West ignores results of int’l missions that found no troop build-up near Ukraine borders – Moscow

West ignores results of int’l missions that found no troop build-up near Ukraine borders – Moscow Published time: March 28, 2014 18:36 http://rt.com/news/russia-ukraine-troops-obama-945/ Russia has denied any troop build-up on the Ukraine border, a claim voiced by President Barack Obama and Kiev officials. Moscow slammed the West for ignoring the results of recent fact-finding missions for the sake of political expediency. On Friday Obama urged Russia to pull back “a range of troops,” which he said, “we have seen […] massing along that border under the guise of military exercises." "But these are not what Russia would normally be doing," Obama said, speaking with CBS on his trip to Rome. He then suggested that the troop build-up could be “just an effort to intimidate Ukraine.” "It may be that they've got additional plans," Obama said. The US president’s comments came the day after a Ukrainian security official told Executive Vice President of the US-Atlantic Council Damon Wilson that “almost 100,000 soldiers are stationed on the borders of Ukraine and in the direction ... of Kharkov, Donetsk.” "Russian troops are not only in Crimea, they are along all Ukrainian borders. They're in the south, they're in the east and in the north," Andrey Parubiy, one of the so-called Maidan “commandants” who has been appointed chairman of Ukraine's Security Council, told the Atlantic Council during a web conference Thursday. Parubiy expressed his worry that continental Ukraine might “see a huge attack” on its territory. “We are getting ready for it," he said. In the past few days, Western media has extensively reported that Russia is positioning its troops in Crimea and along the Ukrainian border. Some of the major news outlets speculated that Russian troops “appeared to be concealing their positions, trying to cloak their equipment, and establishing supply lines.” Responding to those accusations, Russia’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement, in which it recalled four probes in March by foreign missions in Russia of regions bordering Ukraine. The ministry said that “even Ukrainian inspectors” agreed that “there were no major military activities being carried out.” The four international missions included representatives of Latvia, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Estonia, Belgium, France and Ukraine. None of the missions “found ‘aggressive preparations’ and have not recorded any military activities, aside from the previously declared,” the statement said. “Opportunities to conduct such activities were provided to all those who wished to get acquainted with the real situation in the border with Ukraine regions,” the ministry said. The statement emphasized that “even Ukrainian inspectors” agreed that “there were no major military activities being carried out.” “The result of this was the official reports submitted to all OSCE member states. The objective information contained in those reports, in our view, should have become a subject of an impartial analysis and basis for further conclusions,” the statement said. This, however, is not the case here, the ministry said. As another proof that there are no additional Russian troops and active military preparations, the Foreign Ministry referred to recent observation flights by American and German inspectors. “The official results of those flights will be known later, after the processing of photographic materials. However, one can assume that if signs of large concentration of the armed forces were spotted from the air, our partners would not wait to present the ‘evidence’. Hence, it simply does not exist,” the ministry said. Russia’s Foreign Ministry also questioned the objectivity of Western politicians. "Is objective information collected by military inspectors not provided to the political leadership [of Western countries]? Or are these leaders, yielding to their emotions, inclined to ignore the facts in order to satisfy their own political tastes and preferences?" the ministry said. #######Comments (263)

Putin: Russia to protect citizens from GMO food without violating its WTO obligations

http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_27/Russia-to-protect-citizens-from-GMO-food-without-violating-its-WTO-obligations-Putin-4390/

if israel has nukes in its embassies then wouldnt it be better to destroy those embassies? surely a dirty bomb is better than a nuclear explosion?

UK spends £250k on royal letters row

http://edition.presstv.ir/TextOnly/detail.aspx?id=356359 UK spends £250k on royal letters row Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:18:00 GMT The UK government has spent more than a quarter of a million pounds in legal fees to prevent the publication of letters written by Prince Charles to British politicians. UK’s attorney general, Dominic Grieve, said that eight government departments have so far spent some £274,480 on barristers and other lawyers over the past four years in a bid to block the release of the letters. Grieve was forced to reveal the government cost following a parliamentary question by Labor MP Paul Flynn on the issue. "This denial of information by government is a sinful waste of public money. If there is something in the letters that suggests Prince Charles will be a poor monarch, then his future subjects have a right to know,” said Flynn. This comes as three senior judges in a Court of Appeal overruled on March 12 an earlier decision by Grieve to use his ministerial veto to block the release of the correspondence. The judges said Grieve’s veto was unlawful and incompatible with EU law and the royal letters could be revealed to the public. Grieve had argued that he used his veto power as the contents of the letters threaten to damage the prince’s political neutrality and create constitutional problems. This is while critics fear that the Price of Wales could be taking advantage of his royal status to impose his controversial political views on the British government. Prince Charles has been writing letters, known as the “black spider” memos, for several years to British politicians expressing his views on public issues. The letters were addressed to ministers in the Cabinet Office and the departments responsible for business, health, schools, environment, culture and Northern Ireland

theres a lot of news i'm not posting atm. suggest you read each day: http://edition.presstv.ir/TextOnly/ and http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/

i said recently on DIF that imo we go straight from passive non-compliance to full-on military action. i wrote about 5 long posts which i now cant find.// you need to be reasonably fit - walk 5 miles min, practice Night Navigation using a compass, know how to map read + other survival skills including River Crossings.// i suggested Lofty (John) Wiseman's SAS Survival Handbook £10.// i'll post more on this soon. basically get fit, and get prepared bcoz if Russia is weakened in any way we must act. jdi.

UN urged to probe Turkey audio leak

http://edition.presstv.ir/TextOnly/detail.aspx?id=356378 UN urged to probe Turkey audio leak Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:15:03 GMT Syria has called on the United Nations to investigate a leaked file containing discussions by top Turkish authorities on how to fabricate an attack in order to justify a military operation against Damascus. “I’d like to refer once again to this audio tape leak by the Turkish foreign minister and the deputy chief of staff of the Turkish army,” Syrian Ambassador to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari said on Friday, adding that the Turkish officials talked about the attack by “sending a terrorist group inside the Syrian territory.” “And then this group is supposed to launch eight missiles within the Turkish territory and it would be a justification for further Turkish aggression against Syria,” the Syrian envoy stated. He also denounced some members of the UN Security Council and its secretariat for refusing to hear the truth about the situation in Syria, saying those countries themselves are “deeply involved” in “spreading terrorism” across the Arab country. The audio file uploaded on YouTube is a recording of Turkey's intelligence chief Hakan Fidan, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Deputy Chief of Military Staff Yasar Guler, and other senior officials discussing the possible assault. Ankara reacted to the anonymous posting by blocking users’ access to YouTube throughout Turkey, saying the leaking of the controversial recording had created “a national security issue”. Davutoglu also on Thursday condemned the leak as a “declaration of war” against the Turkish government and nation, stressing, “A cyber attack has been carried out against the Turkish Republic, our state and our valued nation.” Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier described the recording as "villainous". The YouTube ban came a week after the government imposed a ban on Twitter, accusing the social networking website of violating Turkey's laws.