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Saker report: Dark clouds over Novorussia as Ukraine appoints war criminal as minister of war

The Saker
Vineyard of the Saker
Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:46 UTC
Stepan Poltorak
© UnknownStepan Poltorak
Things decidedly do not look good right now. Poroshenko has replaced that clown Geletei with a bona fide war criminal, Col. Gen. Stepan Poltorak, a far more dangerous and evil character who used to be the commander-in-chief of the junta's death squads (aka "national guard").

The fact that Poroshenko would appoint such an odious figure indicates that he is trying to appease the neo-Nazis, who are demanding a full resumption of hostilities. Interestingly, just like Geletei,Poltorak is not a military man but a person who made his career in the Ministry of Internal Affairs from where he was picked to head the notorious "national guard".

On the same day, Pavel Gubarev, the "people's governor" of Donetsk was the victim of an attack on his vehicle. Even though he was not hit by bullets, he has suffered very serious head trauma as a result of the crash of his car. He is now in a hospital in Russia in very serious condition.
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Dollar Gold

Stolen billions set aside for post-Saddam Iraq found in Lebanese bunker

Rory Carroll
The Guardian, UK
Sun, 12 Oct 2014 16:47 UTC
Stuart Bowen, who investigated corruption in Iraq, says US and Iraqi governments ignored appeals to recover money

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© Photograph: EPAPaul Bremer and Iraqi deputy prime minister Barham Saleh in 2004. Bremer defended the CPA’s handling of the funds.
More than $1bn earmarked for the reconstruction of Iraq was stolen and spirited to a bunker in Lebanon as the American and Iraqi governments ignored appeals to recover the money, it has been claimed. Stuart Bowen, a former special inspector general who investigated corruption and waste in Iraq, said the stash accounted for a significant chunk of the huge sums which vanished during the chaotic months following the 2003 US-led invasion.

Bowen's team discovered that $1.2bn to $1.6bn was moved to a bunker in rural Lebanon for safe keeping - and then pleaded in vain for Baghdad and Washington to act, according to James Risen, a journalist who interviewed Bowen for a book, Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War, to be published this week.

"Billions of dollars have been taken out of Iraq over the last 10 years illegally. In this investigation, we thought we were on the track for some of that lost money. It's disappointing to me personally that we were unable to close this case, for reasons beyond our control," Bowen said in an excerpt from the book published by the New York Times on Sunday.

The disclosure of the bunker shines a light on one of the occupation's murkier puzzles: the fate of pallets of shrink-wrapped $100 bills which the Bush administration loaded on to Air Force C-17 transport planes in order to prop up the occupation of post-Saddam Hussein Iraq. About $12bn to $14bn was sent in the airlift and another $5bn via electronic transfer. Bowen, a Texan friend of the president, was appointed in 2004 to investigate reports of corruption and waste in Iraq. He spent close to a decade chasing leads, until his office closed last year.
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Ukrainian conscripts fed up: National Guard troops protest outside presidential office in Kiev


RT
Mon, 13 Oct 2014 19:59 UTC
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© Reuters / Valentyn OgirenkoConscripts of the National Guard of Ukraine gather near the presidential administration headquarters to demand their demobilization in Kiev, October 13, 2014
Ukrainian National Guard troops are protesting outside the presidential administration office in Kiev as they demand demobilization. They are refusing to return to their barracks outside the capital.

About 200 soldiers have surrounded the building claiming they have served six months longer than their contracts stipulated.

Soldiers are chanting, "Demobilization!" and, "All for one and one for all."

They say they are not going to leave until authorities answer their questions, key amongst them being when they will be able to return home.

Members of the presidential administration, however, have demanded that the soldiers immediately return to their military barracks.

"Soldiers, come on, return to [your] military units, we'll figure this out there," one of the officials told the protesters, according to TASS.

Comment: The war in Ukraine does not appear to be ending anytime soon. Since the five-month-long conflict in eastern Ukraine officially came to an end on September 5, both sides have been accusing one another of violating the ceasefire pact. And with the arrival of Victoria Nuland in Kiev, Poroshenko's war rhetoric has become more shrill:

Escalation of war in Ukraine? Victoria Nuland arrives in Kiev

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Bizarro Earth

Turning a blind eye to Israel's crimes against humanity while pulling the Holocaust card

William Hanna
Dissident Voice
Mon, 13 Oct 2014 23:22 UTC
media
As a consequence of the corporate mass media's blackout of the news about Israeli crimes against humanity; as a consequence of the International Criminal Court's cowardly disregard of crimes committed by Israeli leaders while instead charging Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta with crimes against humanity; and as a consequence of the West's Israeli orchestrated preoccupation with the necessity to wage war against ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) - which came into being with covert encouragement and assistance from the real axis of evil of the U.S., Israel, and Saudi Arabia - Israel's latest barbaric assault euphemistically codenamed Operation Protective Edge but in reality intended to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people, has been quietly and quickly forgotten.

Collective corporate mass media amnesia comes as no surprise considering that in the U.S. alone 90% of what Americans read, watch and listen to is controlled by just six corporations whose combined revenue in 2010 was $275.9 billion. Furthermore, all six of those corporations like for example Rupert Murdoch's [not the actual] News Corp (Fox News, Wall Street Journal, and New York Post) have Israeli aligned global news tentacles that distort, mislead, and even suppress the true facts. Mass media bias towards Israel is even prevalent at the supposedly dispassionate and honest taxpayer funded BBC where coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires finding "a balance" that is in actual fact strongly tilted towards Israel.

Comment: See also:

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Analysis of emperor Obama's old new clothes - the US energy wars and shale gas scams

Vera Graziadei
veragraziadei.wordpress.com
Mon, 13 Oct 2014 21:59 UTC
The naked emperor
It really is a pity that children are not allowed to U.N. meetings, so that during Obama's address to the General Assembly last week someone could have shouted out: "The King is naked!". For even though in its intention his speech was supposed to be a finely-weaved cloth depicting utopian motifs of US-led knights in shining UN armour fighting for human progress, democracy, peace and prosperity around the globe, there were so many holes in this spin-doctor-fabricated material, that the bare flesh of the real US Foreign policy agendas was impossible to conceal.

Everyone present along with the loyal mainstream media carried on with the pretence, purposefully ignoring faulty lines and gaping holes, while praising the smoothness of the yarn (The Guardian: "Obama sought to strike a delicate balance at the UNGA") and spotlighting new haute-couture patterns of justifying war (BBC: "The phrase that will linger is "the network of death") soon to be seen in all high-street media narratives.

Conveniently, most MSM journalists chose to ignore the ironic twists in the weaving of Obama's advisors: "Hundreds of millions of human beings have been freed from the prison of poverty" (yes, except 67% of Detroit families and 46.5 million people in the whole of the US); "I often tell young people in the United States that this is the best time in human history to be born (the U.S. infant mortality rate is fourth highest among 29 of the world's most developed nations), for you are more likely than ever before to be literate (32 million adults in the U.S. can't read. That's 14 percent of the population), to be healthy (US has the most-expensive and least effective health-care system compared with 10 other western, leading industrialised nations), and to be free to pursue your dreams (The American Myth of Social Mobility)."
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Michelle Obama says 'I'm losing it' after muItiple flubs at Iowa rally

Ben Wolfgang
The Washington Times
Sat, 11 Oct 2014 00:00 UTC
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© AP Photo/The Des Moines Register, Kelsey KremerFirst Lady of the United States Michelle Obama speaks to the crowd at the Iowa Votes Rally on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014 at the Drake Fieldhouse in Des Moines. Obama was there to stump for U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Braley.
First lady Michelle Obama on Friday night urged Democrats to send "Bruce Bailey" to the U.S. Senate in November, repeatedly botching the name of the party's candidate in Iowa before eventually being corrected by the audience.

The Democrat running to fill retiring Sen. Tom Harkin's Iowa seat is Bruce Braley.

Mrs. Obama made her remarks at a rally at Drake University in Des Moines. She flubbed Mr. Braley's name from the outset.

"Thank you guys so much! I am beyond thrilled to be here today to support your next senator from Iowa, our friend, Bruce Bailey. Man, I'm so honored to be here," she said.

The first lady repeated the mistake several times throughout her speech. She also referred to Mr. Braley - who has served in the House since 2007 - as a "Marine Corps veteran."
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House

Israel to build 600 new homes in E. Jerusalem earns UN's anger


RT
Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:52 UTC
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© www.a-w-i-p.comIsraeli settlement plans on other people's land.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed his frustration at Israel's settlement program, which plans 600 new homes in East Jerusalem. The new units are set to expand four existing settlements in the Palestinian city.

"I once again strongly condemn the continued settlement activity by Israel," the UN chief told journalists after a meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in Ramallah.

The Israeli government also plans to seize one square kilometer of farmland near Bethlehem, "intended for the construction of settlement units, parks, a synagogue and agricultural roads," according to a report by the Palestinian news agency WAFA.

It is possible to appeal the seizure within a period of two months, in line with Israel's tax law. The new construction plans come shortly after last month's announcement of the most significant construction plan in the past several decades - the idea of building more than 2,500 homes in the area with a majority Arab population.

Ban Ki-moon
© www.telesurtv.netU.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
Like Ban, the EU has joined the international chorus of condemnation, strongly suggesting that such plans threaten to upset a very fragile peace with the Palestinians.

The UN chief also urged the two sides to return to the negotiating table.

"I urge Palestinians to show courage and continue engaging in the... peace process... [and] Israelis to do the same," Ban warned, adding, "Time is not on the side of peace. We need to act immediately to prevent a deepening of an already unsustainable status quo."

Comment: Destabilization and goading Palestine to anger is status quo for Netanyahu. Israel's plan is to complete a Jewish "ring" around Palestinian East Jerusalem and disconnect the north of the West Bank from its south, eliminating the only remaining corridor between the large Palestinian cities in the West Bank. Israel is adept at turning the deaf ear to condemnation and public opinion. In fact, it has perfected the attribute - over four decades - of "third-fingering" world criticism of its atrocities and international illegalities.

READ MORE: Abbas demands Israelis stop occupation, ghettoization of Palestine

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Bizarro Earth

Michel Chossudovsky: The Globalization of War

Michel Chossudovsky
GlobalResearchTV
Sun, 12 Oct 2014 00:00 UTC

The world is at a dangerous crossroads. The United States and its allies have launched a military adventure which threatens the future of humanity.

Major military and covert intelligence operations are being undertaken simultaneously in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia and the Far East. The US military agenda combines both major theater operations as well as covert actions geared towards destabilizing sovereign states.

The "Communist threat" of The Cold War era has been replaced by the worldwide threat of "Islamic terrorism". Whereas Russia and China have become capitalist "free market" economies, a first strike pre-emptive nuclear attack is nonetheless contemplated.

Ironically, China and Russia are no longer considered to be "a threat to capitalism". Quite the opposite. What is at stake is economic and financial rivalry between competing capitalist powers. The China-Russia alliance under the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) constitutes a "competing capitalist block" which undermines U.S. economic hegemony.
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Stock Up

Iran and Russia to establish joint bank for bilateral trade and to bypass sanctions


PressTV
Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:08 UTC
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© PressTVIran’s President Hassan Rouhani with Russian President Vladimir Putin
Iran and Russia plan to establish a joint bank as an effort to multiply bilateral trade and bypass sanctions on the Islamic Republic's banking sector.

Head of the Iran-Russia Joint Chamber of Commerce Asadollah Asgaroladi said that Tehran and Moscow are studying the possibilities of opening a new chapter in trade relations that could break the domination of Western currencies over bilateral exchanges.

"Since Russian banks fear the implications of working with Iran due to sanctions, we want to establish the joint Iran-Russia bank with the help of our central banks and private sectors," Asgaroladi said.

"Such a bank would be able to exchange money between the two sides using rials and rubles and put aside dollars, euros and pounds," he added.

Unilateral sanctions imposed on Iran's banking sector by the US and the European Union over Tehran's nuclear energy program and the recent Western bans against Russia over Ukraine have prompted the two countries' trade officials to boost economic cooperation.

Comment: Here is yet another example of US overstepping its bounds. Instead of isolating countries it has had the opposite effect. The psychopaths drive for power and control blinds them with wishful thinking and in the end perpetuates their own downward spiral.

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Mastercard to comply with Russian payment system


RT
Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:09 UTC
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© Reuters / Jonathan Bainbridge
The MasterCard international payment system will continue operating in Russia and comply with the new rules set out by the Central Bank of Russia, CEO Ajay Banga has said.

"We have intentions to remain in Russia," TASS quotes Ajay Banga the President and Chief Executive of MasterCard.

"My approach is that we will follow the new rules. The law requires a partnership with the Central Bank of Russia. We think, this is reasonable for Russia," he said.

However, the MasterCard chief said the firm won't be servicing salary cards belonging to the blacklisted Russian banks. He said he couldn't influence the sanctions imposed against the country and needed to "react to the events."
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