5th April, 2014
U.S. officials have distanced themselves from the Budapest Memorandum in light of Russia’s takeover of Crimea, calling promises made in Budapest “nonbinding.”
U.S. response to Crimea worries Japan
Posted by seumasach on April 6, 2014
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Svoboda Going Down?
Posted by seumasach on April 5, 2014
“But, it’s not waving, it’s not even the ‘sieg heil‘ beloved of many of their members, all the signs are that Svoboda are drowning.”
4th April, 2014
They seemed, at one point back there, the most likely party to benefit from the post-Euromaidan fallout. Charismatic leader Oleg Tyagnibok broke bread with US Senator John McCain in December as their banners hung in Kiev’s occupied City Hall, their flags and activists by far the most visible down on Maidan. Svoboda were central in keynote moments of Euromaidan – the December 8th toppling of Kiev’s Lenin was powered by Svoboda, then with the fall of Yanukovych on February 22nd, the toppling of Lenins all over the country was fuelled by them, with boyish Svoboda senior member, and social media spokesman Oleksandr Aronets having championed the mobilising of Svoboda activists, who went from town to town organising, assisting in the demolitions.
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Protest in EU capital prompts security scare at US embassy
Posted by seumasach on April 5, 2014
4th April, 2014
Stone-throwing protesters prompted a “lock-down” at the US embassy to the EU in Brussels on Friday (4 April), as the US ambassador briefed press on the merits of free trade.
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Emerging dynamics of petro-yuan standard
Posted by seumasach on April 4, 2014
Jim Willie
4th April, 2014
The shocks will be many as the USDollar struggles and falls off the global financial stage in full view. The desperate maneuvers like in Syria and Ukraine should be seen as last ditch efforts to save a dying system. For two decades the USDollar has been defended by military means. Worse, for 50 years the USGovt has been a hidden nazi enclave of wicked fascists who have hidden behind their overt disdain for communism, with Kissinger the flag bearer, with Brzezinski the ideologue, with Papa Bush the executor, with narcotics and genetics and gold thefts their principal agenda. The official US support of fascist regimes includes a list of nations as long as your arm. Since 2008 when the Lehman kill was executed in order to rescue Goldman Sachs, when Fannie Mae was hidden under the USGovt roof to prevent its $trillion fraud from being exposed, and when AIG was tucked in the USFed basement closet for ample monetized rescues to patch the derivative black holes, the Anglo-American banking system has indeed been going through trials and tribulations, leading to its death throes. The climax of the banking system death process is upon us finally, the fibrillations of sudden illiquidity against the backdrop of relentless unforgiving insolvency so evident to those with eyes that function. Never before has the USGovt been so plain in its fascist ways, with abuses on domestic soil and installed nazi regimes on foreign soil. They kill economies systematically. They wage war relentlessly, using it as a business initiative. They control bank movements obsessively. They monitor human movement compulsively. In Kiev were seen the swastikas on armbands. The name Neo-Con is derived as a more palatable version of Neo-Nazi. The game is over for their captured gutted violated USDollar kingdom in a veritable killing field of nations.
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Bulgarian nationalists may topple government over Russia sanctions
Posted by seumasach on April 4, 2014
1st April, 2014
(Reuters) – Bulgaria’s nationalist Attack party will work to topple the government if Sofia backs a new round of Western sanctions against Russia over its annexation of Crimea, the party’s leader told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.
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Germany environment minister: Make fracking illegal
Posted by seumasach on April 2, 2014
1st April, 2014
Germany’s environment minister has called for the controversial gas extraction technique known as “fracking” to be made illegal. Her comments came ahead of an emergency energy summit.
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Germany: No Ukraine NATO membership
Posted by seumasach on April 2, 2014
Ukraine NATO Membership Is Denied as Germany Seeks Easing
1st April, 2014
Germany’s top diplomat said Ukraine won’t join NATO and urgedRussia to move troops away from the Ukrainian border, saying it would be a “small signal” that the crisis is easing.
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Turkey’s Sultan rewrites history
Posted by seumasach on April 1, 2014
M.K.Bhadrakumar
31st March, 2014
The mystique of democratic elections never wears off. Throwing into the dustbin all media projections and opinion polls and so on through the recent months, Turkish people have handed down to Recep Tayyip Erdogan a resounding victory in the local elections held on Sunday.
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Ukraine urges Right Sector to vacate its Kiev HQ
Posted by seumasach on April 1, 2014
Ukraine urges Right Sector to vacate its Kiev HQ after downtown shootout injures 3
31st March, 2014
Ukraine’s acting interior minister urged the far-right group Right Sector to vacate its HQ in Kiev after a downtown shootout instigated by one of its members injured three, including deputy mayor Bogdan Dubas.
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BRICS support for Russia’s invasion of Crimea
Posted by seumasach on April 1, 2014
BRICS Support For Russia’s Invasion Of Crimea Signals A New International Era
Business Insider
31st March, 2014
There’s been no shortage of reports and commentaries on the crisis in Ukraine and Crimea, and Russia’s role in it. Yet one of the more notable recent developments in the crisis has received surprisingly little attention.
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Euroland in the hands of Eurolanders
Posted by seumasach on March 31, 2014
Harald Greib
31st March, 2014
The present pause in the march towards the creation of the new political European entity Euroland, consequence of the approaching European elections, which virtually put the entire communitarian system on stand-by, enable us to dedicate this lead article of our April newsletter to an abnormality in the handling of the evolution of Euroland : How is it possible that a member states of the European Union, which is not a member of the Eurozone, has such a disproportionate clout on the institutions where the coming of age of Euroland is being masterminded and prepared?
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