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Countering the Wests' campaign of lies: Lavrov states no proof given for allegations about Russian troops in Ukraine


RT
Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:21 UTC
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© RIA Novosti / Sergey Kuznecov
Army servicemen of the 31st Individual Assault Brigade at the joint exercises of the CSTO Collective Rapid Reaction Force at the Spassk proving ground in Kazakhstan's Karaganda Region on August 18, 2014.
Russia's only reaction to NATO accusations of interfering militarily in Ukraine will be a consistent position of putting an end to bloodshed and establish dialogue between warring parties in Ukraine, Russia's FM said.

No facts about Russian military being present on the territory of Ukraine have ever been presented, Sergey Lavrov pointed out, while speculation on the issue has been voiced repeatedly, he stressed.

"It's not the first time we've heard wild guesses, though facts have never been presented so far," Lavrov said at a press conference in Moscow.

Comment: For months the press have been stating that "Russia invaded Ukraine" and again and again it is revealed that they are just the lying, sniveling accomplices of war criminals:

War crimes here: Kiev drops white phosphorus on citizens of Slavyansk

Kievs genocidal turkey shoot: 478 civilians dead in E. Ukraine

Conservative death toll in Ukraine doubles in two weeks

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MIB

Next step regime change: Will St. Petersburg suffer the next Western sponsored Colour Revolution?

Steven MacMillan
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 28 Aug 2014 07:56 UTC

Comment: The following commentary by Steven MacMillan for NEO highlights the involvement of Western NGOs in the co-called 'color revolutions', i.e. covert coups d'etat. Putin made the right choice in expelling USAID from Russia, among other steps to hamstring the operation of foreign operatives intent on destabilizing Russia and bringing it under the control of Western financial and political interests.


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The announcement by Barack Obama on July 31st to appoint John F. Tefft as the new U.S. ambassador to Russia is a warning to the Russian government of the intentions of western foreign policy planners. Tefft, who has worked for the State Department and the National War College in Washington, is an expert at planning colour revolutions to overthrow regimes targeted by the western elite. He is the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine where he was a key architect in preparing the Washington orchestrated coup in Kiev.

Colour revolutions are based upon a fusion of the Rand Corporation's "swarming" technique invented in the 1960's and Professor Gene Sharp's guide to nonviolent struggle in the 1990's. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) act as an extension of western intelligence agencies to create artificial revolutionary movements in countries that oppose Anglo-American hegemony through the use of social networks and text messaging, resulting in the overthrow of unfavorable regimes. They always appear as organic demonstrations by a people against a corrupt ruling class, which is reinforced and sometimes manufactured by the mainstream corporate media, but in reality they are organised by foreign NGOs - like in the case of the Centre for Applied Nonviolent Actions and Strategies (CANVAS), a U.S supported Serbian based "revolution consultancy" group, which was operating in Ukraine during 2013-14. The 2000 coup in Serbia, the 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia and the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine are some of the most notorious coups where this technique has been used.

Comment: For a better idea on why the West hates Putin so much, see: 2007: Vladimir Putin exposes the NWO, post speech Q&A

See also: Russian Maidan in St. Petersburg in September

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The Ukraine situation and the mounting costs: When all else fails, blame the Russians

Peter Lavelle
RT Cross Talk
Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:42 UTC
Kiev maidan square
© Unknown
Facing the abyss, Ukraine is running out of options. As winter approaches - with a cratering economy - the regime in Kiev has hinted it may be looking to end the civil war. But that train may have already left the station.

CrossTalking with Joshua Tartakovsky, Dmitry Babich and Jim Dean.


Comment: As is mentioned in the show, when all the schemes of the West fails, whether it be regime change in Syria or in Ukraine, then blame the Russians. The ones that is going to pay for this mess in Ukraine is going to be the West, apart from the Ukrainians, who were led astray by their wishful thinking and of course the Western/Ukrainian media onslaught.

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Eye 2

Rotherham UK: Den of paedophilia covered up by a corrupt system

Randeep Ramesh
The Guardian
Tue, 26 Aug 2014 07:37 UTC

Comment: It needs to be said: the UK has a culture of paedophilia in high places. And it's not the only country. While news of this latest scandal makes the headlines, the high-profile investigation into paedo MPs continues. As Tony Gosling writes for RT, the problem is systemic and inquiries are set up to fail. The child abusers run free. Make no mistake, these are the same sorts of people running western civilization into the ground, fomenting chaos in the Middle East, and demonizing Putin in order to make the way clear for criminal oligarchy and psychopathic license.


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© Ross Parry
Roger Stone, leader of Rotherham council, who has stepped down from his position.
The putrid mess that oozes from the 160 pages of Alexis Jay's report into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham is so thick that one gags rather than read the words.

Children in the town were systematically identified by gangs as vulnerable, seduced with drugs and drink, brainwashed into believing they were in a relationship with an adult and then used for sex, often raped before sometimes being trafficked to nearby cities to work as prostitutes.

The brutal violence that surrounded this depraved process was shocking. Children who refused to acquiesce to ever more macabre demands were doused in petrol, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and told they would be next if they told anyone.

While some of this will be familiar to a British public which has been appalled by the revelations tumbling out of high-profile child abuse cases since 2010, Jay's report lays bare a mephitic hole in Yorkshire.

Over 16 years, she says, a "conservative estimate" is that 1,400 children were sexually exploited in the town. Girls as young as 11 were gang-raped by men.

This level of abuse appears to make Rotherham the nation's child sex exploitation capital. If the town's experience was replicated across the country, England would have 19,000 children criminally abused by gangs every year. The children's commissioner thinks that at the moment the figure is about 2,000.

Comment: See also: Men Who Hate Women: The Franklin Scandal and the Truth About Our Leaders

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Vader

By the company you keep: Washington's top ten favorite terrorists

Calep Maubin
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 29 Aug 2014 06:41 UTC
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Comment: A small sample of world-wide terrorism sponsored and financed by the American government and paid with the precious tax payer's money!


While the US government still claims it is fighting a "War on Terror", it is often forgotten that the US government has a friendly relationship with many terrorist groups around the world. This relationship is not merely historical, but current.

The US government often supports terrorists who are fighting against government which oppose the United States. Many terrorists, who commit all kinds of violent crimes against humanity, are being directly supported by the US government at this time.

Here are ten examples of US government supported terrorists from around the world.
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A display of mercy: Putin calls on Ukraine militia to let out surrounded Kiev troops via a humanitarian corridor


RT
Fri, 29 Aug 2014 06:51 UTC
Ukrainian army soldiers
© Reuters / Maks Levin
File photo. Ukrainian army soldiers from battalion "Aydar"
President Putin has called on self-defense militias in Ukraine to provide Kiev's military units blocked in the east of the country with a safe humanitarian corridor to leave the combat area and "reunite with their families."

"It is clear the militia has achieved a major success in intercepting Kiev's military operation, which represents a grave danger to the population of Donbass and which has already led to the loss of many lives among peaceful residents," the Russian leader said in a statement.

As a result of militias' counter-offense, large numbers of Ukrainian troops - many of whom were taking part in Kiev's so-called anti-terrorist operation "against their will" and "just following orders" - have been surrounded, the President added.

"I call on the militia groups to open a humanitarian corridor for Ukrainian service members who have been surrounded, so as to avoid any needless loss of life, giving them the opportunity to leave the combat area unimpeded and reunite with their families, to return them to their mothers, wives and children, and to quickly provide medical assistance to those who were injured in the course of the military operation," Putin said.

Comment: Putin is doing what he can to stop the senseless killing that the US has goaded the Ukrainian regime into. Despite what the West is saying this is an internal conflict and Putin can only give advice to the militia, but has no authority over them. Putin's call is an encouragement to the militia to show mercy, something that is rare in today's world and something that the US and the West have not shown in their many war adventures over the last 50 years.

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Arrow Down

Churkin: Facts prove that Russian UN helicopter was shot down in South Soudan


ITAR-TASS
Wed, 27 Aug 2014 06:28 UTC
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© EPA/Jalil Rezayee
On Tuesday, August 26, Russia urged the UN Security Council to adopt a statement that would condemn the incident and demand guilty persons be brought to justice

The facts prove that Russia's Mi-8 helicopter crashed in South Sudan was shot down, Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin said on Wednesday.

"All data says the helicopter was shot down," he said.

On Tuesday, August 26, Russia urged the UN Security Council to adopt a statement that would condemn the incident and demand guilty persons be brought to justice, Churkin said.

Earlier in the day, the Russian Foreign Ministry demanded an immediate investigation into the crash of Russia's Mi-8 cargo helicopter in South Sudan.

Comment: Churkin is right to ask for an investigation, given the current climate and the interesting coincidence that the U.S. has had a few troops in that area since 2013:

New dawn for "America's Africa": Obama deploys first contingent of US ground troops to South Sudan

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U.S. is the world's indispenable nation? Germany's Merkel seems less and less sure

Tyler Durden
zerohedge.com
Wed, 27 Aug 2014 05:21 UTC
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© Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
First Russia and China, then UAE, Egypt, and Turkey... and now it appears Germany (following a phone call with Putin) is pulling the rug out from under US hegemony - just as Obama's warmongery ramps up...
  • MERKEL SAYS U.S. CAN'T SOLVE ALL THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS ANYMORE
Which is odd because just yesterday, President Obama (who never lies) stated "The United States is and will remain the one indispensable nation in the world..." adding that "no other nation can do what we do."Perhaps he is wrong?
"Even a superpower can't solve all of the problems alone anymore," German Chancellor Angela Merkel says.
Merkel did not stop there...
  • PUTIN, MERKEL URGE DE-ESCALATION IN UKRAINE, KREMLIN SAYS
  • PUTIN, MERKEL DISCUSSED GAS TRANSIT VIA UKRAINE, KREMLIN SAYS
  • PUTIN INFORMED MERKEL OF NEW EAST UKRAINE AID PLAN: KREMLIN
  • MERKEL URGES HOLLANDE TO CONTINUE REFORMS IN FRANCE
  • MERKEL SAYS HOLLANDE HAS CHANCE TO REVIVE FRENCH ECONOMIC POWER
Seems like she is returning to the offensive from the defensive...

Comment: It's about time Merkel admitted the fact that following the dictates of the U.S. will ultimately damage the European Union and its member states. But is it of any use? In other words, Germany is totally controlled by the U.S. So it's unlikely she'll actually be able to DO anything about it.

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Airplane Paper

There's ZERO proof of a Russian invasion in Ukraine


Moon of Alabama
Thu, 28 Aug 2014 05:12 UTC
russians are coming

Comment: We are not the only ones that see that all this media hype about a "Russian invasion" is nothing but propaganda reminiscent of Iraq's WMDs fabrications. And we know the fate of Iraq and the Iraqis ever since!


The authors of this NYT piece, Ukraine Reports Russian Invasion on a New Front, are not really convincing when presenting these reports by the Ukrainian government as truthful:
The latest incursion, which Ukraine's military said included five armored personnel carriers, was at least the third movement of troops and weapons from Russia across the southeast part of the border this week, further blunting the momentum Ukrainian forces have made in weakening the insurgents in their redoubts of Donetsk and Luhansk farther north. Evidence of a possible turn was seen in the panicky retreat of Ukrainian soldiers on Tuesday from a force they said had come over the Russian border.
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Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for the Ukrainian military in Kiev, said the Russian armored column entered the town of Amvrosiyivka, south of Donetsk, expanding what Western and Ukrainian officials have described as one of the main fronts in a multipronged counteroffensive directed by Russia.
The "momentum" the Ukrainian troops had was never as big as the Ukrainian government had claimed. A few motorized brigades ran through open territory held by few insurgents and when coming to a halt at their primary target were immediately cut off and surrounded. Their morale is bad, their equipment old, ammunition is low and the entire aim of their campaign is dubious. Now even a few weak counterattacks, the "counteroffensive", have them on the run.

Comment: Think back, if you can, to the headlines when you woke up just two days ago.

In case you're having trouble recalling anything from two days ago - thanks in large part to the disorienting effects of having the entire Western media screaming the same Big Fat Lie in unison - here's what you were being told:
"10,000 RUSSIAN TROOPS INVADE UKRAINE!"
Not only was this in no way true, the real story they were trying to drown out were the complete routing of Kiev's forces in the breakaway republics of Novorossiya...

Ukraine on verge of collapse as Kiev forces capitulate: U.S. 'catapults the propaganda' with another desperate 'Russian invasion' ploy

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Quenelle - Golden

Scotland poised to secede from UK, despite London efforts to intimidate voters with currency scare


RT
Fri, 29 Aug 2014 03:58 UTC
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© Reuters / David Cheskin
Better Together leader Alistair Darling (L) and First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond debate over Scottish independence at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow August 25, 2014.
Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz said the anti-Scottish independence campaign is "bluffing" in its scaremongering over the nation's currency. His comments underscore a resounding pre-referendum debate victory for Scotland's pro-independence leader.

Ahead of the televised debate between First Minister Alex Salmond and the pro-UK campaign leader Alistair Darling on Monday night, Stiglitz told an audience at the Edinburgh International Book Festival that the three main UK parties were "bluffing" when they ruled out Scottish National Party (SNP) calls for a post-independence currency union.

All three main parties in Westminster reject the notion of a shared currency union with an independent Scotland. Carwyn Jones, the Labour First Minister of Wales, said he would "strongly oppose" a currency pact.

"For the most part, I think these are bluffs," Stiglitz said. "Whatever the outcome, there's going to be a negotiation and people are going to be looking at what's in the best interests of both parties, and there will be negotiations."

"I have been a little bit shocked at how much of it is based on fear, trying to get anxiety levels up and how little of it has been based on vision," the US economist added, suggesting Scotland could still prosper even if it had to use the pound without a pact or if it established its own currency.

"There are many currency arrangements that can work," he said. "I think this is a lot of to do about nothing."

Stiglitz, a former World Bank chief economist and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to then-US president Bill Clinton, offered Salmond some useful ammunition during the final televised debate of the referendum campaign.

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