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Why is the world wooing India? It's defense deals, stupid!

Rajeev Sharma
RT
Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:00 UTC
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© Reuters/BabuIndia's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C23), carrying five satellites, lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, north of the southern Indian city of Chennai June 30, 2014.
On the day India launched a French earth observation satellite and four smaller satellites from Germany, Canada and Singapore, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius was in New Delhi for talks.

The wheel has come full circle in just about four decades since India and France started their space exploration cooperation. Then, Indian satellites were being launched using French launch vehicles. Now it is the other way round and India is charging $20,000 per kilo for each satellite launched.

Unsurprisingly, the foreign minister of Singapore, another country whose satellite was launched by India, landed up in New Delhi a day after Fabius' June 30 visit. Shanmugam, who also doubles up as Singapore's law minister, met External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on July 1 and discussed a wide array of bilateral, regional and international issues like Fabius had done with Swaraj the day before.

The next day after the Singaporean foreign minister's talks with Sushma Swaraj, it was the turn of American Senator John McCain, a former Presidential candidate, to sit with the Indian foreign minister. Later this month, US Secretary of State John Kerry too is visiting New Delhi.
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What to do if an FBI agent knocks your door?


The Free Thought Project
Wed, 02 Jul 2014 00:00 UTC
An Austin Texas woman, who is a peaceful antiwar activist was visited by the FBI.

They wanted to know if she "had any plans to destroy property."

She handled the situation like a professional, flexing her rights.


Comment: Note how many times Agents flip flopped their words. Can you believe them?

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Document

Leaked? US think-tank plan on East Ukraine suggests internment camps, executions


RT
Fri, 04 Jul 2014 20:57 UTC
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Ukrainian soldiers drive a military vehicle with a Ukrainian flag at a checkpoint near Slavyansk in eastern Ukraine July 3, 2014
A leaked memorandum from the RAND corporation think tank suggests the Ukrainian govt should engage in an all-out war in eastern regions, including shutting down all communications, putting citizens in internment camps and kill all who resist such actions.

The RAND Corporation is non-profit global think tank which offers research and analysis to the US armed forces.

In the shocking letter, which has been leaked to the press, the advice offers a step by step brutal guide in how to deal with the population in eastern Ukraine.

Comment: Whether or not this document is authentic, we wouldn't put it past the think-tanks full of pathological minds to come up with stuff exactly like this.

Update July 5, 2014

RT has since taken this article down, suggesting that, upon further research, they found the document to be a fraud:

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The similar actions of the Kiev Junta in East Ukraine, however, are very real, and, in all probability, they are following a script written by the CIA.

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Cult

Rolf Harris gets 6 years for sexually abusing multiple children, third iconic BBC children's TV presenter-pedophile sentenced in two years


BBC
Fri, 04 Jul 2014 15:52 UTC
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Rolf Harris: Predator
Disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris has been jailed for nearly six years for 12 indecent assaults against four girls - including one aged just seven or eight.

Mr Justice Sweeney said Harris, 84, had taken advantage of his celebrity status and had shown "no remorse".

The sentence of five years and nine months has already been referred to the Attorney General's Office under the "unduly lenient sentence scheme".

One victim said the abuse had taken away her "childhood innocence".

Harris, who was found guilty of offences that took place between 1968 and 1986, was told by the judge he had "no-one to blame but himself".

He displayed no emotion and stared straight ahead as he was jailed.


Comment: Some relevant questions to ask might be:

Who isn't a pedophile at the BBC??

What is wrong with that institution?

What is wrong with British high-society?

How do all these conscienceless people get away with so much for so long?

See also:

British celebrity icon Jimmy Savile sexually abused up to a thousand children on BBC premises

Former BBC presenter Peter Rowell faces child sex trial

Michael Souter trial: Former BBC presenter dubbed "predatory paedophile" jailed for 22 years

Institutionalised pedophilia: Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall admits raping multiple children

The BBC: Protecting Pedophiles and War Criminals Since 2004

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USA

Proxy imperial hubris: 'We'll take back Spain': Fighters claim ISIS to seize 'occupied lands'


RT.com
Fri, 04 Jul 2014 14:47 UTC
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Some useful idiot 'jihadi' spouting off for the benefit of Western audiences, delivered by the Western media.
A group of jihadists claiming to be part of ISIS have vowed to invade Spain along with all other "occupied lands" in a video posted on the web.

The men say Spain is the land of their forefathers and that they are prepared to die for their nascent Islamic State.

The video of two men claiming to be militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) has taken the Spanish media by storm. The minute-long footage shows them speaking in Spanish, and saying that ISIS will take over Spain.

"I tell you, Spain is the land of our forefathers, and, Allah willing, we are going to liberate it, with the might of Allah," says one of the men. He adds that the group won't stop at Spain and intends to spread its Islamic Caliphate across the world.


Comment: What is most 'funny' about this is not that ISIS and Co. are a gang of idiot psychopaths who are full of their own BS and who, in any semi-civilized society would be in jail because of their feckless idiot psychopathic shenanigans; or that many of them have been freed from (or kept out of) jail by the Saudis and the US and British governments so that they can be used as rabid personal attack dogs to keep the Middle East destabilized, what is REALLY 'funny' is that the nauseatingly sycophantic and duplicitous Western media enthusiastically serves up the diatribes of these idiot psychos for one specific purpose: to induce fear in Western populations so that they will accept the further implementation of draconian and police-state policies in their cities and towns.

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Mr. Potato

Fat chance, buddy! Ukraine's new defence minister promises to take back Crimea


BBC
Thu, 03 Jul 2014 13:42 UTC
Heletey
Delusional: New Ukrainian Defence Minister Valeriy Heletey thinks Ukraine can take Crimea.
New Ukrainian Defence Minister Valeriy Heletey has promised that the army would retake Crimea, restoring the country's territorial integrity.

Addressing parliament in Kiev, he said: "There will be a victory parade... in Ukraine's Sevastopol."

Russia annexed the peninsula - which has a Russian-speaking majority - in March after a controversial referendum.

In eastern Ukraine, a government offensive against pro-Russian separatists is continuing.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande have urged Russian President Vladimir Putin in a conference call to use his influence to put pressure on the rebels in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

Mr Putin said he was "deeply concerned about the rise in deaths among the civilian population and sharp increase in refugees" entering Russia from south-eastern Ukraine, according to the Kremlin.

All three leaders agreed that the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) should play a more active part in monitoring the situation in the conflict zone.

Comment: Kiev is dreaming. Poroshenko et al. live in another reality. This image sums up the situation nicely:
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Star of David

Israeli military summarily executes two Palestinian teenagers, and lies about it


CNN.com
Fri, 04 Jul 2014 13:22 UTC
CC TV video showing the moment when two Palestinian teenagers were fatally shot during Nakba demonstrations in the West Bank on May 15th has been released by an non-governmental organization.

The two victims were named by local media as 17-year old Nadim Siyam Nuwarah and Muhammad Audah Abu al-Thahir, who was either 15 or 16. Both teens were shot on separate occasions at a protest near Ofer Military Prison in the occupied West Bank on May 15, and had reportedly been throwing rocks.

Footage purported to show both incidents was released by the Palestinian branch of Defense for Children International. In it, a protester prepares to throw a stone with a slingshot, then seven minutes later, according to the video timestamp, a youth walking along the street falls to the ground as those around him duck, seemingly from gunfire. A little over an hour afterwards, another young man walking away from the direction of the clashes collapses. Again, nearby demonstrators dive for cover.

A CNN happened to catch Israeli soldiers firing in the direction of the boys at the exact moment they were shot dead. The Israeli military denied that any soldiers used live rounds, although that is clearly a lie. The Israeli military regularly murders Palestinian children and teenagers, and the Western media generally ignores it. This is the reason that Western audiences can be manipulated into denouncing the recent kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens - because they are denied the TRUE facts about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and instead offered an Israeli narrative that continually presents Israelis as victims. The truth is precisely the opposite.

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Layoffs at Wall Street Journal - more downsizing of print media to come?

Dylan Byers
Politico
Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:40 UTC
job cuts, layoffs
The Wall Street Journal has laid off several staffers in recent weeks as part of a newsroom "re-evaluation," its parent company Dow Jones confirmed on Wednesday.

The layoffs, which were first reported by The New York Times, come six months after Dow Jones CEO Lex Fenwick abruptly resigned amid what the company described as a change to "institutional strategy." Anywhere from 20 to 40 staffers were laid off, including veteran reporters and editors, according to the Times report.

In a statement, Dow Jones said it had been "evaluating many areas of the newsroom to target areas for growth and deploy our resources globally in order to operate efficiently and profitably."

"Unfortunately, as a result we will be eliminating certain positions," the statement read. "As ever, we remain focused on ensuring that we have the right reporting and editing capabilities while continuing to maintain the Journal's high standard of excellence."

Comment: Well at least, such as the WSJ's 'standard of excellence' may be. One wonders if this move towards 'right reporting capabilities' is connected to this:

Computers to take on writing duties at AP news wire

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Gold Coins

De-Dollarization of world in process: BRICS nations forming anti-dollar alliance

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge.com
Wed, 02 Jul 2014 21:29 UTC
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While numerous massively indebted administrations around the world hope to divert the attention of what's left of their struggling middle class away from its daily impoverished existence and distract it with flashing lights and glitzy animations showing another all time market high on a daily basis, a significantly more important shift taking place behind the scenes is appreciated by very few: the ongoing de-dollarization of the world. For the latest example of how increasingly more countries are setting the stage for the final currency war, we go again to Russia where VOR's Valentin Mândrescu explains that slowly but surely the BRICS - that proud Goldman acronym which was conceived to perpetuate the great American way of life by releasing trillions in US-denominated debt in heretofore untapped markets - are morphing into an anti-dollar alliance.

BRICS is morphing into an anti-dollar alliance
From VOR

Before the crucial visit to Beijing next week, the governor of the Russian Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina met Vladimir Putin to report on the progress of the upcoming ruble-yuan swap deal with the People's Bank of China and Kremlin used the meeting to let the world know about the technical details of its international anti-dollar alliance.
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Greenwald to expose massive NSA spying on American Muslims


RT.com
Thu, 03 Jul 2014 07:56 UTC
spying muslims
© AFP Photo / Getty Images / Mario Tama
Glenn Greenwald, one of the journalists with access to documents leaked by Edward Snowden, will soon expose massive NSA spying on American Muslims, the ACLU has announced.

The leaked data indicate that in public life American Muslims were "subject to the kind of surveillance that Hoover did on Martin Luther King," ACLU executive director Anthony Romero told an Aspen Ideas Festival panel Wednesday.

He didn't provide further details, or any deadline for the expected exposé to be published, explaining that preparing it is labor-intensive because the source material is a database rather than some materials prepared for public presentation.

"It will be interesting to see who is on this list but I don't know," The Atlantic reported him as saying. "It will be interesting to see if there were members of Congress on this list, what kind of judicial review was provided."
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