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A monster devouring its own: The CIA has brought darkness to America

Gary Younge
The Guardian
Sun, 09 Mar 2014 16:57 UTC
Guantanamo
© Bob Strong/Reuters'As covert operations were shielded from oversight, so human rights violations became not just ­inevitable but routine.'
After 9/11 the agency was given free rein to break the rules but when allowed to play dirty abroad, it's difficult to stop at home

Little more than a week after 9/11, Cofer Black gave instructions to his CIA team before their mission. "I don't want Bin Laden and his thugs captured, I want them dead ... I want to see photos of their heads on pikes. I want Bin Laden's head shipped back in a box filled with dry ice. I want to show Bin Laden's head to the president. I promised him I would do that."

A month later, at a meeting sponsored by Schwab Capital markets, CIA executive director "Buzzy" Krongard laid out for investors what such a war would entail. "[It] will be won in large measure by forces you do not know about, in actions you will not see and in ways you may not want to know about," he said.

Back then there wasn't a treaty that couldn't be violated, a principle waived or a definition parsed in the defence of American power and pursuit of popular revenge. To invoke the constitution, the Geneva convention or democratic oversight was evidence that you were out of your depth in the new reality. Laws were for the weak; for the powerful there was force. This was not just the mood of a moment; it has been policy for more than a decade.
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Evil Rays

The new Western sponsored Ukraine: 'I'll hang you by the balls and have you f***ed' - Ukrainian presidential hopeful abducts pro-Russian MP


RT
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:10 UTC
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© UnknownScreenshot from Youtube
A Ukrainian presidential hopeful and his supporters have abducted a regional MP over his opposition to the coup-imposed government in Kiev. A video of the action shows the MP being roughed up by a group of men and threatened.

Oleg Lyashko reported secretly going to the Lugansk region on Sunday night and detaining Arsen Klinchev, a member of the local parliament from the Party of Regions.

"The scum Klinchev will answer for his crimes. We detained him and handed him over to law enforcement. I am sincerely grateful to everyone, who helped with this deed. The video is coming shortly. The fight goes on," Lyashko wrote on his Facebook page.

The promised footage followed soon. In it Lyashko is seen entering the office, as Klinchev later clarified, of local General Vladimir Guslavsky with a group of half a dozen men, whose faces are covered with a black circle. They floor the MP and handcuff his arms behind his back.

Then Lyashko is seen calling Klinchev "scum" several times, while forcing him to make a statement on camera, ordering his supporters to vacate the regional administration building.


Comment: Why is the Western media silent on the overt fascist coup in Ukraine?
U.S.-supported democracy on display: Club-wielding fascists storm town council meeting in Kiev suburbs
Neo-Nazis beat, handcuffed governor of Ukrainian region to make him resign‏

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Bell

Moscow denounces gun attack on pro-Russian activists in Eastern Ukraine as Western media is silent


RT
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:16 UTC
Pro-Russian protest
© AFP Photo / Sergey BobokA girl holds a banner reading "Kharkiv, Donetsk, Sevastopol" as pro-Russian supporters attend a rally under the statue of Lenin in the centre of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on March 8, 2014
The Russian Foreign Ministry has criticized western governments and media for turning a blind eye on alarming incidents in Ukraine, including a gun attack on a pro-Russian rally in the city of Kharkov.

According to eyewitness reports, some seven or eight masked people drove a mini-van to a Saturday rally in central Kharkov, which was demanding a regional referendum on whether it should follow Crimea's suit and seek joining Russia.

The men armed with bats and handguns ambushed three activists, who were returning from the rally.

"They threatened to kill us. I covered my head so they hit me on the hands. We barely realized what was happening," one of the victims told Live News tabloid.

The attackers fired several shots in the scuffle, wounding one of the pro-Russian activists in the back. The injury was not life-threatening.

The aggression is one of several incidents, which, according to the Russian foreign ministry, are overlooked in the west. It also cited the detainment and deportation of seven Russian journalists from Ukraine over alleged biased reporting.

Comment: Neo-Nazis beat, handcuffed governor of Ukrainian region to make him resign‏

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'What you do on your cell phone is none of their damned business!': Rand Paul thrills libertarians and unites CPAC against NSA

David Martosko
Daily Mail
Sat, 08 Mar 2014 16:18 UTC
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Sen. Rand Paul has been a consensus favorite at the Conservative Political Action Conference, dominating hallways with 'I Stand With Rand' posters and creating a horde of giddy young acolytes.
  • Paul, a Kentucky senator, got the Conservative Political Action Conference's loudest applause with a libertarian message
  • He railed against President Obama for allowing the National Security Agency to seize millions of Americans' phone records with a single warrant
  • Paul is seen as a major 2016 presidential contender
  • The CPAC even has heard from other crowd favorites Ted Cruz, Chris Christie, Rick Santorum and Donald Trump
  • Paul sued the Obama administration, and the president personally, in February over the alleged NSA abuses
A sustained noise that could best be called a hoot and holler greeted Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul at the mention of his name, before he took the stage at Friday's Conservative Political Action Conference and declared that cell phone records sought by government agencies were 'none of their damned business!'

By the time he launched into his blue streak against the National Security Agency and quoted Pink Floyd to criticize President Barack Obama, the overflow crowd of thousands sounded like Beyonce concertgoers who had stumbled into the wrong ballroom.
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Dollar

Flashback Ukraine signs $10 billion shale gas deal with Chevron

Pavel Polityuk and Richard Balmforth
Reuters
Tue, 05 Nov 2013 09:11 UTC
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© REUTERS/MYKHAILO MARKIV/UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS(L-R, front) Chevron Exploration and Production Europe Derek Magness, Ukraine's Energy Minister Eduard Stavytsky, Chairman of the National Joint Stock Company ''Nadra Ukrayny'' Viktor Ponomarenko, (L-R, back) U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Payette, Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich and President of Chevron Europe, Eurasia and Middle East Exploration and Production James Johnson attend a signing ceremony in Kiev, November 5, 2013.
Ukraine signed a $10 billion shale gas production-sharing agreement with U.S. Chevron (CVX.N) on Tuesday, another step in a drive for more energy independence from Russia.

The deal to develop its western Olesska field followed a similar shale gas agreement with Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) in January and boosts Ukraine's leadership at a time of fraught relations with Moscow over gas supplies.
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Stormtrooper

Flashback Neo-Nazis beat, handcuffed governor of Ukrainian region to make him resign‏


RT
Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:57 UTC
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© Reuters/Petro KrivosheyVolyn Region Governor Alexander Bashkalenko (2nd L, front) stands on the stage after he was captured by anti-government protesters during a rally in the town of Lutsk in northwestern Ukraine, February 19, 2014.
A governor of a western Ukrainian region who tried to calm down a raging mob of rioters was severely beaten and handcuffed to a protest stage. His family could also be under threat as insurgents are reportedly looking for them.

When a 30,000-strong mob attempted to storm regional police headquarters in the city of Lutsk in the Volyn region of western Ukraine, Governor Aleksandr Bashkalenko sided with law enforcement and tried to uphold the law.

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Light Sabers

Documentary: Crimea: Unmasking Revolution


RT
Fri, 07 Mar 2014 19:30 UTC
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© AFP PhotoPro-Russian activists wave a Russian flag during their rally in the western Crimean city of Yevpatoria on March 5, 2014.
From the late 18th century Crimea was a part of Russia; that was until 1954 when Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev issued a decree transferring the small Black Sea peninsular from Russia to Ukraine, which was still a part of the USSR. Crimea is, to this day, mostly populated by Russians, though there are also many Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars. The current situation on the peninsula is tense and complicated; people are divided Some want Crimea to return to being a part of Russia, others support an undivided Ukraine, while self-determination is a dream for others still. A referendum on Crimea's future status will take place on March 16, 2014. RT sent a camera crew to Crimea to hear directly from some residents of this troubled part of the world.
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Handcuffs

EU-ECB-IMF troika tells Greece: We're witholding the next loan tranche until you squeeze the people more


Voice of Russia
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:31 UTC
Greek bail-out
© EPA

The Greek government and the international creditors - the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund - have failed to agree on a bailout loan tranche ahead of the Eurogroup meeting on Monday, local media say.

The three inspectors are to return to Athens on Wednesday, and hopes are that the parties will be able to agree on the next tranche by March 16. The monitors will assess the extent of financial aid to the debt-stricken southern EU nation based on the state of its economy and its commitment to requirements that are sine qua non of the loan deal, but major issues still appear to be unresolved.

Greece hopes for a cash injection of $10.1 billion, something it will never get without the green light from inspectors.

Comment: The EU has money for Ukraine but no money for the countries in crises within the Union. Those in Ukraine who are dreaming of a standard of living like those of the countries in the EU should look at Greece and ask if that is what they are after. In any case that is what the EU and the IMF has in stall for Ukraine.

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Popcorn

Ukraine crisis: Chinese president Xi Jinping tells Obama and Merkel that they must pursue a political solution


Guardian
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 06:24 UTC
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© Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesPro-Russian supporters drive through the streets of Simferopol, Ukraine after a rally on Sunday. Photograph
Beijing leader tells Obama and Merkel that they must pursue a political solution to 'extremely complex' situation.

Chinese president Xi Jinping has urged a political solution to the crisis in Ukraine and for all parties to exercise calm and restraint, during separate telephone calls with US president Barack Obama and German chancellor Angela Merkel.

"The situation in Ukraine is extremely complex, and what is most urgent is for all sides to remain calm and exercise restraint to avoid an escalation in tensions," China's foreign ministry on Monday cited Xi as telling Obama.

"Political and diplomatic routes must be used to resolve the crisis," Xi added.
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Mr. Potato

Obama comes out against self-determination when it is against the wishes of the elite

Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economy
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 06:33 UTC
Knock knock Crimea
© Unknown
The White House Fool has repeatedly declared erroneously and foolishly that it is "against international law" for Crimea to exercise self-determination. Self-determination, as used by Washington, is a propaganda term that serves Washington's empire but is not permissible for real people to exercise. On March 6 Obama telephoned Putin to tell the Russian President again that only Washington has the right to interfere in Ukraine and to insist against all logic that only the
"government" in Kiev installed by the Washington-organized coup is "legitimate" and "democratic."
In other words, the elected government in Crimea pushed by the people in Crimea to give them a vote on their future is "undemocratic" and "illegitimate," but a non-elected government in Kiev imposed by Washington is the voice of self-determination and legitimacy.

Washington is so arrogant that it never occurs to the hubris-infected fools what the world thinks of Washington's blatant hypocrisy.

Since the Clinton regime, Washington has done nothing but violate international law - Serbia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Honduras, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia.

Does Russia have an Africa Command? No, but Washington does.
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