Sunday 30 March 2014

DR PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS 2014: UKRAINE, NEOCONS & ARMAGEDDON

                   
This interview is brilliant.



Items mentioned in (or otherwise relevant to) the interview

Saturday 29 March 2014

SIMPLE STUFF ABOUT UKRAINE: WHO’S GOT THE PIEROGIES?

Dear Reader: People ask why I blog. What good can I possibly be doing? Sharing of information is my usual response, simply because I feel it imperative that people receive input from many sides of a situation. In any complex situation, like that in the Ukraine, it is important to look at things from a variety of perspectives. As usual, the cartoon-like Western narrative is horrendously over-represented, but the Russian narrative is not entirely neglected, not least through Russia Today, a host of sympathetic nationalist websites and Facebook pages. I can only hope that my constant chiming is picked up by even a few people who then begin to question the official narrative. Maybe, if they begin to look at what is happening in Russia today, some day they might notice what has been done to their own nation in comparison and wake themselves up!

By Phil Giraldi
March 20 2014
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On March 6th President Barack Obama signed an executive order ”Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine” which permits Washington to seize the assets of any “United States person” who opposes current US policies vis-à-vis that country.
The order claims absurdly that the status quo in Ukraine and the Crimean referendum constitute a “national emergency” for the United States. 
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Anyone who directly or indirectly is involved in “actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine” can have his or her assets seized.
That means if you think a referendum by Crimeans that might result in union with Russia is not necessarily a bad idea and you write a letter to the local paper saying so, it could be good-bye bank account. There is no appeal mechanism in the executive order.
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Obama’s transition to the tin hat brigade is eerily similar to an order signed by George W. Bush in 2007, the “Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq.” Taking both orders together, it is a clear indication of how low we have sunk so as to penalize any dissent over policies that have never been openly debated or voted on by the American public, but I suppose Bush would explain proudly that he “brought democracy” to Iraq while Obama would change the subject by noting that he killed Usama bin-Laden.
Either way, the criminalizing of Americans exercising their First Amendment rights ends up making the rest of what happens relatively unimportant, nothing more than what our war masters refer to as collateral damage.
I am no expert on what is going on in Ukraine, apart from speaking a little Russian, an ability which many Ukrainian citizens reportedly also have. But it is clear that some unfortunate patterns relating to the past twenty years or so appear to be resurfacing in spite of the fact that most observers would likely agree that Washington has made a complete hash of the post-bipolar world that has prevailed since 1991. 
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We are already seeing Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, demonized for years in the mainstream media, compared to Hitler by no less than Hillary Clinton and a supporting chorus of neocons. We are back in the bunkers and it is 1938 in Munich. Again we are being called on to oppose evil, the same clarion call sounded over every overseas crisis for the past twenty years.
But the evil is us.
We started the Ukraine problem by meddling with a democratically elected Ukrainian government which was admittedly corrupt and autocratic, but legal nonetheless. We openly provided the type of support that enabled a diverse group of demonstrators to bring President Viktor Yanukovich down and US diplomats spoke on a phone about who might head an alternative government that would be to Washington’s taste.
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And the seeds of the conflict, one of a series that have roiled Eastern Europe for the past twenty years, were actually planted earlier when the United States violated an understanding with Moscow not to take advantage of the fall of the Soviet empire by advancing its zone of influence. Nearly all Eastern Europe states now have a relationship with the western dominated European Union, some as full members, and most are also in NATO, a defensive alliance aimed at Russia. If Moscow is alarmed, it has a right to be so.
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Ukraine, once referred to as “little Russia” because of its cultural similarity to its larger neighbour is the birthplace of the Russian Orthodox faith, and sits squarely on Russia’s border.
Putin, a Russian nationalist, could not ignore a threat to Moscow’s national security, just as the United States would never look the other way in the event of a takeover in Mexico by a mob aligned with either Russia or China, so how this crisis has been playing out should not surprise anyone.
A little history is in order. 
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The Crimea, part of Ukraine only since 1954, was a Tartar Khanate under the protection of the Ottoman Empire until it was annexed by Catherine the Great in 1783. It became part of Russia, its capital Sebastopol the only Russian ice free naval base, operating on the Black Sea.
Most Crimeans identify ethnically as Russians rather than as Ukrainians and Russia continues to operate its major naval base, complete with a large garrison, under a long term bilateral agreement with the Ukrainian government.
Russia sees its ability to use the Crimea as a vital national security interest and it is hard to deny that Moscow has a legitimate stake regarding what occurs in Ukraine.
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In post-Soviet Europe there were indeed good practical reasons to encourage the transition to popular government of some kind for nations that had suffered under totalitarianism for forty-five years, but the process has both gotten out of hand and has focused too much on introducing western democratic norms without any regard for local ability to absorb such an development. 
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This has meant that aspiring politicians who are good at talking democracy (and often speak English) generally get Washington’s support in their pastel revolutions and then out to be either completely corrupt or hopelessly incompetent leaders. 
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This process is currently playing out in Ukraine, as it played out earlier in places like Georgia. As in the case of Georgia, which was the aggressor in a war with Russia, we Americans are being told that we must stand by Ukraine with military support, a short hand way to suggest that the US must stop Russia now even if it does mean starting World War III. 
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Senator John McCain is, as usual, leading the charge, claiming that Russia is a “gas station masquerading as a country.” If I were Putin I might well respond that McCain is a psychopath pretending to be a statesman.
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All of the above would seem to indicate that Washington would be wise to pause and consider its actual interests in Ukraine. I would suggest that there are no actual American interests, not even the good old Obama tried-and-true universal excuse to intervene “Responsibility to protect” or R2P, as there are no massacres taking place.
So here is the simple truth about Ukraine
~ we have no genuine national interests there
and we are needlessly provoking Russia
which does have legitimate interests.
Putin might not be Adlai Stevenson, but he is a reliable actor on the world stage who will do what he thinks is best for his country and will do it regardless of what Europeans or Americans think. He also, not irrelevantly, has enough nuclear weapons and delivery systems to destroy both the United States and the rest of the world. 
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Washington, meanwhile, has little leverage over what is happening anyway and it has to be a complete mystery why there is a passion to “do something,” particularly when doing something will no doubt make most things worse, just as it has almost everywhere since 1991.
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Slapping on sanctions and pouring billions of dollars we don’t have into a bottomless pit is not rational. Risking bringing back the Cold War just because we can in support of a group of Ukrainian new “leaders” that we understand as poorly as we do the leaders in the Syrian insurgency is folly.
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A Washington crafted foreign policy should be designed to better the lot of the American people, not to remake the rest of the world at great expense in both lives and dollars. 
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It is past time that Barack Obama and John Kerry figured out that provoking Russia and financing a rabble of would-be “democrats” while intervening in Ukraine’s internal politics is not a very good idea. 
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It will not turn out any better than Georgia, Libya, Egypt, Afghanistan or Iraq. 
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It is, in fact, a very bad idea.

HEALTH WARNING: ASPARTINE RENAMED AMINOSWEET: MARKETED AS NATURAL

CORPORATE TRICKS AGAINST U.S. CITIZENS: 
ASPARTAME RENAMED ~ AMINOSWEET ~ 
NOW MARKETED AS A ‘NATURAL’ SWEETENER!
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March 28, 2014
WARNING! Read labels before buying foods with the name Phenylalanine. I will go one step further ~ if you need to bring along a chemistry book to the store in order to understand the ingredients on the labels ~ DO NOT BUY IT!
Aspartame, the artificial sweetener linked to cancer, heart palpitations, seizures, weight gain and other severe medical issues, is now going by the name AminoSweet. The toxic sweetener, Aspartame, has been around over 25 years after it was accidentally discovered by chemist, James Schlatter while working for the drug company G.D. Searle & Company.
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It was created as an anti-ulcer pharmaceutical drug, but the chemist discovered it had a sweet taste, so the drug company switched its application to the FDA from a drug to a food. It was none other than Donald Rumsfeld, who was the CEO of Searle who pushed for Aspartame to be sold on the market in 1985. If that name sounds familiar, you’re right; he is the same Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. Secretary of Defense who served under George W. Bush.
He is a perfect example of someone taking advantage of the “revolving door” between our government and corporations.
AminoSweet is Aspartame, it changed its name to fool the public, and I am guessing it did so because consumers figured out that their product made them sick. Aspartame is made up of three chemicals: aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methanol. The book Prescription for Nutritional Healing, by James and Phyllis Balch lists aspartame under the category of “chemical poison.”
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Phenylalanine is an essential amino acid (that is, an amino acid which our bodies cannot make and which we must obtain from our diet). It is also one of the amino acids which is used to make aspartame. Phenylalanine is found in all protein-containing foods including milk, cheese, eggs, meat and fish.
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Products which contain aspartame have a label which says ‘Contains a source of phenylalanine’.
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Aspartame Brain Damage
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This label is there to help people with a rare inherited genetic disorder called phenylketonuria (PKU). These people cannot metabolise phenylalanine from any source and need to follow a strict diet to control their intake of this amino acid.
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The disorder affects approximately 1 in 10,000 babies, and is identified by screening shortly after birth. [Source]
Ten percent of this sweetener contains methanol. When it is absorbed by our intestines, it breaks down into formic acid and formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is a deadly neurotoxin that causes cancer, retinal damage, interferes with DNA replication and causes birth defects.
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I went to the AminoSweet website to see what kind of “spin” they are putting on their repackaged product to entice shoppers to buy their so-called “natural” sweetener and here is their selling point:
AminoSweet aspartame is the low calorie sweetener that tastes just like sugar. It is made from two building blocks of protein just like those found naturally in many everyday foods. Aspartame is digested by the body in exactly the same way as these other protein foods and so does not bring anything new to our diet.
Makers of this artificial sweetener claim it is made from protein found “naturally” in many everyday foods. So what is the meaning of ‘natural’ when it comes to the labelling of food? The FDA’s website writes:
“From a food science perspective, it is difficult to define a food product that is ‘natural’ because the food has probably been processed and is no longer the product of the earth. That said, FDA has not developed a definition for use of the term natural or its derivatives.” [Source]
The word ‘natural’ is being thrown around to describe all sorts of genetically modified foods and AminoSweet is genetically modified. There is nothing natural about it. Why do you think these drug companies buy patents? They create them in a lab and they own it. And they know exactly what they are doing and choose to fool consumers into thinking their foods are safe when science proves differently.
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In June 2013 Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream and Campbell’s Soup became defendants in class action lawsuits that allege they misrepresented the nature of the ingredients on their product labels. The Campbell’s Soup Company is currently being sued by Florida residents for misrepresenting the genetically modified (GMO) corn in its soup as “natural.”

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Ben & Jerry’s decided to stop using genetically modified ingredients as a result of their suit.
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Ben & Jerry’s used to be known for their healthy ‘natural’ ice creams, but I guess when they sold out to British-Dutch conglomerate Unilever, they sold their souls along with it. It looks like they haven’t updated their website since the sale either, even though Unilever has owned them since 2001.
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They portray themselves as another American success story ~ but according to the lawsuit, they are just another corporation choosing to deceive the public ~ much like another American success story ~ Monsanto who purchased Searle & Company in 1985 ~ who make Aspartame now called AminoSweet.
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UNITED STATE’S NEW HERO ~ VLADIMIR PUTIN: RUSSIA ISSUES INTERNATIONAL ARREST WARRANT FOR ROTHSCHILD HENCHMAN & LEFTIST SAVIOR GEORGE SOROS!

"Russia will make Americans 
~ The United States ~
reflect upon what they allowed Rothschild 
to do to their own country!"
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March 23, 2012
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Vladimir Putin, now in full control of Russia as Prime Minister, wishes to build a strong Christian nation
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Finance World’s Latest Suicide: Banker Kills Self Jumping In Front Of Long Island Commuter Train.
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In a televised Christmas message on January 7 2008 Putin said:
“The Russian Orthodox Church contributes to the promotion of moral values in society. One should not completely draw a line between the culture and the church. Of course by law in our country the church is separate from the state. But in the soul and the history of our people it’s all together. It always has been and always will be.”
Russia will make The United States reflect upon what they allowed Rothschild to do to their own country. 
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So when you see protests against Vladimir now, keep in mind it is probably staged by The Rothschild’s trying to control Russia once again.
Convicted Felon George Soros
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Putin Issues Arrest Warrant for Financial Terrorist George Soros!!
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Financial terrorist and Hungarian bank dick, Convicted Felon George Soros… Russian Intelligence has fingered Soros for using cross-collateralized compounded Swedish and Danish foreign currency derivatives for the purpose of an attack on the Russian stock market.
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Soros’ use of these cross-collateralized compounded derivatives utilizing Luxembourg banks violates the terms of the Basil IIEuropean Union banking agreement.
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The thing that should give pause to the Heads of State Western is like Putin did in freeing Russia from those who wanted to bring the total economic and social collapse and beat up in jail all those who have tried.
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Are they influencing Lubawitschern Putin?
The fact is that Putin is loyal to Russia and its people, and never allow anyone, even when he is in command in that nation, to sell out his country and into the clutches of the NWO lasciarela.
For this he ordered to issue an international arrest warrant against George Soros, who has been caught red-handed as he prepared to send financial aid to what is called opposition in Russia, which recently made the streets in dozens of thousands of people telling lies and misinformation-cheating during the elections.
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Now Mr. Soros has little room to continue his dirty games with the speculation that has devastated the entire global financial system, in collaboration Rothschild / Rockefeller and other jackals.
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Putin’s speech, which was officially issued by the Russian authorities.
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Today it is made public the following statement by the Russian Federation and its Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, has been asked for an arrest warrant against the International Terrorist Finance, the Hungarian currency-Mogul George Soros, the Russian secret services have found that Soros was using foreign currency derivatives with other Danes to start an attack against the Russian Currency Shares in the market.
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It should be noted that Soros was using these derivatives with the help of Luxembourg banks, which is forbidden after the contract was made by the EU called Basel II.
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Both the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and European Union have issued an Interpol “Red Notice” which is not only against the immediate arrest of Soros, but also against the Sharks on Finance, Bush, Clinton, criminal organization, Marc Rich and his firm, which is located in Switzerland, the Commodities Broker-Richfield, which is why the Russian Premier Putin has recently met the Chef of the Federal Reserve Bernanke Bermard making clear that the Russian Federation will not accept that such use is made of people like Soros and Rich to commit criminal acts of the derivatives market and Finance, which led to social destabilization across the globe.
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Putin will be done and start the hunt for these criminals and their accomplices Bankers Rothschild, Rockefeller.
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Barack Obama Or Is It ‘Baraq Bamah’ The Anti Christ?
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Position of Turkey: 
Turkey does not go down to the will of the West.
~ Turkey is not associated with the embargo that the U.S. / Israel and the EU have decided to take against Iran, has stated that the Turkish government spokesman, adding that since the decision when the embargo will not be officially given by ‘ UN,
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~ Turkey will continue to import oil from Iran, since both states have agreed in the contracts they have in common, the spokesman continued his speech, stating that the EU states that have passed the Embargo you are penalized for their own to please the U.S. government without thinking that the reactions of citizens would be contrary to their decisions, this leads to moodiness and social problems (they’re seeing),
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~ Iran itself has decided to cut oil supplies to the EU immediately even if they decided that the embargo should be implemented within 6 months from the declaration.
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~Turkey itself has commercial contracts with Iran, which also consist of providing material for the maintenance of its nuclear plants that are used for electricity and how it is spread by the Western media who write under pressure governments US / Israeli that control them 100%, that
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~ Iran is almost ready to build its atomic and therefore always to serve their master without thinking such catastrophic consequences may ensue, to consider that the Obama administration had agreed that
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~ Turkey remained on good terms with Iran, since when “probably” a threat by the Israeli government to influence the upcoming elections for the presidency, has persuaded him to change course.

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The Israeli government made the request of the Greek government of Israeli troops to be stationed with the adjacent military airport on the island of Cyprus, makes it clear that diplomacy has no place in the ranks of the Israeli government, for them, there is only violence under the guise of a threat does not exist and with which they would like to take the absolute domination in the Middle East.
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P.S. At this hour the government of Greece is ready to leave the European Union and try to save their nation similar to that which took place in Iceland.
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P.P.P.S. This is a direct warning to the privately owned, criminal Federal Reserve:
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Any attempt to ‘bail out’ Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan and their bogus credit claims against the nation of Greece using U.S. Taxpayers money will lead to a major response by the U.S. Military.
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In closing, a direct message to alleged Resident Barack Hussein Obama -Soetoro:
When you signed the TREASONOUS, UN-Constitutional National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which permanently shredded the U.S. Constitution, you declared war on the American People and forfeited any chance of a legal re-election.
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