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White House comes clean and confirms CIA director John Brennan visited Ukraine just before 'anti-terrorism' military operations was launched against protesters


RT
Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:48 UTC
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Brennan attending a meeting of America's real leaders earlier this year
White House spokesman Jay Carney confirmed that CIA Director John Brennan visited Ukrainian capital Kiev over the weekend and met with high-ranked Ukrainian officials.

Previously, deposed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich accused Brennan of ordering a crackdown on pro-Russian activists in the east of the country.

The CIA had already dismissed these accusations as "completely false", but did not disclose whether its chief had actually been to Kiev - until now.

"We don't normally comment on the CIA director's travel but given the extraordinary circumstances in this case and the false claims being leveled by the Russians at the CIA we can confirm that the director was in Kiev as part of a trip to Europe," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had also demanded an explanation about the nature of the visit.
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Mr. Potato

Ooops! Ukrainian PM greets Swiss president with Danish flag


RT.com
Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:01 UTC
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US-installed Ukrainian 'interim' Prime Minister Yatsenyuk with the Swiss President: "Look Mr. President, I even unfurled your country's flag to welcome you!......eh....
An official visit of Switzerland's president to Ukraine has kicked off with a diplomatic blunder as the country's coup-imposed authorities greeted him with Danish flag instead of the Swiss.

It was Swiss president, Didier Burkhalter, who pointed the mistake out to prime minister, Arseny Yatsenyuk, during their meeting on Monday.

However, Burkhalter was kind enough to treat the incident as a joke, the Swiss media reports.

The flags of Switzerland and Denmark share the same red and white colors and a cross. However, the shape of the two flags and the crosses on them are different.
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European national flags not his strong point. Yatsenyuk finds that playing at being Prime Minister isn't as easy as he thought it would be...

According to Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Burkhalter is visiting Kiev to "underscore the constructive role played by the OSCE in the Ukrainian crisis and the organization's intention to step up its efforts to contribute to de-escalating the tensions in the country."

After holding talks with Yatsenyuk and Ukraine's foreign minister, Andrey Deshchitsa, and the Swiss president will travel to the port city of Odessa where pro-Russian moods are currently on the rise.

Comment: Apparently "Yats" didn't pass Victoria Nuland's "political homework" course, at least not the national flags section. This incident is priceless in that it is a perfect symbol for just how incompetent the rag tag bunch of crazies that the US govt. installed in Ukraine really are.

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Bomb

71 people killed, 124 wounded by US-Israeli terror group in Nigeria


RT
Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:09 UTC
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© Reuters / Afolabi SotundeBomb experts search for evidences in front of buses at a bomb blast scene at Nyanyan in Abuja April 14, 2014
Seventy-one people have been killed and a further 124 injured in two blasts that tore through a bus station on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital, Abuja, police officials said.

The explosions took place as several hundred commuters were boarding buses to Abuja. Police spokesman Frank Mba told AP that 16 luxury coaches and 24 minibuses were destroyed.

Police say they believe that secondary explosions were triggered by the first one.

"There was only believed to be one blast with secondary explosions as vehicle fuel tanks ignited and burned," Mba said.

"I was waiting to get on a bus when I heard a deafening explosion then smoke," eyewitness Mimi Daniels who works in the capital, told Reuters. "People were running around in panic."

Comment: See: Nigerian terror group Boko Haram linked to Mossad and the CIA

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Pirates

UN's Ban Ki-Moon agrees with proposal from Right Sektor fascist leader Andriy Parubiy to have 'international peacekeepers' beef up 'anti-terrorist operation' in eastern Ukraine


RT
Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:22 UTC
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"Atta boy Ban, you're our good little Korean..."
Ukraine's coup-empowered president, Aleksandr Turchinov, has proposed to conduct a joint operation with UN peacekeeping forces as he signs a decree immediately imposing a special anti-terrorist operation in the east of the country.

In a phone call with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Turchinov said that Kiev's new authorities would welcome "if, with your help, there will be conducted a joint anti-terrorist operation in the east of the country. Then, specialists and observers will be able to confirm the legitimacy and legality of our actions," the press office of the Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party quoted Turchinov as saying.

On his part, Ban Ki-moon said that Kiev could rely fully on help from the UN as its partner.

Late Monday afternoon, Ukraine's coup-appointed President Aleksandr Turchinov signed a decree to officially begin a "special anti-terrorist operation" in the east of the country, Ukraine's presidential press-service said in a statement.

Turchinov has appointed acting Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Andriy Parubiy, to oversee the operation.

Comment: So, let's just see if we've got this straight...

The protesters in Kiev were "revolutionaries", but the protesters in Eastern Ukraine are "terrorists"? Even though the protesters in Kiev were proud fascists, while the protesters in Eastern Ukraine are voicing their distaste of fascism?

Yanukovych couldn't even arm his police forces for fear of upsetting Ukrainians and world opinion, but the 'interim government' can send in special forces, army personnel carriers and US-made military helicopters? And led by fascist Andriy Parubiy, leader of the Right Sektor in Kiev?

And Ban Ki-Moon gives his blessing to this impending bloodbath?

Is it any wonder Putin has no choice but to act unilaterally? The 'West', the UN included, has completely lost its mind.

At least we now know why American Greystone mercenaries are in the country... the 'interim government' has so little support throughout Ukraine that it can't even rally a reliable, loyal military or police force together to enforce its will.

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Whistle

Russia calls on UN security council as Ukraine issues deadline to rebels


The Guardian
Mon, 14 Apr 2014 02:57 UTC
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© John Minchillo/APThe UN Security Council meets on Sunday night to discuss the growing crisis in Ukraine.
The United Nations security council held an emergency session on Sunday night to discuss the escalating crisis in Ukraine as the war of words between its western allies and Russia continued.

Just hours before a deadline by Ukraine for pro-Russian separatists in eastern cities to disarm by Monday morning or face all-out attack, the security council convened at Russia's request. Moscow called Kiev's plans to mobilise the army "criminal".

Russian ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, denied western and Ukrainian claims that Moscow was behind the violence, and told the meeting that Ukraine has been using radical neo-Nazi forces to destabilise its eastern region.
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Brick Wall

Deluded Ukrainians build 'Maginot Line' to repel Russia

John Reed
Financial Times
Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:32 UTC
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In a field near the village of Uspenka, eastern Ukraine, an orange earthmoving vehicle is carving out a trench about a metre deep, nicknamed by some locals the "Maginot line", along the border with Russia.

Serhiy Taruta, the billionaire oligarch who serves as Donetsk province's governor, is paying out of his own pocket for the trench, which is reinforced with massive concrete tetrapods thrown down at strategic points across roads.

Manning a machinegun point at a roadside nearby are two scruffy army reser­vists called up last week who identify themselves as Igor and Viktor. They say they had to improvise to equip themselves for duty.

"Local people are really keeping us going: food, can­ned goods, clothing," says Igor. "They even charge our cell phones for us."
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USA

US elections 2016: Will the GOP back another Bush?

David Usborne
Independent
Sun, 13 Apr 2014 00:00 UTC
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Jeb Bush, a former Governor of Florida whose father and brother have both served as president, is emerging as the most viable alternative to a hard-right Republican candidate
There was one man missing from an early beauty contest of possible candidates for the Republican Party's 2016 presidential nomination in New Hampshire at the weekend but his name came up quickly anyway. And when it did the audience, made up almost entirely of grassroots conservatives, erupted in sighs and belligerent boos.

Prompted by Donald Trump, possibly the party's most practised political provocateur, the moment threw into vivid relief the civil war that is rattling the party as jockeying for the 2016 race gets under way. He was shooting arrows at Jeb Bush and his recent assertion that illegal immigrants had mainly come into the country as "an act of love" so they could support their families. "That's one I've never heard before... it's out there," Mr Trump scoffed.
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Light Sabers

Silvio Berlusconi's messenger to the Mafia Marcello dell'Utri seized by Interpol in Beirut

Michael day
Independent
Sun, 13 Apr 2014 00:00 UTC
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Marcello dell’Utri, 72, helped Berlusconi form his Forza Italia party in 1993
The man widely believed to have been ex-premier Silvo Berlusconi's go-between with Cosa Nostra - the Sicilian Mafia - has been seized in Beirut by Interpol agents after appearing to flee Italy days ahead of a Supreme Court ruling in which he may be sentenced to seven years in prison for Mafia association.

The dramatic capture of Marcello dell'Utri, the former senator, provides a reminder of the mogul's murky past, even as judges in Milan are debating which form of community service Berlusconi should be dealt for his tax fraud conviction in August last year.

Dell'Utri was traced to the five-star Hotel Phoenicia through use of his credit card and mobile phone.
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Laptop

Dropbox faces online protests after appointing Condoleezza Rice to board

Stuart Dredge
Guardian
Fri, 11 Apr 2014 17:52 UTC
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© Andy Rain/EPADr. Condoleezza Rice's appointment has sparked protests from some Dropbox users over her past defence of warrantless wiretaps
Dropbox's decision to appoint former US secretary of state Dr Condoleezza Rice to the cloud storage service's board of directors has sparked a heated online row over her views on internet surveillance.

Protesters have set up a website - Drop Dropbox - describing the appointment as "deeply disturbing" and encouraging people to switch to rival services if the company doesn't "drop" Rice.

But supporters of Rice's appointment have also been making their views known on the blog post by Dropbox chief executive Drew Houston that announced the appointment. "When looking to grow our board, we sought out a leader who could help us expand our global footprint," wrote Houston.
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Road Cone

Russia, West lock horns at UN as Ukraine launches military response

Yavgen Savilov and Dmitry Zaks
AFP
Mon, 14 Apr 2014 06:35 UTC
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© AFP Photo/Genya SavilovPro-Russia activists warm themselves near a barricade outside a regional police building seized by armed separatists in Slavyansk on April 13, 2014
The UN Security Council has held emergency talks after Ukraine declared a "full-scale" military operation against pro-Russia forces, amid deadly clashes in its restive east.

Russia and the West locked horns over the escalating crisis in Ukraine with Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin saying "there has already been bloodshed and a further escalation must be swiftly stopped".

US ambassador Samantha Power accused Russia of waging propaganda and bombarding Ukraine with incitement and violence.

"This is the saddest kind of instability. It is completely man made. It was written and choreographed in and by Russia," Power told the 15-member council.

The latest clashes broke out a day after masked gunmen stormed police and security service buildings in coordinated raids, especially unsettling for Kiev and Western leaders because of their similarity to events leading up to Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.
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