Punchline of the month...
KTUU: Alaska Petition for Secession Reaches 10K Signatures
A petition to the Obama
administration for the secession of Alaska back to Russia has gathered
more than 10,000 signatures in three days.
In the midst of international crisis such as we now find in the Ukraine and Crimea, one must keep in focus the questionable circumstances from which the crisis has been launched. To repeat then the Aangirfan post (being updated) which we included in February's headlines...
'NATO TROOPS SHOT BOTH SIDES IN UKRAINE' - REPORT
...as Russia (or Russia-aligned unit of Ukrainian SBU) scores another intercept of diplomatic communications...
RT: Kiev snipers hired by Maidan leaders - leaked EU's Ashton phone tape
“There is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovich, but it was somebody from the new coalition,” Urmas Paet said during the conversation.
“I think we do want to investigate. I mean, I didn’t pick that up, that’s interesting. Gosh,” Ashton answered.
Mercenaries took part in Maidan violence – Ex-Ukraine security chief
LaRouchePAC: Russia Points to the Ukraine Nazi Parubiy's Responsibility for the Snipers Who Killed Men on Both Sides on the Maidan
We should add that there is an alternate conspiracy theory, that the Ukrainian coup was staged not by Western operatives, but by the Russians. There may be something to be said for this scenario in the latter stages of the coup, when Yanukovich abruptly stood down and fled the country after a compromise agreement had been reached. It is interesting to note however the eagerness with which this conspiracy theory is embraced not only by the still Soviet-phobic right (e.g. Joel Skousen 's World Affairs Brief), but by such a mainstream site that would in the same breath scoff at any suggestion that Western intelligence would play such dirty tricks. A case in point: Ann Applebaum of the Washington Post so speculates in...
Slate: Thinking Provocatively
Factors of geopolitical materialism to be considered...
Al Monitor: Crimea crisis may end $23 billion pipeline project
Question:
Why is Turkey buying more gas than it needs from Iran?
Answer:
ZeroHedge: It Begins - Gazprom Warns European Gas "Supply Disruptions" Possible
Disruptions...?
EnglishRussia: Largest Oil Refinery In Europe Is On Fire
Translating from the Russian site BK News Omsk (March 4)...
Seemorerocks: China has threatened to require payment of U.S. debt if Americans put pressure on Russia
China once again acted as a formidable ally of Russia and openly sided with Vladimir Putin's scandalous Ukrainian question. As it became known today, Chinese authorities are ready to use the right of "veto" any decision of UN Security Council directed against Russia. Moreover, China masterfully chilled "geopolitical ambitions" of the U.S. requirement to repay their debt obligations in gold.
The threat is effective enough, given the fact that the gold reserves of Americans do not cover debt obligations.
As reported by vesti.ru, China's leaders have already held talks with Turkey and convinced her not to let NATO ships through the Bosporus Strait...
We shall see about that...
RT (March 7): Navy destroyer USS Truxtun crosses Dardanelles en route to Black Sea
The Dardanelles is a narrow stretch of water in Turkey that separates Europe and Asia. The Truxton still has to pass through the Bosphorus Straights in Istanbul before it reaches the Black Sea...
NOSINT (March 10): Russia ‘Welcomes’ the US Destroyer Truxtun, by Moving Bastion Anti-Ship Missiles to Crimea
AFP (March 14): Russia says intercepted US drone over Crimea - arms group
ITAR/TASS (March 15): Source of interference in Russian satellite work is detected
Appropriate services have detected the exact location of the source in Ukraine’s territory...
RT (March 16): Putin - Crimeans expressed their will in full accordance with intl law, UN Charter
March 17: Putin signs order to recognize Crimea as a sovereign independent state
March 18: Treaty to accept Crimea, Sevastopol to Russian Federation signed
Claims and counterclaims of legality...
PressTV: Ron Paul defends Putin over Crimea referendum
DW: Bound by treaty - Russia, Ukraine and Crimea
The above cites the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) and quotes: the participating states agree to "refrain from any intervention, direct or indirect, in the internal or external affairs" of another participating state...
This then would put EU nations in violation of the treaty...
EUReferendum: Ukraine: they catch up - eventually
...what is emerging is the degree to which the EU has been meddling in the internal politics of Ukraine, not least through the sinister-sounding "Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum". Rampantly pro-EU, the Ukraine "national platform" was established on 29 January 2011 at its founding conference in Kiev.
This organisation has provided an open site for a multiplicity of NGOs, specifically directed at "discussions, consultations, information activities in the implementation framework of the Eastern Partnership policy". Components of this Forum have been funded by the EU, and by other agencies, including funding from the Swedish government...
Such meddling in internal affairs could also unintentionally put the pro-EU activists in the sights of Obama's Executive Order - Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine
Global Research: R.I.P. Freedom of Speech? Obama Bans Critics of Ukraine Coup From Entering U.S.
The
executive order suspends “entry into the United States, as immigrants
or nonimmigrants, of such persons” who fulfil the following criteria;
Yanukovich was, after all, democratically elected, only to be removed from office by unconstitutional means. The western governments and their respective puppet media are somehow blind-sighted to these basic facts. They are moreover strangely dismissive over concerns about the party that has enjoyed substantial gains as a result of the coup...“[A]ny person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State:(i) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have engaged in, directly or indirectly, any of the following:(A) actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions in Ukraine.
Searchlight Magazine: The old and new European friends of Ukraine’s far-right Svoboda party
NYTimes downplays these elements as marginal and moderating...
Recall
how the chancellorship was expected to tame Hitler? After several years
of an austere IMF regimen, we shall see how marginal and moderate the
likes of Yarosh and Tyanibok are, along with others ascendent on the
right...
RT: 'I'll hang you by the balls and have you f***ed' – Ukrainian presidential hopeful abducts pro-Russian MP
NYTimes downplays these elements as marginal and moderating...
RT: 'I'll hang you by the balls and have you f***ed' – Ukrainian presidential hopeful abducts pro-Russian MP
Ukraine's 'night of the long knives'?...
Murderous Ukrainian ultra-nationalist dead – after 2 decades of violent thuggery
Obama and the "Responsibility to Protect" banshees of his administration (Rice, Power, Nuland) really have a way of picking their "freedom fighters" - first it was "Al KKKaeda" of the Islamic Maghreb, and now the Julius Streichers of Western Ukraine...
France24 (Jan. 2012): Ukrainian newspaper depicts Africans and Arabs as monkeys groping woman
Is Obama a secret Scientologist as well?...
Dallas blog: Soros Hires Scientologist to Conquer Ukraine
Now drink your IMF kool-aid...
Forbes: Ukraine Welcomes IMF Austerity Regime
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Elsewhere around the world...
Have other possibly military and/or terrorist operations perhaps gone hot in another theater? - speculations run the gamut...
Question-mark headlines: MH 370 DEW'd?
Rense (Yoichi Shimatsu): Is MH370 The Latest Casualty Of The Pentagon's Pivot To Asia?
A Tiny Microchip Was The Likely Motive For Pentagon Hijack Of MH370
Intellihub: Malaysian airliner may have been commandeered and taken to secret Coco Island base — New info reveals plane flew 4-hours after transponder was deactivated
Reuters: Venezuela breaks ties with Panama over "conspiracy"
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Three years after the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns, the disaster continues; in the air...
...and water...
The U.S. is having its share of nuclear mishaps; at a nuclear waste dump in New Mexico...
ENENews: WIPP Expert: Nuclear waste is getting out above ground — Plutonium / Americium found in “every single worker” on site when leak began — New Mexico officials ‘totally unsatisfied’ with lack of info from Feds — “We don’t know how far away it’s gone” — Continuing threat for long time to come
...at the Hanford, Washington site...
CNN: “Horrible medical mystery… alarming rate of birth defects” in Washington — Babies missing parts of brain, skull — Mother outraged at gov’t — Nurse: “It’s very scary… absolutely something going on” — Cluster surrounds most polluted US nuclear site, yet never mentioned by media or officials
...and just upstream of Hanford...
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Spook news...
Intelligence Online: Brennan obtains Qimch's head
C-Span: John Brennan - National Security and Intelligence
Spring is here, the snow is melting...
The Hindu: Snowden praises Obama's NSA reform proposal
Cryptome: Skype and Crypto Promoted by Snowden a Ploy?
WaPo: NSA surveillance program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls
OffNow: Utah Senate passes bill to ban warrantless data, 28-0
Who will turn off Palantir?...
National Business Review (New Zealand): Are Palantir Spooks?
MIT Technology Review: Spinoffs from Spyland
On journalist spinoffs from spyland...
Cannonfire: Who is John Miller?
A CIA spook replaces the FBI spook at CBS...
The continuing fall from grace of Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and other "adversarial journalists" coming under the patronage of Pierre Omidyar...
With the likes of Peter Thiel backing Pando, however, we anticipate that in three or four years time - should we be looking at a President Rand Paul, for instance - that the tables shall be completely turned on the above story: "Revealed - Visitor logs show full extent of Peter Thiel’s cozy White House ties"
But for now, Glenn Greenwald is everybody's favorite punching bag...
Counterpunch (Doug Valentine): Brother, Can You Spare a Billion? Glenn Greenwald and the Myth of Income Inequality
Even the CIA house organ gives him some scolding...
Washington Post: Glenn Greenwald, PandoDaily tussle over Ukraine, editorial independence
As his minions defend him with the Internet equivalent of obscene graffiti in the middle-school lavatory...
Rancid Honeytrap: The Friends of Glenn
We tried to offer some friendly advice: our comment with Greenwald's response followed by our reply in suggesting that he ditch "Moneybags" Omidyar and take the reader-funded route in....
The//Intercept: On the Meaning of Journalistic Independence
Should the following give "0ivae" pause? From the city that gave us the pseudonymous Silence Dogood, Busy Body, Anthony Afterwit and Alice Addertongue no less...
CBSPhilly: Philadelphia Judge Issues Ruling That Could Give Anonymous Online Commenters Second Thoughts
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Police state news...
Defense One: How the NSA Can Use Metadata to Predict Your Personality
Blacklisted News: Big Brother Surveillance – It Is Not Just For Governments Anymore
CBS 60 Minutes: The Data Brokers - Selling your personal information
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Miscellania...
Naval Research Labs: Solar Power When It's Raining: NRL Builds Space Satellite Module
Pakistan Defence: US scientists realise Kalam's vision of capturing solar power from space
Presently, however, the US cannot realize any of its space-faring visions without a little help from its friends...
Crucial Radar Outage Scrubs US National Security and SpaceX Launches for Several Weeks from Cape Canaveral
Aviation Week: U.S., Russian Soyuz Crew Carries Out Belated Docking With International Space Station
Washington Beacon: U.S. Electric Grid ‘Inherently Vulnerable’ to Sabotage
NYPost: Rash of finance-pro suicides baffles experts
Newsweek: The Face Behind Bitcoin
Reuters: Man called Bitcoin's father denies ties, leads LA car chase
Cryptogon: Barrett Brown Faces 100 Years in Prison for Posting Hyperlink to Site Containing Hacked Material in Chat Room -Update: Charges Related to Publishing URL Dropped
Cryptome: Massive Twitter Botnet
Veterans Today editor Gordon Duff admits that 30% of what is on VT is "patently false". We'll wager that the following is in that 30%...
Rense (Yoichi Shimatsu): Is MH370 The Latest Casualty Of The Pentagon's Pivot To Asia?
A Tiny Microchip Was The Likely Motive For Pentagon Hijack Of MH370
Intellihub: Malaysian airliner may have been commandeered and taken to secret Coco Island base — New info reveals plane flew 4-hours after transponder was deactivated
The Truth Seeker: Are The Israelis Planning Another 9-11 Using the Missing Boeing 777?
Mediaite: Rupert Murdoch - Maybe Malaysian Airliner ‘Hidden’ in Pakistan, ‘Like Bin Laden’
Lost in a sea of disinfo...
Willyloman: Another Lie from “unnamed sources” Exposed - No Left Turn Plotted in ACARS Data Transmission – “This was not true”
Great Game India: MH370 Mystery – Suspicious Cargo Destroyed in a Massive Explosion near 1945 Nuclear Bomb Test Site
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It's not just the Ukrainians and their EU/US collaborators who have had their communications broadcast of late; the Turkish government has been getting it from all sides as well...
Syrian Free Press: Turkish plots - “Start a False Flag War with Syria”, the intercepted conversation between key Turkish military and political leaders that Erdogan wanted banned ~ (Video+Text Eng. trans.)
Al Monitor: Israeli killing of judge at border provokes backlash in Jordan
Wayne Madsen pithy comment on.... Ha'aretz: The Al Qaeda-Israeli alliance is bared for all the world to see: Syrian rebels offer to cede Golan Heights to Israel in return for Israeli military support. This Al Qaeda-Saudi-Israeli alliance brought about 9/11.
On the Saudi/Qaeda side of that alliance, the push to release the redacted portion of the congressional 9/11 report continues...
LaRouchePAC: 'Declassify the 28 Pages' Press Conference · Interview with Terry Strada
As Obama pays the Saudis a visit...
Intelligence Online: Predator drones for Mohammed bin Nayef
Al Ahram: Libya steps further into chaos
Reuters: Libya key source for illicit arms, fueling conflicts - U.N. envoy
VOA: Tanker With Libyan 'Rebel' Oil Heads to Sea
The new Barbary pirates...
Lost in a sea of disinfo...
Willyloman: Another Lie from “unnamed sources” Exposed - No Left Turn Plotted in ACARS Data Transmission – “This was not true”
Great Game India: MH370 Mystery – Suspicious Cargo Destroyed in a Massive Explosion near 1945 Nuclear Bomb Test Site
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It's not just the Ukrainians and their EU/US collaborators who have had their communications broadcast of late; the Turkish government has been getting it from all sides as well...
Syrian Free Press: Turkish plots - “Start a False Flag War with Syria”, the intercepted conversation between key Turkish military and political leaders that Erdogan wanted banned ~ (Video+Text Eng. trans.)
World Bulletin: Turkish wiretappers had 'external support', says minister
Boiling Frogs Post: Turkish Power Struggle Impedes NATO’s Campaign in Syria
Erdogan's AKP party wins local elections as opposition braces...
Hurriyet Daily: ‘This is only the beginning,’ CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu says, warns of ‘witch-hunt’
Jerusalem Post: Foreign Ministry goes on strike, all Israel's embassies and consulates abroad to close
Boiling Frogs Post: Turkish Power Struggle Impedes NATO’s Campaign in Syria
Erdogan's AKP party wins local elections as opposition braces...
Hurriyet Daily: ‘This is only the beginning,’ CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu says, warns of ‘witch-hunt’
Jerusalem Post: Foreign Ministry goes on strike, all Israel's embassies and consulates abroad to close
Al Monitor: Israeli killing of judge at border provokes backlash in Jordan
Wayne Madsen pithy comment on.... Ha'aretz: The Al Qaeda-Israeli alliance is bared for all the world to see: Syrian rebels offer to cede Golan Heights to Israel in return for Israeli military support. This Al Qaeda-Saudi-Israeli alliance brought about 9/11.
On the Saudi/Qaeda side of that alliance, the push to release the redacted portion of the congressional 9/11 report continues...
LaRouchePAC: 'Declassify the 28 Pages' Press Conference · Interview with Terry Strada
As Obama pays the Saudis a visit...
Intelligence Online: Predator drones for Mohammed bin Nayef
Al Ahram: Libya steps further into chaos
Reuters: Libya key source for illicit arms, fueling conflicts - U.N. envoy
VOA: Tanker With Libyan 'Rebel' Oil Heads to Sea
The new Barbary pirates...
Reuters: Venezuela breaks ties with Panama over "conspiracy"
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Three years after the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns, the disaster continues; in the air...
...and water...
Underground wall on the seaside of reactor3 was possibly broken / Groundwater level in sync with ebb and flow
...and earth...
...and earth...
The U.S. is having its share of nuclear mishaps; at a nuclear waste dump in New Mexico...
ENENews: WIPP Expert: Nuclear waste is getting out above ground — Plutonium / Americium found in “every single worker” on site when leak began — New Mexico officials ‘totally unsatisfied’ with lack of info from Feds — “We don’t know how far away it’s gone” — Continuing threat for long time to come
...at the Hanford, Washington site...
CNN: “Horrible medical mystery… alarming rate of birth defects” in Washington — Babies missing parts of brain, skull — Mother outraged at gov’t — Nurse: “It’s very scary… absolutely something going on” — Cluster surrounds most polluted US nuclear site, yet never mentioned by media or officials
...and just upstream of Hanford...
KIMA-TV: 65-foot crack found in Wanapum Dam
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Spook news...
Intelligence Online: Brennan obtains Qimch's head
C-Span: John Brennan - National Security and Intelligence
Ars Technica: How CIA snooped on Senate Intel Committee’s files
Spring is here, the snow is melting...
The Hindu: Snowden praises Obama's NSA reform proposal
Cryptome: Skype and Crypto Promoted by Snowden a Ploy?
WaPo: NSA surveillance program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls
OffNow: Utah Senate passes bill to ban warrantless data, 28-0
Who will turn off Palantir?...
National Business Review (New Zealand): Are Palantir Spooks?
MIT Technology Review: Spinoffs from Spyland
On journalist spinoffs from spyland...
Cannonfire: Who is John Miller?
A CIA spook replaces the FBI spook at CBS...
Politico: Michael Morell joins CBS News
The continuing fall from grace of Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and other "adversarial journalists" coming under the patronage of Pierre Omidyar...
Pando Daily: Revealed - Visitor logs show full extent of Pierre and Pamela Omidyar’s cozy White House ties
With the likes of Peter Thiel backing Pando, however, we anticipate that in three or four years time - should we be looking at a President Rand Paul, for instance - that the tables shall be completely turned on the above story: "Revealed - Visitor logs show full extent of Peter Thiel’s cozy White House ties"
But for now, Glenn Greenwald is everybody's favorite punching bag...
Counterpunch (Doug Valentine): Brother, Can You Spare a Billion? Glenn Greenwald and the Myth of Income Inequality
Even the CIA house organ gives him some scolding...
Washington Post: Glenn Greenwald, PandoDaily tussle over Ukraine, editorial independence
As his minions defend him with the Internet equivalent of obscene graffiti in the middle-school lavatory...
Rancid Honeytrap: The Friends of Glenn
We tried to offer some friendly advice: our comment with Greenwald's response followed by our reply in suggesting that he ditch "Moneybags" Omidyar and take the reader-funded route in....
The//Intercept: On the Meaning of Journalistic Independence
Should the following give "0ivae" pause? From the city that gave us the pseudonymous Silence Dogood, Busy Body, Anthony Afterwit and Alice Addertongue no less...
CBSPhilly: Philadelphia Judge Issues Ruling That Could Give Anonymous Online Commenters Second Thoughts
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Police state news...
Modern Survival Blog: Homeland Security Pre-Staging A Domestic Military Force
KMOX St.Louis: Teachers Become Targets in Active Shooter Drills
Defense One: How the NSA Can Use Metadata to Predict Your Personality
Naked Security: Spyware app turns the privacy tables on Google Glass wearers
Blacklisted News: Big Brother Surveillance – It Is Not Just For Governments Anymore
CBS 60 Minutes: The Data Brokers - Selling your personal information
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Miscellania...
Naval Research Labs: Solar Power When It's Raining: NRL Builds Space Satellite Module
Pakistan Defence: US scientists realise Kalam's vision of capturing solar power from space
Presently, however, the US cannot realize any of its space-faring visions without a little help from its friends...
Universe Today: ISS, NASA and US National Security dependent on Russian and Ukrainian Rocketry Amidst Crimean Crisis
Crucial Radar Outage Scrubs US National Security and SpaceX Launches for Several Weeks from Cape Canaveral
Aviation Week: U.S., Russian Soyuz Crew Carries Out Belated Docking With International Space Station
Washington Beacon: U.S. Electric Grid ‘Inherently Vulnerable’ to Sabotage
NYPost: Rash of finance-pro suicides baffles experts
Newsweek: The Face Behind Bitcoin
Reuters: Man called Bitcoin's father denies ties, leads LA car chase
Cryptogon: Barrett Brown Faces 100 Years in Prison for Posting Hyperlink to Site Containing Hacked Material in Chat Room -Update: Charges Related to Publishing URL Dropped
Cryptome: Massive Twitter Botnet
Veterans Today editor Gordon Duff admits that 30% of what is on VT is "patently false". We'll wager that the following is in that 30%...
