Pravda: Ukraine indignant at 80% of Jews in power

By GPD on March 29, 2017

Editor’s note:  There is much more to this Pravda story than meets the eye.  Savchenko was held prisoner in Russia for some time as a Ukrainian pilot accused of war crimes.  There, she was a model of defiance.  We are still trying to find a way to explain Ukraine, its move from the Russian sphere by a staged coup where so many hands are involved:

• Certainly Victorial Nuland and her Neocon family the Kagan’s, whose neanderthal Cold War drum beating at the Institute for the Study of War is tiresome at best.
• Israel and Turkey are, as Savchenko almost gets, are colonizing Ukraine, economically at least, turning it into a slave state.
• Then there are the alt-right Nazi types, who are doing the fighting, the useful idiots who march into slavery, just like so many did in the US.

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Pravda: The Ukrainian MP Nadiya Savchenko has created yet another scandal. Speaking with the News One TV Channel she claimed that the Jewish yoke, which is evidenced in Ukraine today, should be fought against.

The case is that a Russian-speaking woman posed her a question during live broadcast: ‘Nadya, why doesn’t anyone speak about what is discussed among people? Being at a bus station, I heard a man and an old woman talking: the Bible says that Tatar-Mongol, Polish yokes were in Ukraine, now a Jewish one is in place. Why do you silence that?’

Savchenko thanked her for a good question, and said, ‘Our authorities really have non-Ukrainian blood. One can speak about this, but what can be done with this? We should think and act!’ the MP claimed.

Then Savchenko explained that ‘under 2% of the Jews who reside in Ukraine, about 80% of the Jews are in power’. These are Groysman, Valtsman, Yuliya Tymoshenko, Beryoza, Logvinskiy and so on.

Yuriy Kanner, President of the Russian Jewish Congress, has commented Pravda.Ru on the issue.

The situation is difficult. The case is not only about statements, everything is much deeper. Monuments are constantly demolished there by the ‘wind’, as well as memorials to the Holocaust victims, marauding acts at the cemeteries. There are a lot of such acts. Beside that, there are leaders of some Jewish organizations in Ukraine, who support this theme. Jews are allegedly guilty. National armistice is needed. I relate this to fight for votes, share among voters. Politicians still actively discuss a historical moment, when a Jewish man shot down Petlyura at a restaurant in 1920s.

Let us see what this will generate in Ukraine. They say of a yoke because of a PM of Jewish descent. Russia has also had state leaders of Jewish decent for the latest 25 years. In particular, Primakov is the most famous one. But this has not ever sparked any anti-Semitic anger, which happens in Russia.

Our MPs have delivered such statements: Milonov, Tolstoy… But then they apologized.

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Global Powers Engaging in Struggle for Arctic

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On March 29-30, the Russian city of Arkhangelsk is hosting an international forum called the "Arctic: Territory of Dialogue." The main issues on the agenda are human resources, investments to the region, exploration of the Artic and environment protection.

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Putin to Visit Russia's Franz Josef Land Archipelago Ahead of Arctic Forum

This year’s event is the forth in its history and this year the forum is focused on social and economic problems, rather than politics. 

It is expected that Russian President Vladimir Putin, Finnish President Sauli Niinisto and Icelandic President Gudni Th. Johannesson will deliver closing speeches.

The forum in Arkhangelsk is taking place a month before the Arctic council, an intergovernmental platform for the Arctic nations. This year, the council will meet in Fairbanks, the United States. It will involve representatives of the US, Russia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

The council was established in 1996 to address the problems faced by the Arctic countries and the indigenous people. At the same time, the Council cannot discuss military issues.

Why the Arctic is Important

According to actual estimates, oil reserves in the Arctic Region are nearly 10 billion tons, which accounts for 13 percent of the global proven reserves. Moreover, the region is believed to have some 44 trillion cubic meters of natural gas.

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Real Cold War: Global Tensions Pave Way for Militarization of Arctic

In addition to fossil fuels, the region has reserves of drinking water, gold, platinum, chromium and manganese.

It is nearly possible to overestimate the military and strategic significance of the Arctic. For example, it is almost impossible to detect the launch location of a sea-based missile. The Arctic’s ice sheet prevent from detecting nuclear submarines. In addition, missiles launched from the region would have a much shorter time to target.

Furthermore, major transportation routes could soon run through the Arctic Region. The melting of ice due to global warming facilitates navigation in the region, particularly along the Northeast Passage.

"As a whole, the logistics potential, the military factor and natural resources are important not only for the Arctic states, but also for other countries. In the current economic system all countries are involved in global processes. For example, many countries are interested in transportation routes in the Arctic," Russian senator Igor Chernyshenko told RT.

Media Silent as CIA Director Admits Plans of Aerosol Spraying for Geoengineering

Media Silent as CIA Director Admits Plans of Aerosol Spraying for Geoengineering

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The part of the speech where Brennan talks about geoengineering begins at the 12:05 marker.



CIA Director just addressed the Council on Foreign Relations and admitted his desire to conduct stratospheric aerosol injection.

By: Matt Agorist / The Free Thought Project   Last week, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John O. Brennan addressed instability and transnational threats to global security at a meeting with the Council on Foreign Relations. During his long-winded talk of threats to US interests and how the largely CIA-created ISIL threat is impacting the world, Brennan brought up the topic of geoengineering.

Another example is the array of technologies—often referred to collectively as geoengineering—that potentially could help reverse the warming effects of global climate change. One that has gained my personal attention is stratospheric aerosol injection, or SAI, a method of seeding the stratosphere with particles that can help reflect the sun’s heat, in much the same way that volcanic eruptions do.

Brennan went on to echo the calls from some scientists who have called for aerial spraying.

John W. Whitehead -- Death at Your Door: Knock-and-Talk Police Tactics Rip a Hole in the Constitution

Death at Your Door: Knock-and-Talk Police Tactics Rip a Hole in the Constitution

By John W. Whitehead

March 27, 2017

“It’s 4 in the morning, there’s headlights that are shining into your house; there’s a number of different officers that are now on the premises; they’re wearing tactical gear; they have weapons; and they approach your front door. Do you think that the ordinary citizen in that situation feels that they have an obligation to comply?”— Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein

It’s 1:30 a.m., a time when most people are asleep.

Your neighborhood is in darkness, except for a few street lamps. Someone—he doesn’t identify himself and the voice isn’t familiar—is pounding on your front door, demanding that you open up. Your heart begins racing. Your stomach is tied in knots. The adrenaline is pumping through you. You fear that it’s an intruder or worse. You not only fear for your life, but the lives of your loved ones.

The aggressive pounding continues, becoming more jarring with every passing second. Desperate to protect yourself and your loved ones from whatever threat awaits on the other side of that door, you scramble to lay hold of something—anything—that you might use in self-defense. It might be a flashlight, a baseball bat, or that licensed and registered gun you thought you’d never need. You brace for the confrontation, a shaky grip on your weapon, and approach the door cautiously. The pounding continues.

You open the door to find a shadowy figure aiming a gun in your direction. Immediately, you back up and retreat further into your apartment. At the same time, the intruder opens fire, sending a hail of bullets in your direction. Three of the bullets make contact. You die without ever raising your weapon or firing your gun in self-defense. In your final moments, you get a good look at your assailant: it’s the police.

This is what passes for “knock-and-talk” policing in the American police state.

“Knock-and-shoot” policing might be more accurate, however.

Whatever you call it, this aggressive, excessive police tactic has become a thinly veiled, warrantless exercise by which citizens are coerced and intimidated into “talking” with heavily armed police who “knock” on their doors in the middle of the night.

Poor Andrew Scott didn’t even get a chance to say no to such a heavy-handed request before he was gunned down by police.

Paul R. PILLAR -- America Digs Its Own Afghan Grave

EDITOR'S CHOICE | 28.03.2017

America Digs Its Own Afghan Grave

Paul R. PILLAR

Fifteen years and counting. America’s longest war keeps getting longer. The very duration of the expedition, with an end no more in sight now than it had been at any of several points one could have chosen over the last several years, ought to indicate the need for a fundamental redirection of policy. And yet there continue to be calls, including from influential members of Congress, to sustain and even enlarge the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan.

U.S. Marines patrol street in Shah Karez in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on Feb. 10. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Robert Storm)

That campaign has now continued under three U.S. presidents, two Afghan presidents, too many U.S. military commanders to count, and a variety of operational strategies associated with the different generals. Different levels of U.S. troops also have been tried, with the peak of just over 100,000 American troops reached in 2011.

WAYNE MADSEN -- Five Eyes Allies Do Spy on One Another

WAYNE MADSEN | 28.03.2017 | OPINION

Five Eyes Allies Do Spy on One Another

In a rare public announcement, Britain’s signals intelligence agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), issued a rare public statement concerning a charge by an American former judge that it conducted electronic surveillance of president-elect Donald Trump after his upset victory on November 8, 2016. GCHQ stated: «Recent allegations made by media commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about GCHQ being asked to conduct ‘wiretapping’ against the then president-elect are nonsense. They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored». Its public announcement belied the fact that GCHQ and its four Five Eyes partners have spied on each other’s citizens as a legal «work around» to their national laws designed to prevent such domestic eavesdropping on citizens by their respective agencies.

In the U.S., domestic surveillance orders are issued by a special Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), pursuant to the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The other nations, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, have similar restrictive laws in place.

Such spying took place against two British Cabinet members in 1983 by Canada's SIGINT agency. Former Canadian Communications Security Establishment (now known as Communications Security Establishment Canada or CSEC) officer Mike Frost said that Margaret Thatcher used the five-power global surveillance network to spy on two of her Cabinet members because she did not believe they were loyal in supporting Thatcher's policies. Frost told CBS’s «60 Minutes», «[Thatcher] had two ministers that she said, 'They weren't onside'... so my boss went to London and did intercept traffic from those two ministers». Frost confirmed that the five countries could circumvent domestic laws against spying on citizens by asking another member of the alliance to do it for them.

One of the British ministers spied upon and then fired by Thatcher after her resounding re-election in 1983 was Foreign Secretary Francis Pym, a Conservative Party moderate who, ironically, was also in charge of GCHQ and the MI6 Secret Intelligence Service. The other was Deputy Prime Minister and Home Secretary William Whitelaw, who was moved to be Speaker of the House of Lords, an insignificant position.

In 1998, it was revealed by Margaret Newsham, a former Lockheed contractor for the National Security Agency, that the GCHQ and NSA were involved in warrantless surveillance of U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond's overseas phone calls. In the early 1970s, NSA and GCHQ reportedly cooperated in conducting warrantless eavesdropping on the communications in New York City of Beatles singer John Lennon.

The Canadian agency also eavesdropped the car phone of the U.S. ambassador in Ottawa, with NSA liaison officers fully aware of the espionage. In the 1960s, when French President Charles de Gaulle made common cause with the independence movement of French-speaking Quebec, the Canadians had the Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish SIGINT agencies («THIRDPARTY» members of the five-party SIGINT alliance) conduct surveillance of communications between Paris and the Parti Quebecois Premier of Quebec Rene Levesque and his separatist movement.

During the 1980s, the Canadians were used by NSA to conduct «black bag» surveillance, including breaking and entering into the homes of U.S. citizens believed to be working with the Soviets. It was a work-around designed to circumvent the lack of evidence, which made a court order from the FISC nearly impossible to obtain. In the late 1990s, NSA eavesdropping devices were discovered in email routers located in the European Parliament headquarters in Brussels. Among the email being intercepted was that of British Members of the European Parliament.