Tag: ukraine
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Denial of Reality As Ukraine Heats Up
from thenews.com.pk: The crisis over Ukraine has provided a fresh opportunity to President Barack Obama’s domestic detractors to assail him for ‘failing to lead’ and to deploy American power to force the Russian president to retreat. Much of this criticism shows willful ignorance of the limits of US power in a transformed international environment where no single state…
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Why Chocolate Is Bargaining Chip In Ukraine-Russia Conflict
from npr.org: In the political battle between Ukraine and Russia, one of the biggest pawns is chocolate. That’s because the current front-runner in Ukraine’s presidential race is Petro Poroshenko, known as “the Chocolate King.” His billion-dollar empire was founded on candy factories. Poroshenko’s chocolate became a bargaining chip in the confrontation with Russia last July,…
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Russia Tightens Pressure on Ukraine With Rise in Gas Price
from nytimes.com: Even as American and Russian diplomats groped toward a settlement that would halt further Russian military intervention in Ukraine, Gazprom, the Russian energy company, stepped up the economic pressure on Tuesday by sharply raising the price it charges for natural gas. Gazprom, a state-controlled gas exporter, raised the price to $385 for 1,000…
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Crimea Set to Leave Ukraine and Join Russia After Referendum
from euronews.com: As many as 95.5 percent of the electorate in Crimea have voted to join Russia. That comes after 50 percent of votes had been counted. According to the head of the electoral commission the turnout was as high as 83 percent. Pro-Russians in the Crimean capital Simferopol gathered in Lenin Square soon after…
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Satanic Leaders Will Make Us Pay Dearly
Henry Makow concerned about present confrontation in Ukraine repeats his message once again to readers: “…we will all pay the price for letting Satanist Jews and Freemasons (the Illuminati) control the government and the media in the West…The US govt. has been hijacked and is acting on behalf of the international banks & corporations that…
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Russia Approves EU Assets Freeze If Sanctions Hit Moscow
from presstv.ir: Moscow says it will respond to any EU sanctions with its own punitive measures. This may include a freeze of foreign companies’ accounts in Russian banks and also confiscation of foreign companies’ properties in Russia. The Upper House of Parliament, the Federation Council, is preparing a new law which would allow the president…
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Deadline Live: Jack Blood on Media/Memes
Media Monarchy joins Jack Blood this month to break down spook TV, Mumia media, drone drills, ‘this day in history’ and much more on Deadline Live! Download/Subscribe
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode183 – New Crimean War, Mt. Gox Crumbles, Twitter Predictor
#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode183 – New Crimean War, Mt. Gox Crumbles, Twitter Predictor
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Kiev, Ukraine Explodes Into Violence
from usatoday.com: Weeks of calm were shattered Tuesday when protesters clashed with police outside parliament over the delay of a reform bill, leaving several dead and the police promising “severe measures” if demonstrations do not halt. Government troops attacked a protest camp and fired stun grenades and gunshots at thousands of marchers, killing at least…
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Interview w/ Michael Vail of StratRisks on Sochi, TPP, Ukraine
For our first installment of ‘Geopolitiks’ – a new series examining the real “news of the world” – we’re joined by Michael Vail of the indispensable StratRisks.com to help us look at the five-ring Sochi circus, the looming Trans-Pacific Partnership and the shaky situations in the Ukraine, South Sudan and more. “Read all about it!”…
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Ukraine President Approves Amnesty, Repeals Anti-Protest Laws
from nation.com.pk: Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Friday signed a law offering an amnesty to jailed opposition activists and repealed controversial laws cracking down on protests, his office said. The amnesty bill passed by parliament on Wednesday gives protesters a 15-day deadline to vacate the public buildings they have occupied in order for it to…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode179 – Ukraine Unrest, IP Address Wins, Google Glass Eye
Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Ukraine Opposition Sets 24-hour Deadline As Protests Rage Putin Scores a New Victory: What Really Happened In Ukraine Ukraine Texts Citizens: Hey,…
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Ukraine Opposition Sets 24-hour Deadline As Protests Rage
from washingtonpost.com: Ukrainian opposition leaders issued a stark ultimatum to President Viktor Yanukovych on Wednesday to call early elections within 24 hours or face more popular rage, after at least two protesters were killed in confrontations with police in a grim escalation of a two-monthlong political crisis. The protesters’ deaths, the first since the largely…
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Yahoo Malvertising Attack Linked to Larger Malware Scheme
from computerworld.com: A deeper look by Cisco Systems into the cyberattack that infected Yahoo users with malware appears to show a link between the attack and a suspicious affiliate traffic-pushing scheme with roots in Ukraine. Yahoo said on Sunday that European users were served malicious advertisements, or “malvertisements,” between Dec. 31 and last Saturday. If…
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violent protest shakes troubled london district after police shooting
‘panic on the streets of london, burn down the disco’: tottenham cars & bldgs ablaze as 26 cops hurt & 42 arrested* from voanews: Several British police officers were injured and a number of people arrested when rioting broke out late Saturday in a depressed district of London, Britain’s capital. A protest over the fatal…