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'Please give me a Russian passport': 72 year old Dutchman asks Putin for citizenship


RT
Fri, 08 May 2015 08:29 UTC
Russian passport
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A 72-year-old Dutch citizen has written a letter to Vladimir Putin asking for a Russian passport. He explained his intentions by saying he loves Russia, admires Peter the Great and is tired of anti-Russian propaganda in Europe.

"When I served in the army of the Netherlands, I was brainwashed with the words 'the Russians are coming!'" Gerhard Reyndsen wrote in a letter to Putin, as cited by TASS.

"I said Russia will not come, because they saw a lot of grief and war, they want peace, and Americans are much more dangerous," said Reyndsen, adding that right after that he was dubbed "a communist" by his commander.

"I have always irritated my family, because I thought there was a lot of anti-Soviet propaganda [in Europe]," says the Russian fan.

Reyndsen says he's always taken an interest in Russian history. He knows a lot about the House of Romanov, the imperial dynasty which ruled until the 1917 October Revolution, and Peter the Great, the tsar who reigned at the turn of the 18th century.


Comment: Recently a schoolgirl living in Donetsk, Nastia Koptyeva, wrote a heartfelt letter to the Russian President. More and more ordinary people are recognizing Vladimir Putin not only as a strong World leader, but also a 'man of conscience'. No wonder he has an approval rating (88%), that his international counterparts can only dream of, and that he was named the most influential person in the world by Time Magazine.

Is Putin incorruptible? U.S. insider's view of the Russian president's character and his country's transformation

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Arrow Up

South Sudan humanitarian crisis escalates

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.ru
Fri, 08 May 2015 10:35 UTC
Refugees
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Sudanese refugees set up camps in neighboring countries having fled from violence and waring factions.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has warned this week about the potential humanitarian crisis in South Sudan, where renewed outbreaks of fighting have caused over two hundred thousand people to flee across the border into Ethiopia.

The fighting broke out in South Sudan at the end of 2013 in December, and since then over two hundred thousand people have been forced to flee their homes. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has warned that the number is set to increase.

The UNHCR representative in Gambella, Ethiopia, Alexander Kishara, has stated that registration processes have indicated increasing numbers of refugees crossing the border into Ethiopia, adding that "UNHCR is also working with partners to provide water, sanitation and shelter".

The UNHCR has observed the arrival of around one thousand new refugees per month during the first few months of 2015, increasing sharply to four thousand in the month of April. There are around 190,000 in the area around Gambella and a further 3,000 in Benishangul-Gumuz. Now in early May, the entries at various checkpoints into Gambella region number some ten thousand.


Comment: Sudan has been in a state of conflict since its independence from Britain in 1956. A bloody civil war gripped the nation from 1983 to 2005 resulting in the secession of Southern Sudan. This splitting of the country has cost many lives and created a humanitarian crisis of mammoth proportions. Over four million are internally displaced as a result of years of war and upheaval. Ethiopia is Africa's largest refugee-hosting country with nearly 700,000 refugees from neighbouring countries, including South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia and Eritrea.

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Fire

Iowa using incinerators to cope with chicken casualties of avian flu


RT
Thu, 07 May 2015 22:33 UTC
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© Reuters / Joshua Roberts
Iowa is struggling to dispose of more than 20 million chickens, ducks and turkeys affected by avian flu, as the epidemic spreads. Landfills are reluctant to accept any more birds, prompting authorities to bring in portable incinerators.

Six more outbreaks were discovered Wednesday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases of H5N2 bird flu in northwestern Iowa to 34. Five cases involved commercial chicken farms in Sioux County, while one affected a backyard flock of ducks in O'Brien County.

The Associated Press estimates that 21 million chickens and half a million turkeys will need to be destroyed in 11 Iowa counties, with another 7 million birds in Wisconsin and Minnesota affected as well. The three states have declared an emergency due to the epidemic.

Comment: SOTT Exclusive: Should we be worried about latest outbreak of avian flu viruses?

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Alarm Clock

Modern Music: Promoting pedophilia to adults and sexual debauchery to children

Elliot Overton
Sott.net
Thu, 07 May 2015 23:41 UTC
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Human beings seem to thrive both cognitively and affectively when they are exposed to any number of the infinite combinations of melody, harmony and rhythm that make up a particular piece of what we know as "music". Music has the potential to enrich our lives, to enable us to learn about ourselves and others around us and experience and interact with reality in dynamic and creative ways. Music can have profound and unique effects on our well-being, it can help us cope with the stresses that life brings and can make us feel happier in ourselves, and it can also make our brains happier! But there's a darker side to music.
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California farmers desperate for water, but at what price? O&G industry selling them fracking wastewater

Heather Callaghan
Activist Post
Thu, 07 May 2015 00:00 UTC
toxic, sludge
In the midst of the troublesome California drought, innovation sprouts up, invention being the mother of necessity. But just like the aftermath of the BP oil spill, how often are people allowed to actually embark on saving the day, versus the insulting "solutions" foisted on the world by the very corporations responsible for part of the problem?

It should not then be surprising that companies like Chevron are extending their magnanimous offer of "crop water" in the form of fracking waste chemicals - for a price, of course.

If one didn't know any better, it almost appears that we are systematically being undercut and sickened to death (she said sarcastically). After all, we already use our own baked sewage sludge to fertilize non-organic crops. And no, the treatment does not stop heavy metals, hundreds of chemicals, drug residues and stomach virus that reside on or within the plants. That's why the name "biosolids" was picked for the practice.

Care2 reports that Big Oil has farmers over a barrel, so to speak. To the tune of of 21 million gallons of waste water per day — sold to Kern County for farming for $30 per acre-foot, and potentially damaging the end product - our food. Untreated, untested. They are getting rich, while normally they'd be required to pay for disposal.

Comment: It's bad enough that the fracking poses serious risks to those who live near drilling areas, as it has been found to contaminate groundwater supplies, to be responsible for earthquakes, and produces numerous health hazards. Now everyone will be unwitting guineas pigs as residues of these chemicals will no doubt be in our produce.

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Craigslist car ad ends in death of Illinois college student


Reuters
Thu, 07 May 2015 15:29 UTC
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© FOX 2 NOW
Police found a missing Illinois college student’s sports car in the lot of a Missouri trucking school before discovering his dead body about 400 yards away, authorities say.
A Missouri man has been arrested on suspicion of shooting dead an Illinois college student looking to sell his car to the suspect during a meeting arranged through online classified website Craigslist, police said.

Michael Gordon, a 24-year-old St. Louis resident, was arrested on Tuesday and was being held in a county jail on $1 million bond, Florissant Police Department spokesman Tim Fagen told a news conference late on Wednesday.

The body of Taylor Clark, a civil engineering student at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, according to his Twitter page, was found at the truck driver training center where Gordon worked.

Comment: Take caution when buying and selling of personal goods no matter where one advertises. Meet in a well lit and busy parking area and best to never go alone! There are predators answering ads just for the opportunity to do harm. What a tragic loss of lives.

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Eye 2

Divide and conquer in Garland, Texas - 'The violence sticks with you'

Jamie Stengele
Yahoo News
Thu, 07 May 2015 16:46 UTC
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© Tony Gutierrez
When an outspoken opponent of radical Islam sought to mock Muhammad in Texas, home to one of the nation's largest Islamic communities, local Muslims were encouraged to ignore her, and they did.

No one protested when Pamela Geller's cartoon contest attracted about 200 people to suburban Dallas Sunday, even though some Muslims in Texas were already feeling aggrieved and fearful over growing anti-Islamic sentiment in the state.


Comment: It's not just Texas, either. Anti-Muslim hate crimes are sky-rocketing due to the "War on Terror" propaganda that equates all Muslims with terrorists and fuels a massive military and security industry.


Then, two men with attack rifles drove in from Arizona and opened fire on officers guarding the conference center in Garland. Both were shot dead, an officer was shot in the leg, and from the other side of the world, the Islamic State group made an unproven claim of responsibility.

Comment: The FBI is reaching out to their community for recruitment and monitoring, and though it's understandable the Muslim community would want to present as peaceful an appearance as possible, the Terrorism Industry has no intention of playing nice. See:

  • FBI organizes almost all terror plots in the US
  • The Sting: How the FBI created a terrorist
  • Inside the FBI's terror factory: Manufacturing the War on Terror

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Stock Down

Inflation in Ukraine hits highest level in more than a decade

Laura Mills
Market Watch
Thu, 07 May 2015 16:02 UTC
Ukraine city
© AFP 2015/ Vasily Maximov
Annual inflation in Ukraine hit its highest level in more than a decade in April as a dramatic increase in energy rates drove up consumer prices, the government said Wednesday.

Consumer prices were up 60.9% higher in April from the year before, Ukraine's state statistics agency wrote on its website. There was 14% inflation in the first four months of 2015 alone.

The dramatic increase was largely due to a rise in energy prices: according to the agency, the cost of natural gas rose by more than five times in April, more than doubling total utility costs for households. Food prices increased by 4.4%, slowing from 15.6% in March.

Comment: Too bad those key IMF reforms in Ukraine's government don't translate into kicking the neo-Nazis out. While Ukraine is on the verge of collapse, with 70% of working-age men fleeing to find jobs elsewhere, and neo-Nazi battalions growing at a rapid rate, the Donetsk Republic (that pesky 'eastern conflict') has nationalized its bank for the good of its people. And still the problems are pinned on Russia.

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Eye 1

Delusional! Kiev's 'Joan of Arc' arrested - 19 year old Neo-Nazi involved in murder sprees, burglaries


Sputnik News
Thu, 07 May 2015 13:31 UTC
Zaverukha
© Twitter / Leonid
Zaverukha: Young neo-Nazi and psychopathic darling of the Ukrainian media.
Kiev prosecutors have reported the arrest of 19-year-old Aidar Battalion volunteer Vita Zaverukha, who is suspected of serving as an accomplice in the killing of two Ukrainian police officers and the injury of three more following a botched gas station robbery in Kiev which occurred on May 4, Ukrainian media have reported.

"As part of the investigation of criminal proceedings over an attack on a gas station and the killings of law enforcement officers on the night of May 4 in Kiev, another suspect has been arrested: a 19-year-old resident of Vinnitsa," a statement on the website of the Kiev prosecutor's office reads.

The statement added that Zaverukha has been detained under the criminal code article for an "attempt on the life of an officer of the law."

Comment: History repeats:
Today, the deliberate inversion of historical fact by Western media and officials is so widespread that it is subverting the very foundation of historical reasoning. The principal aim of these distortions of public perception is the conquest of our minds, and corruption of our ability to separate truth from lies, all for the purpose of deluding people into accepting servitude and atrocities.

Restoration of Historical Truth: Russia Won World War II


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Sheriff

There may come a day when cops are automatically assumed to be the bad guys

Karl Denninger
Market Ticker
Wed, 06 May 2015 21:53 UTC
police car
I wonder if it's time for a new song.....
It's unlikely that police officers would turn on each other during a trial, due to the loyalty that typically runs through departments, David A. Harris, a University of Pittsburgh law professor and an expert on racial profiling, told The New York Times.

Jurors are often "inclined to give [police officers] the benefit of the doubt," according to The Times, because behavior "such as beating or even shooting another person" is assumed to be part of a cop's job.

"It's always difficult to get a guilty verdict against a police officer except in the worst and strongest cases," Harris told The Times. "A police officer comes into a courtroom not just presumed to be innocent, but presumed to be the good guy."
That's been true for a long time, but as the number of people who have this sort of experience mount....

Comment: That day can't come soon enough.

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