VIDEO — Kramatorsk Op: City encircled, fighting raging, reports of shooting at civilians
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May 3, 2014
APC can be seen rolling through the streets of Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine. Reports are coming of several deaths.
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Odessa Massacre Pushes Ukraine to the Edge
by Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
May 3, 2014
Western headlines have attempted to spin into ambiguity the death of over 30 anti-fascist Ukrainian protesters cornered and burned to death in the Trade Unions House in the southern port city of Odessa. The arson was carried out by Neo-Nazi mobs loyal to the unelected regime now occupying Kiev.
Both the London Guardian and the BBC attempted in their coverage to make the perpetrators and circumstances as ambiguous as possible before revealing paragraphs down that pro-regime mobs had indeed torched the building. And even still, the Western press has attempted to omit the presence of Right Sector, the militant wing of the current regime charged with carrying out political intimidation and violence against Kiev’s opponents.
Odessa, north of pro-Russian Crimea, and far west of where clashes are now taking place in eastern Ukraine, has also been a point of contention between Kiev and Ukrainians who refuse to recognize the unelected regime’s authority.
Right Sector, a Neo-Nazi militant group who spearheaded the so-called “Euromaidan” protests, has been visibly operating in Odessa in recent weeks. It’s primary role has been to attack and intimidate political opponents planning to run in upcoming elections. It was therefore already present an well established in Odessa ahead of the attack on the Trade Unions House resulting in dozens of deaths in a single day, and as part of a wider campaign to put down multiplying unrest erupting across the country.
Right Sector can be identified by its members openly wearing Nazi insignia, as well as carrying crimson and black banners. Mobs supporting the Svoboda party are also present among recent clashes, wearing yellow armbands with the Nazi wolfangel symbol upon them.
For NATO – War or Nothing?
The clashes in Odessa in the south and Slavyansk in the east, appear to some to be part of an escalating conflict meant to lure neighboring Russia into a direct conflict with the NATO-backed regime in Kiev. While this is possible, a repeat of the 2008 Georgia-South Ossetia War would most likely take place, with superior Russian forces quickly overwhelming Ukrainian troops and leaving Kiev vulnerable to inevitable regime change.
Immensely unpopular and wholly illegitimate, the regime in Kiev stands little chance in any upcoming election. It is also faced with the self-imposed economic ruination of Ukraine, after willfully accepting IMF conditions which include crippling austerity measures that will only further diminish the regime’s support and stability.
With a socioeconomically hobbled Ukraine still reeling from the loss of Crimea, the “Ukraine” the US and EU had invested in through their “Euromaidan” putsch, no longer exists. With anti-fascist, pro-Russian sentiment running high across what remains of Ukraine (and around the world), and an unpopular regime teetering precariously in Kiev, the West appears instead, intent on burning the country rather than leave it a stable and beneficial neighbor for Russia.
World Affairs Journal has recently lamented in an article titled, “Beyond Crimea: What Vladimir Putin Really Wants,” that:
Ukraine is lost. At least lost as many of us had once imagined it—as a potential member of the European Union and, perhaps one day, of NATO.
This sentiment has been repeated across NATO’s corporate-funded think-tank, the Atlantic Council which recently hosted its “Europe Whole and Free” forum – where the expansion of both the European Union and NATO were the focus. The disruption of this expansion, and perhaps even the threat of its reversal appears to weigh foremost on the minds of Western policy makers.
Creating a disaster along Russia’s borders in Ukraine, while attempting to make progress elsewhere, and thus alleviating itself from the promises it made the regime in Kiev upon its accession to power to “rebuild” Ukraine’s troubled economy, appears to be the current agenda.
Responsibility to Protect?
The United States had used the “responsibility to protect” doctrine as cover for regime change in Libya, and attempted regime change in Syria. All the while it was fabricating atrocities to sway public opinion, it was in reality fueling sectarian extremists who were in reality carrying out the crimes against humanity the West was accusing Libya and Syria of perpetrating in fiction. This formula has been spun around in Ukraine.
Now the West is expending resources to cover up atrocities to prevent the “responsibility to protect” from being invoked against them. The massacre in Odessa would have been marked as a turning point by the West for military intervention had it not been their own proxies who carried it out. Instead, the US has claimed, according to the BBC, that ongoing violence carried out by the regime in Kiev is “proportionate and reasonable.”
With the West not only covering up the atrocities being carried out by the regime in Kiev, but in fact aiding and abetting them, the violence will only escalate further. Beyond Odessa, helicopter gunships, armored columns, and special forces have been sent by Kiev into eastern Ukraine and are attempting to overrun and occupy towns and cities that refuse to recognize the unelected regime. This includes the city of Slavyansk where deaths have been reported on both sides and military aircraft have been shot down.
Ukraine is being pushed to the edge of a much larger and destructive conflict that if started, may be difficult to stop. If the West commits to a proxy war and has been able to mobilize enough militants to carry it out, it can leave Ukraine a destabilized failed state Russia may spend years managing. Russia’s attempts to deescalate the conflict have been met only by belligerence from the West. Its patience, and the patience of pro-Russian factions in Ukraine may be the only factor that helps push Ukraine back from that edge.
Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
VIDEO — Molotovs, stun grenades in Ukraine’s Odessa as pro- and anti-Maidan rallies clash
RT
May 2, 2014
Injuries have been reported as hundreds of people from rival rallies clash in Ukraine’s port-city of Odessa. A pro-unity demonstration, which included nationalists and football fans, ran into a rally preaching greater autonomy for the regions – READ MORE http://on.rt.com/rh364u
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Woman Kidnapped, Strip Searched, and Thrown in a Cage for an Unpaid Parking Ticket — video included
by Matt Savoy
The Free Thought Project
May 2, 2014
The nature of the state is simple; with a monopoly on the use of force, your compliance with their laws, no matter how arbitrary, will be mandated and upheld with the threat or use of violence.
The police, while ostensibly there for you protection, is a facet of this institution reliant on the use of violence to maintain its monopoly. The majority of police departments have become nothing but revenue collection agencies, enforcing arbitrary laws written for victimless crimes.
Consider this example, while it may sound extreme, it is the standard procedure of the escalation of violence to achieve state compliance. A police officer, also known as revenue collection agent, sees you without your seat-belt on. You are pulled over and told that you must now pay them money as the state claims the ability to steal money from yo
u for capricious reasons that they refer to as “laws.”
If you refuse to be extorted in such an overt manner and do not pay this racketeering gang of thieves, their next step is to elevate their use of force; you will now be kidnapped and thrown in a cage.
When these armed thugs bust into your home in the middle of the night to kidnap you for not paying them because they saw you without your seat-belt on, and you resist, they will assert their ‘just authority’ and end your life.
As you lie there in a pool of you and your spouse’s blood, the last thought that goes through your head is, “Wow, these guys are really adamant about stealing money from folks for not causing harm to anyone.”
Yes it seems wild and crazy, but the reality of the situation remains; the escalation of violence is the only means by which the state maintains its “authority” over you and forces your compliance.
VIDEO — Topless Femen activist tries to disrupt Le Pen’s May Day rally in France
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May 1, 2014
May Day demonstrations continued across Europe on Thursday, with a National Front rally in France. Femen activists tried to disrupt the far-right National Front’s demo.
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VIDEO — Anti-Govt protesters confiscate police equip, seize Prosecutor’s Office in Donetsk
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May 1, 2014
May Day celebrations have turned violent in Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine. That’s where a thousand-strong crowd of anti-government activists have occupied the regional prosecutor’s office. RT’s Paula Slier witnessed the assault
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First Canadian Fired For Refusing Vaccine
by Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
Apr 30, 2014
While Ukraine, the NBA, and Cliven Bundy dominated the headlines in North America, the Canadian press reported on a major milestone that was quietly reached – the first firing of a Canadian healthcare worker for refusing a vaccine, and the public shaming effort that comes with the “option” of wearing a face mask which took place in December.
Although the few reports surrounding the firing were published only days ago, the Boundary Hospital employee from British Columbia, Canada, Arnold Hoekstra, was fired in December of 2013. His case was only announced by the Health Ministry on Wednesday in order to “wrap up the flu season.”
Hoekstra, who is 49, held a permanent part-time position at the hospital as an adult day program worker. However, when he was instructed to submit to a flu vaccination, he refused to be injected with the toxic cocktail of chemicals and viruses that have been demonstrated to cause a number of adverse health effects in both children and adults. Short of agreeing to be injected with a vaccine that has been shown to be ineffective at preventing the flu (at best), Hoekstra’s only other option was to wear a face mask at all times while at work.
In an interview with the Vancouver Sun, Hoekstra stated “I don’t believe you should do things just because somebody tells you. We should be able to think for ourselves, we should be able to make those decisions. I’ve worked in health care since the early ’80s. You’d think we should be a little bit more enlightened but we’re not.”
According to the Vancouver Sun, Hoekstra stated that he and his wife have seven children and that he would rather die than force them to be vaccinated.
Hoekstra, like many others who have researched vaccinations, is not convinced that the injections provide any health benefits. He stated, “Vaccines in general, I believe, are a total lie and we’ve been sold this lie for years. I could have saved my job, I could have said yeah I’ll do it but I just did not believe.”
Hoekstra had previously went public with his story to the Grand Forks Gazette, his local newspaper. However, larger coverage of the issue did not take place until recently after Chief Provincial Health Officer Perry Kendall mentioned Hoekstra’s termination in his end-of-year press conference.
The Health Ministry further stated that 1.4 million British Columbians had been vaccinated against the flu this season and Kendall stated that, within the next five years, he hopes to see “advances toward a universal flu vaccination that would help reduce the guesswork in identifying the coming year’s strain of influenza.”
As Rob Shaw wrote for The Province,
The government said Wednesday that 80 per cent of health care workers ultimately did get vaccinated, which was a 10-per-cent increase from the previous flu season.
The remaining workers chose to wear masks, but Hoekstra said he rejected that option because wearing a mask all day makes him feel like he’s suffocating.
Hoekstra, for his part, does not regret his decision. Indeed, he stated as much in an interview with this writer. “I do not regret my decision,” he said. “I regret that the powers that be made this awful choice.”
Ultimately, the firing of Hoekstra is just another example of how vaccine dogma has taken an even stronger hold in the medical industry and the community at large. It also speaks volumes to the level of control private corporations and governments now have over the private life and personal health decisions of individual citizens and employees.
For those who may be unaware, the last several months have seen a volley of mainstream media propaganda promoting vaccines and demonizing anyone who refuses to accept the faith-based science that support them. A clear propaganda effort has been launched to make vaccination trendy and refusal to vaccinate a social behavior that is frowned upon. Already, those individuals addicted to hip media outlets are using peer pressure to bully non-vaccinators into accepted the toxic shots out of fear of ostracism more so than the disease they allegedly prevent.
Hoekstra seems to recognize the coming confrontation between vaccinators and non-vaccinators as being foretold by the recent number of articles and propaganda pieces being produced by mainstream media outlets. He states,
I believe the screws will continue to tighten until the whole nation is on board. They have said in the media that they want the percentage of health care workers taking the shot to go much higher than 80 percent. As far as people losing their jobs, well, I hate to say it but most people tend to do what they’re told, regardless of the fact that they are putting their health at risk. Many I talked to disagreed with the policy but, because of fear of discipline and losing their jobs, they just complied. [Please note that my full interview with Arnold Hoekstra will be released very soon]
Social approval and disapproval is often used to enforce a number of tragic policies by using the force of the people who are further enslaved by them. The recent propaganda push by the pharmaceutical companies and their media mouthpieces is simply the gearing up for a major battle in the future that will inevitably lead to the universal mandate of vaccination applicable to all people with no exemptions.
For now, Arnold Hoekstra stands as one of the first victims of this quiet war.
Recently by Brandon Turbeville:
- The History and Science of Color Revolutions, Part 4
- West Blames Assad For Chemical Weapons Attack, Again
- More Propaganda: Fake Leaflets Telling Jews to Register or be Deported
Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He has a Bachelor’s Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author of six books, Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume 2, and The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria. Turbeville has published over 300 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbeville’s podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com.
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