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Putin's diplomatic countermeasures: Austria invites Russian president for visit

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© The Presidential Press and Information OfficePutin with Austrian President Heinz Fischer showing real diplomacy still lives.
East of Vienna, that's where the military action and bloody confrontation in Ukraine is being played out on the ground. But the furtive diplomatic goings on in Vienna are no less intensive nor internationally important, from the standpoint of a small and neutral, (although EU member state). While the US is discreetly conducting "low - key" talks here with another "bad boy" or similarly sanctioned state namely Iran (which after decades of being demonized by the west, is finally coming out of its international isolation), the Austrian government, is attempting to play an instrumental intermediary role in breaching Russia's western imposed isolation. It's a delicate matter indeed. Especially as the threat of further western sanctions against Moscow are looming ominously over Russia.

G-7, US and EU: All Stick and no Carrot

For example, in an ultimatum which harkens back to the prewar period of June 1914, the "so-called" G-7" (now minus Russia) has warned Moscow, unless it recognizes the results of the recent Ukrainian elections, withdraw its troops from the Russian Ukrainian border, and stops supporting separatist elements fighting in Eastern Ukraine that new sanctions will be imposed. Obama has effectively given Putin "between two to four weeks" to comply with these demands. Tough talk for sure!

Bad Guys

Puppet Louisiana Gov. signs bill killing lawsuits against oil and gas companies

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© AFP Photo / Getty Images / Sean GardnerOIl sheen sits on the surface of Barataria Bay June 19, 2010 west of Port Sulpher, Louisiana.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has flouted the advice of his own attorney general and scores of legal scholars by signing a bill which blocks a levee board's lawsuit against oil and gas companies, who are accused of destroying the state's coast.

"This bill will help stop frivolous lawsuits and create a more fair and predictable legal environment, and I am proud to sign it into law," Jindal said in a written statement Friday.

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© AFP Photo / Justin SullivanLouisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal
The law, SB 469, has thwarted a levee district in New Orleans' East Bank - the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East (SLFPA-E) - from pushing forward with a lawsuit introduced last July against 97 oil and gas companies for damage done to the state's wetlands. According to the suit, the firms exposed New Orleans to catastrophic damage from hurricanes Rita and Katrina by dredging and cutting thousands of miles of pipes and canals through barrier islands and wetlands which, left intact, would have protected the coastal city, The Times-Picayune Newspaper reports

"We are looking to the industry to fix the part of the problem that they created," SLFPA-E vice president John Barry told the tri-weekly last year. "We're not asking them to fix everything. We only want them to address the part of the problem that they created."

Local republicans and energy heavyweights, however, viewed the lawsuit as frivolous and "illegal."

"This bill keeps a rogue agency from misrepresenting this State and trying to raise money through illegal actions," said Senators Robert Adley and Bret Allain, who sponsored the legislation Jindal approved this week.

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Flashback Best of the Web: Who runs Hollywood? C'mon

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I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe "the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews," down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month, sees in these numbers a victory against stereotyping. Actually, it just shows how dumb America has gotten. Jews totally run Hollywood.

How deeply Jewish is Hollywood? When the studio chiefs took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger (Jewish), Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (surprise, Dutch Jew), Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish), CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was the first prime minister of Israel), MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish) and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish). If either of the Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji water on hand to fill a mikvah.

The person they were yelling at in that ad was SAG President Alan Rosenberg (take a guess). The scathing rebuttal to the ad was written by entertainment super-agent Ari Emanuel (Jew with Israeli parents) on the Huffington Post, which is owned by Arianna Huffington (not Jewish and has never worked in Hollywood.)

Comment: See also:

Billionaire Hollywood producer behind Stone's 'JFK' movie, Aaron Milchan, was secret operative for Israel's illegal nukes program and Mossad arms dealer


Megaphone

Best of the Web: Russia turns its back on the petrodollar

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The Russians are actually making a move against the petrodollar. It appears that they are quite serious about their de-dollarization strategy. The largest natural gas producer on the planet, Gazprom, has signed agreements with some of their biggest customers to switch payments for natural gas from U.S. dollars to euros. And Gazprom would have never done this without the full approval of the Russian government, because the Russian government holds a majority stake in Gazprom. There hasn't been a word about this from the big mainstream news networks in the United States, but this is huge. When you are talking about Gazprom, you are talking about a company that is absolutely massive. It is one of the largest companies in the entire world and it makes up 8 percent of Russian GDP all by itself. It holds 18 percent of the natural gas reserves of the entire planet, and it is also a very large oil producer. So for Gazprom to make a move like this is extremely significant.

When Barack Obama decided to slap some meaningless economic sanctions on Russia a while back, he probably figured that the world would forget about them after a few news cycles.

But the Russians do not forget, and they certainly do not forgive.

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War Whore

Global economic austerity: Essential to the US war agenda

In this stage of advanced globalization, banks earnings and corporate profits continue to soar even as real wages continue to plummet. This does not just lead to mass poverty and unrest, but it sows the seeds for geopolitical conflict and military confrontation.



Comment: Prof. Chossudovsky ends his report with a call to face the problem head on and 'dismantle the mainstream media' as the solution to altering the elites' global agenda. The likelihood of that succeeding is small. Much better to ignore the drivel put out by the MSM. Reading SOTT is a great step forward in doing just that. Help your fellow human beings by sharing SOTT as a source of objective analysis of MSM lies and spin. Dismantling the MSM may not be so feasible, but starving it of an audience is!


Dollar

Hands off! Australian pensioners lose savings in government cash grab

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More than half of the $700 million seized from 'inactive' bank accounts since 1959 was taken in the past year.
The federal government has bagged an unprecedented $360 million from household bank accounts since a controversial change to unclaimed money laws, figures from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission show.

Pensioners and others saving for a rainy day have reported trying to access their savings only to discover their money had been seized by the government because it had been dormant for three years or more.

The government has collected more money from inactive bank accounts under the three-year rule than the total amount captured in the past five decades combined.


The government takes away Kim Taylor's money from her bank account because she hadn't touched it in more than three years

Nearly $360 million from 80,000 accounts was funnelled into government coffers in the year to May after Labor lowered the threshold, eclipsing the $330 million netted between 1959 and 2012, during which time idle accounts could only be touched after seven years.

The Treasury now looks poised to raise the threshold in the face of fierce lobbying from the banking industry, with Finance Minister Mathias Cormann releasing a discussion paper on changing the definition of inactivity from three years to five. Such a change would halve the number of inactive accounts taken by the government each year, he said.

Comment: Big Government just seizes your bank accounts after only three years of inactivity - and then YOU have to take the time, effort and money to get it back!

And that's assuming you'll get it back...

This is definitely another sign that CorpGov intends to just swipe everyone's money while the they can (and while money still has perceived value).


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The use of racial and religious slurs as forms of mind control

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© www.says-it.comJust another Sunday sermon.
Call it programming, operant conditioning, entrainment, thought control, mind control, emotion control.

The war of back-and-forth competing racial and religious slurs has a planned aspect. It's a form of propaganda, and it begins with a heavy overemphasis on politically correct speech.

This sets the stage. It establishes an "official level" of sensitivity to language, and promotes the notion that words which exceed this level are uniformly damaging to defined groups.

The program has two goals: inflame feelings to create discord and animosity, and limit, in wide-ranging ways, what a person will permit himself to say or think.

Create an overall sense of caution that goes beyond the racial and religious.

Notice that this objective is the also Surveillance State's objective. The two programs work hand in glove.
"We're watching you all the time."
"There are many things you shouldn't think or say."
The engendered and encouraged discord between races and religions is ramped up to split society, split it into major groups - not individuals.

We live in an increasingly collectivist nation, and to guide its devolution, leading it into deeper levels of slavery, clearly defined groups must work off their frustrations by attacking each other.

The eventual goal is enlisting everyone in groups, up to their eyeballs.

Thus, an individual's sense of himself as independent is lost.
This is the program.
It seeks to erase the individual.

Comment: Mind control is most successful if it is inflicted upon those who have pre-conditioned susceptibility and fall under the influence of others. Consider mass media's numbing effect on the public and the persuasive methodologies utilized in the Science of Communication. To ensure the predictability of a large democracy, manipulation is guised as collective freedom and individual free will, a palatable package of mass delusion, social conditioning and behavior control.


Quenelle

People power! Mass protests grow against French-backed regime in the Central African Republic

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Discontent among the people with the French-imposed government in the capital of Bangui in the Central African Republic (CAR) has erupted in demonstrations by both the Muslim and Christian communities.

These developments are taking place amid the increasing deployment of foreign military forces mandated for peacekeeping operations by United Nations Security Council and other regional bodies.

The number of troops now occupying the CAR include a bolstered French force of 2,000 along with 6,000 personnel from regional African states (MISCA), European Union Forces (EUFOR) of 1,000 and the impending intervention of some 12,000 other soldiers under the rubric of the Security Council. Nonetheless, the minority Muslim community is still facing organized violence while more people are being forced out of Bangui and other cities across the country.

Interim President Catherine Samba-Panza was appointed after the forced removal at the aegis of Paris of the previous transitional leader Michel Djotodia in January. A Muslim, Djotodia came to power in March 2013 when Seleka Coalition rebels entered Bangui without any real opposition from French troops that were already maintaining a presence in the CAR.

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Pistol

5 U.S. Special Forces killed by 'friendly fire' in Afghanistan

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A US Defense Department official has anonymously confirmed to AP that five ISAF servicemen killed by friendly fire in southern Afghanistan were actually American soldiers. This could become the worst friendly-fire incident in 13 years of the Afghan War.

On Tuesday, international coalition officials confirmed that five servicemen died on Monday in what appeared to be a friendly-fire incident, without giving the details or disclosing the nationalities of the deceased.

Reportedly, the servicemen came into contact with adversaries in Arghandab district of Zabul province and came under an airstrike alongside the enemy forces.

The soldiers who died in the incident allegedly called in the airstrike that killed them.

"ISAF troops were returning to their bases after an operation when they were ambushed by the insurgents. The airstrike mistakenly hit their own forces and killed the soldiers," shared local Police Chief Ghulam Sakhi Roghlewanai.

Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, a spokesman for the Taliban movement, claimed that a group of insurgents engaged with an ISAF unit when assault helicopters got into combat and mistakenly attacked the foreign unit.

Comment: 5? That sounds like rather a lot for 'an accident'.

Will we later discover they were taken out like Pat Tillman?


Pirates

State of emergency: Al-Qaeda aka ISIL militants overrun Iraq city of 1.8mn, free 2,500 prisoners

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Heavily-armed, Al-Qaeda-affiliated militants have seized the Iraqi city of Mosul, driving back government forces. Officials say the Iraqi Army's soldiers are demoralized and are no match for the attacking militant forces.

"The city of Mosul is outside the control of the state and at the mercy of the militants," an Interior Ministry official told AFP on Monday. It is now the second city to fall under control of Islamist fighters since the beginning of this year. In January militants seized the city of Fallujah, displacing over 70,000 people

On Monday night fighters from Al-Qaeda affiliated group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) stormed provincial government headquarters armed with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns.


Comment: The U.S has actively trained and funded the ISIL to fight in Syria. Now that life is getting increasingly difficult for terrorists in Syria, they turn to easier targets. Chaos in the Middle-East is to the benefit of the U.S.