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Russian Foreign Minister Demands Obama Reply to Claim U.S. Mercenaries in Ukraine

Academi denies its mercs are helping junta in Kyiv eliminate opposition

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
May 14, 2014




Earlier this week, Academi, the mercenary successor to Blackwater, told the German newspaper Zeit Online it does not have personnel on the ground in Ukraine assisting the junta in its effort to roll back opposition.
Bild am Sonntag, the largest-selling Sunday newspaper in Germany, reported last Sunday the presence of 400 mercenaries from the company were operating in Ukraine. The report followed an announcement in early May that the CIA and FBI are in the country assisting the regime.
Former CNN Intelligence Correspondent and current Vice President at Academi, Suzanne Kelly, told the German news website her company does not have personnel in Ukraine and does not plan to send any. She characterized media reports linking Academi to Blackwater as “incredibly irresponsible.”
Academi is in fact linked to Blackwater and its successor, XE Services. In December, 2001 The Washington Post ran a story with the headline “Ex-Blackwater firm gets a name change, again.”
Kelly’s less than forthright remark about the company also casts doubt on the assertion the mercenary firm is not assisting the coup government in Kyiv.
On Wednesday the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, said Russia has “very strong” suspicions about Academi inside Ukraine. Lavrov and the Russian government are demanding a response from the Obama administration on the issue.
“I sent a message from ambassador to Washington asking him to respond to these assertions from the German media,” he said during an interview with Bloomberg News, according to The Hill. “Rumors to this effect were spread even before and [Secretary of State] John Kerry rejected them. Now they popped up again, and we’d like to see whether this is true or not.”

This article was posted: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at 10:45 am

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Top Russia Expert: Ukraine Joining Nato Would Provoke Nuclear War

One other thing. Russia has about, I think, 10,000 tactical nuclear weapons, sometimes called battlefield nuclear weapons. You use these for short distances. They can be fired; you don’t need an airplane or a missile to fly them. They can be fired from artillery. But they’re nuclear. They’re radioactive. They’ve never been used. Russia has about 10,000. We have about 500. Russia’s military doctrine clearly says that if Russia is threatened by overwhelming conventional forces, we will use tactical nuclear weapons. So when Obama boasts, as he has on two occasions, that our conventional weapons are vastly superior to Russia, he’s feeding into this argument by the Russian hawks that we have to get our tactical nuclear weapons ready.

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MH17 Dutch Report: Obama Lied Again — Airplane Was NOT Shot Down by a S2A Missile

Dean Garrison 12 hours ago
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Here is what we know so far. The evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile and was launched by an area that is controlled by Russian-backed separatists inside of Ukraine. -Barack Hussein Obama

The Dutch preliminary report is in on the MH17 tragedy and it appears highly likely that Barack Obama was again lying, imagine that, to try to justify an increase in hostilities toward Russia. Furthermore, it would appear that the most likely explanation is that MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or an allied fighter jet that was allowed within Ukrainian airspace. Due to evidence of shelling, the report naturally leads to a conclusion that the plane was in fact taken down by an air-to-air strike and not a surface-to-air missile.



Prof. Michel Chossudovsky reports:

According to the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) Report:
"Flight MH17 with a Boeing 777-200 operated by Malaysia Airlines broke up in the air probably as the result of structural damage caused by a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside." (emphasis added)
While the report does not identify the nature of the "high energy objects", the assessment suggests that the plane was perforated by "a large number" of unspecified projectiles or "bullets".

This preliminary assessment including photographic evidence does not suggest that the plane was hit by "one or more" missiles, which is Washington's official version. As we recall, Western governments as well as the mainstream media blamed both Moscow and "the Russian-backed rebels" and claimed, without a shred of evidence, that a Russian-made Buk missile was responsible for the plane crash.

If you have been paying attention you likely already knew this. The Dutch Safety Board report simply makes it official. We ran a report by Mike Shedlock back in July that featured much of the same evidence that the Dutch used in making their assessment. Here is an excerpt:

Haisenko provides this High-Res Image of MH17 Cockpit.



Click on image for sharper image, or click on the preceding link for an even bigger image.

Haisenko Notes

• Cockpit shows traces of shelling, clean round hole, about 30 mm caliper.
  
• Some holes are bent inward, some outward
  
• Rivets bent outward
  
• Moreover, small cuts can be seen, all bent outward, which hint at the fact that fragments have penetrated the outer hull from the inside of the cockpit.
  

Bullet Holes in Shell



Now the Controversy

The rest of what Haisenko has to say is quite controversial. Here is my modified translation (corrections welcome).

So what can be happening? Russia has published radar recordings that show at least one Ukrainian SU-25 in close proximity of MH17. This corresponds with the statement of the lost Spanish controller who claims to have seen two Ukrainian fighter aircraft in the immediate vicinity of MH17.

Is the Russian government more trustworthy than our own government?
In this case that would appear to be true, but you cannot always stand on that presumption. Figure out who benefits and that will normally lead you to who is lying.
The United States wants war in both Ukraine and Syria and our government will do whatever it has to do to establish justification for intervention. You must keep this in mind in the ISIS debate. The vast majority of Americans support attacks on ISIS. I would be in that majority as well, but… I am also not naive enough to believe that our government might not have manipulated ISIS into doing exactly what they wanted them to do. I feel the American people "got played" and now we have little choice but to support another war. Obama wanted greater intervention in Syria and he found a way to get it. That is just my opinion.
Think about that as President Obama lays out his grand strategy tonight on prime time television.
The intervention and nation building continue…
ad infinitum…
ad nauseam…
The betting man understands that every time Obama opens his mouth he is very likely lying.
In this case, it is worse than most of his lies. 300 innocent people died and there is a very good chance that we were either directly involved, or at the very least complicit. Even worse than 300 innocents who died, is the fact that they might have been intentionally sacrificed in an attempt to gain support for more war on Russia (financial or militarily). That is what human life is worth to this administration.
Let's kill people so we have an excuse to kill more.
The scariest fact in all of this is that every single top level government employee, civilian or military, who was in the loop, knew what we were doing. It is not just Barack Obama. It is all of them at the top. His closest advisers, legislators with top security clearance, our military brass… None of them can be trusted.

Try to digest that with your bran flakes this morning.

Full report below:

Dutch Preliminary Report on MH 17 Crash

Scribed document at the page link:

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The betting man understands that every time Obama opens his mouth he is very likely lying

Russian Retaliation Begins: Gazprom "Limiting EU Gas", Cuts Poland Supplies By 24% In Past Two Days

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/10/2014 15:00 -0400

Update: Bloomberg notes that Russian gas deliveries to Europe are suddenly in accelerating flux.

• Ukraine today received request from Poland to ship 11mcm/d of Russian gas, Ihor Prokopiv, CEO of Ukraine’s pipeline operator Uktransgaz, says in Kiev. Gazprom sent note it’s ready to supply just 7mcm, Prokopiv says
• Poland halted reverse gas flow to Ukraine of 4mcm/d by 3pm Warsaw, later than initially planned, Prokopiv

And yet:

• GAZPROM SAYS GAS FLOWS TO POLAND REMAINING AT 23MCM/D
  

So all is well on the surface. Just don't look underneath.

Over the weekend, we commented that in response to Europe's latest, and most serious, sanction round which would finally impact Russian energy giants Rosenft, Gazprom Neft (but not Gazprom) and Transneft, "suddenly the stakes for Russia, and thus Europe, just got all too real, as Putin will now have no choice but to really ramp up the retaliatory escalation, which following the food ban can only mean one thing: a staggered reduction in gas flow to Europe."
And while Europe appears to have blown its load prematurely, with the sanctions leaked before Europe actually has the consensus to implement them (it is now a daily threat by Europe which is screaming that it will impose the sanctions any minute yet not actually doing so), Russia has no such moral quandaries and three days following our forecast, here comes Gazprom confirming once again that it is perfectly happy to play the "mutual defection" strategy in the ongoing and ever escalating game theory between Europe and Russia for one simple reason: it has all the leverage.
From Bloomberg:

• RUSSIA LIMITING EU GAS TO RESTRICT REVERSE SUPPLY TO UKRAINE

In other words, this is only the beginning as Ukraine has clearly made the case that it will plug its gas reserve gap using "reverese flow" of Russian gas in transit to Europe. More importantly, this follows news earlier today from Poland’s PGNiG which said Gazprom lowered supply by 20%-24% in past 2 days.
So is this the beginning of the quite literal, ahead of the winter, European cold war? It looks like it, although for now it is all covered up in diplomacy with Bloomberg reporting that the Russian exporter "set volumes of daily natgas deliveries to Poland at level of end of last week due to preparations for heating season in Russia, Gazprom official says by phone, asking not to be identified in line with corporate policy." That, and conveniently Gazprom decided to "carry out some maintenance work at its pipeline system in Russia." Some maintenance work which suddenly saw Poland, which is 80% reliant on Russian gas, receive up to a quarter less Russian gas...
Finally, Gazprom noted that it also has to pump additional 7.3bcm of fuel to local underground inventories for winter in next month.
To be sure, Poland refused to tip its cards, and quickly commented that it won’t be hurt "as its underground storage is full", as was to be expected simply to avoid giving Russia all the leverage, something we also explained previously, when we observed in "Here Is Why Europe Just Launched The "Nuclear Option" Against Russia" that the Europe's 2014 winter war will be between the amount of gas held in European reserves, and how long Russian companies can go without obtaining European funding.
Then again, and once again confirming it is all about leverage, and who has it, Gazeta.ru reports that it took Poland just hours to halt its reverse flow to Ukraine:

Poland has suspended gas supplies to Ukraine in reverse flow. This was stated by the head of the company "Ukrtransgaz" Igor Prokop'ev, reports RIA "Novosti."

"Not everything is so simple. Today, Russia has begun to limit the supply of gas to the Republic of Poland to thwart reverse with Poland, we learn. At two o'clock in Poland ceased to reverse the Ukraine within the 4 million cubic meters ", - he explained the situation.

Earlier Polish PGNiG reported about the reduction of Russian gas supplies by 24%.

Gazprom’s press service declines to provide immediate comments, although none is needed after taking a quick look at the European dependence on Russia gas map conveniently placed below.




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Putin To Head Military-Industrial Commission, Sees Nuclear Deterrence As Top Task

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/10/2014 14:35 -0400

When we exposed the shift in Russia's military doctrine towards one of nuclear deterrence and pre-emptive strikes, many eschewed it as fantastical thinking of extremists. They were wrong. Speaking at a defense meeting this morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared he is taking charge of Russia's military-industrial complex:

• *PUTIN SAYS DRAFT NEW MILITARY DOCTRINE SHOULD BE READY BY DEC.
• *PUTIN CALLS ENSURING NUCLEAR DETERRENT TOP DEFENSE TASK TO 2030
  

This does not seem like de-escalatory conversation as NATO continues to push - to justify its existence - and Putin now prepares an increasingly Cold-War-esque response threat (following an overnight nuclear missile test).

As Reuters reports,

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Wednesday taking direct charge of a commission that oversees Russia's defense industry as Moscow tries to reduce reliance on Western equipment following sanctions over the Ukraine crisis.

He also said NATO was using rhetoric over the conflict in Ukraine to "resuscitate itself" and that Russia had warned repeatedly that it would have to respond to such moves.

And overnight, RIA reports a successful Russian Nuclear Missile test:

• *RUSSIA SUCCESSFULLY TESTED BULAVA MISSILE, RIA SAYS
• *RUSSIA SAYS BULAVA MISSILE TEST FIRED FROM SUBMARINE: RIA

Russia’s Vladimir Monomakh nuclear submarine launched Bulava missile from White Sea to shooting range in Kamchatka, state-run RIA Novosti reports, citing Defense Ministry’s spokesman, Igor Konashenkov.



Defense Ministry earlier said 2 Bulava tests planned for 2014, in Sept. and Nov.: RIA

He added:

• *PUTIN SAYS UKRAINE CRISIS BEING USED TO REVIVE NATO
• *PUTIN SAYS U.S. EXIT FROM MISSILE-DEFENSE TREATY CREATES THREAT
• *PUTIN ORDERS 2016-2030 DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT BUDGET BY END OF OCT

And who will be in charge of all this...

• *PUTIN SAYS HE'LL HEAD RUSSIAN MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION

As RIA reports,

"Decree on the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation, it is subordinated to the president directly. We discussed this issue with the government, the Prime Minister, and decided that it would be more effective than her work is built keeping in mind the fact that it will deal with a large power issues now import ", - Putin said at the meeting.

He added that the deputy was appointed vice-premier Rogozin, executive secretary - deputy defense minister Borisov.

"We hope that the new status of the commission, as well as its broad powers allow better coordinate cooperation between the Ministry of Defense and the other departments and defense enterprises, to solve all questions on the organization of the state defense order execution", - Putin said.

No surprise there!
And then there's this...

• *RUSSIA, IRAN TO RESUME TALKS ON CIVILIAN NUCLEAR PROJECTS SOON

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The Big Lie in the ‘News’ ‘Reporting’ About Ukraine and Russia

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Eric Zuesse.

Here it is, in purest form, via a typical ‘news’ ‘report’ from CNN:
“While questions about Russia’s tactics remain, its strategy has become more clear: The Kremlin appears to have decided to prevent Ukraine turning West and leaving what Russia regards as its sphere of influence.”
However, did the U.S., in the early 1960s, decide to accept Cuba’s having turned away from the U.S. sphere of influence that had existed under the prior, corrupt, Cuban leader, Fulgensio Batista, and Cuba’s then becoming instead a new Soviet satellite, under Fidel Castro? And, in particular, how did the U.S. feel about Cuba’s new Soviet ally trying to insert Soviet missiles with nuclear warheads in Cuba, right next door to us?
Did we like that? Did we even let that happen (which would be like Ukraine’s joining NATO, and then allowing Ukraine to get U.S. missiles)?
Of course not! (It was called the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.)
Nor will Russia let that happen to them in Ukraine. Putin is the same on that matter as Kennedy was, when the shoes were on the other feet — Soviets were the danger to the world’s peace then in Cuba, but Americans are the danger to the world’s peace now in Ukraine.
And this comes already after polls, such as this one, had previously shown that, globally, the U.S. is already considered to be, by far, the most dangerous nation in the world — considerably more dangerous than Russia is.
Are the ‘news’ ‘reporters,’ and the editors and the producers and the other ‘news’ managers, who hire and fire those ‘news’ ‘reporters,’ really so ignorant of the relevant history on this subject (the Cuban Missile Crisis, and its reverse analogue today in Ukraine), as they pretend to be? Of course not! But they want their public to remain that way (ignorant of it, or at least not to make the link), because the people who pay them, their advertisers, want the public’s ignorance to stay that way: trusting, even when it shouldn’t be. And we call this (the ‘journalism’ that those masters of the ‘press’ — or propaganda — deliver to us) a ‘free press,’ as if it were, though it’s actually a capitalistically controlled press, to manipulate the public in the way that virtually all advertisers want them to be manipulated: to trust the way that things are, rather than to question — much less to oppose — it.
The people who own and control, and hire-and-fire, the employees at CNN, The New York Times, Fox ‘News,’ etc., have a collectively shared agenda, to portray the United States as if this country were a democracy (so that their audience will trust them — this ‘free press’ — and so that their sponsors will thereby continue to generate income from their trusting complacent market), despite America’s not being a real democracy anymore; and a crucial part of that agenda, at a time like this when the U.S. President is aiming to surround Russia with our missiles in new NATO member-states, is to portray Russia as being a dictatorship, though it’s not that anymore — it’s not even the Soviet Union anymore, nor even communist, anymore. The ideological Cold War between capitalism and communism is over, and capitalism won. Yet, the ‘news’ establishment, and the book publishers, portray Russia as if it were little or nothing but an extension of the communist U.S.S.R. in geographically truncated form. (By contrast, here’s the actual reality on that matter.)
This typical CNN fictitious ‘news’ ‘report’ about Ukraine then continues its deception, as follows:
“That means denying Ukraine membership of Western institutions like the European Union, and NATO.”
Here’s the relevant background on that: The U.S. tried repeatedly to assassinate Fidel Castro in order to get rid of the danger. There’s no evidence, yet, that Putin is attempting any such thing in Ukraine, though we might drive him to try doing that. We might drive him to perpetrate a Ukrainian counter-coup, to overthrow the regime that Obama installed in his violent February 2014 coup that overthrew the leader Ukraine had elected in their last nationwide election, the election that occurred in 2010. (No nationwide election has occurred in Ukraine since then. The leader whom Obama installed in February 2014 there, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, is still in power from Obama’s February coup, though a figurehead Ukrainian President was ‘elected’ on 25 May 2014 in ‘elections’ that were held in only the areas of Ukraine that had voted in 2010 against the man whom Obama overthrew in February 2014 (and Obama now wants to cement that victory of his, by getting rid of the voters for the man he overthrew: getting rid of the people who live in that area, as a consequence of which they are being exterminated and driven out) — so, that recent ‘election’ wasn’t a nationwide one, even though this Obama-installed Government is slaughtering the people in those very same regions that didn’t vote for it, and is claiming the sovereign right to do that and to call those resistors ‘terrorists.’) That’s the reality of the relevant background.
The next sentence in this typical CNN (supposed) ‘news’ ‘report’ is:
“What’s more, the Kremlin appears determined to achieve its goal regardless of the cost.”
Actually, however, it is the United States that has expended the vast sums to install the current Ukrainian Government, and then to retain it. Obama’s agent controlling Ukraine, who is Victoria Nuland, said in December 2013, three months before the coup, that we had already spent “more than five billion dollars” to establish “democracy” in that land where we soon thereafter actually ended Ukraine’s struggling democracy. Then, the IMF (which is to say, mainly U.S. taxpayers) lent another $17 billion, to enable this new Government to exterminate the resistors (and to aid U.S. firms to take over the country’s agriculture and gas); and, then, on 9 September 2014, the great economist Michael Hudson bannered “The IMF’s New Cold War Loan to Ukraine”; and he wrote that, “Four months later, on August 29, just as Kiev began losing its attempt at ethnic cleansing against the eastern Donbas region [where Ukraine’s troops are clearing away the residents so as to install gas-fracking wells], the IMF signed off on the first loan ever to a side engaged in a civil war, not to mention rife with insider capital flight and a collapsing balance of payments.” Hudson noted that, “The IMF’s Articles of Agreement forbid it to make loans to countries that clearly cannot pay, prompting its economists to complain at last year’s October 2013 annual meeting in Washington that their institution was violating its rules by making bad loans ‘to states unable to repay their debts.’”
In other words: Obama as the U.S. President is acting like the megabank presidents did who had crashed their banks in 2008 by carrying out Ponzi schemes for ever-rising sales-commissions to their employees, and for ever-higher executive bonuses to themselves, via pumping out tons of liars’ ‘loans’ [now IMF ‘loans’ to an insolvent Ukraine] to people who couldn’t repay those loans and who would inevitably be driven bankrupt though trying to do so — all in order to produce then ever-growing quantities of rigged AAA-rated Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) that ended up robbing pension funds (while those megabank CEOs pocketed enormous sums in their bloated bonuses). And, as happened with the (still continuing) Wall Street bailout, U.S. taxpayers are left holding a multi-trillion-dollar debt for our children and grandchildren as taxpayers to pay, while today’s oligarchs (and their agents, such as, perhaps ultimately, a retired Obama) stash secret offshore bank accounts with their essentially stolen cash, as payoffs for services rendered in these mega-heists.
But this sort of thing isn’t “News That’s Fit to Print” — not even when it actually happens, as it has (since George W. Bush, at least), and as it seems likely to continue happening, because there is no accountability applied to the very biggest of thieves: they buy the government, and they own the ‘news’ media, and they fool the public, and blame ‘democracy’ (that’s us) for the resulting national stagnation if not decline.
It’s all a racket. The name for it is “fascism.” It’s actually Ponzi-scheme capitalism. And this fact is news that’s not fit to print, in a fascist country — at least not by fascist ‘news’ media, which benefit by perpetuating that type of Ponzi scheme — the nationalistic type.
So: we get ‘news’ that portrays America’s first-ever installation of an outright racist-fascist (otherwise called ideologically “nazi”) regime, in Ukraine, exterminating its own ethnic-Russian population (the people who live in Ukraine’s southeast), as if America were instead ‘protecting’ Ukraine against ‘Russian aggression.’
Such ‘news’ is not to be believed, because it is false; it is fake ‘news,’ not real “news” — not news at all, but instead mere myth-propagation. It is nothing more than nationalistic propaganda. It can equally be characterized as “aristocratic” propaganda (which is the reason why the conservatives in Britain are explicitly called “Tories”). (NOTE: There is a profound difference between nationalism and patriotism. Patriotism is democratic; nationalism is aristocratic. Patriotism used to be strong in America, but nationalism has increasingly replaced it. The very idea of ‘winning’ a nuclear war is nationalistic, and it is also traitorous; it is also false: it’s based on myths.)
Nationalistic propaganda is what Americans are reading, and seeing on television, about Ukraine, Russia, and American foreign policy.
Here, then, is the real news about Ukraine: Obama has broken the dysfunctional Ukraine into what will now inevitably be two or more failed states, just as George W. Bush did to Iraq, but Obama used mainly the State Department and CIA and IMF to do it, rather than the U.S. military (no “boots on the ground”). Putin is trying to manage the consequences of Obama’s aggression, in a way that will avoid a nuclear war with the U.S.
And so the Big Lie in the ‘news’ ‘reporting’ about Ukraine and Russia is that the Ukrainian regime and the man who installed it (Obama) are defending democracy against aggression from dictatorial Russia.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.


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