Dr Roberts: “The Parliament in Crimea has voted to secede from Ukraine and return to Russia. The Crimean population is Russian and they don’t want anything to do with the American-orchestrated coup in western Ukraine. In 9 days there will be a referendum to see whether a majority of the people agree with this, and of course they will.

Now, there’s been no Russian invasion. That’s a lie coming directly out of Victoria Nuland’s State Department and it has spread all over the world. “According to the Russian/Ukrainian Agreement, Russia is permitted 25,000 troops in Crimea. So the notion that 16,000 Russians, who have been there since the 1990s, recently invaded is a lie. It’s just another one of Washington’s lies like Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction,’ or Iranian nukes.

What’s so puzzling is that anyone ever believes Washington because it never tells the truth about anything. It always lies. I can’t think of a single statement that has come out of Washington in the 21st century that wasn’t a lie. They lied about Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Georgia, and now they are lying about the Ukraine. That’s all they do - they lie.

So why anyone would believe anything Washington or its EU puppets say is beyond me. Europe is nothing but a puppet component of the American empire. There are no independent governments in Europe. But what you will see in 9 days, unless the American fools do something stupid and cause a war, is Crimea will simply secede.

It includes thefts of official Ukrainian government funds, again sent to the Swiss hill sanctuary. It includes sanctions delivered by a US Paper Tiger, sure to cause horrific backlash. It involves the last gasp attempt to obstruct the Gazprom energy pipelines, which will inevitably corner the European market in monopoly. It involves subterfuge with the NATO card (aka Narcotics And Treachery Outlaws) with missiles placed on the Russian borders. Look for NATO members to find a back door to exit the spurious treaty.

It involves playing with nitro-glycerine in the Petro-Dollar room. It involves putting tremendous risk for much more clear isolation of the United States. The more the US government pushes, the more the US will be isolated. Remember that Nazis steal from their enemy states, de-fraud from their allied states, and force themselves into an isolated state. In Ukraine, the United States has over-played its weak hand. Already, a secret document was leaked in London that the UK government would not support the US-led sanctions against Russia.

History repeats itself from the Kremlin phone calls made during the Syrian conflict just a few months ago, when the UK government withdrew its support and left the US isolated, looking very weak. Already, Putin has threatened to dump US Treasury Bonds. Putin aptly calls the Anglo-Americans as Mutants. Imagine the lunacy of trying to cut off the only Russian warm water military naval port in the Crimea.

Just as stupid as the Trans Pacific Partnership faux pas, trying to cut off China from its Asian neighbors and partners in trade. The intelligence level of the US government has never been more stupid, destructive, and in full view. The lost ground for the United States is obvious and glaring in the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Caucasus region.

“We here in the United States don’t hear any real news about the situation in Ukraine - we just hear the State Department’s lies. The whole reason for the protests in Ukraine, the whole reason for the coup orchestrated by Washington, was for that purpose - to put missiles in Ukraine. Washington already has these missile bases in Poland. Washington is on the verge of putting the country of Georgia into NATO, and once that happens they can put missile bases in Georgia. This is why the United States wants Ukraine, they want to put missiles on the Russian border in Ukraine.

So that is what the United States hopes, that by achieving this kind of missile supremacy over Russia they can neutralize the Russian strategic deterrent and make Russia more amenable to accept whatever it is Washington wants to do. There is no doubt whatsoever about that. I think that is a very dangerous miscalculation. The Russians are a proud people. They defeated Napoleon when nobody else could. They defeated Hitler when nobody else could. They defeated the Tatars, and they drove out the Mongolians. The Russians are not the kind of people who want to be anybody’s puppet.

The Germans, French, and the British are content to be American puppets. The Russians would not be content doing that. So what Washington is doing is creating a scenario that very easily could lead to nuclear war.”

The City of London and the defence industry could suffer as a result - Britain has learnt from history that it must “stand up to aggression” and cannot stand by “when nations are trampled over”, the Prime Minister said. Britain, the EU and the US are drawing up a list of Russian officials who will see their off-shore bank accounts frozen and banned from travelling to the West unless it steps back from annexing the Crimean peninsula. Defence co-operation is also under review, with a presumption that arms contracts will be scrapped.

Mr Cameron, speaking after talks in Hanover with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said he would “ratchet up the pressure” on Vladimir Putin if he attempts to “legitimise” a Russian-backed referendum on Crimea leaving Ukraine on Sunday. Downing Street said that any sanctions would be aimed at individuals but sources said that this would be unlikely to mean President Putin could be targeted.

President Putin must open talks with the interim Ukrainian government, back free elections in the country in May, return Russian troops in Crimea to their bases and withdraw their support for the “illegal and unconstitutional” Crimea referendum, Mr Cameron said. A “contact group” has been set up to test whether Russia is prepared to negotiate.

Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side’s outpost against the other — it should function as a bridge between them. Russia must accept that to try to force Ukraine into a satellite status, and thereby move Russia’s borders again, would doom Moscow to repeat its history of self-fulfilling cycles of reciprocal pressures with Europe and the United States.

The West must understand that, to Russia, Ukraine can never be just a foreign country. Russian history began in what was called Kievan-Rus. The Russian religion spread from there. Ukraine has been part of Russia for centuries, and their histories were intertwined before then. Some of the most important battles for Russian freedom, starting with the Battle of Poltava in 1709, were fought on Ukrainian soil. The Black Sea Fleet — Russia’s means of projecting power in the Mediterranean — is based by long-term lease in Sevastopol, in Crimea. Even such famed dissidents as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky insisted that Ukraine was an integral part of Russian history and, indeed, of Russia.

The European Union must recognize that its bureaucratic dilatoriness and subordination of the strategic element to domestic politics in negotiating Ukraine’s relationship to Europe contributed to turning a negotiation into a crisis.

Marcel Fratzscher, head of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin, demanded €60 billion (£50 billion) of bond purchases each month to halt the contraction of credit and avert a Japanese-style trap. "It is high time for the ECB to act. Otherwise Europe risks falling into a dangerous downward spiral of sliding prices and declining demand", he wrote in Die Welt.

"The ECB must counter the deflation threat quickly and decisively, and launch a broad-based programme of bond purchase along the lines of the Federal Reserve," he said. The scale should be 0.7 percent of eurozone state debt each month, comparable to 'QE3' in the US. The plea came after the ECB refused to take further action last week, even though the M3 money supply has fallen below zero over the last eight months and inflation has dropped to 0.8 percent. The ECB's hawkish line has pushed the euro higher to $1.39 against the dollar, further tightening the deflationary vice.

Whether the DIW's shift in stance reflects deeper currents in Germany remains to be seen. Printing money is still viewed as the ultimate economic taboo by most of the nation. Spiegel Magazine said in February that the constitutional court ruling was "nothing less than a final reckoning with the crisis-management strategy pursued by the ECB" that sets tight limits on crisis strategy. "In a worst-case scenario, the Court could forbid Berlin from contributing to efforts to save the euro or even force Germany to leave the currency zone entirely,” it said.

The Palestinians seek the recognition of statehood in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, with the capital situated in east Jerusalem. The United States, Israel’s powerful ally, supports the concept, which has been rejected by [Israeli Prime Minster,] Netanyahu. The seven-page Arab resolution on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis said it rejects “the demand by Israel and some international parties to identify Israel as a Jewish state, which aims to annul the right of return and compensation for Palestinian refugees.” Arab League chief, Nabil Elaraby, urged Arab countries to take a “firm stand” against the Israeli conditions.

Netanyahu, however, appears more determined than ever to stick to his guns on the issue. "In recognizing the Jewish state you [Palestinians] would finally make clear that you are truly prepared to end the conflict," Netanyahu said in a speech to AIPAC, the powerful pro-Israeli lobby in Washington on Tuesday. "So recognize the Jewish state, no excuses, no delays. It is time," he said.

The Palestinians argue that Benjamin Netanyahu has been the first Israeli leader to make recognition of Israel as a Jewish state a condition for granting the Palestinian people their own state. The Palestinian Authority says that recognizing Israel as a “Jewish State” would de jure declare the Palestinians living in Palestine as illegitimate, possibly exposing them to discrimination. It would also effectively eliminate any ‘right of return’ for the millions of Palestinians who were forced from their homes after Israel was granted state status by the United Nations in 1948.

The UN estimates the number of Palestinian refugees and their descendants at 4.98 million - over half Israel's present population of some 8.1 million people.