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Assad speaks out: "Terrorism exported to Middle East from Europe"


RT
Thu, 04 Dec 2014 17:36 UTC
Assad
© Reuters / SANA
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad.
Terrorism is being exported to the Middle East from Europe, especially from France, said Syria's President Bashar Assad in an interview to French media. He also criticized Western states for politically supporting terrorists in the region.

In the ongoing civil war in Syria government forces have been fighting terrorists since the very beginning of the conflict in its third year, said Assad in an interview with Paris Match news magazine given in late November and published on Wednesday.

"Even in the first days of the events, there were martyrs from the army and the police; so, since the first days of this crisis we have been facing terrorism," he said answering a question whether the conflict could have been managed differently with the appearance of the first signs of the March 2011 revolution.

Comment: It's good to finally hear from Assad on what's been going in Syria these last months. Syria's silence has given rise to talk suggesting that the Syrian leadership had given tacit support to the illegal airstrikes, seeing any help in the fight against ISIS as a plus. But Lavrov's meeting with Mu'Allim a week or so ago may have changed that. Now, it looks like Assad is hitting on all the right points and calling out the West for their shameless and psychopathic meddling with Syria's sovereignty.

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The latest developments in Russia: Putin, South Stream, MH17

Patrick Armstrong
Russia Insider
Thu, 04 Dec 2014 17:17 UTC
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Speech

Putin is making his annual speech to parliament today. Again I encourage you all to read what he actually says rather than selections twisted to fit propaganda requirements in the MSM. English. "The agreement between Ukraine and the European Union has been signed and ratified, but the implementation of the provisions regarding trade and economy has been postponed until the end of next year. Doesn't this mean that we were the ones who were actually right?" Well, doesn't it?


Comment: See: SOTT EXCLUSIVE: State of the Planet - Vladimir Putin's 11th address to Russia's Federal Assembly


South Stream

South Stream was a proposed gas line from Russia, under the Black Sea, to come ashore in Bulgaria and serve southern Europe. The southern equivalent of Nord Stream, it would avoid the uncertainty of Ukrainian transit routes. The EU took against it and Bulgaria was pressured to delay or cancel. Brussels thought that Moscow could be bullied. It was wrong: Putin announced the cancellation in Ankara. "If Europe does not want to implement it, then it will not be implemented. We will focus our energy resource flows on other regions of the world". Western governments and media are trying to spin this as a defeat for Russia. "These reports are evidence of pressure mounting on Russia... and reduce Russia's ability to use gas as a tool of coercion". This is nonsense of course. Southern Europe will remain dependent on uncertain shipments of Russian gas passing through Ukraine or on as-yet-unbuilt tankers and port facilities bringing in more expensive and possibly non-existent LNG from the USA. It won't see employment in building the line or transit fees. Some reactions from Bulgarians. The Eurocrats and NATOcrats in Brussels get their Russian gas via Nord Stream. So they will be warm this winter.


Comment: See: SOTT EXCLUSIVE: U.S. jumping for joy over South Stream pipeline closure

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SOTT EXCLUSIVE: State of the Planet - Vladimir Putin's 11th address to Russia's Federal Assembly

Harrison Koehli
Sott.net
Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:43 UTC
putin
© RIA Novosti/Alexander Astafyev
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, delivers the annual Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly in the Kremlin's St. George's Hall.
Following tradition, Vladimir Putin's Annual Address to the Russian Federal Assembly took place at the Kremlin's St. George Hall. Putin spoke for just over an hour to an audience of over one thousand. In terms of quality, subject matter, and punch, it ranks up there with his recent speeches and interviews, including: We're including the complete transcript of his talk below the video. As usual, the published translation is clearer and more accurate than the live translation, so keep that in mind while viewing.

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SOTT EXCLUSIVE: The foreign government running Ukraine gets a thin gloss of "legitimacy"

Aeneas Georg
Sott.net
Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:43 UTC
Since the coup in Ukraine in February 2014, there have been rumours floating around that CIA has so many operatives in Ukraine they have occupied a whole floor of a building in Kiev. This, plus the fact that there are likely several thousand foreign mercenaries fighting for the junta against the people of Donbass, has been a source of bad publicity, especially when such people die in the fighting. But, with the stroke of a pen, Waltzman aka Poroshenko solved this problem by signing a decree making mercenaries and other foreigners instant Ukrainians.
The natives of the US, Georgia and Lithuania were hastily granted Ukrainian citizenship in order to become key ministers in the new government of Ukraine, which was approved by the country's parliament on Tuesday.
Foreigners in Ukrainian goverment
© RIA Novosti / Nikolay Lazarenko
Ukraine has appointed four foreigners to senior government positions. Uncle Sam is now better positioned to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.
It was claimed that there were not enough qualified citizens in Ukraine to fill the governmental positions in a country of 40 million! If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you. The problem lies instead in the fact that
  • There are not enough qualified fascists to fill the positions. The ultra-right-wing Svoboda party polled 10.44% in 2012.
  • Perhaps no one is willing to stick their neck out and take responsibility for ever harsher austerity measures and privatization schemes. The Ukrainians have a habit of trashing their politicians -- literally.
  • Further, a million people associated with the previous Yanukovych government are ineligible, having been purged under Ukraine's 'lustration' law.
  • The CIA wanted to have their own people in the government.
  • Those qualified might not have been subservient enough or might have had doubts about the benefits of aligning with the EU and the US.
There might well be other reasons not mentioned and it is likely a mix of the above.
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UK: West Midlands police teargas and 'assault' Warwick university students protesting for tuition fee rise


RT
Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:09 UTC
Warwick police assault-3
© YT/Warwick Free-Ed
A student protest at Warwick University against soaring tuition fees was broken up by police and security guards using tear gas and significant force. Protesters were threatened with a taser, pushed to the ground and rammed against a wall, activists say.

The protest, organized by Warwick For Free Education, occurred on Wednesday as part of a nationwide chain of student demonstrations coordinated by the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts.

The students had organized a peaceful sit-in at the university's Senate House in protest at rising fees for higher education that have been introduced under PM David Cameron's government.

A spokesman for Warwick University said university security guards, who were monitoring the protest, were subjected to a "shocking and unprovoked act of violence," which prompted them to call for a police presence. But the spokesman's claims were contradicted by students who insisted the protest was quiet and peaceful.
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Navy's shower video scandal: Pioneering female submariners secretly filmed in bathroom


RT
Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:10 UTC
submarine
© wikipedia.org
USS Wyoming
At least three US female Navy officers, among the first to serve on a submarine as part of integration reform, have for a year been secretly filmed in the shower, Navy officials admit. An investigation into alleged criminal activity has been launched.

The videos were allegedly made and distributed among senior Navy officers by a 24-year-old male second class petty officer, the Navy Times reported.

The women in the videos were serving on the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine Wyoming, home-ported in Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, Georgia.

An officer on another sub who received a copy of the videos reported about them to his superiors, according to a Navy Times source.

Comment: These women may be under the illusion that becoming part of the military gives them some legitimate power, respect, and authority. They couldn't be more wrong. They are still treated as objects.

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Heart - Black

Blaming the victim: Congressman says Eric Garner's death is his own fault for being fat

Cassius Methyl
TheAntiMedia
Thu, 04 Dec 2014 18:38 UTC
Congressman Peter King (R-NY) appeared on CNN on Wednesday night as determined protestors filled the streets of NYC and cities across America to take a stand against the police killing innocent people with impunity.

The Congressman disrespectfully and coldly blamed the unarmed man's death on his weight.

He said "If he had not had asthma, and a heart condition, and was so obese, he would not have died from this."

An article from Think Progress says the congressman, "delivered an extended defense of the police killing of Eric Garner. King said that the officer, who employed an illegal chokehold to bring Garner down, was just doing his job. Ultimately, King pins says Garner was actually responsible for his own death."
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SOTT EXCLUSIVE: Anti-terror operation in Chechnya: 9 militants dead, 10 police

Harrison Koehli
Sott.net
Thu, 04 Dec 2014 21:15 UTC
press house
© RIA Novosti/Said Tsarnaev
The Press House in Grozny, where law enforcement of the Chechen Republic conducted counter-terrorist operation.
Just two days after Putin's announcement of the cancellation of the South Stream project and the beefed up relations with Turkey that will replace what could have been a very good thing for Europe, Chechnya's capital, Grozny, was the site of an encounter between police and members of one of the country's major terrorist groups. The terrorists were traveling in three cars when they were stopped at a checkpoint outside Grozny just after midnight. They opened fire, killing the police, then entered the city and occupied the Press House building in the city center (and possibly others - the video footage and photos show more than one on fire).

Chechen special forces were then called in, who surrounded the occupied building(s) and killed the 10 militants. In all, Chechen authorities are reporting 10 police killed and 28 wounded in the operation.

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Finally some American media print the truth about Washington's and NATO's involvement in Ukraine!


Patrick L. Smith
Thu, 04 Dec 2014 23:03 UTC

Comment: We too gloat along with Patrick Smith, though he fails to mention the work of SOTT.net, which from the very beginning of the U.S./NATO coup d'état in Ukraine, saw what was going on and continually spelled it out.



NATO was the aggressor and got Ukraine wrong. Many months later, the media has eventually figured out the truth
Putin
© AP/Mark Lennihan/Photo montage by Salon
Well, well, well. Gloating is unseemly, especially in public, but give me this one, will you?

It has been a long and lonely winter defending the true version of events in Ukraine, but here comes the sun. We now have open acknowledgment in high places that Washington is indeed responsible for this mess, the prime mover, the "aggressor," and finally this term is applied where it belongs. NATO, once again, is revealed as causing vastly more trouble than it has ever prevented.

Washington, it is now openly stated, has been wrong, wrong, wrong all along. The commentaries to be noted do not take on the media, but I will, and in language I use advisedly. With a few exceptions they are proven liars, liars, liars - not only conveying the official version of events but willfully elaborating on it off their own bats.

Memo to the New York Times' Moscow bureau: Vicky Nuland, infamous now for desiring sex with the European Union, has just FedExed little gold stars you can affix to your foreheads, one for each of you. Wear them with pride for you will surely fight another day, having learned nothing, and ignore all ridicule. If it gets too embarrassing, tell people they have something to do with the holidays.

O.K., gloat concluded. To the business at hand.

We have had, in the last little while, significant analyses of the Ukraine crisis, each employing that method the State Department finds deadly: historical perspective. In a lengthy interview with Der Spiegel, the German newsmagazine, none other than Henry Kissinger takes Washington carefully but mercilessly to task. "Does one achieve a world order through chaos or through insight?" Dr. K. asks.

Comment: As SOTT.net's Harrison Koehli speculated recently:
So what's going on here? Are some in the Western elite starting to see that they're fighting an unwinnable fight against Putin? For a war criminal psychopath like Henry Kissinger to come out and say something that approaches being more than 50% truth, something's gotta be up. Or have Plans A (goad Russia into open military conflict) and B (bring Russia to its knees economically and try to brew up internal dissent among Russia's fifth column) failed, and the Western pathocrats are merely regrouping and coming up with Plan C?


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Bad Guys

More reasons to manipulate the oil market - Western leverage over Iran during nuclear talks

Jay Solomon
Wall Street Journal
Thu, 04 Dec 2014 17:05 UTC
Image
© Associated Press / Ronald Zak
Iran’s Bijan Namdar Zangeneh, Minister of Petroleum, speaks to journalists prior to a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on June 11, 2014.
A wild card in the seven months of extended negotiations between the U.S. and Iran over its nuclear program is the continuing plunge in global oil prices and its impact on Tehran's finances.

U.S. and European officials said they had a growing sense earlier this year that Tehran and its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei believed they were weathering the West's international sanctions - despite the halving of Iranian oil exports since 2012, largely driven by a European embargo.

Under an interim agreement reached with the West a year ago, Iran has been receiving $700 million in monthly payments from oil revenues frozen in overseas accounts.

Comment: For a better perspective of these talks, check out P5 + 1 meetings in Vienna over Iran's nukes: Much ado about nothing:
Naturally, Iran wants to reach a deal by the deadline, not wishing to prolong negotiations. After all, it has been on the receiving end of the U.S. and Israel's stupidity-cudgel for over 10 years. Just where do the accusations come from that Iran has a nuclear weapons program, anyway?

The original evidence, passed on to the IAEA by the U.S., was ignored on account of its obviously dubious nature and provenance. It was only after two documents 'came to light' that the anti-Iran campaign went into high gear, despite the fact that a U.S. National Intelligence Estimate concluded that Iran had stopped weapons research in 2003 and by 2008, had resolved all concerns brought up by the IAEA as regards its nuclear program. Those two documents were subsequently exposed as having been forged by the Israelis. The cold, hard reality here is that there has never been ANY conclusive evidence that Iran has sought to develop a nuclear weapon, as investigative journalist Gareth Porter makes clear in his book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare.


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