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California senator charged in big corruption case


Washington Post
Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:41 UTC
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© Rich Pedroncelli/APCalif. State Senator Ron Calderon. Calderon and his brother, Tom Calderon, were indicted by a federal grand jury on multiple political corruption charges
A California state senator was charged Friday with accepting $100,000 in bribes, lavish trips and no-show jobs for his children in exchange for pushing legislation to benefit a hospital engaged in billing fraud and participating in a film industry tax scheme that actually was an FBI sting.

The 24-count federal indictment against Sen. Ron Calderon, a Democrat from a politically prominent family in Los Angeles' blue-collar suburbs, depicts a rogue legislator eager to trade his clout at the state Capitol to enrich himself and his family. His brother Tom, a former state lawmaker-turned-lobbyist, was charged with money-laundering for funneling bribes through a tax-exempt group he controlled, prosecutors said.

"When public officials choose to callously betray the trust of the people they serve and selfishly abuse the privileges of public office, then we will take all necessary steps to hold those persons fully accountable for their behavior," U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte said.

The charges come after a long-running corruption investigation that has tarnished the state's majority party - Democrats hold every statewide office and control both chambers in the Legislature. The charges also threaten the patriarchs of a family that rose to political prominence from the heavily Hispanic, working-class communities southeast of Los Angeles.
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Light Sabers

Latest from Ukraine: Military signals support for coup d'état, regional deputy says foreign agents spent $10 billion laying groundwork over many years, Yanukovich quashes Western rumors that he's resigned


RT
Sat, 22 Feb 2014 08:17 UTC
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The goals of this "revolution" come into focus...
Protests in Kiev continue despite President Viktor Yanukovich and opposition leaders signing an EU-brokered agreement which seeks to end the bloody political crisis in the country.

Saturday, February 22

14:17 GMT
Ukraine's armed forces cannot and will not be involved in political conflict, the Ministry of Defense has stated.

"Units of the armed forces of Ukraine are located in places of permanent deployment and perform scheduled tasks," the statement published on the Ministry's webpage reads.

"Armed forces are faithful to their constitutional duty and cannot be dragged into an internal political conflict," the Chief of General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said. "Now I am fully controlling the situation in the Armed forces of Ukraine."
14:06 GMT
Yanukovich has accused the opposition of staging a coup d'etat and has no plans to resign, according to advisor Anna German, a Party of Regions deputy, who was interviewed by UNIAN news agency.
13:48 GMT
Party of Regions deputy Vadim Kolesnichenko has blamed "foreign agents" for the unfolding events.

"The situation in Kiev has taken years to prepare. Foreign agents of influence have spent over $10 billion in recent years to execute this coup. The money has been channeled into so-called non-governmental organizations," Kolesnichenko told the ITAR-TASS news agency.
13:47 GMT
Opposition deputies claim they have received verbal assurances from Yanukovich that he will resign.

"We have received a verbal promise from Yanukovich that he will step down. Now, we are waiting for written confirmation," said Nikolay Kerinchuk from Yulia Tymoshenko's Fatherland party.
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Dominoes

Venezuela revokes CNN journalists' press credentials for 'war propaganda'


RT
Fri, 21 Feb 2014 08:24 UTC
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© Reuters / Carlos Garcia RawlinsSupporters of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez stand at a barricade during a protest against President Nicolas Maduro's government, in a middle-class neighbourhood in Caracas February 20, 2014.
Venezuela has revoked or denied press credentials for seven CNN journalists working in the country for what President Nicolas Maduro called "war propaganda" amid coverage of anti-government protests.

Before the conditions on credentials were announced, Maduro said he would eject CNN from the country if it did not "rectify" its coverage amid a spike in the unrest that has gripped Venezuela. According to officials, at least eight people have been killed since demonstrations mounted by the opposition turned violent last week.

"They want to show the world that there is a civil war in Venezuela," Maduro said of CNN in a televised speech on Thursday.

He added that CNN was not showing "the people working, studying, building the homeland."
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Imperialist Meddling: France triggered slaughter in Africa

Finian Cunningham
Press TV
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 21:23 UTC
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© Rebecca Blackwall/AP
French soldiers fire tear gas as they attempt to contain a demonstration calling for the departure of French forces.
As the Central African Republic descends into a charnel house of mass killing, hunger and fleeing refugees, one country bears full responsibility for the catastrophe - France.

This week, France's defence minister Jean-Yves Le Drian had the brass neck to tour the former French colony where hundreds of people - mainly Muslims - have been lynched in the streets in recent weeks, their corpses left to rot along the roadsides.

Thousands more have been burnt out of their homes and have fled to the jungles for refuge from inter-communal clashes. A Muslim man happened to fall off a truck ferrying refugees from the violence. He was then beaten, hacked to death by a frenzied mob on the street below.

An entire country has been turned upside down, and that chaos and suffering is all down to French imperialist meddling.

Le Drian had the nerve to claim that the dispatch of French troops to the Central African Republic in early December "had prevented even more deaths from occurring". How dare the French minister distort the facts and exonerate his country from the cold-blooded mass murder and an unfolding humanitarian crisis that it - and it alone - has triggered.

Comment:
France sends military to deal with another 'ex'-colony, Central African Republic, under pretext of intervening in 'humanitarian crisis' it helped create

French military oversees power-sharing deal in 'former' colony, the Central African Republic

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Vader

Free-dumb and Democrazi: Ukraine MPs vote for release of ex-PM and gas billionaire Tymoshenko, along with a return to 2004 CIA-imposed constitution


RT
Sat, 22 Feb 2014 07:54 UTC
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The Ukrainian parliament has voted in favor of a bill that will allow the release from jail of the former Ukrainian prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko. 310 MPs have voted to decriminalize the article of the Ukrainian law defining the charges under which Tymoshenko is serving her term. The former Ukrainian PM was sentenced to 7 years in prison for abuse of office during the signing of the January 2009 natural gas imports contract with Russia.


Comment: Yulia Tymoshenko was charged with abuse of power and embezzlement and sentenced to seven years in jail in October 2011.

Her supporters claim that she was charged and sentenced under current president Yanukovych but the investigation that led to her imprisonment was launched at the behest of her former ally, Yushchenko, with whom she led the CIA's 2004 'orange revolution'.

Investigators concluded that Ukraine suffered losses of 310 million euros due to Tymoshenko's ten-year dodgy gas deal with Russia.

Before Tymoshenko was sentenced for her controversial gas deal in October 2011, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) re-opened another criminal case which had been scrapped in 2005.

Between 1995 and 1997 during her time as head of Ukraine's then largest natural gas importer, United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU), the "gas princess" allegedly embezzled 405.5 million dollars in cooperation with Pavlo Lazarenko, who was Ukrainian Prime Minister at the time.

Lazarenko plays also a central role in the latest and most interesting criminal case against Tymoshenko, the 1996 murder of Ukrainian oligarch Yevhen Shcherban.

This is the kind of 'leader' that the US and EU would like to see in power in Ukraine, because they share so many 'interests'. And this is the kind of leader the Ukraine will have, the wishes or interests of the Ukrainian people be damned.

The US state department and EU would like to thank the dozens of Ukrainian citizens who gave their lives so that the US state department and EU could use their sacrifice to manipulate the world and push through an elitist political agenda that will ensure the Ukrainian people are screwed for decades to come.

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Flashback Will the U.S. economy crash March 4, 2014?

Grady Means
Washington Times
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:38 UTC
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© AP Photo/Jason DeCrow
America's fall will take global economies with it

Those wild and crazy Mayans put down their marker that the end of the world would occur on Dec. 21, 2012 - about two months from now. There is, of course, some small chance that they might be right. On the other hand, there is a very large probability that the real end of the world will occur around March 4, 2014.

The doomsday clock will ring then because the U.S. economy may fully crash around that date, which will, in turn, bring down all world economies and all hope of any recovery for the foreseeable future - certainly over the course of most of our lifetimes.

Interest rates will skyrocket, businesses will fail, unemployment will go to record levels, material and food shortages will be rampant, and there could be major social unrest.

Any wishful thinking that America is in a "recovery" and that "things are getting better" is an illusion.
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French ZOG predictably censors Dieudonne, Quenelle

John Friend
John Friend's Blog
Sat, 22 Feb 2014 07:37 UTC
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© UnknownNo one believes the Jews and their lies anymore. Do you?
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell

Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, the heroic Afro-French comedian who popularized the anti-establishment gesture known as the "quenelle", has been ordered by the Jewish-controlled French government to remove "sections of a YouTube video in which" the renegade comedian and activist "celebrates the quenelle salute," according to the Jewish Telegraph Agency.

The JTA reports:
The Court of Grands Instances in its ruling Wednesday said one of the passages violated French law against Holocaust denial and another was incitement to racial hatred.

The video has been widely condemned as anti-Semitic, as has the gesture created by Dieudonne.

The Union of Jewish Students of France, or UEJF, last month asked the court to order the removal of the video posted Dec. 31 by Dieudonne, who has been convicted seven times for inciting racial hatred against Jews. In the video, Dieudonne declares that 2014 will be "the year of the quenelle."

France's interior minister, Manuel Valls, said in December that the gesture was a "salute of anti-Semitic hatred." Some say it is simply an anti-establishment gesture.

The comedian was given five days to remove the passages or face a penalty of nearly $700 per day that they are left online, according to the French news service AFP.

More than 3.5 million people had seen the video when the case was filed.
I believe this is the video the Jews and their puppets controlling the French government are demanding Dieudonne remove:
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War Whore

Western powers back neo-nazi coup in Ukraine


Executive Intelligence Review
Sun, 02 Feb 2014 07:17 UTC
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Western nations, led by the European Union and the Obama Administration, are backing an outright neo-Nazi regime-change coup in Ukraine. If the effort succeeds, the consequences will extend far beyond the borders of Ukraine and neighboring states. For Russia, such a coup would constitute a casus belli, coming as it does in the context of NATO missile defense expansion into Central Europe and the evolution of a U.S.-NATO doctrine of "Prompt Global Strike," which presumes that the United States can launch a pre-emptive first strike against Russia and China and survive the retaliation.

The events in Ukraine constitute a potential trigger for a global war that could rapidly and easily escalate to a thermonuclear war of extinction. At this weekend's Munich Security Conference, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had a heated public exchange with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in which the latter accused Russia of "bellicose rhetoric" and Lavrov responded by citing the European missile defense program as an attempt to secure a nuclear first-strike capability against Russia.

In his formal remarks at Munich and a week earlier at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, Lavrov also assailed Western governments for supporting neo-Nazi terrorist organizations in their zeal to place Ukraine under European Union and Troika control to tighten the NATO noose around Russia.

If anything, Lavrov understated the case.
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Stormtrooper

"Manufacturing Consent": Bernard-Henri Lévy, the "new philosopher" selling military adventures of the global elite

Irina Lebedeva
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sat, 15 Feb 2014 07:03 UTC
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Bernard-Henri Lévy speaking to the mob gathered on Kyiv’s Maidan on February 9, 2014.
Zealous French intellectual Bernard-Henri Levi visited the maidan in Kiev on February 9 to deliver another fiery harangue. The next day the article Bernard-Henri Levi: We're all Ukrainians (Bernard-Henri Lévy: «Nous sommes tous des Ukrainiens») saw light published by Parisian Le Monde. In his fervor Ukrainian Levi he called Yulia Timoshenko the Dame of Kiev (meaning Yulia Timoshenko who is behind bars at present). I can hardly imagine what Oleh Tyahnybok, another passionate maidan supporter, or Victor Yanukovych thought having heard these bold words spoken by someone born to an Algerian Jewish family. But I'm glad to see one more proof of the fact that the French are reasonable people. The article of «new Ukrainian» was followed by many virulent comments like «We've been Libyans, now we are Ukrainians. Could we just be French, is it so hard?»

Yes, it is hard in the case of Bernard Henri-Levi. He's kind of a human brand. For Europeans he has been a patented stimulant for dozens of years. 65 years old, he has shot a few films and published around twenty books, he became famous as a leader of the «New Philosophers» (Nouveaux Philosophes) movement that reached the peak of popularity in France in the last century, but went out of fashion as any intellectual product which offers nothing but extravagance. He owes his popularity to the fact that Levi is seen as a man of Messiah in some circles.
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Switzerland votes a narrow 'yes' to cap EU immigration


RT
Sun, 09 Feb 2014 06:52 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Fabrice CoffriniTwo electoral posters against (L) and in favor (R) of a "Stop Mass Immigration" referendum
Switzerland has voted 50.3 percent in favor of limiting annual migration from the EU, thus ending the policy of free movement within the bloc that was established in 2002.

Swiss voters narrowly decided that immigration quotas would be reintroduced, thereby overturning the free movement policy introduced in the European Union 12 years ago. Early results showed the country to be very divided in opinion over the 'Stop mass immigration' initiative.

'Stop mass immigration' was introduced by the nationalist Swiss People's Party (SVP). Its goal is to introduce annual quotas on the number of foreign workers entering the country. The result will likely vex multinational companies based there; Roche, Novartis, UBS, and other industry giants frequently utilize foreign labor.
Switzerland - vote on introducing immigration quotas Yes 50.3%(1,463,954 votes) No 49.7%(1,444,438) Turnout: 56.5% pic.twitter.com/SCxa7z2hgB

- electionista (@electionista) February 9, 2014
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