Dan Choi Arrested and Beaten at a Gay Pride event in Moscow

Dan Choi and 19 other activists were beaten and arrested during a gay pride parade in Moscow by police and a group of Neo-Nazis?

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India To Get 15 Russian Mi-17B-5 Helicopters

India will receive 15 Mi-17B-5 helicopters this year from Russia as part of the contract for 80 choppers.


Russia is to supply the helicopters to India within the framework of a
contract India's Defense Ministry signed with Russia's arms exporter
Rosoboronexport.

The contract is likely to be complemented with an extra order for 59 such helicopters, the general director of the Helicopters of Russia holding company, Dmitry Petrov, told Itar-Tass.

Russia is participating in the Indian Defence Ministry's tenders for the
upgrade of 108 helicopters Mi-17 for the Indian army and 17 Ka-28
helicopters for the Indian Navy, Petrov said.

Russia Test Fired Sineva Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile

Russia has successfully test-fired a Sineva submarine-launched ballistic
missile in the Barents Sea, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on
Friday.


The missile hit the designated target at the Kura test range in the Far East in time, Col. Igor Konashenkov said.


The RSM-54 Sineva (NATO codename SS-N-23 Skiff) is a third-generation
liquid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile that entered
service with the Russian Navy in July 2007. It has a maximum range of
over 10,000 km (6,214 miles) and can carry four to 10 nuclear warheads,
depending on the modification.


The previous Sineva test launch was held in April.

JFK KILLED OVER UFOS!

WASHINGTON -  Secret CIA memos reveal that President John F. Kennedy was killed because he wanted to release the UFO files.

An uncovered letter written by John F Kennedy to the head of the CIA shows that the president demanded to be shown highly confidential documents about UFOs 10 days before his assassination.

The secret memo is one of two letters written by JFK asking for information about the paranormal on November 12 1963, which have been released by the CIA for the first time.

A second memo was released that details the findings of a report – confirming that JFK was killed by government officials covering-up the existence of UFOs and aliens.  It also details the UFO sightings over Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963.

Author William Lester said the CIA released the documents t under the Freedom of Information Act after he made a request while researching his new book ‘A Celebration of Freedom: JFK and the New Frontier.’
The president’s interest in UFOs shortly before his death confirms theories about his assassination  – that the CIA was worried about him making public the UFO files.

Alien researchers say the latest documents, released to Mr Lester by the CIA, prove that the president was shot to stop him revealing the truth about UFOs.  In one of the secret documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, JFK writes to the director asking for the UFO files.

In the second memo, sent to the NASA administrator, the president expresses a desire for cooperation with the former Soviet Union on mutual outer space activities and investigation to aliens on earth.
The previously classified documents were released under the Freedom of Information Act to teacher William Lester as part of research for a new book about JFK.
He said that JFK’s interest in UFOs could have been fueled by concerns about relations with the former Soviet Union.

Days before he was killed, JFK wrote to the CIA demanding access to their files about UFOs.

Unclassified: A second memo written by JFK on November 12 1963, 10 days before his assassination, which has been released by the CIA

One of his concerns was that a lot of these UFOs were being seen over the Soviet Union and he was very concerned that the Soviets might misinterpret these UFOs as U.S. aggression, believing that it was some of our technology,” Mr Lester said.

“I think this is one of the reasons why he wanted to get his hands on this information and get it away from the jurisdiction of NASA so he could say to the Soviets, “Look, that’s not us, we’re not doing it, we’re not being provocative.”

But conspiracy theorists said the documents add interest to a disputed file, nicknamed the ‘burned memo”, which a UFO investigator claims he received in the 1990s.

The document, which has scorch marks, is claimed to have been posted to UFO hunter Timothy Cooper in 1999 by an unknown CIA leak, but has never been verified.

Disputed: In the ‘burned memo’ the CIA director allegedly wrote: ‘Lancer [JFK] has made some inquiries regarding our activities, which we cannot allow’

In a note sent with the document, the apparent leaker said he worked for CIA between 1960 and 1974 and pulled the memo from a fire when the agency was burning some of its most sensitive files.

The undated memo contains a reference to ‘Lancer’, which was JFK’s Secret Service code name.
On the first page, the director of Central Intelligence wrote: ‘As you must know, Lancer has made some inquiries regarding our activities, which we cannot allow.

‘Please submit your views no later than October. Your action to this matter is critical to the continuance of the group.’

The current owner of the ‘burned memo’, who bought it from Timothy Cooper in 2001 told AOL News that it shows that when JFK asked questions about UFOs that the CIA ‘bumped him off’.

UFO investigator Robert Wood said he has tested the paper it was printed on, the ink age, watermarks, font types and other markings.

He said: ‘I hired a forensics company to check the age of the ink and check several other things that you can date, using the same techniques you’d use in a court of law.’

By Tap Vann

Aussie Dollar Boosted by Its Own 'Gold Standard'
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The Australian dollar is one of the strongest currencies in the world because it is a commodity -backed currency. That’s why it hit a 29-year high against the US dollar today – and it’s all related to the gold price.

The gold price is hitting new all-time highs on a daily basis because many investors have lost faith in paper money. They believe that central bank printing presses are devaluing currencies on a daily basis.

It is the same lack of belief in paper money that has been boosting the Aussie dollar. Paper money used to be backed by gold held in a central bank, but this was abandoned all over the world, allowing central banks to print money via processes such as quantitative easing.

Today, no currency in the world is on the gold standard – all money is “fiat” money.

However, Australia has significant resources of gold, uranium, iron ore, coal and many other important and valuable commodities. They are in the ground, not in a central bank, but this is the nearest thing the world has to the old gold standard. That’s why the Australian currency is so strong.

The same is also true of currencies in Canada, South Africa and Russia. They are effectively backed by commodities in the ground. » | Garry White | Friday, April 08, 2011

Russian Communists Looking to Overturn Privatization
RUSSIA TODAY: Russia’s Communist Party faction has submitted a bill on nationalization to the lower house of parliament.

The legislation concerns the nationalization of companies that were privatized during the 1990s. Communists have always condemned the process of giving the state assets to individuals, many of whom turned into so-called oligarchs.

Observers say the Communists are trying to use their populist “trump card” now as they have started preparations for parliamentary elections scheduled for December. At the same time, the government is now launching another large-scale privatization campaign.

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) proposes that the state returns businesses that were “unfairly” privatized. But they support compensation of expenses to current owners after “the assessment of assets at the moment of privatization.” » | Friday, March 25, 2011

US holds on to use of death penalty

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) — The United States has disavowed torture and pledged to treat terror suspects humanely, but set aside calls to drop the death penalty, as the United Nations carried out its first review of Washington's human rights record.

As part a groundbreaking commitment to improvement under the Obama administration, the US joined the 47-nation Human Rights Council in 2009. And in doing so, submitted to more international scrutiny.

State Department legal adviser Harold Koh outlined nine key improvement areas yesterday, encompassing about 174 of the 228 recommendations the community had urged on Washington in an initial report last November. Nations are held accountable for what they agree to improve.

He said the US would agree to improvements in areas ranging from civil rights to national security to immigration, including intolerance of torture and the humane treatment of suspects at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba.

But in some areas the US stance was unchanged, particularly on the death penalty, which had led to a chorus of objections from many European nations.

Critics say the law is inhumane and unfairly applied. But Koh said capital punishment was permitted under international law.

"To those who desire as a matter of policy to end capital punishment in the United States — and I count myself among those — I note the decision made by the government of Illinois on March 9 to abolish that state's death penalty," Koh told the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council.

Cuba, Iran and Venezuela complained the US was brushing too many recommendations aside, while China and Russia said the US was not going far enough on Guantanamo, and called for it to be shut down as President Barack Obama had promised.

Other nations urged the US to reduce overcrowding in prisons, ratify international treaties on the rights of women and children, and take further steps to prevent racial profiling. Koh said Obama also would push to ratify additional measures under the Geneva Conventions and add protections for anyone it detains in an international armed conflict.

Civil society groups have praised the US for involving itself in the review process, which all UN member states have to undergo every four years. Japan, France and Cameroon had led the writing of the report on the US.

However, Jamil Dakwar, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's human rights programme, said one of the biggest US shortcomings was that it still had not created an independent human rights monitoring commission as has been done in over 100 countries.

"While the Obama administration should be commended for its positive engagement in this process, in order to lead by example, this international engagement must be followed by concrete domestic actions to bring US laws and policies in line with international human rights standards," he said.

Source: AP, March 21, 2011

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On Friday (March 11) a 8.9 magnitude earthquake struck the Northeastern part of Japan at around 2.46 p.m. local time that caused damages, fire and tsunami. More to this, the powerful earthquake has triggered a tsunami warning for few other countries around the Pacific ocean such as Marcus Island, Russia, Northern Marianas, Philippines, Indonesia, Guam, Taiwan and Hawaii.

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UN General Assembly Approves New Resolution For Universal Moratorium on Death Penalty

December 22, 2010: The United Nations General Assembly yesterday approved a new resolution in favour of a universal moratorium on the death penalty. It is the third time after the historic resolution approved in December 2007 and then again in December 2008.

108 countries voted in favour, with 41 against and 36 abstentions (another 7 countries were absent at the time of the vote). It recorded a decisive step forward compared to 2007 when in a plenary assembly the votes in favour were 104, with 54 against and 29 abstentions (with 5 absent at the time of the vote). Another step forward was taken also in respect to the second vote on the pro moratorium Resolution in December 2008 when there were 105 in favour, 47 against and 34 abstentions (6 were absent at the time of the vote).

The most significant political data regarding the favourable is that of 6 countries that in 2008 voted against (Kiribati, the Maldives and Mongolia) or abstained (Bhutan, Guatemala and Togo) or the abstentions of 4 countries (Comoros, Nigeria, the Solomon Islands and Thailand) that in 2008 voted against. The number of cosponsors of the Resolution also increased, 90 in total, three doing so for the first time: Cambodia, Russia and Madagascar.

The only new part of the text of the Resolution concerns the request – in part contained in the 2007 text – directing the member states to ‘make information available relevant to the use of the death penalty to allow an informed and transparent national debate.'

“The new vote at the UN in favour of the moratorium records the positive evolution happening for more than ten years around the world towards the end of the State-Cain and the ending of the fake and archaic principle of an eye for an eye,” Hands Off Cain secretary Sergio D’Elia said.

Sources: Hands Off Cain, December 22, 2010

Russia & China Take on the Dollar

Russian Wildfire Enters Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Zone

Wildfire in Russia

Russia - Russia's Federal Forestry Agency admitted that the wildfires are threatening a nuclear power plant that witnessed the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The wildfires is now a major concern for the authority, which has already entered the danger nuclear zone, scaring people as radioactive particles could be mixed with atmospheric layer. The furious wildfires has already reached an area of 3,900 hectares of 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster zone. At least 52 people were killed by the fire so far.

Authorities said that firefighters are already working hard to tame the fire in the danger zone. However, they didn't deny the seriousness of the incident.

"There are maps of the nuclear contamination, there are maps of the fires," said the official in the affected Bryansk region, bordering Ukraine and Belarus. "Anyone can put the two together. Why deny this information?"

During a test April 26, 1986, Chernobyl nuclear power plant accidentally released radioactive clouds over a large area, shrouding western Russia and northern Europe. The neighboring area Bryansk is covered by large forests that was also affected by the disaster.

Senior officials assured that that there were no health risk to public health and they maintained appropriate measures to control the fire.

Senior officials, however, denied there was a risk to public health.

"There is no reason for panic," Alexei Bobrinsky, the forestry agency's deputy director said.