A HEGEMONIA SOBRE TODA A TERRA :

YouTube VIDEO - Apr 2015 - clik 1 
"Em Kiev, regime de junta militar toma o lugar de uma república presidencialista parlamentar".

PRIMEIROS PASSOS DA 3a GUERRA MUNDIAL :

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Euro Parlamento: "estar prontos para guerra nuclear com Rússia".

"Time of talk and persuasion [vis-à-vis Russia] is over," MEP and Vice-President of the EPP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski said at the meeting. “Now it’s time for a tough policy, a realistic policy, and concentration on defense and security, because the eastern flank of the EU feels vitally, existentially threatened.” According to Romanian MEP Cristian Dan Preda, most Romanians believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not stop until he unites Russia and Transnistria, the small breakaway republic that Russian-backed separatists carved off Moldova soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Roland Freudenstein, Head of Research and the Deputy Director of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, the political foundation and official think tank of the EPP, expressed his regret that Europe's readiness to go to war had not been properly discussed in public. "That needs to change […] We have to make clear that yes, we are willing to go to war, for what we consider existential principles of Europe’s future," he said. 

Freudenstein further argued that the West should resume its deterrence, including nuclear deterrence. "In Germany at the moment, nuclear deterrence by NATO consists of 20 rusting free-fall bombs, of the B-61 type, that could be wiped out with one strike by Russian forces. These are things where we have to change - we have to shape up" Freudenstein said. He said Western leaders should give Russia a clear message that its behavior is unacceptable and that Europe is prepared to resist. The EPP is the largest political group in the European Parliament, and the party behind the nomination of Jean-Claude Juncker as President of the European Commission, the Euractiv report read. The news site said the party has the support of some of Europe's most powerful leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

SUBJUGANDO O POVO AMERICANO :

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Sem pudor, EUA anuncia na TV: vai usar fôrças militares para reprimir o seu próprio povo.

YORKTOWN | We just received a tip about an Operational Readiness Exercise conducted at the Naval Weapons Station in Yorktown Virginia. Marines training for riot control.  Per the usual the exercise was given the cover story of overseas preparation. Sgt. Andrew S. Wilbur, a non-lethal weapons instructor said of a similar exercise “Consider they are hypothetically operating within an EMBASSY." However, As we've been following for weeks, public concerns are running high amidst the recent ft Lauderdale FEMA Camp Roundup drills, and the Ontario California martial law train. Participants in This latest training exercise were the Bravo Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team Company. Oddly the high production footage you're seeing right now is directly from the Department of Defense. As a professional news package intended for the public to see. 

This has a twofold effect. First. The Marines are training for riot and crowd control on American soil where tea partiers and Constitutionalists are constantly demonized by politicians and the media. In the event of civil unrest these same Marines could deploy this training upon Americans. Second. The media production aspect of this is chilling because it shows they are doing this in full public view. They want this to be seen. Because they want the public to accept Marines not police conducting riot control during the coming martial law and societal breakdown. While training is a common part of military life these tactics a suspect in context of other reports we've done here at the next News Network. Please review our previous reports to gain the full perspective.  And most importantly. Please be prepared for the unknown days that lie ahead. 

PRIMEIROS PASSOS DA 3a GUERRA MUNDIAL :

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Em novo tipo de guerra, EUA já ataca China e Rússia: fermenta revoltas via ONGs, Ásia Central.

The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits between a U.S.-dominated NATO, its GCC proxies, Russia, China and other regional players. So-called color revolutions have long been used by the United States to replace governments all over the world with more pliable alternatives if the respective leaders have outlived their usefulness or antagonized Washington, the most recent example being the Euromaidan in Ukraine. After Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych refused to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union, the U.S. and its allies launched Orange Revolution 2.0 to ensure Kiev's commitment to Euro-Atlantic integration and to nip Ukraine's accession to the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) in the bud. On November 21, Ukrainiansgathered in Kiev to mark the first anniversary of the start of the fateful anti-government protests, which have plunged the country into war, leading to a new confrontation between Russia and the West. In light of the developments in Ukraine, many governments are increasingly alarmed at color revolutions. Especially Russian officials have been repeatedly warning against this "new form of warfare" in recent months.

China e Rússia se coordenam em ativa defesa conjunta.

A few days ago, President Putinurged Russian security chief to do everything necessary to prevent a color revolution in Russia and the issue was also high on the agenda during this week's talks between Russian and Chinese defense ministers: Russia, China should jointly counter "color revolutions" — Russian Defense Ministry . Russia and China should jointly stand against “color revolutions” which both countries are facing, a deputy Russian defence minister said after talks between Russian and Chinese defence chiefs on Tuesday. “We focused on those events which have recently taken place in Hong Kong, and both ministers acknowledged that no country is immune from ‘color revolutions,’” Anatoly Antonov said. “It only seems that these “color revolutions” and these experiments by Western spin doctors, including those from the United States, are being implemented somewhere far from China or the Russian Federation,” Antonov said. “All this is in fact near us, and we believe that Russia and China should work together to withstand this new security challenge to our countries.”

A ASCENSÃO DA EURÁSIA :

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China obtém acesso estratégico ao Oceano Índico. Injeta $46bi no Paquistão, mega-hub econômico.

China's President Xi Jinping has signed agreements with Pakistan promising investment of $46bn (£30.7bn). The focus of spending is on building a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) - a network of roads, railway and pipelines between the long-time allies. They will run some 3,000km (1,800 miles) from Gwadar in Pakistan to China's western Xinjiang region. The projects will give China direct access to the Indian Ocean and beyond. This marks a major advance in China's plans to boost its influence in Central and South Asia, correspondents say, and far exceeds US spending in Pakistan.

"Pakistan, for China, is now of pivotal importance. This has to succeed and be seen to succeed," Reuters quoted Mushahid Hussain Sayed, chairman of the Pakistani parliament's defence committee, as saying. Pakistan, for its part, hopes the investment will strengthen its struggling economy and help end chronic power shortages. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said ties with China had "remained robust" despite political changes and "major regional developments" over four generations. "Our relations are based on the shared ideals and principles of mutual trust, mutual benefit and mutual respect," he said. Pakistan, meanwhile, hopes the investment will enable it to transform itself into a regional economic hub. Ahsan Iqbal, the Pakistani minister overseeing the plan, told AFP news agency that these were "very substantial and tangible projects which will have a significant transformative effect". Pakistan's neighbour and rival, India, will be watching developments closely. Delhi is wary of China's regional ambitions, despite relations improving markedly in recent years. President Xi visited Delhi last year, after postponing his visit to Islamabad because of anti-government protests. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due in China next month.

China sees a historic opportunity to redraw the geopolitical map by succeeding where the U.S. has largely failed, building critical infrastructure that could kick-start economic growth and open new trade routes between China and Central and South Asia. A cornerstone of the project will be to develop the Pakistani port of Gwadar, a warm-water port run by the Chinese on the doorstep of the Middle East. If realized, the plan would be China’s biggest splurge on economic development in another country to date. It aims over 15 years to create a 2,000-mile economic corridor between Gwadar and northwest China, with roads, rail links and pipelines crossing Pakistan. The network ultimately will link to other countries as well, potentially creating a regional trading boom, Pakistani and Chinese officials say. The Pakistan program has been described by Chinese officials as the “flagship project” of a broader policy, “One Belt, One Road,” which seeks to physically connect China to its markets in Asia, Europeand beyond. “If ‘One Belt, One Road’ is like a symphony involving and benefiting every country, then construction of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor is the sweet melody of the symphony’s first movement,” Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister said during a visit to Pakistan in February. 

A REAÇÃO DOS POVOS :

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Estado reprime livre expressão na França, mas cresce a resistência popular à censura sectária.

Last November I wrote a piece entitled “Is a new revolution quietly brewing in France?” in which I described struggle which was taking place between the French people and the Zionist plutocracy which has ruled France over the past decades (roughly since 1969) and today I am returning to this topic as events have rapidly accelerated and taken a sharp turn for the worse. A number of most interesting things have happened and the French “Resistance” (I will use this collective designator when speaking of the entire Dieudonne/Soral movement) is now being attacked on three levels. Finally, from more or less covert, the persecution of Dieudonne and Soral by the French state became completely overt. I already mentioned how in early January the French Minister of the Interior, Manuel Valls, used his powers to ban the latest show of Dieudonne (see here and here). 

Over the last weeks, this repression has reached a new level with even more lawsuits against Soral (12 simultaneous lawsuits, see Google-translated list here) and administrative harassments (evening “visits” by bailiffs, abusive arrests, threats, police search of his small theatre in Paris) against Dieudonne. All these events taken together – and it is really not hard at all to connect the dots – for a very clear picture: the power of the state is used to persecute, harass and repress Dieudonne and Soral. And that, of course, just goes even further in proving that Soral is right in his central thesis about France being run by a shadow occupation “deep government” whose loyalties are not to the French people, but to the Zionist plutocracy and Israel. The reaction against this state of affairs is also becoming stronger and the amount of people supporting Dieudonne and Soral has literally skyrocketed. The reason for that is not only that a lot of French people share the same views as Soral and Dieudonne, but also a deep running French cultural tradition of admiring rebels and disliking the state. Add to this that Hollande is the most hated President in French history and that the French economy is doing down the tubes triggering untold suffering and rage in the people suffering form the crisis, and you get a very explosive mix: the so-called “Day of Rage”.

O COLAPSO DO IMPÉRIO :

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Riqueza em 100 trilhões evapora.

Dent thinks deflation is what’s coming, not hyper-inflation. Dent predicts, “When debt is restructured and financial asset bubbles burst, you are destroying. I’m estimating over $100 trillion in wealth will disappear. When you create money by magic and QE and bank loans, it can disappear like magic. Now you see it, now you don’t. When that money disappears, there’s fewer dollars chasing the same goods. That’s deflation, and gold is not going to like that.” Dent goes on to explain, “People don’t realize that there is not near as much government debt, or Fed created debt, than private system money. Banks create most of the money. They lend against asset that aren’t even theirs, your deposits, on a 10 to 1 basis. Banks only have to have 10% reserves. They can take a little bit of money and create a lot of money. At the peak of the debt bubble, we had $10 trillion in federal government debt and $42 trillion in private debt. It’s not so much the Treasury bonds held outside the United States, its dollar denominated loans. Most emerging countries buy in dollars. They buy and sell commodities in dollars.

The gold bugs get everything right except they don’t get how fast this money can disappear. There is no good house in the neighborhood here. Way more dollars will be destroyed here. Way more than yen and euros. So, the dollar will go up in value because there will be fewer of them. Fewer dollars chasing the same goods is deflation and paradoxically makes the dollar more valuable. . . . I’d rather have cash, and I’d rather have U.S. dollars.” On the U.S. dollar, Dent says, “It’s already had an incredible run, and we have been predicting in our newsletter that the dollar would step back after hitting about 100 on the dollar index. We think it will step back to 94 and go sideways for a while. My target is 120 and this deflation, like in 2008, it was bad for gold and was good for the dollar. I think gold is going to bounce for several months now, but only a little bit, a couple of hundred points at most. Then, it is going to go crashing down again. So, I say gold will go up some and the dollar will go down some for a while. The next turn is going to be a bigger crash and gold down and dollar up. . . . Our target for gold is $700 to $740 per ounce by early 2017. Ultimately, it could see $400 to $250 several years down the road.”

SUBJUGANDO O POVO AMERICANO :

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Nos EUA, até mídia de denúncia faz vista grossa à nazificação da Ucrânia com limpeza étnica.

The U.S. ’news’ media are so censored and controlled, so that even America’s ‘media watchdog’ organizations —mediamatters.org and fair.org on the left; and aim.org and mrc.org on the right — have hidden from the American public President Barack Obama’s Ukrainian coup in February 2014 that violently overthrew Ukraine’s democratically elected President and replaced him with a Ukrainian nazi (racist-fascist) rabidly eliminationist anti-Russian, police-state regime in Kiev, which, ever since America’s coup there, has been ethnically cleansing the Ukrainian Donbass region that had voted 90% for the man, Viktor Yanukovych, whom the Obama Administration overthrew. None of this is reported in the U.S. ‘news’ media — and America’s ‘media watchdog’ organizations hide the media’s hiding of it, though these events could bring on a nuclear war with Russia, which is America’s real target in Ukraine, right next door to Russia.

On 14 January 2015, I headlined “The Most-Censored News Story of 2014 Was ___What___?” and reported that, after an investigation, I had found that, by far, the most-censored news story of 2014 in America was Obama’s coup and U.S.-supported ethnic-cleansing in Ukraine. Links were provided there to videos of the the U.S.-backed massacre in the Trade Unions Building in Odessa on 2 May 2014, and the following ethnic cleansing in the Donbass region. However, the U.S. even sponsors firebombings of Donbass in order to get rid of the residents there, and our ‘media watchdogs’ are even silent about the ’news’ being silent about that. And, here is a good video of America’s Ukrainian coup, which overthrew Yanukovych. Here is more about that coup.  America is trying to conquer Russia, and the placement of nuclear missiles right next door to Russia, in Ukraine seems to be Obama’s objective. America’s ‘news’ media, and their ‘watchdogs,’ are doing a terrific job of hiding all of this from the American people. They wouldn’t do that if these events weren’t enormously important to the American aristocracy, who, it seems, have bought up all of the major mainstream and alternative news media. Scandals far less important than this ongoing one are routinely receiving much attention from the American press. However, even America’s ‘media watchdogs’ ignore this scandal of America’s press. Thus, there aren’t peace-marches and other public demonstrations about this, even though America’s bringing nazis to power in Ukraine is shocking. But you can find out all about it by clicking on the links here, and on the links within those linked-to news reports. It’s all history now, which was unfortunately never reported by U.S. media while it was still news.

Anistia Internacional - La Repubblica, Italy - Sputnik News -- Tass Agency
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Silêncio cúmplice nos EUA, UK e Europa, enquanto Kiev fascista abate jornalistas opositores.
The silence of the West over the deaths of Kiev's opponents - in contrast to the outcry following Russian politician Nemtsov’s death - yet again shows extraordinary double standard and its complicity in the destruction in Ukraine of the very standards of law and morality it claims to believe in. The murder of the Russian liberal politician Boris Nemtsov in Moscow on 27th February 2015 was an international media sensation. The story of his murder was extensively covered by all mainstream Western media. Few held back from speculations about who was responsible. Though evidence was completely lacking, the Western media had no hesitation pointing the finger at the Russian government. 

The murders in Ukraine of the Ukrainian opposition politician Oleh Kalashnikov and of the Ukrainian opposition journalist Oles Buzina have attracted no such attention. Nor has the remarkable number of violent deaths of other Ukrainian opposition figures, which have taken place in recent weeks. Prior to the murders of Kalashnikov and Buzina, over the short period from 29th January 2015 to 14th March 2015, there have been at least seven deaths. Though the number surpasses anything seen in Russia even during the 1990s, the Western public has nothing to say about them. Nor following the murder of Oleh Kalashnikov have the outrageous comments of Ihor Gerashchenko, senior adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, received either the attention or the condemnation they merit. Gerashchenko is reported to have said that the “primary possible motive” for Kalashnikov’s murder was his “political activity” linked with Kalashnikov’s supposed “participation in the organization and financing” of the opposition to Maidan. 

O COLAPSO DO IMPÉRIO :

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"É fantasia, não há recuperação, aí FED não sobe juros. Aí vai é imprimir mais e mais dinheiro".

A ASCENSÃO DA EURÁSIA :

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Em sincronia o núcleo estratégico da Eurásia: Iran já integra Rússia e China em economia e em defesa.

For Iran, all this will happen in parallel with European energy giants investing in liquefied natural gas (LNG) development and technology. Investing in multiple fronts, China will also be instrumental in its push to finally help complete the much-troubled Iran-Pakistan (IP) pipeline, which in the future may even include an extension to Xinjiang. Xi does Tehran : The icing in this vast energy cake is how both Russia and China are deeply committed to integrating Iran into their Eurasian vision. Iran may finally be admitted as a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) at the upcoming summer summit in Russia. That implies a full-fledged security/commercial/political partnership involving Russia, China, Iran, and most Central Asian’stans.’ Iran is already a founding member of the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB); that means financing for an array of New Silk Road-related projects bound to benefit the Iranian economy.

AIIB funding will certainly merge with loans and other assistance for infrastructure development related to the Chinese-established Silk Road Fund. And last but not least, the China-Iran strategic partnership will be discussed in detail as Chinese President Xi Jinping visits Tehran next month. It’s easy to remember how Iran was relentlessly derided as “isolated” by the exceptionalist crowd only a few months ago. Yet the fact is it was never isolated, but painstakingly building blocks towards Eurasian integration. European firms are, of course, itching to unleash an avalanche of investment in the Iranian market post-sanctions, and most of all the energy giants badly yearn to lessen EU’s dependency on Gazprom. But they’ll be facing formidable competition, as it was up to Moscow and Beijing to identify, a long time ago, which way the wind was blowing: the inevitable (re)emergence of Iran as a key Eurasian power. 

A HEGEMONIA SOBRE TODA A TERRA :

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"EUA invade e destrói países, isto se chama 'estabilizar'. Se alguém resiste, isto aí é 'desestabilizar' ".
While the International Criminal Court investigates and sentences African dictators, any of the crimes the US commits like the invasion of Iraq, which has destabilized an entire region, go unpunished, philosopher Noam Chomsky tells RT.

RT: During a congressional hearing [on April 15, officially titled ‘Confronting Russia’s Weaponization of Information’], House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Ed Royce said, “The Russian media is now dividing societies abroad and, in fact, weaponizing information.” Where is that coming from? Is it a genuine fear or fear of alternative opinions?

Noam Chomsky: He’s talking about the Russian media but if there were any imaginable possibility of honesty, he could be talking about the American media, for which that is correct. Take the New York Times -- the greatest newspaper in the world. Take one example, at the first article that appeared today, that the tentative [nuclear] agreement with Iran was reached. It’s a thinkpiece, by Peter Baker, one of their main analysts. He discusses in it the main reasons to distrust Iran, the crimes of Iran. It’s very interesting to look at. The most interesting one is the charge that Iran is destabilizing the Middle East because it’s supporting militias which have killed American soldiers in Iraq.

That’s kind of as if, in 1943, the Nazi press had criticized England because it was destabilizing Europe for supporting partisans who were killing German soldiers. In other words, the assumption is, when the United States invades, it kills a couple hundred thousand people, destroys the country, elicits sectarian conflicts that are now tearing Iraq and the region apart, that’s stabilization. If someone resists that tact, that’s destabilization. But you can’t discuss that [in the US]. It’s all public information, nothing secret, all available in public documents, but undiscussable. Like the idea -- and you can’t contemplate the idea -- that when the US invades another country and the other resists, it’s not the resistors who are committing the crime, it’s the invaders. And we, of course, understand that very well when, say, Russia invaded Afghanistan. If somebody resisted it, we don’t say they’re criminals, they are destabilizing Afghanistan. Maybe Pravda said that, I doubt it. But here, it’s normal. So if the House wants to study the weaponization of the media, they can look right at the front pages of the newspapers that they get every day. 

A REAÇÃO DOS POVOS :

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"EUA precisa de vassalos, não de aliados. Rússia não se encaixa nesse sistema de valores deles".
During his annual Q&A session Vladimir Putin said Russia cannot exist in such a system of relations where one super-power tells other what to do, explaining why it’s up to the West to restore good relations with Russia. He added that Moscow wants to maintain ties with all nations, but must be treated as an equal partner.

PRIMEIROS PASSOS DA 3a GUERRA MUNDIAL :

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EUA já detém eixo Euro-Russo: fratura UE, ao urdir colapso na Ucrânia, ali turbinou fascismo".

More than a year into the Ukraine crisis, it is becoming painfully clear that the promotion of democracy, peace and prosperity is not – and never was – the objective of Western involvement in that part of the world. On the contrary, Washington and its European partners have systematically engineered the collapse of Ukraine’s economy and the creation of a neo-totalitarian state being primed to cause yet more mayhem in the country’s south-east. The horrendous events in Ukraine that have unfolded before our eyes are in accordance with a geo-political plan that serves first and foremost our trans-Atlantic ally. What is that plan? The EU is to limit, if not sever altogether, its ties with Russia and instead boost its economic relations with the US, thereby underpinning Washington’s already entrenched military grip on the continent.

Germany has been all but ordered to reject any idea of a Russo-German economic powerhouse linking up with China’s New Silk Road. In effect, the Union is being told to wave goodbye to any idea it might have had of closer ties with Eurasia and the much-needed regeneration such ties could have brought. The now infamous US dismissal of Europe’s significance in determining its own affairs – in language that was not only offensive but also reflected an habitual need to patronize and humiliate – says it all. The carving up of territory over and above the natives’ heads so that empires can “divide and rule” has long been standard practice. But, arguably, it has never been done before in such a brazen manner, by such mediocrities and with such damaging consequences.

The club of developed countries that together comprise the world’s largest economy (the EU) is being detached from its natural supplier of fuels and raw materials, while European businesses are being made to surrender their positions on Russia’s dynamic market. Wilfully preventing the consummation of such a complementary relationship between two economic giants is economic barbarism on a par with Communism. The West’s official narrative is that the Kremlin must be kept at arm’s length so that we can preserve our democratic values – that just over the Ukraine’s eastern border there is a murky world of autocracy-loving savages with whom we must not do business lest they contaminate our civilized ways. Give the likes of Putin an inch and the next thing you know you’ll have Russian tanks on your streets. And why do business with the eastern hordes when America – the land of plenty and opportunity, or so we’re told – is offering us new economic vistas under the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. 

A REAÇÃO DOS POVOS :

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Em frangalhos as sanções, e não a Rússia: economia cresce de novo.
US President Barack Obama famously proclaimed in his State of the Union Address in January that Western sanctions had left Russia isolated and its economy "in tatters." But a slew of good news on the Russian economy prompted a European executive in Moscow to retort that it is the sanctions that are in tatters. More and more investors and analysts seem to agree, like Newsweek andBloomberg..

The ruble has made a spectacular 25% rise against the dollars from the end of January low. The Russian MOEX and RTS indexes have risen by 16% and 11% respectively in Q1 2015. According to data from Bloomberg, some 78 percent of Russian companies on the MICEX index showed greater revenue growth in the most recent quarter than their global peers did making them more profitable than other leading emerging markets corporations. Most recent economic data points to a broader recovery across all indicators. Industrial production for the first quarter took analysts by surprise showing only a modest decline of 0.4% year-on-year. This could be compared with a 5.1% drop in industrial production (Jan-Feb) for the one of the sanctions imposing countries, Finland. We would expect that things will get only better with time. Q1 had to absorb the immediate shock. Russia will be better prepared for the future periods and import substitution and other industrial development programs will have a bigger impact later on in the year. And so does the large infrastructure and industrial investments and trade deals with China and Russia’s other Asian partners. The strong industrial production figures correlate with a fairly robust labor market with unemployment at only 5.8%.

Western politicians and pundits should be more careful with their predictions for the Russian economy: Reports of its demise may prove to be premature. Bashing the Russian economy has lately become a popular pastime. In his state of the nation address last month, U.S. President Barack Obama said it was "in tatters." And yesterday, Anders Aslund of the Peterson Institute for International Economics published anarticle predicting a 10 percent drop in gross domestic product this year -- more or less in line with the apocalyptic predictions that prevailed when the oil price reached its nadir late last year and the ruble was in free fall.

Aslund's forecast focuses on Russia's shrinking currency reserves, some of which have been earmarked for supporting government spending in difficult times. At $364.6 billion, they are down 26 percent from a year ago and $21.6 billion from the beginning of this year. Aslund expects $166 billion to be spent on infrastructure investments and bailing out companies, and another $100 billion to exit via capital flight and other currency outflows. As a result, given foreign debts of almost $600 billion, "Russia's reserve situation is approaching a critical limit," he says. What this argument ignores is that Russia's foreign debts are declining along with its reserves -- that's what happens when the money is used to pay down state companies' obligations. Last year, for example, the combined foreign liabilities of the Russian government and companies dropped by $129.4 billion, compared with a $124.3 billion decline in foreign reserves. Beyond that, a large portion of Russian companies' remaining foreign debt is really part of a tax-evasion scheme: By lending themselves money from abroad, the companies transfer profits to lower-tax jurisdictions. Such loans can easily be extended if sanctions prevent the Russian side from paying. 

PRIMEIROS PASSOS DA 3a GUERRA MUNDIAL :

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Rússia adverte países europeus com mísseis dos EUA: "são alvos primários à nossa defesa".
The chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces has warned the European countries planning to host the US-led NATO missile systems that Moscow considers the installations “priority targets,” as the systems possess offensive capabilities. “The MK-41 vertical missile launchers that are part of AEGIS Ashore ground-based antimissile systems deployed in Romania and Poland can fire not only SM-3 anti-missile rockets but also Tomahawk cruise missiles,” General Valery Gerasimov said at a defense conference in the Russian capital, Moscow, on Thursday. “The non-nuclear nations hosting ABM system elements are becoming priority targets for our countermeasure,” he warned. “The deployment of US global anti-missile defense systems is seen by us as an additional step by the United States and its allies to destroy the current system of international security in its striving for world domination,” Gerasimov said.

He said, “It becomes obvious that continuing the implementation of US and NATO missile defense plans creates a real threat to Russian strategic nuclear forces.” Gerasimov said the US and its NATO partners aim to “bring Russia to its knees” by fueling conflicts across its border, as in Ukraine. “We don’t know what kind of orders the new Ukrainian authorities are receiving from their Western ‘curators’ and where Kiev’s aggression may be directed in the future,” he said. Meanwhile, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Washington has crossed all lines by attempting to drag Ukraine into its league as part of its wider plan to expand NATO and alienate Russia’s neighbors.

O COLAPSO DO IMPÉRIO :

YouTube VIDEO - Apr 2015 - click 1 
"EUA já nacionalizou rede de bancos, vem tsunami de débitos, economia em colapso em 2015".
The Fed Has Virtually Nationalized The Banking Sector - Jim Grant The coming 'tsunami of debt' and Collapse of the US economy in 2015 - Peter Schiff , Alex Jones.

PRIMEIROS PASSOS DA 3a GUERRA MUNDIAL :

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Ucrânia pró-EUA rompe trégua: reinicia guerra por todo o front.

On the Friday before Russian Orthodox Easter, the Poroshenko-Yatsenyuk U.S-coup-installed Ukrainian Government attacks on all fronts on April 9th, to continue their extermination-campaign against the residents of the area, Donbass, that refuses to accept the coup-government that was installed by the U.S. when the Ukrainian President whom 90% of those residents had voted for was overthrown by the U.S. This bare-faced violation of the Merkel-Hollande-arranged Minsk truce would not happen without Obama’s approval. He is choosing to have this done on Russian holy days in order to intensify the provocation against Russia. Obama is thus going all-out now to provoke from Russia a sending-in of Russian army troops and air power in order for Obama to have a pretext to go to war against Russia, his real target “in order to defend an ally” (which has been trying to exterminate the residents in the area that won’t accept Obama’s imposed rule).

War correspondent “Step” reports:     Shells are whistling again over the cities of Donbass. In Donetsk the sirens of ambulances and emergency services are heard. Under fire: Kievsky district, Oktyabrsky village, Panfilov mine village, Gladkova, Severny, Putilovka. The entire evening of April 9 there was a battle in the village of Spartak and near Peski. The punishers used artillery guns, tanks, mortars, heavy barreled artillery. Under the cover of artillery, the enemy attempted to seize the positions of the militia in Spartak and near the airport. During the battle, this attempt was severely suppressed. Also suddenly the positions of the militia near the town of Yasynovataya were attacked. There was a battle using small arms. To the West of Petrovsky district of Donetsk working mortars are also heard, as well as grenade launchers and heavy machine guns. From the occupied Volnovakha Dokuchayevsk was fired on. The outskirts of the city are under a heavy fire of the enemy, the people are hiding in shelters fearing the assault on the city by the punishers, who have assembled the biggest formation in this area of about 8 thousand people. According to a resident of Dokuchayevsk, “Locals demand that the militia do not leave them alone and hold positions at any cost, women are hysterically crying, saying that Ukrainians will go into the city and start a massacre. Older women bless the passing trucks with soldiers and pray for the victory and a speedy liberation to the district from the Ukrainian troops”. Over Donetsk about a dozen enemy drones were spotted, one of which was shot down near the Lidiyevka mine. 

A REAÇÃO DOS POVOS :

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China vira contra-ponto aos EUA, e solapa guerra economica contra Venezuela. Já botou 10 bilhões.
Em minutos destrói conspiração que tomou anos em construção.

The article originally appeared at German Economic News. Translated for RI by Anita Zalaldinova. In the coming months China will lend Venezuela, which faces bankruptcy, ten billion dollars. These funds are part of a bilateral agreement. For China it’s a way to quench its energy needs, while the US continue the confrontation line with Venezuela. Venezuela is under the threat of soverign default. In providing two five-billion dollar loans, China has become an important partner for the struggling country. The first part of the loan is the joint Chinese-Venezuelan Fund, and will be directed into major projects, CNBC reported. The agreement will be signed later this month. China extended the terms of the loan to five years, giving Venezuela more breathing room, as the terms are typically limited to three years.

The second part of the loan will be used in the oil industry. China will support investments in oil fields, intended to help Venezuelan oil company PDVSA increase production, the official said. 96 percent of Venezuela’s foreign exchange revenue comes from the export of raw materials. The recent fall in oil prices is one contributor to Venezuela financial pressure. Interest rates on bonds have risen again. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro claimed the US is responsible for the fall in oil prices late last year. “Are you aware that an oil war rages?” said Maduro on Monday in a broadcast speech to businessmen. “This war has one goal – to destroy Russia.” In addition, it is also directed against Venezuela “to destroy our revolution and bring about a collapse of the economy.” In March Obama called Venezuela a threat to the US national security. Domestically Venezuela is well under pressure. There were regularly scheduled demonstrations against the government of the country last year. In February 2015, a 14-year-old died in protests. Last week there were protests in Caracas again. Venezuela is extremely lucrative for China’s investment interests. This is the country with the highest oil reserves in general, and China’s energy demand will increase with the increasing rural-urban migration in the coming years. China has already given Venezuela $45 billion in exchange for oil and fuel. With the new loans for Venezuela, China finds itself in opposition to the United States. It was only in February that China promised loans to Russia to support Moscow in a similar fashion. 

PRIMEIROS PASSOS DA 3a GUERRA MUNDIAL :

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"Rússia com inovador método de guerra híbrida, desafia Ocidente de forma sem precedentes".
The CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program is pleased to invite you to a discussion with Dr. Phillip Karber, President of the Potomac Foundation, a defense and foreign policy think-tank. Dr. Karber, who is also a former DOD official and veteran defense analyst, will discuss Russia's "hybrid warfare" campaign in eastern Ukraine. Dr. Karber has traveled repeatedly to eastern Ukraine during the present conflict, and has spoken first-hand with a number of the participants. Dr. Karber will draw on these discussions to elaborate on the techniques of Russian hybrid warfare, evaluate their effectiveness, and explore their implications for both Ukraine and the West.

PRIMEIROS PASSOS DA 3a GUERRA MUNDIAL :

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Berlin apóia, daí Kiev torna-se a 1a capital européia a glorificar o fascismo, é ideologia criminosa.
Ukraine officially recognized notorious ultranationalist groups, active in the 20th century, as freedom fighters, meaning Kiev authorities have chosen neo-Nazism as state ideology, a prominent Polish political scientist said. "Kiev authorities are forging their historic identity, openly citing neo-Nazism as an inspiration. Ukraine seems to be the only country in Europe to do this in a blatant manner, without being ashamed of its detestable past." 

According to the analyst, remarks made by Ukrainian politicians and members of parliament prove that all this is official. "Neo-Nazism is becoming a new state ideology in Ukraine," Mateusz Piskorski, head of the European Center for Geopolitical Analysis, told RIA Novosti. The analyst underlined that no other ideology has so much hatred and poison towards neighboring nations, namely the Russians and the Poles, but also the Jews and the Armenians. "Kiev has become the first European capital to openly glorify criminal ideology." 

Kiev reprime livre expressão, vai dando sumiço em jornalistas.

In Odessa — the same city where the Ukrainian civil war started on 2 May 2014 with a massacre of opponents that had been carefully planned by a team connected to the U.S. White House — there are reported to be two bloggers for the "Voice of Odessa" political site who were seized by the Security Bureau of Ukraine on April 7th, and whose "whereabouts are unknown."This report appeared in the local Odessa News. The "Voice of Odessa" site was formed right after the massacre, in order to get an independent investigation and prosecution of the perpetrators of that massacre, in which officially 46 people were burned, shot and clubbed to death, but unofficial estimates run over 200, all victims who have not been heard from since, and some of whom had allegedly even been abducted from hospitals after the massacre.  

A SORDIDEZ DA IMPRENSA OCIDENTAL :

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Ao contrário de 1945, hoje Europa e EUA tentam minimizar papel da Rússia na 2a Guerra Mundial.

It's a rare thing to behold: an accurate - in fact, a rather glowing - portrayal of Russia and its historical role as shock absorber to invading hordes. The film was recently uploaded to the YouTube channel of the US National Archives but, as far as I can make out, has been publicly available since 2011. While the bulk of the film uses contemporary footage collected by US Army Intelligence during the war to capture the horror, scale and intensity of the Nazi invasion of Russia, and how the Russians ultimately defeated the Nazis through brilliant strategy and sheer force of will, the first part also goes into some historical context about previous invasions of Russia, as well as important geographical detail about the nature of 'Russia'. Here's the film:

At one point, for example, the narrator mentions in passing that Russia was victim to Kaiser Wilhelm's 'tyrannical warmongering' in the early 20th century. I can tell you, with some certainty, having recently read Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War, that Germany was not at fault for WW1 (in fact, it tried to prevent it). Nevertheless, Hitler's Operation Barbarossa in 1941 does fit a pattern of Russia historically being on the receiving end of aggressive invasions. For just a brief sliver in time, it was apparently in the US government's interests to accurately represent the 'most epic battlefront in known history'. Not only that, it also suited US interests to accurately represent Russia as a large 'community of nations'. And that, essentially, is what defines her (both Imperial Russia and the USSR); Russia is a patchwork 'country of many countries', a vast territory comprising many ethnicities and nationalities.

SUBJUGANDO O POVO AMERICANO :

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"Mídia nos EUA funciona como instituições supervisionadas pelo poder do Estado americano".

Patrick L. Smith is the foreign affairs columnist at Salon and author of “Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century” (2013). He was the International Herald Tribune’s bureau chief in Hong Kong and then Tokyo from 1985 to 1992 and a contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Nation, the Washington Quarterly and other publications.

The key points of Smith’s interesting speech:

- American media have had an unhealthy relationship with political power from 1898 and the first advance into imperial adventures

- You can have democracy or you can have empire, but not both at the same time

- You can have healthy press or imperial ambitions, but you cannot have both

- The American media had a really bad Cold War and never got over it

- In 2001 the media didn’t rise to the occasion and bent to power

- Quantitative in media had become qualitative

- Informally American media function as state supervised institution

- America is in the late imperial phase

- The Ukrainian economy is a humanitarian tragedy

- The so-called 'alternative media' are not an alternative to anything; alternative media tell the truth, but they just don’t have the means of production and infrastructure like mainstream media have to push it out there.

O COLAPSO DO IMPÉRIO :

CNBC News - Apr 2015 - click 1 
"Nenhum investidor fica a salvo".

O COLAPSO DO IMPÉRIO :

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"A próxima crise é inevitável".

Phillip Yin speaks about new US bank regulations with former federal regulator William Black, who warns against 'too big to fail institutions' and their attempts to create a 'tame tiger' through policy, which he believes is a reckless path to the next financial crisis

PRIMEIROS PASSOS DA 3a GUERRA MUNDIAL :

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Rússia vaza ameaças aos EUA: "detonar mega-vulcão, ou mega-tsunamis de 500m de altura".
A Russian geopolitical analyst says the best way to attack the United States is to detonate nuclear weapons to trigger a supervolcano at Yellowstone National Park or along the San Andreas fault line on California's coast. The president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems based in Moscow, Konstantin Sivkov said in an article for a Russian trade newspaper on Wednesday, VPK News, that Russia needed to increase its military weapons and strategies against the "West" which was "moving to the borders or Russia".  

He has a conspiracy theory that NATO - a political and military alliance which counts the US, UK, Canada and many countries in western Europe as members - was amassing strength against Russia and the only way to combat that problem was to attack America's vulnerabilities to ensure a "complete destruction of the enemy". "Geologists believe that the Yellowstone supervolcano could explode at any moment. There are signs of growing activity there. Therefore it suffices to push the relatively small, for example the impact of the munition megaton class to initiate an eruption. The consequences will be catastrophic for the United States - a country just disappears," he said. "Another vulnerable area of ​​the United States from the geophysical point of view, is the San Andreas fault - 1300 kilometers between the Pacific and North American plates ... a detonation of a nuclear weapon there can trigger catastrophic events like a coast-scale tsunami which can completely destroy the infrastructure of the United States." He said the Russian geography on the other hand would protect it from a tsunami or a volcano attack. Few people live on the coast in Russia and Siberia which rests on basalt would withstand similar attacks. Mr Sivkov, who spoke at the 2013 Moscow Economic Forum, said by 2020 to 2025 Russia would have amassed "asymmetric weapons" in its arsenal for the attack. "The situation for us today is comparably worse than half a century ago," he said. 

"The weakened economic potential in Russia, the loss of the 'spiritual core of what was the communist idea', and the lack of large-scale community allies in Europe such as the Warsaw Pact, Russia simply cannot compete against the NATO and its allies."  In December last year, the vocal military strategist told Russian newspaper, Pravda.ruthat there is a "developing standoff between Russia and the West" and the US's ultimate goal was to "destroy Russia".  Mr Sivkov accused American politicians of committing several crimes including causing the deaths of 1,200,000 people in Iraq. He believed the only way for the "American elite" to be held accountable was for its military forces to be destroyed. "American politicians have committed a variety of crimes. Will anyone be held accountable for those crimes? What about the international law, the UN and other organisations? Are they doing anything?" he asked. Mr Sivkov told Pravda that the idea of the US preparing for a serious war against Russia using cruise missiles was plausible given that it had already launched a thousand missiles in Yugoslavia and Iraq. 

PRIMEIROS PASSOS DA 3a GUERRA MUNDIAL :

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"Se russos e chineses não esperam vir dos EUA um ataque nuclear surprêsa, eles serão destruídos".

Já há muito queria entrevistar Paul Craig Roberts. Durante muitos anos acompanhei seus escritos e entrevistas e sempre que o lia esperava ter um dia o privilégio de entrevista-lo acerca da natureza do estado profundo dos EUA e do Império. Recentemente, enviei-lhe um email e pedi-lhe uma entrevista e, muito gentilmente, ele concordou. Fico-lhe muito grato por esta oportunidade.

The Saker: O que diz acerca das forças armadas? Pode imaginar um Chefe do Estado-Maior das Forças Armadas a dizer "não, Sr. Presidente, isso é louco, não faremos isto" ou espera que os generais obedeçam a qualquer ordem, incluindo uma para começar uma guerra nuclear contra a Rússia? Tem alguma esperança de que os militares dos EUA pudessem interferir e travar os "loucos" actualmente no poder na Casa Branca e no Congresso? 

Paul Craig Roberts: Os militares dos EUA são criaturas das indústrias de armamentos. O objectivo completo de se fazer general é qualificar-se para ser um consultor na indústria da "defesa", ou tornar-se um executivo ou ir para a direcção de um empreiteiro da "defesa". Os militares servem como fonte para carreiras de aposentação quando então os generais ganham o dinheiro grosso. Os militares dos EUA estão totalmente corruptos. Leia o livro de Andrew Cockburn, Kill Chain . 

The Saker: Se os EUA estão realmente e deliberadamente descendo o caminho rumo à guerra com a Rússia – o que deveria a Rússia fazer? Deveria recuar e aceitar ser subjugada como uma opção preferível à guerra termonuclear, ou deveria resistir e portanto aceitar a possibilidade de uma guerra termonuclear? Acredita que uma deliberada e muito poderosa demonstração de força por parte da Rússia poderia deter um ataque dos EUA? 

Paul Craig Roberts: Tenho muitas vezes desejado saber acerca disto. Não posso dizer que sei. Penso que Putin é bastante humano para capitular ao invés de provocar a destruição do mundo, mas Putin tem de responder a outros dentro da Rússia e duvido que nacionalistas apoiassem a capitulação. Na minha opinião, penso que Putin deveria centrar-se na Europa e torná-la consciente de que a Rússia espera um ataque americano e não terá qualquer opção excepto exterminar a Europa como resposta. Putin deveria encorajar a Europa a desligar-se da NATO a fim de impedir a 3ª Guerra Mundial. Putin também deveria assegurar-se de que a China entende que representa a mesma ameaça para os EUA, tanto quanto a Rússia, e que ambos os países têm de se manter unidos. Talvez se a Rússia e a China mantivessem suas forças num alerta nuclear, não o alerta máximo, mas um alerta elevado que transmitisse o reconhecimento da ameaça americana e transmitisse esta ameaça ao mundo, os EUA pudessem ser isolados.  Talvez se a imprensa indiana, japonesa, francesa, alemã, britânica, chinesa e russa começassem a informar que a Rússia e a China perguntam se receberão um ataque nuclear antecipativo (pre-emptive) de Washington o resultado fosse impedir esse ataque. Tanto quanto posso dizer a partir das minhas muitas entrevistas com os media russos, não há consciência russa da Doutrina Wolfowitz . Os russos pensam que há alguma espécie de mal entendido acerca das intenções russas. Os media russos não entendem que a Rússia é inaceitável porque a Rússia não é um vassalo dos EUA. Os russos acreditam em toda asneirada ocidental acerca de "liberdade e democracia" e acreditam que têm pouco disso mas estão a fazer progressos. Por outras palavras, os russos não têm ideia de que são visados para a destruição. 

The Saker: Quais são, na sua opinião, as raízes do ódio de tantos membros das elites estado-unidenses para com a Rússia? Será isso apenas um resto da Guerra-fria ou haverá uma outra razão para a russofobia quase universal entre as elites dos EUA? Mesmo durante a Guerra-fria, não estava claro se os EUA eram anti-comunistas ou anti-russos. Haverá algo na cultura, nação ou civilização russa que dispare essa hostilidade e, em caso afirmativo, o que é? 

Paul Craig Roberts: A hostilidade para com a Rússia remonta à Doutrina Wolfowitz: "Nosso primeiro objectivo é impedir a re-emergência de um novo rival, tanto no território da antiga União Soviética como alhures, que coloque uma ameaça da ordem daquela colocada anteriormente pela União Soviética. Isto é uma consideração dominante subjacente à nova estratégia de defesa regional e requer que nos empenhemos para impedir qualquer potência hostil de dominar uma região cujos recursos, sob controle consolidado, seriam suficientes para gerar poder global". Enquanto os EUA estavam centrados nas suas guerras no Médio Oriente, Putin restaurou a Rússia e travou a invasão da Síria planeada por Washington e o bombardeamento do Irão. O "primeiro objectivo" da doutrina neocon foi rompido. A Rússia tinha de ser posta em linha. Essa é a origem do ataque de Washington à Rússia. Os media dependentes e cativos dos EUA e da Europa simplesmente repetem "a ameaça russa" para o público, o qual está despreocupado e além disso desinformado. A ofensa da cultura russa também está aqui – éticas cristãs, respeito à lei e à humanidade, diplomacia ao invés de coerção, costumes sociais tradicionais – mas isto é o pano de fundo. A Rússia é odiada porque ela (e a China) é uma restrição ao poder uno e unilateral de Washington. Esta restrição é o que levará à guerra.  Se os russos e os chineses não esperarem um ataque nuclear antecipativo por parte de Washington serão destruídos.