers were 'Saakashvili's people'


Voice of Russia
Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:45 UTC
Snipers
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A retired Georgian general alleges that the snipers who shot people on Kiev's Maidan in February were former defense and security officials from the structures of Georgia's former president Mikheil Saakashvili. Tristan Tsitelashvili said on Rossiya 1 television on Wednesday that he knows the names of four of those snipers and the materials on the matter he has collected will be sent to the Georgian prosecutors.

"There were four Georgians there. We have their names and we know they worked in the defense and security structures under Saakashvili. We have all the information: when they left for Ukraine, when their headquarters was created, where it was located, and where they received special assignments," Tsitelashvili said.

Tsitelashvili said the group of Georgian snipers in Kyiv was led by Giya Baramadze and Givi Targamadze.
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Time to grow up Europe! Full text of Putin's letter to European leaders

Vladimir Putin
Voice of Russia
Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:22 UTC
Putin
© RIA Novosti/Mikhail Klementyev
Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed possible mechanisms to European leaders for urgent discussion of the situation with Ukraine's debt for Russian gas, Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a statement. Putin's letter was sent on Thursday to the leaders of Moldova, Romania, Turkey, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Macedonia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Austria, and Italy.

Here is the full text of it:

Ukraine's economy in the past several months has been plummeting. Its industrial and construction sectors have also been declining sharply. Its budget deficit is mounting. The condition of its currency system is becoming more and more deplorable. The negative trade balance is accompanied by the flight of capital from the country. Ukraine's economy is steadfastly heading towards a default, a halt in production and skyrocketing unemployment.

Comment: Take the time to read this speech instead of relying on the bits and pieces which will be taken out of context and twisted in the Western media.

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Putin writes to European leaders and says Ukraine gas debt 'critical', transit threatened


RT
Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:07 UTC
Russian President Vladimir Putin
© RIA Novosti / Mikhail KlementievRussian President Vladimir Putin

President Putin has written to 18 European countries, warning that Ukraine's debt crisis has reached a "critical" level and could threaten transit to Europe. He also called for urgent cooperation, blaming Russia's partners for a lack of action.

Among the countries who'll receive the letter are major consumers of Russian gas such as Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Moldova, Poland and Romania.

Given the accumulated $2.2 billion gas debt owed by Ukraine's Naftogas, Russia's Gazprom will be forced to ask Ukraine for advance payments, Putin said in his letter to European partners, referring to the 2009 gas contract signed between Moscow and Kiev.

"In other words, we'll be supplying exactly the volume of gas that Ukraine pays for a month in advance," as Itar -Tass quotes Putin's letter.

Putin added that introducing advance payments would be an extreme measure.

"We understand that this increases the risks of unsanctioned retrieval of gas flowing through the territory of Ukraine to European consumers. And it could also hinder accumulation of gas supplies in Ukraine necessary to provide for consumption during the autumn-winter period."

Stable transit of Russian gas to Europe would require an additional 11.5 billion cubic meters of gas for Ukraine's underground storages, which would cost $5 billion, Putin explained.

Comment: Will the European leaders get over their childish hypocritical behaviour and start acting with some responsibility?

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USA

SOTT Focus: War Against The Weak

Robert Kirkconnell
Sott.net
Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:05 UTC
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In researching my book American Heart of Darkness, I found persistent myths about the growth and development of the United States. From the first colony in Jamestown to the present, these myths have covered up the reality of what values and prerogatives actually drive the national direction.

First and foremost among these are the prevailing assumptions that the indigenous population of what is today 'North America' was 'primitive' and just could not 'adapt to modernization'. Further, that they were not resistant to European diseases and that this was the primary reason for their numbers having been reduced from at least 18 million to a mere 200,000 early in the 20th century.

The Native American world view was far different from that of the English speaking (and thinking) historians who wrote 'our' history. What the Native Americans experienced was the outright slaughter of their people and the theft of the land on which, and from which, they lived. Many, especially the plains Natives, did not think of land as something somebody could own. It was just there, like the wind, for all to use. Of course there were disputes over hunting territory and so forth, but these were child's play compared to what Europeans called 'war'.
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License plate readers unconstitutional sez Civil Liberties advocate

Kathryn Watson
Watchdog.org
Thu, 03 Apr 2014 07:03 UTC
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© AJC/Kent D. JohnsonCameras attached to a police car or State Patrol car quickly capture the numbers and letters on license plates, the computer checks the information against at data base and then there is an alarm.
The widespread use of automatic license plate reader technology by local police departments is not only unsettling - it's unconstitutional, one civil liberties advocate argues.

"One problem is it bypasses the Fourth Amendment," said John Whitehead, president of the Charlottesville-based, civil-liberties-focused Rutherford Institute.

Automatic license plate readers can capture the date, time and exact location of a vehicle - for up to 1,800 vehicles per minute. That data goes to a central database that can match DMV records and other locations where that license plate was also captured on camera.

The Fourth Amendment prohibits "unreasonable" search and seizure, requiring a warrant. It's the same argument used against the National Security Agency spy program.

"The Fourth Amendment is really clear that you're supposed to have probable cause before you do that," Whitehead said.
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Ukrainian standoff between government and protesters intensifies, 24 hours before Kiev ultimatum ends


RT
Thu, 10 Apr 2014 04:36 UTC
Crackdown in Donetsk
© Colonel Cassad
With 24 hours until Kiev's threatened deadline to use force against anti-government protesters occupying buildings in eastern Ukraine, reports emerge of tanks around the city of Donetsk. Several locals were allegedly injured trying to stop the convoy.

An eyewitness confirmed the information about military forces arriving in the city in an interview with RT.

"At about 2pm we received information that military hardware had arrived at our local train station. We went there and saw APCs, military vehicles and troops. The whole town gathered nearby. The soldiers tried to start moving, and the people tried to stop the vehicles," Lyudmila said.

She also noted the harsh response from the military when the locals attempted to stop them.

"The soldiers twisted the arms of pensioners, there were two men standing there and [the soldiers] drove over their feet [in tanks]. I was pulled back by local coalminers while I tried to stop the vehicles. They didn't even look at who was in front of them. The men started shouting for them to stop, saying there were girls and women in front of them, but they didn't care."

According to a decree signed by coup-imposed leader Aleksandr Turchinov, the local administration building in Donetsk and surrounding territory is an "important government facility, which is a subject to state protection."


Comment: The new illegitimate leaders in Kiev have no qualms about unleashing violence on anyone who opposes their rule.

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Bad Guys

Afghan elections: The myth of progress

Ulson Gunnar
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 09 Apr 2014 18:13 UTC
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Elections held this week in Afghanistan, while highly publicized as a showpiece in NATO's lengthy intervention, will most likely not only achieve very little, but may be the first in a series of steps the nation undergoes as it slips back into regression and darkness. NATO's inability to establish security even in Afghanistan's urban centers bodes ill for whatever government takes over in Kabul, particularly as Western troops prepare to permanently withdraw.

Promises of a "democratic tomorrow"are more likely to be replaced at best with an uncomfortable, and perhaps only temporary accommodation between rural tribesmen (including the Taliban) and the new government in Kabul. In time, as rural tribesmen redirect resources from their fight with NATO's departing troops, and against whichever government presides in Kabul, that accommodation may inevitably lead to a "Taliban" government once again ruling Afghanistan.
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Putin tapping into the worldwide revulsion and resistance to the hedonistic sewage coming out of the West

Pat Buchanan
Creators.com
Fri, 04 Apr 2014 18:27 UTC
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© SHTFplan.com
In his Kremlin defense of Russia's annexation of Crimea, Vladimir Putin, even before he began listing the battles where Russian blood had been shed on Crimean soil, spoke of an older deeper bond.

Crimea, said Putin, "is the location of ancient Khersones, where Prince Vladimir was baptized. His spiritual feat of adopting Orthodoxy predetermined the overall basis of the culture, civilization and human values that unite the peoples of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus."

Russia is a Christian country, Putin was saying.

This speech recalls last December's address where the former KGB chief spoke of Russia as standing against a decadent West:

"Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away from their roots, including Christian values. Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation."
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Wall Street

Is the U.S. stock market rigged? You betcha!

Steve Kroft
CBS News
Sun, 30 Mar 2014 17:45 UTC
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© WallStreetandTech.com RBC trading floor in New York City.
The following script is from "Rigged" which aired on March 30, 2014. Steve Kroft is the correspondent. Draggan Mihailovich, producer.

This month marks the fifth anniversary of the current bull market on Wall Street, making it one of the longest and strongest in history. Yet U.S. stock ownership is at a record low and less than half of Americans trust banks and financial services. And in the last two weeks, the New York attorney general and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission in Washington have both launched investigations into high-frequency computerized stock trading that now controls more than half the market.

The probes were announced just ahead of a much anticipated book on the subject by best-selling author Michael Lewis called "Flash Boys." In it, Lewis argues that the stock market is now rigged to benefit a group of insiders that have made tens of billions of dollars exploiting computerized trading. The story is told through an unlikely cast of characters who figured out what was going on and have devised a plan to correct it. It could have a huge impact on Wall Street. Tonight, Michael Lewis talks about it for the first time.
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