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Washington is beating the war drums

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 This false belief is based on out-of-date informati

US debt held by the Federal Reserve at the end of 2013: A new record high!

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

UK official justifies interceptions on “external communications”

“ 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

Putin's warning or a provocative action by the US?

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

Revolving Doors: From Goldman Sachs to Gikas Hardouvelis

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