A May the 2nd photo just outside the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine shows FEMEN activist Ievgeniia Kraizman giving a victorious salute as the camp of pro-Russian rebels was burning, at a point when the atrocities within the building were likely occurring, and just as arson upon it was about to be committed. For a thorough compendium of videos and accounts of the massacre...
MyFireDogLake ("operationmindcrime"): The Odessa Massacre – detailed video analysis – one month later.
As Ievgeniia posed for the photo, a pregnant woman inside the building was about to be or was in the process of being strangled to death, while at least one other woman was about to be or was being raped, her scorched remains left as evidence. Kraizman's photo was originally posted (since removed) on her Instagram account, then shared on the Facebook page of The Junsae, before receiving its widest circulation in this critical Steven Argue article...
Santa Cruz IMC: Fake “Feminists” of Femen Participated in the Odessa Massacre
FEMEN, as covered in the western media - with a focus on their protest of issues beholden to the feminist left - would seem incongruous with the milieu in which we here find Miss Kraizman. A three part series by French blogger Oliver Pechter on the history of FEMEN however surprisingly puts them firmly - for a time at least - in association with members of the Ukrainian far right. We have here translated excerpts and summarized the contents of this series...
Olivier Pechter: Communistes et rouge-bruns, les premiers alliés. L’histoire cachée des FEMEN (1/3)
Born in the crucible of communist and anti-fascist Ukraine, FEMEN is no less associated, in a repeating fashion, to reactionary movements or even ultra-nationalists (2/3). Before taking refuge in France, thanks to the benevolence of certain neo-conservative movements (3/3)
...some years ago, one sees of the foundations of FEMEN passing abruptly from one camp to another. A turnaround signifying imposture. This earned FEMEN to be qualified as "political technology" by Ukrainian specialists...
Political technology? It is political manipulation pushed to the extreme. The tools for doing this are familiar to us: storytelling, disinformation, "triangulation"... But it's extends and intensifies in the areas of the ex-USSR, where it stirs as a veritable small industry, to us unknown. In most cases, it is the maneuvers of a powerful authority for maintaining its place, through trickery. FEMEN has long been considered as a provider of this type of service. But in this case, they have developed their position at the discretion of the media and by their financial/political support of the moment. It would therefore be false to say that they have been created by a puppeteer whose interests they have defended all along. They have defended their own before. Nevertheless, we reveal some political/financial acquaintances not mentioned up till now, able to shed new light on some of their positions.
Pechter recounts the pre-history of FEMEN beginning in the city of Khmelnytsky in the early naughts where Anna Hutsol (the hidden face of Femen) and Viktor Sviatski (the reported manipulator behind FEMEN) meet in the "circle of marxist street" and the Komsomol, or communist youth movement. They form the student movements "Centre perspectives of youth" and "New Ethics," while Hutsol campaigns for the communist party. Following dismal election returns, however, they align with "Grande Ukraine" - a red-brown party being a political alliance of the left with nationalists. Grand Ukraine is under the direction of businessman and alleged spy Igor Berkut, one reputed to employ "political technology". In their early association with these parties, Hutsol and Sviatski were then Russophilic and anti-NATO.
In part 2 of the series, Immigration, peine de mort, alliés néofascistes… L’histoire cachée des FEMEN, Pechter follows the inception of FEMEN in its opportunistic fellow-travelling with certain unsavory far-right groups and figures...
In a Ukrainian political context as tense as it is confused, FEMEN will engage in all alliances and friendships, up to having hosted the web-site of a former skin-head, or demonstrating with the Svoboda party.
When FEMEN is launched in Kiev in the Spring of 2008, André Kolomiets ("Andrew Kolomyjec"), one of the executives of the Grande Ukraine, quickly comes back to the administrative council. It will become one of the "most constant sources of financial support" for the activists. "To assure their independence" he says very seriously...
Pechter lists certain issues that are shared between Grande Ukraine and FEMEN, such as an anti-immigration stance directed particularly against Turks (the Turkish embassy was the location of one of the first FEMEN protests) and advocacy of the death penalty in the case of sadists. FEMEN would moreover seem to advocate a sort of nationalist, or ethnocentric feminism, where listed in a mission statement we find: "construct a national image of femininity, of maternity and of beauty based on the experience of the Euro-atlantic women's movement." Here then, as Pechter notes, the geo-political tilt of FEMEN has turned towards the West.
Other nationalist and far right groups with which FEMEN has had a rapprochement include "Coalition parties of the Orange Revolution," the "Confraternity of Saint Luke," and the "Black Committee". Members of the latter have been sentenced for setting fire to a residence of African students and attacking a Jewish community center.
Pechter produces numerous photographs illustrating FEMEN activists and leaders associating with far-right elements and individuals not only in demonstrations (for instance with Svoboda and the paramilitary UNA-UNSO in a January 2011 protest against the Belarusian regime) but apparently in more social settings as well, where we find FEMEN's Anna Hutsol in a group photograph with Anna Sinkova of the Confraternity of Saint Luke and Bogdan Titsky of the Black Committee. Other figures on the extreme right that FEMEN is shown to be on friendly terms with include Edouard Iholnikov and Sergey Didkovsky
Continuing in part 3, Islamophobie et réseaux néoconservateurs. L’histoire cachée des FEMEN, Pechter charts FEMEN's move to Paris, and with it, a neo-conservative turn...
By 2009, FEMEN intend to become Europe's premier feminist movement. They are on their way. Yet they have successfully drawn attention to themselves on the world stage (at the Venice Biennial for example). In France they are received with honors (2012) and even inspire the new stamp, Marianne (2013).
On the latter, see Inna Shevchenko's tweet: FEMEN is on French stamp.Now all homophobes,extremists,fascists will have to lick my ass when they want to send a letter. As her choice of targets indicates, with the move to Paris, FEMEN had adapted to a new activist milieu. Pechter continues...
A sign of opportunism of the organism, in establishing themselves in France, they abandon their more reactionary positions (anti-immigration and pro-death penalty) in favor of the easy combat with Islam and the Church, or even in favor of gay marriage...
Abreast of the French left [or "Within the.." but we cannot resist the double entendre of the French expression, Au sein de la gauche française], FEMEN drew the support of the Greens, the Left Party, but also of the PS [center-left Parti socialiste of French president François Hollande]. It must be added that with their installment in Paris, they have made a media opponent of the Catholic right wing.
However, it is on the basis of the islamophobia that they have in common with fundamentalists that they have aroused their strongest support. In particular in the pro-American movement. Figure of this current, Caroline Fourest, veritable guardian angel. At the crossroads in the milieu of these associations, journalistic and political, she is a weighty ally.
Fourest will be unfamiliar to most English speakers. She is a prominent feminist in France, an author and film-maker. Her beneficence towards FEMEN comes primarily with the film, "Nos seins, nos armes !" (Our breasts, our weapons), and a biography of Inna Shevchenko, Inna, published earlier this year. As Fourest has been a strong critic of the treatment of women within Islam, this puts her into common cause with certain French neo-conservatives, such as François Zimeray and Bernard-Henri Lévy. These associations alone would not make FEMEN a neo-conservative or Zionist movement. Pechter however suggests that a neo-conservative bias is evident in the plagiarizing of an Islamophobic rant by Inna Shevenko in an interview with the Huffington Post (fr)...
We are at war. A war between two epochs. A war between a retrograde mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and a progressive mentality ingrained in the 21st Century. A war between liberty and oppression. A war between democracy and dictatorship. A war between those who treat women like dogs and those who cry "we are women, we are human beings!" A war between those who believe in superstitions and those who have a clear mind.
This rant is nearly word for word that of "Ultra-Zionist" Wafa Sultan in 2006 on Al Jazeera in answering a question about Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations". As Pechter notes, the rant was to be found on Caroline Fourest's website, Prochoix.
Now that FEMEN has a chapter in Israel, should we anticipate protests against illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and against the treatment of Palestinians as second class citizens? Doubtful. Thus far they have chosen rather easy and inconsequential targets. At their first protest at a gay pride parade, they were heard shouting, "End discrimination within the community!” (Is the problem that gay men are not attracted to women?)...
Times of Israel: Topless protesters make Israel debut
Supplemental to Pechter's research...
MetaTV: Les Femen - leurs liens avec l’extrême droite ukrainienne et les think tanks américains
A trans-Atlantic source of support for FEMEN is to be found in the Open World Leadership Center, of which Anna Hutsol is listed as an alumna. Inasmuch as the president of the board of directors, James H. Billington, is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and is a recipient of the Presidential Citizen Medal from George W. Bush, this raises the question of whose interests FEMEN's activism truly serves. Is it about the liberation of femininity or is it about furthering a neo-conservative agenda and of besetting the Russian sphere of influence with the hackles of FEMEN as "soft-power" shock-troupes?
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Monday, June 30, 2014
Headlines of note for June 2014...
With Assad gaining militarily...
AP: Syrian military sweeps rebels from villages in coastal province near Turkish border
...and politically...
Al Arabiya: Assad wins landslide 88.7% election victory
...the effort to oust him acquires (whether intentional or not) a new strategy: the war theater shifts to Iraq...
And if Maliki must fall, so be it. Note that among the litany of reasons of why he's no good...
DefenseOne: Intimidation, Cronyism, Repression - The Unfortunate Legacy of Iraq’s Nouri al-Maliki
...last but certainly not least - in fact, most...
As Maliki has struggled to remain in office, he has become more dependent on Iran, which is the dominant external power in Iraq. Maliki is a reliable ally who allows Iranian flights over Iraqi territory to transport weapons and manpower to Assad’s regime in Syria. (US officials have tried for years to pressure Maliki to stop the Iranian overflights, with little result.) He also paved the way for thousands of Iraqi Shiites to cross the border and fight alongside the Syrian regime.
In his West Point speech last month...
Reuters: Obama fights foreign policy critics, pledges aid to Syria groups
How he does it...
AFP: Syrian Jihadists Now Using American Made Humvees Seized in Iraq
news.com.au: Iraqi Sunni insurgents seize huge cache of US-made arms and equipment
Insurgents trained in Jordan...
...in the Caucuses...
IBTimes: The Ginger Jihadist of Mosul - Omar al-Shishani the Chechen ‘General’
...and at Abu Ghraib, Gitmo...
The Sullen Bell: The Phenomenon of Radicalization
June 19: Add this to the ISIS arsenal...
Telegraph: Isis jihadists 'seize Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons stockpile'
17.09 Chemical weapons produced at the Al Muthanna facility, which Isis today seized, are believed to have included mustard gas, Sarin, Tabun, and VX.
Here is the CIA's file on the complex. Quote Stockpiles of chemical munitions are still stored there. The most dangerous ones have been declared to the UN and are sealed in bunkers. Although declared, the bunkers contents have yet to be confirmed. These areas of the compound pose a hazard to civilians and potential blackmarketers. Numerous bunkers, including eleven cruciform shaped bunkers were exploited. Some of the bunkers were empty. Some of the bunkers contained large quantitiesof unfilled chemical munitions, conventional munitions, one-ton shipping containers, old disabled production equipment (presumed disabled under UNSCOM supervision), and other hazardous industrial chemicals.
17.05 The Chemical Weapons Convention, which Iraq joined in 2009, requires it to dispose of the material at Al Muthanna, even though it was declared unusable and "does not pose a significant security risk" However, the UK goverment has acknowledgeded [sic] that the nature of the material contained in the two bunkers would make the destruction process difficult and technically challenging.
And here we go again...
NYTimes: Iraq Asked U.S. for Strikes, Officials Say
Roll Call: Obama Not Asking Congress’ Permission on Iraq
AP: Obama - US sending military advisers to Iraq
As for that other smashing "liberation"...
Daily Signal: What’s Left of Libya Is Crumbling
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Ukraine's civil war rages on...
Seemorerocks: The warzone in Novorossia
Information Clearing House: US Turns Blind Eye to Lugansk Massacre
LiveLeak: Crimes against humanity - people are bleeding to death in their basements while Kiev troops target ambulances
RT: Orphanage under fire as Kiev forces shell Slavyansk
181 people killed, 293 injured in Kiev military op in eastern Ukraine
‘100% aimed action’: Ukraine military shelled refugees, Russian journalists, survivor recalls
'White phosphorus' reports: Ukraine military 'dropped incendiary bombs' on Slavyansk
Kiev’s army shelling kills 5yo boy and his mom in Slavyansk
On Tuesday [June 17], Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko declared that he was ready to order a temporary unilateral ceasefire, but since then the Ukrainian army has not shown any sign of ending its military campaign.
During this "cease-fire"...
'Provocation': Moscow slams Ukraine’s shelling of Russian border checkpoint
Last word ‘camera’! Russian journalist killed in E. Ukraine working till dying breath
While much of the above gets nary a mention in the western press, it is this story - the killing of military personnel sent from Kiev - that galvanized coverage; reported as if it were a war crime, the killing of those who would kill you and yours, including civilians...
NYTimes: Separatists Down Military Transport Jet, Killing 49 in Eastern Ukraine
With ethnic Russians being the targets of Kiev's crackdown, Putin thus far has been excessively restrained, when by international law the "responsibility to protect" doctrine is justifiable in the case of severe disruption in bordering countries. Meanwhile, the NATO powers are pondering the unthinkable...
Paul Craig Roberts: Are You Ready For Nuclear War?
International Business Times: US Air Force Sends B-2 Stealth Bombers To Europe For First Time Amid Ukraine Crisis
Stop NATO: Georgia - NATO Secures Control Of Russia’s Southern Border
What goes around comes around...
Washington Free Beacon: Russian Bombers Fly Within 50 Miles of California Coast
RT: Russia sends 24 warships, bombers to Baltic drills as NATO stages war games
RIA Novosti: Attack on Russian Embassy in Kiev a provocation to war
Bloomberg: Russia Puts Troops on Alert as U.S. Broadens Sanctions
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Elsewhere around the world...
Standard Digital: Witnesses recount night of terror, claim ‘white man’ was commander
Lamu, Kenya: Intriguing and conspiratorial accounts have emerged from local residents caught up in Sunday’s Mpeketoni attack with some witnesses claiming a masked white man commanded the attackers...
The alleged white man and his henchmen were masked but his distinctive pale white skin stood out from his exposed hands, neck and eyes in the street lighting. He allegedly wielded a bazooka... But the eyewitnesses did not say what language the alleged commander spoke except alleging he appeared to be the one commanding the operation.
Related?
White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite marries ruthless terror chief on the run in lawless Somalia
Reuters: Pakistan's Karachi in lockdown after politician arrested in London
BBC: Karachi airport: Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan claims attack
Boiling Frogs Post: The New Great Game Round-Up - June 8, 2014
WaPo: Chinese general - U.S. foreign policy has ‘erectile dysfunction'
Strategic-Culture (Wayne Madsen): Obama’s Gambit - A New Indochina War
Central Intelligence Agency director John O. Brennan is too young to have served in the Vietnam War. But when Brennan joined the CIA in 1980, many of his superiors were veterans of the Indochina campaign and their war stories about drug running, prostitution, extrajudicial killings of civilians and prisoners-of-war, and other tales must have made him wish he had been born earlier so that he could have reveled in such exploits...
Actually, as a college freshman, Brennan was briefly in the region in the early '70s; over summer break he visited a cousin working with USAID in Indonesia (around the same time as Obama-mama's work with the same CIA-front in that country - see our Jan. 2013 updates). Perhaps there he was regaled with tales of human heads kicked around as soccer balls, as is said to have occurred following the overthrow of Sukarno.
Speaking of soccer...
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American Gladio in Vegas? Some background stories from a few years ago...
New America Foundation: PATCON - The FBI’s Secret War Against the ‘Patriot’ Movement, and How Infiltration Tactics Relate to Radicalizing Influences
IntelWire: PATCON Revealed - An Exclusive Look Inside The FBI's Secret War With The Militia Movement
See also the numerous entries on PATCON at Sipsey Street Irregulars
Now to the question, is PATCON still active, now being run by Holder's Justice Dep't, if perhaps by an as of yet undisclosed new moniker?...
Cryptogon: Holder Announces Task Force on ‘Homegrown’ Terrorists
As if on cue... Las Vegas - Police Officers Killed in Ambush Shooting
Now paint the opposition with their blood...
Washington Post: Interior Secretary Jewell connects Las Vegas shooting to Bundy ranch
Though the connection is quite flimsy...
Blacklisted News: LAS VEGAS ‘REVOLUTION’ SHOOTERS ID’D AS RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY NUTS WITH A DEATHWISH
The New American: Everyday Americans Demonized After Las Vegas Murders
The lines of a civil war are being drawn. Those who would stoke it into a bloody conflagration would capitalize it as "The Second American Civil War" with Obama or Hillary Clinton (depending on the time-table) in the role of Lincoln. On the other side, the nomenclature is...
Alt-Market: A Second American Revolution Is Now Inevitable
The only question is whether it can be bloodlessly accomplished.
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Spook news...
What had been jettisoned from the "USA Freedom Act" (always beware of catchword legislation) is now in the 2015 Defense Appropriations Act... for the time being...
NYTimes: House Votes to Curb N.S.A. Scrutiny of Americans’ Communications
Pull push...
The Hill: Court renews NSA phone program
Washington's Blog: Senior NSA Executive - NSA Started Spying On Journalists in 2002 … In Order to Make Sure They Didn’t Report On Mass Surveillance
Spiegel: New NSA Revelations - Inside Snowden's Germany File
Dagbladet Information: NSA ‘third party’ partners tap the Internet backbone in global surveillance program
Intelligence Online: Brazil reinvents optical fiber encryption to foil NSA
RT: SBU or NSA? Prankster calls Belarus leader posing as Yanukovich’s son, gets convo leaked in Kiev
Al Monitor: Erdogan’s former bodyguards arrested for espionage
PressTV: Bandar Bin Sultan injected with poison - Report
Intelligence Online: Erik Prince's private squadron in Abu Dhabi
TheNews.pk: IHC orders to lodge murder case against former station chief of CIA
The Bergdahl case: front and center-right is the drum-beat of 'Obama traded deserter for hardened terrorists!' Doing so without congressional consultation, Obama could not have given the opposition a more opportune weapon with which to target his presidency. Congress being effectively neutered, however, there have been many false-start, though justifiable impeachment prospects preceding this, all of which have come to naught. If this scandal turns out to be different, then what we may have here is Obama falling on his sword, relinquishing the crown but to save the Leviathan...
RealClearPolitics: Judge Napolitano - Impeaching Obama Over Bergdahl "Very Valid Argument"
That is the head-scratcher as to why they did this. It doesn't make sense from their own point of view. Democrats will begin to flee from the president...
There could be much more to it than meets the eye however...
Cryptome: Bergdahl Case - Classified Documents (via WL)
WaPo: The Supreme Court won’t intervene in the James Risen case. What’s next?
While Ed Snowden enjoys the limelight, here is a natsec refugee you probably haven't heard about...
National Post: Hacker, Creeper, Soldier, Spy
Follow-up...
Refugee hearing for former U.S. soldier, Anonymous hacker adjourned after claim he was over-medicated in jail
Not only does the Justice Department cultivate and radicalize elements of the militia movement (see above PATCON references), but so does it cultivate and utilize those in the hacker community...
DailyDot: How an FBI informant orchestrated the Stratfor hack
Flashback to this Wayne Madsen Report...
March 12-13, 2012 -- White House battles U.S. intelligence factions via WikiLeaks and Anonymous
The Obama White House is running a covert operation that is using authorized leaks of information through groups such as WikiLeaks and Anonymous to battle against other parts of the U.S. intelligence community that are resisting Obama efforts to engage in massive warfare in cyber-space, according to well-placed Pentagon insiders.
Using the assets of the U.S. Cyber Command, headed by General Keith Alexander and continuing warrantless wiretapping authorities carried over from the Bush administration, a covert group of White House conspirators working under the direction of White House Office of Information Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) chief Cass Sunstein and National Security Council adviser Samantha Power, Sunstein's wife, cyber-hackers have gained access to various computer networks and released information damaging to White House enemies in the intelligence community. The most recent target of such activity was the private intelligence firm Stratfor, an Austin, Texas-based company that is close to Republicans and employs a number of former CIA and military intelligence personnel...
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Police state news...
Some judiciary push-back...
Reuters: Federal Judge Rules U.S. No-Fly List Violates Constitution
EFF: Riley v. California and United States v. Wurie
Yet the jack-boots keep stomping...
Infowars: Woman Says DHS Forced Her to Strip Naked at Gunpoint During Terrifying Dawn Raid
A COUNTRY WHERE POLICE BURN INFANTS IN THEIR CRIBS
Kiddie concentration camps USA...
Breitbart: Leaked Images Reveal Children Warehoused in Crowded U.S. Cells, Border Patrol Overwhelmed
WorldNetDaily: Ex-border agents - Immigrant flood 'orchestrated
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Google wants to be God...
Reuters: Google to buy satellite company Skybox Imaging for $500 mln
Wired: Google’s New All-Seeing Satellites Have Huge Potential—For Good and Evil
To know every hair on your head, and thought in your brain...
Motherboard: Our Brains Will Be Hacked, Tracked and Data-Mined
But it is an arbitrary deity...
Aangirfan: CHILD ABUSE DISAPPEARS FROM GOOGLE?
We've had similar issues with search terms that should have yielded WxxxNews posts but didn't.
Miscellania...
NYTimes (James Risen): Before Shooting in Iraq, a Warning on Blackwater
Politico (Charles Lewis): Why I left 60 Minutes
Cryptome: Danish Activism Site Shut and Seized in Secret
WikiLeaks: Secret Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) - Financial Services Annex
Wall Street On Parade: The South Rises Up to Take on Wall Street and High Frequency Trading
Consensus 9/11: World Trade Center Bldg. 7’s Controlled Demolition - 9/11 Consensus Panel Releases New Evidence from Witness Testimonies and Architectural Drawings
Bloomberg: EU Nations Back Flexibility on Biotech-Crop Cultivation
ENENews: Japanese Journalist: Workers “very worried” about deformed 400 ft. structure falling on Fukushima reactor buildings and causing another crisis — Immediate repairs needed yet “can’t do anything” due to extreme radiation levels — Staff told to “constantly watch it” — One of site’s most dangerous places
MIT Technology Review: Elon Musk Needs a Very Big Factory for His New Solar Technology
33rd Square: NASA's Updated Warp Drive Space Craft Concept Looks Like Science Fiction Brought to Life
UK Express: Secret service infiltrated paedophile group to 'blackmail establishment'
Cryptome: DC Madam on National Security Priapicy
Natsec priapicy puts own dick in mouth...
Gawker: NSA Spook-Turned-Twitter-Pundit Goes Dark After Dick Pic Surfaces
With Assad gaining militarily...
AP: Syrian military sweeps rebels from villages in coastal province near Turkish border
...and politically...
Al Arabiya: Assad wins landslide 88.7% election victory
...the effort to oust him acquires (whether intentional or not) a new strategy: the war theater shifts to Iraq...
And if Maliki must fall, so be it. Note that among the litany of reasons of why he's no good...
DefenseOne: Intimidation, Cronyism, Repression - The Unfortunate Legacy of Iraq’s Nouri al-Maliki
...last but certainly not least - in fact, most...
As Maliki has struggled to remain in office, he has become more dependent on Iran, which is the dominant external power in Iraq. Maliki is a reliable ally who allows Iranian flights over Iraqi territory to transport weapons and manpower to Assad’s regime in Syria. (US officials have tried for years to pressure Maliki to stop the Iranian overflights, with little result.) He also paved the way for thousands of Iraqi Shiites to cross the border and fight alongside the Syrian regime.
In his West Point speech last month...
Reuters: Obama fights foreign policy critics, pledges aid to Syria groups
How he does it...
AFP: Syrian Jihadists Now Using American Made Humvees Seized in Iraq
news.com.au: Iraqi Sunni insurgents seize huge cache of US-made arms and equipment
Insurgents trained in Jordan...
WorldNetDaily: Blowback! U.S. trained ISIS at secret Jordan base
...in the Caucuses...
IBTimes: The Ginger Jihadist of Mosul - Omar al-Shishani the Chechen ‘General’
...and at Abu Ghraib, Gitmo...
The Sullen Bell: The Phenomenon of Radicalization
June 19: Add this to the ISIS arsenal...
Telegraph: Isis jihadists 'seize Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons stockpile'
17.09 Chemical weapons produced at the Al Muthanna facility, which Isis today seized, are believed to have included mustard gas, Sarin, Tabun, and VX.
Here is the CIA's file on the complex. Quote Stockpiles of chemical munitions are still stored there. The most dangerous ones have been declared to the UN and are sealed in bunkers. Although declared, the bunkers contents have yet to be confirmed. These areas of the compound pose a hazard to civilians and potential blackmarketers. Numerous bunkers, including eleven cruciform shaped bunkers were exploited. Some of the bunkers were empty. Some of the bunkers contained large quantitiesof unfilled chemical munitions, conventional munitions, one-ton shipping containers, old disabled production equipment (presumed disabled under UNSCOM supervision), and other hazardous industrial chemicals.
17.05 The Chemical Weapons Convention, which Iraq joined in 2009, requires it to dispose of the material at Al Muthanna, even though it was declared unusable and "does not pose a significant security risk" However, the UK goverment has acknowledgeded [sic] that the nature of the material contained in the two bunkers would make the destruction process difficult and technically challenging.
And here we go again...
NYTimes: Iraq Asked U.S. for Strikes, Officials Say
Roll Call: Obama Not Asking Congress’ Permission on Iraq
AP: Obama - US sending military advisers to Iraq
As for that other smashing "liberation"...
Daily Signal: What’s Left of Libya Is Crumbling
+
Ukraine's civil war rages on...
Seemorerocks: The warzone in Novorossia
Information Clearing House: US Turns Blind Eye to Lugansk Massacre
LiveLeak: Crimes against humanity - people are bleeding to death in their basements while Kiev troops target ambulances
RT: Orphanage under fire as Kiev forces shell Slavyansk
181 people killed, 293 injured in Kiev military op in eastern Ukraine
‘100% aimed action’: Ukraine military shelled refugees, Russian journalists, survivor recalls
'White phosphorus' reports: Ukraine military 'dropped incendiary bombs' on Slavyansk
Kiev’s army shelling kills 5yo boy and his mom in Slavyansk
On Tuesday [June 17], Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko declared that he was ready to order a temporary unilateral ceasefire, but since then the Ukrainian army has not shown any sign of ending its military campaign.
During this "cease-fire"...
'Provocation': Moscow slams Ukraine’s shelling of Russian border checkpoint
Last word ‘camera’! Russian journalist killed in E. Ukraine working till dying breath
While much of the above gets nary a mention in the western press, it is this story - the killing of military personnel sent from Kiev - that galvanized coverage; reported as if it were a war crime, the killing of those who would kill you and yours, including civilians...
NYTimes: Separatists Down Military Transport Jet, Killing 49 in Eastern Ukraine
With ethnic Russians being the targets of Kiev's crackdown, Putin thus far has been excessively restrained, when by international law the "responsibility to protect" doctrine is justifiable in the case of severe disruption in bordering countries. Meanwhile, the NATO powers are pondering the unthinkable...
Paul Craig Roberts: Are You Ready For Nuclear War?
International Business Times: US Air Force Sends B-2 Stealth Bombers To Europe For First Time Amid Ukraine Crisis
Stop NATO: Georgia - NATO Secures Control Of Russia’s Southern Border
What goes around comes around...
Washington Free Beacon: Russian Bombers Fly Within 50 Miles of California Coast
RT: Russia sends 24 warships, bombers to Baltic drills as NATO stages war games
RIA Novosti: Attack on Russian Embassy in Kiev a provocation to war
Bloomberg: Russia Puts Troops on Alert as U.S. Broadens Sanctions
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Elsewhere around the world...
Standard Digital: Witnesses recount night of terror, claim ‘white man’ was commander
Lamu, Kenya: Intriguing and conspiratorial accounts have emerged from local residents caught up in Sunday’s Mpeketoni attack with some witnesses claiming a masked white man commanded the attackers...
The alleged white man and his henchmen were masked but his distinctive pale white skin stood out from his exposed hands, neck and eyes in the street lighting. He allegedly wielded a bazooka... But the eyewitnesses did not say what language the alleged commander spoke except alleging he appeared to be the one commanding the operation.
Related?
White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite marries ruthless terror chief on the run in lawless Somalia
Reuters: Pakistan's Karachi in lockdown after politician arrested in London
BBC: Karachi airport: Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan claims attack
Boiling Frogs Post: The New Great Game Round-Up - June 8, 2014
WaPo: Chinese general - U.S. foreign policy has ‘erectile dysfunction'
Strategic-Culture (Wayne Madsen): Obama’s Gambit - A New Indochina War
Central Intelligence Agency director John O. Brennan is too young to have served in the Vietnam War. But when Brennan joined the CIA in 1980, many of his superiors were veterans of the Indochina campaign and their war stories about drug running, prostitution, extrajudicial killings of civilians and prisoners-of-war, and other tales must have made him wish he had been born earlier so that he could have reveled in such exploits...
Actually, as a college freshman, Brennan was briefly in the region in the early '70s; over summer break he visited a cousin working with USAID in Indonesia (around the same time as Obama-mama's work with the same CIA-front in that country - see our Jan. 2013 updates). Perhaps there he was regaled with tales of human heads kicked around as soccer balls, as is said to have occurred following the overthrow of Sukarno.
Speaking of soccer...
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American Gladio in Vegas? Some background stories from a few years ago...
New America Foundation: PATCON - The FBI’s Secret War Against the ‘Patriot’ Movement, and How Infiltration Tactics Relate to Radicalizing Influences
IntelWire: PATCON Revealed - An Exclusive Look Inside The FBI's Secret War With The Militia Movement
See also the numerous entries on PATCON at Sipsey Street Irregulars
Now to the question, is PATCON still active, now being run by Holder's Justice Dep't, if perhaps by an as of yet undisclosed new moniker?...
Cryptogon: Holder Announces Task Force on ‘Homegrown’ Terrorists
As if on cue... Las Vegas - Police Officers Killed in Ambush Shooting
Now paint the opposition with their blood...
Washington Post: Interior Secretary Jewell connects Las Vegas shooting to Bundy ranch
Though the connection is quite flimsy...
Sipsey Street Irregulars: The Las Vegas Shooters and the Bundys
Blacklisted News: LAS VEGAS ‘REVOLUTION’ SHOOTERS ID’D AS RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY NUTS WITH A DEATHWISH
The New American: Everyday Americans Demonized After Las Vegas Murders
The lines of a civil war are being drawn. Those who would stoke it into a bloody conflagration would capitalize it as "The Second American Civil War" with Obama or Hillary Clinton (depending on the time-table) in the role of Lincoln. On the other side, the nomenclature is...
Alt-Market: A Second American Revolution Is Now Inevitable
The only question is whether it can be bloodlessly accomplished.
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Spook news...
What had been jettisoned from the "USA Freedom Act" (always beware of catchword legislation) is now in the 2015 Defense Appropriations Act... for the time being...
NYTimes: House Votes to Curb N.S.A. Scrutiny of Americans’ Communications
Pull push...
The Hill: Court renews NSA phone program
Washington's Blog: Senior NSA Executive - NSA Started Spying On Journalists in 2002 … In Order to Make Sure They Didn’t Report On Mass Surveillance
Spiegel: New NSA Revelations - Inside Snowden's Germany File
Dagbladet Information: NSA ‘third party’ partners tap the Internet backbone in global surveillance program
Intelligence Online: Brazil reinvents optical fiber encryption to foil NSA
RT: SBU or NSA? Prankster calls Belarus leader posing as Yanukovich’s son, gets convo leaked in Kiev
Al Monitor: Erdogan’s former bodyguards arrested for espionage
PressTV: Bandar Bin Sultan injected with poison - Report
Intelligence Online: Erik Prince's private squadron in Abu Dhabi
TheNews.pk: IHC orders to lodge murder case against former station chief of CIA
The Bergdahl case: front and center-right is the drum-beat of 'Obama traded deserter for hardened terrorists!' Doing so without congressional consultation, Obama could not have given the opposition a more opportune weapon with which to target his presidency. Congress being effectively neutered, however, there have been many false-start, though justifiable impeachment prospects preceding this, all of which have come to naught. If this scandal turns out to be different, then what we may have here is Obama falling on his sword, relinquishing the crown but to save the Leviathan...
RealClearPolitics: Judge Napolitano - Impeaching Obama Over Bergdahl "Very Valid Argument"
That is the head-scratcher as to why they did this. It doesn't make sense from their own point of view. Democrats will begin to flee from the president...
There could be much more to it than meets the eye however...
Cryptome: Bergdahl Case - Classified Documents (via WL)
Aangirfan: BERGDAHL AND BIN LADEN
WaPo: The Supreme Court won’t intervene in the James Risen case. What’s next?
While Ed Snowden enjoys the limelight, here is a natsec refugee you probably haven't heard about...
National Post: Hacker, Creeper, Soldier, Spy
Follow-up...
Refugee hearing for former U.S. soldier, Anonymous hacker adjourned after claim he was over-medicated in jail
Not only does the Justice Department cultivate and radicalize elements of the militia movement (see above PATCON references), but so does it cultivate and utilize those in the hacker community...
DailyDot: How an FBI informant orchestrated the Stratfor hack
Flashback to this Wayne Madsen Report...
March 12-13, 2012 -- White House battles U.S. intelligence factions via WikiLeaks and Anonymous
The Obama White House is running a covert operation that is using authorized leaks of information through groups such as WikiLeaks and Anonymous to battle against other parts of the U.S. intelligence community that are resisting Obama efforts to engage in massive warfare in cyber-space, according to well-placed Pentagon insiders.
Using the assets of the U.S. Cyber Command, headed by General Keith Alexander and continuing warrantless wiretapping authorities carried over from the Bush administration, a covert group of White House conspirators working under the direction of White House Office of Information Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) chief Cass Sunstein and National Security Council adviser Samantha Power, Sunstein's wife, cyber-hackers have gained access to various computer networks and released information damaging to White House enemies in the intelligence community. The most recent target of such activity was the private intelligence firm Stratfor, an Austin, Texas-based company that is close to Republicans and employs a number of former CIA and military intelligence personnel...
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Police state news...
Some judiciary push-back...
Reuters: Federal Judge Rules U.S. No-Fly List Violates Constitution
EFF: Riley v. California and United States v. Wurie
Yet the jack-boots keep stomping...
Infowars: Woman Says DHS Forced Her to Strip Naked at Gunpoint During Terrifying Dawn Raid
A COUNTRY WHERE POLICE BURN INFANTS IN THEIR CRIBS
Kiddie concentration camps USA...
Breitbart: Leaked Images Reveal Children Warehoused in Crowded U.S. Cells, Border Patrol Overwhelmed
WorldNetDaily: Ex-border agents - Immigrant flood 'orchestrated
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Google wants to be God...
Reuters: Google to buy satellite company Skybox Imaging for $500 mln
Wired: Google’s New All-Seeing Satellites Have Huge Potential—For Good and Evil
To know every hair on your head, and thought in your brain...
Motherboard: Our Brains Will Be Hacked, Tracked and Data-Mined
But it is an arbitrary deity...
Aangirfan: CHILD ABUSE DISAPPEARS FROM GOOGLE?
We've had similar issues with search terms that should have yielded WxxxNews posts but didn't.
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Miscellania...
NYTimes (James Risen): Before Shooting in Iraq, a Warning on Blackwater
Politico (Charles Lewis): Why I left 60 Minutes
Cryptome: Danish Activism Site Shut and Seized in Secret
WikiLeaks: Secret Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) - Financial Services Annex
Wall Street On Parade: The South Rises Up to Take on Wall Street and High Frequency Trading
Consensus 9/11: World Trade Center Bldg. 7’s Controlled Demolition - 9/11 Consensus Panel Releases New Evidence from Witness Testimonies and Architectural Drawings
Bloomberg: EU Nations Back Flexibility on Biotech-Crop Cultivation
ENENews: Japanese Journalist: Workers “very worried” about deformed 400 ft. structure falling on Fukushima reactor buildings and causing another crisis — Immediate repairs needed yet “can’t do anything” due to extreme radiation levels — Staff told to “constantly watch it” — One of site’s most dangerous places
MIT Technology Review: Elon Musk Needs a Very Big Factory for His New Solar Technology
33rd Square: NASA's Updated Warp Drive Space Craft Concept Looks Like Science Fiction Brought to Life
UK Express: Secret service infiltrated paedophile group to 'blackmail establishment'
Cryptome: DC Madam on National Security Priapicy
Natsec priapicy puts own dick in mouth...
Gawker: NSA Spook-Turned-Twitter-Pundit Goes Dark After Dick Pic Surfaces
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Headlines of note for May 2014...
Pravy Sektor getting a little out of control there Yatz?
Les moutons enragés: L’horreur à Odessa - 31 militants indépendantistes meurent brûlés par les milices du Pravy Sektor et les pro Kiev
RT: Odessa slaughter - How vicious mob burnt anti-govt activists alive (GRAPHIC IMAGES)
Warning: extremely graphic images...
Live Journal (ersieesist reposting and translating frallik): How the thugs killed Odessa inhabitants in the Trade Unions House - the details of bloody scenario
...Many of the civilians found burnt to death in the House of Trade Unions on May 2 were discovered to have been shot and strangled by armed "sotniks," pro-Kiev "Right Sector" Nazi gang members, before they were consumed by flames. The Odessa police and fire department were ordered by Ukrainian authorities to stand down and not rescue the people trapped in the burning building.
After the Odessa massacre the Trade Unions building was spray-painted with swastikas and Galician SS symbols. The Galician SS, the political predecessors of many current Ukrainian nationalist groups, fought alongside German army and SS units who massacred tens of thousands of Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, and Jews in World War II.
In addition, it has been reported that FBI agents from the same unit that was responsible for the 1993 fiery conflagration perpetrated on the Branch Davidian religious compound in Waco, Texas that burnt alive 74 men, women, and children, were involved in directing Ukrainian right-wing forces in the siege of the Trade Union building in Odessa that killed 46 with dozens, perhaps as many as 48, still missing. CIA agents and former Blackwater, now Academi, mercenaries working for Greystone, Ltd. of Barbados, were also reportedly involved with directing Right Sector and other Ukrainian National Guard forces in the siege of the building in Odessa.
German intelligence has pinpointed Greystone mercenaries in Odessa and in the eastern Ukrainian town of Slavyansk, scenes of Ukrainian operations against pro-Russian activists. There have been reports that 20 Greystone mercenaries have been captured by pro-Russian forces in the Donbass region and that CIA director John Brennan flew last month to Kiev, in part, to seek their release. Brennan also promised additional CIA resources for the Kiev regime...
Kyiv Post has its own version of these events: Police say pro-Russians accidentally set fatal Odessa fire with Molotov cocktails
For the most part, Western media outlets are reporting the Odessa massacre in equivocating tones: 'well the separatists blame Kiev and Kiev blames the separatists for accidentally stating the fire' without pursuing their professional charge to investigate and resolve the competing claims. Unless it has been exceptionally faked, the photographic evidence shows that what went on inside the Trade Unions House was clearly premeditated rape, murder, and arson. The arson was perhaps intended to cover up the rape and murder, though unsuccessful in that attempt. By their omissions, then, the Western "journalists" on the ground - and every mainstream outlet has at least one deployed - are essentially collaborators in some of the worst atrocities Europe has seen since those of the Balkans in the 1990s.
Yet, in the information war, we are beginning to see cracks in the narrative that NATO and Washington would have their media mockingbirds maintain. A trivial but telling case in point: while the Kyiv Post has been a primary English language advocate for the anti-Russian point of view as espoused by the coup government - the government with Yatzeniuk or "Yatz" on top as recommended by U.S. State Department representative Victoria Nuland - we find an oddly unrelated choice of photo (of Nuland and Yanukovich on Feb. 6) for its repost of Reuters: Switzerland has frozen $193 million in Ukrainian assets. Is the implied message here to pin some blame on Nuland and the U.S. for the royal mess which Kiev and Ukrainians in general now find themselves beset with?
A much more substantial fissure in the NATO/Obama/Kerry/Nuland narrative comes with a New York Times article in the first weekend of May that finally gives voice to the point of view of Eastern Ukrainians opposing Kiev: Behind the Masks in Ukraine, Many Faces of Rebellion. Note the number of the article's commenters expressing relief and praise and "recommends" that this is finally being reported; note the relative paucity of commenters and "recommends" taking the side of Kiev. It is apparent that the American people are not buying the bill of goods that their government is trying to sell them. More to this point, see Patrick L. Smith in...
Salon: Samantha Power’s brazen hypocrisy - Media swallows propaganda, but here’s the truth about Ukraine
We enter a new space, it seems to me — gradually maybe, but we are unmistakably leaving Kansas behind. You cannot conduct a foreign policy indefinitely without a domestic consensus, and 1) there is none now, even in the fearful age of “terror,” and 2) more important, there seems little prospect of one in formation. I take the dissent to be seen and heard around us as a memo from the future...
In “Behind the Masks in Ukraine, Many Faces of Rebellion,” C.J. Chivers and Noah Sneider did some superb reporting. They spent many days with anti-Kiev fighters in Slovyansk, the eastern city they now control... Chivers and Sneider took on the freighted question of just who these fighters are. And they reported back honestly. No Russians among the so-called green men, we now know.
This contradicts the claim that Kerry and Obama have been pushing for the last month; yet no reporters from any Western news outlet have been able to substantially back up that claim, other than in finding logistical similarities to methods of the past...
Intelligence Online: Moscow dusts off old KGB manuals
Putin is perhaps very adept at concealing his forces - he is after all ex-KGB. Then again, so is Obama ex-CIA - at least as an asset if not non-official cover. Western intelligence agencies however have been less than successful in concealing their involvement, for instance as reported in the German press, and picked up the same weekend by AFP/Yahoo...
Bild am Sonntag: Agenten von CIA und FBI beraten Kiew
In an effort to counter the losses then...
USNews: NATO Countries Planning Comms Mission in Ukraine
If the above cited Bild am Sonntag story and its translation into English via AFP signified a breach in NATO's comms mission outside Ukraine, the following weekend saw the info warriors better able to stem the tide away from mainstream English language outlets. Internet searches relating to the May 11 story, Kämpfen US-Söldner in der Ukraine? (to which Der Spiegel added some details), found no reports from mainstream sites in English. Reuters carried it but only in German. The Voice of Russia, RT, and other "Russian propaganda" English language sites were the exclusive source of this story for English speakers before message boards, social media and blogs reposted it, along with ZeroHedge and Infowars...
400 Blackwater Mercs Deployed In Ukraine Against Separatists, German Press Reports
CIA, FBI and Now Academi Mercenaries on the Ground in Ukraine
Are State Department diplomatic pouches being used as a pipeline to arm the mercs?
WND: State Dept. laughs about buying explosives
Once again, like the faithful and all but abandoned spouse, the trusting American people (albeit a dwindling number) are the last to know, but then are only met with scornful laughter.
Stirred by "Russian propaganda" slanders upon Ukrainian "patriots" (as David Frum would have you believe)...
RT: ‘Fascists! Off to Kiev!’: Outraged Kramatorsk locals chase off Ukrainian military
To dismiss this as mere propaganda belies the fact that, as opposed to what is coming from the bulk of the mainstream Western press, unmuted reports (from Israel even) and analyses largely corroborate the Russian assessment of the Svoboda and Pravy Sektor parties...
Israel National News: Neo-Nazis Honor Ukrainian SS on Holocaust Memorial Day
Consortium News: Ukraine’s ‘Dr. Strangelove’ Reality
Vineyard of the Saker: Ukrainian nationalism - its roots and nature
At least one U.S. Congressman isn't drinking the kool-aid...
nsnbc international: House grilled Nuland over US’ Cooperation with Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Responsibility to protect? The parallels to Libya of 2011 are striking (an East/West divide with the central government in the West brutally suppressing a rebellion coming from the East), as is the response of the U.S. State Department...
WSWS: US defends role of Kiev regime and fascists in Odessa massacre
Voice of Russia: Armored vehicles used against civilians by Ukrainian troops in Mariupol
Channel4: Bodies and fire on the streets of Mariupol
RT: Village near Slavyansk attacked with artillery fire, casualties reported
Kiev protégé allegedly behind Mariupol and Odessa massacres – leaked tapes
Donetsk bloodbath: Insider video shows Ukraine helicopters firing at own checkpoint
'Torn to pieces': Ghastly details emerge of Italian reporter and his Russian interpreter’s killing in E. Ukraine
Strategic-Culture: Kiev lets loose 'Men in Black' death squads on East Ukrainian civilians
ParisMatch: Revelations on the Krasnoarmeysk killing
A note on AP's editorial decision making: as the above linked URL indicates, the original headline was "Ukraine guardsmen open fire on crowd" before "Ukraine guardsmen" became "Armed men in eastern Ukraine". Again, the intention here is to equivocate upon the facts, in contravention to the reporters in the field. We have noticed this tendency to alter AP headlines; for instance last month we linked White House confirms CIA director was in Kiev, only to find now that the headline has been transformed into the innocuous, "Little sign of progress as Obama, Putin speak". The text has been altered as well, so that the Brennan in Kiev report is pushed to the second half of the story. Internet search results are consequently altered: we find that a current search on brennan cia kiev puts the AP story as carried by Yahoo (preserving the original headline) at the bottom of page one. Most of the results link to "Russian propaganda" and "conspiracy theory" sites like RT, Infowars, Global Research and ZeroHedge, giving the casual news reader cause to dismiss the report as "fringe". This is just one of the ways that mockingbird cage-keepers (i.e. the editors of mainstream news outlets) keep their reporters in check.
Moon of Alabama: Serious Media Largely Confirm Donetsk Poll Results
The urge to disassociate from Kiev is not only coming from the East...
Portfolio.hu: Hungarian PM Orbán demands autonomy for Hungarians in Ukraine
May 25 elections give the Ukrainian presidency to chocolate oligarch Petro Poroshenko (at least the bucktoothed creep Yatz is soon out the door)...
amihailenko: Presidential elections in Ukraine - farce, hackers, violations and civil war
As the rest of Europe rejects its oligarchs...
BBC: Eurosceptic 'earthquake' rocks EU elections
Doubling down on a bad bet...
ZeroHedge: Ukraine Just Issued $1 Billion Bonds Backed By The US Taxpayer
Although Kiev has lost control of the Crimea (see our Crimea Child Porn Turf War), other potential unsavory sources of revenue for the new government could include...
Aangirfan: HOT SEX IN UKRAINE
Since the Ukraine is well on its way to becoming a failed state, there will be no moves towards NATO membership. Georgia however is another matter...
Civil.Ge: Sokhumi on Georgia's NATO Integration
Breakaway Abkhazia’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that Georgia’s NATO integration would have extremely negative consequences on the regional security...“There is every reason to believe that the West is seriously intending to take revenge against Russia and its allies for their unwillingness to accept its [Western] dictate in Ukraine,” the breakaway region’s foreign ministry said.
Paul Craig Roberts: Washington Intends Russia’s Demise
If we needed further indication that the Obama natsec team is fit for straitjackets...
Signs of the Times: Kissinger - It is not possible that Putin would voluntarily start an assault on Ukraine just after the Sochi Olympics
"The demonization of Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one."
Russia's trump card shall remain, for some time, Europe's dependency upon its hydrocarbons; efforts to bypass Russia notwithstanding...
EurActiv: Italy looks at Mediterranean for alternatives to Russian gas
Eurasianet: In U.S., Calls To Hold Energy-Rich Baku's Feet To The Fire Over Rights
Intelligence Online: Yuri Shafranik, Vladimir Putin’s pathfinder in oil markets
Yuri Shafranik, head of SoyuzNefteGaz since its creation in 2000, is Russian oil diplomacy’s homing missile. Energy minister under Boris Eltsin, he has guided Russia back to into the oil and gas industries of its former satellites and Arab allies. In December 2013, he obtained several permits in Syria despite the ongoing civil war and has been active in the past in such countries as Algeria, Colombia and Uzbekistan. In Iraq, he became a key figure in the entourage of prime minister Nouri Al-Maliki and helped Russia to land a $4 billion arms contract with the authorities in Bagdad.
LaRouchePAC: Vladimir Putin Meets Xi Jinping - Advance The Future
May 21 - It is Armand Hammer's 116th birthday, and notable for the irony that on this day in 1973 his proposed Trans-Siberian pipeline deal with the Soviet Union was shelved for a later time. Exactly one year later, Nixon in the spirit of detente signed off on other of Hammer's business arrangements with the Soviets. Forty years hence, however, there is not the wisp of a prospect of cooperation with the Russians. Instead, with Obama fulfilling Romney's campaign promise, Russia is treated as a mortal enemy by zero-sum game logic. With the Putin/Xi Jinping deal struck today, however, the outcome of this zero-sum game as such has been set in favor of the dominant powers of the great Eurasian super-continent - now a much more a formidable "land power" for the "sea powers" to reckon with...
RT: Russia and China seal historic $400bn gas deal
May 29 - The economic juices of this land power are facilitated even further...
Astana Times: Kazakhstan, Belarus and Russia Sign Historic Treaty Creating Eurasian Economic Union
And coming soon?...
ZeroHedge: Is A Russia-Japan Natural Gas Pipeline Next?
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Voice of Russia: Preparations for Victory Day parade in Crimea causes hysterics in Ukrainian media
Victory Day night cap...
RT: Russia holds military drills to repel nuclear strike
DefenseOne: U.S. Conducts Nuclear Response Exercises
Pravda: Proton-M booster rocket explodes and burns during launch
Massive China-Russia naval drills in East China Sea...
CNR: 中俄大国舰队云集东海火力全开
Persian Gulf is having its own little cold war...
PressTV: Riyadh unveils Chinese ballistic missiles
Going hot?
Israel National News: Immense Explosion in Iran May Have Nuclear Origins
A victory for Assad...
Zaman Alwsl: Syria rebels surrender strongholds in Homs
Yet the U.S. continues to double-down on another bad bet...
Stars and Stripes: New videos show more rebel groups in Syria have US-made anti-tank missiles
We noted above the parallels of today's Ukraine to Libya in 2011; that goes for Libya in 2014 as well...
Spinning out of control...
Ahram (AFP): Libya's general Haftar - 'outlaw' battling Benghazi Islamists
Meanwhile, the U.S. "soft power" regiment prepares to go hard again...
Maghreb Confidential: Libya - USAID calls on military experts
Reuters: U.S. positions forces in Sicily over Libya security fears
Al Monitor: Algeria considers Egypt alliance to confront Libyan terror threat
According to the method derived from Logic 101 of interpreting Obama statements, simply apply a negation outside the bracket of an Obama quotation as such: ~{O quote}. If O quote contains a negation, then the modifying negation cancels it. The following headline then should read as such: Obama hails security pact with Philippines, threatens China...
~{"Our goal is not to counter China, our goal is not to contain China. Our goal is to make sure that international rules and norms are respected, and that includes the area of maritime disputes."}
Becoming:
"Our goal is to counter China, our goal is to contain China. Our goal is to make sure that international rules and norms are not respected, and that includes the area of maritime disputes."
Staging for Vietnam War II?...
Tuoitrenews.vn: China sends fighter jets to guard illegal oil rig in Vietnam’s waters
ZeroHedge: Over 3000 Chinese Evacuated (By Boat and Plane) As Vietnam's Anti-China Riots Escalate; Taiwan Also On "High Alert"
China Daily Mail: Large number of Chinese troops seen heading for China-Vietnam border
A blow to Chinese interests in Thailand as well: Yingluck Shinawatra steps down...
National News Bureau of Thailand: Constitutional Court - PM removed from office
Now under martial law...
Indian election results are in...
As in Ukraine, so in Honduras?
DailyMail: Military police in Honduras force politicians including former president out of Parliament using TEAR GAS amid protest
Kony 2012 was a dismal failure in ginning up public support for U.S. African interventions. Maybe this will do better...
Salamatu Faransa (YouTube): Speech/emotional display of Nigerian's first lady (Patience Ebele Jonathan AKA Mama Peace) - The parody: mama peace...??? First Lady diaris darkness oo
NAIJALEAKS: PROEST LEADER WAS ARRESTED FOR IMPERSONATION
The Trent: How Borno Governor Caused 300 School Girls To Be Kidnapped – WAEC
Pravy Sektor getting a little out of control there Yatz?
Les moutons enragés: L’horreur à Odessa - 31 militants indépendantistes meurent brûlés par les milices du Pravy Sektor et les pro Kiev
RT: Odessa slaughter - How vicious mob burnt anti-govt activists alive (GRAPHIC IMAGES)
Warning: extremely graphic images...
Live Journal (ersieesist reposting and translating frallik): How the thugs killed Odessa inhabitants in the Trade Unions House - the details of bloody scenario
Wayne Madsen Report: Ukraine's steady transformation to a Fourth Reich nation
...Many of the civilians found burnt to death in the House of Trade Unions on May 2 were discovered to have been shot and strangled by armed "sotniks," pro-Kiev "Right Sector" Nazi gang members, before they were consumed by flames. The Odessa police and fire department were ordered by Ukrainian authorities to stand down and not rescue the people trapped in the burning building.
After the Odessa massacre the Trade Unions building was spray-painted with swastikas and Galician SS symbols. The Galician SS, the political predecessors of many current Ukrainian nationalist groups, fought alongside German army and SS units who massacred tens of thousands of Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, and Jews in World War II.
In addition, it has been reported that FBI agents from the same unit that was responsible for the 1993 fiery conflagration perpetrated on the Branch Davidian religious compound in Waco, Texas that burnt alive 74 men, women, and children, were involved in directing Ukrainian right-wing forces in the siege of the Trade Union building in Odessa that killed 46 with dozens, perhaps as many as 48, still missing. CIA agents and former Blackwater, now Academi, mercenaries working for Greystone, Ltd. of Barbados, were also reportedly involved with directing Right Sector and other Ukrainian National Guard forces in the siege of the building in Odessa.
German intelligence has pinpointed Greystone mercenaries in Odessa and in the eastern Ukrainian town of Slavyansk, scenes of Ukrainian operations against pro-Russian activists. There have been reports that 20 Greystone mercenaries have been captured by pro-Russian forces in the Donbass region and that CIA director John Brennan flew last month to Kiev, in part, to seek their release. Brennan also promised additional CIA resources for the Kiev regime...
Kyiv Post has its own version of these events: Police say pro-Russians accidentally set fatal Odessa fire with Molotov cocktails
For the most part, Western media outlets are reporting the Odessa massacre in equivocating tones: 'well the separatists blame Kiev and Kiev blames the separatists for accidentally stating the fire' without pursuing their professional charge to investigate and resolve the competing claims. Unless it has been exceptionally faked, the photographic evidence shows that what went on inside the Trade Unions House was clearly premeditated rape, murder, and arson. The arson was perhaps intended to cover up the rape and murder, though unsuccessful in that attempt. By their omissions, then, the Western "journalists" on the ground - and every mainstream outlet has at least one deployed - are essentially collaborators in some of the worst atrocities Europe has seen since those of the Balkans in the 1990s.
Yet, in the information war, we are beginning to see cracks in the narrative that NATO and Washington would have their media mockingbirds maintain. A trivial but telling case in point: while the Kyiv Post has been a primary English language advocate for the anti-Russian point of view as espoused by the coup government - the government with Yatzeniuk or "Yatz" on top as recommended by U.S. State Department representative Victoria Nuland - we find an oddly unrelated choice of photo (of Nuland and Yanukovich on Feb. 6) for its repost of Reuters: Switzerland has frozen $193 million in Ukrainian assets. Is the implied message here to pin some blame on Nuland and the U.S. for the royal mess which Kiev and Ukrainians in general now find themselves beset with?
A much more substantial fissure in the NATO/Obama/Kerry/Nuland narrative comes with a New York Times article in the first weekend of May that finally gives voice to the point of view of Eastern Ukrainians opposing Kiev: Behind the Masks in Ukraine, Many Faces of Rebellion. Note the number of the article's commenters expressing relief and praise and "recommends" that this is finally being reported; note the relative paucity of commenters and "recommends" taking the side of Kiev. It is apparent that the American people are not buying the bill of goods that their government is trying to sell them. More to this point, see Patrick L. Smith in...
Salon: Samantha Power’s brazen hypocrisy - Media swallows propaganda, but here’s the truth about Ukraine
We enter a new space, it seems to me — gradually maybe, but we are unmistakably leaving Kansas behind. You cannot conduct a foreign policy indefinitely without a domestic consensus, and 1) there is none now, even in the fearful age of “terror,” and 2) more important, there seems little prospect of one in formation. I take the dissent to be seen and heard around us as a memo from the future...
In “Behind the Masks in Ukraine, Many Faces of Rebellion,” C.J. Chivers and Noah Sneider did some superb reporting. They spent many days with anti-Kiev fighters in Slovyansk, the eastern city they now control... Chivers and Sneider took on the freighted question of just who these fighters are. And they reported back honestly. No Russians among the so-called green men, we now know.
This contradicts the claim that Kerry and Obama have been pushing for the last month; yet no reporters from any Western news outlet have been able to substantially back up that claim, other than in finding logistical similarities to methods of the past...
Intelligence Online: Moscow dusts off old KGB manuals
Putin is perhaps very adept at concealing his forces - he is after all ex-KGB. Then again, so is Obama ex-CIA - at least as an asset if not non-official cover. Western intelligence agencies however have been less than successful in concealing their involvement, for instance as reported in the German press, and picked up the same weekend by AFP/Yahoo...
Bild am Sonntag: Agenten von CIA und FBI beraten Kiew
In an effort to counter the losses then...
USNews: NATO Countries Planning Comms Mission in Ukraine
If the above cited Bild am Sonntag story and its translation into English via AFP signified a breach in NATO's comms mission outside Ukraine, the following weekend saw the info warriors better able to stem the tide away from mainstream English language outlets. Internet searches relating to the May 11 story, Kämpfen US-Söldner in der Ukraine? (to which Der Spiegel added some details), found no reports from mainstream sites in English. Reuters carried it but only in German. The Voice of Russia, RT, and other "Russian propaganda" English language sites were the exclusive source of this story for English speakers before message boards, social media and blogs reposted it, along with ZeroHedge and Infowars...
400 Blackwater Mercs Deployed In Ukraine Against Separatists, German Press Reports
CIA, FBI and Now Academi Mercenaries on the Ground in Ukraine
Are State Department diplomatic pouches being used as a pipeline to arm the mercs?
WND: State Dept. laughs about buying explosives
Once again, like the faithful and all but abandoned spouse, the trusting American people (albeit a dwindling number) are the last to know, but then are only met with scornful laughter.
Stirred by "Russian propaganda" slanders upon Ukrainian "patriots" (as David Frum would have you believe)...
RT: ‘Fascists! Off to Kiev!’: Outraged Kramatorsk locals chase off Ukrainian military
To dismiss this as mere propaganda belies the fact that, as opposed to what is coming from the bulk of the mainstream Western press, unmuted reports (from Israel even) and analyses largely corroborate the Russian assessment of the Svoboda and Pravy Sektor parties...
Israel National News: Neo-Nazis Honor Ukrainian SS on Holocaust Memorial Day
Consortium News: Ukraine’s ‘Dr. Strangelove’ Reality
Vineyard of the Saker: Ukrainian nationalism - its roots and nature
At least one U.S. Congressman isn't drinking the kool-aid...
nsnbc international: House grilled Nuland over US’ Cooperation with Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Responsibility to protect? The parallels to Libya of 2011 are striking (an East/West divide with the central government in the West brutally suppressing a rebellion coming from the East), as is the response of the U.S. State Department...
WSWS: US defends role of Kiev regime and fascists in Odessa massacre
Voice of Russia: Armored vehicles used against civilians by Ukrainian troops in Mariupol
Channel4: Bodies and fire on the streets of Mariupol
RT: Village near Slavyansk attacked with artillery fire, casualties reported
Kiev protégé allegedly behind Mariupol and Odessa massacres – leaked tapes
Donetsk bloodbath: Insider video shows Ukraine helicopters firing at own checkpoint
'Torn to pieces': Ghastly details emerge of Italian reporter and his Russian interpreter’s killing in E. Ukraine
Strategic-Culture: Kiev lets loose 'Men in Black' death squads on East Ukrainian civilians
ParisMatch: Revelations on the Krasnoarmeysk killing
A note on AP's editorial decision making: as the above linked URL indicates, the original headline was "Ukraine guardsmen open fire on crowd" before "Ukraine guardsmen" became "Armed men in eastern Ukraine". Again, the intention here is to equivocate upon the facts, in contravention to the reporters in the field. We have noticed this tendency to alter AP headlines; for instance last month we linked White House confirms CIA director was in Kiev, only to find now that the headline has been transformed into the innocuous, "Little sign of progress as Obama, Putin speak". The text has been altered as well, so that the Brennan in Kiev report is pushed to the second half of the story. Internet search results are consequently altered: we find that a current search on brennan cia kiev puts the AP story as carried by Yahoo (preserving the original headline) at the bottom of page one. Most of the results link to "Russian propaganda" and "conspiracy theory" sites like RT, Infowars, Global Research and ZeroHedge, giving the casual news reader cause to dismiss the report as "fringe". This is just one of the ways that mockingbird cage-keepers (i.e. the editors of mainstream news outlets) keep their reporters in check.
Moon of Alabama: Serious Media Largely Confirm Donetsk Poll Results
The urge to disassociate from Kiev is not only coming from the East...
Portfolio.hu: Hungarian PM Orbán demands autonomy for Hungarians in Ukraine
May 25 elections give the Ukrainian presidency to chocolate oligarch Petro Poroshenko (at least the bucktoothed creep Yatz is soon out the door)...
amihailenko: Presidential elections in Ukraine - farce, hackers, violations and civil war
As the rest of Europe rejects its oligarchs...
BBC: Eurosceptic 'earthquake' rocks EU elections
Doubling down on a bad bet...
ZeroHedge: Ukraine Just Issued $1 Billion Bonds Backed By The US Taxpayer
Although Kiev has lost control of the Crimea (see our Crimea Child Porn Turf War), other potential unsavory sources of revenue for the new government could include...
Aangirfan: HOT SEX IN UKRAINE
Since the Ukraine is well on its way to becoming a failed state, there will be no moves towards NATO membership. Georgia however is another matter...
NATO reiterated its decision to admit Georgia to the alliance.
NATO is inviting WWIII and it knows this...
Window on Eurasia: Putin Draws His Own ‘Red Lines’ across Post-Soviet Space
...In an article in “Vzglyad,” symbolically titled, “Not Just Ukraine,” Moscow journalist Yevgeny Krutikov points out that Putin has now said that “the West has crossed a line,” yet another indication that he has drawn such lines and that the West must take those into consideration (vz.ru/politics/2014/3/25/678423.html).
Krutikov devotes his article to where these lines are. According to him, they include any further expansion of NATO eastward, especially involving Georgia and Ukraine, designed to encircle Russia. Instead, Putin’s first “red line” is that Ukraine, Georgia, Sweden and Finland must retain their “neutral status as ‘buffer countries.’”
...In an article in “Vzglyad,” symbolically titled, “Not Just Ukraine,” Moscow journalist Yevgeny Krutikov points out that Putin has now said that “the West has crossed a line,” yet another indication that he has drawn such lines and that the West must take those into consideration (vz.ru/politics/2014/3/25/678423.html).
Krutikov devotes his article to where these lines are. According to him, they include any further expansion of NATO eastward, especially involving Georgia and Ukraine, designed to encircle Russia. Instead, Putin’s first “red line” is that Ukraine, Georgia, Sweden and Finland must retain their “neutral status as ‘buffer countries.’”
Civil.Ge: Sokhumi on Georgia's NATO Integration
Breakaway Abkhazia’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that Georgia’s NATO integration would have extremely negative consequences on the regional security...“There is every reason to believe that the West is seriously intending to take revenge against Russia and its allies for their unwillingness to accept its [Western] dictate in Ukraine,” the breakaway region’s foreign ministry said.
Paul Craig Roberts: Washington Intends Russia’s Demise
If we needed further indication that the Obama natsec team is fit for straitjackets...
Signs of the Times: Kissinger - It is not possible that Putin would voluntarily start an assault on Ukraine just after the Sochi Olympics
"The demonization of Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one."
Russia's trump card shall remain, for some time, Europe's dependency upon its hydrocarbons; efforts to bypass Russia notwithstanding...
EurActiv: Italy looks at Mediterranean for alternatives to Russian gas
Eurasianet: In U.S., Calls To Hold Energy-Rich Baku's Feet To The Fire Over Rights
Intelligence Online: Yuri Shafranik, Vladimir Putin’s pathfinder in oil markets
Yuri Shafranik, head of SoyuzNefteGaz since its creation in 2000, is Russian oil diplomacy’s homing missile. Energy minister under Boris Eltsin, he has guided Russia back to into the oil and gas industries of its former satellites and Arab allies. In December 2013, he obtained several permits in Syria despite the ongoing civil war and has been active in the past in such countries as Algeria, Colombia and Uzbekistan. In Iraq, he became a key figure in the entourage of prime minister Nouri Al-Maliki and helped Russia to land a $4 billion arms contract with the authorities in Bagdad.
ZeroHedge: Russia Holds "De-Dollarization Meeting" - China, Iran Willing To Drop USD From Bilateral Trade
LaRouchePAC: Vladimir Putin Meets Xi Jinping - Advance The Future
May 21 - It is Armand Hammer's 116th birthday, and notable for the irony that on this day in 1973 his proposed Trans-Siberian pipeline deal with the Soviet Union was shelved for a later time. Exactly one year later, Nixon in the spirit of detente signed off on other of Hammer's business arrangements with the Soviets. Forty years hence, however, there is not the wisp of a prospect of cooperation with the Russians. Instead, with Obama fulfilling Romney's campaign promise, Russia is treated as a mortal enemy by zero-sum game logic. With the Putin/Xi Jinping deal struck today, however, the outcome of this zero-sum game as such has been set in favor of the dominant powers of the great Eurasian super-continent - now a much more a formidable "land power" for the "sea powers" to reckon with...
RT: Russia and China seal historic $400bn gas deal
May 29 - The economic juices of this land power are facilitated even further...
Astana Times: Kazakhstan, Belarus and Russia Sign Historic Treaty Creating Eurasian Economic Union
And coming soon?...
ZeroHedge: Is A Russia-Japan Natural Gas Pipeline Next?
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Around the world...
Cold War nostalgia on all sides...
Voice of Russia: Preparations for Victory Day parade in Crimea causes hysterics in Ukrainian media
Victory Day night cap...
RIA Novosti: Russia Launches Military Satellite Into Orbit
RT: Russia holds military drills to repel nuclear strike
DefenseOne: U.S. Conducts Nuclear Response Exercises
Pravda: Proton-M booster rocket explodes and burns during launch
Massive China-Russia naval drills in East China Sea...
CNR: 中俄大国舰队云集东海火力全开
Persian Gulf is having its own little cold war...
PressTV: Riyadh unveils Chinese ballistic missiles
Going hot?
Israel National News: Immense Explosion in Iran May Have Nuclear Origins
A victory for Assad...
Zaman Alwsl: Syria rebels surrender strongholds in Homs
Yet the U.S. continues to double-down on another bad bet...
Stars and Stripes: New videos show more rebel groups in Syria have US-made anti-tank missiles
We noted above the parallels of today's Ukraine to Libya in 2011; that goes for Libya in 2014 as well...
Three
Libyan demonstrators died in clashes with a pro-military militia after
protesters tried to break into their base in the eastern city of
Benghazi, health officials and the minister of interior said Saturday.
Spinning out of control...
Ahram (AFP): Libya's general Haftar - 'outlaw' battling Benghazi Islamists
Meanwhile, the U.S. "soft power" regiment prepares to go hard again...
Maghreb Confidential: Libya - USAID calls on military experts
Reuters: U.S. positions forces in Sicily over Libya security fears
Al Monitor: Algeria considers Egypt alliance to confront Libyan terror threat
According to the method derived from Logic 101 of interpreting Obama statements, simply apply a negation outside the bracket of an Obama quotation as such: ~{O quote}. If O quote contains a negation, then the modifying negation cancels it. The following headline then should read as such: Obama hails security pact with Philippines, threatens China...
The statement therein is adapted as follows...
~{"Our goal is not to counter China, our goal is not to contain China. Our goal is to make sure that international rules and norms are respected, and that includes the area of maritime disputes."}
Becoming:
"Our goal is to counter China, our goal is to contain China. Our goal is to make sure that international rules and norms are not respected, and that includes the area of maritime disputes."
Staging for Vietnam War II?...
Tuoitrenews.vn: China sends fighter jets to guard illegal oil rig in Vietnam’s waters
ZeroHedge: Over 3000 Chinese Evacuated (By Boat and Plane) As Vietnam's Anti-China Riots Escalate; Taiwan Also On "High Alert"
China Daily Mail: Large number of Chinese troops seen heading for China-Vietnam border
A blow to Chinese interests in Thailand as well: Yingluck Shinawatra steps down...
National News Bureau of Thailand: Constitutional Court - PM removed from office
Now under martial law...
Aangirfan: HOT SEX IN THAILAND
Indian election results are in...
As in Ukraine, so in Honduras?
DailyMail: Military police in Honduras force politicians including former president out of Parliament using TEAR GAS amid protest
Atlanta Journal Constitution: Georgia Guardsmen training troops in Honduras
Kony 2012 was a dismal failure in ginning up public support for U.S. African interventions. Maybe this will do better...
Salamatu Faransa (YouTube): Speech/emotional display of Nigerian's first lady (Patience Ebele Jonathan AKA Mama Peace) - The parody: mama peace...??? First Lady diaris darkness oo
NAIJALEAKS: PROEST LEADER WAS ARRESTED FOR IMPERSONATION
The Trent: How Borno Governor Caused 300 School Girls To Be Kidnapped – WAEC
Nairaland (repost of Nigerian Tribune article, now a dead link): Boko Haram’s funding traced to UK, S/Arabia •Sect planned to turn Nigeria into Afghanistan •Arrested kingpin opens up
INVESTIGATIONS into activities of the dreaded militant Islamic sect, Boko Haram have led operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) and its collaborative local and international agencies into the sources of funding of the dreaded sect.
Information at the disposal of Nigerian Tribune indicates that operatives were told that the group had received funds from some Al-Qaeda-linked organisations based in the middle East.
However, the operatives were said to have made a shocking find, which confirmed that the group actually received funding from a United Kingdom-based (UK) organisation.
It was gathered that leaders of the sect already arrested had opened up by giving some strategic information, especially on the funding of the dreaded organisation.
Sources confirmed that while the organisation relied on donations by its members in its earlier days, its links with Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) opened it to fundings from groups in Saudi Arabia and the UK.
According to the sources, different confirmations coming from sources in Boko Haram had indicated clearly that a group known as Al-Muntada Trust Fund, with headquarters in the United Kingdom, had extended some financial assistance to the sect.
Investigations, so far, revealed that the sect received financial assistance from some Islamic organisations.
“The sect was also said to have received funding from Islamic World Society with headquarters in Saudi Arabia,” one source stated... [we embedded link]
Playing good cop/bad cop with the predictability of Hollywood TV schlock...
AP: Obama - 80 US troops in Chad seeking abducted girls
Beware the lecherous eye in the sky!....
Intelligence Online: Satellites to look for schoolgirls
Whatever happened to MH 370?
Sydney Morning News: CIA withholding information on flight MH370, says former Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad
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INVESTIGATIONS into activities of the dreaded militant Islamic sect, Boko Haram have led operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) and its collaborative local and international agencies into the sources of funding of the dreaded sect.
Information at the disposal of Nigerian Tribune indicates that operatives were told that the group had received funds from some Al-Qaeda-linked organisations based in the middle East.
However, the operatives were said to have made a shocking find, which confirmed that the group actually received funding from a United Kingdom-based (UK) organisation.
It was gathered that leaders of the sect already arrested had opened up by giving some strategic information, especially on the funding of the dreaded organisation.
Sources confirmed that while the organisation relied on donations by its members in its earlier days, its links with Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) opened it to fundings from groups in Saudi Arabia and the UK.
According to the sources, different confirmations coming from sources in Boko Haram had indicated clearly that a group known as Al-Muntada Trust Fund, with headquarters in the United Kingdom, had extended some financial assistance to the sect.
Investigations, so far, revealed that the sect received financial assistance from some Islamic organisations.
“The sect was also said to have received funding from Islamic World Society with headquarters in Saudi Arabia,” one source stated... [we embedded link]
The Doctor's Report: Boko Haram - A CIA Covert Operation
Playing good cop/bad cop with the predictability of Hollywood TV schlock...
Daily Independent: U.S. to send FBI to find abducted Nigerian girls
AP: Obama - 80 US troops in Chad seeking abducted girls
Beware the lecherous eye in the sky!....
Intelligence Online: Satellites to look for schoolgirls
Whatever happened to MH 370?
Sydney Morning News: CIA withholding information on flight MH370, says former Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad
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Spook news...
Guardian: White House staff tried to 'un-ring the bell' after revealing CIA chief's identity
Guardian: White House staff tried to 'un-ring the bell' after revealing CIA chief's identity
Washington Post: Top 2 Pentagon intelligence officials quitting
Salman bin Sultan, Prince Bandar's half-brother and deputy in disastrous Syria policy is out...
Intelligence online: Bandar sacking triggers further dismissal
Al Jazeera: SENATE REPORT SET TO REVEAL DJIBOUTI AS CIA ‘BLACK SITE’
Glenn Greenwald cashes in, throwing us some more bones: No Place To Hide
But not without hecklers...
RT: Greenwald’s book tour draws ire from Anonymous hacktivists
Blot: Documents - Feds Targeting Others Over Snowden Leaks
Cryptome: Cincinnatus Public Key (Edward Snowden?)
Snowden's No Place to Hide Operation Success
Indeed, Snowden's "success story" is proving to be an empty victory...
Reuters: Bill ending NSA bulk data collection moving quickly in U.S. House
Marcy Wheeler (having left the all but moribund Intercept) is free to dissect...
Al Jazeera: Emails reveal close Google relationship with NSA
Counterpunch: Willing Accomplices - The NSA’s Corporate Collaborators
Is First Look Media among those collaborators? Gently nibbling, for show, the hand that feeds it? After a month of next to nada, The Intercept publishes the latest Snowden revelation, but not without a curious redaction, a Country X, "which The Intercept is not naming in response to specific, credible concerns that doing so could lead to increased violence." In other words, we publish only that which generates manageable outrage. There may be another motive; from Wayne Madsen's pithy comment page...
Colombia's Zuluaga received signals intelligence from U.S. Southern Command in Miami. Glenn Greenwald better hope to hell Colombia isn't the target country of NSA's MYSTIC program and that "Country X" is actually Afghanistan. In that he censored his latest "report," by not naming Colombia, if that is the mysterious "Country X," he would have played into the hands of the current CIA and NSA election tampering in that nation. But he already knows that.
Afghanistan it is?... WikiLeaks statement on the mass recording of Afghan telephone calls by the NSA
Madsen is sticking with Columbia... Will the real "Country X" please stand up?
Times of Israel: US officials - Extent of Israeli spying ‘shocking
Wayne Madsen pithy comment of Ha'aretz...
Edmonton Journal: Edmonton filmmaker found dead in Cambodia had CSIS ties, friend says
IntelNews: Germans kidnapped in Ukraine had ‘intelligence connections’
Caving to U.S. pressure, Germany will not allow Edward Snowden to testify in person before parliamentary committee...
Süddeutsche Zeitung: Regierung lehnt Snowden-Vernehmung in Deutschland ab
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Police state news...
RobotEnomics: US Army to test robots that “think – look – move – talk – work”
Prison Planet: Scientists - Robots Could be Programmed to Kill You ‘For the Greater Good’
Truthdig: Supreme Court Won’t Hear Chris Hedges’ Indefinite Detention Case
Partnership for Civil Justice Fund: Out from the Shadows: - The Hidden Role of the Fusion Centers in the Nationwide Spying Operation against the Occupy Movement and Peaceful Protest in America
Judicial Watch: New Documents Show IRS HQ Control of Tea Party Targeting
WND: Education? No, it’s about data-mining - ‘Opt out’ movement surges in response to Common Core
Daily Caller: Police Now Throw Little Girls In Jail, Get Fingerprints And Mugshots
ZeroHedge: LA County Sheriff Admits Big Brother Is Here “But We Kept It Pretty Hush Hush"
Homeland Security News Wire: Wisconsin silent about cell phone tracking by state police
Boiling Frogs Post (Paul Craig Roberts): Gangster State America
The backlash...
Liberty Blitzkrieg: Rebellion in the USA – Protesters Take Over Albuquerque City Council and Attempt to Arrest Police Chief
Washington Times: Operation American Spring to hit D.C. to oust Obama, Biden, Boehner, Holder
American Spring or corralling American dissidents onto Washington Mall?...
Willy Loman: Operation American Spring – The MindWar Rolls On
Dancing Czars: THE AMERICAN SPRING WAS A BUST
Today's "domestic terrorists" were yesterday's "heroes"...
Washington Times: Inside the Ring - Memo outlines Obama’s plan to use the military against citizens
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The Internet as we've known it is on the ropes...
BGR: FCC votes to move forward with controversial net neutrality plan
CBC: Google looms as 'censor-in-chief' after ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling
Analysis - Google's memory hole a bottomless pit: Don Pittis
YahooNews: GOOGLE gets take-down requests after court ruling
Liberty Blitzkrieg: Obama Administration Launches Plan to Make an “Internet ID” a Reality
Guardian: Attempts to stay anonymous on the web will only put the NSA on your trail
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Miscellania...
DailyMail: Are these mystery radio bursts messages from ALIENS? Freak frequency from outside the Milky Way baffles astronomers
Some cheery headlines from ENENews...
Press Conference by Former Official: I’m bleeding from nose every day, many in Fukushima have similar symptoms — Author: My nose bled for days, it wouldn’t stop; Staff had same problem… Do people want me to lie? I can only write truth — Gov’t: The nosebleeds aren’t caused by nuclear crisis
‘Marine Mystery’ in California: “Toxic outbreak threatening marine life” — Birds falling from sky, sea lions convulsing — “Worst they’ve ever seen” — Toxin hits record level, almost 1,000% above gov’t limit — Heart lesions, severe shrinking in part of brain, nervous system failure
Over 50 dead seals, sea lions, whales, walrus recently stranded in Alaska — Dozens of seals suffering from baldness, skin sores — Experts: “Marine transported Fukushima radionuclides… may represent a new stressor to ecosystem”
‘Mystery disease’ on Pacific coast of Alaska — Livers ‘crumble’… Hearts enlarged, pale… Yellow lymph nodes… Blood-filled lungs (PHOTOS) — Professor: Worrying there’s no answers, big public health concern — Testing carcasses for Fukushima radioactivity
She never would have been permitted to report this on CBS...
Sharyl Attkisson: Research Immunologist Sees Vaccine Link to Autism, Obesity, Diabetes in Children
HAARP to go off-line. What has taken its place and where is it?...
Anchorage Daily News: Air Force prepares to dismantle HAARP ahead of summer shutdown
Responding to questions from Sen. Lisa Murkowski during a Senate hearing Wednesday, David Walker, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for science, technology and engineering, said this is "not an area that we have any need for in the future" and it would not be a good use of Air Force research funds to keep HAARP going. "We're moving on to other ways of managing the ionosphere, which the HAARP was really designed to do," he said. "To inject energy into the ionosphere to be able to actually control it. But that work has been completed."
The science of climate change is such that one can have no confidence in the "experts" of either side of the issue for two reasons: 1. Earth and its climate is such a complex system that it represents one of the greatest challenges of science to accurately anticipate what the effects of anthropogenically introduced carbon with other substances and energies will be - this intricate web of feed-forward and feed-back systems may drive us towards global warming, to a new ice age, to more extreme weather events, or to none of the above; 2. the "debate" has become so contentiously politicized that the objectivity of any claim automatically comes into question, i.e. is the "expert" here a tool of oil companies and the Koch brothers or of Soros, the Rothschilds and other Malthusian globalists?
Moreover, to raise a possibility we broached in President Weatherman, Part 3, given the extent that man can alter the weather and other "natural" conditions, any weather event of itself becomes suspect in its etiology - not only by high-tech means, but of low-tech as well. For instance, as much of the coverage of the ongoing California drought and recent brush-fires has been tied into reporting on the National Climate Assessment, and as hostilities on either side of the debate amplify, we must ask if the following could be counted as agenda driven arson...
10 News (San Diego): Sources - All but one fire burning in San Diego County have a suspicious ignition point
Shooter of the month...
Project Casting: 'Hunger Games' Director Son, Elliot Rodger, Kills 6, Universitry of California, Santa Barbara
Aangirfan: CALIFORNIA PSYOP - ELLIOT RODGER
Suzanne Collins, who wrote The Hunger Games, resides in Sandy Hook, Connecticut...
Earlier this month, Wolgang Halbig and Jim Fetzer went to Sandy Hook...
Veterans Today: School closed, actors used: Robbie Parker, entertainer, exposed
Perhaps nobody died at Sandy Hook, but there have been plenty "over there"...
Cryptome: POTUS Loves and Kills Kids
Who's next?...
Washington Times: Obama court nominee wrote memos justifying drone strikes on U.S. citizens
Who's exempt?...
Judicial Watch: DHS Emails Reveal U.S. May Have Terrorist “Hands Off” List
Broward Bulldog: FBI publicly releases a few more pages about Sarasota Saudis; 80,000 pages given to judge
Alas, NATO's T 'n A battalions...
Wall Street Journal: Pussy Riot Members Meet With U.S. Senators
Channel 4: After the Ukrainian revolution - what next for Femen?
Santa Cruz IMC: Fake “Feminists” of Femen Participated in the Odessa Massacre
As Cannes goes porno...
Showbiz411: Cannes XXX Shocker as “DSK” Case Gets Porn Treatment in Ambush Film
Salman bin Sultan, Prince Bandar's half-brother and deputy in disastrous Syria policy is out...
Intelligence online: Bandar sacking triggers further dismissal
Al Jazeera: SENATE REPORT SET TO REVEAL DJIBOUTI AS CIA ‘BLACK SITE’
Glenn Greenwald cashes in, throwing us some more bones: No Place To Hide
But not without hecklers...
RT: Greenwald’s book tour draws ire from Anonymous hacktivists
Blot: Documents - Feds Targeting Others Over Snowden Leaks
Cryptome: Cincinnatus Public Key (Edward Snowden?)
Snowden's No Place to Hide Operation Success
Indeed, Snowden's "success story" is proving to be an empty victory...
Reuters: Bill ending NSA bulk data collection moving quickly in U.S. House
Marcy Wheeler (having left the all but moribund Intercept) is free to dissect...
Al Jazeera: Emails reveal close Google relationship with NSA
Counterpunch: Willing Accomplices - The NSA’s Corporate Collaborators
Is First Look Media among those collaborators? Gently nibbling, for show, the hand that feeds it? After a month of next to nada, The Intercept publishes the latest Snowden revelation, but not without a curious redaction, a Country X, "which The Intercept is not naming in response to specific, credible concerns that doing so could lead to increased violence." In other words, we publish only that which generates manageable outrage. There may be another motive; from Wayne Madsen's pithy comment page...
Colombia's Zuluaga received signals intelligence from U.S. Southern Command in Miami. Glenn Greenwald better hope to hell Colombia isn't the target country of NSA's MYSTIC program and that "Country X" is actually Afghanistan. In that he censored his latest "report," by not naming Colombia, if that is the mysterious "Country X," he would have played into the hands of the current CIA and NSA election tampering in that nation. But he already knows that.
Afghanistan it is?... WikiLeaks statement on the mass recording of Afghan telephone calls by the NSA
Madsen is sticking with Columbia... Will the real "Country X" please stand up?
Washington's Blog: New Snowden Document Implies NSA May Be Putting Israel’s Security Ahead of America’s
Times of Israel: US officials - Extent of Israeli spying ‘shocking
Wayne Madsen pithy comment of Ha'aretz...
- Israeli spy hid in Vice President Gore's bathroom. So, that's how Joe Lieberman ended up on the 2000 ticket! The Izzies may have had photos of Al "spanking the old monkey." Meanwhile, the other Lieberman opens his challah hole.
Edmonton Journal: Edmonton filmmaker found dead in Cambodia had CSIS ties, friend says
IntelNews: Germans kidnapped in Ukraine had ‘intelligence connections’
Caving to U.S. pressure, Germany will not allow Edward Snowden to testify in person before parliamentary committee...
Süddeutsche Zeitung: Regierung lehnt Snowden-Vernehmung in Deutschland ab
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Police state news...
RobotEnomics: US Army to test robots that “think – look – move – talk – work”
Prison Planet: Scientists - Robots Could be Programmed to Kill You ‘For the Greater Good’
Truthdig: Supreme Court Won’t Hear Chris Hedges’ Indefinite Detention Case
Partnership for Civil Justice Fund: Out from the Shadows: - The Hidden Role of the Fusion Centers in the Nationwide Spying Operation against the Occupy Movement and Peaceful Protest in America
Judicial Watch: New Documents Show IRS HQ Control of Tea Party Targeting
WND: Education? No, it’s about data-mining - ‘Opt out’ movement surges in response to Common Core
Daily Caller: Police Now Throw Little Girls In Jail, Get Fingerprints And Mugshots
ZeroHedge: LA County Sheriff Admits Big Brother Is Here “But We Kept It Pretty Hush Hush"
Homeland Security News Wire: Wisconsin silent about cell phone tracking by state police
Infowars: USDA to Purchase Submachine Guns
Boiling Frogs Post (Paul Craig Roberts): Gangster State America
The backlash...
Liberty Blitzkrieg: Rebellion in the USA – Protesters Take Over Albuquerque City Council and Attempt to Arrest Police Chief
Washington Times: Operation American Spring to hit D.C. to oust Obama, Biden, Boehner, Holder
American Spring or corralling American dissidents onto Washington Mall?...
Willy Loman: Operation American Spring – The MindWar Rolls On
Dancing Czars: THE AMERICAN SPRING WAS A BUST
Today's "domestic terrorists" were yesterday's "heroes"...
Washington Times: Inside the Ring - Memo outlines Obama’s plan to use the military against citizens
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The Internet as we've known it is on the ropes...
BGR: FCC votes to move forward with controversial net neutrality plan
CBC: Google looms as 'censor-in-chief' after ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling
Analysis - Google's memory hole a bottomless pit: Don Pittis
YahooNews: GOOGLE gets take-down requests after court ruling
Liberty Blitzkrieg: Obama Administration Launches Plan to Make an “Internet ID” a Reality
Guardian: Attempts to stay anonymous on the web will only put the NSA on your trail
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Miscellania...
DailyMail: Are these mystery radio bursts messages from ALIENS? Freak frequency from outside the Milky Way baffles astronomers
Some cheery headlines from ENENews...
Press Conference by Former Official: I’m bleeding from nose every day, many in Fukushima have similar symptoms — Author: My nose bled for days, it wouldn’t stop; Staff had same problem… Do people want me to lie? I can only write truth — Gov’t: The nosebleeds aren’t caused by nuclear crisis
‘Marine Mystery’ in California: “Toxic outbreak threatening marine life” — Birds falling from sky, sea lions convulsing — “Worst they’ve ever seen” — Toxin hits record level, almost 1,000% above gov’t limit — Heart lesions, severe shrinking in part of brain, nervous system failure
Over 50 dead seals, sea lions, whales, walrus recently stranded in Alaska — Dozens of seals suffering from baldness, skin sores — Experts: “Marine transported Fukushima radionuclides… may represent a new stressor to ecosystem”
‘Mystery disease’ on Pacific coast of Alaska — Livers ‘crumble’… Hearts enlarged, pale… Yellow lymph nodes… Blood-filled lungs (PHOTOS) — Professor: Worrying there’s no answers, big public health concern — Testing carcasses for Fukushima radioactivity
She never would have been permitted to report this on CBS...
Sharyl Attkisson: Research Immunologist Sees Vaccine Link to Autism, Obesity, Diabetes in Children
HAARP to go off-line. What has taken its place and where is it?...
Anchorage Daily News: Air Force prepares to dismantle HAARP ahead of summer shutdown
Responding to questions from Sen. Lisa Murkowski during a Senate hearing Wednesday, David Walker, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for science, technology and engineering, said this is "not an area that we have any need for in the future" and it would not be a good use of Air Force research funds to keep HAARP going. "We're moving on to other ways of managing the ionosphere, which the HAARP was really designed to do," he said. "To inject energy into the ionosphere to be able to actually control it. But that work has been completed."
The science of climate change is such that one can have no confidence in the "experts" of either side of the issue for two reasons: 1. Earth and its climate is such a complex system that it represents one of the greatest challenges of science to accurately anticipate what the effects of anthropogenically introduced carbon with other substances and energies will be - this intricate web of feed-forward and feed-back systems may drive us towards global warming, to a new ice age, to more extreme weather events, or to none of the above; 2. the "debate" has become so contentiously politicized that the objectivity of any claim automatically comes into question, i.e. is the "expert" here a tool of oil companies and the Koch brothers or of Soros, the Rothschilds and other Malthusian globalists?
Moreover, to raise a possibility we broached in President Weatherman, Part 3, given the extent that man can alter the weather and other "natural" conditions, any weather event of itself becomes suspect in its etiology - not only by high-tech means, but of low-tech as well. For instance, as much of the coverage of the ongoing California drought and recent brush-fires has been tied into reporting on the National Climate Assessment, and as hostilities on either side of the debate amplify, we must ask if the following could be counted as agenda driven arson...
10 News (San Diego): Sources - All but one fire burning in San Diego County have a suspicious ignition point
Shooter of the month...
Project Casting: 'Hunger Games' Director Son, Elliot Rodger, Kills 6, Universitry of California, Santa Barbara
Aangirfan: CALIFORNIA PSYOP - ELLIOT RODGER
Suzanne Collins, who wrote The Hunger Games, resides in Sandy Hook, Connecticut...
Earlier this month, Wolgang Halbig and Jim Fetzer went to Sandy Hook...
The Real Deal: Wolfgang Halbig / Kelly of Tulsa
Veterans Today: School closed, actors used: Robbie Parker, entertainer, exposed
Perhaps nobody died at Sandy Hook, but there have been plenty "over there"...
Cryptome: POTUS Loves and Kills Kids
Who's next?...
Washington Times: Obama court nominee wrote memos justifying drone strikes on U.S. citizens
Who's exempt?...
Judicial Watch: DHS Emails Reveal U.S. May Have Terrorist “Hands Off” List
Broward Bulldog: FBI publicly releases a few more pages about Sarasota Saudis; 80,000 pages given to judge
Alas, NATO's T 'n A battalions...
Wall Street Journal: Pussy Riot Members Meet With U.S. Senators
Channel 4: After the Ukrainian revolution - what next for Femen?
Santa Cruz IMC: Fake “Feminists” of Femen Participated in the Odessa Massacre
As Cannes goes porno...
Showbiz411: Cannes XXX Shocker as “DSK” Case Gets Porn Treatment in Ambush Film
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