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Key points from the article by Paul Craig Roberts “ In an article published by Op-Ed News, Eric Zuesse supports my reports of indications that Washington is preparing for a nuclear first strike against Russia. http://www.opednews.com/populum/printer_friendly.php?content=a&id=180039 ” “ US war doctrine has been changed. US nuclear weapons are no longer restricted to a retaliatory force, but have been elevated to the role of preemptive nuclear attack. Washington pulled out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia and is developing and deploying an ABM shield. Washington is demonizing Russia and Russia’s President with shameless lies and propaganda, thus preparing the populations of the US and its client states for war with Russia.” “ Washington has been convinced by neoconservatives that Russian strategic nuclear forces are in run down and unprepared condition and are sitting ducks for attack. This false belief is based on out-of-date informati...

Banksters “print” more money than ever! At the end of 2013, the US debt held by the Federal Reserve reached a new record high (12,5% of GDP) since the recorded data from 1940. In the revised data, the second highest was in 2011 (10.8% of GDP), the third was in 1946 (10.4% of GDP) and the fourth was in 2012 (10.2% of GDP). This means also that, three of the four highest figures for US debt held by the Federal Reserve since 1940 appear in the last three years (2011 – 2013)! Also, at the end of 2013, the US debt exceeded 100% of GDP (100.6%) for the first time since 1947 (107.6%). Note also that, at the end of 2008, the US debt held by the Federal Reserve reached a record low (3.3% of GDP) since 1942 (1.8% of GDP). This was the highest drop relative to the previous year (2007, 5.4% of GDP) since the recorded data from 1940. This equals to a -38.9% drop for the period 2007-2008, (the second highest drop was for 1940-1941, -24%). All calculations based o...

“ Britain’s top counter-terrorism official has been forced to reveal a secret Government policy justifying the mass surveillance of every Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Google user in the UK.” “ The statement, from Charles Farr, the Director General of the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism, claims that the indiscriminate interception of UK residents’ Facebook and Google communications would be permitted under law because they are defined as ‘external communications’.” “ Farr’s statement, published today by the rights organisations, is the first time the Government has openly commented on how it thinks it can use the UK’s vague surveillance legal framework to indiscriminately intercept communications through its mass interception programme, TEMPORA.” “ The secret policy outlined by Farr defines almost all communications via Facebook and other social networking sites, as well as webmail services Hotmail and Yahoo and web searches via Google, to be ...

The Ukraine crisis “ An explosion has struck a pipeline in the central Ukrainian Poltava region. Witnesses say flames from the blast are up to 200 meter high.” “ The 'Brotherhood' natural gas pipeline (Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod) is about one kilometer away from the nearest settlement. No injuries have been reported from the blast. Fire fighting crews have been deployed to the scene.” “ Pipeline faucets have been temporary turned off, but transit of Russian gas to Europe is being realized through a reserve pipeline. A preliminary investigation found the explosion was caused by ‘pipeline depressurization’.” “ Ukraine’s Interior Ministry also cites possible 'terrorism' - based on locals 'hearing two loud booms before the fire.' But within just an hour of the blast Ukraine’s acting Interior Minister Arsen Avakov blamed Russia. The Ministry statement decried 'Sabotage of a gas pipeline in the Poltava region' as 'another a...

The passage of Gikas Hardouvelis [the new Greek Minister of Finance] from Eurobank to the Presidential Office, back again to Eurobank and after that to the Ministry of Finance, is one of the most characteristic phenomenon of what the Anglo-Saxons call "revolving door". The difference is that, in Greece, some people have stopped even to preserve the pretexts by Aris Chatzistefanou Tür ohne Luftzug - A door without airstreams. This is the name used by the German H. Bockhacker in 1881 to patent the construction of the known revolving door. A few decades later, the specific mechanism which allowed people to enter a high building without the powerful airstreams, became a characteristic of the skyscrapers that started to appear in the urban scenery of the American cities. In such a skyscraper in Manhattan or Washington, the term "revolving door" was used for the first time to describe the passage of big private companies' executives to governm...

Ο πρόεδρος της Βολιβίας Evo Morales σε ομιλία του κατά τη διάρκεια της συνόδου κορυφής των G77 και Κίνας που διεξάγεται στην Santa Cruz της Βολιβίας, δήλωσε ότι " Το Συμβούλιο Ασφαλείας του ΟΗΕ θα πρέπει να διαλυθεί επειδή ενθάρρυνε πολέμους και εισβολές από ιμπεριαλιστικές δυνάμεις προκειμένου να κατακτήσουν τις πλουτοπαραγωγικές πηγές των χωρών στις οποίες εισέβαλαν ". Ο Βολιβιανός πρόεδρος πρότεινε επίσης την αντικατάσταση χρηματοπιστωτικών οργανισμών όπως το ΔΝΤ με άλλους οργανισμούς, όπως, μια τράπεζα που θα ένωνε τις αναπτυσσόμενες χώρες του κόσμου. Παράλληλα, νέα ερωτηματικά εγείρονται για την υπόθεση Dwyer, όπου σε μια επιχείρηση της αστυνομίας, ο Ιρλανδός Michael Dwyer πυροβολήθηκε τον Απρίλιο του 2009 στην Santa Cruz. Σε μια συνέντευξή του, ο εξορισμένος στη Βραζιλία πρώην εισαγγελέας, Marcelo Soza, ισχυρίστηκε ότι ο Dwyer ήταν άοπλος όταν έγινε η επιχείρηση της αστυνομίας. Η κυβέρνηση της Βολιβίας ισχυρίζονταν πάντα ότι ο Dwyer είχε έρθει στη χ...

“ ' The UN Security Council should be eliminated, because it has encouraged wars and invasions by imperial powers to appropriate natural resources of invaded countries ,' said Morales on Sunday during a speech at the Group 77 (G77) plus China summit in Bolivia’s second largest city, Santa Cruz.” “ The Bolivian president also called for 'replacing finance institutions like the IMF (the International Monetary Fund)' with other institutions, such as a bank that would unite the world’s developing nations.” http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/06/16/367193/bolivia-urges-reforms-in-global-structures/ Meanwhile, new questions came on surface concerning the Dwyer case: “ Serious questions about the police operation in which Michael Dwyer was shot dead in Bolivia have been raised by the former public prosecutor who investigated the circumstances of the Irish man’s death.” “ In a wide-ranging interview from his exile in Brazil that casts grave doubts on ...

Barroso administration: Golden medal in serving interests A research by the Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) “ Through the course of the crisis, attempts by corporations and corporate lobby groups to influence EU policies have probably been more successful than ever, in part due to a close relationship with the Commission.” “ Corporate Europe Observatory has gathered a lot of evidence over time and covering many different areas that shows how the Commission is easily captured by corporate interests. This report is an attempt to produce a condensed version of how the Commission has come to act on behalf of corporations over the past five years, focusing on climate policies, agriculture and food, finance, economic, and fiscal policies.” 9 - Fighting progress tooth and nail Key findings “ Undoubtedly the biggest ethics scandal in recent years in the Commission was Dalligate, a complex cash for influence scandal involving EU Health Commissione...

The government determined to continue destructive neoliberal IMF agenda The Supreme Labor Council voted (with 4 votes against 3), for the mass layoffs of 45 from the 74 workers of the Hellenic Halyvourgia steel factory. These are the first mass layoffs since more than 30 years. The decision comes just a day after the IMF report which clearly states that Greece should re-examine to free the mass layoffs measure after summer period. The 3 members who rejected the proposal claimed that the company did not present adequate evidence for the necessity of the layoffs and didn't answer to the question of why is requesting layoffs at the same time that proceeds in new investments and steel imports. Among the 4 members who approved the proposal there is a lawyer hired by the Ministry of Labor to conduct a recent research related to the minimum wage, a well as a representative of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises. It is worth to note that since the beginning of th...

Barroso administration: Golden medal in serving interests A research by the Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) “ Through the course of the crisis, attempts by corporations and corporate lobby groups to influence EU policies have probably been more successful than ever, in part due to a close relationship with the Commission.” “ Corporate Europe Observatory has gathered a lot of evidence over time and covering many different areas that shows how the Commission is easily captured by corporate interests. This report is an attempt to produce a condensed version of how the Commission has come to act on behalf of corporations over the past five years, focusing on climate policies, agriculture and food, finance, economic, and fiscal policies.” 8 - REFITting the rules to suit business Key findings “ More recently, REFIT (Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme), launched in 2012, is the most significant current attempt to roll back regulation, and it seems th...